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OBS/6/7/1/2/17
Title
'Books of the year' correspondence and draft copy
Date(s)
- 1985 (Creation)
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1 file
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Includes correspondence between Terry Kilmartin and the following individuals or their representatives: Sir Alfred Ayer, Beryl Bainbridge, JG Ballard, Melvyn Bragg, Margaret Drabble, Mrs Anna Haycraft, Roy Jenkins, Doris Lessing, Edna O'Brien, Ruth Rendell, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Fay Weldon, Graham Greene, Lord Annan.
Also includes contributions some of those above and from John Kenyon, Bernard Levin, Philip French, Julian Barnes, and Michael Ratcliffe.
Also includes list of people asked and dust jacket to 'Move your shadow' by Joseph Lelyveld.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Terry Kilmartin
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chronological
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Copyright: Various copyrights
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- Kilmartin; Terence Kevin (1922-1991); literary editor (Subject)
- Ayer; Sir; Alfred Jules (1910-1989); philosopher (Subject)
- Bainbridge; Dame; Beryl (1934-2010); actress, writer (Subject)
- Drabble; Margaret (1939-); author (Subject)
- Jenkins; Roy Harris (1920-2003); Baron Jenkins of Hillhead; politician (Subject)
- Lessing; Doris May (1919-); author (Subject)
- O'Brien; Edna; writer (Subject)
- Pinter; Harold (1930-); actor, playwright and director (Subject)
- Stoppard; Sir; Tom (1937-2025); playwright and novelist (Subject)
- Greene; Graham (1904-1991); author (Subject)
- Annan; Noel Gilroy (1916-2000); Baron Annan; historian (Subject)
- Kenyon; John Philipps (1927-1996); historian (Subject)
- French; Philip Neville (1933-); writer and broadcaster (Subject)
- Bragg; Melvyn (1939-); Baron Bragg; writer (Subject)
- Levin; Henry Bernard (1928-2004); journalist and author (Subject)
- Barnes; Julian Patrick (1946-); writer (Subject)
- Ratcliffe; John Michael; writer (Subject)
- Ballard; James Graham (1930-2009); author and short story writer (Subject)
- Haycraft; Anna Margaret (1932-); writer (Subject)
- Rendell; Ruth Barbara (1930-); Baroness Rendell of Babergh; crime novelist (Subject)
- Weldon; Fay (1931-2023); writer (Subject)
- Lelyveld; Joseph; writer (Subject)
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