
83 - J.R.R Tolkien
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The Life and Times of Lewis Carroll
In 2003, it was named Britain's best love novel of all time in the BBC's Big Read. It feels like the movie is must have given it a new audience. In 1961, his friend C.S. Lewis, ever heard of him, even nominated him for the Nobel Prize in literature. So I think they were very friendly and maybe even taught at the same university. He retired in 1959 and right up until... And he died in 1973. Right up until that time, he received steadily increasing public attention and literary fame. so it wasn't like a huge boom straight away. "I'm thinking W.H. Ordon was taught by Tolkien. That's what I'm
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