Poet and novelist. Born Nigeria but spent his early childhood in London. Returned to England to study in the late 1970s. His 1991 novel 'The Famished Road' won the Booker Prize.
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Ben Okri
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Memorial Gates
Designed by Liam O'Connor as a reduced-scale version of Lutyens' monument at ...
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Arthur Morrison
Writer and novelist. Born at 14 John Street, Poplar. He wrote detective novels and stories about working-class life in London's East End. His best known work was 'A Child of the Jago', set in a fic...
1 memorial
Hugh Walpole
Novelist. Born Hugh Seymour Walpole in Auckland, New Zealand, the son of Somerset Walpole. He was educated in Britain and became a schoolmaster before turning to authorship. His novels include 'Mr ...
1 memorial
Edgar Allan Poe Society of Prague
Established as a non-profit organisation, it was originally set up to promote the life and works of Edgar Allan Poe and to encourage and promote old and new artistic interpretations of his works. I...
3 memorials
Ford Madox Ford
Born Surrey as Ford Hermann Hueffer, of an English mother and German father, Francis Heuffer. Grew up in Pre-Raphaelite circles. On the death of their father in 1889 Ford and his brother went to li...
Person, Literature, France, Germany, USA
1 memorial
John Galsworthy
Novelist and playwright. Born Kingston Hill, Surrey. Nobel Prize for literature, 1932. The Forsyte Saga is his best known work. Died Grove Lodge, Hampstead.
4 memorials
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Greenwich Mural Workshop
The Hitchcock murals were designed and made by artists: Steve and Nathan Lobb, Carol Kenna, Claire Notley and Julie Norburn at Greenwich Mural Workshop, Macbean Centre in Woolwich, SE18.
1 memorial
Tower Hamlets Council
The name was originally applied to the Tower division of the county of Middlesex. This division was a liberty, i.e. it was an autonomous area under the jurisdiction of the Constable of the Tower of...
54 memorials
Tavistock House
Built 1796 by property developer James Burton, who probably lived here while developing the surrounding area. The 1834 Davies & Bartlett map (bottom right corner) shows the house surrounded by ...
2 memorials
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