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American novelist and journalist whose prose style — short sentences, deliberate understatement, iceberg theory — transformed American fiction and whose life as an adventurer (Paris expatriate, WWI ambulance driver, WWII correspondent, big game hunter, deep sea fisherman) became as famous as his novels.
Graham Swift is a British novelist best known for 'Waterland' (1983) and 'Last Orders' (1996), whose work explores the relationship between history, memory, and narrative authority.
L. P. Hartley was an English novelist best known for 'The Go-Between' (1953), whose famous opening line — 'The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there' — became one of the most quoted sentences in English literature.