THE END OF YOUR LIFE BOOK CLUB
Characters - Alphabetical
 
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FIRST NAME LAST NAME DESCRIPTION
Louisa May AlcottAmerican novelist, short story writer.
ChristianeAmanpourBritish-Iranian journalist and television host.
LeeAtwaterAmerican political consultant.
W. H.AudenBritish-American poet.
W. H.AudenBritish-American poet.
CaesarAugustusFormer Roman emperor.
JaneAustenEnglish novelist.
Dr. ShamailAzimiThe first woman doctor to return to Afghanistan.
Russell BanksAmerican writer of fiction and poetry.
MurielBarberyFrench novelist and philosophy teacher.
MikhailBaryshnikovRussian-American dancer, choreographer, and actor.
Ishmael BeahSierra Leonean author and human rights activist.
ThomasBecketArchbishop of Canterbury.
AlanBennettEnglish actor, author, playwright, and screenwriter.
GeorgeBestNorthern Irish professional footballer.
ElizabethBishopAmerican poet and short-story writer.
RobertoBolañoChilean novelist, short-story writer, poet and essayist.
FreddieBrissonA producer.
GeraldineBrooksAmerican-Australian journalist and novelist.
PieterBruegelAn artist.
George W.Bush43rd U.S. President.
LewisCarrollEnglish writer of children's fiction.
CharlieChaplinEnglish comic actor, filmmaker, and composer.
BobChapmanA professor.
SindyCheungOne of the refugees.
JuliaChildThe house owner.
AgathaChristieEnglish writer.
CarinaCiscatoA Brazilian potter.
ClariceCliffEnglish ceramic artist.
KarenConnellyCanadian travel writer, novelist and poet.
PatConroyAmerican author.
HansCoperGerman-born British studio potter.
ColinCotterillLondon-born teacher, comic book writer and cartoonist.
Nessa CoyleA nurse practitioner.
Roald DahlBritish novelist, short-story writer, poet, and screenwriter.
Edmundde WaalEnglish artist, master potter and author.
JohnDenverAmerican singer-songwriter.
CharlesDickensEnglish writer and social critic.
JoanDidionAmerican writer.
JohnDixonAustralian comic book artist.
Siobhan DowdBritish writer and activist.
Quintana RooDunneJoan Didion's daughter.
MildredDunnockA drama teacher. Aka: Millie.
NancyDupreeAmerican historian.
BobDylanAmerican singer-songwriter.
DaveEggersAmerican writer, editor, and publisher.
AlbertEinsteinTheoretical physicist.
T. S.EliotA poet, essayist, publisher.
Ralph WaldoEmersonAmerican essayist, lecturer, and philosopher.
F. ScottFitzgeraldAmerican essayist, novelist, screenwriter, and short-story writer.
ZeldaFitzgeraldAmerican novelist, socialite, and painter.
IanFlemingEnglish author, journalist.
Dr. KathleenFoleyNina's friend.
KenFollettWelsh author.
EstherForbesAmerican novelist, historian.
E. M.ForsterEnglish novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist.
VarianFryOne of the key figures in the history of the Int'l Rescue Committee.
ClarkGableAmerican film actor.
Erle Stanley GardnerAmerican lawyer and author.
NikkiGiovanniAmerican poet.
NikkiGiovanniAmerican poet.
WilliamGoldingBritish novelist, playwright, and poet.
SueGraftonAmerican author of detective novels.
HughGrantEnglish actor and film producer.
Günter GrassGerman novelist, poet, playwright.
DavidHalberstamAmerican writer, journalist, and historian.
SusanHalpernA social worker and psychotherapist.
MohsinHamidBritish-Pakistani novelist.
PatriciaHighsmithAmerican novelist and short story writer.
AlfredHitchcockEnglish film director and producer.
AdolfHitlerGerman politician and leader of the Nazi Party.
AndrewHolleranAmerican novelist, essayist, and short story writer.
KhaledHosseiniAmerican novelist and physician.
LeslieHowardEnglish stage and film actor.
JohnIrvingAmerican-Canadian novelist and screenwriter.
ChristopherIsherwoodAn Anglo-American novelist, playwright,a screenwriter.
Yoshimoto IshinJapanese businessman.
PaulJenkinsAmerican abstract expressionist painter.
Jerome K.JeromeEnglish writer and humorist.
CrockettJohnsonAmerican cartoonist.
JonKabat-ZinnAmerican professor emeritus of medicine.
WalterKaiserMary Anne's lifelong friend.
Mariatu KamaraAn author and survivor of the civil war in Sierra Leon.
HamidKarzaiFormer President of Afghanistan.
ChrisKeenanThe potter.
JacquelneKennedyFormer First Lady of the United States.
John F.Kennedy35th U.S. President.
Robert F.KennedyFormer United States Attorney General. Aka: Bobby.
John KermueMary Anne's acquaintance.
John KermueOne of Mary Anne's friends.
LyKhamMary Anne and Nina's friend.
CaroleKingAmerican singer-songwriter.
LarryKingAmerican television and radio host.
Martin Luther King, Jr.American Christian minister and activist.
EmmaKirkbyAn English soprano.
GelseyKirklandAmerican ballerina.
LarryKramerMary Anne's great friend.
Aung San SuuKyiState Counselor of Myanmar.
Jhumpa LahiriAmerican author.
AnneLamottAmerican novelist and non-fiction writer.
Theresa LangA philanthropist.
StiegLarssonSwedish journalist and writer.
VictorLaValleAmerican author.
WilliamLawrenceBishop of Massachusetts.
MunroLeafAmerican author of children's literature.
DennisLehaneAmerican author.
DonnaLeonAmerican author.
C. S.LewisBritish writer and lay theologian.
Henry W.LongfellowAmerican poet and educator.
ElizabethMacKintoshReal name of Josephine Tey.
AlistairMacLeanScottish novelist.
CarolynMakinsonOne of Mary Anne's friends.
ThomasMannGerman novelist, short story writer.
ThomasMannGerman novelist, short story writer, social critic.
NgaioMarshNew Zealand writer.
Ahmad Shah MassoundAfghan politician and military commander.
William S.MaughamEnglish playwright, novelist, and short story writer.
JudyMayotteMary Anne's friend.
JamesMcBrideAmerican writer and musician.
AlexanderMcCall SmithBritish writer.
EdwinMcClellanBritish teacher.
SusanMcClellandAn author.
ValMcDermidScottish crime writer.
IanMcEwanEnglish novelist and screenwriter.
NicMcGeganBritish harpsichordist, flautist, and conductor.
RichardMeierAmerican abstract artist and architect.
HermanMelvilleAmerican novelist, short story writer and poet.
James A.MichenerAmerican author.
RohintonMistryCanadian-Indian writer.
JoniMitchellCanadian singer-songwriter.
J. R.MoehringerAmerican novelist.
MarjorieMorgensternA New York Jewish girl in the 1930s.
ToniMorrisonAmerican novelist, essayist, book editor.
WolfgangMozartA composer.
DaniyalMueenuddinAmerican-Pakistani author.
KristenMulvihillDavid Rohde's wife.
AliceMunroCanadian short story writer.
IrisMurdochBritish novelist and philosopher.
Mrs.MurphyMary Anne's acquaintance.
AkkineniNagarjunaIndian film actor.
IreneNémirovskyA novelist of Ukrainian Jewish.
EdithNesbitEnglish author and poet.
RichardNixon37th U.S. President.
Dr. EileenO'ReillyAn oncologist.
Barack Obama44th U.S. President.
JohnO'HaraAmerican writer.
MaryOliverAmerican poet.
MaryOliverAmerican poet.
FrancesOsborneIdina Sackville's biographer.
Elaine PagelsAmerican religious historian.
SaraParetskyAmerican author of detective fiction.
RandyPauschA computer scientist and professor.
SusanPedersenCanadian historian.
HaroldPinterBritish playwright, screenwriter, director and actor.
ReynoldsPriceAmerican poet, novelist, dramatist.
ThomasPynchonAmerican novelist.
Mang QuanMary Anne's acquaintance.
ArthurRansomeEnglish author and journalist.
PaulRevereAmerican silversmith.
David K.ReynoldsAn author.
LucieRieAustrian-born British studio potter.
Marilynne RobinsonAmerican novelist and essayist.
David S.RohdeAmerican author and investigative journalist.
John RuskinEnglish art critic.
RosalindRussellAn actress. Freddie Brisson's wife.
Timothy J. RussertAmerican television journalist.
IdinaSackvilleEnglish aristocrat.
CarlSandburgAmerican poet.
WillSchwalbeAn author, entrepreneur, and journalist.
PaulScofieldEnglish actor of stage and screen.
MartinScorseseItalian-American film director.
PippaScottMary Anne's lifelong friend.
DavidSedarisAmerican humorist, comedian, author.
IreneSelznickAmerican socialite and theatrical producer.
MauriceSendakAmerican illustrator and writer of children's books.
PeterShafferEnglish playwright and screnwriter.
George BernardShawIrish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist.
BernieSiegalAmerican writer and retired pediatric surgeon.
CarlySimonAmerican singer-songwriter.
AleksandrSolzhenitsynRussian novelist,
NatsumeSōsekiJapanese novelist.
GarethSparhamA scholar and translator in the field of Tibetan Buddhism.
RupertSpiraAn international teacher.
JulianStairEnglish potter, academic and writer.
WallaceStegnerAmerican novelist, short story writer.
EdwardSteichenAmerican photographer.
WallaceStevensAmerican modernist poet.
ElizabethStroutAmerican novelist.
JanetSuzmanBritish-South African actress.
PatrickSwayzeAmerican actor, dancer, singer, and songwriter.
CharlesTaylorFormer President of Liberia.
JamesTaylorAmerican singer-songwriter.
JeremyTaylorA cleric in the Church of England.
ShirleyTempleAmerican actress, singer, dancer.
Josephine TeyScottish author.
Chong ThaoOne of the children in the camp.
MichaelThomasA young writer originally from Boston.
Henry DavidThoreauAmerican essayist, poet, and philosopher.
Mary WilderTilestonAn author.
ColmTóibínIrish novelist, short story writer, essayist.
J. R. R.TolkienEnglish writer, poet, philologist, and academic.
WilliamTrevorIrish novelist, playwright and short story writer.
LivUllmannOne of Mary Anne's friends.
JohnUpdikeAmerican novelist.
LeonUrisAmerican author of historical fiction.
MarinaVaizeyMary Anne's closest friend.
JamesVan Der ZeeAmerican photographer.
BarbaraWaltersAmerican broadcast journalist, author, and television personality.
SheilaWellerA journalist.
ElieWieselAmerican-Romanian writer.
Mrs.WilliamsA homeroom teacher.
Tennessee WilliamsAmerican playwright.
P. G.WodehouseEnglish author.
Geoffrey WolffAmerican novelist, essayist, biographer.
HermanWoukAmerican author.
JeffreyZaslowAmerican author and journalist.
Adrian Lucy's brother.
Andy One of Will's friends.
Andy Mary Anne's friend.
Brother Brian One who runs De La Salle Academy in Manhattan.
Curt Mary Anne's favorite nurse.
Cy One of Will's mother's grandchildren.
David 1 Will's partner.
David 2 Larry Kramer's partner.
Denise Némirovsky's daughter.
Dice One of Mary Anne's friends.
Doug Will Schwalbe's brother.
Douglas Mary Anne's husband.
Fabienne Will's brother's first wife.
Fred A Presbyterian minister.
Gabriel A nurse.
Jean Halberstam's wife.
Lucy Will's niece.
Malcolm X American Muslim minister.
Mary Anne Will Schwalbe's mother.
Milo One of Will's mother's grandchildren.
Momoh  One of Mary Anne's friends.
Nancy Will's sister-in-law.
Nico Will's mother's oldest grandchild.
Nina Will Schwalbe's sister.
Rodger Will's family friend.
Sally Nina's partner.
Scottie F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's daughter.
Sister Mater A nun from the Philippines working in a refugee camp in Thailand.
Skip Mary Anne's younger brother.
Surrey A dog.
Susan Mary Anne's acquaintance.
Tom One of Will's friends.
Winnie One of Mary Anne's friends.
Wylie John O'Hara's daughter.
 
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