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Great Writers of the 20th Century (25)

Subjects: Authors, Biographies, History, Literature

Grade Level: SrH-Adult
Producer: BBC
Closed Captioned: No

Running Time: 25 x 50 mins ea
Country of Origin: Great Britain
Study Guide: No

Copyright Date: 1996
Available in French: No

An important series celebrating individuals whose fiction, poetry and drama has profoundly affected our society, history and culture. Each program examines the life and work of a different writer from their earliest background through the influences that affected them and inspiried them to write. Their most famous books are discussed, along with the impact they had on the attitude of the day. Using archival footage, rare documents and exclusive interviews with living writers, critics, friends and relatives, the series records the legacy of these remarkable people.

Series Titles	Clip	Producer
D. H. Lawrence (1/25)		BBC
Virgina Woolf (2/25)		BBC
F. Scott Fitzgerald (3/25)		BBC
James Joyce (4/25)		BBC
Ernest Hemingway (5/25)		BBC
William S. Burroughs (6/25)		BBC
Bertolt Brecht (7/25)		BBC
George Orwell (8/25)		BBC
Graham Greene (9/25)		BBC
Dylan Thomas (10/25)		BBC
H.G. Wells (11/25)		BBC
Raymond Chandler (12/25)		BBC
Robert Graves (13/25)		BBC
Angela Carter (14/25)		BBC
James Baldwin (15/25)		BBC
Raymond Carver (16/25)		BBC
Norman Mailer (17/25)		BBC
W.H. Auden (18/25)		BBC
William Golding (19/25)		BBC
V.S. Naipaul (20/25)		BBC
Vladimir Nabokov (21/25)		BBC
Evelyn Waugh (22/25)		BBC
Aldous Huxley (23/25)		BBC
Primo Levi (24/25)		BBC
E.M. Forster (25/25)		BBC