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John David Caute (born December 16, 1936 in Alexandria, Egypt) is a British author, novelist, playwright, historian and journalist.

Caute was educated at Edinburgh Academy, Wellington, Wadham College, Oxford and St Antony's College, Oxford. A Henry Fellow at Harvard, he was elected a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford in 1959, but resigned in 1965. From 1966 to 1985 Caute held various academic positions, including Reader at Brunel University, and Visiting Professor at NYU. Columbia, UC Irvine, and Bristol University. He was Literary Editor of the New Statesman 1979-80, and Co-Chairman of the Writers' Guild of GB, 1982. His novel Comrade Jacob (1961) was adapted as the film Winstanley (1975). He has been a JP and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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