The Somerset Maugham Award is a British literary prize given each year by the

Society of Authors The Society of Authors (SoA) is a United Kingdom trade union for professional writers, illustrators and literary translators, founded in 1884 to protect the rights and further the interests of authors. , it represents over 12,000 members and as ...

. Set up by

William Somerset Maugham William Somerset Maugham ( ; 25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965) was an English writer, known for his plays, novels and short stories. Born in Paris, where he spent his first ten years, Maugham was schooled in England and went to a German un ...

in 1947 the awards enable young writers to enrich their work by gaining experience in foreign countries. The awards go to writers under the age of 30 with works published in the year before the award; the work can be either non-fiction, fiction or poetry. Since 1964 multiple winners have usually been chosen in the same year. In 1975 and in 2012 the award was not given.

List of winners

2020s

2022 * Stephanie Sy-Quia for ''Amnion'' (Granta, Granta Poetry) * Tice Cin for ''Keeping the House'' (And Other Stories) * Lucia Osborne-Crowley for ''My Body Keeps Your Secrets'' (Indigo Press) *

Caleb Azumah Nelson Caleb Azumah Nelson is a British-Ghanaian writer and photographer. His 2021 debut novel, '' Open Water'', won the Costa Book Award for First Novel. Personal life Azumah Nelson grew up in and currently lives in southeast London ( Bellingham). ...

for ''Open Water'' (Penguin Random House/Viking) *

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for ''Overrun by Wild Boars'' (Flipped Eye Publishing) 2021 * Lamorna Ash for ''Dark, Salt, Clear'' (Bloomsbury Publishing) * Isabelle Baafi for ''Ripe'' (Ignition Press) * Akeem Balogun for ''The Storm'' (Okapi Books) * Graeme Armstrong for ''The Young Team'' (Pan Macmillan, Picador) * * * * * * * * * 2020 * Alex Allison for ''The Art of the Body'' (Dialogue Books/

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) * Oliver Soden for ''Michael Tippett: The Biography'' (

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/Orion) * Roseanne Watt for ''Moder Dy'' (

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/Polygon) *

Amrou Al-Kadhi Amrou Al-Kadhi (born 23 June 1990) is a British-Iraqi writer, drag performer, and filmmaker whose work primarily focuses on queer identity, cultural representation and racial politics. Al-Kadhi made a cameo appearance in the 2021 Sony's Spider-Ma ...

for ''Unicorn'' ( 4th Estate)

2010s

2019 *

Raymond Antrobus Raymond Antrobus is a British poet, educator and writer, who has been performing poetry since 2007. In March 2019 he won the Ted Hughes Award for new work in poetry.Damian Le Bas Damian Le Bas (30 January 1963, Sheffield – 9 December 2017, Worthing) was a British artist associated with the Outsider Art (or "Art Brut") label, as well a leading exponent of the "Roma Revolution" in art. Life Le Bas was of Roma heritage. ...

for ''The Stopping Places'' *

Phoebe Power Phoebe Power (1993) is a British poet, whose work, ''Shrines of Upper Austria'', won the Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection. Biography Phoebe Power was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1993. She was named a Foyle Young Poet of the ...

for ''Shrines of Upper Austria'' *

Nell Stevens Nell Stevens (born 1985) is a British writer of memoirs and fiction. She is an assistant professor in the University of Warwick School of Creative Arts, Performance and Visual Cultures, where she teaches on the Warwick Writing Programme and list ...

for ''Mrs Gaskell and Me'' 2018 *

Kayo Chingonyi Kayo Chingonyi FRSL (born 1987) is a Zambian-British poet and editor who is the author of two poetry collections, ''Kumukanda'' and ''A Blood Condition.'' He has also published two pamphlets, ''Some Bright Elegance'' (Salt, 2012) and ''The Colour ...

for ''Kumukanda'' *

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for ''

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Miriam Nash Miriam Nash is a Scottish poet, performer and arts facilitator. She has published a pamphlet, ''Small Change'' (2015) and a full-length poetry collection, ''All the Prayers in the House'', (2017). She received an Eric Gregory Award in 2015, was ...

for ''All the Prayers in the House'' 2017 * Edmund Gordon for ''The Invention of Angela Carter'' *

Melissa Lee-Houghton Melissa Lee-Houghton (born in 1982 in Wythenshawe) is an English poet, fiction writer, and essayist. Her 2016 poetry collection, ''Sunshine,'' won the Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award and Costa Book Award for P ...

for ''Sunshine'' *

Martin MacInnes Martin may refer to: Places * Martin City (disambiguation) * Martin County (disambiguation) * Martin Township (disambiguation) Antarctica * Martin Peninsula, Marie Byrd Land * Port Martin, Adelie Land * Point Martin, South Orkney Islands Austra ...

for ''Infinite Ground'' 2016 *

Jessie Greengrass Jessie Greengrass (born 1982) is a British author. She won a Somerset Maugham Award and the Edge Hill Short Story Prize for her debut short story collection. Education and career Greengrass studied philosophy in Cambridge and London and now live ...

for ''An Account Of The Decline Of The Great Auk, According To One Who Saw It'' * Daisy Hay for ''Mr & Mrs Disraeli: A Strange Romance'' * Andrew McMillan for ''Physical'' * Thomas Morris for ''We Don't Know What We're Doing'' *

Jack Underwood John Patrick Underwood (December 8, 1894 – December 31, 1936) was a professional American football player from Hinckley, Minnesota. After attending high school in Duluth, Minnesota, Duluth, Underwood made his professional debut in the Nati ...

for ''Happiness'' 2015 * Jonathan Beckman for ''How to Ruin a Queen: Marie Antoinette, the Stolen Diamonds and the Scandal that Shook the French Throne'' *

Liz Berry Liz Berry (born 1980) is a British poet. She has published two pamphlets and one full-length poetry collection. Her poetry collection, ''Black Country'', was named poetry book of the year by several publications, including ''The Guardian''. E ...

for ''Black Country'' * Ben Brooks for ''Lolito'' *

Zoe Pilger Zoe Pilger (; born 1984) is an English author and art critic. Her first novel, ''Eat My Heart Out'', won a Betty Trask Award and a Somerset Maugham Award. Early life and career The daughter of journalists John Pilger and Yvonne Roberts, Zoe ...

for ''Eat My Heart Out'' 2014 *

Nadifa Mohamed Nadifa Mohamed ( so, Nadiifa Maxamed, ar, نظيفة محمد) (born 1981) is a Somali-British novelist. She featured on ''Granta'' magazine's list "Best of Young British Novelists" in 2013, and in 2014 on the Africa39 list of writers aged u ...

for '' The Orchard of Lost Souls'' * Daisy Hildyard for ''Hunters in the Snow Grass'' *

Amy Sackville Amy Sackville (born 1981) is a British writer whose debut novel '' The Still Point'' was the winner of the 2010 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Sackville studied English and theatre studies at Leeds University, followed by an MPhil at Oxford's Exete ...

for ''Orkney'' 2013 *

Ned Beauman Ned Beauman (born 1985) is a British novelist, journalist and screenwriter. The author of five novels, he was selected as one of the Best of Young British Novelists by ''Granta'' magazine in 2013. Biography Born in London, Beauman is the son of ...

for ''The Teleportation Accident'' * Abi Curtis for ''The Glass Delusion'' *

Joe Stretch Joe Stretch (born 7 January 1982) is an English writer and singer. His first novel, ''Friction'', was published by Vintage Books at Random House in 2008. His second novel, ''Wildlife'', was published in 2009. His visceral, savage writing style ha ...

for ''The Adult'' * Lucy Wood for ''Diving Belles'' 2012 * No Award 2011 *

Miriam Gamble Miriam Gamble (born 1980) is a poet who won the Eric Gregory Award in 2007 and the Somerset Maugham Award in 2011. She lives in Scotland and works as a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. Life and career Miriam Gamble was born in Brussel ...

for ''The Squirrels Are Dead'' *

Alexandra Harris Alexandra Harris (born 1981) is a British writer and academic. From 2007 to 2017, Harris was a professor in English at the University of Liverpool. In autumn 2017 Harris took up the post of Professorial Fellow at the University of Birmingham. Har ...

for ''Romantic Moderns'' *

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for ''In the Flesh'' 2010 *

Jacob Polley Jacob Polley (born 1975) is a British poet and novelist. He has published four collections of poetry. His novel, ''Talk of the Town'', won the Somerset Maugham Award in 2009. His latest poetry collection, ''Jackself'', won the T.S. Eliot Prize ...

for ''Talk of the Town'' *

Helen Oyeyemi Helen Oyeyemi FRSL (born 10 December 1984) is a British novelist and writer of short stories. Life Oyeyemi was born in Nigeria and was raised in Lewisham, South London from when she was four. Oyeyemi wrote her first novel, '' The Icarus Girl'' ...

for ''White is for Witching'' * Ben Wilson for ''What Price Liberty?''

2000s

2009 *

Adam Foulds Adam Samuel James Foulds FRSL ( ; born 8 October 1974) is a British novelist and poet. Biography Foulds was educated at Bancroft's School, read English at St Catherine's College, Oxford under Craig Raine, and graduated with an MA in creative ...

for ''The Broken Word'' *

Alice Albinia Alice Albinia (born 1976) is an English journalist and author whose first book, '' Empires of the Indus'', won several awards. Albinia was born in London and read English Literature at Cambridge University and South Asian History at SOAS. In b ...

for ''Empires of the Indus'' *

Rodge Glass Rodge Glass (born 17 January 1978 in Cheshire) is a British writer. Biography Glass was born in Cheshire, Cheshire, England. He attended an "an Orthodox Jewish Primary School, an 11+ All Boys Grammar School, a Co-Ed Private School, a Monk-sponsor ...

for ''Alasdair Gray: A Secretary's Biography'' *

Henry Hitchings Henry Hitchings (born 11 December 1974) is an author, reviewer and critic, specializing in narrative non-fiction, with a particular emphasis on language and cultural history. The second of his books, ''The Secret Life of Words: How English Beca ...

for ''The Secret Life of Words'' *

Thomas Leveritt Thomas Leveritt is an Anglo-American artist who works in various media. His roots are in figurative painting, for which he has won the Carroll Medal for Portraiture from the UK's Royal Society of Portrait Painters, and other painting awards from ...

for ''The Exchange-Rate Between Love and Money'' * Helen Walsh for ''Once Upon a Time in England'' 2008 * Steven Hall for ''

The Raw Shark Texts ''The Raw Shark Texts'' is the debut novel by British author Steven Hall, released in 2007. The book was released by Canongate Books in the US and the UK and published by HarperCollins in Canada. The title is a play on " Rorschach Tests", whi ...

'' * Nick Laird for ''On Purpose'' * Gwendoline Riley for ''Joshua Spassky'' *

Adam Thirlwell Adam Thirlwell (born 22 August 1978) is a British novelist. His work has been translated into thirty languages. He has twice been named as one of ''Granta''s Best of Young British Novelists. In 2015 he received the E.M. Forster Award from the Am ...

for ''Miss Herbert'' (US title: ''The Delighted States'') 2007 *

Horatio Clare Horatio Clare (born 1973) is an English author known for travel, memoir, nature and children's books. He worked at the BBC as a producer on '' Front Row'' (BBC Radio 4), ''Night Waves'' and ''The Verb'' (BBC Radio 3). Clare has written memoirs s ...

for ''Running For The Hills'' * James Scudamore for ''The Amnesia Clinic'' 2006 *

Chris Cleave Chris Cleave (born 1973) is a British writer and journalist. Biography Cleave was born in London on May 14, 1973, brought up in Cameroon and Buckinghamshire, and educated at Balliol College, Oxford where he studied psychology. He lives in the ...

for '' Incendiary'' *

Zadie Smith Zadie Smith FRSL (born Sadie; 25 October 1975) is an English novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Her debut novel, ''White Teeth'' (2000), immediately became a best-seller and won a number of awards. She has been a tenured professor ...

for ''

On Beauty ''On Beauty'' is a 2005 novel by British author Zadie Smith, loosely based on ''Howards End'' by E. M. Forster. The story follows the lives of a mixed-race British/American family living in the United States, addresses ethnic and cultural dif ...

'' *

Owen Sheers Owen Sheers (born 20 September 1974) is a Welsh poet, author, playwright and television presenter. He was the first writer in residence to be appointed by any national rugby union team. Early life Owen Sheers was born in Suva, Fiji in 1974, and b ...

for ''Skirrid Hill'' 2005 * Justin Hill for ''Passing Under Heaven'' *

Maggie O'Farrell Maggie O'Farrell, RSL (born 27 May 1972), is a novelist from Northern Ireland. Her acclaimed first novel, '' After You'd Gone'', won the Betty Trask Award, and a later one, '' The Hand That First Held Mine'', the 2010 Costa Novel Award. She ha ...

for ''The Distance Between Us'' 2004 * Charlotte Mendelson for ''Daughters of Jerusalem'' * Mark Blayney for ''Two Kinds of Silence'' * Robert Macfarlane for '' Mountains of the Mind'' 2003 * William Fiennes for ''The Snow Geese'' *

Hari Kunzru Hari Mohan Nath Kunzru (born 1969) is a British novelist and journalist. He is the author of the novels '' The Impressionist'', '' Transmission'', ''My Revolutions'', ''Gods Without Men'', ''White Tears''David Robinson"Interview: Hari Kunzru, a ...

for ''The Impressionist'' *

Jon McGregor Jon McGregor (born 1976) is a British novelist and short story writer. In 2002, his first novel was longlisted for the Booker Prize, making him then the youngest ever contender. His second and fourth novels were longlisted for the Booker Prize ...

for '' If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things'' 2002 * Charlotte Hobson for ''Black Earth City'' *

Marcel Theroux Marcel Raymond Theroux (born 13 June 1968) is a British-American novelist and broadcaster. He wrote ''A Stranger in The Earth'' and '' The Confessions of Mycroft Holmes: A Paper Chase,'' for which he won the Somerset Maugham Award in 2002. His ...

for '' The Paperchase'' 2001 *

Edward Platt Edward Cuthbert Platt (February 14, 1916 – March 19, 1974) was an American actor best known for his portrayal of the Chief in the 1965–70 NBC/CBS television series: ''Get Smart''. With his deep voice and mature appearance, he played an ...

for ''

Leadville The City of Leadville is a statutory city that is the county seat, the most populous community, and the only incorporated municipality in Lake County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 2,602 at the 2010 census and an estimated ...

'' * Ben Rice for '' Pobby and Dingan'' 2000 *

Bella Bathurst Bella Bathurst (born in 1969 in London) is an English writer, photojournalist, and furniture maker. Her novel ''The Lighthouse Stevensons'' won the 2000 Somerset Maugham Award. Biography Bathurst was born in London and presently lives in Scotla ...

for ''The Lighthouse Stevensons'' *

Sarah Waters Sarah Ann Waters (born 21 July 1966) is a Welsh novelist. She is best known for her novels set in Victorian society and featuring lesbian protagonists, such as ''Tipping the Velvet'' and '' Fingersmith''. Life and education Early life Sara ...

for ''

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1990s

1999 * Andrea Ashworth for ''Once in a House on Fire'' *

Paul Farley Paul Farley, FRSL (born 1965) is a British poet, writer and broadcaster. Life and work Farley was born in Liverpool. He studied painting at the Chelsea School of Art, and has lived in London, Brighton and Cumbria. His first collection of poe ...

for ''The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You'' *

Giles Foden Giles Foden (born 11 January 1967)George Stade and Karen Karbiener (eds), ''Encyclopaedia of British Writers, 1800 to the Present'', 2nd edn, Infobase Publishing, 2010, p. 176. is an English author, best known for his novel ''The Last King of S ...

for ''

The Last King of Scotland ''The Last King of Scotland'' is a novel by journalist Giles Foden, published by Faber and Faber in 1998. Focusing on the rise of Ugandan President Idi Amin and his reign as dictator from 1971 to 1979, the novel, which interweaves fiction and ...

'' *

Jonathan Freedland Jonathan Saul Freedland (born 25 February 1967) is a British journalist who writes a weekly column for ''The Guardian''. He presents BBC Radio 4's contemporary history series ''The Long View''. Freedland also writes thrillers, mainly under the ...

for ''

Bring Home the Revolution ''Bring Home the Revolution: The Case For a British Republic'' is a non-fiction book written by Jonathan Freedland and originally published in 1998 by Fourth Estate. Part travel book, part political and sociological examination of American societ ...

'' 1998 *

Rachel Cusk Rachel Cusk (born 8 February 1967) is a British novelist and writer. Childhood and education Cusk was born in Saskatoon to British parents in 1967, the second of four children with an older sister and two younger brothers, and spent much of h ...

for '' The Country Life'' * Jonathan Rendall for ''This Bloody Mary Is the Last Thing I Own'' *

Kate Summerscale Kate Summerscale (born 1965) is an English writer and journalist. Biography Summerscale was brought up in Japan, England and Chile. After attending Bedales School (1978–1983), she took a double-first at Oxford University and an MA in jour ...

for ''The Queen of Whale Cay'' *

Robert Twigger Robert Twigger (born 30 October 1962) is a British artist and writer. He travels widely but divides his time mostly between the UK and Egypt. Life Twigger was educated at Balliol College, Oxford University. He initially studied engineering, but ...

for ''

Angry White Pyjamas ''Angry White Pyjamas'' is a book written by Robert Twigger about his time in a one-year intensive program of studying Yoshinkan aikido. Summary The book is set in Tokyo in the mid-1990s. Twigger is living with two friends in a tiny apartmen ...

'' 1997 * Rhidian Brook for ''The Testimony of Taliesin Jones'' * Kate Clanchy for ''Slattern'' * Philip Hensher for ''Kitchen Venom'' * Francis Spufford for ''I May Be Some Time'' 1996 * Katherine Pierpoint for ''Truffle Beds'' * Alan Warner for ''Morvern Callar'' 1995 * Patrick French for ''Younghusband'' * Simon Garfield for ''The End of Innocence'' * Kathleen Jamie for ''The Queen of Sheba'' * Laura Thompson (British author), Laura Thompson for ''The Dogs'' 1994 * Jackie Kay for ''Other Lovers'' * A. L. Kennedy for ''Looking For the Possible Dance'' * Philip Marsden for ''Crossing Place'' 1993 * Dea Birkett for ''Jella'' * Duncan McLean (writer), Duncan McLean for ''Bucket of Tongues'' * Glyn Maxwell for ''Out of the Rain'' 1992 * Geoff Dyer for ''But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz, But Beautiful'' * Lawrence Norfolk for ''Lemprière's Dictionary'' * Gerard Woodward for ''Householder'' 1991 * Peter Benson (author), Peter Benson for ''The Other Occupant'' * Lesley Glaister for ''Honour Thy Father'' * Helen Simpson (author), Helen Simpson for ''Four Bare Legs in a Bed'' 1990 * Mark Hudson (author), Mark Hudson for ''Our Grandmothers' Drums'' * Sam North for ''The Automatic Man'' * Nicholas Shakespeare for ''The Vision of Elena Silves''

1980s

1989 * Rupert Christiansen for ''Romantic Affinities'' * Alan Hollinghurst for ''The Swimming Pool Library'' * Deirdre Madden for ''The Birds of the Innocent Wood'' 1988 * Jimmy Burns (writer), Jimmy Burns for ''The Land That Lost Its Heroes'' * Carol Ann Duffy for ''Selling Manhattan'' * Matthew Kneale for ''Whore Banquets'' 1987 * Stephen Gregory (author), Stephen Gregory for ''The Cormorant'' * Janni Howker for ''Isaac Campion'' * Andrew Motion for ''The Lamberts'' 1986 * Patricia Ferguson (author), Patricia Ferguson for ''Family Myths and Legends'' * Adam Nicolson for ''Frontiers'' * Tim Parks for ''Tongues of Flame'' 1985 * Blake Morrison for ''Dark Glasses'' * Jeremy Reed (writer), Jeremy Reed for ''By the Fisheries'' * Jane Rogers (novelist), Jane Rogers for ''Her Living Image'' 1984 * Peter Ackroyd for ''The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde'' * Timothy Garton Ash for ''The Polish Revolution: Solidarity'' * Sean O'Brien (writer), Sean O'Brien for ''The Indoor Park'' 1983 * Lisa St Aubin de Teran for ''Keepers of the House'' 1982 * William Boyd (writer), William Boyd for ''A Good Man in Africa (novel), A Good Man in Africa'' * Adam Mars-Jones for ''Lantern Lecture'' 1981 * Julian Barnes for ''Metroland (book), Metroland'' * Clive Sinclair (author), Clive Sinclair for ''Hearts of Gold'' * A. N. Wilson for ''The Healing Art'' 1980 * Max Hastings for ''Bomber Command'' * Christopher Reid (writer), Christopher Reid for ''Arcadia'' * Humphrey Carpenter for ''The Inklings''

1970s

1979 * Helen Hodgman for ''Jack & Jill'' * Sara Maitland for ''Daughter of Jerusalem'' 1978 * Tom Paulin for ''A State of Justice'' * Nigel Williams (author), Nigel Williams for ''My Life Closed Twice'' 1977 * Richard Holmes (biographer), Richard Holmes for ''Shelley: The Pursuit'' 1976 * Dominic Cooper (author), Dominic Cooper for ''The Dead of Winter'' * Ian McEwan for ''First Love, Last Rites'' 1975 * No Award 1974 * Martin Amis for ''The Rachel Papers'' 1973 * Peter Prince for ''Play Things'' * Paul Strathern for ''A Season in Abyssinia'' * Jonathan Street for ''Prudence Dictates'' 1972 * Douglas Dunn for ''Terry Street'' * Gillian Tindall for ''Fly Away Home'' 1971 * Susan Hill for ''I'm the King of the Castle (novel), I'm the King of the Castle'' * Richard Barber for ''The Knight and Chivalry'' * Michael Hastings (playwright), Michael Hastings for ''Tussy Is Me'' 1970 * Jane Gaskell for ''A Sweet Sweet Summer'' * Piers Paul Read for ''Monk Dawson (novel), Monk Dawson''

1960s

1969 * Angela Carter for ''Several Perceptions'' 1968 * Paul Bailey (British writer), Paul Bailey for ''At The Jerusalem'' * Seamus Heaney for ''Death of a Naturalist'' 1967 * B. S. Johnson for ''Trawl'' * Andrew Sinclair for ''The Better Half'' 1966 * Michael Frayn for ''The Tin Men'' * Julian Mitchell for ''The White Father'' 1965 * Peter Everett (author), Peter Everett for ''Negatives'' 1964 * Dan Jacobson for ''Time of Arrival'' * John le Carré for ''The Spy Who Came In From the Cold'' 1963 * David Storey for ''Flight Into Camden'' 1962 * Hugh Thomas (historian), Hugh Thomas for The Spanish Civil War (1961 book), ''The Spanish Civil War'' 1961 * V. S. Naipaul for ''Miguel Street'' 1960 * Ted Hughes for ''The Hawk in the Rain''

1950s

1959 * Thom Gunn for ''A Sense Of Movement'' 1958 * John Wain for ''Preliminary Essays'' 1957 * George Lamming for ''In the Castle of My Skin'' 1956 * Elizabeth Jennings (poet), Elizabeth Jennings for ''A Way of Looking'' 1955 * Kingsley Amis for ''Lucky Jim'' 1954 * Doris Lessing for ''Five Short Novels'' 1953 * Emyr Humphreys for ''Hear and Forgive'' 1952 * Francis King for ''The Dividing Stream'' 1951 * Roland Camberton for ''Scamp'' 1950 * Nigel Kneale for ''Tomato Cain & Other Stories''

1940s

1949 * Hamish Henderson for ''Elegies for the Dead in Cyrenaica'' 1948 * P. H. Newby for ''Journey to the Interior'' 1947 * A. L. Barker for ''Innocents''

References

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