Estates
David Beaty was a former RAF pilot, whose books about flying earned him a worldwide reputation. He wrote his novels ...
1916 - 2004
Author Lillian Comber wrote under the pseudonym Lillian Beckwith and is best known for her series of semi-autobiographical ...
Francis Beeding is the pseudonym for the writers Hilary St. George Saunders
(1898-51) and John Palmer (1885-44), who collaboratively wrote ...
1897-1987
Josephine Bell was a
physician and author. She was born Doris Bell Collier in Manchester.
Between 1910 and 1916 ...
1936 - 1998
Gordon Beningfield was a well known artist who specialised in British landscapes, plants and wildlife. He regularly appeared ...
1875 - 1956
Edmund Clerihew Bentley was a journalist, humorist and the author of the classic detective novel, Trent's Last ...
1909 - 1997
Sir Isaiah Berlin, OM, was a political philosopher and historian of ideas, regarded as one of the leading ...
1901 - 1987
Wilfrid Jasper Walter Blunt was an artist, art teacher, author and curator of the Watts Museum near Guildford ...
1899 -1973
Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen was an Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer. Bowen was born in Dublin and ...
1932 -2000
Sir Malcolm Bradbury was a prolific author, televisions scriptwriter and critic, who combined his literary work with his ...
1901-1982
Caryl Brahms, who was born Doris Caroline Abrahams, was
initially educated at Minerva College,
Leicester, Britain's
first Jewish ...
1914 - 2004
Historian and author Alan Bullock first rose to prominence with the publication of his seminal biography, Hitler: A ...
1911 - 1986
Author Victor Canning wrote his many novels and thrillers under his own name and the pseudonyms Julian Forest ...
1892 -1982
Edward Hallett Carr was born in 1892, joined the Foreign Office in 1916 and resigned 20 years later ...
1874 - 1939
Egyptologist Howard Carter discovered the now famous tomb of the Egyptian pharoah Tutankhamun in 1922 and is also ...
1902-1976
Henry Cecil was the pseudonym of Judge Henry Cecil Leon. He was born in
Norwood Green Rectory, near London ...
1901 - 1972
Aviator and sailor Francis Chichester is best known for being the first person to circumnavigate the globe single-handedly ...
Sir Winston Churchill was Britain's Prime Minister throughout World War II and has been called "the greatest living Englishman ...
1890 - 1980
Literary scholar and author Nevill Coghill is best known for his English translation of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury ...
Richard Collier was born in Croydon, London.
He joined the RAF in 1942 and became War Associate Editor of Lord ...
1941-2001
Patrick Cosgrave was born in 1941. He studied history and
seventeenth century religion at University
College, Dublin.
He was ...
1914-1986
Glyn Daniel was born in Barry, south Wales, and studied geology at University College, Cardiff before transferring to St ...
Joyce Dennys was born 14th August 1883 in India.
She came from a military family and her father was a ...
1903 - 1964
Historian, archeologist and novelist Alfred Duggan wrote historical fiction and non-fiction about a wide range of subjects, from ...
1923 - 2001
Dorothy Dunnett was a Scottish historical novelist and former portrait painter who exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy ...
1878 - 1957
Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany was an Irish writer and dramatist, notable for his work ...
1912 - 1998 Francis Henry Durbridge was an English playwright and author born in Hull. He was educated at Bradford Grammar ...
1925 - 1995
Gerald Durrell was one of Britain's best loved authors and pioneering naturalists. His books, such as the ...
1912 - 1990
Lawrence Durrell was born in India and spent most of his life outside Britain, living in France, Cyprus ...
1907-2000
Humphry Francis
Ellis MBE was a comic writer, best known for his creation of A.J.
Wentworth, the ineffectual ...
1906 - 1984
Sir William Empson was an English literary critic and poet, reckoned by some to be the greatest English ...
1918-2002
Theatre critic and scholar Martin Esslin was born in Budapest,
Hungary on June 6, 1918. He moved to Vienna ...
1897 - 1962
William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American novelist and poet whose works feature his native state of Mississippi. He ...
A prolific writer of great variety, Andrew Garve wrote novels of mystery, detection, thrills, espionage, and romance. His popular characters ...
William Gerhardie was born in St Petersburgh in 1895. He was educated in Russia and later at Worcester College, Oxford ...
1902 - 1989
Stella Dorothea Gibbons, novelist, poet and short-story writer, was born in London. She went to the North London ...
1899-1973
Anthony Gilbert was the pen
name of the crime writer Lucy Beatrice
Malleson. She published 69 crime novels, 51 ...
1912-2006
Michael Gilbert had a very long and very productive writing career,
beginning with his first novel Close Quarters in ...
1907 - 1998
Margaret Rumer Godden, was an English author of over 60 books, under the name of Rumer Godden. Born ...
1912-1981
Pamela Hansford Johnson, Baroness Snow was an English novelist, playwright, poet, literary and social critic. She began her literary ...
John Harris was born in 1916. He was a sailor, airman, a journalist, travel
courier, cartoonist and a history teacher ...
The New York Times Book Review described ST Haymon
as "one of the purest lyric voices in the mystery field ...
1900 - 1954
James Hilton found literary success at an early age. His first novel, Catherine Herself, was published in 1920 ...
1921-1986
John Buxton Hilton was born
in 1921 in Buxton, Derbyshire. After his war service in the army he became ...
1926 - 2005
Evan Hunter was a prolific best selling American author and screenwriter who also wrote under the name Ed ...
1907 - 1975
British author Ray Coryton Hutchinson was born in North London and earned his degree from Oriel College, Oxford ...
1907 - 1989
Irish author Harford Montgomery Hyde trained as a barrister and worked as a politician after completing degrees at ...
1904 -1986
Christopher William Bradshaw-Isherwood was an Anglo-American novelist. The son of landed gentry, he was born in the ancestral ...
1901 -1989
Cyril Lionel Robert James was a journalist, socialist theorist and writer. He was a founder of the Pan-African ...
1933-1999
Sir Robert Vidal Rhodes James
was a historian and Conservative Member of Parliament. He was born in India
and ...
1896 - 1967
English novelist and playwright Margaret Kennedy is best known for her novel The Constant Nymph, published in 1924 ...
1923 - 2007
James Leasor was educated at The City of London School and Oriel College, Oxford. During World War II ...
1928 - 2004
Henry Bernard Levin, CBE, was an English journalist, author and broadcaster. After graduating from the LSE, it was ...
1929 - 2000
Award-winning author Roger Longrigg wrote under eight separate pseudonyms over the course of his career, generating 55 novels ...
1925 - 2008
George MacDonald Fraser, OBE, was a bestselling author and screenwriter probably most famous for his Harry Flashman novels ...
1914 - 1976
Colin MacInnes was a journalist, essayist and novelist whose late 1950s London trilogy Absolute Beginners, City of Spades ...
1891 - 1980
Henry Valentine Miller was an American writer and, to a lesser extent, painter. He is known for breaking ...
A. A. Milne (Alan Alexander) is best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh.
A.A. Milne was ...
Christopher Robin Milne was the son of author
Alan Alexander Milne and Dorothy de Selincourt. As a young child, he ...
1921 - 1999
Brian Moore was a novelist. He published twenty novels, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times and ...
1911 - 2006
Ursula Moray Williams was the author and illustrator of over seventy children's books. Born in 1911, she ...
Linda Murray was a lecturer in the Extra-Mural Department of the University
of London. She wrote books on the
High ...
1910 - 1983
Best known for his acting career, James David Graham Niven was born in London, England, the son of ...
Dr David Nokes (1948-2009) taught English Literature at King's College, London, specialising in the eighteenth century. His biography of ...
1923 - 2007Richard Lawrence Ollard was an English historian and biographer. He is best known for his historical biographies. He taught ...
1924-1990
Joyce Porter was born in Marple, Cheshire, and educated at King's College, London. In 1949 she joined the ...
1915 - 2001
In his lifetime John Prebble was a journalist, novelist, documentarian and historian. He was born in England but ...
1927 - 2001
Author Simon Raven was perhaps known as much for his controversial behaviour as for his writing. He grew ...
1905 - 1983
Mary Renault was best known for her historical novels set in Ancient Greece with their vivid fictional portrayals ...
1920 - 2004
Jasper Godwin Ridley was a British writer, known for historical biographies. He was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford ...
Somerville and Ross refers to Edith Somerville and Violet Florence Martin, the latter writing under the name of Martin Ross ...
1892 - 1962
The Hon Lady Nicolson, Vita Sackville-West was an English poet, novelist and gardener. Her long narrative poem, The ...
1886 - 1975
Robert Cedric Sherriff was an English writer. He first wrote a play to help Kingston Rowing Club raise ...
May Sinclair was the pseudonym
of Mary Amelia St. Clair, a
popular British writer. She was an active suffragist, and ...
1905 - 1980
Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow, CBE was a scientist and novelist.Born in Leicester, he was educated at ...
1902 - 1968
John Steinbeck is one of the best-known and most widely read American writers of the 20th century. A ...
Rex Stout was one of the most prolific American crime writers of the 20th Century and is best-known for his ...
1901-1953
Jan Struther was the pen name
of Joyce Anstruther, later Joyce Maxtone Graham and
finally Joyce Placzek, a writer ...
1908 - 2005
Showell Styles was a Welsh author and mountaineer. He was born in Four Oaks, Birmingham and attended
Bishop ...
1912 - 1994
Julian Gustave Symons was a British writer, best known for crime fiction. He also wrote social and military ...
1910 - 2003
Sir Wilfred Thesiger is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest travellers and travel writers of modern times ...
Richard Trench worked for the Observer, the Guardian and the Financial
Times on a freelance basis, and wrote the Time ...
1905 - 1986
Poet and novelist Rex Warner was greatly influenced in his own writing by the classics that he both ...
1899 - 1980
Antonia White was a British writer, born in London under the name Eirine Bottling to parents Cecil and ...
1913 - 1991
Angus Frank Johnstone Wilson was a British novelist and short story writer. He received a knighthood for his ...
1895 - 1976
Chinese author and inventor Lin Yutang is best known for his translations of Chinese classics into English for ...
1907 - 1989An English novelist, biographer, and playwright, who published romantic suspense novels, mostly set on the coast of Cornwall. Du ...
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