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John Barlow teaches at the University of York but still prefers to live in Hull.... Read more »
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Andrea Barrett was born in 1954 and grew up on Cape Cod. She studied at... Read more »
Luella Bartley lives in Cornwall with her husband, photographer David Sims, and their three children.... Read more »
At the age of forty-three, on 8 December 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby, a well-known Parisian, suffered... Read more »
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Ishmael Beah came to the United States when he was seventeen and graduated from Oberlin... Read more »
Simone de Beauvoir was born in Paris in 1908. She took a degree in philosophy... Read more »
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Derek Beaven is the author of three novels: Newton’s Niece was published in 1994, Acts... Read more »
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Mackenzie Bezos was born and raised in northern California and studied creative writing at Princeton... Read more »
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One of the greatest literary critics in the world today, Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor... Read more »
Joanna Blythman is Britain’s leading investigative food journalist and an influential commentator on the British... Read more »
Victor Bockris is the foremost chronicler of the New York Underground. In 1972, he published... Read more »
Paul Bogard is a widely published author of journalism, creative nonfiction, and scholarship whose work... Read more »
Dermot Bolger was born in Finglas, north Dublin in 1959, founded The Raven Arts Press... Read more »
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Jane Borodale gained her MA from Wimbledon School of Art. She has written and exhibited... Read more »
Michael Boulter is the Professor of Palaeobiology at the University of East London. He is... Read more »
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Tim Bradford is a freelance writer and illustrator. He has written for NME, When Saturday... Read more »
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Craig Brown has been writing the Private Eye celebrity diary since 1989. He has also... Read more »
Lynda Brown is a familiar face and voice from her appearances on television’s Gardener’s World... Read more »
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Jonathan Buckley was born in Birmingham, and has contributed to and edited a number of... Read more »
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Katherine Bucknell was born in Saigon and grew up in Washington, D.C. She is a... Read more »
Judy Budnitz was born in 1973 and grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. She graduated from... Read more »
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Anna Burns was born in Belfast in 1962. She moved to London in 1987.
Bryan Burrough is a special correspondent at ‘Vanity Fair’ magazine in New York. A former... Read more »
William Burroughs was born in St Louis, Missouri in 1914. The son of a successful... Read more »
Sam Byers was born in 1979. Idiopathy is his first novel. It has been chosen... Read more »
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