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John Berger
John Berger, born 5 November 1926, made Ways of Seeing, won the 1972 Booker with G. and gave half the money away. His centenary, his books and his years in Quincy.
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Curated, fact-checked life stories and career trajectory analyses filed under the Art & Literature department.
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Yoshiyuki Tomino
Yoshiyuki Tomino started at Mushi Production in 1964 and directed Mobile Suit Gundam in 1979. His path, his later series, his honors and the franchise's size.
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Peter Hitchens
Peter Hitchens, born in Malta in 1951, went from Trotskyist student to Moscow correspondent to Mail on Sunday columnist and won the 2010 Orwell Prize.
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Dale Brown
Dale Brown, the Buffalo-born former Air Force captain who created Patrick McLanahan, on his B-52 years, Flight of the Old Dog, and his later series.
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Bruce Bawer
Bruce Bawer, a New York-born critic and author living in Norway, moved from poetry criticism to gay rights, Christianity and Islam in Europe.
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Laurie Halse Anderson
Laurie Halse Anderson, author of Speak and Chains, on her path from a Methodist parsonage to the Astrid Lindgren award and the fights over her books.
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Philip Pullman
Philip Pullman turns 80 on October 19, 2026. The former Oxford teacher behind His Dark Materials ended The Book of Dust in 2025, 30 years after Northern Lights.
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Marc Levy
Marc Levy ran a Red Cross rescue network and two companies before his first novel sold to DreamWorks. A look at his books, sales, royalties and 2026 novel.
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Terry McMillan
Terry McMillan, the Port Huron-born novelist behind Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove Back, on her books and film deals as she turns 75.
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Anne Carson
Canadian poet and classicist Anne Carson won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. How Sappho, a teacher in Port Hope and a life in classics shaped her work.
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Andrew Davies
Andrew Davies was a teacher until he was 50, then wrote House of Cards, Pride and Prejudice and Bleak House for the BBC. His career, from the sources.
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