"My business is too urgent to waste time on apologies" (John Buchan).

“我的生意特别紧要，不能把时间浪费在道歉上”(约翰·巴肯)。

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Previous winners of the biography prize include Lytton Strachey, John Buchan, Lady Antonia Fraser and Quentin Bell.

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Frances Hepburn lost her 23-year-old husband John Buchan in the tragedy.

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The novelist John Buchan ("The 39 Steps") explained why in 1940.

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