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The writer Enid Blyton ( 1897 – 1968 ) was governess to a Surbiton family for four years from 1920, at a house called ' Southernhay ', also on the Hook Road.
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Enid Mary Blyton ( 11 August 1897 – 28 November 1968 ) was a British children's writer also known as Mary Pollock.
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At this time he was in a relationship with the writer Enid Bagnold, but his affections for her were replaced by those he began to feel for the twenty-one-year-old Elizabeth Asquith ( he was 40 at the time ).
In the 1920s Bourne End became home for two distinguished literary figures ; Enid Blyton, a perennially popular children's writer, moved into Old Thatch on Coldmoorholm Lane, and Edgar Wallace, a prolific crime author and dramatist, bought Chalklands off Blind Lane.
It was kept going for many decades by its Director, Enid Lakeman, an inveterate pamphleteer, public speaker and writer of letters to newspapers about STV.
Appiah was born in London to Enid Margaret Appiah, an art historian and writer, and Joe Emmanuel Appiah ( born 16 November 1918 ), a lawyer, diplomat, and politician from the Asante region, once part of the British Gold Coast Colony but now part of Ghana.
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Monica Enid Dickens, MBE ( born 10 May 1915, London – died 25 December 1992, Reading, Berkshire ) was an English writer, the great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens.
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In 1897, German doctor and writer Magnus Hirschfeld formed the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee to campaign publicly against the notorious law " Paragraph 175 ", which made sex between men illegal.
* 1897 – Frank Capra, American producer, director, and writer ( d. 1991 )
* 1897 – Paul Alverdes, German writer ( d. 1979 )
* 1897 – Herman J. Mankiewicz, American writer, director, and producer ( d. 1953 )
* 1897 – Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Indian writer ( d. 1999 )
* 1897 – Georges Bataille, French philosopher and writer ( d. 1962 )
* The 19th century American writer Mark Twain discusses the Thuggee fairly extensively in chapters 9 and 10 of " Following the Equator: Volume II ", 1897, THE ECCO PRESS, ISBN 0-88001-519-5.
* August 1 – Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Bengali writer ( b. 1897 )
* April 7 – Elizabeth Bibesco, writer ( b. 1897 ) ( pneumonia )
** Sacheverell Sitwell, English writer ( b. 1897 )
* March 11 – John Monk Saunders, American writer ( b. 1897 )
** William Faulkner, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1897 )
* July 8 – Georges Bataille, French writer ( b. 1897 )
* December 24 – Louis Aragon, French writer ( b. 1897 )
* September 21 – Henry George, American writer, politician and political economist ( d. 1897 )
* Jamal-al-Din Afghani, teacher and writer ( d. 1897 )
* Alphonse Daudet ( 1840 – 1897 ) was the best-known French writer from Provence in the 19th century, though he lived mostly in Paris and Champrosay.
He was a lead editorial writer on his brother's newspaper, the New York Sun, and it was in that capacity that in 1897 he wrote his most famous editorial, Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.
* Max Tau ( 1897 – 1976 ), Jewish-German-Norwegian writer, editor and publisher
* Samuel Laing ( science writer ) ( 1812 – 1897 ), son of the above, a businessman, politician and writer on modern science
* Donald Edward Keyhoe ( 20 June 1897 – 29 November 1988 ) was an American Marine Corps naval aviator, writer of many aviation articles and stories in a variety of leading publications, and manager of the promotional tours of aviation pioneers, especially of Charles Lindbergh.
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* Kate Austin ( 1864 – 1902 ), American writer, feminist and anarchist
* Mary Hunter Austin ( 1868 – 1934 ), American writer
Aldous Leonard Huxley ( 26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963 ) was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family.
In Tanzania, a popular writer, columnist, and satirist, M. M. Mwanakijiji, has attempted to emulate Swift in his own " A Modest Proposal – On how Chagga People should be removed from Power and Positions of Affluence.
* 1741 – Nicolas Chamfort, French writer ( d. 1794 )
* 1812 – Alexander Herzen, Russian writer ( d. 1870 )
* 1892 – Lowell Thomas, American writer ( d. 1981 )
* 1902 – Veniamin Kaverin, Russian writer ( d. 1989 )
* 1902 – Julien Torma, French writer, playwright and poet ( d. 1933 )
* 1908 – Marcel-Marie Desmarais, Quebec writer, preacher and broadcaster ( d. 1994 )
* 1929 – Willis Hall, English playwright and writer ( d. 2005 )
* 1935 – Douglas Hill, Canadian writer ( d. 2007 )
* 1940 – Homero Aridjis, Mexican writer and diplomat
* 1950 – Cleo Odzer, American writer
* 1973 – Joe Machine, English artist, poet and writer
* 1976 – Hirotada Ototake, Japanese writer
* 1983 – Dash Shaw, American writer and artist
* 1713 – Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer ( d. 1796 )
* 1908 – Ida Crowe Pollock, English writer
* 1916 – Beverly Cleary, American writer
* 1939 – Alan Ayckbourn, English writer
* 1949 – Scott Turow, American writer
* 1973 – J. Scott Campbell, American writer and illustrator
* 1895 – Philippe Panneton, French Canadian physician, diplomat, and writer ( d. 1960 )
* 1945 – Annie Dillard, American writer
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