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Rose Macaulay
Writer
Dame Emilie Rose Macaulay (1881-1958) was an English writer and novelist. She was a prolific writer who produced twenty-three novels in addition to other works including criticism, travel, history and poetry. She was awarded by the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for her novel, The Towers of Trebizond. Some of her other notable works include They Were Defeated, The World My Wilderness and Going Abroad. She was made a Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 1958 and was also notably friends with Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster and Elizabeth Bowen.
Rudyard Kipling
Journalist
Best known for writing The Jungle Book – later to become a hugely successful Disney film – Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He is also acclaimed as the pioneer of the art of short story. Kipling was born in India and the inspiration he drew from that culture is evidenced in many of his works. Kipling wrote several other successful stories, such as Just So Stories, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King, Mandalay, Gunga Din, The Gods of the Copybook Headings, The White Man's Burden and If—. In 1907, Kipling was also the first English writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.