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    Tom Bissell

    Tom Bissell: ‘Creative Types: and Other Stories’ · Feb 2022

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    Tracy Kidder

    Tracy Kidder · Oct 1989

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    Tim Miller

    Tim Miller; Paul Manette · Jan 1989

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    A S Byatt

    A.S. Byatt · 6 episodes

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    Ahdaf Soueif

    Ahdaf Soueif · Sep 2003

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    Alice Walker

    Alice Walker · 3 episodes

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    Amy Tan

    Amy Tan · 4 episodes

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    Anne Enright

    Anne Enright · Apr 2008

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    Annie Leibovitz

    Annie Leibovitz: Pilgrimage · 2 episodes

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    Armistead Maupin

    Armistead Maupin and Mary Gordon · Feb 1990

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    Arundhati Roy

    Arundhati Roy: The Ministry of Utmost Happiness · 2 episodes

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    Colm Toibin

    Colm Tóibín: House of Names · 4 episodes

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    David Mitchell

    David Mitchell: The Bone Clocks · 5 episodes

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    Doris Lessing

    Doris Lessing: The Grandmothers · 2 episodes

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    Edmund de Waal

    Edmund de Waal: The White Road · Jan 2016

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    Edna O'Brien

    Edna O'Brien · 2 episodes

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    Fran Lebowitz

    Fran Lebowitz · Jan 1995

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    Frank McCourt

    Frank McCourt · 2 episodes

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    Greg Jackson

    Greg Jackson: Prodigals · Apr 2016

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    Hanif Kureishi

    Hanif Kureishi · Jun 1990

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    Helen Macdonald

    Helen Macdonald: H Is for Hawk · Apr 2016

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    Howard Jacobson

    Howard Jacobson: The Finkler Question · May 2011

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    Ian McEwan

    Ian McEwan · 5 episodes

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    Isabel Allende

    Isabel Allende: In the Midst of Winter · 11 episodes

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    Jackie Kay

    Jackie Kay: “Bessie Smith: A Poet's Biography of a Blues Legend” · Oct 2021

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    James Ellroy

    James Ellroy · Jan 1993

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    Jeanette Winterson

    Jeanette Winterson Frankissstein: A Love Story · 2 episodes

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    John Mortimer

    John Mortimer · Apr 1993

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    John Updike

    John Updike, Part 2 · 2 episodes

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    Julian Barnes

    Julian Barnes · 2 episodes

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    Kazuo Ishiguro

    Kazuo Ishiguro: “Klara and the Sun” · 6 episodes

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    Margaret Atwood

    Margaret Atwood: Maddaddam · 8 episodes

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    Marlon James

    Marlon James: Black Leopard, Red Wolf: The Dark Star Trilogy · Mar 2019

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    Martin Amis

    Martin Amis: The Zone of Interest · 7 episodes

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    Maya Angelou

    Maya Angelou · Aug 2002

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    Nick Hornby

    Nick Hornby · Aug 2001

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    Norman Mailer

    Norman Mailer, Part II · 9 episodes

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    Oliver Sacks

    Oliver Sacks: Hallucinations · 4 episodes

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    Peter Ackroyd

    Peter Ackroyd · Sep 1995

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    Peter Carey

    Peter Carey · 3 episodes

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