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1. He's an esteemed author who was born in 1945, and one of his most famous novels is a re-telling of the Anthony Blunt spy scandal. But he's also written mysteries under the pen name Benjamin Black.
2. This American introduced his first novel in 1968 with a note stating that, while the story bore some resemblance to 'that long malaise, my life', he wanted to be judged as a writer of 'fantasy'.
3. This Scotsman's memoir of how adopting a Doberman pup helped bring him out of decades of alcoholism appeared in 2006. Critics hailed it as an instant classic and he became an 'overnight success' -- even though he'd been writing and publishing for years.
4. He drove a London bus for years, and his quirky comic existential novels are often compared to Beckett and Kafka. One of them is entitled 'All Quiet On The Orient Express'.
5. One of his unforgettable characters is Bertrand Welch, a pompous bearded painter who seems to embody everything that the 'hero' of the novel, Jim Dixon, hates.
6. His wacky capers are set in Florida and populated with greedy businessmen, eco-warriors and corrupt local politicians. In one of them, a lizard frozen in a kitchen fridge is used as a weapon.
7. This Englishman is best known as a poet -- sometimes quite a depressing one -- but he also published two novels, 'Jill' and 'A Girl in Winter', and was a highly regarded jazz critic.
8. This American died in 1992 -- well before his most highly regarded book was turned into a film staring Leonardo DiCaprio. He also wrote 'The Easter Parade' and 'A Good School'.
9. George Orwell was many things -- novelist, journalist, polemicist -- but one thing he wasn't, really, was George Orwell. His real name was:
10. She was half-Finnish and half-Welsh, and might have ended up a nun rather than a novelist if it weren't for the fact that she got sick after entering a convent. Her novels are infused with her Catholic sentiment, and she was sacked from her job as a columnist on the "Catholic Herald" after blaming the former Archbishop of Liverpool, by then deceased, for a sharp drop in attendance at Mass.
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