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Ingenious Writers
William Shakespeare, Noel Coward, James Herbert (best selling UK horror author), W.S. Gilbert, D.H. Lawrence, Geoffrey Chaucer, Mary shelley (Frankenstein), Jane Austen, George Orwell, Agatha Christie (world selling writer next to Shakespeare), Barbara Cartland, Charles Dickens (A Christmas Carol and Oliver Twist), Baden Powell (and founder of the worldwide youth scouting movement), Beatrix Potter (Peter Rabbit), Lewis Caroll (real name Charles Dodgson. He is best know for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland adapted in the Films as Alice in Wonderland), Rudyard Kipling (The Jungle Book), Daniel Defoe (Robinson Crusoe), H.G. Wells (Science Fiction novels like The War of the Worlds. Aka the father of Sci-Fi), J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter), J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit), Ian Fleming (James Bond novels and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang), William Nicholson (co wrote Gladiator), Melvyn Bragg, Richard Adams (Watership Down), Nick Hornby, Francis Hodgson Burnett, Mary Norton (Bonfires and Broomsticks became Walt Disney's film Bedknobs and Broomsticks) Anna Sewell (Black Beauty), Mary Anne Evans (female that penned under the male alias George Eliot), Raymond Briggs (Animated short film 'The Snowman' shown every xmas on TV), and the exceptional Bronte sisters; Charlotte, Emily and Anne...