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- Philip Pullman
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Literary Estates Full List
Philip Larkin's estate is managed by the Society of Authors
The full list of estates administered by the Society is as follows (all rights are represented by the Society except where indicated):
Brendan BEHAN (Stage, screen and audio rights)
Clive BELL
Quentin BELL
Laurence BINYON
Freeman Wills CROFTS
Walter DE LA MARE
Norman DOUGLAS
T. S. ELIOT* (Stage, screen and audio rights – plays)
St. John ERVINE*
J. Meade FALKNER
Elisaveta FEN* (Stage, screen and audio rights)
E. M. FORSTER (Publication rights)
Winifred FORTESCUE
Rose FYLEMAN*
Robert GITTINGS
Harley GRANVILLE-BARKER*
L. P. HARTLEY
A. E. HOUSMAN
W. H. HUDSON
Christmas HUMPHREYS
Holbrook JACKSON
W. W. JACOBS
Robert KEMP*
Philip LARKIN
Rosamond LEHMANN
Compton MACKENZIE
Katherine MANSFIELD
Jo MANTON
John MASEFIELD*
H. J. MASSINGHAM
John Middleton MURRY
Alfred NOYES
Sax ROHMER
Cecil ROBERTS
Kenneth ROBERTS (Publication rights)
Bernard SHAW*
F. SLADEN SMITH
James STEPHENS
G. B. STERN
Lytton STRACHEY
D. T. SUZUKI
Alison UTTLEY
Philip VELLACOTT* (Stage, screen and audio rights)
E. F. WATLING* (Stage, screen and audio rights)
Eric WILLIAMS
Leonard WOOLF
Virginia WOOLF
W. B.YEATS (Screen and radio rights)