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69 relations: Ancestry.com, André Deutsch, Barry Reckord, BBC, BBC Radio 4, Brian Moore (novelist), Centenarian, Charles Gidley Wheeler, Chatto & Windus, Complete Review, Costa Book Awards, Counties of England, David Gurr, Denis Healey, Desert Island Discs, Ditchingham Hall, Edward Field (poet), Front Row (radio), Gale Benson, Gitta Sereny, Granta, Hakim Jamal, Imagine (TV series), Jack Kerouac, James Franck Bright, Jean Rhys, Jenni Murray, Jess Cartner-Morley, John Updike, Jonathan Cape, Joseph Haydn, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, Literary editor, Malcolm X, Margaret Atwood, Master (college), Michael X, Mick Brown (journalist), Molly Keane, Mordecai Richler, National Book Critics Circle, National Book Critics Circle Award, New Statesman, Norfolk, Norman Mailer, Order of the British Empire, PEN/Ackerley Prize, Persephone Books, Philip Roth, Publishers Weekly, ..., Simone de Beauvoir, Sinclair-Stevenson, Stevie Smith, The Creation (Haydn), The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Plain Dealer, University College, Oxford, University of Oxford, V. S. Naipaul, Vanity Fair (novel), Waguih Ghali, Web of Stories, William Carr (biographer), William Makepeace Thackeray, Woman's Hour, World War II, YouTube, 2009 New Year Honours. Expand index (19 more) »
Ancestry.com
Ancestry.com LLC is a privately held online company based in Lehi, Utah.
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André Deutsch
André Deutsch CBE (15 November 1917 in Budapest – 11 April 2000 in London) was a British publisher who founded an eponymous publishing company in 1951.
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Barry Reckord
Barrington John Reckord (19 November 1926 – 20 December 2011), known as Barry Reckord, was a Jamaican playwright, one of the earliest Caribbean writers to make a contribution to theatre in Britain.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.
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BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a radio station owned and operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history.
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Brian Moore (novelist)
Brian Moore (25 August 1921 – 11 January 1999), who has been described as "one of the few genuine masters of the contemporary novel", was a novelist and screenwriter from Northern Ireland who emigrated to Canada and later lived in the United States.
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Centenarian
A centenarian is a person who lives to or beyond the age of 100 years.
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Charles Gidley Wheeler
Charles Gidley Wheeler (1938–2010), also known as Charles Gidley, was a television screenwriter and historical novelist whose work has been acclaimed in Publishers Weekly, The Washington Post, Kirkus Reviews, and The New York Times.
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Chatto & Windus
Chatto & Windus was an important publisher of books in London, founded in the Victorian era.
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Complete Review
Complete Review (stylized complete review) is a literary website founded in March 1999.
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Costa Book Awards
The Costa Book Awards are a set of annual literary awards recognizing English-language books by writers based in Britain and Ireland.
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Counties of England
The counties of England are areas used for the purposes of administrative, geographical, cultural or political demarcation.
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David Gurr
David Hugh Courtney Gurr is a Canadian writer and author of literary novels and political thrillers.
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Denis Healey
Denis Winston Healey, Baron Healey, (30 August 1917 – 3 October 2015) was a British Labour Party politician who served as Secretary of State for Defence from 1964 to 1970, Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1974 to 1979 and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1980 to 1983.
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Desert Island Discs
Desert Island Discs is a radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
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Ditchingham Hall
Ditchingham Hall is a country house and estate, near the village of Ditchingham in south Norfolk, England.
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Edward Field (poet)
Edward Field (born June 7, 1924) is an American poet and author.
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Front Row (radio)
Front Row is a radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4 that has been broadcast since 1998.
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Gale Benson
Gale Ann Benson (4 November 1944 – 2 January 1972) was a British model, socialite and daughter of Conservative MP Leonard Plugge.
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Gitta Sereny
Gitta Sereny, CBE (13 March 192114 June 2012) was an Austrian-British biographer, historian, and investigative journalist who came to be known for her interviews and profiles of controversial figures, including Mary Bell, who was convicted in 1968 of killing two children when she herself was a child, and Franz Stangl, the commandant of the Treblinka extermination camp.
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Granta
Granta is a literary magazine and publisher in the United Kingdom whose mission centres on its "belief in the power and urgency of the story, both in fiction and non-fiction, and the story’s supreme ability to describe, illuminate and make real." In 2007, The Observer stated: "In its blend of memoirs and photojournalism, and in its championing of contemporary realist fiction, Granta has its face pressed firmly against the window, determined to witness the world.".
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Hakim Jamal
Hakim Abdullah Jamal (March 28, 1931 – May 1, 1973) was the name adopted by African-American activist Allen Donaldson, who was a cousin of Malcolm X and later became an associate of Michael X. Jamal wrote From the Dead Level, a memoir of his life and memories of Malcolm X. Jamal was romantically involved with several high-profile women, notably Jean Seberg, Diana Athill and Gale Benson.
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Imagine (TV series)
Imagine is a wide-ranging arts series first broadcast on BBC One in 2003, hosted and executive produced by Alan Yentob.
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Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac (born Jean-Louis Kérouac (though he called himself Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac); March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969) was an American novelist and poet of French-Canadian descent.
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James Franck Bright
James Franck Bright (29 May 1832 – 23 October 1920) was a British historian and Master of University College, Oxford.
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Jean Rhys
Jean Rhys, (born Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams; 24 August 1890 – 14 May 1979) was a mid-20th-century novelist who was born and grew up in the Caribbean island of Dominica, though she was mainly resident in England from the age of 16.
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Jenni Murray
Dame Jennifer Susan "Jenni" Murray, (née Bailey; born 12 May 1950) is an English journalist and broadcaster, best known for presenting BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour since 1987.
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Jess Cartner-Morley
Jess Cartner-Morley is a British journalist.
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John Updike
John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic.
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Jonathan Cape
Jonathan Cape is a London publishing firm founded in 1921 by Herbert Jonathan Cape, who was head of the firm until his death in 1960.
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Joseph Haydn
(Franz) Joseph HaydnSee Haydn's name.
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Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
Lady Margaret Hall (LMH) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England, located on the banks of the River Cherwell at Norham Gardens in north Oxford and adjacent to the University Parks.
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Literary editor
A literary editor is an editor in a newspaper, magazine or similar publication who deals with aspects concerning literature and books, especially reviews.
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Malcolm X
Malcolm X (19251965) was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist.
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Margaret Atwood
Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, inventor, teacher and environmental activist.
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Master (college)
A Master (more generically called a Head of House or Head of College) is the head or senior member of a college within a collegiate university, principally in the United Kingdom.
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Michael X
Michael X (1933 – 16 May 1975), born Michael de Freitas in Trinidad and Tobago, was a self-styled black revolutionary and civil rights activist in 1960s London.
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Mick Brown (journalist)
Mick Brown (born 1950 in London) is a journalist who has written for several British newspapers, including The Guardian and The Sunday Times and for international publications.
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Molly Keane
Molly Keane (20 July 1904 – 22 April 1996),Who's Who 1987 Mary Nesta Skrine, and who also wrote as M. J. Farrell, was an Irish novelist and playwright.
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Mordecai Richler
Mordecai Richler, CC (January 27, 1931 – July 3, 2001) was a Canadian writer.
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National Book Critics Circle
The National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) is an American nonprofit organization (501(c)(3)) with nearly 600 members.
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National Book Critics Circle Award
The National Book Critics Circle Awards are a set of annual American literary awards by the National Book Critics Circle to promote "the finest books and reviews published in English".
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New Statesman
The New Statesman is a British political and cultural magazine published in London.
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Norfolk
Norfolk is a county in East Anglia in England.
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Norman Mailer
Norman Kingsley Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film-maker, actor, and liberal political activist.
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Order of the British Empire
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the Civil service.
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PEN/Ackerley Prize
PEN Ackerley Prize (or, J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography) is awarded annually by English PEN for a literary autobiography of excellence, written by an author of British nationality and published during the preceding year.
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Persephone Books
Persephone Books is an independent publisher based in Bloomsbury, London.
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Philip Roth
Philip Milton Roth (March 19, 1933 – May 22, 2018) was an American novelist and short-story writer.
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Publishers Weekly
Publishers Weekly (PW) is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers and literary agents.
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Simone de Beauvoir
Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir (or;; 9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986) was a French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist and social theorist.
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Sinclair-Stevenson
Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd is a British publisher founded in 1989 by Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson.
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Stevie Smith
Florence Margaret Smith, known as Stevie Smith (20 September 1902 – 7 March 1971), was an English poet and novelist.
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The Creation (Haydn)
The Creation (Die Schöpfung) is an oratorio written between 1797 and 1798 by Joseph Haydn (Hob. XXI:2), and considered by many to be his masterpiece.
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The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The Plain Dealer
The Plain Dealer is the major daily newspaper of Cleveland, Ohio, United States.
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University College, Oxford
University College (in full The Master and Fellows of the College of the Great Hall of the University of Oxford,Darwall-Smith, Robin, A History of University College, Oxford. Oxford University Press, 2008.. colloquially referred to as "Univ"), is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England.
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University of Oxford
The University of Oxford (formally The Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford) is a collegiate research university located in Oxford, England.
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V. S. Naipaul
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad "Vidia" Naipaul, TC (born 17 August 1932), is an Indo-Caribbean writer and Nobel Laureate who was born in Trinidad with British citizenship.
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Vanity Fair (novel)
Vanity Fair is an English novel by William Makepeace Thackeray which follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Emmy Sedley amid their friends and families during and after the Napoleonic Wars.
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Waguih Ghali
Waguih Ghali (25 February 192(?) Egypt– 5 January 1969 London, England) وجيه غالي was a Coptic, Anglophone Egyptian writer, best known for his novel Beer in the Snooker Club (André Deutsch, 1964).
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Web of Stories
Web of Stories is an online collection of thousands of autobiographical video-stories.
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William Carr (biographer)
William Carr (14 June 1862 – 28 January 1925) was a biographer for the Dictionary of National Biography, historian, magistrate and Deputy Lieutenant for Norfolk, England.
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William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray (18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863) was a British novelist and author.
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Woman's Hour
Woman's Hour is a radio magazine programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the United Kingdom.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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YouTube
YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California.
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2009 New Year Honours
The New Year Honours 2009 was announced on 31 December 2008 in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Cook Islands, Barbados, Grenada, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Christopher and Nevis, to celebrate the year past and mark the beginning of 2009.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Athill
