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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 92. Chapters: Bertrand Russell, John Lennon, Harold Pinter, Olaf Stapledon, Damon Albarn, George Galloway, Roger Waters, China Mieville, Charles Gilpin, Brian Haw, Ronald Skirth, George Bell, Salma Yaqoob, Tariq Ali, Richard Seymour, Guy Aldred, Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker, Helen Bright Clark, Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, Fenner Brockway, Baron Brockway, Walter Wolfgang, Vera Brittain, Nicolas Walter, Michael Lavalette, Helen Griffin, George MacLeod, Bertie Lewis, Richard Boston, Lindsey German, Maya Evans, Ken Coates, John Smith Clarke, Dora Russell, Milan Rai, Peggy Duff, David Morris, Janet Bloomfield, Randal Cremer, Bruce Kent, William Morris, Sybil Morrison, Jeremy Gilley, Hugh Brock, Peter Crampton, Spies for Peace, Peter Ritchie Calder, Myrtle Solomon, Peter Cadogan, Vernon Richards, Bert Bissell, Humphrey Moore, Pat Arrowsmith, Abbas Edalat, Alice Wheeldon, Michael Scott, Meg Beresford, Margaret Ashton, Angie Zelter. Excerpt: Harold Pinter, CH, CBE (10 October 1930 - 24 December 2008) was a Nobel Prize-winning English playwright and screenwriter. One of the most influential modern British dramatists, his writing career spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include The Birthday Party (1957), The Homecoming (1964), and Betrayal (1978), each of which he adapted to film. His screenplay adaptations of others' works include The Servant (1963), The Go-Between (1970), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), The Trial (1993), and Sleuth (2007). He also directed or acted in radio, stage, television, and film productions of his own and others' works. Pinter was born and raised in Hackney, east London, and educated at Hackney Downs School. He was a sprinter and a keen cricket player, acting in school plays and writing poetry. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art but did not complete the course. He was fined ...