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Anthony Holden
Anthony Holden (1947-2023)

journalist, biographer, translator, music critic, poker player

  • University of Oxford, Oundle School

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Laurence Olivier
The tarnished crown
Olivier
Charles at fifty
William Shakespeare
Big deal
The wit in the dungeon
Tchaikovsky
Diana (Diana Princess of Wales)
Charles
King Charles III
William Shakespeare
A Princely marriage
The Queen Mother
Bigger Deal
Prince Charles
The Man Who Wrote Mozart
Prince Charles
Their Royal Highnesses
Great royal front pages
Charles, Prince of Wales
Charles
Diana
Prince Charles
Of presidents, prime ministers and princes
Behind the Oscar
Big deal
Poems That Make Grown Men Cry
Poems that make grown men cry
Greek pastoral poetry
The St. Albans poisoner
Poems that make grown women cry
The British royal family
Royal quiz
The Oscars
Big Deal
The drama of love, life & death in Shakespeare
Holden on hold 'em
Behind the Oscar
Holden on hold 'em
John Lanchester
John Lanchester (born 1962)

journalist

  • University of Oxford, Gresham's School

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Family Romance
Family romance
The Debt to Pleasure
Fragrant Harbour
Mr. Phillips
Fragrant Harbor
Food
FRAGRANT HARBOUR
Capital
How to Speak Money
I.O.U
Debt to Pleasure, the
Whoops!
Die Lust und ihr Preis. Aufzeichnungen eines reisenden Gentleman
What We Talk About When We Talk About The Tube The District Line
El Señor Phillips
El Puerto de Los Aromas
The Debt to Pleasure Reading Group Guide
Mister Phillips von 6 bis 7
El muro
Le prix du plaisir
FAMILY ROMANCE: A MEMOIR
Mr Phillips
The debt to pleasure : a novel
Kapitaal
Familieromance
Untitled 2nd Novel
Mr. Phillips von 6 bis 7
Hotel Empire, Hongkong
Timothy Egan
Timothy Egan (born 1954)

journalist

  • University of Washington, Gonzaga Preparatory School

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The big burn
The Immortal Irishman
Short nights of the Shadow Catcher
The immortal Irishman
The worst hard time
Lasso the wind
The winemaker's daughter
The Worst Hard Time The Untold Story Of Those Who Survived The Great American Dust Bowl
A Pilgrimage to Eternity
The good rain
Breaking blue
The big burn
Good Rain, The
The good rain
Portrait of Seattle
Fever in the Heartland
Wild Seattle
Immortal Irishman, The
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher
Breaking blue
Lasso the Wind
A chapter from Breaking blue
Long Darkness
Inge Jens
Inge Jens (1927-2021)

literary scholar, biographer, philologist, Germanist, opinion journalist, man of letters, social pedagogue, journalist

  • University of Hamburg, University of Tübingen

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Frau Thomas Mann
Vergangenheit-gegenwärtig
Katias Mutter: das ausserordentliche Leben der Hedwig Pringsheim
Unvollständige Erinnerungen
Dichter zwischen rechts und links
Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl, Briefe und Aufzeichnungen
Die expressionistische Novelle
Frau Thomas Mann
Am Schreibtisch
Katias Mutter
Frau Thomas Mann
"Es kenne mich die Welt, auf dass sie mir verziehe"
Zur Geschichte der Sektion für Dichtkunst an der Preussischen Akademie der Künste, 1926-1933
At the Heart of the White Rose
Über Hans Mayer
Auf der Suche nach dem verlorenen Sohn
Briefe und Aufzeichnungen
Frau Thomas Mann. Katias Mutter
Verwerflich?
Goethe
Langsames Entschwinden
Nell Dunn
Nell Dunn (born 1936)

playwright, journalist

  • Courtauld Institute of Art

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Grandmothers talking to
Grandmothers, talking to Nell Dunn
Up the Junction
Poor Cow
Tear his head off his shoulders
My silver shoes
Cancer Tales
The incurable
Home death
The only child
Living like I do
Poor Cow (Bloomsbury Classic)
Grandmothers Talking
Steaming
Different drummers
Talking to women
Poor Cow (Pan books, X714)
Grandmothers Talking Nell
Sylvain Tesson
Sylvain Tesson (born 1972)

radio personality, traveler, geographer

  • Institut français de géopolitique, lycée Jeanne-d'Albret

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Sur les chemins noirs
The consolations of the forest
Une vie à coucher dehors
Une très légère oscillation
S'abandonner à vivre
Berezina
L' or noir des steppes
Dans les forêts de Sibérie
Aphorismes dans les herbes
Haute tension
Géographie de l'instant
Petit tractat sobre la inmensitat del món
El leopardo de las nieves
Petit tractat sobre la inmensitat del món
Aphorismes sous la lune et autres pensées sauvages
L'axe du loup
Sous l'étoile de la liberté
Azar Nafisi
Azar Nafisi (born 1954)

professor, literary critic, faculty member, public figure, journalist

  • University of Oklahoma

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Reading Lolita in Tehran
Things I've Been Silent About
Reading Lolita in Tehran
The republic of imagination
READING \"LOLITA\" IN TEHRAN
Republic of Imagination
Things I've been silent about : memories of a prodigal daughter
Things I've Been Silent About - Memories of a Prodigal Daughter
Shirin Neshat
Read Dangerously
Leer Lolita En Teheran
That Other World
Leer Lolita en Teherán
Leer 'Lolita' En Teheran / Reading Lolita In Teheran
Frederic Tuten
Frederic Tuten (born 1936)

journalist, film critic, essayist

  • City College of New York, New York University

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Tintin in the New World
My Young Life
Autoritratto con Sicilia
The Green Hour
Tallien
Van Gogh's Bad Cafe
The adventures of Mao on the long march
Dostoyevsky's Crime and punishment
Roy Lichtenstein bronze sculpture, 1976-1989
The Worlds of Joaquín Torres-García
Photographic Work of Robin Broadbent
TINTIN IN THE NEW WORLD
TALLIEN
Tallien. Ein Roman
Tintin en el nuevo mundo
Self Portraits
Autorretrato con toros =
Tintin in the New World. Frederic Tuten
ha-Ḥeṭ ṿe-ʻonsho
Tim und Struppi in der Neuen Welt
Autorretrato con toros =
Uzun Yuruyus’te Mao’nun Maceralari
Bar at Twilight