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List of English writers is an alphabetical list of writers writing in English and born or brought up in England
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- A. W.A. W.The anonymous poet A.W. is responsible for the long poem, "Complaint" printed in A Poetical Rapsody issued by two brothers, Francis and Walter Davison, in 1602. In the Rapsody the poem is ascribed to Francis Davison, but in Davison’s own manuscript, to “A. W.”...
, (fl.FloruitFloruit , abbreviated fl. , is a Latin verb meaning "flourished", denoting the period of time during which something was active...
1602), unidentified poet - Edwin Abbott AbbottEdwin Abbott AbbottEdwin Abbott Abbott , English schoolmaster and theologian, is best known as the author of the satirical novella Flatland .-Biography:...
, (1838-1926), theologian, philologist and novelist, FlatlandFlatlandFlatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is an 1884 satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott. Writing pseudonymously as "A Square", Abbott used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to offer pointed observations on the social hierarchy of Victorian culture... - Gilbert Abbott à BeckettGilbert Abbott à BeckettGilbert Abbott à Beckett was an English humorist.He was born in London, the son of a lawyer, and belonged to a family claiming descent from Thomas Becket...
, (1811–1856), humorist - George Abbot, (1562–1633), writer, AV translator and cleric
- Kia AbdullahKia AbdullahKia Abdullah is a British-Bangladeshi author and journalist. She contributed to the guardian.co.uk website Comment is Free from 2008 to 2010 and has written two novels: Life, Love and Assimilation and Child's Play .-Career:Kia Abdullah wrote her first novel Life, Love and Assimilation after...
, (born 1982), novelist - Lascelles AbercrombieLascelles AbercrombieLascelles Abercrombie was a British poet and literary critic, one of the "Dymock poets"...
, (1881–1938), poet and critic - Paul AblemanPaul AblemanPaul Ableman was an English playwright and novelist. He was the writer of much erotic fiction and novelisations, and a freelance writer who turned his hand to non-fiction....
, (1927–2006), playwright and novelist - J. R. AckerleyJ. R. AckerleyJ. R. Ackerley was arts editor of The Listener, the weekly magazine of the BBC...
, (1896–1967), autobiographer, novelist and playwright - Rodney AcklandRodney AcklandRodney Ackland was an English playwright, actor, theatre director and screenwriter.He was educated at Balham Grammar School in London...
, (1908–1991), playwright, actor and screenwriter - Peter AckroydPeter AckroydPeter Ackroyd CBE is an English biographer, novelist and critic with a particular interest in the history and culture of London. For his novels about English history and culture and his biographies of, among others, Charles Dickens, T. S. Eliot and Sir Thomas More he won the Somerset Maugham Award...
, (born 1949), novelist and biographer - Eliza ActonEliza ActonElizabeth "Eliza" Acton was an English poet and cook who produced one of the country's first cookbooks aimed at the domestic reader rather than the professional cook or chef, Modern Cookery for Private Families. In this book she introduced the now-universal practice of listing the ingredients and...
, (1799–1859), poet and cookery writer - Harold ActonHarold ActonSir Harold Mario Mitchell Acton CBE was a British writer, scholar and dilettante perhaps most famous for being wrongly believed to have inspired the character of "Anthony Blanche" in Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited...
, (1904–1994), writer and scholar - Paul AdamPaul Adam (English novelist)Paul Adam is a British writer of novels for both adults and younger readers.Adam was born in Coventry in 1958, but moved to Sheffield before the age of one. He studied law at Nottingham University, then began a career in journalism, working both in England, in his childhood town of Sheffield, and...
, (born 1958), novelist - Douglas AdamsDouglas AdamsDouglas Noel Adams was an English writer and dramatist. He is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which started life in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a "trilogy" of five books that sold over 15 million copies in his lifetime, a television...
, (1952–2001), novelist and scriptwriter, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a science fiction comedy series created by Douglas Adams. Originally a radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978, it was later adapted to other formats, and over several years it gradually became an international multi-media phenomenon... - Richard AdamsRichard AdamsRichard Adams was a non-conforming English Presbyterian divine, known as author of sermons and other theological writings.-Life:...
, (born 1920), novelist, Watership DownWatership DownWatership Down is a classic heroic fantasy novel, written by English author Richard Adams, about a small group of rabbits. Although the animals in the story live in their natural environment, they are anthropomorphised, possessing their own culture, language , proverbs, poetry, and mythology... - Sarah Flower AdamsSarah Fuller Flower AdamsSarah Fuller Flower Adams was an English poet.-Biography:Sarah Fuller Flower was born at High Street, Old Harlow, Essex, younger daughter of Benjamin Flower, editor and the sister of composer Eliza Flower....
, (1805–1848), poet and hymn writer, Nearer, My God, to TheeNearer, My God, to Thee"Nearer, My God, to Thee" is a 19th century Christian hymn by Sarah Flower Adams, based loosely on Genesis 28:11–19, the story of Jacob's dream. Genesis 28:11–12 can be translated as follows: "So he came to a certain place and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. And he took one of the... - Donald AdamsonDonald AdamsonDonald Adamson is a historian, biographer, philosophical writer, textual scholar, literary critic, and translator of French literature...
, (born 1939), author and historian - Arthur St. John AdcockArthur St. John AdcockArthur St. John Adcock , was an English novelist and poet, remembered for his discovery of the then-unknown poet W. H. Davies....
, (1864–1930), novelist and editor - Fleur AdcockFleur AdcockKareen Fleur Adcock , CNZM, OBE is a poet and an editor of English and Northern Irish ancestry, who has lived much of her life in England.-Life and career:...
, (born 1934), poet - Joseph AddisonJoseph AddisonJoseph Addison was an English essayist, poet, playwright and politician. He was a man of letters, eldest son of Lancelot Addison...
, (1672–1719), essayist and poet, The SpectatorThe Spectator (1711)The Spectator was a daily publication of 1711–12, founded by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele in England after they met at Charterhouse School. Eustace Budgell, a cousin of Addison's, also contributed to the publication. Each 'paper', or 'number', was approximately 2,500 words long, and the... - Percy AddleshawPercy AddleshawPercy Addleshaw was an English barrister and writer.A graduate of Christchurch, Oxford, Addleshaw was called to the bar in 1893. He was an admirer and friend of Roden Noel...
, (pen name Percy Hemingway, 1866–1916), writer and poet - Diran AdebayoDiran AdebayoDiran Adebayo is a British novelist, cultural critic and broadcaster best known for his vivid portrayals of modern London life and his distinctive use of language.-Education and career:...
, (born 1968), novelist and broadcaster - Mark AdlardMark AdlardMark Adlard was born Peter Marcus Adlard is an English novelist. He was born in Seaton Carew, Hartlepool, County Durham, England on 19 June 1932....
, (born 1932), novelist - James AgateJames AgateJames Evershed Agate was a British diarist and critic. In the period between the wars, he was one of Britain's most influential theatre critics...
, (1877–1947), diarist and critic - John AglionbyJohn AglionbyJohn Aglionby was an eminent divine, of an ancient family whose name was De Aguilon, corrupted into Aglionby. The son of Edward Aglionby and Elizabeth Musgrave, of Crookdayke, was admitted a student of Queen's College, Oxford, in 1583...
, (died 1609/10), scholar, AV translator and cleric - Grace AguilarGrace AguilarGrace Aguilar was an English novelist and writer on Jewish history and religion. She was delicate from childhood, and early showed great interest in history, especially Jewish history...
, (1816–1847), novelist and writer - Allan AhlbergJanet and Allan AhlbergJanet and Allan Ahlberg are the creators of many popular children's books, which regularly appear at the top of the 'most popular' lists for public libraries. Husband and wife, they worked together for 20 years until Janet died of cancer on 13 November 1994, aged 50. Allan wrote the books, and...
, (born 1939), children's writer, Burglar BillBurglar BillBurglar Bill was written in 1888 by Thomas Anstey Guthrie using the pseudonym F. Anstey, as a recitation. "Burglar Bill of Pentonville, etc."-Children's story:... - Robert AickmanRobert AickmanRobert Fordyce Aickman was an English conservationist and writer of fiction and nonfiction. As a writer, he is best known for his supernatural fiction, which he described as "strange stories".-Life:...
, (1914–1981), novelist and conservationist - Joan AikenJoan AikenJoan Delano Aiken MBE was an English novelist. She was born in Rye, East Sussex, into a family of writers, including her father, American poet Conrad Aiken , her sister, Jane Aiken Hodge and her brother John Aiken Joan Delano Aiken MBE (4 September 1924 – 4 January 2004) was an English novelist....
, (1924–2004), novelist - Arthur AikinArthur AikinArthur Aikin , English chemist, mineralogist and scientific writer, was born in Warrington, Lancashire into a distinguished literary family of prominent Unitarians....
, (1783–1854), science writer - Lucy AikinLucy AikinLucy Aikin , born at Warrington, England into a distinguished literary family of prominent Unitarians, was a historical writer.-Family and education:...
, (1781–1864), children's writer, biographer and writer on history - John AikinJohn AikinJohn Aikin was an English doctor and writer.-Life:He was born at Kibworth Harcourt, Leicestershire, England, son of Dr. John Aikin, Unitarian divine, and received his elementary education at the Nonconformist academy at Warrington, where his father was a tutor. He studied medicine at the...
, (1747–1822), writer and physician - Alfred AingerAlfred AingerAlfred Ainger was an English biographer and critic.The son of an architect in London he was educated at University College School, King's College London and Trinity College, Cambridge, from where he subsequently entered the Church, and, after holding various minor preferments, became Master of the...
, (1837–1904), biographer and critic - William Harrison AinsworthWilliam Harrison AinsworthWilliam Harrison Ainsworth was an English historical novelist born in Manchester. He trained as a lawyer, but the legal profession held no attraction for him. While completing his legal studies in London he met the publisher John Ebers, at that time manager of the King's Theatre, Haymarket...
, (1805–1882), novelist, Old St Paul's - Mark AkensideMark AkensideMark Akenside was an English poet and physician.Akenside was born at Newcastle upon Tyne, England, the son of a butcher. He was slightly lame all his life from a wound he received as a child from his father's cleaver...
, (1721–1770), poet - William AlabasterWilliam AlabasterWilliam Alabaster was an English poet, playwright, and religious writer. His surname is one of the many variants of "arbalester", a crossbowman....
, (1567–1640), poet, playwright and cleric - James AlberyJames AlberyJames Albery was an English dramatist.-Life and career:Albery was born in London. On leaving school Albery entered an architect's office, and started to write plays. His farce A Pretty Piece of Chiselling was given its first production by the Ingoldsby Club in 1864...
, (1838–1889), playwright - Alice AlbiniaAlice AlbiniaAlice Albinia is a journalist and author whose first book, Empires of the Indus, won several awards.Alice read English Literature at Cambridge and South Asian History at SOAS...
, (born 1976), travel writer - Mary AlcockMary AlcockMary Alcock [née Cumberland] , was a poet, essayist, and philanthropist.Mary was the youngest child of Joanna Bentley and Bishop Denison Cumberland...
, (c. 1742-1798), poet and essayist - Thomas AldhamThomas Aldham-Founder:Nothing is known of Aldham's parentage. He farmed successfully at Warmsworth, near Doncaster. In 1644, he married Mary Killam , whom her son Thomas described as "a Woman that truly feared God, and served him in her Day and Generation." Aldham's son William was instrumental in opening the...
or Aldam, (c. 1616–1660), writer and early Quaker - Richard AldingtonRichard AldingtonRichard Aldington , born Edward Godfree Aldington, was an English writer and poet.Aldington was best known for his World War I poetry, the 1929 novel, Death of a Hero, and the controversy arising from his 1955 Lawrence of Arabia: A Biographical Inquiry...
, (1892–1962), novelist and poet - Brian AldissBrian AldissBrian Wilson Aldiss, OBE is an English author of both general fiction and science fiction. His byline reads either Brian W. Aldiss or simply Brian Aldiss. Greatly influenced by science fiction pioneer H. G. Wells, Aldiss is a vice-president of the international H. G. Wells Society...
, (born 1925), novelist - Henry AldrichHenry AldrichHenry Aldrich was an English theologian and philosopher.-Life:Aldrich was educated at Westminster School under Dr Richard Busby. In 1662, he entered Christ Church, Oxford, and in 1689 was made Dean in succession to the Roman Catholic John Massey, who had fled to the Continent. In 1692, he...
, (1647–1710), poet and theologian - Monica AliMonica AliMonica Ali is a British writer of Bangladeshi origin. She is the author of Brick Lane, her debut novel, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2003...
, (born 1967), novelist, Brick LaneBrick LaneBrick Lane is a street in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, in the East End of London. It runs from Swanfield Street in the northern part of Bethnal Green, crosses Bethnal Green Road, passes through Spitalfields and is linked to Whitechapel High Street to the south by the short stretch of... - Cyril AlingtonCyril AlingtonCyril Argentine Alington was an English educationalist, scholar, cleric, and prolific author. He was the headmaster of both Shrewsbury School and Eton College. He also served as chaplain to King George V and as Dean of Durham....
, (1872–1955), crime novelist and non-fiction writer - Nicholas AllanNicholas Allan- Biography :Nicholas Allan was born and brought up in Brighton, attending Brighton College from 1970 to 1975. He studied at the Slade School of Art and completed an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia...
, (born c. 1955), children's writer - James AllenJames Allen (author)James Allen was a British philosophical writer known for his inspirational books and poetry and as a pioneer of the self-help movement. His best known work, As a Man Thinketh, has been mass produced since its publication in 1903...
, (1864–1912), self-help writer and poet - Walter AllenWalter AllenWalter Ernest Allen was an English literary critic and novelist. He is best known for his classic study The English Novel: a Short Critical History ....
, (1911–1995), novelist and critic - Margery AllinghamMargery AllinghamMargery Louise Allingham was an English crime writer, best remembered for her detective stories featuring gentleman sleuth Albert Campion.- Childhood and schooling :...
, (1904–1966), novelist, the Albert CampionAlbert CampionAlbert Campion is a fictional character in a series of detective novels and short stories by Margery Allingham. He first appeared as a supporting character in The Crime at Black Dudley , an adventure story involving a ring of criminals, and would go on to feature in another 17 novels and over 20...
series - Drummond AllisonDrummond AllisonDrummond Allison was an English war poet of World War II.He was born in Caterham, Surrey, and educated at Bishop's Stortford College and at Queen's College, Oxford. After Sandhurst training, he became an intelligence officer in the East Surrey Regiment. He served in North Africa and Italy, where...
, (1921–1943), poet - Kenneth AllottKenneth AllottKenneth Allott was an Anglo-Irish poet and academic, and authority on Matthew Arnold.-Life:Born in Glamorgan, where his father, a doctor, was serving as a locum, Allott later experienced the break-up of his parents' marriage, followed by the death of his mother...
, (1912–1973), poet and anthologist - Kenneth AllsopKenneth AllsopKenneth Allsop was a British broadcaster, author and naturalist. He was a regular reporter on the BBC current affairs programme "Tonight" during the 1960s. He also was Rector of Edinburgh University and won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize...
, (1920–1973), writer and broadcaster - E. M. AlmedingenE. M. AlmedingenE. M. Almedingen was a British novelist, biographer and children's author of Russian origin....
, (1898-1971), novelist, biographer and children's writer - John AlmonJohn AlmonJohn Almon was an English journalist and writer on political subjects, notable for his efforts to secure the right to publish reports on the debates in Parliament....
, (1737–1804), journalist and anthologist - David AlmondDavid AlmondDavid Almond is a British children's writer who has written several novels, each one to critical acclaim.-Early life:Almond was born and raised in Felling and Newcastle in post-industrial North East England and educated at the University of East Anglia, he was born in 1951...
, (born 1951), novelist and children's writer - Vincent AlsopVincent AlsopVincent Alsop was an English Nonconformist clergyman.-Life:Alsop came from Northamptonshire and was educated at St John's College, Cambridge. He received deacon's orders from a bishop, and settled as assistant-master in the free school of Oakham, Rutland. The Rev. Benjamin King took him under his...
, (c. 1630–1703), Nonconformist cleric and religious writer - Al AlvarezAl AlvarezAl Alvarez is an English poet, writer and critic who publishes under the name A. Alvarez and Al Alvarez....
, (born 1929), poet and writer - Moniza AlviMoniza Alvi-Life and education:Moniza Alvi was born in Lahore, Pakistan. She was born to a Pakistani father and a British mother. Her father moved to Hatfield, Hertfordshire in England when she was a few months old. She did not revisit Pakistan until after the publication of her first book of poems - The...
, (born 1968), poet and writer - Eric AmblerEric AmblerEric Clifford Ambler OBE was an influential British author of spy novels who introduced a new realism to the genre. Ambler also used the pseudonym Eliot Reed for books co-written with Charles Rodda.-Life:...
, (1909–1998), novelist and screenwriter, Passage of ArmsPassage of ArmsPassage of Arms is a novel by Eric Ambler, written in 1959. It is a fast paced thriller about the discovery of a cache of arms abandoned by communist insurgents in the jungle of Malaya, and the transfer of the arms via Singapore to Indonesia. The book is structured as a story within a story within... - Isaac AmbroseIsaac AmbroseIsaac Ambrose was an English Puritan divine, the son of Richard Ambrose, vicar of Ormskirk, and was probably descended from the Ambroses of Lowick in Furness, a well-known Roman Catholic family....
, (1604-1663/4), religious writer, diarist and cleric - Elizabeth AmherstElizabeth Frances Amherst (poet)Elizabeth Frances Amherst , poet and amateur naturalist, remained largely unpublished during her lifetime.She was born to Elizabeth Kerrill and Jeffrey Amherst of Kent, one of two girls and seven boys. She married the Revd John Thomas of Welford, Gloucestershire; the couple had no biological...
(c. 1716-1779), poet and naturalist - Kingsley AmisKingsley AmisSir Kingsley William Amis, CBE was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher. He wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, various short stories, radio and television scripts, along with works of social and literary criticism...
, (1922–1995), poet and novelist, Lucky JimLucky JimLucky Jim is an academic satire written by Kingsley Amis, first published in 1954 by Victor Gollancz. It was Amis's first novel, and won the Somerset Maugham Award for fiction... - Martin AmisMartin AmisMartin Louis Amis is a British novelist, the author of many novels including Money and London Fields . He is currently Professor of Creative Writing at the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester, but will step down at the end of the 2010/11 academic year...
, (born 1949), novelist - Thomas Amory, (c. 1691-1788), novelist and miscellanist
- Thomas AmoryThomas Amory (tutor)Thomas Amory D.D. was an English dissenting tutor and minister and poet from Taunton.-Biography:His father was a grocer and his mother a sister of Henry Grove. He was at school under Chadwick, a local dissenting minister, and learned French at Exeter under André de Majendie, a refugee minister...
, (1701-1774), poet and dissenting cleric - Valerie AnandValerie Anand-Fiction:Under the pen name Fiona Buckley she writes the series of historical mysteries, set in the reign of Elizabeth I of England, featuring "Ursula Blanchard"...
, (pen name also Flora Buckley, born 1937), novelist - Patrick Anderson, (1915-1979), poet
- Lancelot AndrewesLancelot AndrewesLancelot Andrewes was an English bishop and scholar, who held high positions in the Church of England during the reigns of Queen Elizabeth I and King James I. During the latter's reign, Andrewes served successively as Bishop of Chichester, Ely and Winchester and oversaw the translation of the...
, (1555–1626), scholar, AV translator and cleric - Roger AndrewesRoger AndrewesDr Roger Andrewes was an English churchman and academic, archdeacon and Chancellor at Chichester Cathedral in the English Church...
, (fl. 1610s), scholar, AV translator and cleric - Miles Peter AndrewsMiles Peter AndrewsMiles Peter Andrews was an 18th century English playwright, gunpowder manufacturer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1796 to 1814.-Biography:...
, (1742–1814), playwright and poet - Norman AngellNorman AngellSir Ralph Norman Angell was an English lecturer, journalist, author, and Member of Parliament for the Labour Party.Angell was one of the principal founders of the Union of Democratic Control...
, (1872–1967), Nobel Prize winner, political writer and economist, The Great IllusionThe Great IllusionThe Great Illusion is a book by Norman Angell, first published in Britain in 1909 under the title Europe's Optical Illusion and republished in 1910 and subsequently in various enlarged and revised editions under the title The Great Illusion.... - Jane AngerJane AngerJane Anger was an English author of the late sixteenth century. The only evidence of her extant is Her Protection for Women, a pamphlet published in London in 1589, of which only one original copy survives...
, (fl. 1589), pamphleteer - Peter AnghelidesPeter AnghelidesPeter Anghelides is an English author and dramatist best known for his work on various spin-offs related to the BBC television series Doctor Who.-Work:...
(fl. 1990s), writer, Dr. Who TV serial spinoffs - George AnsonGeorge Anson, 1st Baron AnsonAdmiral of the Fleet George Anson, 1st Baron Anson PC, FRS, RN was a British admiral and a wealthy aristocrat, noted for his circumnavigation of the globe and his role overseeing the Royal Navy during the Seven Years' War...
, Lord Anson (1697–1762), writer, explorer and admiral - Christopher AnsteyChristopher AnsteyChristopher Anstey was an English writer and poet.Anstey was the son of Dr. Anstey, a wealthy clergyman, the rector of Brinkley where he was born. He was educated at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge, where he distinguished himself for his Latin verses. He became a fellow of his college...
, (1724–1805), writer and poet - Charles James ApperleyCharles James ApperleyCharles James Apperley , English sportsman and sporting writer, better known as Nimrod, the pseudonym under which he published his works on the chase and on the turf, was born at Plasgronow, near Wrexham, in Denbighshire, North Wales in 1777.- Youth :Charles James Apperley was the second son of...
, (pen name Nimrod, 1777–1843), writer on hunting and horse racing - Lisa AppignanesiLisa AppignanesiLisa Appignanesi is a British writer, novelist, and campaigner for free expression. She is president of the writers’ organization English PEN. Her latest book is All About Love: Anatomy of an Unruly Emotion...
, (born 1946), writer and historian - Roy AppsRoy AppsRoy Apps is a British screenwriter, dramatist and children’s author.He is one of only four writers ever to have received a personal BAFTA for outstanding contributions to children’s film and television....
, (born 1951), screenwriter and children's writer - Arthur John ArberryArthur John ArberryArthur John Arberry was a respected British orientalist. A most prolific scholar of Arabic, Persian, and Islamic studies, he was educated at Portsmouth Grammar School and Pembroke College, Cambridge...
, (1905–1969), orientalist and translator, The Koran InterpretedThe Koran InterpretedThe Koran Interpreted is a translation of the Qur'an by Arthur John Arberry. The translation is from the original Arabic into English. First published in 1955, it is one of the most prominent written by a non-Muslim scholar... - Harriet ArbuthnotHarriet ArbuthnotHarriet Arbuthnot was an early 19th century English diarist, social observer and political hostess on behalf of the Tory party. During the 1820s she was the "closest woman friend" of the hero of Waterloo and British Prime Minister, the 1st Duke of Wellington...
, (1793-1834), political diarist - John ArbuthnotJohn ArbuthnotJohn Arbuthnot, often known simply as Dr. Arbuthnot, , was a physician, satirist and polymath in London...
, (1667–1735), satirist and polymath - Fred ArcherFred Archer (writer)Fred Archer was an English farmer and author. He was born on Bredon Hill in Worcestershire.Archer's literary career began following a talk he gave to his local Guild, as a replacement speaker. Having written and read out a humorous story, he was encouraged by the response of his audience...
, (1915–1999), writer and farmer - Jeffrey Archer, (born 1940), novelist and politician
- Philip ArdaghPhilip ArdaghPhilip Ardagh is an English children's author, primarily known for the Eddie Dickens series of books. He has written more than 70 books including adult fiction and children's non-fiction....
, (born 1961), children's writer - John ArdenJohn ArdenJohn Arden is an award-winning English playwright from Barnsley . His works tend to expose social issues of personal concern. He is a member of the Royal Society of Literature....
, (born 1930), playwright and novelist - Edward ArdizzoneEdward ArdizzoneEdward Jeffrey Irving Ardizzone, CBE, RA was an English artist, writer and illustrator, chiefly of children's books.-Early life:...
, (1900–1979), children's author and illustrator - Reginald ArkellReginald ArkellReginald Arkell was a British script writer and comic novelist who wrote many musical plays for the London theatre. The most popular of those was an adaptation of the spoof history book 1066 and All That: 1066—and all that: A Musical Comedy based on that Memorable History by Sellar and Yeatman...
, (1882–1959), novelist, playwright and screenwriter - Michael ArlenMichael ArlenMichael Arlen , original name Dikran Kouyoumdjian, was an Armenian essayist, short story writer, novelist, playwright, and scriptwriter, who had his greatest successes in the 1920s while living and writing in England...
, (original name Dikran Kouyoumdjian, 1895–1956), essayist, playwright and novelist - John ArlottJohn ArlottLeslie Thomas John Arlott OBE was an English journalist, author and cricket commentator for the BBC's Test Match Special. He was also a poet, wine connoisseur and former police officer in Hampshire...
, (1914–1991), cricket writer and commentator - Robert ArminRobert ArminRobert Armin was an English actor, a member of the Lord Chamberlain's Men. He became the leading comedy actor with the troupe associated with William Shakespeare following the departure of Will Kempe around 1600...
, (c. 1563-1615), playwright and actor - Simon ArmitageSimon ArmitageSimon Armitage CBE is a British poet, playwright, and novelist.-Life and career:Simon Armitage was born in Marsden, West Yorkshire. Armitage first studied at Colne Valley High School, Linthwaite, Huddersfield and went on to study geography at Portsmouth Polytechnic...
, (born 1963), poet, playwright and novelist - Martin Armstrong, (1882–1974), novelist and poet
- Peter ArmstrongPeter Armstrong (poet)This page is about the UK poet Peter Armstrong. For his namesake the Canadian journalist, see Peter Armstrong . For other namesakes, see below.Peter Armstrong is a poet and psychotherapist.-Life:...
, (born 1957), poet and psychotherapist - Richard ArmstrongRichard Armstrong (author)Richard Armstrong was an English author who wrote for both adults and children. He was the winner of the Carnegie Medal in 1948 for his book Sea Change. He is also known for a biography of Grace Darling in which he challenges the conventional story: Grace Darling: Maid and Myth...
, (1903–1986), novelist, naval historian and children's writer, Sea ChangeSea Change (Armstrong novel)Sea Change is a children's novel by Richard Armstrong. A contemporary seafaring adventure set on a cargo ship, it was the winner of the Carnegie Medal for 1948.- Plot introduction :... - Elizabeth von ArnimElizabeth von ArnimElizabeth von Arnim , born Mary Annette Beauchamp, was an Australian-born British novelist. By marriage she became Gräfin von Arnim-Schlagenthin, and by a second marriage, Countess Russell...
, (pen name also Alice Cholmondeley, 1866–1941), novelist, Elizabeth and Her German GardenElizabeth and Her German GardenElizabeth and Her German Garden is a novel by Elizabeth von Arnim, first published in 1898; it was very popular and frequently reprinted during the early years of the 20th century.... - Edwin ArnoldEdwin ArnoldSir Edwin Arnold CSI CIE was an English poet and journalist, who is most known for his work, The Light of Asia.-Biography:...
, (1832–1904), poet and journalist - Edwin Lester ArnoldEdwin Lester Linden ArnoldEdwin Lester Linden Arnold was an English author. Most of his works were issued under his working name of Edwin Lester Arnold....
, (1857–1935), writer and novelist, Lieutenant Gullivar Jones: His VacationLieutenant Gullivar Jones: His VacationLieutenant Gullivar Jones: His Vacation is a novel by Edwin Lester Arnold combining elements of both fantasy and science fiction, first published in 1905. The last of Arnold's novels, its lukewarm reception led him to stop writing fiction... - Elizabeth ArnoldElizabeth Arnold (children's writer)-Folklore:Having worked for many years as a school science technician and a quality control manager, Elizabeth Arnold came to write The Parsley Parcel, her first novel, out of a love of folklore, and originally with adults in mind rather than children...
, (born 1944), children's writer - Matthew ArnoldMatthew ArnoldMatthew Arnold was a British poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. He was the son of Thomas Arnold, the famed headmaster of Rugby School, and brother to both Tom Arnold, literary professor, and William Delafield Arnold, novelist and colonial administrator...
, (1822–1888), poet, Dover BeachDover Beach"Dover Beach" is a short lyric poem by the English poet Matthew Arnold. It was first published in 1867 in the collection New Poems, but surviving notes indicate its composition may have begun as early as 1849... - Richard ArnoldRichard Arnold (chronicler)Richard Arnold , was an English antiquary and chronicler.Arnold was a citizen of London, dwelling in the parish of St. Magnus, London Bridge. It would appear from his own book that he was a merchant trading with Flanders...
, (died c. 1521), chronicler and merchant - Thomas ArnoldThomas ArnoldDr Thomas Arnold was a British educator and historian. Arnold was an early supporter of the Broad Church Anglican movement...
, (1795–1842), educationalist and historian - Thomas Walker ArnoldThomas Walker ArnoldSir Thomas Walker Arnold was an eminent British orientalist and historian of Islamic art who taught at MAO College, Aligarh Muslim University, then Aligarh College, and Government College University, Lahore. He was a friend of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, and wrote his famous book "The preaching of Islam"...
, (1864–1930), Islamist scholar - William Delafield ArnoldWilliam Delafield ArnoldWilliam Delafield Arnold was a British author and colonial administrator.He was the fourth son of Thomas Arnold, the headmaster of Rugby School. His older brothers included the poet and critic Matthew Arnold and the literary scholar Tom Arnold...
, (1828–1859), novelist and colonial administrator, Oakfield; or, Fellowship in the EastOakfield; or, Fellowship in the EastOakfield; or, Fellowship in the East is a novel by William Delafield Arnold, first published in 1853. The book is one of the earliest novelistic accounts of life in British India, and its plot strongly mirrors the biography of its author... - Anthony AschamAnthony AschamAnthony Ascham was a British academic, political theorist, Parliamentarian and diplomat.-Life:He was probably born on 6 March 1613/1614, the younger son of Thomas Ascham, an alderman of Boston, Lincolnshire...
, (c. 1614-1650), scholar and politician - Roger AschamRoger AschamRoger Ascham was an English scholar and didactic writer, famous for his prose style, his promotion of the vernacular, and his theories of education...
, (c. 1515–1568), writer and scholar - John AshJohn Ash (divine)John Ash was an English Baptist minister at Pershore, Worcestershire, divine, and author of an English dictionary and grammar books.-Life:...
, (1724–1779), lexicographer and Baptist minister - John AshJohn Ash (writer)John Ash is an expatriate British poet and writer.His lifelong interest in Byzantium is a major theme which runs through his poetry, fiction and travel writing, along with family friends and the three major cities he has lived in...
, (born 1948), poet and travel writer - Timothy Garton AshTimothy Garton AshTimothy Garton Ash is a British historian, author and commentator. He is currently serving as Professor of European Studies at Oxford University. Much of his work has been concerned with the late modern and contemporary history of Central and Eastern Europe...
, (born 1955), historian - Elizabeth AshbridgeElizabeth AshbridgeElizabeth Ashbridge was an 18th century Quaker minister born in Cheshire, England.-Early life:Elizabeth was born in 1713 in the town of Middlewich in Cheshire, England to Thomas and Mary Sampson. Thomas was a surgeon on sea vessels and Mary was a pious follower of the Church of England...
, (1713-1755), autobiographer and Quaker minister - Thomas AsheThomas AsheThomas Patrick Ashe born in Lispole, County Kerry, Ireland, was a member of the Gaelic League, the Irish Republican Brotherhood and a founding member of the Irish Volunteers...
, (1836–1889), poet - Daisy AshfordDaisy AshfordDaisy Ashford, full name Margaret Mary Julia Ashford was an English writer who is most famous for writing The Young Visiters, a novella concerning the upper class society of late 19th century England, when she was just nine years old. The novella was published in 1919, preserving her juvenile...
, (1881–1972), child author, The Young VisitersThe Young VisitersThe Young Visiters or Mister Salteena's Plan is a 1919 novel by Daisy Ashford. Ashford wrote the novel at the age of nine, in 1890, in an exercise book. Full of spelling mistakes, each chapter was also written as a single paragraph... - Elias AshmoleElias AshmoleElias Ashmole was a celebrated English antiquary, politician, officer of arms, astrologer and student of alchemy. Ashmole supported the royalist side during the English Civil War, and at the restoration of Charles II he was rewarded with several lucrative offices.Ashmole was an antiquary with a...
, (1617–1692), antiquary and patron, the Ashmolean MuseumAshmolean MuseumThe Ashmolean Museum on Beaumont Street, Oxford, England, is the world's first university museum... - Will AshonWill AshonWill Ashon is an English novelist, former music journalist and founder of the Big Dada imprint of Ninja Tune records. Ashon was educated at Countesthorpe Community College and Balliol College, Oxford...
, (born 1969), novelist and music journalist - Francis Leslie AshtonFrancis Leslie AshtonFrancis Leslie Ashton was a British writer known for his first novel Breaking of the Seals in 1946 and a kind of sequel Alas, That Great City from 1948. The two novels concern disasters involving objects orbiting the Earth in prehistoric times...
, (1904–1994), novelist - Andrea AshworthAndrea AshworthAndrea Ashworth is a British writer and academic, best known for her memoir Once in a House on Fire, which won the Somerset Maugham Award from the Society of Authors in 1999.-Life:...
, (born 1969), writer and scholar - Anne AskewAnne AskewAnne Askew was an English poet and Protestant who was condemned as a heretic...
, (1521–1546), poet, writer and martyr - Nadeem AslamNadeem AslamNadeem Aslam is a prize-winning British Pakistani novelist.-Biography:Aslam moved with his family to England aged 14, when his father, a Communist, fled President Zia's regime. The family settled in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire...
, (born 1966), novelist - Cynthia Asquith, (1887–1960), novelist and diarist
- Herbert Asquith, (1881–1947), poet and novelist
- Margot AsquithMargot AsquithMargot Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith , born Emma Alice Margaret Tennant, was an Anglo-Scottish socialite, author and wit...
, (1864–1935), memoir writer - Nicholas AsshetonNicholas AsshetonNicholas Assheton , a country squire and writer who lived at Downham, near Clitheroe, Lancashire, is noteworthy on account of a brief diary which he left illustrating the character of the country life of that part of West Lancashire which is associated with the poet Spenser...
, (1590-1625), diarist - Mary AstellMary AstellMary Astell was an English feminist writer and rhetorician. Her advocacy of equal educational opportunities for women has earned her the title "the first English feminist."-Life and career:...
, (1666–1731), poet and writer - Edwin AtherstoneEdwin AtherstoneEdwin Atherstone was a poet and novelist. His works, which were planned on an imposing scale, attracted some temporary attention and applause, but are now forgotten. His chief poem, The Fall of Nineveh, consisting of thirty books, appeared at intervals from 1828 to 1868...
, (1788–1872), poet and novelist - Diana AthillDiana AthillDiana Athill OBE is a British literary editor, novelist and memoirist who worked with some of the most important writers of the 20th century.-Life and writings:...
, (born 1917), editor, novelist and memoir writer - Kate AtkinsonKate AtkinsonKate Atkinson MBE is an English author.She was born in York, and studied English Literature at the University of Dundee, gaining her Masters Degree in 1974. She subsequently studied for a doctorate in American Literature. She has often spoken publicly about the fact that she failed at the viva ...
, (born 1952), novelist - William AtkinsonWilliam Atkinson (translator)William Atkinson, D.D. , was an English translator.Atkinson was a native of the diocese of York, was M.A. and fellow of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, in 1477, B.D. in 1485, and D.D. in 1498. He became a prebendary of Southwell in 1501, canon of Lincoln 7 March 1503–04, and canon of Windsor 25 Feb....
, (died 1509), translator - David AttenboroughDavid AttenboroughSir David Frederick Attenborough OM, CH, CVO, CBE, FRS, FZS, FSA is a British broadcaster and naturalist. His career as the face and voice of natural history programmes has endured for more than 50 years...
, (born 1926), writer, naturalist and broadcaster - Francis AtterburyFrancis AtterburyFrancis Atterbury was an English man of letters, politician and bishop.-Early life:He was born at Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire, where his father was rector. He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, where he became a tutor...
, (1663–1732), writer and bishop - Mabel Lucie AttwellMabel Lucie AttwellMabel Lucie Attwell was a British illustrator. She was known for her cute, nostalgic drawings of children, based on her daughter, Peggy. Her drawings are featured on many postcards, advertisements, posters, books and figurines...
, (1879–1964), children's writer and illustrator - Penelope AubinPenelope AubinPenelope Aubin was an English novelist and translator.-Works:* The Stuarts : A Pindarique Ode * The Extasy: A Pindarick Ode to Her Majesty The Queen...
, (1679–1738), poet, novelist and translator - John AubreyJohn AubreyJohn Aubrey FRS, was an English antiquary, natural philosopher and writer. He is perhaps best known as the author of the collection of short biographical pieces usually referred to as Brief Lives...
, (1626–1697), writer and antiquary, Brief LivesBrief LivesBrief Lives is a collection of short biographies written by John Aubrey in the last decades of the seventeenth century. Aubrey initially began collecting biographical material to assist the Oxford scholar Anthony Wood, who was working on his own collection of biographies... - John AudelayJohn AudelayJohn Audelay or Awdelay was a priest and poet from Haughmond Abbey in Shropshire; he is one of the few English poets of the period whose name is known to us. Some of the first Christmas carols recorded in English appear among his works....
or Awdelay, (died c. 1426), poet and cleric - W. H. AudenW. H. AudenWystan Hugh Auden , who published as W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet,The first definition of "Anglo-American" in the OED is: "Of, belonging to, or involving both England and America." See also the definition "English in origin or birth, American by settlement or citizenship" in See also...
, (1907–1973), poet - Jane AustenJane AustenJane Austen was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature, her realism and biting social commentary cementing her historical importance among scholars and critics.Austen lived...
, (1775–1817), novelist, Pride and PrejudicePride and PrejudicePride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England... - Katherine AustenKatherine AustenKatherine Austen was a British diarist and poet best known for Book M, her manuscript collection of meditations, journal entries, and verse.-Early life:...
, (1629-c. 1683), diarist and poet - Alfred AustinAlfred AustinAlfred Austin was an English poet who was appointed Poet Laureate in 1896 upon the death of Alfred, Lord Tennyson.-Life:...
, (1835–1913), Poet LaureatePoet LaureateA poet laureate is a poet officially appointed by a government and is often expected to compose poems for state occasions and other government events... - John Langshaw Austin, (1911–1960), philosopher and translator, Sense and Sensibilia
- Sarah Austin, (1793–1867), translator
- Edward AvelingEdward AvelingEdward Bibbins Aveling was a prominent English biology instructor and popular spokesman for Darwinian evolution and atheism. He later met and moved in with Eleanor Marx, the youngest daughter of Karl Marx and became a socialist activist...
, (1849–1898), writer, pamphleteer and translator - Peter AveryPeter AveryPeter Avery OBE was an eminent British scholar of Persian and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.He contributed to English language work on Persian history and literature, such as The Age of Expansion and Medieval Persia and published Modern Iran...
, (1923–2008), scholar and translator - Christopher AwdryChristopher AwdryChristopher Awdry is an English author best known for his contributions to The Railway Series of books featuring Thomas the Tank Engine, which was started by his father, the Rev. W. Awdry. He has also produced children's books based on a number of other railways, as well as non-fiction articles...
, (born 1940), children's writer - Wilbert Awdry, (styled Rev. W. Awdry, 1911–1997), children's writer and cleric, Thomas the Tank EngineThomas the Tank EngineThomas the Tank Engine is a fictional steam locomotive in The Railway Series books by the Reverend Wilbert Awdry and his son, Christopher. He became the most popular character in the series, and the accompanying television spin-off series, Thomas and Friends.Thomas is a tank engine, painted blue...
- Alan AyckbournAlan AyckbournSir Alan Ayckbourn CBE is a prolific English playwright. He has written and produced seventy-three full-length plays in Scarborough and London and was, between 1972 and 2009, the artistic director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, where all but four of his plays have received their...
, (born 1939), playwright - A. J. Ayer, (1910–1989), philosopher, Language, Truth and Logic
- Michael AyrtonMichael AyrtonMichael Ayrton was an English artist and writer, known as a painter, printmaker and sculptor, and also as a critic, broadcaster and novelist...
, (1921–1975), writer and artist - Shamim AzadShamim AzadShamim Azad is a British bilingual poet, storyteller and writer.-Career:Shamim Azad’s work ranges from Bangladeshi to European folktales. Her performance fuses the lines between education and entertainment and her workshops are rooted in Asian folk, oral traditions and heritage.Azad has published...
, (fl. 2002–present), writer and translator - Trezza AzzopardiTrezza AzzopardiTrezza Azzopardi is a British writer.She was born in Cardiff to a Maltese father and a Welsh mother. She studied creative writing at the University of East Anglia, and currently works as a lecturer there...
, (born c. 1961), novelist
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- Charles BabbageCharles BabbageCharles Babbage, FRS was an English mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable computer...
, (1791–1871), polymath - Gervase BabingtonGervase BabingtonGervase Babington was the Bishop of Llandaff , Bishop of Exeter and Bishop of Worcester from 1597-1610.-External links:...
, ((1549/50–1610), theologian and bishop - Robert Baden-PowellRobert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-PowellRobert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, Bt, OM, GCMG, GCVO, KCB , also known as B-P or Lord Baden-Powell, was a lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, and founder of the Scout Movement....
, (1857–1941), writer and army officer, Scouting for BoysScouting for BoysScouting for Boys: A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship is the first book on the Scout Movement, published in 1908. It was written and illustrated by Robert Baden-Powell, its founder... - Edmund BackhouseSir Edmund Backhouse, 2nd BaronetSir Edmund Trelawny Backhouse, 2nd Baronet was a British oriental scholar and linguist whose work exerted a powerful influence on the Western view of the last decades of the Qing Dynasty. Since his death, however, it has been established that some of his sources were forged, though it is not clear...
, (1873–1944), orientalist and autobiographer - Francis BaconFrancis BaconFrancis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Albans, KC was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, author and pioneer of the scientific method. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England...
, (1561–1626), essayist, New AtlantisNew AtlantisNew Atlantis and similar can mean:*New Atlantis, a novel by Sir Francis Bacon*The New Atlantis, founded in 2003, a journal about the social and political dimensions of science and technology... - Phanuel BaconPhanuel BaconPhanuel Bacon DD was an English playwright, poet and author. He was the son of the Rev. Phanuel Bacon, vicar of St Laurence's church, in Reading....
, (1699–1783), playwright and poet - John F. BaddeleyJohn F. BaddeleyJohn Frederick Baddeley was a British traveller, scholar and journalist, best known by his works on Russia and the Caucasus region....
, (1854–1940), travel writer and journalist - Robert BageRobert BageRobert Bage may refer to:* Robert Bage , English novelist* Edward Frederick Robert Bage , Australian explorer and soldier...
, (1730–1801), novelist and radical - Walter BagehotWalter BagehotWalter Bagehot was an English businessman, essayist, and journalist who wrote extensively about literature, government, and economic affairs.-Early years:...
, (1826–1877), economist and essayist - Enid BagnoldEnid BagnoldEnid Algerine Bagnold, Lady Jones, CBE , known by her maiden name as Enid Bagnold, was a British author and playwright, best known for the 1935 story National Velvet which was filmed in 1944 with Elizabeth Taylor....
, (1889–1981), novelist and playwright, National VelvetNational VelvetNational Velvet is a novel by Enid Bagnold , first published in 1935.-Plot summary:"National Velvet" is the story of a 14-year-old girl named Velvet Brown, who rides her horse to victory in the Grand National steeplechase... - Richard BagotRichard Bagot (writer)Richard Bagot was an English novelist and essayist with a prominent Italian background. He was known most widely for his articles and reviews of Italian art and letters. His best known works of fiction were Donna Diana, Love's Proxy, and The Passport...
, (1860–1921), novelist and essayist - David BaileyDavid Bailey (writer)David Bailey is a British editor and author whose published output to date comprises a combination of short stories, audio dramas and magazine articles....
, (born c. 1970s), story writer and editor - Hilary BaileyHilary BaileyHilary Bailey is a British writer and editor, born in 1936. She is the former wife of Michael Moorcock.She edited volumes 7-10 of the New Worlds Quarterly series....
, (born 1936), biographer and editor - Nathan BaileyNathan BaileyNathan Bailey was an English philologist and lexicographer.-Life:Bailey was a Seventh Day Baptist, admitted 1691 to a congregation in Whitechapel, London. He was probably excluded from the congregation by 1718. Later he had a school at Stepney...
, (died 1742), philologist, An Universal Etymological English DictionaryAn Universal Etymological English DictionaryAn Universal Etymological English Dictionary was a dictionary compiled by Nathan Bailey and first published in London in 1721. It was the most popular English dictionary of the eighteenth century. As an indicator of its popularity it reached its 20th edition in 1763 and its 27th edition in 1794.... - Paul BaileyPaul BaileyPaul Bailey is a British writer and critic, author of several novels as well as biographies of Cynthia Payne and Quentin Crisp.-Biography:...
, (born 1937), novelist and dramatist - Philip James BaileyPhilip James BaileyPhilip James Bailey , English poet, author of Festus, was born at Nottingham.- Life :His father, who himself published both prose and verse, owned and edited from 1845 to 1852 the Nottingham Mercury, one of the chief journals in his native town...
, (1816–1902), poet - Beryl BainbridgeBeryl BainbridgeDame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge, DBE was an English author from Liverpool. She was primarily known for her psychological novels, often set amongst the English working classes. Bainbridge won the Whitbread Awards prize for best novel in 1977 and 1996; she was nominated five times for the Booker...
, (born 1932), novelist - Denys Val BakerDenys Val BakerDenys Val Baker was a British writer, specialising in short stories, novels, and autobiographical novels. He was also known for his activities as an editor, and promotion of the arts in Cornwall.-Early years:...
, (1917–1984), novelist and story writer - Henry BakerHenry Baker (naturalist)Henry Baker was an English naturalist.-Life:He was born in Chancery Lane, London, 8 May 1698, the son of William Baker, a clerk in chancery. In his fifteenth year he was apprenticed to John Parker, a bookseller...
, (1698–1774), naturalist and poet - Samuel BakerSamuel BakerSir Samuel White Baker, KCB, FRS, FRGS was a British explorer, officer, naturalist, big game hunter, engineer, writer and abolitionist. He also held the titles of Pasha and Major-General in the Ottoman Empire and Egypt. He served as the Governor-General of the Equatorial Nile Basin between Apr....
, (1821–1893), writer and explorer - Rajeev BalasubramanyamRajeev BalasubramanyamRajeev Balasubramanyam is a novelist, writer and workshop leader.Rajeev was born in Lancashire, England. His first Novel In Beautiful Disguises won a Betty Trask Prize and was longlisted for the Guardian Fiction Award....
, (born 1974), novelist - Nigel BalchinNigel BalchinNigel Balchin was an English novelist and screenwriter particularly known for his novels written during and immediately after World War II: Darkness Falls From the Air, The Small Back Room and Mine Own Executioner.-Life:He was born Nigel Marlin Balchin in Potterne, Wiltshire to...
, (1908-1970), novelist and screenwriter - John BaleJohn BaleJohn Bale was an English churchman, historian and controversialist, and Bishop of Ossory. He wrote the oldest known historical verse drama in English , and developed and published a very extensive list of the works of British authors down to his own time, just as the monastic libraries were being...
, (1495–1563), playwright and bishop - J. G. BallardJ. G. BallardJames Graham Ballard was an English novelist, short story writer, and prominent member of the New Wave movement in science fiction...
, (1930–2009), novelist - Samuel BamfordSamuel BamfordSamuel Bamford , was an English radical and writer, who was born in Middleton, Lancashire.-Biography:...
, (1788–1872), writer and Lancashire dialect poet - John Codrington BampfyldeJohn Codrington BampfyldeJohn Codrington Warwick Bampfylde or Bampfield was an 18th century English poet. He came from a prominent Devon family, his father being Sir Richard Bampfylde, 4th Baronet, and was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He led a dissipated life in London, and presumably suffered from some mental...
, (1764-1796/7), poet - Richard BancroftRichard BancroftArchbishop Richard Bancroft, DD, BD, MA, BA was an English churchman, who became Archbishop of Canterbury and the "chief overseer" of the production of the authorized version of the Bible.-Life:...
, (1544–1610), controversialist, AV translator and archbishop - Isabella BanksIsabella BanksIsabella Varley Banks , also known as Mrs G. Linnaeus Banks or Isabella Varley, was a 19th-century writer of English poetry and novels, born in Manchester, England...
, (1821–1897), novelist and poet - Lynne Reid BanksLynne Reid BanksLynne Reid Banks is a British author of books for children and adults.She has written forty books, including the best-selling children's novel The Indian in the Cupboard, which has sold over 10 million copies and has been successfully adapted to film. Her first novel, The L-Shaped Room, published...
, (born 1929), novelist - Anna Laetitia BarbauldAnna Laetitia BarbauldAnna Laetitia Barbauld was a prominent English poet, essayist, literary critic, editor, and children's author.A "woman of letters" who published in multiple genres, Barbauld had a successful writing career at a time when female professional writers were rare...
, (1743–1825), poet, essayist and children's writer - W. N. P. BarbellionW. N. P. BarbellionWilhelm Nero Pilate Barbellion was the nom-de-plume of Bruce Frederick Cummings , an English diarist who was responsible for The Journal of a Disappointed Man. Ronald Blythe called it "among the most moving diaries ever created" - Early life and education :Cummings was born in Barnstaple in 1889...
, (real name Bruce Frederick Cummings, 1889–1919), diarist - Richard BarberRichard BarberRichard William Barber FRSL FSA FRHistS is a British historian who has been writing and publishing in the field of medieval history and literature ever since his student days. He has specialised in Arthurian legend, beginning with a general survey, Arthur of Albion which is still in print in a...
, (born 1941), historian - Alexander BarclayAlexander BarclayDr Alexander Barclay was an English/Scottish poet.-Biography:Barclay was born in about 1476. His place of birth is matter of dispute, but William Bulleyn, who was a native of Ely, and probably knew him when he was in the monastery there, asserts that he was born "beyonde the cold river of Twede"...
, (c. 1476-1552), poet and translator - Florence L. BarclayFlorence L. BarclayFlorence Louisa Barclay was an English romance novelist and short story writer.-Biography:She was born Florence Louisa Charlesworth in Limpsfield, Surrey, England, the daughter of the local Anglican rector. One of three girls, she was a sister to Maud Ballington Booth, the Salvation Army leader...
, (1862–1921), novelist - James BarclayJames BarclayJames Barclay is a high fantasy authorHe has written two trilogies, Chronicles of The Raven and Legends of The Raven, and a related novella, Light Stealer....
, (born 1965), novelist - John BaretJohn BaretJohn Baret or Barret , was an English lexicographer.Baret was a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and took the degree of B.A. in 1554–5, and that of M.A. in 1558. About 1555 he describes himself as ‘having pupils at Cambridge, studious of the Latin tongue.’ In later years he is said to have...
, (died c. 1580), lexicographer - Richard Harris BarhamRichard Harris BarhamRichard Harris Barham was an English cleric of the Church of England, novelist, and humorous poet. He was known better by his nom de plume Thomas Ingoldsby.-Life:Richard Harris Barham was born in Canterbury...
, (pen name Thomas Ingoldsby, 1788–1845), novelist and poet, The Ingoldsby LegendsThe Ingoldsby LegendsThe Ingoldsby Legends is a collection of myths, legends, ghost stories and poetry written supposedly by Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Manor, actually a pen-name of an English clergyman named Richard Harris Barham.... - Maurice BaringMaurice BaringMaurice Baring was an English man of letters, known as a dramatist, poet, novelist, translator and essayist, and also as a travel writer and war correspondent...
, (1874–1945), playwright, novelist and poet - Sabine Baring-GouldSabine Baring-GouldThe Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould was an English hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist and eclectic scholar. His bibliography consists of more than 1240 publications, though this list continues to grow. His family home, Lew Trenchard Manor near Okehampton, Devon, has been preserved as he had it...
, (1834–1924), novelist, cleric and hymn writer, Onward, Christian SoldiersOnward, Christian Soldiers"Onward, Christian Soldiers" is a 19th century English hymn. The words were written by Sabine Baring-Gould in 1865, and the music was composed by Arthur Sullivan in 1871. Sullivan named the tune "St. Gertrude," after the wife of his friend Ernest Clay Ker Seymer, at whose country home he composed... - A. L. BarkerA. L. BarkerAudrey Lilian Barker FRSL was an English novelist and short story writer. She was born in St Pauls Cray, Kent and brought up in Beckenham. During her lifetime, she published ten collections of short stories and eleven novels, one of which - John Brown's Body - was shortlisted for the Booker Prize...
, (1918–2002), novelist - Cicely Mary BarkerCicely Mary BarkerCicely Mary Barker was an English illustrator best known for a series of fantasy illustrations depicting fairies and flowers. Barker's art education began in girlhood with correspondence courses and instruction at the Croydon School of Art...
, (1895–1973), children's and religious writer and illustrator - Elspeth BarkerElspeth BarkerElspeth Barker is a novelist and journalist. She was born in 1940 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her first husband was the poet George Barker by whom she had five children, including the novelist Raffaella Barker. In 2007 she married the writer Bill Troop....
, (born 1940), novelist - George Granville BarkerGeorge Barker (poet)George Granville Barker was an English poet and author.-Life and work:Barker was born in Loughton, near Epping Forest in Essex, England, elder brother of Kit Barker [painter] George Barker was raised by his Irish mother and English father in Battersea, London. He was educated at an L.C.C. school...
, (1913–1991), poet and novelist - Jane BarkerJane BarkerJane Barker was an English poet and novelist of the early 18th century. The Amours of Bosvil and Galesia was considered her most successful work. A staunch Jacobite, she followed King James II of England into exile at Saint-Germain-en-Laye in France shortly after James’ defeat in the Glorious...
, (1652–1732), poet and novelist - Mary Anne BarkerMary Anne BarkerMary Anne Barker, Lady Barker , later Mary Anne Broome, Lady Broome, was an author.-Biography:Born Mary Anne Stewart in Spanish Town, Jamaica, she was the eldest daughter of Walter Steward, Island Secretary of Jamaica...
, (1831-1911), writer, journalist and poet - Nicola BarkerNicola BarkerNicola Barker is an English novelist and short story writer.Typically she writes about damaged or eccentric people in mundane situations, and has a fondness for bleak, isolated settings. Wide Open and Behindlings are set respectively on the Isle of Sheppey and Canvey Island...
, (born 1966), novelist - Pat BarkerPat BarkerPat Barker CBE, FRSL is an English writer and novelist. She has won many awards for her fiction, which centres around themes of memory, trauma, survival and recovery. Her work is described as direct, blunt and plainspoken.-Personal life:...
, (born 1943), novelist, the Regeneration TrilogyRegeneration TrilogyThe Regeneration Trilogy is a series of three novels by Pat Barker on the subject of the First World War.* Regeneration * The Eye in the Door * The Ghost Road... - Raffaella BarkerRaffaella BarkerRaffaella Barker is an English author. She lives in Norfolk, England with her family. She is the daughter of the poet George Barker and the novelist Elspeth Barker.-Publications:*"Poppyland" , ISBN 0-7553-2412-9...
, (born 1964), novelist and journalist - George Barlow, (pen name James Hinton, 1837-1913/14), poet
- William BarlowWilliam Barlow (Bishop of Lincoln)William Barlow was an Anglican priest and courtier during the reign of James I of England. He served as Bishop of Rochester in 1605 and Bishop of Lincoln in the Anglican Church from 1608 until his death. He had also served the church as Rector of St Dunstan's, Stepney in Middlesex and of...
, (died 1613), scholar, AV translator and bishop - Kitty BarneKitty BarneMarion Catherine "Kitty" Barne was a British screenwriter and writer of children's books, especially on music and musical themes....
, (1883–1961), children's writer - Barnabe BarnesBarnabe BarnesBarnabe Barnes , was an English poet. He is known for his Petrarchan love sonnets and for his combative personality, involving feuds with other writers and culminating in an alleged attempted murder.-Early life:...
, (c. 1568 or 1569–1609), poet and playwright - Julian BarnesJulian BarnesJulian Patrick Barnes is a contemporary English writer, and winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize, for his book The Sense of an Ending...
, (born 1946), novelist, Flaubert's ParrotFlaubert's ParrotFlaubert's Parrot is a novel by Julian Barnes that was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1984 and won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize the following year... - William BarnesWilliam BarnesWilliam Barnes was an English writer, poet, minister, and philologist. He wrote over 800 poems, some in Dorset dialect and much other work including a comprehensive English grammar quoting from more than 70 different languages.-Life:He was born at Rushay in the parish of Bagber, Dorset, the son of...
, (1801–1886), Dorset dialect poet and philologist - Richard BarnfieldRichard BarnfieldRichard Barnfield , English poet, was born at Norbury, Staffordshire, and brought up in Newport, Shropshire.He was baptized on 13 June 1574, the son of Richard Barnfield, gentleman. His obscure though close relationship with Shakespeare has long made him interesting to scholars...
, (15741620), poet - Alexander BaronAlexander BaronAlexander Baron was a British author and screenwriter. He is best known for his highly acclaimed novel about D-Day entitled From the City from the Plough and his London novel The Lowlife .-Early life:...
, (1917–1999), novelist and screenwriter - John BarretJohn Barret (divine)John Barret was a prominent English Presbyterian divine and writer on religion.-Training:Barret was born in Nottingham in 1631 and admitted in 1646 to Clare College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA in 1650. He went on to be ordained at Wymeswold, Leicestershire by the Wirksworth classis in 1652...
, (1631–1713), Presbyterian minister and writer on religion - Leslie BarringerLeslie BarringerLeslie Barringer was an English editor and author of historical novels and historical fantasy novels, best known for the latter.-Life:...
, (1895–1968), editor and novelist - Isaac BarrowIsaac BarrowIsaac Barrow was an English Christian theologian, and mathematician who is generally given credit for his early role in the development of infinitesimal calculus; in particular, for the discovery of the fundamental theorem of calculus. His work centered on the properties of the tangent; Barrow was...
, (1630–1677), scholar and cleric - John BarrowJohn Barrow (historian)John Barrow was an English mathematician, naval historian and lexicographer.Nothing is known of Barrow's family. He was initially a teacher of mathematics and navigation aboard ships of the Royal Navy. He retired before 1750 and devoted himself to writing and compiling dictionaries and other works...
, (fl. 1735-1774), lexicographer, mathematician and naval historian - Stan BarstowStan BarstowStanley "Stan" Barstow FRSL was an English novelist.-Biography:Barstow was born in Horbury, near Wakefield, Yorkshire. His father was a coal miner and he attended Ossett Grammar School, he then worked as a draftsman and salesman for an engineering firm...
, (born 1928), novelist and radio dramatist, A Kind of LovingA Kind of LovingA Kind of Loving is a novel by the English novelist Stan Barstow. First published in 1960, it has long been used as a set text in British schools... - Mike Bartlett, (born 1980), playwright and director
- William BasseWilliam BasseWilliam Basse was an English poet. He was a follower of Edmund Spenser. He is now remembered mostly for a eulogy he wrote about Shakespeare.-Life:...
, (c. 1583-1653/4), poet - Jonathan BateJonathan BateJonathan Bate CBE FBA FRSL is a British academic, biographer, critic, broadcaster, novelist and scholar of Shakespeare, Romanticism and Ecocriticism...
, (born 1958), biographer and editor - H. E. BatesH. E. BatesHerbert Ernest Bates, CBE , better known as H. E. Bates, was an English writer and author. His best-known works include Love for Lydia, The Darling Buds of May, and My Uncle Silas.-Early life:...
, (1905–1974), novelist, The Darling Buds of MayThe Darling Buds of MayThe Darling Buds of May is a British comedy drama which was first broadcast between 1991 and 1993 produced by Yorkshire Television for the ITV Network. It is set in an idyllic rural 1950s Kent, among a large, boisterous family. The three series were based on the novels by H. E. Bates. Originally... - Henry Walter BatesHenry Walter BatesHenry Walter Bates FRS FLS FGS was an English naturalist and explorer who gave the first scientific account of mimicry in animals. He was most famous for his expedition to the Amazon with Alfred Russel Wallace in 1848. Wallace returned in 1852, but lost his collection in a shipwreck...
, (1825–1892), naturalist and explorer - Ralph BatesRalph Bates (writer)Ralph Bates was an English novelist. He is best known for his writings on pre–Civil War Spain.-Life:Bates was born in Swindon, England in 1899 and as a teenager worked at the Great Western Railway factory...
, (1899-2000), novelist - Elizabeth BathElizabeth BathElizabeth Bath , daughter of Edward Paddy and Mary of Falmouth, Cornwall is the author of a collection of sixty-six poems published by subscription in 1806 in Bristol. She was a member of the Society of Friends; she was married to Henry Bath Elizabeth Bath (née Paddy), daughter of Edward Paddy...
, (1772–1856), poet - Richard BaxterRichard BaxterRichard Baxter was an English Puritan church leader, poet, hymn-writer, theologian, and controversialist. Dean Stanley called him "the chief of English Protestant Schoolmen". After some false starts, he made his reputation by his ministry at Kidderminster, and at around the same time began a long...
, (1615–1691), poet, hymn writer and theologian - Stephen BaxterStephen BaxterStephen Baxter is a prolific British hard science fiction author. He has degrees in mathematics and engineering.- Writing style :...
, (born 1957), SF novelist - John Bayley, (born 1925), critic and novelist
- Ada Ellen BaylyAda Ellen Bayly-Biography:Bayly was born in Brighton, the youngest of four children of a barrister. At an early age, she lost both her parents and she spent her youth with an uncle in Surrey and in a Brighton private school...
, (pen name Edna Lyall, 1857–1903), novelist - Thomas Haynes BaylyThomas Haynes BaylyThomas Haynes Bayly was an English poet, songwriter, dramatist, and miscellaneous writer.The son of a wealthy lawyer in Bath, Bayly intended to become an attorney like his father, but he changed his mind and thought of entering the church, but he abandoned this idea also and gave himself to...
, (1797–1830), poet and playwright - John BeadleJohn BeadleJohn Beadle , was an English clergyman, known as a diarist.-Life:Beadle matriculated at Pembroke College, Cambridge on 8 July 1613, and graduated BA in 1617. He was first rector of Little Leighs, in which capacity he signed a petition to Laud in favour of Thomas Hooker, afterwards a famous New...
, (died 1667), diarist and cleric - Francis BeaumontFrancis BeaumontFrancis Beaumont was a dramatist in the English Renaissance theatre, most famous for his collaborations with John Fletcher....
, (1584–1616), playwright - John Beaumont, (1583–1627), poet
- Joseph BeaumontJoseph BeaumontJoseph Beaumont was an English clergyman, academic and poet.-Life:The son of John Beaumont, clothier, and of Sarah Clarke, his wife, he was born at Hadleigh, Suffolk, on March 13, 1616. He was educated at Hadleigh grammar school, and proceeded to Cambridge in 1631, where he was admitted as a...
, (1616–1699), poet and cleric - Aubrey BeardsleyAubrey BeardsleyAubrey Vincent Beardsley was an English illustrator and author. His drawings, done in black ink and influenced by the style of Japanese woodcuts, emphasized the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic. He was a leading figure in the Aesthetic movement which also included Oscar Wilde and James A....
, (1872–1898), writer and illustrator - Laura BeattyLaura BeattyLaura Beatty is a writer awarded the Authors' Club First Novel Award for her 2008 novel Pollard, also shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize. She is married with three children and lives in the middle of Salcey Forest in Northamptonshire which provided the inspiration for Pollard.She has also written...
, (born c. 1970s), biographer and novelist - William BeckfordWilliam Thomas BeckfordWilliam Thomas Beckford , usually known as William Beckford, was an English novelist, a profligate and consummately knowledgeable art collector and patron of works of decorative art, a critic, travel writer and sometime politician, reputed to be the richest commoner in England...
, (1760–1844), novelist and patron, VathekVathekVathek is a Gothic novel written by William Beckford... - Lillian BeckwithLillian BeckwithLillian Comber, author was born in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England, and wrote under the name Lillian Beckwith. Her most notable works are a series of semi-autobiographical books that chronicle her years living in Elgol, Isle of Skye, and later on the nearby and smaller Isle of Soay...
, (real name Lillian Comber, 1916–2004), novelist and memoirist - Thomas Lovell BeddoesThomas Lovell BeddoesThomas Lovell Beddoes was an English poet, dramatist and physician.- Biography :Born in Clifton, Bristol, England, he was the son of Dr. Thomas Beddoes, a friend of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Anna, sister of Maria Edgeworth. He was educated at Charterhouse and Pembroke College, Oxford...
, (1803–1849), poet - William BedwellWilliam BedwellWilliam Bedwell was an English priest and scholar, specializing in Arabic and other "oriental" languages as well as in mathematics....
, (1561–1632), scholar, AV translator and cleric - Henry Charles BeechingHenry Charles BeechingHenry Charles Beeching was an English clergyman, author and poet. He was educated at the City of London School and at Balliol College, Oxford. He took holy orders in 1882, and began work in a Liverpool parish. He later became Dean of Norwich. He gave the Clark Lecture in 1900 on The history of...
, (1859–1919), poet and anthologist - Patricia BeerPatricia BeerPatricia Beer was an English poet and critic.She was born in Exmouth, Devon into a family of Plymouth Brethren. She moved away from her religious background as a young adult, becoming a teacher and academic...
, (1919–1999), poet and critic - Constance BeerbohmConstance BeerbohmConstance Beerbohm was the oldest daughter of Julius Ewald Edward Beerbohm , of Dutch, Lithuanian, and German origin, who had come to England in about 1830 and set up as a prosperous corn merchant. He married an Englishwoman, Constantia Draper, and the couple had four children...
, (1811–1892), writer - Julius BeerbohmJulius BeerbohmJulius Beerbohm was a Victorian travel-writer, engineer and explorer.He was the son of Julius Ewald Edward Beerbohm , of Dutch, Lithuanian, and German origin, who had come to England in about 1830 and set up as a prosperous corn merchant. He married an Englishwoman, Constantia Draper, and the...
, (1854–1906), travel writer and explorer - Max BeerbohmMax BeerbohmSir Henry Maximilian "Max" Beerbohm was an English essayist, parodist and caricaturist best known today for his 1911 novel Zuleika Dobson.-Early life:...
, (1872–1956), comic writer and caricaturist, Zuleika DobsonZuleika DobsonZuleika Dobson, full title Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story, is a 1911 novel by Max Beerbohm, a satire of undergraduate life at Oxford. It was his only novel, but was nonetheless very successful... - Mrs BeetonMrs BeetonIsabella Mary Beeton , universally known as Mrs Beeton, was the English author of Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management, and is one of the most famous cookery writers.-Background:...
, (born Isabella Mary Mayson, 1836–1865), writer on cookery and housekeeping Mrs Beeton's Book of Household ManagementMrs Beeton's Book of Household ManagementMrs Beeton's Book of Household Management was a guide to all aspects of running a household in Victorian Britain, edited by Isabella Beeton. It was originally entitled "Beeton's Book of Household Management", in line with the other guide-books published by Beeton.Previously published as a part... - Antony BeevorAntony BeevorAntony James Beevor, FRSL is a British historian, educated at Winchester College and Sandhurst. He studied under the famous military historian John Keegan. Beevor is a former officer with the 11th Hussars who served in England and Germany for five years before resigning his commission...
, (born 1946), historian and novelist, StalingradStalingrad (book)Written by Antony Beevor, Stalingrad is a narrative history of the epic battle fought in and around the city of Stalingrad during World War II, as well as the events leading up to it and those which occurred after... - Aphra BehnAphra BehnAphra Behn was a prolific dramatist of the English Restoration and was one of the first English professional female writers. Her writing contributed to the amatory fiction genre of British literature.-Early life:...
, (1640–1689), novelist and playwright - Clive BellClive BellArthur Clive Heward Bell was an English Art critic, associated with formalism and the Bloomsbury Group.- Origins :Clive Bell was born in East Shefford, Berkshire, in 1881...
, (1881–1964), art critic - Florence BellFlorence BellCompetitor for CanadaFlorence Jane Bell was a Canadian track and field athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres.-Career:...
, (1851–1930), playwright and editor - Gertrude BellGertrude BellGertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell, CBE was an English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, and archaeologist who explored, mapped, and became highly influential to British imperial policy-making due to her extensive travels in Greater Syria, Mesopotamia, Asia Minor, and Arabia. Along...
, (1868–1926), writer and traveller - Josephine BellJosephine BellJosephine Bell was an English physician and author.She was born Doris Bell Collier in Manchester. Between 1910 and 1916 she studied at Godolphin School, then trained at Newnham College, Cambridge until 1919. At the University College Hospital in London she was granted M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. in...
, (pen name also David Wintringham, 1897–1987), novelist - Julian BellJulian BellJulian Heward Bell was an English poet, and the son of Clive and Vanessa Bell . The writer Quentin Bell was his younger brother, and the writer and painter Angelica Garnett is his half-sister...
, (1908–1937), poet - Mary Hayley BellMary Hayley BellMary Hayley Bell, Lady Mills was an English actress, writer and dramatist.Mary Hayley Bell was born in Shanghai, China, where her father served in the Chinese Maritime Customs Service, and the family later moved to Tianjin . It was there that she first met John Mills, although exactly when is not...
, (1911–2005), novelist, playwright and actress - Thomas BellThomas Bell (zoologist)Thomas Bell FRS was an English zoologist, surgeon and writer, born in Poole, Dorset, UK.Bell, like his mother Susan, took a keen interest in natural history which his mother also encouraged in his younger cousin Philip Henry Gosse. Bell left Poole in 1813 for his training as a dental surgeon in...
, (1792–1880), zoologist, surgeon and writer - Hilaire BellocHilaire BellocJoseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc was an Anglo-French writer and historian who became a naturalised British subject in 1902. He was one of the most prolific writers in England during the early twentieth century. He was known as a writer, orator, poet, satirist, man of letters and political activist...
, (1870–1953), writer and poet - Thomas BeltThomas BeltThomas Belt , an English geologist and naturalist, was born at Newcastle-on-Tyne in 1832, and educated in that city. He is remembered for his work on the geology of gold bearing minerals, glacial geology, and for his description of the mutualistic relationship between certain bullthorn Acacia...
, (1832–1878), naturalist and geologist - Elizabeth BengerElizabeth BengerElizabeth Ogilvy Benger was an English biographer, novelist and poet.-Background:...
, (1775-1827), poet, novelist and biographer - Edward BenlowesEdward BenlowesEdward Benlowes was an English poet, son of Andrew Benlowes of Brent Hall, Essex. He matriculated at St Johns College, Cambridge, in 1620, and on leaving the university he made a prolonged tour on the continent of Europe. He was a Roman Catholic in middle life, but became a convert to...
, (1603–1676), poet - Alan BennettAlan BennettAlan Bennett is a British playwright, screenwriter, actor and author. Born in Leeds, he attended Oxford University where he studied history and performed with The Oxford Revue. He stayed to teach and research mediaeval history at the university for several years...
, (born 1934), playwright, The Madness of George IIIThe Madness of George III (play)The Madness of George III is a 1991 play by Alan Bennett. It is a fictionalised biographical study of the latter half of the reign of George III of Great Britain, his battle with mental illness and the inability of his court to handle his condition... - Anna Maria BennettAnna Maria BennettAnna Maria Bennett was an English novelist. Some sources give her name as Agnes Maria Bennett.Her best-known work is the epistolary novel Agnes de-Courci .-Family:...
, (c. 1760-1808), novelist - Arnold BennettArnold Bennett- Early life :Bennett was born in a modest house in Hanley in the Potteries district of Staffordshire. Hanley is one of a conurbation of six towns which joined together at the beginning of the twentieth century as Stoke-on-Trent. Enoch Bennett, his father, qualified as a solicitor in 1876, and the...
, (1867–1931), novelist, The Clayhanger FamilyThe Clayhanger FamilyThe Clayhanger Family is a series of novels by Arnold Bennett, published between 1910 and 1918. Though the series is commonly referred to as a "trilogy", it consists of four books; the first three novels were released in one single volume as The Clayhanger Family in 1925.-Clayhanger :The novels are... - Edwin Keppel BennettEdwin Keppel BennettEdwin Keppel Bennett, noms de plume: Francis Bennett, Francis Keppel , was an English writer, poet, Germanist, and a prominent academic...
, (pen name Francis Bennett, 1887–1958), writer, poet and scholar - A. C. BensonA. C. BensonArthur Christopher Benson was an English essayist, poet, and author and the 28th Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge....
, (1862–1925), poet and diarist, Land of Hope and GloryLand of Hope and Glory"Land of Hope and Glory" is a British patriotic song, with music by Edward Elgar and lyrics by A. C. Benson, written in 1902.- Composition :... - E. F. Benson, (1867–1940), novelist and story writer, the Mapp and LuciaMapp and LuciaMapp and Lucia is a collective name for a series of novels by E. F. Benson, and is also the name of a television series based on those novels.-The novels:...
series. - Peter BensonPeter Benson (author)Peter Benson was born in 1956 in Kent, UK and is the award-winning author of eight novels. His work has been described as ‘a far-reaching exploration into unlikely relationships’ and is characterised by the precision of its language, characterisations and approach.-Bibliography:Novels* 1987, The...
, (born 1956), novelist - Robert Hugh BensonRobert Hugh BensonRobert Hugh Benson was the youngest son of Edward White Benson and his wife, Mary...
, (1871-1914), novelist, religious writer and cleric - Stella BensonStella BensonStella Benson was an English feminist, travel writer, and novelist.-Early life:Benson was born to Ralph Beaumont Benson , a member of the landed gentry, and Caroline Essex Cholmondeley at Lutwyche Hall in Shropshire in 1892. Stella's aunt, Mary Cholmondeley, was a novelist. Stella was often ill...
, (1892–1933), novelist, poet and travel writer - George BenthamGeorge BenthamGeorge Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...
, (1800–1884), botanist - Jeremy BenthamJeremy BenthamJeremy Bentham was an English jurist, philosopher, and legal and social reformer. He became a leading theorist in Anglo-American philosophy of law, and a political radical whose ideas influenced the development of welfarism...
, (1748–1832), philosopher - Edmund Clerihew BentleyEdmund Clerihew BentleyE. C. Bentley was a popular English novelist and humorist of the early twentieth century, and the inventor of the clerihew, an irregular form of humorous verse on biographical topics...
(1875–1956), novelist, humorist and comic poet, the clerihewClerihewA clerihew is a whimsical, four-line biographical poem invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley. One of his best known is this :* It is biographical and usually whimsical, showing the subject from an unusual point of view; it pokes fun at mostly famous people... - Elizabeth BentleyElizabeth BentleyElizabeth Terrill Bentley was an American spy for the Soviet Union from 1938 until 1945. In 1945 she defected from the Communist Party and Soviet intelligence and became an informer for the U.S. She exposed two networks of spies, ultimately naming over 80 Americans who had engaged in espionage for...
, (1767–1839), poet - Nicolas BentleyNicolas BentleyNicolas Clerihew Bentley was a British author and illustrator famous for his humorous cartoon drawings in books and magazines in the 1930s and 1940s...
, (1907–1978), writer and illustrator - Phyllis BentleyPhyllis BentleyPhyllis Eleanor Bentley, OBE , was an English novelist.The youngest child of a mill owner, she grew up in Halifax in the West Riding of Yorkshire, and was educated at Halifax High School for Girls and Cheltenham Ladies' College. During World War I she worked in the munitions industry...
, (1894–1977), novelist and biographer - Richard BentleyRichard BentleyRichard Bentley was an English classical scholar, critic, and theologian. He was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge....
, (1662–1742), theologian and poet - Edward BerdoeEdward BerdoeEdward Berdoe was a physician during the Crimean and American Civil Wars, educated in England and Scotland. He was also an authority on the poet Robert Browning, and has been credited with writing the novel St. Bernard’s. The romance of a medical student by Aesculapius Scalpel, which went into a...
, (1836–1916), critic, novelist and physician - Elisabeth BeresfordElisabeth BeresfordElisabeth 'Liza' Beresford, MBE was a British author of children's books, best known for creating The Wombles. Born into a family with many literary connections, she worked as a journalist but struggled for success until she created the Wombles in the 1960s...
, (born 1928), children's writer, the WomblesWOMBLESThe WOMBLES are a loosely aligned anarchist and anti-capitalist group based in London... - J. D. BeresfordJ. D. BeresfordJohn Davys Beresford was an English writer, now remembered for his early science fiction and some short stories in the horror story and ghost story genres. His Hampdenshire Wonder was a major influence on Olaf Stapledon. His other science-fiction novels includeThe Riddle of the Tower, about a...
, (1873–1947), novelist, The Hampdenshire WonderThe Hampdenshire WonderThe Hampdenshire Wonder is a 1911 science fiction novel by J. D. Beresford. It is one of the first novels to involve a wunderkind. The child in it is named Victor Stott and he is the son of a famous cricket player. This origin is perhaps a reference to H. G. Wells's father. The novel concerns his... - James BeresfordJames BeresfordJames Beresford was a writer and clergyman. He made translations and wrote religious books, but was chiefly known as the author of a satirical work, The Miseries of Human Life, considered to be a "minor classic in the genre".-Bibliography:This list of works is taken from Beresford's obituary,...
, (1764–1840), satirist, translator and cleric - John BergerJohn BergerJohn Peter Berger is an English art critic, novelist, painter and author. His novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize, and his essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing, written as an accompaniment to a BBC series, is often used as a university text.-Education:Born in Hackney, London, England, Berger was...
, (born 1926), novelist, G.G. (novel)G. is a 1972 novel by John Berger. The novel's setting is pre-First World War Europe, and its protagonist, named "G.", is a Don Juan or Casanova-like lover of women who gradually comes to political consciousness after misadventures across the continent... - John BerkenhoutJohn BerkenhoutJohn Berkenhout was an English physician, naturalist and miscellaneous writer.Berkenhout was the son of John Berkenhout Snr, a Dutch merchant who had settled in Yorkshire, and Anne Kitchingman...
, (1726–1791), naturalist - Steven BerkoffSteven BerkoffSteven Berkoff is an English actor, writer and director. Best known for his performance as General Orlov in the James Bond film Octopussy, he is typically cast in villanous roles, such as Lt...
, (born 1937), playwright and actor - John Bourchier BernersJohn Bourchier, 2nd Baron BernersJohn Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners was a statesman and translator, born at Sherfield, Hertfordshire, England, to Sir Humphrey Bourchier and Elizabeth Tilney, and educated at Oxford University. He held various Offices of State, including that of Chancellor of the Exchequer to King Henry VIII, and...
, (1467–1533), translator and statesman - Juliana BernersJuliana BernersJuliana Berners , English writer on heraldry, hawking and hunting, is said to have been prioress of Sopwell nunnery near St Albans...
or Bernes, (born c. 1388), writer on heraldry, hawking and hunting, The Boke of Saint AlbansThe Book of Saint AlbansThe Book of Saint Albans or The Boke of Saint Albans was the last of 8 books printed by the St Albans Press in England in 1486.It contains three essays, on hawking, hunting, and heraldry... - Mary BerryMary Berry (writer)Mary Berry was an English author, born at Kirkbridge, North Yorkshire.-Walpole:She and her sister Agnes had a remarkable association with Horace Walpole...
, (1763-1852), writer, editor and correspondent - Mary Berry, (born 1935), cookery writer
- Charles BertramCharles BertramCharles Bertram was the author of the forged manuscript De Situ Britanniae , a spurious history that was highly influential in the reconstruction of the history of Roman Britain for over a century. It had a similar impact on the explanation of Scottish history over the same period of time...
(1723–1765), literary forger - Annie BesantAnnie BesantAnnie Besant was a prominent British Theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator and supporter of Irish and Indian self rule.She was married at 19 to Frank Besant but separated from him over religious differences. She then became a prominent speaker for the National Secular Society ...
, (1847–1933), writer and campaigner - Walter BesantWalter BesantSir Walter Besant , was a novelist and historian who lived largely in London.His sister-in-law was Annie Besant.-Biography:...
, (1836–1901), novelist and historian - Charles BestCharles Best (poet)Charles Best was an English poet.He was a contributor to Francis Davison's Poetical Rapsodie . The first edition of that anthology contains two pieces by Best, A Sonnet of the Sun and A Sonnet of the Moon...
, (1570–1627), poet - Alfred BestallAlfred BestallAlfred Edmeades "Fred" Bestall, MBE , was the author and illustrator of Rupert Bear for the London Daily Express, from 1935 to 1965.-Early life:...
, (1892–1986), children's writer and illustrator, Rupert BearRupert BearRupert Bear is a children's comic strip character, who features in a series of books based around his adventures. The character was created by the English artist Mary Tourtel and first appeared in the Daily Express on 8 November 1920. Rupert's initial purpose was to win sales from the rival... - Henry Digby BesteHenry Digby BesteHenry Digby Beste was an English writer and aristocratic convert to Catholicism, seen as a precursor to the Oxford Movement.-Life:...
, (1768–1836), religious writer - Matilda Betham-EdwardsMatilda Betham-EdwardsMatilda Betham-Edwards was an English novelist, travel writer and francophile. She was also a prolific poet and wrote several children's books. She also corresponded with well-known English male poets of the day.-Biography:She was the daughter of a clergyman...
, (1836–1919), novelist, poet and travel writer - John BetjemanJohn BetjemanSir John Betjeman, CBE was an English poet, writer and broadcaster who described himself in Who's Who as a "poet and hack".He was a founding member of the Victorian Society and a passionate defender of Victorian architecture...
, (1906–1984), Poet LaureatePoet LaureateA poet laureate is a poet officially appointed by a government and is often expected to compose poems for state occasions and other government events... - Thomas BettertonThomas BettertonThomas Patrick Betterton , English actor, son of an under-cook to King Charles I, was born in London.-Apprentice and actor:...
, (1635–1710), playwright and actor - Edwyn BevanEdwyn BevanEdwyn Robert Bevan OBE, FBA was a versatile English philosopher and historian of the Hellenistic world...
, (1870–1943), philosopher and historian - Elizabeth BibescoElizabeth BibescoElizabeth, Princess Bibesco was an English writer active between 1921 and 1940. A final posthumous collection of her stories, poems and aphorisms was published under the title Haven in 1951, with a preface by Elizabeth Bowen.-Childhood and youth:Elizabeth Charlotte Lucy was the first child of...
, (1897-1945), novelist and poet - Tessa BiddingtonTessa BiddingtonTessa Biddington, is a British poet.-Life:Biddington works as a freelance trainer, raising awareness about domestic violence. She began writing in 1996. Her poetry has appeared in The New Welsh Review...
, (born 1954), poet - John Stanyan BiggJohn Stanyan BiggJohn Stanyan Bigg was an English poet of the Spasmodic School.His major works are The Sea-King; A metrical romance, in six cantos , Night and the soul...
, (1828–1865), poet - Mark BillinghamMark BillinghamMark Philip David Billingham is an English novelist whose series of "Tom Thorne" crime novels are best-sellers in that particular genre. He is also a television screenwriter and has become a familiar face as an actor and comic....
, (born 1961), novelist - Thomas BilsonThomas BilsonThomas Bilson was an Anglican Bishop of Worcester and Bishop of Winchester. He, along with Miles Smith, oversaw the final edit and printing of the King James Bible. He is buried in Westminster Abbey in plot 232 between the tombs of Richard the Second and Edward the Third...
, (1547–1616), theologian, AV translator and bishop - Andrew BingAndrew BingDoctor Andrew Bing was an English scholar. He was a fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge and succeeded Geoffrey King as Regius Professor of Hebrew at Cambridge...
, (1574–1652), scholar, AV translator and cleric - Laurence BinyonLaurence BinyonRobert Laurence Binyon was an English poet, dramatist and art scholar. His most famous work, For the Fallen, is well known for being used in Remembrance Sunday services....
, (1869–1943), poet and art historian - T. J. BinyonT. J. BinyonTimothy John Binyon was an English scholar and crime writer. He was a distant relative of the poet, Laurence Binyon....
, (1936–2004), novelist, translator and biographer - Thomas BirchThomas BirchThomas Birch was an English historian.-Life:He was the son of Joseph Birch, a coffee-mill maker, and was born at Clerkenwell....
, (1705–1766), historian - Caroline BirdCaroline Bird-Life:Bird was born in 1986. She grew up in Leeds and attended the Steiner School in York and the Lady Eleanor Holles School before moving to London in 2001. She studied English Literature at Oxford University and was president of the Oxford Poetry Society...
, (born 1986), poet and playwright - Isabella BirdIsabella BirdIsabella Lucy Bird was a nineteenth-century English explorer, writer, and a natural historian.-Early life:Bird was born in Boroughbridge in 1831 and grew up in Tattenhall, Cheshire...
, (1831–1904), travel writer and naturalist - Dea BirkettDea BirkettDea Birkett is a British writer, journalist, broadcaster and a former circus performer. She has written on social issues for The Guardian and broadcasts for BBC Radio 4...
, (born 1958), writer - John BirtwhistleJohn BirtwhistleJohn Birtwhistle is a British poet whose subject-matter is often political, cultural or historical. He won an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors in 1975. He was a university lecturer in English until retirement. Some of his early work was translated by Ştefan Augustin Doinaş and...
, (born 1947), poet and librettist - Samuel BishopSamuel BishopSamuel Bishop was a poet born in London, and educated at Merchant Taylors' School and Oxford University. He then took orders and served as Headmaster of Merchant Taylor's School . His poems on miscellaneous subjects fill two quarto volumes and the best of them are those to his wife and daughter....
, (1731–1795), poet and essayist - Robert BlackRobert Black (author)Robert Black was a British author of fiction and nonfiction, as well as a journalist and translator. He is chiefly remembered for his works on horse racing and a translation of François Guizot's Popular History of France, his most successful work.-Life and education:Black was born on 14 May 1829...
, (1829–1915), fiction writer, translator and journalist - John BlackburnJohn Blackburn (author)John Fenwick Blackburn was a British novelist who wrote thrillers, horror novels, and The Flame and the Wind , an unusual historical novel set in Roman times, in which a nephew of Pontius Pilate tries to discover the facts about the crucifixion of Jesus.His horror novels are often structured as...
, (born 1923), novelist - Thomas Blackburn, (1916–1977), poet
- Malorie BlackmanMalorie BlackmanMalorie Blackman OBE is an author of literature and television drama for children and young adults. She has used science fiction to explore social and ethical issues. Her critically and popularly acclaimed Noughts & Crosses series uses the setting of a fictional dystopia to explore racism...
, (born 1962), children's writer and screenwriter, the Noughts and Crosses series - R. D. BlackmoreR. D. BlackmoreRichard Doddridge Blackmore , referred to most commonly as R. D. Blackmore, was one of the most famous English novelists of the second half of the nineteenth century. Over the course of his career, Blackmore achieved a close following around the world...
, (1825–1900), novelist, Lorna DooneLorna DooneLorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor is a novel by Richard Doddridge Blackmore. It is a romance based on a group of historical characters and set in the late 17th century in Devon and Somerset, particularly around the East Lyn Valley area of Exmoor.... - Richard BlackmoreRichard BlackmoreSir Richard Blackmore , English poet and physician, is remembered primarily as the object of satire and as an example of a dull poet. He was, however, a respected physician and religious writer....
, (1654–1729), poet and religious writer - William BlackstoneWilliam BlackstoneSir William Blackstone KC SL was an English jurist, judge and Tory politician of the eighteenth century. He is most noted for writing the Commentaries on the Laws of England. Born into a middle class family in London, Blackstone was educated at Charterhouse School before matriculating at Pembroke...
, (1723-1780), legal writer, jurist and judge, Commentaries on the Laws of EnglandCommentaries on the Laws of EnglandThe Commentaries on the Laws of England are an influential 18th-century treatise on the common law of England by Sir William Blackstone, originally published by the Clarendon Press at Oxford, 1765–1769... - Algernon BlackwoodAlgernon BlackwoodAlgernon Henry Blackwood, CBE was an English short story writer and novelist, one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre. He was also a journalist and a broadcasting narrator. S. T...
, (1869–1951), novelist and short story writer - Caroline Blackwood, (1931–1996), novelist and critic
- Helen Blackwood, Lady DufferinHelen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and ClaneboyeHelen Selina Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye, later Helen Selina Hay, Countess of Gifford, born Helen Selina Sheridan, , was a British song-writer, composer, poet, and author...
, (1807–1867), poet and songwriter - Max BlaggMax BlaggMax Blagg is a British-born poet, writer, and performer from England. Blagg has performed in New York City since 1971. He is currently a Visiting lecturer in poetry at The New School in New York City .-Life:...
, (born 1949?), poet, writer and performer - Quentin BlakeQuentin BlakeQuentin Saxby Blake, CBE, FCSD, RDI, is an English cartoonist, illustrator and children's author, well-known for his collaborations with writer Roald Dahl.-Education:...
, (born 1932), children's writer and illustrator - William BlakeWilliam BlakeWilliam Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age...
, (1757–1827), poet and artist, Songs of Innocence and of ExperienceSongs of Innocence and of ExperienceSongs of Innocence and of Experience is an illustrated collection of poems by William Blake. It appeared in two phases. A few first copies were printed and illuminated by William Blake himself in 1789; five years later he bound these poems with a set of new poems in a volume titled Songs of... - Helen BlakemanHelen BlakemanHelen Blakeman is a British playwright and screenwriter from Liverpool. She has written three plays. Caravan, her first, was written while she studied at Birmingham University and won her the George Devine award. Her second play, Normal, was followed by an entrance into screenwriting...
, (born 1971), playwright and screenwriter - Susanna BlamireSusanna BlamireSusanna Blamire , poet, was of good Cumberland family, and received the sobriquet of The Muse of Cumberland. Her poems, which were not collected until 1842, depict Cumbrian life and manners with truth and vivacity...
, (1747–1794), poet - Edward BlanchardEdward Litt Laman BlanchardEdward Litt Laman Blanchard, often referred to as E. L. Blanchard, was an English writer who is best known for his contributions to the Drury Lane pantomime. He began writing plays and other literature to support himself as a teenager after his father died...
, (1820–1899), playwright and songwriter - Robert BlatchfordRobert BlatchfordRobert Peel Glanville Blatchford was a socialist campaigner, journalist and author in the United Kingdom. He was a prominent atheist and opponent of eugenics. He was also an English patriot...
, (pen name Nunquam, 1851–1943), journalist, writer and campaigner - Nicholas BlincoeNicholas BlincoeNicholas Blincoe is an English author, critic and screenwriter. He is the author of six novels, Acid Casuals , Jello Salad , Manchester Slingback , The Dope Priest , White Mice , Burning Paris...
, (born 1965), novelist and screenwriter - Mathilde BlindMathilde BlindMathilde Blind , was a German-born British poet.She was born at Mannheim, Germany, but settled in London about 1849, adopting the surname of her stepfather, Karl Blind...
, (1841–1896), poet and biographer - Edward BlishenEdward BlishenEdward Blishen was an English author. He is perhaps best known for three books: A Cack-Handed War , a story set in the backdrop of the Second World War, The God Beneath the Sea , a collaboration with Leon Garfield that won the Carnegie Medal and "Roaring Boys",an honest account of teaching in a...
, (1920–1996), writer and broadcaster - Walter BlithWalter BlithWalter Blith was an English writer on husbandry and an official under the Commonwealth.-Family:Blith was baptised in Allesley, Warwickshire, as the fourth and youngest son of John Blith , yeoman, a prosperous cereal and dairy farmer, and Ann, daughter of Barnaby Holbeche of Birchley Hall, Fillongley...
, (1605–1654), writer on husbandry - Robert BloomfieldRobert BloomfieldRobert Bloomfield was an English labouring class poet whose work is appreciated in the context of other self-educated writers such as Stephen Duck, Mary Collier and John Clare.-Life:...
, (1766–1823), poet - Charles BlountCharles Blount (deist)Charles Blount was a British deist and controversialist who published several anonymous essays critical of the existing English order.-Life:...
, (1654–1693), controversialist - Evelyn, Princess BlücherEvelyn, Princess BlücherEvelyn Fürstin Blücher von Wahlstatt , diarist and memoirist, wrote a standard account of life as a civilian aristocrat in Germany during World War I.-Early life:...
, (1876–1960), diarist and memoirist - Nicholas BlundellNicholas BlundellNicholas Blundell of Little Crosby , Lord of the Manor of Little Crosby, Lancashire, is known for his diaries, which provide information on the life of the gentry in early 18th century England....
, (1669-1737), diarist - Edmund BlundenEdmund BlundenEdmund Charles Blunden, MC was an English poet, author and critic. Like his friend Siegfried Sassoon, he wrote of his experiences in World War I in both verse and prose. For most of his career, Blunden was also a reviewer for English publications and an academic in Tokyo and later Hong Kong...
, (1896–1974), poet, author and critic - Anthony BluntAnthony BluntAnthony Frederick Blunt , was a British art historian who was exposed as a Soviet spy late in his life.Blunt was Professor of the History of Art at the University of London, director of the Courtauld Institute of Art, Surveyor of the King's Pictures and London...
, (1907–1983), art historian and spy - Wilfrid Scawen BluntWilfrid Scawen BluntWilfrid Scawen Blunt was an English poet and writer. He was born at Petworth House in Sussex, and served in the Diplomatic Service from 1858 to 1869. His mother was a Catholic convert and he was educated at Twyford School, Stonyhurst and at St Mary's College, Oscott...
, (1840–1922), poet and author - Ronald BlytheRonald BlytheRonald Blythe is an English writer and editor, best known in his native England for his Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village , a portrait of agricultural life in Suffolk from the turn of the century to the 1960s...
, (born 1922), writer and editor, - Enid BlytonEnid BlytonEnid Blyton was an English children's writer also known as Mary Pollock.Noted for numerous series of books based on recurring characters and designed for different age groups,her books have enjoyed huge success in many parts of the world, and have sold over 600 million copies.One of Blyton's most...
, (1897–1968), children's author, Noddy - Frederick S. BoasFrederick S. BoasFrederick Samuel Boas was an English scholar of early modern drama. He was born on 24 July 1862, the eldest son of Hermann Boas of Belfast. He attended Clifton College as a scholar and went up to Balliol College, Oxford, in 1881. During his time at Balliol his tutor was David George Ritchie...
, (1862–1957), literary historian - John Ernest BodeJohn Ernest BodeJohn Ernest Bode was an Anglican priest, educator, poet, and hymnist.-Life:Born in London, he was the son of William Bode. Married with three children. Educated at Eton, the Charter House, and then at Christ Church, Oxford where he received his B.A. in 1837 and a M.A. He won the Hertford Scholarship...
, (1816–1874), poet, hymn writer and cleric - John BodenhamJohn BodenhamJohn Bodenham , anthologist, is stated to have been the editor of some of the Elizabethan anthologies, viz., Politeuphuia , Wits' Theater , Belvidere, or the Garden of the Muses , and England's Helicon . Mr...
, (1569–1610), anthologist - Barbara BodichonBarbara BodichonBarbara Leigh Smith Bodichon was an English educationalist, artist, and a leading early nineteenth century feminist and activist for women's rights.-Early life:...
, (1827–1891), educationalist and feminist - John BoisJohn BoisJohn Bois was an English scholar, remembered mainly as one of the members of the translating committee for the Authorized Version of the Bible...
, (1560–1643), scholar, AV translator and cleric - Osbern BokenamOsbern BokenamOsbern Bokenam , English writer author and friar, was born, by his own account, on the 6th of October 1393. He may have been a native of Bokeham, now Bookham, in Surrey, or of Buckenham in Norfolk and derived his name from either place...
, (c. 1393–c. 1463), literary historian and cleric - Robert BoltRobert BoltRobert Oxton Bolt, CBE was an English playwright and a two-time Oscar winning screenwriter.-Career:He was born in Sale, Cheshire. At Manchester Grammar School his affinity for Sir Thomas More first developed. He attended the University of Manchester, and, after war service, the University of...
, (1924–1995), dramatist and screenwriter, A Man For All SeasonsA Man for All SeasonsA Man for All Seasons is a play by Robert Bolt. An early form of the play had been written for BBC Radio in 1954, and a one-hour live television version starring Bernard Hepton was produced in 1957 by the BBC, but after Bolt's success with The Flowering Cherry, he reworked it for the stage.It was... - Michael BondMichael BondThomas Michael Bond, OBE is an English author, most celebrated for his Paddington Bear series of books.-Life:Bond was educated at Presentation College, a Catholic school in Reading...
, (born 1926), children's writer, Paddington Bear series - Elizabeth BonhôteElizabeth BonhôteElizabeth Bonhôte, née Mapes was an English novelist and essayist .She was born Elizabeth Mapes in Bungay, Suffolk in 1744 and married one Daniel Bonhote, a member of the local gentry, by whom she bore two daughters. She wrote several elegies and poems in praise of the monarchy before writing her...
, (1744–1818), novelist, Bungay CastleBungay CastleBungay Castle is in the town of Bungay, Suffolk by the River Waveney.-Details:Originally this was a Norman castle built by Roger Bigod, around 1100, which took advantage of the protection given by the curve of the River Waveney... - Christopher BookerChristopher BookerChristopher John Penrice Booker is an English journalist and author. In 1961, he was one of the founders of the magazine Private Eye, and has contributed to it for over four decades. He has been a columnist for the Sunday Telegraph since 1990...
, (born 1937), writer and journalist - Mary Everest BooleMary Everest BooleMary Everest Boole was a self-taught mathematician who is best known as an author of didactic works on mathematics, such as Philosophy and Fun of Algebra, and as the wife of fellow mathematician George Boole...
, (1832-1916), educational writer on mathematics - Barton BoothBarton BoothBarton Booth was one of the most famous dramatic actors of the first part of the 18th century.Booth was from Lancashire and was educated at Westminster School, where his success in the Latin play Andria gave him an inclination for the stage...
, (1681–1733), actor and poet - Charles BoothCharles Booth (philanthropist)Charles Booth was an English philanthropist and social researcher. He is most famed for his innovative work on documenting working class life in London at the end of the 19th century, work that along with that of Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree influenced government intervention against poverty in the...
, (1840–1916), social researcher, Life and Labour of the People in London - Martin BoothMartin BoothMartin Booth was a prolific British novelist and poet. He also worked as a teacher and screenwriter, and was the founder of the Sceptre Press.-Early life:...
, (1944–2004), novelist, poet and editor - Stephen BoothStephen Booth (writer)Stephen Booth is an English crime-writer. He is the author of the Derbyshire-set Cooper and Fry series.-Early and Personal Life:...
, (born 1952), novelist - Brooke BoothbySir Brooke Boothby, 6th BaronetSir Brooke Boothby, 6th Baronet was an English linguist, translator, minor poet and landowner in Derbyshire. He was part of the intellectual and literary circle of Lichfield which included Anna Seward and Erasmus Darwin. He welcomed Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Ashbourne circles in 1766 when the...
, (1744–1824), scholar and poet - Frances BoothbyFrances BoothbyFrances Boothby , playwright, was the first woman to have a play produced in London: her tragicomedy, Marcelia, or, The Treacherous Friend, was performed by the King's Company at the Theatre Royal in 1669 . The plot involves romantic difficulties and deceit. It is her only work extant, and little...
, (fl. 1669-70), playwright - Basil BoothroydBasil BoothroydJohn Basil Boothroyd was an English humorous writer, best known for his long association with Punch. As a young man he worked for a bank, but began contributing articles to Punch, and became its assistant editor, a post in which he served for eighteen years. His career as a writer for Punch...
, (1910–1988), writer and humorist - George BorrowGeorge BorrowGeorge Henry Borrow was an English author who wrote novels and travelogues based on his own experiences around Europe. Over the course of his wanderings, he developed a close affinity with the Romani people of Europe. They figure prominently in his work...
, (1803–1881), novelist and travel writer, Romany Rye - Lucy M. BostonLucy M. BostonLucy M. Boston was an English children's writer. She is best known for the six books in the Green Knowe series .-Biography:Boston was born in Southport in Lancashire in 1892 and died in 1990...
, (1892–1990), children's writer, Green KnoweGreen KnoweGreen Knowe is a series of six books written by Lucy M. Boston, published between 1954 and 1976. They feature a very old house, Green Knowe, which is based on Boston's then-residence, The Manor in Hemingford Grey, Cambridgeshire. Some books in the series feature a boy called Toseland and his...
series - Phyllis BottomePhyllis BottomePhyllis Forbes Dennis was a British novelist and short story writer who wrote under her birth name, Phyllis Bottome . She was born in Rochester, Kent to an American clergyman, Rev...
, (1884–1963), novelist and psychoanalyst - Gordon BottomleyGordon BottomleyGordon Bottomley was an English poet, known particularly for his verse dramas. He was partly disabled by tubercular illness. His main influences were the later Victorian Romantic poets, the Pre-Raphaelites and William Morris.- Background :...
, (1874–1948), poet and dramatist - Ronald BottrallRonald BottrallRonald Bottrall was a Cornish poet. He was praised highly by F.R. Leavis and Martin Seymour-Smith.Education: Redruth Grammar School; Pembroke College, Cambridge.- Career :...
, (1906–1989), poet and academic - Marjorie BoultonMarjorie BoultonMarjorie Boulton is a British author and poet writing in both English and Esperanto.Author of Zamenhof: Creator of Esperanto — a biography of L. L...
, (born 1924), writer and Esperantist - Francis William BourdillonFrancis William BourdillonFrancis William Bourdillon was a British poet and translator.-Life:Born in Runcorn, Cheshire, Bourdillon was educated at Worcester College, Oxford. He acted as tutor to the sons of Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein...
, (1852–1921), poet - Thomas Edward BowdichThomas Edward BowdichThomas Edward Bowdich was an English traveller and author.He was born at Bristol and educated at Bristol Grammar School. In 1813 he married Sarah Wallis, who shared his subsequent career. In 1814, through his uncle, J...
, (1791–1824), traveler and writer - Henrietta Maria BowdlerHenrietta Maria BowdlerHenrietta Maria Bowdler , commonly called Mrs. Harriet Bowdler, was an author and expurgator.-Life and works:Bowdler was the daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Stuart Bowdler, and sister of John Bowdler the elder and Thomas Bowdler the elder...
, ("Harriet", 1750–1830), religious writer, editor and expurgator - Jane BowdlerJane BowdlerJane Bowdler was a poet and essayist-Family:Jane was the eldest daughter of Thomas Bowdler of Bath, Somerset and his wife Elizabeth Stuart Bowdler, née Cotton , a religious writer...
, (1743–1784), poet and essayist - John BowdlerJohn BowdlerJohn Bowdler was an English author.-Early life:He was born at Bath, Somerset on 18 March 1746, the son of Thomas Bowdler and Elizabeth Stuart, second daughter and coheiress of Sir John Cotton, 6th Baronet. John Bowdler was the eldest son of this marriage...
, (1746-1823), religious writer and pamphleteer - John BowdlerJohn Bowdler the YoungerJohn Bowdler the Younger , was an English author and solicitor.-Early life:Bowdler was the younger son of John Bowdler the elder. He was born in London on 2 February 1783. He was educated at Winchester, and in 1798 was placed in a London solicitor's office...
, (1783-1815), writer and poet - Thomas BowdlerThomas BowdlerThomas Bowdler was an English physician who published an expurgated edition of William Shakespeare's work, edited by his sister Harriet, intended to be more appropriate for 19th century women and children than the original....
, (1754–1825), writer and expurgator - Thomas BowdlerThomas Bowdler the YoungerThomas Bowdler the Younger was an Anglican divine.-Life:Bowdler was the eldest son of John Bowdler the elder, born 13 March 1782. He was educated at a private school, and at St John's College, Cambridge, where he proceeded B. A. in 1803, and M.A. in 1806...
, 1782-1856), religious writer and cleric - Elizabeth BowenElizabeth BowenElizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen, CBE was an Irish novelist and short story writer.-Life:Elizabeth Bowen was born on 7 June 1899 at 15 Herbert Place in Dublin, Ireland and was baptized in the nearby St Stephen's Church on Upper Mount Street...
, (1899–1973), novelist and story writer - John Griffith BowenJohn Griffith BowenJohn Griffith Bowen is a British playwright and novelist. He was born in Calcutta, India, studied at the University of Oxford and worked in publishing, drama and television.-Novels:...
, (born 1924), novelist and screenwriter, Hetty Wainthropp InvestigatesHetty Wainthropp InvestigatesHetty Wainthropp Investigates is a genteel British crime–comedy drama television series which aired from 1996 to 1998 on BBC One. The series starred Patricia Routledge as the title character , Derek Benfield as her patient husband Robert, Dominic Monaghan as their lodger Geoffrey Shawcross...
TV series, with David Cook - Marjorie Bowen, (real name Gabrielle Margaret Vere Long, 1885–1952), novelist and writer
- Emily BowesEmily BowesEmily Bowes Gosse was a Victorian painter and illustrator, and writer of evangelical Christian poems and tracts.-Biography:...
, (1806–1857), religious poet and artist - Mary Bowes, (1749–1800), playwright and botanist
- Tim BowlerTim BowlerTim Bowler is the author of twenty books for children, teenagers and young adults. He has won 15 awards, including the Carnegie Medal, the pre-eminent UK award for children's literature, for his novel River Boy....
, (born c. 1967), children's writer - William Lisle BowlesWilliam Lisle BowlesWilliam Lisle Bowles was an English poet and critic.-Life and career:He was born at King's Sutton, Northamptonshire, where his father was vicar. At the age of fourteen he entered Winchester College, the headmaster at the time being Dr Joseph Warton...
, (1762–1850), poet and critic - Maurice BowraMaurice BowraSir Cecil Maurice Bowra was an English classical scholar and academic, known for his wit. He was Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, from 1938 to 1970, and served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1951 to 1954.-Birth and boyhood:...
, (1898–1971), scholar and wit - Frank Cottrell BoyceFrank Cottrell Boyce-Awards:*2004: Buch des Monats des Instituts für Jugendliteratur/Book of the Month by the Institute for Youth Literature , Millions*2004: Carnegie Medal, Millions*2004: Luchs des Jahres , Millions...
, (born 1959), children's writer and screenwriter, MillionsMillions (novel)Millions is a children's novel by Frank Cottrell Boyce, published in 2004. It was originally written solely as a screenplay for the film Millions, but screenwriter Cottrell Boyce decided to adapt it into a novel while the film was in the process of being made. It was his first novel... - Abel BoyerAbel BoyerAbel Boyer was a French-English lexicographer, journalist and miscellaneous writer.-Biography:Abel Boyer was probably born on 24 June 1667 at Castres, in Upper Languedoc. His father, Pierre Boyer, one of the two consuls or chief magistrates of Castres, had been suspended and fined for his...
, (c. 1667-1729), journalist, miscellanist and translator - Charles BoyleCharles Boyle, 4th Earl of OrreryCharles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery KT PC FRS was an English nobleman, statesman and patron of the sciences....
, (1674–1731), writer and playwright - Charles BoyleCharles Boyle (poet)Charles Boyle is a British poet. He has also published a novella, 24 for 3, under the pseudonym Jennie Walker....
, (born 1951), poet - John BoyleJohn Boyle, 5th Earl of CorkJohn Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork and 5th Earl of Orrery, FRS was a writer and a friend of Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson....
, (1707–1762), writer and translator - Roger BoyleRoger Boyle, 1st Earl of OrreryRoger Boyle redirects here. For others of this name, see Roger Boyle Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery was a British soldier, statesman and dramatist. He was the third surviving son of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork and Richard's second wife, Catherine Fenton. He was created Baron of Broghill on...
, (1621–1679), playwright and statesman - Ernest Franklin BozmanErnest Franklin BozmanErnest Franklin Bozman is a British author and the editor of two editions of Everyman's Encyclopaedia.- Works :* Mountain essays * X plus Y : a novel * The traveller's return...
, (1895-1968), writer and editor - Michael BracewellMichael BracewellMichael Bracewell is a British writer and novelist. He was born in London, and educated at the University of Nottingham.-Bibliography:*Fiction**Missing Margate **The Crypto-Amnesia Club...
, (born 1958), novelist and writer on popular culture - Alison BrackenburyAlison Brackenbury-Life:She studied at Oxford. She now lives in Gloucestershire.Her work has appeared in Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Stand,-Works:* * * -Reviews:Singing in the Dark is Alison Brackenbury's seventh collection of poetry...
, (born 1953), poet - Jason BradburyJason BradburyJason Bradbury is a complete tosser and children's author. His UK TV credits include a wide range of light entertainment, science and technology formats; these include The Big Breakfast, Top Gear GTI, ITV's The Web Review Show and Channel 5's The Gadget Show...
, children's writer and TV presenter, Dot.Robot seriesDot.Robot SeriesThe Dot.Robot Series is a trilogy of techno-thrillers by Jason Bradbury. The series centres around the characters Jackson Farley, Brooke English, the Kojima Twins and Devlin Lear. The first novel in the trilogy was released on February 5, 2009...
. - Malcolm BradburyMalcolm BradburySir Malcolm Stanley Bradbury CBE was an English author and academic.-Life:Bradbury was the son of a railwayman. His family moved to London in 1935, but returned to Sheffield in 1941 with his brother and mother...
, (1932–2000), novelist - Mary Elizabeth BraddonMary Elizabeth BraddonMary Elizabeth Braddon was a British Victorian era popular novelist. She is best known for her 1862 sensation novel Lady Audley's Secret.-Life:...
, (1837–1915), novelist, Lady Audley's SecretLady Audley's SecretLady Audley's Secret is a sensation novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon published in 1862. It was Braddon's most successful and well known novel. Critic John Sutherland described the work as "the most sensationally successful of all the sensation novels." The plot centers on "accidental bigamy" which... - Barbara Taylor BradfordBarbara Taylor BradfordBarbara Taylor Bradford OBE is an English novelist, and one of the world's most beloved storytellers. Her debut novel, A Woman of Substance, was published in 1979 and has sold over 32 million copies worldwide. To date, she has written 27 novels -- all bestsellers on both sides of the Atlantic...
, (born 1933), novelist, A Woman of SubstanceA Woman of SubstanceA Woman of Substance is a novel by Barbara Taylor Bradford, and was published in 1979.This novel is the first of a saga about the fortunes of a retail empire and the machinations of the business elite across three generations.... - Ernle BradfordErnle BradfordErnle D. S. Bradford was a noted 20th century British historian specializing in the Mediterranean world and naval topics. A keen yachtsman himself, Bradford spent almost 30 years sailing the Mediterranean, and many of his books are set there. His book, The Journeying Moon describes some of these...
, (1922–1986), historian and writer - Charles BradlaughCharles BradlaughCharles Bradlaugh was a political activist and one of the most famous English atheists of the 19th century. He founded the National Secular Society in 1866.-Early life:...
, (1833–1891), writer and freethinker - A. C. Bradley, (1851–1935), literary critic
- Edward BradleyEdward Bradley (writer)Edward Bradley was an English novelist and clergyman. He was born in Kidderminster and educated at Durham University . He wrote under the name of Cuthbert M. Bede, B.A. a few novels and tales, Fairy Fables , Glencraggan , Fotheringhay , etc...
, (pen name Cuthbert M. Bede, B. A., 1827–1889), novelist and cleric - F. H. BradleyF. H. BradleyFrancis Herbert Bradley, OM, was a British idealist philosopher.- Life :Bradley was born at Clapham, Surrey, England . He was the child of Charles Bradley, an evangelical preacher, and Emma Linton, Charles's second wife. A. C. Bradley was his brother...
, (1846–1924), philosopher - Henry BradleyHenry BradleyHenry Bradley was a British philologist and lexicographer who succeeded James Murray as senior editor of the Oxford English Dictionary .-Early life:...
, (1845–1923), philologist and lexicographer - Henry BradshawHenry Bradshaw (poet)Henry Bradshaw was an English poet born in Chester. In his boyhood he was received into the Benedictine monastery of Saint Werburgh, and after studying with other novices of his order at Gloucester College, Oxford, he returned to his monastery at Chester.He wrote a Latin treatise De antiquitate et...
, (c. 1450-1513), poet and monk - Hilary BradtHilary BradtHilary Bradt MBE is the founder of Bradt Travel Guides, a publisher which became an increasingly visible presence in the travel guide book world starting in the mid-1970s....
, (born 1941), travel writer and publisher - Melvyn BraggMelvyn BraggMelvyn Bragg, Baron Bragg FRSL FRTS FBA, FRS FRSA is an English broadcaster and author best known for his work with the BBC and for presenting the The South Bank Show...
, (born 1939), novelist, biographer and broadcaster - John BraineJohn BraineJohn Gerard Braine was an English novelist. Braine is usually associated with the Angry Young Men movement.-Biography:...
, (1922–1986), novelist, Room at the TopRoom at the Top (novel)Room at the Top , by John Braine, tells the rise of an ambitious young man of humble origin, and the socio-economic struggles undergone in realising his social ambitions in post-war Britain... - Richard BraithwaiteRichard BraithwaiteRichard Braithwaite or Brathwait was an English poet.He was born near Kendal, and educated at Oxford. He is believed to have served with the Royalist army in the Civil War...
or Brathwait, (1588–1673), poet - Ernest BramahErnest BramahErnest Bramah , born Ernest Brammah Smith, was an English author. He published 21 books and numerous short stories and features. His humorous works were ranked with Jerome K Jerome, and W.W. Jacobs, his detective stories with Conan Doyle, his politico-science fiction with H.G. Wells and his...
, (real name Ernest Bramah Smith, 1868–1942), novelist and humorist - James BramstonJames BramstonJames Bramston , satirist, educated at Westminster School and Oxford, took orders and was later Vicar of Harting. His poems are The Art of Politics , in imitation of Horace, and The Man of Taste , in imitation of Pope. He also parodied Phillips's Splendid Shilling in The Crooked Sixpence. His...
, (1694–1744), poet and satirist - Barbarina BrandBarbarina BrandBrand , Barbarina, Lady Dacre was an English poet, playwright, and translator.Barbarina was the daughter of Admiral Sir Chaloner Ogle, 1st Baronet , and Hester . In 1789 she married Valentine Henry Wilmot, an officer in the guards, though they later separated. The couple had one daughter, Arabella...
, Lady Dacre, (1768–1854), poet, playwright and translator - Christianna BrandChristianna BrandChristianna Brand was a British crime writer and children's author.- Background :Christianna Brand was born Mary Christianna Milne in Malaya and grew up in India. She had a number of different occupations, including model, dancer, shop assistant and governess...
, (real name Mary Christianna Milne, 1907–1988), novelist - Hannah BrandHannah BrandHannah Brand , actress and playwright, was born in Norwich where she ran a "young Ladies Boarding School, No. 18, St. Giles's Broad-street" with her sister, Mary, until she turned to the stage...
, (1754–1821), playwright, poet and actress - Jo BrandJo BrandJosephine Grace "Jo" Brand is a BAFTA winning British comedian, writer, and actor.- Early life :Jo Brand was born 23 July 1957 in Wandsworth, London. Her mother was a social worker. Brand is the middle of three children, with two brothers...
, (born 1957), writer and comedian - William BranthwaiteWilliam BranthwaiteWilliam Branthwaite was an English scholar and translator.Branthwaite studied at Clare Hall, Cambridge and, in 1584 became a founding fellow of Emmanuel College under Laurence Chaderton. This position he retained until his subsequent selection as master. He was the first of eighteen members of his...
, (died 1620), scholar, AV translator and cleric - Anna BrasseyAnna BrasseyAnna Brassey, Baroness Brassey was an English traveller and writer. Her bestselling book, A Voyage in the Sunbeam, our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months was published in 1878....
, (1839-1887), travel writer - Angela BrazilAngela BrazilAngela Brazil was one of the first British writers of "modern schoolgirls' stories", written from the characters' point of view and intended primarily as entertainment rather than moral instruction. In the first half of the twentieth century she published nearly 50 books of girls' fiction, the...
, (1868–1947), novelist - Wallace BreemWallace BreemWallace Breem was a British librarian and author. He was the Librarian and Keeper of Manuscripts of the Inner Temple Law Library, and wrote historical novels, including Eagle in the Snow ....
, (1926–1990), novelist and librarian - Elinor Brent-DyerElinor Brent-DyerElinor M. Brent-Dyer was a children’s author who wrote over 100 books during her lifetime, the most famous being the Chalet School series.-Short Biography :...
, (1894–1969), children's writer, the Chalet SchoolChalet SchoolThe Chalet School is a series of approximately sixty school story novels by Elinor Brent-Dyer, initially published between 1925 and 1970. The school was initially located in Austria, moved to Guernsey in 1939, following the rise to power of the Nazi Party, then to "Plas Howell", a house on the...
series - John BreretonJohn BreretonJohn Brereton was a gentleman adventurer and chronicler of the 1602 voyage to the New World led by Bartholomew Gosnold.Brereton recorded the first European exploration of Cape Cod and its environs...
, (1571 or 1572-c. 1632), travel writer and explorer - Nicholas BretonNicholas BretonNicholas Breton , English poet and novelist, belonged to an old family settled at Layer Breton, Essex.-Life:...
, (c. 1545–c. 1626), poet and tractarian - Richard BrettRichard BrettRichard Brett was an English clergyman and academic. During the translation of the King James Version of the Bible, Brett served in the "First Oxford Company", responsible for the later books of the Old Testament-Life:...
, (1567–1637), scholar, AV translator and cleric - Simon BrettSimon BrettSimon Brett is a prolific writer of whodunnits. The son of a chartered surveyor, he was educated at Dulwich College and Wadham College, Oxford, where he got a first-class honours degree in English...
, (born 1945), novelist and playwright - E. Cobham Brewer, (1810–1897), writer and cleric, Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and FableBrewer's Dictionary of Phrase and FableBrewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, sometimes referred to simply as Brewer's, is a reference work containing definitions and explanations of many famous phrases, allusions and figures, whether historical or mythical.-History:...
- Shane BriantShane BriantShane Briant is an actor and novelist. Briant studied Law at Trinity College Dublin but became a professional actor playing the name role in Hamlet at the Eblana theatre...
, (born 1946), novelist and actor - John BridgesJohn Bridges (bishop)-Life:He graduated M.A. at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge in 1560, having been a Fellow there since 1556. He became Dean of Salisbury in 1577.He was appointed Bishop of Oxford on the accession of James I of England, and took part in the Hampton Court Conference, in 1604....
, (1536-1618), tractarian and bishop - Robert BridgesRobert BridgesRobert Seymour Bridges, OM, was a British poet, and poet laureate from 1913 to 1930.-Personal and professional life:...
, (1844–1930), Poet LaureatePoet LaureateA poet laureate is a poet officially appointed by a government and is often expected to compose poems for state occasions and other government events... - Raymond BriggsRaymond BriggsRaymond Redvers Briggs is an English illustrator, cartoonist, graphic novelist, and author who has achieved critical and popular success among adults and children...
, (born 1934), children's writer and illustrator, Father ChristmasFather ChristmasFather Christmas is the name used in many English-speaking countries for a figure associated with Christmas. A similar figure with the same name exists in several other countries, including France , Spain , Brazil , Portugal , Italy , Armenia , India... - John BrightJohn BrightJohn Bright , Quaker, was a British Radical and Liberal statesman, associated with Richard Cobden in the formation of the Anti-Corn Law League. He was one of the greatest orators of his generation, and a strong critic of British foreign policy...
, (1811–1889), orator and politician - Joanna BriscoeJoanna Briscoe-Early life:Joanna Briscoe was born in London in 1963. Much of her childhood was spent in the southwest of England. At the age of 10 years she moved with her family from Somerset to Jordan Manor, an isolated six-bedroomed thatched Devon long house set within of land in a valley in Dartmoor...
, (born 1963), novelist and journalist - Vera BrittainVera BrittainVera Mary Brittain was a British writer, feminist and pacifist, best remembered as the author of the best-selling 1933 memoir Testament of Youth, recounting her experiences during World War I and the beginning of her journey towards pacifism.-Life:Born in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Brittain was the...
, (1893–1970), writer and pacifist - Edwin BrockEdwin BrockEdwin Brock was a British poet. Brock wrote two of the best-known poems of the last century, Five Ways to Kill a Man and Song of the Battery Hen.-Early life:...
, (1927–1997), poet - William BrockWilliam Brock (pastor)Rev. Dr. William Brock , nondenominational and Baptist divine, first minister of Bloomsbury Chapel in Central London ; abolitionist, and supporter of missionary causes.-Early years:...
, (1807-1875), biographer and Baptist minister - Alexander BromeAlexander BromeAlexander Brome was an English poet.He was by profession an attorney, and was the author of many drinking songs and of satirical verses in favor of the Royalists and in opposition to the Rump Parliament...
, (1620–1666), poet - Richard BromeRichard BromeRichard Brome was an English dramatist of the Caroline era.-Life:Virtually nothing is known about Brome's private life. Repeated allusions in contemporary works, like Ben Jonson's Bartholomew Fair, indicate that Brome started out as a servant of Jonson, in some capacity...
, (c. 1590-c. 1653), playwright, The Sparagus GardenThe Sparagus GardenThe Sparagus Garden is a Caroline era stage play, a comedy by Richard Brome. It was the greatest success of Brome's career, and one of the major theatrical hits of its period.-Performance and publication:... - Vincent BromeVincent BromeVincent Brome was an English writer, who gradually established himself as a man of letters. He is best known for a series of biographies of politicians, writers and followers of Sigmund Freud. He also wrote numerous novels, and was a dramatist.He was born and brought up in London, and educated at...
, (1910–2004), biographer and novelist - Eliza BromleyEliza BromleyEliza Bromley was an English novelist and translator.Mrs Bromley was the widow of an army officer.-Works:*Laura and Augustus: an Authentic Story...
, (fl. 1784-1803), novelist and translator - Eleanor BronEleanor BronEleanor Bron is an English stage, film and television actress and author.-Early life and family:Bron was born in 1938 in Stanmore, Middlesex, to a Jewish family of Eastern European origin...
, (born 1938), writer and actress - Anne BrontëAnne BrontëAnne Brontë was a British novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family.The daughter of a poor Irish clergyman in the Church of England, Anne Brontë lived most of her life with her family at the parish of Haworth on the Yorkshire moors. For a couple of years she went to a...
, (1820–1849), novelist, The Tenant of Wildfell HallThe Tenant of Wildfell HallThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall is the second and final novel by English author Anne Brontë, published in 1848 under the pseudonym Acton Bell... - Charlotte BrontëCharlotte BrontëCharlotte Brontë was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood, whose novels are English literature standards...
, (1816–1855), novelist, Jane EyreJane EyreJane Eyre is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published in London, England, in 1847 by Smith, Elder & Co. with the title Jane Eyre. An Autobiography under the pen name "Currer Bell." The first American edition was released the following year by Harper & Brothers of New York... - Emily BrontëEmily BrontëEmily Jane Brontë 30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English novelist and poet, best remembered for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. Emily was the third eldest of the four surviving Brontë siblings, between the youngest Anne and her brother...
, (1818–1848), novelist and poet, Wuthering HeightsWuthering HeightsWuthering Heights is a novel by Emily Brontë published in 1847. It was her only novel and written between December 1845 and July 1846. It remained unpublished until July 1847 and was not printed until December after the success of her sister Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre... - Patrick BrontëPatrick BrontëThe Reverend Patrick Brontë was an Irish Anglican curate and writer, who spent most of his adult life in England and was the father of the writers Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë, and of Branwell Brontë, his only son....
, (born Brunty, 1777–1861), poet, writer and cleric - Frances BrookeFrances BrookeFrances Moore Brooke was an English novelist, essayist, playwright and translator.-Biography:Brooke was born in, Claypole, Lincolnshire, the daughter of a clergyman. By the late 1740s, she had moved to London, where she embarked on her career as a poet and playwright...
, (1724–1789), novelist and playwright - Jocelyn BrookeJocelyn BrookeJocelyn Brooke was an English author born in Kent. He wrote several unusual and semi-autobiographical novels as well as some poetry...
, (1908–1966), novelist, poet and biographer - Rupert BrookeRupert BrookeRupert Chawner Brooke was an English poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War, especially The Soldier...
, (1887–1915), poet - Anita BrooknerAnita BrooknerAnita Brookner CBE is an English language novelist and art historian who was born in Herne Hill, a suburb of London.-Early life and education:...
, (born 1929), novelist - Kevin BrooksKevin Brooks (writer)Kevin M. Brooks is an English author best known for his novels Lucas and Martyn Pig .- Johnny Delgado Series:...
, (born 1959), children's writer - Shirley BrooksShirley BrooksCharles William Shirley Brooks , journalist and novelist, born in London, began life in a solicitor's office. He early, however, took to literature, and contributed to various periodicals. In 1851 he joined the staff of Punch, to which he contributed "Essence of Parliament," and on the death of...
, (1816–1874), novelist, playwright and poet - Ralph BroomeRalph Broome (pamphleteer)-Life and career:The third son of Ralph Broome of the manor of Bushton, Wiltshire, Broome was sent as a cadet to India, where he acquired Oriental languages, including Persian, and became a judge advocate with the rank of captain in the Bengal Army. While there he fathered a daughter Miriam by an...
, (1742-1835), pamphleteer and poet - William BroomeWilliam BroomeWilliam Broome was an English poet and translator. He was born in Haslington, near Crewe, Cheshire and died in Bath.He was educated at Eton and Cambridge, entered the Church, and became rector of Sturston in Suffolk, and later Pulham in Norfolk and Eye in Suffolk...
, (1689–1745), poet and translator - Robert Barnabas BroughRobert Barnabas BroughRobert Barnabas Brough was an English writer. He wrote poetry, novels and plays and was a contributor to many periodicals.-Life and work:...
, (1828–1864), writer and poet - George BrownGeorge Brown (missionary)George Brown was an English Methodist missionary and ethnographer.- Early life and education :George Brown was born at Barnard Castle, Durham, England, the son of George Brown, barrister, and his wife Elizabeth, née Dixon, sister of the wife of Rev. Thomas Buddle, missionary in New Zealand...
, (1835–1917), ethnographer, diarist and missionary - John BrownJohn Brown (essayist)John Brown was an English divine and author.His father, a descendant of the Browns of Coalston, near Haddington, became Vicar of Wigton in that year...
, (1715–1766), essayist and divine - Pamela BrownPamela Brown (writer)Pamela Brown was a British writer, actress and television producer.-Literary career:Pamela Brown was just 13 when she started writing her first book, The Swish of the Curtain, in 1938. A year later, when World War II broke out, she left Colchester County High School and went to live in Wales with...
, (1924–1989), children's writer and TV producer - Pete BrownPete BrownPeter Ronald Brown is an English performance poet and lyricist.Best known for his collaborations with Jack Bruce, Brown also worked with The Battered Ornaments, formed his own group Pete Brown & Piblokto!, and worked with Graham Bond and Phil Ryan. Brown also writes film scores and formed a film...
, (born 1940), performance poet and songwriter - Pete BrownPete Brown (writer)Pete Brown is an English writer who has written extensively on the subject of beer and drinking cultures around the world. He has written three books; Man Walks Into a Pub, Three Sheets to the Wind, and Hops and Glory. Brown was born in Barnsley, South Yorkshire and now lives in...
, (born 1968), beer writer and columnist - Stewart BrownStewart BrownDr Stewart Brown is an English poet, university lecturer and scholar of African and Caribbean Literature.-Life and Study:...
, (born 1951), poet and scholar - Tom BrownTom Brown (satirist)Tom Brown was an English translator and writer of satire, largely forgotten today save for a four-line gibe he wrote concerning Dr John Fell....
, (1663–1704), satirist and translator - Anthony BrowneAnthony Browne (author)Anthony Edward Tudor Browne is a British author and illustrator of children's books, with nearly forty titles to his name. He was the previous Children's Laureate.-Life and work:...
, (born 1946), children's writer and illustrator - Edward BrowneEdward Granville BrowneEdward Granville Browne , born in Stouts Hill, Uley, Gloucestershire, England, was a British orientalist who published numerous articles and books of academic value, mainly in the areas of history and literature...
, (1862–1926), orientalist and writer - Isaac Hawkins BrowneIsaac Hawkins Browne (poet)Isaac Hawkins Browne is remembered as the author of some clever imitations of contemporary poets on the theme of A Pipe of Tobacco, somewhat analogous to the Rejected Addresses of a later day...
, (1705–1760), poet - Moses BrowneMoses BrowneMoses Browne was a pen-cutter from Clerkenwell, London, England who became a poet and eventually rose amongst the ranks of the Church of England....
, (1704–1787), poet and cleric - Thomas BrowneThomas BrowneSir Thomas Browne was an English author of varied works which reveal his wide learning in diverse fields including medicine, religion, science and the esoteric....
, (1705–1782), polymath, Religio MediciReligio MediciReligio Medici is a book by Sir Thomas Browne, which sets out his spiritual testament as well as being an early psychological self-portrait. In its day, the book was a European best-seller and brought its author fame and respect throughout the continent... - William Browne, (c. 1590-c. 1645), poet
- Elizabeth Barrett BrowningElizabeth Barrett BrowningElizabeth Barrett Browning was one of the most prominent poets of the Victorian era. Her poetry was widely popular in both England and the United States during her lifetime. A collection of her last poems was published by her husband, Robert Browning, shortly after her death.-Early life:Members...
, (1806–1861), poet - Oscar BrowningOscar BrowningOscar Browning was an English writer, historian, and educational reformer. His greatest achievement was the cofounding, along with Henry Sidgwick, of the Cambridge University Day Training College in 1891...
, (1837–1923), writer and scholar - Robert BrowningRobert BrowningRobert Browning was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets.-Early years:...
, (1812–1889), poet - Alan BrownjohnAlan BrownjohnAlan Charles Brownjohn FRSL is an English poet and novelist.He was born in London and educated at Merton College, Oxford. He taught until 1979, when he became a full-time writer...
, (born 1931), poet and novelist - Dorita Fairlie BruceDorita Fairlie BruceDorita Fairlie Bruce was a British children's author, most notably of the Dimsie books published between 1921 and 1941. Her books were second in popularity only to Angela Brazil's during the 1920s and '30s....
, (1885–1970), children's writer, Dimsie Goes to SchoolDimsie Goes To SchoolDimsie Goes To School is the first of the Dimsie books by author Dorita Fairlie Bruce. It was first published in 1921 under the title The Senior Prefect and changed in 1925 to Dimsie Goes To School. The book was illustrated by Wal Paget.... - Francis BryanFrancis BryanSir Francis Bryan was an English courtier and diplomat during the reign of Henry VIII. He was Chief Gentleman of the Privy chamber and Lord Chief Justice of Ireland. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Bryan always retained Henry's favour, achieving this by altering his opinions to conform to the...
, (c. 1490-1550), poet and courtier - Samuel Egerton BrydgesSamuel Egerton BrydgesSir Samuel Egerton Brydges, 1st Baronet was an English bibliographer and genealogist. He was also Member of Parliament for Maidstone from 1812 to 1818....
, (1762–1836), bibliographer and editor - Anthony BuckeridgeAnthony BuckeridgeAnthony Malcolm Buckeridge OBE was an English author, best known for his Jennings and Rex Milligan series of children's books...
, (1912–2004), children's writer, the JenningsJennings (novels)The Jennings series is a collection of humorous novels of children's literature concerning the escapades of J C T Jennings, a schoolboy at Linbury Court preparatory school in England. There are 25 in total, all written by Anthony Buckeridge...
stories - James Silk BuckinghamJames Silk BuckinghamJames Silk Buckingham was an English author, journalist and traveller.He was born at Flushing near Falmouth, the son of a farmer, and had a limited education. His youth was spent at sea, and in 1797 he was captured by the French and held as a prisoner of war at Corunna...
, (1786–1855), journalist and travel writer - Leicester Silk BuckinghamLeicester Silk BuckinghamLeicester Silk Buckingham was an English dramatist, who achieved considerable popularity as a playwright, several of his free adaptations of French comedies being produced in London between 1860 and 1867.-Early life:...
, (1825–1867), playwright and writer on history - Francis Trevelyan BucklandFrancis Trevelyan BucklandFrancis Trevelyan Buckland was an English surgeon, zoologist, popular author and natural historian. He was the son of William Buckland, the noted geologist and palaeontologist.- Life :...
, (1826–1880), natural historian and surgeon - William BucklandWilliam BucklandThe Very Rev. Dr William Buckland DD FRS was an English geologist, palaeontologist and Dean of Westminster, who wrote the first full account of a fossil dinosaur, which he named Megalosaurus...
, (1784–1856), geologist, palaeontologist and cleric - Henry Thomas BuckleHenry Thomas BuckleHenry Thomas Buckle was an English historian, author of an unfinished History of Civilization.- Biography :...
, (1821–1862), historian - Maria Elizabeth BuddenMaria Elizabeth BuddenMaria Elizabeth Budden, was a novelist, translator and writer of didactic children's books, who frequently signed her work "M. E. B." or "a mother"....
, (c. 1780-1832), children's writer - Eustace BudgellEustace BudgellEustace Budgell was an English writer and politician.Born in St Thomas near Exeter, Budgell was educated at Oxford University. His cousin, the writer Joseph Addison, took him to Ireland and got him appointed to a lucrative office...
, (1686–1737), writer and politician - Frank Thomas BullenFrank Thomas BullenFrank Thomas Bullen , British author and novelist, was born of poor parents in Paddington, London, on 5 April 1857, and was educated for a few years at a dame school and Westbourne school, Paddington. At the age of 9 he left school and took up work as an errand boy. In 1869 he went to sea and...
, (1857-1915), novelist and autobiographer - Gerald BullettGerald BullettGerald William Bullett was a British man of letters. He was known as a novelist, essayist, short story writer, critic and poet. He wrote both supernatural fiction and some children's literature....
, (1893-1958), novelist, critic and poet - Edward Bulwer-LyttonEdward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonEdward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton PC , was an English politician, poet, playwright, and novelist. He was immensely popular with the reading public and wrote a stream of bestselling dime-novels which earned him a considerable fortune...
, (1803–1873, novelist, poet and playwright, The Last of the BaronsThe Last of the BaronsThe Last of the Barons is a historical novel by the English author Edward Bulwer-Lytton first published in 1843. Its plot revolves around the power struggle between the English King Edward IV and his powerful minister Earl of Warwick... - Robert Bulwer-LyttonRobert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of LyttonEdward Robert Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, GCB, GCSI, GCIE, PC was an English statesman and poet...
, (pen name Owen Meredith, 1831–1891), poet, LucileLucile (poem)Lucile was a verse novel written by Robert Bulwer-Lytton writing under the pen name Owen Meredith, and published in 1860. The poem is a narrative told in an anapaest meter... - Basil BuntingBasil BuntingBasil Cheesman Bunting was a significant British modernist poet whose reputation was established with the publication of Briggflatts in 1966. He had a lifelong interest in music that led him to emphasise the sonic qualities of poetry, particularly the importance of reading poetry aloud...
, (1900–1985), poet, BriggflattsBriggflattsBriggflatts is a long poem by Basil Bunting published in 1965. The work is subtitled "An Autobiography." The title "Briggflatts" comes from the name of a meetinghouse in a Quaker community near Sedbergh in Cumbria, England... - John BunyanJohn BunyanJohn Bunyan was an English Christian writer and preacher, famous for writing The Pilgrim's Progress. Though he was a Reformed Baptist, in the Church of England he is remembered with a Lesser Festival on 30 August, and on the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church on 29 August.-Life:In 1628,...
, (1628–1688), writer, The Pilgrim's ProgressThe Pilgrim's ProgressThe Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come is a Christian allegory written by John Bunyan and published in February, 1678. It is regarded as one of the most significant works of religious English literature, has been translated into more than 200 languages, and has never been... - Josiah BurchettJosiah BurchettJosiah Burchett was Secretary of the Admiralty in England, a position he held for almost fifty years . He was first a clerk to Samuel Pepys, the English civil servant famous for his diary...
, (c. 1666-1746), naval historian and secretary to the AdmiraltyAdmiraltyThe Admiralty was formerly the authority in the Kingdom of England, and later in the United Kingdom, responsible for the command of the Royal Navy... - Anthony BurgessAnthony BurgessJohn Burgess Wilson – who published under the pen name Anthony Burgess – was an English author, poet, playwright, composer, linguist, translator and critic. The dystopian satire A Clockwork Orange is Burgess's most famous novel, though he dismissed it as one of his lesser works...
, (real name John Burgess Wilson, 1917–1993), novelist, A Clockwork OrangeA Clockwork OrangeA Clockwork Orange is a 1962 dystopian novella by Anthony Burgess. The novel contains an experiment in language: the characters often use an argot called "Nadsat", derived from Russian.... - Melvin BurgessMelvin BurgessMelvin Burgess is a British author of children's fiction. His first book, The Cry of the Wolf, was published in 1990. He gained a certain amount of notoriety in 1996 with the publication of Junk, which was published in the shadow of the film of Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting, and dealt with the...
, (born 1954), children's writer, JunkJunk (novel)Junk is a 1996 Carnegie Medal and Guardian Award-winning novel by Melvin Burgess. The book is about the experiences of a group of teenagers who fall into heroin addiction and who embrace anarchism on the streets of Bristol, England... - John William BurgonJohn William BurgonJohn William Burgon was an English Anglican divine who became the Dean of Chichester Cathedral in 1876. He is remembered for his passionate defence of the historicity and Mosaic authorship of Genesis and of Biblical inerrancy in general.-Biography:Burgon was born at Smyrna, the son of an English...
, (1813–1888), poet and theologian - John BurgoyneJohn BurgoyneGeneral John Burgoyne was a British army officer, politician and dramatist. He first saw action during the Seven Years' War when he participated in several battles, mostly notably during the Portugal Campaign of 1762....
, (1722–1792), playwright and army officer - Thomas BurkeThomas Burke (author)Thomas Burke was a British author. He was born in Eltham, London.His first successful publication was Limehouse Nights , a collection of stories centered around life in the poverty-stricken Limehouse district of London...
, (1886–1945), novelist and writer on London - Francis BurleighFrancis BurleighFrancis Burleigh, sometimes spelled Burghley, was an English Vicar, appointed in 1590 to Bishop's Stortford by Lancelot Andrewes. He was among Andrewes' "First Westminster Company", charged by James I of England with the translation of the first 12 books of the King James Version of the...
, (fl. 1590-1610), AV translator and cleric - Francis Cowley Burnand, (1836–1917), humorist and dramatist
- Thomas BurnetThomas BurnetThomas Burnet , theologian and writer on cosmogony.-Life:He was born at Croft near Darlington in 1635. After studying at Northallerton Grammar School under Thomas Smelt, he went to Clare Hall, Cambridge in 1651. There he was a pupil of John Tillotson...
, (c. 1635-1715), theologian and cosmogonist - Frances Hodgson BurnettFrances Hodgson BurnettFrances Eliza Hodgson Burnett was an English playwright and author. She is best known for her children's stories, in particular The Secret Garden , A Little Princess, and Little Lord Fauntleroy.Born Frances Eliza Hodgson, she lived in Cheetham Hill, Manchester...
, (1849–1924), children's writer, The Secret GardenThe Secret GardenThe Secret Garden is a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It was initially published in serial format starting in the autumn of 1910, and was first published in its entirety in 1911. It is now one of Burnett's most popular novels, and is considered to be a classic of English children's... - Charles BurneyCharles BurneyCharles Burney FRS was an English music historian and father of authors Frances Burney and Sarah Burney.-Life and career:...
, (1726–1814), music scholar and composer - Charles BurneyCharles Burney (scholar)Charles Burney, Junior FRS, DD was an English classical scholar, schoolmaster and clergyman.-Family and education:...
, (1757–1817), scholar, schoolmaster and cleric - Fanny Burney, (also known as Frances, Mme d'Arblay, 1752–1840), novelist and diarist, EvelinaEvelinaEvelina or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World is a novel written by English author Frances Burney and first published in 1778...
- Frances Burney, (1776–1828), dramatist
- James BurneyJames BurneyJames Burney was an English rear-admiral, who accompanied Captain Cook on his last two voyages.-Family:Burney was born in London, the son of the composer and music scholar Charles Burney and his wife Esther Sleepe...
, (1750–1821), travel writer and admiral - Sarah BurneySarah BurneySarah Harriet Burney was an English novelist, the daughter of musicologist and composer Charles Burney, and half-sister of the novelist and diarist Frances Burney .- Life :Sarah Burney's mother, Elizabeth Allen, was the second wife of...
, (1772–1844), novelist - Richard Burns (poet)Richard Burns (poet)-Life and work:Richard Burns was born in London into a family of musicians. He was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge and University College London. He has lived in Greece, Italy, the UK, the US and former Yugoslavia...
, (also writes as Richard Berengarten, born 1943), poet - James BurrowJames BurrowSir James Burrow, FRS, FSA , was a Legal Reporter at Inner Temple, London, and was Vice President and twice briefly President of the Royal Society. He was knighted in 1773....
, (1701-1782), scholar, scientist and lawyer - Montagu BurrowsMontagu BurrowsMontagu Burrows was an officer in the Royal Navy and subsequently the first Chichele Professor of Modern History at Oxford University...
, (1819–1905), naval historian and naval officer - Richard Francis BurtonRichard Francis BurtonCaptain Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS was a British geographer, explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer and diplomat. He was known for his travels and explorations within Asia, Africa and the Americas as well as his...
, (1821–1890), writer, translator and explorer, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night - Robert BurtonRobert Burton (scholar)Robert Burton was an English scholar at Oxford University, best known for the classic The Anatomy of Melancholy. He was also the incumbent of St Thomas the Martyr, Oxford, and of Segrave in Leicestershire.-Life:...
, (1577–1640), polymath, The Anatomy of MelancholyThe Anatomy of MelancholyThe Anatomy of Melancholy The Anatomy of Melancholy The Anatomy of Melancholy (Full title: The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is: With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Several Cures of it. In Three Maine Partitions with their several Sections, Members, and Subsections... - Charlotte BuryCharlotte BuryLady Charlotte Susan Maria Bury was an English novelist, who is chiefly remembered in connection with a Diary illustrative of the Times of George IV .-Life:...
, (1775–1861), novelist and poet - Elizabeth BuryElizabeth Bury-Early Life:Bury was baptised 12 March 1644 at Clare, Suffolk, the day of her birth having probably been 2 March. Her father was Captain Adams Lawrence of Linton, Cambridgeshire; her mother was Elizabeth Cutts of Clare, and besides Elizabeth there were three other children. In 1648, when Elizabeth...
, (1644–1720), diarist and polymath - Alban ButlerAlban ButlerAlban Butler , English Roman Catholic priest and hagiographer, was born at Appletree, Northamptonshire.He was educated at the English College, Douai, where on his ordination to the priesthood in 1735 he held successively the chairs of philosophy and divinity...
, (1710-1773), writer and cleric - Gwendoline ButlerGwendoline ButlerGwendoline Butler is a writer of mystery fiction credited for inventing the "woman's police procedural" and known for her series of Inspector John Coffin novels. She has also published a series featuring female detective Charmian Daniels under the pseudonym Jennie Melville...
, (born 1922), novelist - Joseph ButlerJoseph ButlerJoseph Butler was an English bishop, theologian, apologist, and philosopher. He was born in Wantage in the English county of Berkshire . He is known, among other things, for his critique of Thomas Hobbes's egoism and John Locke's theory of personal identity...
, (1692–1752), theologian and bishop - Josephine ButlerJosephine ButlerJosephine Elizabeth Butler was a Victorian era British feminist who was especially concerned with the welfare of prostitutes...
, (1828–1906), writer and social campaigner - Samuel ButlerSamuel Butler (poet)Samuel Butler was a poet and satirist. Born in Strensham, Worcestershire and baptised 14 February 1613, he is remembered now chiefly for a long satirical burlesque poem on Puritanism entitled Hudibras.-Biography:...
, (1612–1680), poet and satirist, HudibrasHudibrasHudibras is an English mock heroic narrative poem from the 17th century written by Samuel Butler.-Purpose:The work is a satirical polemic upon Roundheads, Puritans, Presbyterians and many of the other factions involved in the English Civil War... - Samuel ButlerSamuel Butler (novelist)Samuel Butler was an iconoclastic Victorian author who published a variety of works. Two of his most famous pieces are the Utopian satire Erewhon and a semi-autobiographical novel published posthumously, The Way of All Flesh...
, (1835–1902), writer and satirist, ErewhonErewhonErewhon: or, Over the Range is a novel by Samuel Butler, published anonymously in 1872. The title is also the name of a country, supposedly discovered by the protagonist. In the novel, it is not revealed in which part of the world Erewhon is, but it is clear that it is a fictional country... - Herbert ButterfieldHerbert ButterfieldSir Herbert Butterfield was a British historian and philosopher of history who is remembered chiefly for two books—a short volume early in his career entitled The Whig Interpretation of History and his Origins of Modern Science...
, (1900-1979), historian and philosopher of historyPhilosophy of historyThe term philosophy of history refers to the theoretical aspect of history, in two senses. It is customary to distinguish critical philosophy of history from speculative philosophy of history... - Jez ButterworthJez ButterworthJeremy “Jez” Butterworth is an English dramatist and film director.-Life and career:Butterworth was born in London, England, and attended Verulam Comprehensive School, St Albans and St John's College, Cambridge...
, (born 1969), playwright, Jerusalem - Mary ButtsMary ButtsMary Frances Butts was a British modernist writer. Her work found recognition in important literary magazines such as The Bookman and The Little Review, as well as from some of her fellow modernists, T. S. Eliot, H.D. and Bryher...
, (1890–1937), writer and poet - Bertha Henry BuxtonBertha Henry BuxtonBertha Henry Buxton was a British novelist and children's author.-Biography:Buxton was born on 26 July 1844, and when only a girl of eleven years amused herself by writing stories for her schoolfellows at Queen's College, Tufnell Park, London. Both her parents were Germans...
, (1844-1881), novelist and children's writer - Nigel BuxtonNigel BuxtonNigel Edward Buxton is a British travel writer and wine critic, also known for appearing as BaaadDad in the Channel 4 comedy series The Adam and Joe Show, which was written and presented by his son Adam Buxton along with Adam's friend Joe Cornish.The comedy behind the character of BaaadDad is the...
, (born 1924), travel writer and wine critic - A. S. ByattA. S. ByattDame Antonia Susan Duffy, DBE is an English novelist, poet and Booker Prize winner...
, (born 1936), novelist, Possession: A RomancePossession: A RomancePossession: A Romance is a 1990 bestselling novel by British writer A. S. Byatt. It is a winner of the Man Booker Prize.Part historical as well as contemporary fiction, the title Possession refers to issues of ownership and independence between lovers, the practice of collecting historically... - John ByromJohn ByromJohn Byrom or John Byrom of Kersal or John Byrom of Manchester FRS was an English poet and inventor of a revolutionary system of shorthand. He is also remembered as the writer of the lyrics of Anglican hymn Christians Awake, salute the happy morn.- Early life :John Byrom was descended from an old...
, (1692–1763), poet - John ByronJohn ByronVice Admiral The Hon. John Byron, RN was a Royal Navy officer. He was known as Foul-weather Jack because of his frequent bad luck with weather.-Early career:...
, (1723–1786), memoirist and admiral - Lord Byron, (1777–1824), poet, Don JuanDon JuanDon Juan is a legendary, fictional libertine whose story has been told many times by many authors. El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra by Tirso de Molina is a play set in the fourteenth century that was published in Spain around 1630...
- Robert ByronRobert ByronRobert Byron was a British travel writer, best known for his travelogue The Road to Oxiana. He was also a noted writer, art critic and historian....
, (1905–1941), travel writer, The Road to OxianaThe Road to OxianaThe Road to Oxiana is a travelogue by Robert Byron, first published in 1937. It is considered by many modern travel writers to be the first example of great travel writing. The word "Oxiana" in the title refers to the region along Afghanistan's northern border.The book is an account of Byron's... - Ingram BywaterIngram BywaterIngram Bywater was an English classical scholar.He was born in London. He was educated at University College School and King's College School, then at Queens College, Oxford...
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- Florence CaddyFlorence CaddyFlorence Caddy was an English writer.She was born in Middlesex, England 1837, as Florence Tompson. She married John Turner Caddy in 1857 in London and had five children, John Francis in 1857, Florence in 1863, Arnold in 1866, Hermione Helena in 1869 and Adrian in 1879...
, (1837–1923), writer - Hall CaineHall CaineSir Thomas Henry Hall Caine CH, KBE , usually known as Hall Caine, was a Manx author. He is best known as a novelist and playwright of the late Victorian and the Edwardian eras. In his time he was exceedingly popular, and at the peak of his success his novels outsold those of his...
, (1853–1931), romantic novelist and playwright - Mona CairdMona CairdMona Caird was a Scottish novelist and essayist whose feminist views sparked controversy in the late 19th century...
, (1854–1932), essayist, reformer and feminist - Maria CallcottMaria CallcottMaria Graham , later Maria, Lady Callcott , was a British writer of travel books and children's books, and also an accomplished illustrator....
, (1785-1842), children's writer, travel writer, and illustrator - Brian CallisonBrian CallisonBrian Callison is a UK novelist known for his best-selling thrillers and sea stories. Born in Manchester, England in 1934, he was educated at the High School of Dundee, and went to sea at the age of 16 as a midshipman with the Blue Funnel Line, sailing aboard cargo ships between ports in Europe...
, (born 1932), novelist - Charles Stuart CalverleyCharles Stuart CalverleyCharles Stuart Calverley was an English poet and wit. He was the literary father of what has been called "the university school of humour".-Early life:...
, (1831–1884), poet and translator - Roland CambertonRoland CambertonRoland Camberton was a British writer whose real name was Henry Cohen, though his family also knew him as Harry. He won the 1951 Somerset Maugham Award, given to authors under the age of 35, for his novel Scamp...
, (real name Henry Cohen, 1921–1965), novelist - Ada CambridgeAda CambridgeAda Cambridge , later known as Ada Cross, was an English writer.Overall she wrote more than twenty-five works of fiction, three volumes of poetry and two autobiographical works...
, (1844–1926), novelist and poet - William CamdenWilliam CamdenWilliam Camden was an English antiquarian, historian, topographer, and officer of arms. He wrote the first chorographical survey of the islands of Great Britain and Ireland and the first detailed historical account of the reign of Elizabeth I of England.- Early years :Camden was born in London...
, (1551–1623), historian and antiquarian - Thomas CampionThomas CampionThomas Campion was an English composer, poet and physician. He wrote over a hundred lute songs; masques for dancing, and an authoritative technical treatise on music.-Life:...
, (1567–1620), poet and composer - Denis CannanDenis CannanDenis Cannan was a British dramatist, playwright and script writer. Born Denis Pullein-Thompson, the son of Captain Harold J. Pullein-Thompson and novelist Joanna Cannan, he changed his name by deed poll in 1964. His younger sisters were Josephine, Diana and Christine Pullein-Thompson.Born in...
, (born 1919), playwright and screenwriter, Dear DaddyDear DaddyDear Daddy is a 1976 play written by English playwright Denis Cannan, first staged at the Ambassadors Theatre in London's West End.-Productions:Opening night cast* Nigel Patrick as Bernard* Isabel Dean as Mary* Jennifer Hilary as Gillian... - Gilbert CannanGilbert CannanGilbert Cannan was a British novelist and dramatist.-Early life:Born in Manchester of Scottish descent, he got on badly with his family, and in 1897 he was sent to live in Oxford with the economist Edwin Cannan...
, (1884–1955), novelist and translator - Joanna CannanJoanna CannanJoanna Cannan was a writer of pony books and detective novels. Her pony books were aimed primarily at children.Youngest daughter of Oxford don Charles Cannan and Mary Wedderburn, also cousin of Gilbert Cannan, it is perhaps her children she is best known for, being mother to Josephine...
, (1898–1961), novelist and children's writer - May Wedderburn CannanMay Wedderburn CannanMay Wedderburn Cannan was a British poet who was active in World War I.-Early life:She was the second of three daughters of Charles Cannan, Dean of Trinity College, Oxford .In 1911, at the age of 18 she joined the Voluntary Aid Detachment, training as a nurse and eventually reaching...
, (1893–1973), poet and autobiographer - Dorothy CannellDorothy CannellDorothy Cannell is an English-American writer. She writes mysteries featuring Ellie Haskell, interior decorator and Ben Haskell, writer and chef, and Hyacinth and Primrose Tramwell, a pair of dotty sisters and owners of the Flowers Detection Agency...
, (born 1943), novelist - William CantonWilliam CantonWilliam Canton was a British poet, journalist and writer, now best known for his contributions to children's literature. These include his series of three books, beginning with The Invisible Playmate, written for his daughter Winifred Vida...
, (1845–1926), poet and children's writer - Edward CapellEdward CapellEdward Capell , English Shakespearian critic, was born at Troston Hall in Suffolk.-Biography:Through the influence of the Duke of Grafton he was appointed to the office of deputy-inspector of plays in 1737, with a salary of £200 per annum, and in 1745 he was made groom of the privy chamber through...
, (1713–1781), Shakespearean scholar - John CapgraveJohn CapgraveJohn Capgrave was an English historian, hagiographer and scholastic theologian-Schooling:Capgrave was born in Bishop's Lynn, now King's Lynn, Norfolk – "My cuntre is Northfolke, of the town of Lynne"...
, (1393–1464), theologian and historian - Thomas CarewThomas CarewThomas Carew was an English poet, among the 'Cavalier' group of Caroline poets.-Biography:He was the son of Sir Matthew Carew, master in chancery, and his wife, Alice daughter of Sir John Rivers, Lord Mayor of the City of London and widow of Ingpen...
, (1595–1640), poet - Henry CareyHenry Carey (writer)Henry Carey was an English poet, dramatist and song-writer. He is remembered as an anti-Walpolean satirist and also as a patriot. Several of his melodies continue to be sung today, and he was widely praised in the generation after his death...
, (1687–1743), poet, playwright and song-writer, Sally in Our AlleySally in Our AlleySally in Our Alley is a British romantic comedy drama film made at Ealing Studios. It was directed by Maurice Elvey and starred Gracie Fields, Ian Hunter, and Florence Desmond.... - Mary Carey, Lady CareyMary Carey, Lady CareyMary Carey, Lady Carey, . She was the author of poems and meditations.Mary Carey was the daughter of Sir John Jackson. She married Pelham Carey, son of Henry, 4th Lord Hunsdon, who was created Viscount Rochford by King James I on 6 July 1621. He was later created 1st Earl of Dover by King Charles I...
, (c. 1609-c. 1680), poet - Rosa Nouchette CareyRosa Nouchette CareyRosa Nouchette Carey was an English children's novelist.-Life:Born in Stratford-le-Bow, Rosa was the sixth of the seven children of William Henry Carey , shipbroker, and his wife, Maria Jane , daughter of Edward J. Wooddill. She was brought up in London at Tryons Road, Hackney, Middlesex and in...
, (1840-1909), novelist and children's writer - Robert CarliellRobert CarliellRobert Carliell or Carleill was an English poet.Carliell is remembered mainly for a verse defence of the new Church of England and a diatribe against the Roman Catholic Church: Britaine's glorie, or An allegoricall dreame with the exposition thereof: containing The Heathens infidelitie in...
, (died c. 1622), poet - Edward CarpenterEdward CarpenterEdward Carpenter was an English socialist poet, socialist philosopher, anthologist, and early gay activist....
, (1844–1929), poet, social critic and philosopher - Humphrey CarpenterHumphrey CarpenterHumphrey William Bouverie Carpenter was an English biographer, writer, and radio broadcaster.-Biography:...
, (1946–2005), biographer and broadcaster - Barbara Comyns CarrBarbara Comyns Carr- Early life :Barbara Irene Veronica Bayley was born in the Warwickshire village of Bidford-on-Avon in 1907. She was one of six children and the family home was Bell Court on the banks of the River Avon...
, (1907–1992), novelist and artist - J. L. CarrJ. L. CarrJoseph Lloyd Carr ; who called himself "Jim" or even "James," was an English novelist, publisher, teacher, and eccentric.-Biography:...
, (1912–1994), novelist and school textbook writer - Lewis CarrollLewis CarrollCharles Lutwidge Dodgson , better known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll , was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, as well as the poems "The Hunting of the...
, (real name Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, 1832–1898), children's writer and mathematician, Alice's Adventures in WonderlandAlice's Adventures in WonderlandAlice's Adventures in Wonderland is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures... - Angela CarterAngela CarterAngela Carter was an English novelist and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, and picaresque works...
, (1940–1992), novelist, The Magic ToyshopThe Magic ToyshopThe Magic Toyshop is a British novel by Angela Carter. It follows the development of the heroine, Melanie, as she becomes aware of herself, her environment, and her own sexuality.- Plot Summary :... - Elizabeth CarterElizabeth CarterElizabeth Carter was an English poet, classicist, writer and translator, and a member of the Bluestocking Circle.-Biography:...
, (17171806), poet, translator and bluestockingBlue Stockings Society (England)The Blue Stockings Society was an informal women's social and educational movement in England in the mid-18th century. The society emphasized education and mutual co-operation rather than the individualism which marked the French version.... - Barbara CartlandBarbara CartlandDame Barbara Hamilton Cartland, DBE, CStJ , was an English author, one of the most prolific authors of the 20th century...
, (1901–2000), novelist - George CartwrightGeorge Cartwright (trader)George Cartwright , trader, explorer, born in Marnham, England, died unmarried in nearby Mansfield, England....
, (1739–1819), diarist and explorer - Justin CartwrightJustin CartwrightJustin Cartwright is a British novelist.He was born in South Africa, where his father was the editor of the Rand Daily Mail newspaper, and was educated there, in the United States and at Trinity College, Oxford. Cartwright has worked in advertising and has directed documentaries, films and...
, (born 1945), novelist - William Cartwright, (1611–1643), playwright
- Elizabeth Cary, (1585–1639), poet and playwright, The Tragedy of Marian, the Fair Queen of JewryThe Tragedy of MariamThe Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry is a Jacobean era closet drama written by Elizabeth Tanfield Cary, and first published in 1613. The play is the first work by a woman that was published under her own name. The play received only marginal attention until the 1970's, when feminist...
- Henry Francis CaryHenry Francis CaryHenry Francis Cary was a British author and translator, best known for his blank verse translation of The Divine Comedy of Dante.-Biography:Henry Francis Cary was born in Gibraltar, on 6 December 1772...
, (1772–1844), translator and critic - Lucius CaryLucius Cary, 2nd Viscount FalklandLucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland was an English author and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1642...
, (Lord Falkland, 1610–1643), poet, writer and politician - Patrick CaryPatrick CaryPatrick Cary was an English poet, an early user in English of the triolet form.-Life:He was a younger son of Henry Cary, 1st Viscount Falkland, by Elizabeth Cary née Tanfield. At an early age he was sent to France, to be brought up a Catholic...
or Carey, (c. 1624-1658), poet - John CaryllJohn Caryll (senior)John Caryll , 1st Baron Caryll of Durford in the Jacobite Peerage, was a poet, dramatist, and diplomat; not to be confused with his nephew, John Caryll, the dedicatee of Alexander Pope's Rape of the Lock....
, (1625–1711), poet, playwright and diplomat - Egerton CastleEgerton CastleEgerton Castle M.A., F.S.A. was a Victorian era author, antiquarian, and swordsman, and an early practitioner of reconstructed historical fencing, as well as the captain of the British épée and saber teams at the 1908 Olympics.He was born into a wealthy family; his maternal grandfather was the...
, (1858-1920), novelist (with his wife Agnes) and fencer - Sarah CaudwellSarah CaudwellSarah Caudwell was the pseudonym of Sarah Cockburn , a British barrister and writer of detective stories.She is best known for a series of four murder stories written between 1980 and 1999, centred around the lives of a group of young barristers practicing in Lincoln’s Inn and narrated by a Hilary...
, (real name Sarah Cockburn, 1939–2000), novelist - Charles CausleyCharles CausleyCharles Stanley Causley, CBE, FRSL was a Cornish poet, schoolmaster and writer. His work is noted for its simplicity and directness and for its associations with folklore, especially when linked to his native Cornwall....
, (1917–2003), poet and editor - David CauteDavid CauteJohn David Caute 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...
, (born 1936), novelist and historian - Tiberius CavalloTiberius CavalloTiberius Cavallo was an Italian physicist and natural philosopher.-Life:He was born at Naples, where his father was a physician....
, (1749-1809), natural philosopher - George Cavendish, (1494-c. 1652), biographer and poet
- Jane Cavendish, (later Jane Cheyne, 1621–1669), poet and playwright
- Margaret CavendishMargaret CavendishMargaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne was an English aristocrat, a prolific writer, and a scientist. Born Margaret Lucas, she was the youngest sister of prominent royalists Sir John Lucas and Sir Charles Lucas...
, Duchess of Newcastle, (1623–1673), poet, novelist and playwright - William Cavendish, (1592–1676), polymath
- William CaxtonWilliam CaxtonWilliam Caxton was an English merchant, diplomat, writer and printer. As far as is known, he was the first English person to work as a printer and the first to introduce a printing press into England...
, (c. 1415/22-c. 1492), printer and translator - Lord David CecilLord David CecilEdward Christian David Gascoyne-Cecil, CH , was a British biographer, historian and academic. He held the style of 'Lord' by courtesy, as a younger son of a marquess.-Early life and studies:...
, (1902–1986), scholar and biographer - Dorothea CelesiaDorothea CelesiaDorothea Celesia was a poet and playwright best known for Almida, her translation of Voltaire's Tancrède ....
, (born Mallet, 1738–1790), poet and translator - Susanna CentlivreSusanna CentlivreSusanna Centlivre born Susanna Freeman, also known professionally as Susanna Carroll, was an English poet, actress and one of the premier dramatists of the 18th century. During her long career at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, she became known as the Second Woman of the English Stage after Aphra Behn...
, (earlier pen name Carroll, 1667–1723), playwright, poet and actress - Laurence ChadertonLaurence ChadertonLaurence Chaderton was an English Puritan divine, and one of the translators of the King James Version of the Bible.-Life:...
, (c. 1536-1640), theologian, AV translator and cleric - John ChalkhillJohn ChalkhillJohn Chalkhill was an English poet.Two songs by him are included in Izaak Walton's Compleat Angler, and in 1683 appeared Thealma and Clearchus. A Pastoral History in smooth and easie Verse...
, (fl. 1600?), poet - Thomas ChalonerThomas Chaloner (statesman)Sir Thomas Chaloner was an English statesman and poet.-Life:He was the son of Roger Chaloner, mercer of London, a descendant of the Denbighshire Chaloners...
, (1521–1565), poet, translator and statesman - William Chamberlayne, (1619–1689), poet
- Aidan ChambersAidan ChambersAidan Chambers is an award-winning British writer of novels for children and young adults.- Life and work :Born near Chester-le-Street, County Durham in 1934, Chambers was an only child, and a poor scholar; considered "slow" by his teachers, he did not learn to read fluently until the age of nine...
, (born 1934), children's writer, Postcards from No Man's LandPostcards from No Man's LandPostcards from No Man's Land is a young adult novel by Aidan Chambers. The book follows the experiences of 17-year-old Jacob Todd as he visits Amsterdam during the commemmoration of the Battle of Arnhem, in which his grandfather fought.... - E. K. Chambers, (1866–1954), literary historian
- Ephraim ChambersEphraim ChambersEphraim Chambers was an English writer and encyclopaedist, who is primarily known for producing the Cyclopaedia, or a Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences.-Early life:...
, (c. 1680-1740), writer and encyclopedist, Cyclopaedia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences - Meira ChandMeira ChandMeira Chand is a novelist born in London of Indian and Swiss descent. After living in both Japan and India, she currently resides in Singapore, and the majority of her novels are based in Japan or India. Her novels examine cultural conflict and the position of the existential outsider...
, (born 1943?), novelist - Mary ChandlerMary ChandlerMary Chandler was an English poet. George Crabb writes that she left several poems, ‘the most esteemed of which was her “Bath”’.-Life:...
, (1687–1745), poet - Raymond ChandlerRaymond ChandlerRaymond Thornton Chandler was an American novelist and screenwriter.In 1932, at age forty-five, Raymond Chandler decided to become a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Depression. His first short story, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in...
, (1888–1959), crime writer - Henry ChannonHenry ChannonSir Henry "Chips" Channon was an American-born British Conservative politician, author and diarist. Channon moved to England in 1920 and became strongly anti-American, feeling that American cultural and economic views threatened traditional European and British civilisation. He wrote extensively...
, ("Chips", 1897-1958), writer, diarist and politician - George ChapmanGeorge ChapmanGeorge Chapman was an English dramatist, translator, and poet. He was a classical scholar, and his work shows the influence of Stoicism. Chapman has been identified as the Rival Poet of Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Minto, and as an anticipator of the Metaphysical Poets...
, (1559–1634), poet, playwright and translator - Guy Chapman, (1889–1972), writer and historian
- Hester ChaponeHester ChaponeHester Chapone , writer of conduct books for women, was born on 27 October 1727 at Twywell, Northamptonshire,The daughter of Thomas Mulso , a gentleman farmer, and his wife , a daughter of Colonel Thomas, Hester wrote a romance at the age of nine, 'The Loves of Amoret and Melissa', which earned...
, (1727–1801), writer and bluestocking - Charlotte CharkeCharlotte CharkeCharlotte Charke was an English actress, playwright, novelist, autobiographer, and noted transvestite. She acted on the stage from the age of 17, mainly in breeches roles, and took to wearing male clothing off the stage...
, (born Cibber, 1713–1760), writer and actress - Elizabeth CharlesElizabeth CharlesElizabeth Rundle Charles was an English writer.She was born at Tavistock, Devon, the daughter of John Rundle, MP. Some of her youthful poems won the praise of Tennyson, who read them in manuscript. In 1851 she married Andrew Paton Charles...
, (1828–1896), novelist and religious writer - Gerda CharlesGerda CharlesGerda Charles was the pseudonym of Edna Lipson , an award-winning Anglo-Jewish novelist and author. She was born in Liverpool and spent her early years there. Her father died when Edna was a year old, throwing the family into poverty. At the age of 15, Edna moved to London with her mother...
, (real name Edna Lipson, 1914–1996), novelist and anthologist - Maria Louisa CharlesworthMaria Louisa CharlesworthMaria Louisa Charlesworth was an English author of religious books....
, (1819–1880), children's writer - Leslie CharterisLeslie CharterisLeslie Charteris , born Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin, was a half-Chinese, half English author of primarily mystery fiction, as well as a screenwriter. He was best known for his many books chronicling the adventures of Simon Templar, alias "The Saint."-Early life:Charteris was born to a Chinese father...
, (born Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin, 1907–1993), novelist, Simon TemplarSimon TemplarSimon Templar is a British fictional character known as The Saint featured in a long-running series of books by Leslie Charteris published between 1928 and 1963. After that date, other authors collaborated with Charteris on books until 1983; two additional works produced without Charteris’s...
books - James Hadley ChaseJames Hadley ChaseJames Hadley Chase is the best-known pseudonym of the British writer Rene Brabazon Raymond who also wrote under the names James L. Docherty, Ambrose Grant, and Raymond Marshall. Chase is one of the best known thriller writers of all time...
, (born Rene Brabazon Raymond, other pen names James L. Docherty, Ambrose Grant, and Raymond Marshall, (1906–1985), novelist - Debjani ChatterjeeDebjani ChatterjeeDebjani Chatterjee MBE is an Indian-born British poet. She was born in Delhi but now lives in Sheffield, England. She had lived in India, Japan, Bangladesh, Hong Kong, Egypt, and Morocco, before coming to Britain in 1972...
, (born 1952), poet, translator and children's writer - Georgiana ChattertonHenrietta Georgiana Marcia Lascelles ChattertonHenrietta Georgiana Marcia Lascelles Chatterton, Lady Chatterton Henrietta Georgiana Marcia Lascelles Chatterton, Lady Chatterton Henrietta Georgiana Marcia Lascelles Chatterton, Lady Chatterton (née Iremonger; other married name Dering] (11 November 1806– 6 February 1876), was a British traveler...
, (1806–1876), travel writer, novelist and poet - Thomas ChattertonThomas ChattertonThomas Chatterton was an English poet and forger of pseudo-medieval poetry. He died of arsenic poisoning, either from a suicide attempt or self-medication for a venereal disease.-Childhood:...
, (pseudonym Thomas Rowley, 1752–1770), poet - Beth ChattoBeth ChattoBeth Chatto, OBE is a British plantswoman, garden designer and author best known for creating the Beth Chatto Gardens near Elmstead Market, in the English county of Essex. She is also known for writing a number of books on gardening for specific conditions. She has lectured throughout the UK,...
, (born 1923), gardening writer - Bruce ChatwinBruce ChatwinCharles Bruce Chatwin was an English novelist and travel writer. He won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel On the Black Hill...
, (1940–1989), novelist and travel writer - Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer , known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages and was the first poet to have been buried in Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey...
, (c. 1343–1400), poet and courtier, The Canterbury TalesThe Canterbury TalesThe Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century. The tales are told as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from Southwark to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at... - Cris CheekCris CheekCris Cheek is a British poet, artist, interdisciplinary performer and academic currently resident at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Born in London in 1955, he lived and worked there until the early 1990s. One early influence was working alongside Bob Cobbing at the Poetry Society and the...
, (born 1955), poet and performer - John ChekeJohn ChekeSir John Cheke was an English classical scholar and statesman, notable as the first Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge University....
, (1514–1557), classical scholar and translator - George Tomkyns ChesneyGeorge Tomkyns ChesneySir George Tomkyns Chesney, KCB, CSI, CIE , British Army general, brother of Colonel Charles Cornwallis Chesney.-Biography:...
, (1830–1895), novelist and army officer, The Battle of DorkingThe Battle of DorkingThe Battle of Dorking: Reminiscences of a Volunteer is a 1871 novel by George Tomkyns Chesney, starting the genre of invasion literature and an important precursor of science fiction... - G. K. ChestertonG. K. ChestertonGilbert Keith Chesterton, KC*SG was an English writer. His prolific and diverse output included philosophy, ontology, poetry, plays, journalism, public lectures and debates, literary and art criticism, biography, Christian apologetics, and fiction, including fantasy and detective fiction....
, (1874–1936), novelist, poet and essayist, Father BrownFather BrownFather Brown is a fictional character created by English novelist G. K. Chesterton, who stars in 52 short stories, later compiled in five books. Chesterton based the character on Father John O'Connor , a parish priest in Bradford who was involved in Chesterton's conversion to Catholicism in 1922...
stories - Henry ChettleHenry ChettleHenry Chettle was an English dramatist and miscellaneous writer of the Elizabethan era.The son of Robert Chettle, a London dyer, he was apprenticed in 1577 and became a member of the Stationer's Company in 1584, traveling to Cambridge on their behalf in 1588. His career as a printer and author is...
, (c. 1564–c. 1607), playwright - William Rufus ChetwoodWilliam Rufus ChetwoodWilliam Rufus Chetwood was an English or Anglo-Irish publisher and bookseller, and a prolific writer of plays and adventure novels. He also penned a valuable General History of the Stage.-Publishing and prompting:...
, (d. 1766), playwright, novelist and publisher - Peter CheyneyPeter CheyneyReginald Evelyn Peter Southouse Cheyney, known as Peter Cheyney, was a British crime fiction writer who flourished between 1936 and 1951...
, (1896–1951), novelist, Can Ladies Kill?Can Ladies Kill?Can Ladies Kill? is a crime novel by British author Peter Cheyney first published in 1938 by William Collins, Sons & Co. Ltd. Set in San Francisco and featuring Cheyney's creation, G-Man Lemmy Caution, it belongs to the hardboiled school of crime writing.... - Josiah ChildJosiah ChildSir Josiah Child of Wanstead, 1st Baronet , English merchant, economist proponent of mercantilism and governor of the East India Company, was born in London, the second son of Richard Child, a London merchant of old family.-Family:...
, (1630-1699), political economist and merchant - Erskine ChildersRobert Erskine ChildersRobert Erskine Childers DSC , universally known as Erskine Childers, was the author of the influential novel Riddle of the Sands and an Irish nationalist who smuggled guns to Ireland in his sailing yacht Asgard. He was executed by the authorities of the nascent Irish Free State during the Irish...
, (1870–1922), novelist and politician, The Riddle of the SandsThe Riddle of the SandsThe Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service is a 1903 novel by Erskine Childers. It is an early example of the espionage novel, with a strong underlying theme of militarism... - William ChillingworthWilliam ChillingworthWilliam Chillingworth was a controversial English churchman.-Early life:He was born in Oxford, where his father served as mayor; William Laud was his godfather. In June 1618 he became a scholar of Trinity College, Oxford, of which he was made a fellow in June 1628...
, (1602–1644), religious controversialist - Mary CholmondeleyMary CholmondeleyMary Cholmondeley was an English novelist.The daughter of the vicar at St Luke's Church in the village of Hodnet, Market Drayton, Shropshire, England, where she was born, Cholmondeley spent much of the first thirty years of her life taking care of her sickly mother...
, (1859–1925), novelist - Agatha ChristieAgatha ChristieDame Agatha Christie DBE was a British crime writer of novels, short stories, and plays. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but she is best remembered for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections , and her successful West End plays.According to...
, (1891–1976), mystery writer - Mary Chudleigh, (1656–1710), poet and polemicist
- Alfred John ChurchAlfred John ChurchAlfred John Church was an English classical scholar.Church was born in London and was educated at King's College London, and Lincoln College, Oxford. He took holy orders and was an assistant-master at Merchant Taylors' School from 1857-70...
, (1829–1912, scholar, poet and translator - Richard Church (poet)Richard Church (poet)Richard Thomas Church was an English writer, known as poet and critic; he also wrote novels and verse plays, and three well-received volumes of autobiography.-Life:...
, (1893–1972), poet - Richard William ChurchRichard William ChurchRichard William Church was an English churchman and writer. He was son of Christopher Church, brother of Sir Richard Church, a merchant, was born in Newport, his early years being mostly spent in Bulwark, part of Chepstow, Monmouthshire...
, (1815–1890), biographer, church historian and cleric - Caryl ChurchillCaryl ChurchillCaryl Churchill is an English dramatist known for her use of non-naturalistic techniques and feminist themes, the abuses of power, and sexual politics. She is acknowledged as a major playwright in the English language and a leading female writer...
, (born 1938), playwright and translator, Serious MoneySerious MoneySerious Money is a satirical play written by Caryl Churchill first staged in London in 1987. Its subject is the British stock market, specifically the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange... - Charles Churchill, (1731–1764), poet and satirist
- Winston ChurchillWinston ChurchillSir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, was a predominantly Conservative British politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the century and served as Prime Minister twice...
, (1874–1965), British prime minister, author and Nobel prizeNobel PrizeThe Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
winner - Thomas ChurchyardThomas ChurchyardThomas Churchyard , English author, was born at Shrewsbury, the son of a farmer.-Life:Churchyard received a good education, and, having speedily dissipated at court the money with which his father provided him, he entered the household of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey...
, (c. 1520–1604), poet and soldier - Colley CibberColley CibberColley Cibber was an English actor-manager, playwright and Poet Laureate. His colourful memoir Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber describes his life in a personal, anecdotal and even rambling style...
, (1671–1757), Poet LaureatePoet LaureateA poet laureate is a poet officially appointed by a government and is often expected to compose poems for state occasions and other government events...
, playwright, and bowdlerizerExpurgationExpurgation is a form of censorship which involves purging anything deemed noxious or offensive, usually from an artistic work.This has also been called bowdlerization, especially for books, after Thomas Bowdler, who in 1818 published an expurgated edition of William Shakespeare's work that he... - Horatio ClareHoratio ClareHoratio Clare is an author and journalist. He worked at the BBC as a producer on Front Row , Night Waves and The Verb . He has written two memoirs, 'Running for the Hills' and 'Truant: Notes from the Slippery Slope' and a travel book, 'A Single Swallow'...
, (born 1973), writer - John ClareJohn ClareJohn Clare was an English poet, born the son of a farm labourer who came to be known for his celebratory representations of the English countryside and his lamentation of its disruption. His poetry underwent a major re-evaluation in the late 20th century and he is often now considered to be among...
, (1793–1864), poet - Emily ClarkEmily ClarkEmily Marie Clark was not an English novelist of the 18th century.*Ianthé, or the Flower of Caernarvon *Ermina Montrose or The Cottage of the Vale *The Banks of the Douro, or, The Maid of Portugal *Poems...
, (fl. 1798-1819), novelist and poet - Arthur C. ClarkeArthur C. ClarkeSir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE, FRAS was a British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, famous for his short stories and novels, among them 2001: A Space Odyssey, and as a host and commentator in the British television series Mysterious World. For many years, Robert A. Heinlein,...
, (1917–2008), novelist, 2001: A Space Odyssey2001: A Space Odyssey (novel)2001: A Space Odyssey is a science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke. It was developed concurrently with Stanley Kubrick's film version and published after the release of the film... - Charles Cowden ClarkeCharles Cowden ClarkeCharles Cowden Clarke , English author and Shakespearian scholar, was born in Enfield, Middlesex.-Life:His father, John Clarke, was a schoolmaster in Clarke's Academy in Enfield Town, among whose pupils was John Keats. Charles Clarke taught Keats his letters, and encouraged his love of poetry...
, (1787–1877), writer and scholar - Lindsay ClarkeLindsay ClarkeLindsay Clarke is a British novelist. He was educated at Heath Grammar School in Halifax and at King's College Cambridge. He worked in education for many years, in Africa, America and the UK, before becoming a full-time writer. He currently lives in Somerset with his wife, Phoebe Clare, who is a...
, (born 1939), novelist and poet, The Chymical WeddingThe Chymical WeddingThe Chymical Wedding is a 1989 novel by Lindsay Clarke about the intertwined lives of six people in two different eras.Inspired by the life of Mary Anne Atwood, the book includes themes of alchemy, the occult, fate, passion, and obsession. It won the Whitbread Prize for fiction in 1989... - Mary Cowden ClarkeMary Cowden ClarkeMary Cowden Clarke was an English author.She was the eldest daughter of Vincent Novello...
, (1809–1898), writer and scholar - Pauline ClarkePauline ClarkePauline Clarke is an English writer who has written for young children under the name Helen Clare, for older children as Pauline Clarke, and more recently for adults under her married name, Pauline Hunter Blair...
, (born 1921), children's writer, The Twelve and the GeniiThe Twelve and the GeniiThe Twelve and the Genii is a children's fantasy novel by Pauline Clarke, published in 1962. It was awarded the Carnegie Medal and the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis. Its title in the U.S. is The Return of the Twelves... - Richard Clarke (vicar)Richard Clarke (vicar)Doctor Richard Clarke or Clerke was an eminent scholar, translator and preacher in the Anglican ChurchClarke was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge and was a Fellow there from 1583 to 1598. He was appointed Vicar of Minster on 18 October 1597 and Monkton in Thanet. On 8 May 1602 he was...
, (died 1634), scholar, AV translator and cleric - Samuel ClarkeSamuel Clarkethumb|right|200px|Samuel ClarkeSamuel Clarke was an English philosopher and Anglican clergyman.-Early life and studies:...
, (1675–1729), philosopher and cleric - Susanna ClarkeSusanna ClarkeSusanna Mary Clarke is a British author best known for her debut novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell , a Hugo Award-winning alternate history. Clarke began Jonathan Strange in 1993 and worked on it during her spare time...
, (born 1959), novelist, Jonathan Strange & Mr NorrellJonathan Strange & Mr NorrellJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is the 2004 first novel by British writer Susanna Clarke. An alternative history set in 19th-century England around the time of the Napoleonic Wars, it is based on the premise that magic once existed in England and has returned with two men: Gilbert Norrell and... - Laurence ClarksonLaurence ClarksonLaurence Clarkson , sometimes called Claxton, was an English theologian and accused heretic. He was the most outspoken and notorious of the loose collection of radical Protestants known as the Ranters....
or Claxton, (1615-1667), religious writer and theologian - John ClavellJohn ClavellJohn Clavell was a highwayman, author, lawyer, and doctor.He is known for his poem A Recantation of an Ill Led Life, and his play The Soddered Citizen...
, (1601–1643), writer, playwright and highwayman - Chris CleaveChris Cleave-Biography:Cleave was born in London in 1973, brought up in Cameroon and Buckinghamshire, and educated at Balliol College, Oxford where he studied Psychology. He lives in the United Kingdom with his wife and three children.-Writing:...
, (born 1973), novelist and journalist - Brian CleeveBrian CleeveBrian Brendon Talbot Cleeve was a prolific writer, whose published works include twenty-one novels and over a hundred short stories. He was also an award-winning broadcaster on RTÉ television. Son of an Irish father and English mother, he was born and raised in England...
, (1921–2003), novelist - Lucas CleeveLucas CleeveLucas Cleeve was a novelist born in England, the author of over sixty works including The Woman Who Wouldn't in 1895. Most of her novels were published under the pseudonym of Mrs Howard Kingscote.-Life:...
, (wrote also as Mrs Howard Kingscote, 1868-1908), novelist - John ClelandJohn ClelandJohn Cleland was an English novelist most famous and infamous as the author of Fanny Hill: or, the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure....
, (1709–1789), novelist, Fanny Hill: or, the Memoirs of a Woman of PleasureFanny HillMemoirs of a Woman of Pleasure is an erotic novel by John Cleland first published in England in 1748... - Jack ClemoJack ClemoReginald John Clemo was a British poet and writer who was strongly associated both with his native Cornwall and his strong Christian belief. His work was considered to be visionary and inspired by the rugged Cornish landscape...
, (1916–1994), poet and novelist - John ClevelandJohn ClevelandJohn Cleveland was an English poet.The son of an usher in a charity school, Cleveland was born in Loughborough, and educated at Hinckley Grammar School. Admitted to Christ's College, Cambridge, he graduated BA in 1632 and became a fellow of St John's College in 1634...
, (1613–1658), poet - Anne CliffordLady Anne CliffordLady Anne Clifford, 14th Baroness de Clifford was the only surviving child of George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland by his wife Lady Margaret Russell, daughter of Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford...
, (1590–1676), diarist - Lucy CliffordLucy CliffordLucy Clifford , better known as Mrs. W. K. Clifford, was a British novelist and journalist, and the wife of William Kingdon Clifford.-Biography:...
, (wrote as Mrs. W. K. Clifford, 1846–1929), novelist, playwright and children's writer - William Kingdon CliffordWilliam Kingdon CliffordWilliam Kingdon Clifford FRS was an English mathematician and philosopher. Building on the work of Hermann Grassmann, he introduced what is now termed geometric algebra, a special case of the Clifford algebra named in his honour, with interesting applications in contemporary mathematical physics...
, (1846–1879), philosopher, mathematician and children's writer - Caroline CliveCaroline CliveCaroline Clive, sometimes known as Caroline Wigley Clive was an English writer born Caroline Meysey-Wigley in Brompton Grove, London to Edmund Meysey-Wigley of Shakenhurst, Worcestershire and Anna Marie Meysey....
, (pen name "V", 1801–1872), novelist and poet - Kitty CliveKitty CliveCatherine "Kitty" Clive was a British actress of considerable repute on the stages of London.Most likely born in London, her father William Raftor was an Irishman and former officer in the French army under Louis XIV...
, (born Catherine Raftor, 1711–1785), playwright and actress - Arthur Hugh CloughArthur Hugh CloughArthur Hugh Clough was an English poet, an educationalist, and the devoted assistant to ground-breaking nurse Florence Nightingale...
, (1819–1861), poet - William CobbettWilliam CobbettWilliam Cobbett was an English pamphleteer, farmer and journalist, who was born in Farnham, Surrey. He believed that reforming Parliament and abolishing the rotten boroughs would help to end the poverty of farm labourers, and he attacked the borough-mongers, sinecurists and "tax-eaters" relentlessly...
, (1763–1835), writer and pamphleteer, Rural RidesRural RidesRural Rides is the book for which the English journalist, agriculturist and political reformer William Cobbett is best known.At the time of writing in the early 1820s, Cobbett was a radical anti-Corn Law campaigner, newly returned to England from a spell of self-imposed political exile in the... - Bob CobbingBob CobbingBob Cobbing was a British sound, visual, concrete and performance poet who was a central figure in the British Poetry Revival.-Early life:...
, (1920–2002), poet and visual artist - Richard CobboldRichard CobboldRichard Cobbold was a British writer.- Life :Richard Cobbold was born in 1797 in the Suffolk town of Ipswich, to John Cobbold and Elizabeth , a large and affluent family who made their money from the brewing industry...
, (1797–1877), novelist and writer - Richard CobdenRichard CobdenRichard Cobden was a British manufacturer and Radical and Liberal statesman, associated with John Bright in the formation of the Anti-Corn Law League as well as with the Cobden-Chevalier Treaty...
, (1804–1865), politician and pamphleteer - Aston CockayneAston CockayneSir Aston Cockayne, Baronet of Ashbourne was, in his day, a well-known Cavalier and a minor literary figure, now best remembered as a friend of Philip Massinger, John Fletcher, Michael Drayton, Richard Brome, Thomas Randolph, and other writers of his generation.-Biography:Aston Cockayne was the...
, (1605–1684), poet and playwright - Catherine Trotter CockburnCatherine Trotter CockburnCatharine Trotter Cockburn was a novelist, dramatist, and philosopher.-Life:Born to Scottish parents living in London,Trotter was raised Protestant but converted to Roman Catholicism at an early age...
, (1679–1749), novelist and playwright - Edward CockerEdward CockerEdward Cocker was an English engraver, who also taught writing and arithmetic.Cocker was the reputed author of the famous Arithmetick, the popularity of which has added a phrase to the list of English proverbialisms...
, (1631–1676), writer and engraver, ArithmetickCocker's ArithmetickCocker's Arithmetick: Being a Plain and Familiar Method Suitable to the Meanest Capacity for the Full Understanding of That Incomparable Art, As It Is Now Taught by the Ablest School-Masters in City and Country is a grammar school mathematics textbook written by Edward Cocker and published... - Richard CocksRichard CocksRichard Cocks was the head of the British East India Company trading post in Hirado, Japan, between 1613 and 1623, from its creation, and lasting to its closure due to bankruptcy....
, (1566–1624), trader and diarist - Henry CocktonHenry CocktonHenry Cockton was an English novelist. Born in London, he is remembered as the author of The Life and Adventures of Valentine Vox, the Ventriloquist which was parodied by Timothy Portwine as The Adventures of Valentine Vaux; or, the tricks of a Ventriloquist .Other Cockton novels include...
, (1807–1853), novelist - Jonathan CoeJonathan CoeJonathan Coe is an English novelist and writer. His work has an underlying preoccupation with political issues, although this serious engagement is often expressed comically in the form of satire. For example, What a Carve Up! reworks the plot of an old 1960s spoof horror film of the same name...
, (born 1961), novelist, What a Carve Up! - Lady Mary CokeLady Mary CokeLady Mary Coke was an English letter writer and noblewoman.-Marriage and separation:...
, (1727–1811), letter writer and diarist - Barry ColeBarry ColeBarry Cole is a British poet.Apart from two years as Northern Arts Fellow in Literature at the universities of Durham and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and two years in the RAF as a National Serviceman, he worked until 1995 as an editor at the Central Office of Information, and is now a freelance editor...
, (born 1936), poet and novelist - G. D. H. ColeG. D. H. ColeGeorge Douglas Howard Cole was an English political theorist, economist, writer and historian. As a libertarian socialist he was a long-time member of the Fabian Society and an advocate for the cooperative movement...
, (1889–1959), economist, historian and novelist - Margaret ColeMargaret ColeDame Margaret Isabel Cole, DBE was an English socialist politician.Daughter of John Percival Postgate and Edith Allen, Margaret was educated at Roedean School and Girton College, Cambridge. While at Girton, through her reading of H. G...
, (1893–1980), politician and novelist - Olivia ColeOlivia ColeOlivia Cole is an American actress.-Biography:Cole was born in Memphis, Tennessee, the daughter of Arvelia and William Cole. She was the first African-American actress to be nominated for and subsequently win an Emmy Award...
, (born 1982), poet - John William ColensoJohn William ColensoJohn William Colenso , first Anglican bishop of Natal, mathematician, theologian, Biblical scholar and social activist.-Biography:Colenso was born at St Austell, Cornwall, on 24 January 1814...
, (1814–1883), writer on religion and Africa, and bishop - Christabel Rose ColeridgeChristabel Rose ColeridgeChristabel Rose Coleridge was an English novelist who also edited girls' magazines, sometimes in collaboration with the writer Charlotte Yonge....
, (1843–1921), novelist and editor - Derwent ColeridgeDerwent ColeridgeDerwent Coleridge , third child of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, was a distinguished English scholar and author.-Early life:Derwent Coleridge was born at Keswick, Cumberland, 14 Sept. 1800 . He was sent with his brother Hartley to be educated at a small school near Ambleside...
, (1800–1883), writer, scholar and cleric - Ernest Hartley ColeridgeErnest Hartley ColeridgeErnest Hartley Coleridge was a British literary scholar and poet. He was son of Derwent Coleridge and grandson of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He did scholarly work on his grandfather’s manuscripts, being the last of the Coleridges involved in their editing. He also took part in the campaign to buy...
, (1846–1920), literary historian, editor and poet - Hartley ColeridgeHartley ColeridgeDavid Hartley Coleridge was an English poet, biographer, essayist, and teacher. He was the eldest son of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. His sister Sara Coleridge was a poet and translator, and his brother Derwent Coleridge was a distinguished scholar and author...
, (1796–1849), poet and critic - Mary Elizabeth ColeridgeMary Elizabeth ColeridgeMary Elizabeth Coleridge was a British novelist and poet, who also wrote essays and reviews. She taught at the London Working Women's College for twelve years from 1895 to 1907...
, (1861–1907), novelist and poet - Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, Romantic, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He is probably best known for his poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla...
, (1772–1834), poet, The Rime of the Ancient MarinerThe Rime of the Ancient MarinerThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797–98 and was published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads. Modern editions use a later revised version printed in 1817 that featured a gloss... - Sara ColeridgeSara ColeridgeSara Coleridge was an English author and translator. She was the fourth child and only daughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his wife Sarah Fricker.-Early life:...
, (1802–1852), author and translator - Jane CollierJane CollierJane Collier was an English novelist most famous for her book An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting . She also collaborated with Sarah Fielding on her only other surviving work The Cry ....
, (1714–1755), satirist - Jeremy CollierJeremy CollierJeremy Collier was an English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian.-Life:Born in Stow cum Quy, Cambridgeshire, Collier was educated at Caius College, University of Cambridge, receiving the BA and MA . A supporter of James II, he refused to take the oath of allegiance to William and...
, (1650–1726), pamphleteer and cleric - John CollierJohn Collier (caricaturist)John Collier was an English caricaturist and satirical poet known by the pseudonym of Tim Bobbin, or Timothy Bobbin. Collier styled himself as the Lancashire Hogarth....
, (pen name Tim Bobbin, 1708–1786), poet and caricaturist - John CollierJohn Collier (writer)John Henry Noyes Collier was a British-born author and screenplay writer best known for his short stories, many of which appeared in The New Yorker from the 1930s to the 1950s. They were collected in a 1951 volume, Fancies and Goodnights, which won the International Fantasy Award and remains in...
, (1901–1980), story writer and screenwriter - John Payne CollierJohn Payne CollierJohn Payne Collier , English Shakespearian critic and forger, was born in London.-Reporter and solicitor:...
, (1789–1883), literary critic, editor and forger - Mary CollierMary CollierMary Collier was an English poet, perhaps best known for her poetic risposte to Stephen Duck, The Woman's Labour.Collier is an important figure in the self-taught, laboring-class tradition in eighteenth-century poetry, a tradition which also includes Duck, as well as Ann Yearsley and Mary...
, (c. 1688-1762), poet - R. G. CollingwoodR. G. CollingwoodRobin George Collingwood was a British philosopher and historian. He was born at Cartmel, Grange-over-Sands in Lancashire, the son of the academic W. G. Collingwood, and was educated at Rugby School and at University College, Oxford, where he read Greats...
, (1889–1943), philosopher and historian - W. G. CollingwoodW. G. CollingwoodWilliam Gershom Collingwood, was an author, artist, antiquary and Professor of Fine Arts at Reading University....
, (1854–1932), writer, artist and antiquary - An CollinsAn CollinsAn Collins is an English poet, and the otherwise unknown author credited with the authorship of Divine Songs and Meditacions, a collection of poems and prose meditations published in 1653.-Background and Controversy:...
, (fl. 1653), poet - Jackie CollinsJackie CollinsJacqueline Jill "Jackie" Collins is an English novelist and former actress. She is the younger sister of actress Joan Collins. She has written 28 novels, all of which have appeared on the New York Times bestsellers list. In total, her books have sold over 400 million copies and have been...
, (born 1937), novelist, The World Is Full of Married MenThe World Is Full of Married MenThe World Is Full of Married Men is the debut novel of British author Jackie Collins, first published in 1968 by W. H. Allen.-Plot summary:... - John CollinsJohn Collins (mathematician)John Collins was an English mathematician. He is most known for his extensive correspondence with leading scientists and mathematicians such as Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Gottfried Leibniz, Isaac Newton, and John Wallis...
, (1625–1683), mathematician - John CollinsJohn Collins (poet)John Collins was an English entertainer and poet from Birmingham. He was born in Bath but traveled widely in England and Ireland to perform in plays and musical theatre. He published The Brush, a collection of songs. In 1793 he settled in Birmingham, and in 1804 published a collection of poems and...
, (1742–1808), poet and song writer - John Churton CollinsJohn Churton CollinsJohn Churton Collins , English literary critic, was born at Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire.From King Edward's School, Birmingham, he went to Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1872, and at once devoted himself to a literary career, as journalist, essayist and lecturer...
, (1848–1908), literary critic - Mortimer CollinsMortimer CollinsMortimer Collins was an English writer and novelist. He was born at Plymouth, where his father, Francis Collins, was a solicitor. He was educated at a private school, and after some years spent as mathematical master at Elizabeth College, Guernsey, he relocated to London...
, (1827–1876), novelist and poet - Norman CollinsNorman CollinsNorman Collins was a British writer, and later a radio and television executive, who became one of the major figures behind the establishment of the Independent Television network in the UK...
, (1907-1982), novelist and broadcasting executive - Warwick CollinsWarwick CollinsWarwick Collins is a British novelist, screenwriter, yacht designer, and evolutionary theorist.Collins was born in Johannesburg to English-speaking parents. His father, Robin Collins, was a novelist who wrote under the nom-de-plume Robin Cranford...
, (born 1948), novelist and screenwriter - Wilkie CollinsWilkie CollinsWilliam Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. He was very popular during the Victorian era and wrote 30 novels, more than 60 short stories, 14 plays, and over 100 non-fiction pieces...
, (1824–1889), novelist, The MoonstoneThe MoonstoneThe Moonstone by Wilkie Collins is a 19th-century British epistolary novel, generally considered the first detective novel in the English language. The story was originally serialized in Charles Dickens' magazine All the Year Round. The Moonstone and The Woman in White are considered Wilkie... - William CollinsWilliam Collins (poet)William Collins was an English poet. Second in influence only to Thomas Gray, he was an important poet of the middle decades of the 18th century...
, (1721–1759), poet - John Stewart CollisJohn Stewart Collis-Life:The son of an Irish solicitor, John Stewart Collis was educated at Rugby and Oxford. A writer of biographies and other works, his first book on George Bernard Shaw, was published in 1925, followed by biographies of Havelock Ellis, Strindberg, Tolstoy, the Carlyles and Christopher Columbus...
, (1900–1984), biographer and countryside writer - Maurice CollisMaurice CollisMaurice Stewart Collis was an administrator in Burma when it was part of the British Empire, and afterwards a writer on Southeast Asia, China and other historical subjects.-Life:...
, (1889–1973), writer and biographer - Mary CollyerMary CollyerMary Collyer was an English translator and novelist.Mary Collyer was part of the John "Bankes" pedigree which can be viewed at Geoff's Genealogy...
, (c. 1716–1762), translator and novelist. - George ColmanGeorge Colman the ElderGeorge Colman was an English dramatist and essayist, usually called "the Elder", and sometimes "George the First", to distinguish him from his son, George Colman the Younger....
, (1732–1794), playwright - George ColmanGeorge Colman the YoungerGeorge Colman , known as "the Younger", English dramatist and miscellaneous writer, was the son of George Colman "the Elder".-Life:...
, (17621836), playwright and poet - Jock Colville, (1915–1987), diarist and civil servant
- William CombeWilliam CombeWilliam Combe was a British miscellaneous writer. His early life was that of an adventurer, his later was passed chiefly within the "rules" of the King's Bench Prison. He is chiefly remembered as the author of The Three Tours of Dr. Syntax, a comic poem...
, (1741–1823), miscellanist and poet - Alex ComfortAlex ComfortAlexander Comfort, MB BChir, PhD, DSc was a medical professional, gerontologist, anarchist, pacifist, conscientious objector and writer, best known for The Joy of Sex, which played a part in what is often called the sexual revolution...
, (1920–2000), novelist, poet and writer, The Joy of SexThe Joy of SexThe Joy of Sex is an illustrated sex manual by Alex Comfort, M.B., Ph.D., first published in 1972. An updated edition was released in September, 2008.-Overview:... - Jack CommonJack CommonJack Common was a British novelist.He was born in Heaton, Newcastle upon Tyne, close to the rail-sheds where his father worked as an engine-driver...
, (1903–1968), novelist - Ivy Compton-BurnettIvy Compton-BurnettDame Ivy Compton-Burnett, DBE was an English novelist, published as I. Compton-Burnett. She was awarded the 1955 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for her novel Mother and Son.-Life:...
, (1884–1969), novelist, Pastors and MastersPastors and MastersPastors and Masters is a short novel by Ivy Compton-Burnett published in 1925. Set in the present in an old English university town, it is about two academics with literary pretensions and the small circle of family and friends surrounding them.... - William Congreve, (1670–1729), playwright and poet, The Way of the WorldThe Way of the WorldThe Way of the World is a play written by British playwright William Congreve. It premiered in 1700 in the theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields in London...
- Thomas ConingsbyThomas ConingsbySir Thomas Coningsby was an English soldier and Member of Parliament, notable for his diary of military action in France in 1591.-Birth:...
, (died 1625), diarist, soldier and politician - Cyril ConnollyCyril ConnollyCyril Vernon Connolly was an English intellectual, literary critic and writer. He was the editor of the influential literary magazine Horizon and wrote Enemies of Promise , which combined literary criticism with an autobiographical exploration of why he failed to become the successful author of...
, (1903–1974), writer and critic - Joseph ConnollyJoseph Connolly (author)Joseph Connolly is a British journalist, novelist, non-fiction writer and bibliophile.For many years Connolly was the proprietor of The Flask Bookshop in Hampstead, London. Having started writing fiction rather late in life, he is best known today for his comic novels, especially in France, where...
, (born 1950), journalist and novelist - Tony ConnorTony ConnorTony Connor is a British poet and playwright.After leaving school at fourteen, Connor served in the Royal Army as a tank gunner, and later worked as a textile designer and in radio and television in Manchester in the 1960s...
, (born 1930), poet and playwright - Robert ConquestRobert ConquestGeorge Robert Ackworth Conquest CMG is a British historian who became a well-known writer and researcher on the Soviet Union with the publication in 1968 of The Great Terror, an account of Stalin's purges of the 1930s...
, (born 1917), historian and poet, The Great TerrorThe Great TerrorThe Great Terror is a book by British historian Robert Conquest, published in 1968. It gave rise to an alternate title of the period in Soviet history known as the Great Purge. The complete title of the book is The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties... - Joseph ConradJoseph ConradJoseph Conrad was a Polish-born English novelist.Conrad is regarded as one of the great novelists in English, although he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties...
, (1857–1924), novelist, Lord JimLord JimLord Jim is a novel by Joseph Conrad originally published as a serial in Blackwood's Magazine from October 1899 to November 1900.An early and primary event is Jim's abandonment of a ship in distress on which he is serving as a mate... - Henry ConstableHenry ConstableHenry Constable was an English poet, son of Sir Robert Constable. He went to St John's College, Cambridge, where he took his degree in 1580. Becoming a Roman Catholic, he went to Paris, and acted as anagent for the Catholic powers. He died at Liège...
, (1562–1613), poet - Hugh ConwayHugh ConwayHugh Conway, the pen name of Frederick John Fargus , was an English novelist born in Bristol, the son of an auctioneer.-Early life:...
, (real name Frederick John Fargus, 1847–1885), novelist - John ConybeareJohn ConybeareJohn Conybeare DD was Bishop of Bristol and one of the most notable theologians of the 18th century.Conybeare was born at Pinhoe, where his father was vicar, and educated at Blundell's School and Exeter College, Oxford. He was elected a Probationary Fellow of Exeter College in 1710, took his B.A...
, (1692–1755), theologian and bishop - John Josias ConybeareJohn Josias ConybeareJohn Josias Conybeare , elder brother of William Daniel Conybeare, was also educated at Christ Church, Oxford.He was an accomplished scholar, became vicar of Batheaston, and was Professor of Anglo-Saxon , and afterwards Professor of Poetry , at Oxford...
, (1779–1824), scholar, translator and cleric - William Daniel ConybeareWilliam Daniel ConybeareWilliam Daniel Conybeare FRS , dean of Llandaff, was an English geologist, palaeontologist and clergyman. He is probably best known for his ground-breaking work on marine reptile fossils in the 1820s, including important papers for the Geological Society of London on ichthyosaur anatomy and the...
, (1787–1857), writer, geologist and cleric - William John ConybeareWilliam John ConybeareWilliam John Conybeare was an English vicar, essayist and novelist.He was the son of Dean WD Conybeare, and was educated at Westminster and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was elected fellow in 1837....
, (1815–1857), religious writer, novelist and cleric - David Cook, (born 1940), novelist, screenplay writer and presenter
- Eliza CookEliza CookEliza Cook was an English author, Chartist poet and writer born in London Road, Southwark.- Background :...
, (1818–1889), poet - James CookJames CookCaptain James Cook, FRS, RN was a British explorer, navigator and cartographer who ultimately rose to the rank of captain in the Royal Navy...
, (1728–1779), circumnavigator and travel writer - Judith CookJudith CookJudith Cook was an anti-nuclear campaigner, historical novelist, journalist and lecturer in theatre at the University of Exeter...
, (1933–2004), novelist - Dorian CookeDorian CookeDorian Cooke was a poet, MI6 operative, and head of the Yugoslav section at the BBC.-References:* The Times obituary, 11 October 2005* P. N. Review No. 168, March-April 2006...
, (1916–2005), poet and intelligence officer - Catherine CooksonCatherine CooksonDame Catherine Cookson DBE was a British author. She became the United Kingdom's most widely read novelist, with sales topping 100 million, while retaining a relatively low profile in the world of celebrity writers...
, (1906–1998), novelist - Artemis CooperArtemis CooperThe Hon. Alice Clare Antonia Opportune Cooper Beevor is a British writer known as Artemis Cooper.Known as Artemis, a nickname which honours her paternal grandmother, she is the only daughter of the 2nd Viscount Norwich and his first wife, the former Anne Clifford, and a granddaughter of the...
, (born 1953), writer and editor - Duff CooperDuff CooperAlfred Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich GCMG, DSO, PC , known as Duff Cooper, was a British Conservative Party politician, diplomat and author. He wrote six books, including an autobiography, Old Men Forget, and a biography of Talleyrand...
, (1890–1954), writer, diarist and politician - Jilly CooperJilly CooperJilly Cooper OBE is an English author. She started her career as a journalist and wrote numerous works of non-fiction before writing several romance novels, the first of which appeared in 1975. She is most famous for writing the Rutshire Chronicles.-Early life:Jilly Sallitt was born in Hornchurch,...
, (born 1937), writer and novelist - Lettice CooperLettice CooperLettice Ulpha Cooper, , was an English writer. She was born in Eccles, Lancashire on 3 September 1897. She began to write stories when she was seven, and studied Classics at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford graduating in 1918....
, (1897–1994), novelist and critic - Thomas CooperThomas Cooper (poet)Thomas Cooper was a poet and one of the leading Chartists. He wrote poetry, notably the 944 stanzas of his prison-rhyme the Purgatory of Suicides , novels and, in later life, religious texts...
, (1805–1892), poet, novelist and Chartist - William CooperWilliam Cooper (novelist)Harry Summerfield Hoff was an English novelist, writing under the name William Cooper.-Life:H.S.Hoff was born in Crewe, the son of elementary school teachers , and read natural sciences at Christ's College, Cambridge...
, (real name H. S. Hoff, 1910–2002), novelist - Wendy CopeWendy CopeWendy Cope, OBE is an award-winning contemporary English poet. She read history at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She now lives in Ely with the poet Lachlan Mackinnon.-Biography:...
, (born 1945), poet - Esther CopleyEsther CopleyEsther Copley was an English religious tractarian and children's writer.-Life:...
, (1786–1851), children's writer and writer on domestic economy - A. E. CoppardA. E. CoppardAlfred Edgar Coppard was an English writer, noted for his influence on the short story form, and poet.-Life:He was born, the son of a tailor and a housemaid, in Folkestone, and had little formal education...
, (1878–1957), poet and story writer - Abiezer CoppeAbiezer CoppeAbiezer Coppe was one of the English Ranters and a writer of prophetic religious pamphlets.He was born in Warwick on May 20, 1619, and was a pupil of Thomas Dugard at The King's School, Warwick. From there he went to All Souls College, Oxford and also Merton College, Oxford...
, (1619-1672), religious pamphleteer - Richard CorbetRichard CorbetRichard Corbet was an English bishop in the Church of England. He was also a poet of the metaphysical school who, although highly praised in his own lifetime, is relatively obscure today.-Life:...
or Corbett, (1582–1635), poet and bishop - Jim CorbettJim Corbett (hunter)Edward James "Jim" Corbett was a British hunter, conservationist, author and naturalist, famous for slaying a large number of man-eating tigers and leopards in India....
, (1875–1955), writer, hunter and conservationist, Man-Eaters of KumaonMan-Eaters of KumaonMan-Eaters of Kumaon is a book written by hunter-naturalist Jim Corbett. It details the experiences Corbett had in the Kumaon region of India from the 1900s to the 1930s, while hunting man-eating tigers and leopards. One tiger, for example, was responsible for over 400 human deaths... - Julian CorbettJulian CorbettSir Julian Stafford Corbett was a prominent British naval historian and geostrategist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, whose works helped shape the Royal Navy's reforms of that era...
, (1854–1922), naval historian - Marie CorelliMarie CorelliMarie Corelli was a British novelist. She enjoyed a period of great literary success from the publication of her first novel in 1886 until World War I. Corelli's novels sold more copies than the combined sales of popular contemporaries, including Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G...
, (1855–1924), novelist - Alan CorenAlan CorenAlan Coren was an English humorist, writer and satirist who was well known as a regular panellist on the BBC radio quiz The News Quiz and a team captain on BBC television's Call My Bluff...
, (1938-2007), writer, satirist and broadcaster - Hilary CorkeHilary CorkeHilary Topham Corke was a writer, composer and mineralogist...
, (1921–2001), poet - Frances CornfordFrances CornfordFrances Crofts Cornford was an English poet.She was the daughter of the botanist Francis Darwin and Ellen Crofts, born into the Darwin — Wedgwood family. She was a granddaughter of the British naturalist Charles Darwin. Her elder half-brother was the golf writer Bernard Darwin...
, (1886–1960), poet - Francis M. CornfordF. M. CornfordFrancis Macdonald Cornford was an English classical scholar and poet.He was educated at St Paul's School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a Fellow from 1899 and held a university teaching post from 1902...
, (1874–1943), scholar and poet - John CornfordJohn CornfordRupert John Cornford was an English poet and communist. He was the son of F. M. Cornford and Frances Cornford.- Biography :...
, (1915–1936), poet - Caroline CornwallisCaroline CornwallisCaroline Frances Cornwallis was an English feminist writer. Her father, William Cornwallis, belonged to the junior branch of the better known military and naval family. The daughter of a Kent rector who had been an Oxford fellow, Caroline read voraciously on both religious and secular matters...
, (1786–1858), writer and polyglot - Bernard CornwellBernard CornwellBernard Cornwell OBE is an English author of historical novels. He is best known for his novels about Napoleonic Wars rifleman Richard Sharpe which were adapted into a series of Sharpe television films.-Biography:...
, (born 1944), novelist - William CornyshWilliam CornyshWilliam Cornysh the Younger was an English composer, dramatist, actor, and poet.-Life:...
or Cornish, (1465–1523), dramatist, poet and composer - Felicitas CorriganFelicitas CorriganDame Felicitas Corrigan OSB was an English Benedictine nun, author and humanitarian.She was born Kathleen Corrigan into a large Liverpool family, and developed a talent as an organist. In 1933, she entered Stanbrook Abbey in Worcestershire as a nun, and eventually became director of its choir...
, (1908–2003), writer and nun - Annie Sophie CoryAnnie Sophie CoryAnnie Sophie Cory was the author of popular, racy, exotic novels under the pseudonyms Victoria Cross, Vivian Cory and V.C. Griffin.-Life:...
, (pen name Victoria Cross, 1868–1952), novelist - William Johnson CoryWilliam Johnson CoryWilliam Johnson Cory , born William Johnson, was an educator and poet, born at Torrington, and educated at Eton, where he was afterwards a renowned master, nicknamed Tute by his pupils...
, (1823–1892), poet and educationalist - Thomas CoryatThomas CoryatThomas Coryat was an English traveller and writer of the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean age. He is principally remembered for two volumes of writings he left regarding his travels, often on foot, through Europe and parts of Asia...
or Coryate, (c. 1577-1617), travel writer and poet - Randle CotgraveRandle CotgraveRandle Cotgrave , may possibly be Randal, son of William Cotgreve of Christleton in Cheshire, who is mentioned in the pedigree of the Cotgreve family, contained in Harl. MS. 1500, fol...
, (died 1634 or 1652), lexicographer - Joseph CottleJoseph CottleJoseph Cottle was a publisher and author.Cottle started business in Bristol. He published the works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey on generous terms...
, (1770–1853), poet, essayist and bookseller - Charles CottonCharles CottonCharles Cotton was an English poet and writer, best known for translating the work of Michel de Montaigne from the French, for his contributions to The Compleat Angler, and for the highly influential The Compleat Gamester which has been attributed to him.-Early life:He was born at Beresford Hall...
, (1630–1687), poet and writer - Robert Bruce CottonRobert Bruce CottonSir Robert Bruce Cotton, 1st Baronet was an English antiquarian and Member of Parliament, founder of the important Cotton library....
, (1570/71-1631), antiquarian and political writer, the Cotton LibraryCotton libraryThe Cotton or Cottonian library was collected privately by Sir Robert Bruce Cotton M.P. , an antiquarian and bibliophile, and was the basis of the British Library... - Stephen CoulterStephen CoulterStephen Coulter is an English novelist, journalist, and, as James Mayo, the author of several spy and adventure thrillers.His series character Charles Hood, a James Bond clone, is an art-loving British spy. Coulter was also friends with Bond creator Ian Fleming...
, (also wrote as James Mayo, born 1914), novelist - William John CourthopeWilliam John CourthopeWilliam John Courthope , was an English writer and historian of poetry, whose father was rector of South Malling, Essex....
, (1842–1917), literary historian and poet - Polly CourtneyPolly CourtneyPolly Courtney is an English author and media commentator. She is best known as the author of the novels Golden Handcuffs and Poles Apart.-Background:...
, (born late 1970s), novelist - Miles CoverdaleMyles CoverdaleMyles Coverdale was a 16th-century Bible translator who produced the first complete printed translation of the Bible into English.-Life:...
, (c. 1488-1569), Bible translator - Noël CowardNoël CowardSir Noël Peirce Coward was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".Born in Teddington, a suburb of London, Coward attended a dance academy...
, (1899–1973), playwright, Blithe SpiritBlithe Spirit (play)Blithe Spirit is a comic play written by Noël Coward which takes its title from Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem "To a Skylark" . The play concerns socialite and novelist Charles Condomine, who invites the eccentric medium and clairvoyant, Madame Arcati, to his house to conduct a séance, hoping to... - Abraham CowleyAbraham CowleyAbraham Cowley was an English poet born in the City of London late in 1618. He was one of the leading English poets of the 17th century, with 14 printings of his Works published between 1668 and 1721.-Early life and career:...
, (1618–1667), poet - Hannah CowleyHannah CowleyHannah Cowley was an English dramatist and poet. Although Cowley’s plays and poetry did not enjoy wide popularity after the nineteenth century, critic Melinda Finberg rates Cowley as “one of the foremost playwrights of the late eighteenth century” whose “skill in writing fluid, sparkling dialogue...
, (1743–1809), playwright, The Belle's StratagemThe Belle's StratagemThe Belle's Stratagem is a romantic comedy of manners that premiered on February 22, 1780; it was the most successful work by Hannah Cowley. It drew its title from George Farquhar's play The Beaux' Stratagem. The show was presented by David Garrick, filling the 2,000-seat Drury Lane theatre. to... - William CowperWilliam CowperWilliam Cowper was an English poet and hymnodist. One of the most popular poets of his time, Cowper changed the direction of 18th century nature poetry by writing of everyday life and scenes of the English countryside. In many ways, he was one of the forerunners of Romantic poetry...
, (1731–1800), poet and hymn writer, John GilpinJohn GilpinJohn Gilpin was a based on real-life character whose exploits became legendary and featured in a well-known comic ballad of 1782 by William Cowper entitled The Diverting History of John Gilpin... - Noël CowardNoël CowardSir Noël Peirce Coward was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".Born in Teddington, a suburb of London, Coward attended a dance academy...
, (18991973), playwright, Blithe SpiritBlithe Spirit (play)Blithe Spirit is a comic play written by Noël Coward which takes its title from Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem "To a Skylark" . The play concerns socialite and novelist Charles Condomine, who invites the eccentric medium and clairvoyant, Madame Arcati, to his house to conduct a séance, hoping to... - Anthony Berkeley CoxAnthony Berkeley CoxAnthony Berkeley Cox was an English crime writer. He wrote under several pen-names, including Francis Iles, Anthony Berkeley and A. Monmouth Platts.- Life :...
, (pen names Anthony Berkeley, Francis Iles, A. Monmouth Platt, 1893–1971), novelist - Edward CoxereEdward CoxereEdward Coxere, was a Kentish merchant seaman, linguist, Quaker convert and autobiographer.His manuscript autobiography surfaced in 1943 and was edited by E. H. W. Meyerstein and published by Oxford University Press in 1945 as Adventures by Sea . The small-format book has a map of Europe and North...
, (1633–1694), autobiographer and merchant seaman - George CrabbeGeorge CrabbeGeorge Crabbe was an English poet and naturalist.-Biography:He was born in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, the son of a tax collector, and developed his love of poetry as a child. In 1768, he was apprenticed to a local doctor, who taught him little, and in 1771 he changed masters and moved to Woodbridge...
, (1754–1832), poet and naturalist - Jim CraceJim CraceJames "Jim" Crace is a contemporary English writer. The winner of numerous awards, Crace also has a large popular following. He currently lives in the Moseley area of Birmingham with his wife...
, (born 1946), novelist - Hubert CrackanthorpeHubert CrackanthorpeHubert Montague Crackanthorpe was a Victorian British writer who created works mainly in the genres of the essay, short story, and novella. He also wrote limited amounts of literary criticism...
, (born Cookson, 1870–1896), essayist and story writer - Albert CraigAlbert Craig (The Surrey Poet)Albert Craig was commonly known as The Surrey Poet, although he never used the term himself, instead signing his pieces as "A.C. Cricket Rhymester".. He would attend cricket and football matches to write verses and short essays describing the players and events, then had them printed on...
, (the "Surrey Poet", 1849-1909), verse chronicler of cricket and football - Amanda CraigAmanda CraigAmanda Craig is a British novelist. Craig studied at Bedales School and Cambridge and works as a journalist. She is married with two children and lives in London....
, (born 1959), novelist - Dinah CraikDinah CraikDinah Maria Craik was an English novelist and poet. She was born at Stoke-on-Trent and brought up in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire.After the death of her mother in 1845, Dinah Maria Mulock settled in London about 1846...
, (also wrote as Miss Mulock, 1826–1887), novelist and poet, John Halifax, GentlemanJohn Halifax, GentlemanJohn Halifax, Gentleman is a novel by Dinah Craik, first published in 1856. The novel was adapted for television by the BBC in 1974.-Plot summary:... - Richard CrashawRichard CrashawRichard Crashaw , English poet, styled "the divine," was part of the Seventeenth-century Metaphysical School of poets.-Life:...
, (1613–1649), poet - Elizabeth CravenElizabeth CravenElizabeth Craven , Princess Berkeley , previously "Lady Craven" of Hamstead Marshall, was an author, playwright, traveller, and socialite, perhaps best known for her travelogues...
, (1750–1828), travel writer and playwright - John CreaseyJohn CreaseyJohn Creasey MBE was an English crime and science fiction writer. The author of more than 600 novels, he published them using 28 different pseudonyms, including Anthony Morton, Michael Halliday, Kyle Hunt, J.J. Marric, Jeremy York, Richard Martin, Peter Manton, Norman Deane, Gordon Ashe, Henry St...
, (1908–1973), novelist - Edward Shepherd CreasyEdward Shepherd CreasySir Edward Shepherd Creasy was an English historian. He was born in Bexley, England. He was educated at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge and called to the Bar in 1837. In 1840, he began teaching history at the University of London. He was knighted in 1860 and assumed the position of...
, (1812–1878), historian, Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World - Thomas CreechThomas CreechThomas Creech was an English translator of classical works, and headmaster of Sherborne School. He translated Lucretius in verse , for which he received a Fellowship at Oxford, also Manilius, Horace, Theocritus, and other classics.-Life:He was born at Blandford Forum, Dorset...
, (1659–1700), translator - Thomas CreeveyThomas CreeveyThomas Creevey was an English politician, son of William Creevey, a Liverpool merchant, and was born in that city....
, (1768–1838), diarist and politician - Mandell CreightonMandell CreightonMandell Creighton , was a British historian and a bishop of the Church of England. A scholar of the Renaissance papacy, Creighton was the first occupant of the Dixie Chair of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Cambridge, a professorship that was established around the time that the study...
, (1843–1901), historian and bishop - Helen CresswellHelen CresswellHelen Cresswell was an English author of more than 100 children's books, including the Lizzie Dripping series, and The Bagthorpe Saga...
, (1934–2005), children's writer and screenwriter, Lizzie DrippingLizzie DrippingLizzie Dripping was a British television children's programme produced by the BBC in 1973 and 1975... - Jasmine CresswellJasmine CresswellJasmine Rosemary Cresswell is a best-selling author of over 50 romance novels as Jasmine Cresswell and Jasmine Craig.-Biography:...
, (born 1941), novelist - Nicholas CresswellNicholas CresswellNicholas Cresswell was an English diarist.Cresswell was the son of a landowner and sheep farmer in Crowden-le-Booth, Edale, Derbyshire. At the age of 24 he sailed to the American colonies after becoming acquainted with a native of Edale who was now resident in Alexandria, Virginia...
, (1750-1804), diarist and farmer - Arthur Shearly CrippsArthur Shearly CrippsArthur Shearly Cripps was an English Anglican priest, short story writer, and poet who spent most of his life in Southern Rhodesia ....
, (1869–1952), story writer and poet - Quentin CrispQuentin CrispQuentin Crisp , was an English writer and raconteur. He became a gay icon in the 1970s after publication of his memoir, The Naked Civil Servant.- Early life :...
, (born Denis Charles Pratt, 1908–1999), writer and raconteur - Rupert Croft-CookeLeo BruceLeo Bruce is a pseudonym for Rupert Croft-Cooke . Under this name, Bruce wrote several mystery novels. He created two series, one featuring Sergeant Beef, a British police officer, and a second in which Carolus Deene, senior history master at the fictional Queen's School, Newminster, is an amateur...
, (pen name Leo Bruce, 1903–1979), novelist - Andrew CroftsAndrew Crofts (author)For the Wales international footballer see Andrew Crofts Andrew Crofts based in England, is a known name in the world of ghostwriting. Many of his subjects have been international and have topped the best-seller charts of United Kingdom and other countries...
, (born 1953), ghost writer - Richmal CromptonRichmal CromptonRichmal Crompton Lamburn was a British writer, most famous for her Just William humorous short stories and books.-Life:...
, (real name Richmal Crompton Lamburn, 1890–1969), novelist, the WilliamJust WilliamJust William is the first book of children's short stories about the young school boy William Brown, written by Richmal Crompton, and published in 1922. The book was the first in the series of William Brown books which was the basis for numerous television series, films and radio adaptations...
books - Kevin Crossley-HollandKevin Crossley-HollandKevin John William Crossley-Holland is an English translator, children's author and poet.-Life and career:Born in Mursley, north Buckinghamshire, Holland grew up in Whiteleaf, a small village in the Chilterns...
, (born 1941), children's writer, poet and editor - Catherine CroweCatherine CroweCatherine Ann Crowe, née Stevens, , was an English novelist, story writer and playwright.-Life:...
, (1790–1872), novelist and playwright - William CroweWilliam Crowe (poet)William Crowe was an English poet, born in Midgham, Berkshire, England. He was the son of a carpenter and was educated as a foundationer at Winchester. He then proceeded to Oxford, where he became Public Orator. He wrote a smooth, but somewhat...
, (1745–1829), poet - Aleister CrowleyAleister CrowleyAleister Crowley , born Edward Alexander Crowley, and also known as both Frater Perdurabo and The Great Beast, was an influential English occultist, astrologer, mystic and ceremonial magician, responsible for founding the religious philosophy of Thelema. He was also successful in various other...
, (1875–1947), writer, mystic and occultist - John CrowneJohn CrowneJohn Crowne was a British dramatist and a native of Nova Scotia.His father "Colonel" William Crowne, accompanied the earl of Arundel on a diplomatic mission to Vienna in 1637, and wrote an account of his journey...
, (1641–1712), playwright - Andrew CrozierAndrew CrozierAndrew Thomas Knights Crozier was a poet associated with the British Poetry Revival.-Life:Crozier was educated at Dulwich College, and later Christ's College, Cambridge. His 1976 book Pleats won the Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize, awarded jointly that year with Lee Harwood...
, (1943–2008), poet and scholar - Andrew CrumeyAndrew CrumeyAndrew Crumey is a novelist and former literary editor of the Scotland on Sunday newspaper. He was born in Kirkintilloch, north of Glasgow, Scotland. He graduated with First Class Honours from the University of St Andrews and holds a PhD in theoretical physics from Imperial College, London. In...
, (born 1961), novelist - J. A. CuddonJ. A. CuddonJohn Anthony Bowden Cuddon , was an English author, dictionary writer, and school teacher. Known best for his Dictionary of Literary Terms , Cuddon also produced the large Dictionary of Sport and Games, as well as several novels, plays, travel books, and other published works.Cuddon also edited two...
, (1928–1996), novelist, playwright and dictionary compiler - Annie Hall CudlipAnnie Hall CudlipAnnie Hall Cudlip , known by her pen name Mrs. Pender Cudlip, was a British writer, novelist and short story writer...
, (1838-1918), novelist - Pender Hodge CudlipPender Hodge CudlipRev. Pender Hodge Cudlip was an English Anglican High Church clergyman, theologian and writer. He was a well-known preacher in Cornwall and Devon during the mid-to late 19th century, spent several years in Paddington, London, and headed the Sparkwell Vicarage from 1884 until his death...
, (1834-1911), religious writer and cleric - Hannah CullwickHannah CullwickHannah Cullwick was a Victorian era diarist and domestic servant. She is known for her unusual relationship with Arthur Munby, which they both documented in diaries, letters and photographs.-Early life:...
, ((1833–1909), diarist and domestic servant - Nathanael Culverwel, (1619–1651), philosopher and theologian
- Richard CumberlandRichard Cumberland (philosopher)Richard Cumberland was an English philosopher, and bishop of Peterborough from 1691. In 1672, he published his major work, De legibus naturae , propounding utilitarianism and opposing the egoistic ethics of Thomas Hobbes.Cumberland was a member of the latitudinarian movement, along with his friend...
, (1631–1718), philosopher and bishop - Richard CumberlandRichard Cumberland (dramatist)Richard Cumberland was a British dramatist and civil servant. In 1771 his hit play The West Indian was first staged. During the American War of Independence he acted as a secret negotiator with Spain in an effort to secure a peace agreement between the two nations. He also edited a short-lived...
, (1732–1811), playwright, poet and novelist - Nancy CunardNancy CunardNancy Clara Cunard was a writer, heiress and political activist. She was born into the British upper class but strongly rejected her family's values, devoting much of her life to fighting racism and fascism...
, (1896–1965), poet, memoir writer and translator - Joseph CundallJoseph CundallJoseph Cundall , was a Victorian English writer under the pseudonym of "Stephen Percy", a pioneer photographer and London publisher of children's books. He provided employment for many of the best artists of the day by using them as illustrators.Joseph was the son of Eliza and Benjamin Cundall, a...
(pen name Stephen Percy, 1818–1895), children's writer and publisher - William CurtisWilliam CurtisWilliam Curtis was an English botanist and entomologist, who was born at Alton, Hampshire.Curtis began as an apothecary, before turning his attention to botany and other natural history. The publications he prepared effectively reached a wider audience than early works on the subject had intended...
, (1746–1799), botanist, The Botanical Magazine - Henry CustHenry CustHenry John "Harry" Cockayne-Cust was an English politician and editor who served as a Member of Parliament for the Unionist Party.-Biography:...
, (1861–1917), author and editor - Catherine CuthbertsonCatherine CuthbertsonCatherine Cuthbertson was an English-language novelist in the early 19th-century. Among her works were Romance of the Pyrenees , Forest of Montalbano , and The Hut and the Castle: a Romance ....
, (before 1780–after 1830), novelist - Judith CutlerJudith CutlerJudith Cutler is a writer of crime fiction whose novels are mostly in three series: ten in the series about amateur sleuth and lecturer Sophie Rivers; six about Detective Sergeant Kate Power; plus a forthcoming series with Caffy Tyler...
, (born 1946), novelist - John CuttsJohn Cutts, 1st Baron CuttsLieutenant-General John Cutts, 1st Baron Cutts PC , British soldier and author, came from an Essex family.After a short university career at Catharine Hall, Cambridge, he inherited the family estates, but showed a distinct preference for the life of court and camp...
, (1661–1707), poet, writer and soldier
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- David DabydeenDavid DabydeenDavid Dabydeen is a Guyanese-born critic, writer and novelist.Dabydeen was born in Berbice, Guyana, his birth registered at New Amsterdam Registrar of Births as David Horace Clarence Harilal Sookram...
, (born 1955), novelist and critic - Charlotte DacreCharlotte DacreCharlotte Dacre was an English author of Gothic novels.Most references to her today are under the name Charlotte Dacre, but she first wrote under the pseudonym Rosa Matilda, and later adopted a second pseudonym to tease and confuse her critics...
, (pen name Rosa Matilda, 1782–1841), novelist and poet - Roald DahlRoald DahlRoald Dahl was a British novelist, short story writer, fighter pilot and screenwriter.Born in Wales to Norwegian parents, he served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, in which he became a flying ace and intelligence agent, rising to the rank of Wing Commander...
, (1916–1990), children's writer - William DakinsWilliam DakinsWilliam Dakins was an English academic and clergyman, Gresham Professor of Divinity and one of the translators of the King James Bible.-Life:...
, (died 1607), scholar, AV translator and cleric - Penny Dale, (born 1954), children's writer and illustrator
- William DampierWilliam DampierWilliam Dampier was an English buccaneer, sea captain, author and scientific observer...
, (1651–1715) travel writer and buccaneer - Clemence DaneClemence DaneClemence Dane was the pseudonym of Winifred Ashton , an English novelist and playwright.-Life and career:...
, (real name Winifred Ashton, 1888–1965), novelist and playwright - Samuel DanielSamuel DanielSamuel Daniel was an English poet and historian.-Early life:Daniel was born near Taunton in Somerset, the son of a music-master. He was the brother of lutenist and composer John Danyel. Their sister Rosa was Edmund Spenser's model for Rosalind in his The Shepherd's Calendar; she eventually married...
, (1562–1619), poet and historian - Sarah DanielsSarah DanielsSarah Daniels is a British dramatist. She has been a prolific writer since her first performed play was given a production at the Royal Court in 1981. Her plays have appeared at other venues including the National Theatre, the Battersea Arts Centre, the Crucible, Sheffield and Chicken Shed...
, (born 1957), playwright - Alicia D'AnversAlicia D'AnversAlicia D'Anvers [née Clarke] was an English poet.- Biography :Born in Oxford, her father was superior beadle of civil law and first architypographus, or director of printing, for Oxford University...
, (1688–1725), poet - Ella D'ArcyElla D'ArcyElla D'Arcy was a short fiction writer in the late 19th and early 20th century.D'Arcy was born in London in 1857; the precise date is unknown. One of nine children, she was educated in London and the Channel Islands...
, (1856?-1939), novelist and translator - Charles DarwinCharles DarwinCharles Robert Darwin FRS was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.He published his theory...
, (1809–1882), naturalist, On the Origin of Species - Emma DarwinEmma Darwin (novelist)Emma L. Darwin is an English novelist who is the author of the historical fiction novels The Mathematics of Love and A Secret Alchemy . She is the great-great-granddaughter of Charles and Emma Darwin.-Biography:...
, (born 1964), novelist - Erasmus DarwinErasmus DarwinErasmus Darwin was an English physician who turned down George III's invitation to be a physician to the King. One of the key thinkers of the Midlands Enlightenment, he was also a natural philosopher, physiologist, slave trade abolitionist,inventor and poet...
, (1731–1802), natural historian and poet - Florence Henrietta DarwinFlorence Henrietta DarwinFlorence Henrietta, Lady Darwin, , was an English playwright.Florence Henrietta Fisher was born in Kensington, London, the daughter of Herbert William Fisher , author of Considerations on the Origin of the American War and his wife Mary Louisa Jackson...
, (1863/4-1920), playwright - Elizabeth DaryushElizabeth DaryushElizabeth Daryush was an English poet. She was the daughter of Robert Bridges; her maternal grandfather was Alfred Waterhouse. She married Ali Akbar Daryush, whom she had met when he was studying at the University of Oxford and spent some time in Persia; most of her life was spent in Boars Hill,...
, (born Bridges, 1887–1977), poet - George Webbe DasentGeorge Webbe DasentSir George Webbe Dasent was a translator of folk tales and contributor to The Times.Dasent was born 22 May 1817 at St. Vincent, West Indies, the son of the attorney general, John Roche Dasent...
, (1817–1896), writer and translator - Rana DasguptaRana DasguptaRana Dasgupta is a British-Indian novelist and essayist. He grew up in Cambridge, England and studied at Balliol College, Oxford, the Conservatoire Darius Milhaud in Aix-en-Provence, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison...
, (born 1972), novelist - William DavenantWilliam DavenantSir William Davenant , also spelled D'Avenant, was an English poet and playwright. Along with Thomas Killigrew, Davenant was one of the rare figures in English Renaissance theatre whose career spanned both the Caroline and Restoration eras and who was active both before and after the English Civil...
, (1606–1668), poet and playwright - Robert DavenportRobert DavenportRobert Davenport was an English dramatist of the early seventeenth century. Nothing is known of his early life or education; the title pages of two of his plays identify him as a "Gentleman," though there is no record of him at either of the two universities or the Inns of Court. Scholars have...
, (fl. 1623-1639), playwright and poet - C. A. F. Rhys DavidsCaroline Augusta Foley Rhys DavidsCaroline Augusta Foley Rhys Davids was an English Pāli language scholar and translator, and from 1923-1942 president of the Pali Text Society which was founded by her husband T. W. Rhys Davids whom she married in 1894.-Early life and education:...
, (1857–1942), Buddhist scholar and translator - Lionel DavidsonLionel DavidsonLionel Davidson was an English novelist who wrote a number of acclaimed spy thrillers.-Life and career:Lionel Davidson was born in 1922 in Hull, Yorkshire, one of nine children of an immigrant Jewish tailor. He left school early and worked in the London offices of the Spectator magazine as an...
, (1922–2009), novelist, The Night of WenceslasThe Night of WenceslasThe Night of Wenceslas is the debut novel of British thriller and crime writer Lionel Davidson. It describes the reluctant adventures of Nicolas Whistler, a dissolute young man of mixed English and Czech parentage who finds himself caught up against his will in Cold War espionage... - Donald DavieDonald DavieDonald Alfred Davie was an English Movement poet, and literary critic. His poems in general are philosophical and abstract, but often evoke various landscapes.-Biography:...
, (1922–1995), poet and critic - Caitlin DaviesCaitlin DaviesCaitlin Davies is an English author. Her parents are Margaret Forster and Hunter Davies, both well-known writers.Although born in England, Davies has been associated with Botswana since 1990 when she met her husband, Ron, while studying for a Masters in English at Clark University, USA...
, (born 1964), novelist and journalist - Hunter DaviesHunter DaviesEdward Hunter Davies is a prolific British author, journalist and broadcaster, perhaps best known for writing the only authorised biography of The Beatles.- Early life :...
, (born 1936), writer, biographer and ghost writer - Hugh Sykes DaviesHugh Sykes DaviesHugh Sykes Davies was an English poet, novelist and communist who was one of a small group of 1930s British surrealists.Davies was born in Yorkshire to a Methodist minister and his wife. He went to Kingswood School, Bath and studied at Cambridge, where he co-edited a student magazine called...
, (1909–1984), poet and novelist - John DaviesJohn Davies of HerefordJohn Davies of Hereford was a writing-master and an Anglo-Welsh poet. He is usually known as John Davies of Hereford in order to distinguish him from others of the same name....
, (c. 1565-1618), poet and satirist - John DaviesJohn Davies (poet)Sir John Davies was an English poet and lawyer, who became attorney general in Ireland and formulated many of the legal principles that underpinned the British Empire.-Early life:...
, (1569–1626), poet and lawyer - Linda DaviesLinda DaviesLinda Davies is a British author of thriller fiction. Linda Davies read Politics, Philosophy and Economics at St Edmund Hall, Oxford graduating in 1985, then worked for seven years as an investment banker in New York, London and Eastern Europe. Inspired by her City career, she left to write her...
, (born 1963), novelist - Peter Ho DaviesPeter Ho DaviesPeter Ho Davies is a contemporary British writer of Welsh and Chinese descent.-Biography:Born and raised in Coventry, Davies studied physics at Manchester University then English at Cambridge University....
, (born 1966), novelist - John DavisJohn Davis (English explorer)John Davis , was one of the chief English navigators and explorers under Elizabeth I, especially in Polar regions and in the Far East.-Early life:...
or Davys, (c. 1543-1605), writer and navigator - Lindsey DavisLindsey DavisLindsey Davis is an English historical novelist, best known as the author of the Falco series of crime stories set in ancient Rome and its empire.-Biography:...
, (born 1949), novelist - Ann DavisonAnn DavisonAnn Davison was, at the age of 39, the first woman to single-handedly sail the Atlantic Ocean. She departed Plymouth, England in her 23 foot boat Felicity Ann on May 18, 1952. She landed in Brittany, Portugal, Morocco and the Canary Islands, before setting sail across the Atlantic on 20 November...
, (1914–1992), travel writer - Humphry DavyHumphry DavySir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet FRS MRIA was a British chemist and inventor. He is probably best remembered today for his discoveries of several alkali and alkaline earth metals, as well as contributions to the discoveries of the elemental nature of chlorine and iodine...
, (1778–1829), writer, chemist and inventor - Richard DawkinsRichard DawkinsClinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL , known as Richard Dawkins, is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author...
, (born 1941), ethologist and science writer, The God DelusionThe God DelusionThe God Delusion is a 2006 bestselling non-fiction book by British biologist Richard Dawkins, professorial fellow of New College, Oxford, and inaugural holder of the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford.In The God Delusion, Dawkins contends that... - Coningsby DawsonConingsby DawsonConingsby Dawson was an Anglo-American Novelist and Soldier, Canadian Field Artillery, born at High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England.-Education:He graduated at Merton College, Oxford, in 1905...
, (1883–1959), novelist, poet and soldier - Jennifer DawsonJennifer DawsonJennifer Dawson, was an English novelist. Her works explored the theme of mental illness and society's attitudes to those suffering from such conditions. Born in London, she attended school in Camberwell and went on to read Modern History at St Anne's College, Oxford...
, (1929–2000), novelist - Jill DawsonJill DawsonJill Dawson is an English poet and novelist who grew up in Durham, England. She began publishing her poems in pamphlets and small magazines. Her first book, Trick of the Light, was published in 1996...
, (fl. 1984-present), poet, novelist and editor - William James DawsonWilliam James DawsonWilliam James Dawson was an English clergyman, author, and the father of Coningsby Dawson. He was born at Towchester, Northamptonshire, was educated at Didsbury College, Manchester, and entered the Wesleyan ministry in 1875. He resigned from the Wesleyan ministry and entered the Congregational...
, (1854–1928), poet and religious writer - Jeffery DayJeffery DayMiles Jeffery Game Day DSC was an English war poet, killed in an air battle towards the end of World War I over the sea. The account of his death by his commanding officer stated...
, (1896–1918), poet - John DayJohn Day (dramatist)John Day was an English dramatist of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods.-Life:He was born at Cawston, Norfolk, and educated at Ely. He became a sizar of Caius College, Cambridge, in 1592, but was expelled in the next year for stealing a book...
, (1574-c. 1640), playwright The Parliament of BeesThe Parliament of BeesThe Parliament of Bees is the best-known of the works of the Elizabethan dramatist, John Day. It was probably written sometime between 1608 and 1616, but not published till 1641.... - Martin DayMartin DayMartin Day is a screenwriter and novelist best known for his work on various spin-offs related to the BBC Television series Doctor Who, and many episodes of the daytime soaps Doctors and Family Affairs.-Work:...
, (born 1969), novelist and screenwriter, Dr. Who spinoffs - Thomas DayThomas DayThomas Day was a British author and abolitionist. He was well-known for the children's book The History of Sandford and Merton which emphasized Rousseauvian educational ideals.-Life and works:...
, (1748–1789), children's writer - Cecil Day-LewisCecil Day-LewisCecil Day-Lewis CBE was an Irish poet and the Poet Laureate from 1968 until his death in 1972. He also wrote mystery stories under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake...
, (1904–1972), Poet LaureatePoet LaureateA poet laureate is a poet officially appointed by a government and is often expected to compose poems for state occasions and other government events...
, translator and novelist - Louis de BernièresLouis de BernièresLouis de Bernières is a British novelist most famous for his fourth novel, Captain Corelli's Mandolin. In 1993 de Bernières was selected as one of the "20 Best of Young British Novelists", part of a promotion in Granta magazine...
, (born 1954), novelist, Captain Corelli's MandolinCaptain Corelli's MandolinCaptain Corelli's Mandolin, released simultaneously as Corelli's Mandolin. in the United States, is a 1994 novel written by Louis de Bernières which takes place on the island of Cephallonia during the Italian and German occupation of World War II. The main characters are Antonio Corelli, an... - Alain de BottonAlain de BottonAlain de Botton is a Swiss writer, television presenter, and entrepreneur, resident in the UK.His books and television programs discuss various contemporary subjects and themes in a philosophical style, emphasizing philosophy's relevance to everyday life. In August 2008, he was a founding member...
, (born 1969), writer, novelist and essayist - Walter de la MareWalter de la MareWalter John de la Mare , OM CH was an English poet, short story writer and novelist, probably best remembered for his works for children and the poem "The Listeners"....
, (early pen name Walter Ramal, 1873–1956), poet and novelist - Michael de LarrabeitiMichael de LarrabeitiMichael de Larrabeiti was an English novelist and travel writer. He is best known for writing The Borrible Trilogy, which has been cited as an influence by writers in the New Weird movement.-Early life:...
, (1934-2008), novelist and travel writer - William De MorganWilliam De MorganWilliam Frend De Morgan was an English potter and tile designer. A lifelong friend of William Morris, he designed tiles, stained glass and furniture for Morris & Co. from 1863 to 1872. His tiles are often based on medieval designs or Persian patterns, and he experimented with innovative glazes and...
, (1839–1917), novelist and potter - Thomas de QuinceyThomas de QuinceyThomas Penson de Quincey was an English esssayist, best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater .-Child and student:...
, (1785–1859), essayist and critic, Confessions of an English Opium-EaterConfessions of an English Opium-EaterConfessions of an English Opium-Eater is an autobiographical account written by Thomas De Quincey, about his laudanum addiction and its effect on his life... - Hugh de SelincourtHugh de SelincourtHugh de Selincourt was an English author and journalist, chiefly remembered today for his timeless tale of village cricket, The Cricket Match . He studied at Dulwich College before going on to University College, Oxford...
, (1878–1951), writer and journalist - Lisa St Aubin de TeránLisa St Aubin de TeránLisa St Aubin de Terán is an award-winning English novelist, writer of autobiographical fictions, and memoirist.Lisa St Aubin de Terán was born in 1953 and brought up in Clapham in South London. She attended the James Allen's Girls' School...
, (born 1953), novelist, poet and autobiographer - Edward de VereEdward de Vere, 17th Earl of OxfordEdward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford was an Elizabethan courtier, playwright, lyric poet, sportsman and patron of the arts, and is currently the most popular alternative candidate proposed for the authorship of Shakespeare's works....
, earl of Oxford, (1550–1604), playwright, poet and courtier - Roger DeakinRoger DeakinRoger Stuart Deakin was an English writer, documentary-maker and environmentalist.Deakin was born in Watford, Hertfordshire. Educated at Haberdashers' Aske's and Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he read English, Deakin first worked in advertising as a copywriter and creative director...
, (1943–2006), writer on the countryside - Ellen DeanEllen DeanEllen Dean is a novelist, screenwriter and journalist from County Durham, England.Before she published her first novel, Beautiful Strangers in 2009, Dean wrote features for national magazines and regional newspapers...
, (fl. 2009-present), novelist and broadcaster - Geoffrey DearmerGeoffrey DearmerGeoffrey Dearmer LVO was a British poet. He was the son of Anglican liturgist and hymnologist Percy Dearmer.During World War I, Dearmer was commissioned and served with the London Regiment at Gallipoli and on the Western Front. Many of his poems dealt with the overall brutality of war and...
, (1893–1996), poet - Percy DearmerPercy DearmerPercy Dearmer, was an English priest and liturgist best known as the author of The Parson's Handbook, a liturgical manual for Anglican clergy. A lifelong socialist, he was an early advocate of the public ministry of women and concerned with social justice...
, (1867–1936), reformer and cleric, The Parson's HandbookThe Parson's HandbookThe Parson's Handbook is a book by Percy Dearmer, first published in 1899, that was fundamental to the development of liturgy in the Church of England and throughout the Anglican Communion.... - John DeeJohn DeeJohn Dee was a Welsh mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, occultist, navigator, imperialist, and consultant to Queen Elizabeth I.John Dee may also refer to:* John Dee , Basketball coach...
, (1527-1608/9), mathematician, occultist and political economist - Denise DeeganDenise DeeganDenise Deegan is an English novelist and playwright. She was born in London, England, where she trained in stage management at East 15 Acting School...
, (born 1952), novelist, screenwriter and playwright, Daisy Pulls It OffDaisy Pulls It OffDaisy Pulls It Off is a comedy play by Denise Deegan. It is a parody of wholesome adventure stories about life in a 1920s girls' English boarding school, such as those by Angela Brazil... - Warwick DeepingWarwick DeepingWarwick Deeping was an English novelist.Warwick Deeping may also refer to:*HMT Warwick Deeping...
, (1877–1950), novelist and story writer, Sorrell and SonSorrell and SonSorrell and Son is a silent film released on December 2, 1927 and nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director in the 1st Academy Awards the following year... - Daniel DefoeDaniel DefoeDaniel Defoe , born Daniel Foe, was an English trader, writer, journalist, and pamphleteer, who gained fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest proponents of the novel, as he helped to popularise the form in Britain and along with others such as Richardson,...
, (c. 1659–1731), novelist and pamphleteer, Robinson CrusoeRobinson CrusoeRobinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe that was first published in 1719. Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is a fictional autobiography of the title character—a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and... - Paul DehnPaul DehnPaul Dehn was a British screenwriter.-Biography and work:Dehn was born in 1912 in Manchester, England. He was educated at Shrewsbury School, and attended Brasenose College, Oxford...
, (1912–1976), screenwriter and playwright - Len DeightonLen DeightonLeonard Cyril Deighton is a British military historian, cookery writer, and novelist. He is perhaps most famous for his spy novel The IPCRESS File, which was made into a film starring Michael Caine....
, (born 1929), military historian, cookery writer and novelist, The Ipcress FileThe Ipcress FileThe IPCRESS File was the first spy novel by Len Deighton, published in 1962.It was made into a film in 1965 produced by Harry Saltzman and directed by Sidney J. Furie, starring Michael Caine as the protagonist.... - Thomas Dekker, (1572–1632), playwright
- E. M. DelafieldE. M. DelafieldEdmée Elizabeth Monica Dashwood, née de la Pasture , commonly known as E. M. Delafield, was a prolific English author. She is best-known for her largely autobiographical Diary of a Provincial Lady, which took the form of a journal of the life of an upper-middle class Englishwoman living mostly in a...
, (1890–1943), novelist - Mary DelanyMary DelanyMary Delany was an English Bluestocking, artist, and letter-writer; equally famous for her "paper-mosaicks" and her lively correspondence.-Early life:...
, (born Mary Granville), (1700-17880, letter writer, artist and bluestockingBlue Stockings Society (England)The Blue Stockings Society was an informal women's social and educational movement in England in the mid-18th century. The society emphasized education and mutual co-operation rather than the individualism which marked the French version.... - R. F. DelderfieldR. F. DelderfieldRonald Frederick Delderfield was a popular English novelist and dramatist, many of whose works have been adapted for television and are still widely read.-Childhood in London and Surrey:...
, (1912–1972), novelist and playwright, A Horseman Riding ByA Horseman Riding ByA Horseman Riding By is a 1966 novel by R. F. Delderfield that starts in 1902 at the tail end of the Boer War and is continued in the sequel to end in the summer of 1965. It is set in Devon in the early 20th century. It was to some extent an elegy for the traditional society which was blown apart... - Ethel M. DellEthel M. DellEthel May Dell or Ethel Mary Dell was an English writer of popular romance novels.-Overview:Ethel Dell's married name is recorded as Ethel Mary Savage. She was born in Streatham, a suburb of London. Her father was a clerk in the City of London and she had an older sister and brother. Her family...
(1881–1939), novelist - Thomas DeloneyThomas DeloneyThomas Deloney was an English novelist and balladist.He appears to have worked as a silk-weaver in Norwich, but was in London by 1586, and in the course of the next ten years is known to have written about fifty ballads, some of which got him into trouble, and caused him to keep a low profile for...
, (1553–1600), balladeer and novelist - John DenhamJohn Denham (poet)Sir John Denham was an English poet and courtier. He served as Surveyor of the King's Works and is buried in Westminster Abbey....
, (1614/15-1669), poet - Felix DennisFelix DennisFelix Dennis is a British magazine publisher, poet, and philanthropist. His privately owned company, Dennis Publishing, pioneered computer and hobbyist magazine publishing in the United Kingdom...
, (born 1947), poet and publisher - George DennisGeorge Dennis (explorer)George Dennis was a British explorer of Etruria; his written account and drawings of the ancient places and monuments of the Etruscan civilization combined with his summary of the ancient sources is among the first of the modern era and remains an indispensable reference in Etruscan studies.-...
, (1814–1898), writer and explorer - John Dennis, (1657–1734), critic and playwright
- Nigel DennisNigel DennisNigel Forbes Dennis was an English writer, critic, playwright and magazine editor.-Early life:Born at his grandfather's house in Surrey, England, Dennis was the son of Lt.-Col...
, (1912–1989), writer, novelist and playwright - Colin DexterColin DexterNorman Colin Dexter, OBE, is an English crime writer, known for his Inspector Morse novels which were written between 1975 and 1999 and adapted as a television series from 1987 to 2000.-Early life and career:...
, (born 1930), novelist, Inspector MorseInspector MorseInspector Morse is a fictional character in the eponymous series of detective novels by British author Colin Dexter, as well as the 33-episode 1987–2000 television adaptation of the same name, in which the character was portrayed by John Thaw. Morse is a senior CID officer with the Thames Valley...
novels - Nirpal Singh DhaliwalNirpal Singh DhaliwalNirpal Singh Dhaliwal is a British journalist and writer.His parents were first-generation Punjabi immigrants. Dhaliwal was raised a non-practising Sikh and state-school educated before going on to Nottingham University to read English and American literature...
, (born 1974), novelist and journalist - William DiaperWilliam DiaperWilliam Diaper was an English poet of the Augustan era. Little is known about his life. He was born in Bridgwater, Somerset and attended Balliol College, Oxford as a pauper, where he took his BA in 1702...
, (1685–1717), poet and translator - Charles DibdinCharles DibdinCharles Dibdin was a British musician, dramatist, novelist, actor and songwriter. The son of a parish clerk, he was born in Southampton on or before 4 March 1745, and was the youngest of a family of 18....
, (1745?–1814), playwright, poet and songwriter - Charles DickensCharles DickensCharles John Huffam Dickens was an English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian period. Dickens enjoyed a wider popularity and fame than had any previous author during his lifetime, and he remains popular, having been responsible for some of English literature's most iconic...
, (1812–1870), novelist, David CopperfieldDavid Copperfield (novel)The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery , commonly referred to as David Copperfield, is the eighth novel by Charles Dickens, first published as a novel in 1850. Like most of his works, it originally appeared in serial... - Monica DickensMonica DickensMonica Enid Dickens, MBE was an English writer, the great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens.-Biography:...
, (1915–1992), novelist and children's writer - Anne Hepple DickinsonAnne Hepple DickinsonAnne Hepple Anne Hepple Dickinson, née Batty, wrote romantic novels under the pseudonym 'Anne Hepple'. She lived in Castle Terrace, Berwick-upon-Tweed, England.Her works include the following:* Jemima Rides [1928]...
, (pen name Anne Hepple, 1877–1959), novelist - Goldsworthy Lowes DickinsonGoldsworthy Lowes DickinsonGoldsworthy Lowes Dickinson , was a British historian and political activist. He led most of his life at Cambridge, where he wrote a dissertation on Neoplatonism before becoming a fellow. He was closely associated with the Bloomsbury Group.A noted pacifist, Dickinson protested against Britain's...
, (1862–1932), historian and political activist - John DickinsonJohn Dickinson (author)John Geoffrey Hyett Dickinson is an English author of young adult novels. His first novel, The Cup of the World, was published in 2004, and his latest novel , The Lightstep, was published in 2008....
, (born 1962), novelist for young adults - Patric DickinsonPatric DickinsonPatric Thomas Dickinson was a British poet, translator from the Greek and Latin classics, and playwright. He also worked for the BBC, from 1942 to 1948. He wrote full time from 1948....
, (1914–1994), poet, translator and playwright - Peter DickinsonPeter DickinsonPeter Malcolm de Brissac Dickinson OBE is an English author and poet who has written a wide variety of books, notably children's books and detective stories, over a long and distinguished career.-Life and work:...
, (born 1927), novelist, children's writer and poet - Kenelm DigbyKenelm DigbySir Kenelm Digby was an English courtier and diplomat. He was also a highly reputed natural philosopher, and known as a leading Roman Catholic intellectual and Blackloist. For his versatility, Anthony à Wood called him the "magazine of all arts".-Early life and career:He was born at Gayhurst,...
, (1603–1665), natural philosopher - Leonard DiggesLeonard Digges (writer)Leonard Digges was an accomplished Hispanist and minor poet, a younger son of the astronomer Thomas Digges Leonard Digges (1588 – 7 April 1635) was an accomplished Hispanist and minor poet, a younger son of the astronomer Thomas Digges Leonard Digges (1588 – 7 April 1635) was an...
, (1588–1635), poet and translator - Francis DillinghamFrancis DillinghamFrancis Dillingham was an English Protestant scholar and cleric. He was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, becoming a Fellow there in 1594. He was appointed to the "First Cambridge Company" charged by James I of England with the translation of parts of the Old Testament for the King James...
, (died 1625), scholar, AV translator and cleric - Wentworth DillonWentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of RoscommonWentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon , was an English poet.-Background and education:Dillon was born in Ireland about 1630...
, earl of Roscommon, (1630–1685), poet, critic and translator - John Disney, (1677-1729/30), writer on moral reform, and cleric
- John DisneyJohn Disney (Unitarian)John Disney was an English Unitarian minister and biographical writer, initially an Anglican clergyman active against subscription to the Thirty Nine Articles.-Life:...
, (1746–1816), religious writer, biographer and Unitarian minister - Jenny DiskiJenny Diski-External links:***...
, (born 1947), novelist and essayist, RainforestRainforestRainforests are forests characterized by high rainfall, with definitions based on a minimum normal annual rainfall of 1750-2000 mm... - Isaac D'IsraeliIsaac D'IsraeliIsaac D'Israeli was a British writer, scholar and man of letters. He is best known for his essays, his associations with other men of letters, and for being the father of British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli....
, (1766–1848), essayist - Benjamin Disraeli, (1804–1881), novelist and statesman
- Henry Hall DixonHenry Hall DixonHenry Hall Dixon was an English sporting writer known by his nom de plume, "The Druid."-Life:...
, (1822–1870), writer - Richard Watson DixonRichard Watson DixonRichard Watson Dixon , English poet and divine, son of Dr James Dixon, a Wesleyan minister.He was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and on proceeding to Pembroke College, Oxford, became one of the famous Birmingham Set there who shared with William Morris and Burne-Jones in the...
, (1833–1900), poet and church historian - William Hepworth DixonWilliam Hepworth DixonWilliam Hepworth Dixon , English historian and traveller, born nearManchester, went to London in 1846, and became connected with the Daily News, for which he wrote articles on social and prison reform....
, (1821-1879), historian, biographer and travel writer - Sydney Thompson DobellSydney Thompson DobellSydney Thompson Dobell , English poet and critic, was born at Cranbrook, Kent.His father was a wine merchant, his mother a daughter of Samuel Thompson , a London political reformer. The family moved to Cheltenham when Dobell was twelve years old. He was educated privately, and never attended either...
, (1824–1874), poet and critic - Henry Austin DobsonHenry Austin DobsonHenry Austin Dobson , commonly Austin Dobson, was an English poet and essayist.-Life:He was born at Plymouth, the eldest son of George Clarisse Dobson, a civil engineer, of French descent. When he was about eight, the family moved to Holyhead, and his first school was at Beaumaris in Anglesey...
, (1840–1921), poet and essayist - William DoddWilliam Dodd (clergyman)William Dodd was an English Anglican clergyman and a man of letters. He lived extravagantly, and was nicknamed the "Macaroni Parson"...
, (1729–1777), writer, cleric and forger - John DoddridgeJohn DoddridgeSir John Doddridge was an English lawyer, judge and Member of Parliament, known also as an antiquarian and writer...
, (1555-1628), writer, antiquary and judge - Philip DoddridgePhilip DoddridgePhilip Doddridge DD was an English Nonconformist leader, educator, and hymnwriter.-Early life:...
, (1702–1751), religious writer and hymn writer - George Bubb DodingtonGeorge Dodington, 1st Baron MelcombeGeorge Bubb Dodington, 1st Baron Melcombe PC was an English politician and nobleman.Christened simply George Bubb, he acquired the surname Dodington around the time his uncle George Dodington died in 1720 and left him his estate...
, (1691–1792), politician, poet and diarist - Robert DodsleyRobert DodsleyRobert Dodsley was an English bookseller and miscellaneous writer.-Life:He was born near Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, where his father was master of the free school....
, (1704–1764), poet, writer and bookseller - Christina DodwellChristina DodwellChristina Dodwell FRGS is a British explorer, travel writer, and lecturer. She is Chairman of the Dodwell Trust and was awarded the Mungo Park Medal in 1989....
, (born 1951), travel writer - Berlie DohertyBerlie DohertyBerlie Doherty is an English novelist, poet, playwright and screenwriter. She is best known for her children's books, for which she has twice won the Carnegie Medal...
, (born 1943), children's writer, poet and dramatist - Paul C. Doherty, (several pen names, born 1946), novelist
- Digby Mackworth DolbenDigby Mackworth DolbenDigby Augustus Stewart Mackworth Dolben was an English poet who died young from drowning. He owes his poetic reputation to his cousin, Robert Bridges, poet laureate from 1913 to 1930, who edited a partial edition of his verse, Poems, in 1911.He was born in Guernsey, and brought up at Finedon Hall...
, (1848–1867), poet - Alfred DomettAlfred DomettAlfred Domett, CMG was an English colonial statesman and poet. He was New Zealand's fourth Premier.-Early life:He was born at Camberwell, Surrey; his father was a ship-owner...
, (1811–1887), poet and statesman - Angus DonaldAngus DonaldAngus Donald is a British writer of historical fiction. As of 2011, he has released three books that loosely follow the story of Alan-a-Dale.-Biography:...
, (born 1965), novelist - John DonneJohn DonneJohn Donne 31 March 1631), English poet, satirist, lawyer, and priest, is now considered the preeminent representative of the metaphysical poets. His works are notable for their strong and sensual style and include sonnets, love poetry, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs,...
, (1572–1631), poet and divine - Desmond DonnellyDesmond DonnellyDesmond Louis Donnelly was a British politician, author and journalist who was a member of four different political parties during the course of his career, and moved between parties on five occasions.- Origins :...
, (1920–1974), writer, journalist and politician - Eleanor DoorlyEleanor DoorlyVictoria Eleanor Louise Doorly was an award-winning British writer of children's books. She was born in Jamaica as the daughter of William Anton Doorly and Louise Brown, but moved to England upon the premature death of her father in 1887...
, (died 1950), children's writer - Sarah DoudneySarah DoudneySarah Doudney was an English novelist and poet, best known as a children's writer and hymnwriter....
, (1841–1926), novelist, children's writer and hymn writer - Charles Montagu DoughtyCharles Montagu DoughtyCharles Montagu Doughty was an English poet, writer, and traveller born in Theberton Hall, Saxmundham, Suffolk and educated at private schools in Laleham and Elstree, and at a school for the royal navy, Portsmouth...
, (1843–1926), poet, writer and traveller, Travels in Arabia DesertaTravels in Arabia DesertaTravels in Arabia Deserta was written by Charles Montagu Doughty who was an English poet, writer, and traveller.-References and further reading:* Cousin, John W. . 1910.* Hogarth, D.G. The Life Of Charles M. Doughty. 1928... - Louise DoughtyLouise DoughtyLouise Doughty is an English novelist, playwright and journalist from a Romany background. Doughty is an alumna of the University of East Anglia's Creative Writing Course....
, (born 1963), novelist and playwright - Keith DouglasKeith DouglasKeith Castellain Douglas , was an English poet noted for his war poetry during World War II and his wry memoir of the Western Desert Campaign, Alamein to Zem Zem. He was killed during the invasion of Normandy.-Poetry:...
, (1920–1944), poet - Lord Alfred DouglasLord Alfred DouglasLord Alfred Bruce Douglas , nicknamed Bosie, was a British author, poet and translator, better known as the intimate friend and lover of the writer Oscar Wilde...
, (1870–1945), poet - Norman DouglasNorman DouglasGeorge Norman Douglas was a British writer, now best known for his 1917 novel South Wind.-Life:Norman Douglas was born in Thüringen, Austria . His mother was Vanda von Poellnitz...
, (1868–1952), novelist, South WindSouth Wind (novel)South Wind is a 1917 novel by British author Norman Douglas. It is Douglas' most famous book. It is set on an imaginary island called Nepenthe, located off the coast of Italy in the Tyrrhenian Sea, a thinly fictionalized description of Capri's residents and visitors... - Louise DoughtyLouise DoughtyLouise Doughty is an English novelist, playwright and journalist from a Romany background. Doughty is an alumna of the University of East Anglia's Creative Writing Course....
, (born 1963), novelist and broadcaster - Siobhan DowdSiobhan DowdSiobhan Dowd was a British writer and activist.-Biography:Siobhan Dowd was born in London to Irish parents...
, (1960–2007), novelist, anthologist and children's writer, Bog ChildBog ChildBog Child is a historical novel by Siobhan Dowd. The book was released by David Fickling Books on September 9, 2008. It was listed as one of Amazon's Best Book of the Year for 2008 and one of Publishers Weekly's Best Book of the Year for the children's fiction category in 2008. It also won the 2009... - Andrew DownesAndrew Downes (scholar)Andrew Downes, also known as Dounaeus, was an English classical scholar.-Life:He was born in the county of Shropshire, and was educated at Shrewsbury and St...
, (c. 1549-1628), scholar, AV translator and cleric - Jenny DownhamJenny DownhamJenny Downham is a British novelist and an ex-actor. She has published two books, Before I Die, the fictional account of the last few months of a sixteen-year-old girl who has been dying of leukeamia for four years...
, (born 1964), novelist - Ernest DowsonErnest DowsonErnest Christopher Dowson , born in Lee, London, was an English poet, novelist and writer of short stories, associated with the Decadent movement.- Biography :...
, (1867–1900), poet and story writer - Arthur Conan DoyleArthur Conan DoyleSir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle DL was a Scottish physician and writer, most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, generally considered a milestone in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger...
, (1859–1930), novelist and author of Sherlock HolmesSherlock HolmesSherlock Holmes is a fictional detective created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The fantastic London-based "consulting detective", Holmes is famous for his astute logical reasoning, his ability to take almost any disguise, and his use of forensic science skills to solve... - Richard DoyleRichard Doyle (author)Richard Doyle is a British author of thriller novels.Doyle was born in Guernsey and, on his third birthday, was presented at the court of Emperor Haile Selassie. He has lived in Tripoli, Ethiopia, Kuwait, Kenya, Morocco, Libya, Beirut, Barbados, Antigua, France, Greece, Ireland, and the United...
, (born 1948), novelist, FloodFloodA flood is an overflow of an expanse of water that submerges land. The EU Floods directive defines a flood as a temporary covering by water of land not normally covered by water... - Francis Hastings DoyleFrancis Hastings DoyleSir Francis Hastings Charles Doyle, 2nd Baronet was a British poet.-Biography:Doyle was born near Tadcaster, Yorkshire, to a military family which produced several distinguished officers, including his father, Major-General Sir Francis Hastings Doyle, 1st Baronet, who was created a baronet in 1828...
, (1810–1888), poet - Margaret Drabble, (born 1939), novelist and critic, The MillstoneThe Millstone (novel)The Millstone is a novel by Margaret Drabble, first published in 1965.It is about an unmarried, young academic who becomes pregnant after a one-night stand and, against all odds, decides to give birth to her child and raise it herself.-Plot summary:...
- Phil DrabblePhil DrabblePhilip Percy Cooper Drabble OBE was an English countryman, author and television presenter. Raised in the Black Country, he later lived in – and wrote mostly about – the countryside of north Worcestershire and at Abbots Bromley in south Staffordshire, where he created a nature reserve.-Early...
, (1914–2007), writer and broadcaster - Judith DrakeJudith DrakeJudith Drake was an English intellectual and author who was active in the last decade of the 17th century. She was part of a circle of intellectuals, authors, and philosophers which included Mary Astell, Lady Mary Chudleigh, Elizabeth Thomas, Elizabeth Elstob, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and John...
, (fl. 1696-1707), essayist - Nick DrakeNick Drake (poet)-Life:He lives and works in London. His most recent projects include a stage adaptation of Philippe Petit’s To Reach the Clouds and a screenplay for the film Romulus, My Father.-Awards:...
, (born 1961), poet and novelist - Augusta Theodosia DraneAugusta Theodosia DraneAugusta Theodosia Drane was an English writer and Roman Catholic nun.Born at Bromley, near Bow and brought up in the Anglican creed, she was influenced by Tractarian teachings and joined the Roman Catholic Church around 1850.She wrote, and published anonymously, an essay questioning the morality...
, (1823–1894), writer and nun - Michael DraytonMichael DraytonMichael Drayton was an English poet who came to prominence in the Elizabethan era.-Early life:He was born at Hartshill, near Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England. Almost nothing is known about his early life, beyond the fact that in 1580 he was in the service of Thomas Goodere of Collingham,...
, (1563–1631), poet - John Drinkwater, (1882–1937), poet and playwright
- Henry DrummondHenry Drummond (1786-1860)Henry Drummond , English banker, politician and writer, best known as one of the founders of the Catholic Apostolic or Irvingite Church, was born at The Grange, near Northington, Hampshire....
, (1786–1860), religious writer, politician and banker - John DrydenJohn DrydenJohn Dryden was an influential English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who dominated the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles as the Age of Dryden.Walter Scott called him "Glorious John." He was made Poet...
, (1631–1700), poet and playwright, Absalom and AchitophelAbsalom and AchitophelAbsalom and Achitophel is a landmark poetic political satire by John Dryden. The poem exists in two parts. The first part, of 1681, is undoubtedly by Dryden... - Daphne du MaurierDaphne du MaurierDame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning DBE was a British author and playwright.Many of her works have been adapted into films, including the novels Rebecca and Jamaica Inn and the short stories "The Birds" and "Don't Look Now". The first three were directed by Alfred Hitchcock.Her elder sister was...
, (1907–1989), novelist, RebeccaRebeccaRebecca a biblical matriarch from the Book of Genesis and a common first name. In this book Rebecca was said to be a beautiful girl. As a name it is often shortened to Becky, Becki or Becca; see Rebecca .... - George du MaurierGeorge du MaurierGeorge Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier was a French-born British cartoonist and author, known for his cartoons in Punch and also for his novel Trilby. He was the father of actor Gerald du Maurier and grandfather of the writers Angela du Maurier and Dame Daphne du Maurier...
, (1834–1896), cartoonist and novelist, TrilbyTrilbyA trilby hat is a type of fedora. The trilby is viewed as the rich man's favored hat; it is commonly called the "brown trilby" in England and is much seen at the horse races. It is described as a "crumpled" fedora... - Stephen DuckStephen DuckStephen Duck was an English poet whose career reflected both the Augustan era's interest in "naturals" and its resistance to classlessness....
, (1705?–1756), poet and cleric - Agnes Mary Frances DuclauxAgnes Mary Frances DuclauxAgnes Mary Frances Robinson, known after her first marriage as Agnes-Marie-François Darmesteter, and after her second as Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux born in Leamington Hastings on February 27, 1857 - dead in Aurillac on February 9, 1944, was an English writer and scholar on many subjects connected...
, (1857–1944), poet and author - Ernest DudleyErnest DudleyErnest Dudley was an English actor, dramatist, novelist, journalist and screenwriter.- Biography :The actor and scriptwriter Ernest Dudley was the creator of the hit BBC radio crime series Dr Morelle and also the television series The Armchair Detective...
, (real name Vivian Ernest Coltman-Allen, 1908–2006), novelist, screenwriter and actor - Lord DufferinFrederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and AvaFrederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, KP, GCB, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, PC was a British public servant and prominent member of Victorian society...
, (1826–1902), writer and explorer - Charles DuffCharles DuffCharles Duff was a British author of books on language learning and other subjects.Duff served as an officer in the British Merchant Navy in World War I and then in the intelligence division of the Foreign Office and Diplomatic Service...
, (1894–1966), language-book writer, translator and satirist - Maureen DuffyMaureen DuffyMaureen Patricia Duffy is a contemporary British poet, playwright and novelist. She has also published a literary biography of Aphra Behn, and The Erotic World of Faery a book-length study of eroticism in faery fantasy literature.-Life and work:After a tough childhood, Duffy took her degree in...
, (born 1933), poet, screenwriter and novelist - Stella DuffyStella DuffyStella Duffy is a writer and performer born in London who spent her childhood in New Zealand before returning to the UK.-Biography:Born to a New Zealander father and an English mother, Duffy is the youngest in a family of seven children. The family moved to New Zealand when Duffy was five, and...
, (born 1963), novelist and playwright - William DugdaleWilliam DugdaleSir William Dugdale was an English antiquary and herald. As a scholar he was influential in the development of medieval history as an academic subject.-Life:...
, (1605–1686), antiquary - Alfred DugganAlfred DugganAlfred Duggan was an English historian, archeologist and best-selling historical novelist during the 1950s. Although he was raised in England, Duggan was born Alfred Leo Duggan in Buenos Aires, Argentina to a family of wealthy landowners of Irish descent. His family moved to England when he was...
, (1903–1964), historical writer and novelist - Ian DuhigIan Duhig-Life:He was the eighth of eleven children born to Irish parents. He graduated from Leeds University.He worked for 15 years with homeless people.He is a writer and teacher of creating writing at various institutions, including the Arvon Foundation....
, (born 1954), poet - Richard DukeRichard DukeRichard Duke was an English clergyman and poet, associated with the Tory writers of the Restoration era.-Life:He was born in London, son of Richard Duke, and was admitted to Westminster School in 1670. He was elected to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1675, and proceeded B.A. in 1678, M.A. in 1682...
, (1658–1711), poet and cleric - Sarah DunantSarah DunantSarah Dunant is the author of many international bestsellers, most recently Sacred Hearts, the completion of her Italian historical trilogy....
, (born 1950), writer and novelist - John DuncombeJohn DuncombeSir John Duncombe was an English politician.John Duncombe was the son of William Duncombe. He was educated at Eton College and St John's College, Cambridge. He was knighted in 1646. Duncombe was Member of Parliament for Bury St Edmunds from 1660 to 1678, and Chancellor of the Exchequer from 22...
, (1729–1786), poet and cleric - William DuncombeWilliam DuncombeWilliam Duncombe was a British author and playwright. He worked in the Navy Office from 1706 until 1725. That year, he and Elizabeth Hughes won a very large lottery sum on a joint ticket. He married Elizabeth in 1726 and "retired into literary leisure." The nature of their match is unknown,...
, (1690–1769), translator and playwright - Roderic DunkerleyRoderic DunkerleyRoderic Dunkerley , born in Ealing, West London, son of William Arthur Dunkerley . The novelist Elsie J. Oxenham was his sister, as was Erica Oxenham the biographer of their father, who gives brief details of his early life within the pages of those biographies .-Books:*The Great Awakening *The Arm...
(1884–1966), religious writer - Helen DunmoreHelen DunmoreHelen Dunmore is a British poet, novelist and children's writer. Educated at the University of York, she now lives in Bristol....
, (born 1952), poet, novelist and children's writer, - Antony DunnAntony DunnAntony Dunn is an English poet and dramatist. He was born in London in 1973. He won the Newdigate Prize for Judith with the Head of Holofernes in 1995 and received a Society of Authors Eric Gregory Award in 2000. He has published three collections of poems, Pilots and Navigators , Flying Fish and...
, (born 1973), poet and playwright - Nell DunnNell Dunn-Early years:Dunn was born in London and educated at a convent, which she left at the age of fourteen. Although she came from an upper class background, in 1959 she moved to Battersea and made friends in the neighbourhood and worked for a time in a sweets factory...
, (born 1936), novelist and playwright, Poor CowPoor CowPoor Cow is a 1967 British drama film directed by Ken Loach, based on Nell Dunn's novel of the same name.Although Malcolm McDowell is listed in the credits on the commercial release of the film, the scenes in which he appeared were deleted.... - James DuportJames DuportJames Duport was an English classical scholar.-Life:His father, John Duport, who was descended from an old Norman family , was master of Jesus College, Cambridge...
, (1606–1679), scholar and cleric - John DuportJohn DuportJohn Duport was an English scholar and translator.Dr John Duport was born in Shepshed in Leicestershire. He was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he became a Fellow in 1674. In 1583 he became rector of Fulham, and in 1585 precentor of St Paul's Cathedral...
, (died 1617), scholar, AV translator and cleric - Mortimer DurandMortimer DurandSir Henry Mortimer Durand was a British diplomat and civil servant of colonial British India.-Background:Born at Sehore, Bhopal, India, he was the son of Sir Henry Marion Durand, the Resident of Baroda and he was educated at Blackheath Proprietary School, and Tonbridge School.-Career:Durand...
, (1850-1924), novelist, travel writer and diplomat - Thomas D'UrfeyThomas d'UrfeyThomas D'Urfey was an English writer and wit. He composed plays, songs, and poetry, in addition to writing jokes. He was an important innovator and contributor in the evolution of the Ballad opera....
, (1653–1723), playwright and poet, Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge MelancholyWit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge MelancholyWit and Mirth: Or Pills to Purge Melancholy is the title of a large collection of songs by Thomas d'Urfey, published between 1698 and 1720, which in its final, six-volume edition held over 1,000 songs and poems. The collection started as a single book compiled and published by Henry Playford who... - Raymond DurgnatRaymond DurgnatRaymond Durgnat was a distinctive and highly influential British film critic, who was born in London of Swiss parents...
, (1932–2002), film critic - Edith DurhamEdith DurhamMary Edith Durham was a British traveller, artist and writer who became famous for her anthropological accounts of life in Albania in the early 20th century.-Early life:...
, (1863–1944), travel writer - Gerald DurrellGerald DurrellGerald "Gerry" Malcolm Durrell, OBE was a naturalist, zookeeper, conservationist, author and television presenter...
, (1925–1995), naturalist and author, My Family and Other AnimalsMy Family and Other AnimalsMy Family and Other Animals is an autobiographical work by naturalist Gerald Durrell, telling of the part of his childhood he spent on the Greek island of Corfu between 1935 and 1939. It describes the life of the Durrell Family on the island in a humorous manner, and also richly discusses the fauna... - Lawrence DurrellLawrence DurrellLawrence George Durrell was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer, though he resisted affiliation with Britain and preferred to be considered cosmopolitan...
, (1921–1990), novelist and poet, The Alexandria QuartetThe Alexandria QuartetThe Alexandria Quartet is a tetralogy of novels by British writer Lawrence Durrell, published between 1957 and 1960. A critical and commercial success, the books present four perspectives on a single set of events and characters in Alexandria, Egypt, before and during World War II.As Durrell... - John DuntonJohn DuntonJohn Dunton was an English bookseller and author. In 1691, he founded an Athenian Society to publish The Athenian Mercury, the first major popular periodical and first miscellaneous periodical in England.-Early life:...
, (1659–1733), writer, bookseller and pamphleteer - Edward DyerEdward DyerSir Edward Dyer was an English courtier and poet.-Life:The son of Sir Thomas Dyer, Kt., he was born at Sharpham Park, Glastonbury, Somerset. He was educated, according to Anthony Wood, either at Balliol College, Oxford or at Broadgates Hall , and left after taking a degree...
, (1543–1607), poet and courtier - Geoff DyerGeoff DyerGeoff Dyer is a British author and novelist. He is also a journalist who writes about a wide range of topics. His published work includes four novels and several books of non-fiction, which have won a number of literary awards...
, (born 1958), writer - George Dyer, (1755–1841), scholar and poet
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- Rae Earl (born 1971), writer and broadcaster
- John EarleJohn Earle (bishop)John Earle was an English bishop.-Life:He was born at York, but the exact date is unknown. He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, but moved to Merton, where he obtained a fellowship...
, (1601–1665), writer and bishop - Anthony EarnshawAnthony EarnshawAnthony Earnshaw was an English anarchist, artist, author, and illustrator.Earnshaw was born in Ilkley, West Yorkshire. His father, a watchmaker and jeweller, died before he was born. His mother ran the family shop until bankruptcy in 1930, when they moved first to Redcar and then to Leeds...
, (1924–2001), writer and illustrator - Edward Backhouse EastwickEdward Backhouse EastwickEdward Backhouse Eastwick CB was a British orientalist, diplomat and Conservative Member of Parliament....
, (1814-1883), orientalist and diplomat - Mary Emma EbsworthMary Emma Ebsworth-Life:Ebsworth was the daughter of Robert Fairbrother, member of the Glovers' Company, and in later years a pantomimist and fencing-master, was born in London on 2 September 1794. The father was an affectionate friend of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and though he had lost several thousand pounds by...
, (1794-1881), playwright and translator - Laurence EchardLaurence Echard-Life:He was son of the Rev. Thomas Echard or Eachard of Barsham, Suffolk, by his wife, the daughter of Samuel and Dorothy Groome, and was born at Barsham. On 26 May 1687, at the age of seventeen, he was admitted a sizar of Christ's College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1692 and M.A. in 1695...
, (1670–1730), historian and translator - Arthur Stanley EddingtonArthur Stanley EddingtonSir Arthur Stanley Eddington, OM, FRS was a British astrophysicist of the early 20th century. He was also a philosopher of science and a popularizer of science...
, (1882–1944), astrophysicist and science writer - E. R. EddisonEric Rucker EddisonEric Rücker Eddison was an English civil servant and author, writing under the name "E.R. Eddison."-Biography:...
, (1882–1945), novelist, poet and translator, the Zimiamvian TrilogyZimiamvian TrilogyThe Zimiamvian Trilogy is the title given to a collection of three novels by the author E. R. Eddison.- Books in the trilogy :*Mistress of Mistresses*A Fish Dinner in Memison*The Mezentian Gate... - Emily EdenEmily EdenEmily Eden was an English poet and novelist who gave witty pictures of English life in the early 19th century.Born in Westminster, Eden was the seventh daughter of William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland, and the great-great-great-aunt of Anthony Eden...
, (1797–1869), novelist - Frederick Morton Eden, (1766–1809), social researcher
- Richard EdesRichard EdesRichard Edes was an English churchman. He became Dean of Worcester, and was nominated one of the translators for the Authorised King James Version, in the Second Oxford Company, but died in the earliest stages of the project....
, (1555–1604), religious writer, AV translator and cleric - David EdgarDavid Edgar (playwright)David Edgar is a British playwright and author who has had more than sixty of his plays published and performed on stage, radio and television around the world, making him one of the most prolific dramatists of the post-1960s generation in Great Britain.He was resident playwright at the Birmingham...
, (born 1948), playwright - Maria EdgeworthMaria EdgeworthMaria Edgeworth was a prolific Anglo-Irish writer of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature and was a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in Europe...
, (1767–1849), novelist, Castle RackrentCastle RackrentCastle Rackrent, a short novel by Maria Edgeworth published in 1800, is often regarded as the first historical novel, the first regional novel in English, the first Anglo-Irish novel, the first Big House novel and the first saga novel.... - Richard Lovell EdgeworthRichard Lovell EdgeworthRichard Lovell Edgeworth was an Anglo-Irish politician, writer and inventor.-Biography:Edgeworth was born in Pierrepont Street, Bath, England, grandson of Sir Salathiel Lovell through his daughter, Jane Lovell....
, (1744–1817), writer and politician - Robert EdricRobert EdricRobert Edric is the pseudonym of Gary Edric Armitage, a British novelist born in Sheffield.His trilogy of detective novels, Cradle Song, Siren Song, and Swan Song, also known as the "Song Cycle," are set in the city of Hull....
, (real name Gary Edric Armitage, born 1956), novelist - J. T. Edson, (born 1928), novelist
- Richard EdwardesRichard EdwardesRichard Edwardes was an English poet and playwright; he was made a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal, and was master of the singing boys...
, (c. 1523-1566), poet and playwright, Damon and PythiasDamon and PythiasIn Greek mythology, the legend of Damon and Pythias symbolizes trust and loyalty in a true friendship.- Greek legend :As told by Aristoxenus, and after him Cicero , Diodorus Siculus , and others, around the 4th century BC, Pythias and his friend Damon, both followers of the philosopher... - Amelia EdwardsAmelia EdwardsAmelia Ann Blanford Edwards was an English novelist, journalist, traveller and Egyptologist.Born in London to an Irish mother and a father who had been a British Army officer before becoming a banker, Edwards was educated at home by her mother, showing considerable promise as a writer at a young age...
, (1831–1892), novelist and travel writer - Thomas EdwardsThomas Edwards (poet)Thomas Edwards was an English poet who published two Ovidian epic poems Cephalus and Procris and Narcissus. Beyond his name, nothing is known with certainty of Edwards...
, (d. 1599), poet - Pierce EganPierce EganPierce Egan was an early British journalist, sportswriter, and writer on popular culture.Egan was born in the London suburbs, where he spent his life. By 1812 he had established himself as the country's leading 'reporter of sporting events', which at the time meant mainly prize-fights and...
, (1772–1849), journalist and sports writer, BoxianaBoxianaBoxiana is the title given to a series of volumes of boxing articles written by early 19th century English sportswriter/journalist Pierce Egan . He wrote magazine articles about boxing, which at that time was conducted under the London Prize Ring rules, and was outlawed in England... - Pierce EganPierce EganPierce Egan was an early British journalist, sportswriter, and writer on popular culture.Egan was born in the London suburbs, where he spent his life. By 1812 he had established himself as the country's leading 'reporter of sporting events', which at the time meant mainly prize-fights and...
the younger (1814–1880), novelist - Elizabeth EgertonElizabeth EgertonElizabeth Egerton , countess of Bridgewater , was an English writer. She was encouraged in her literary interests from a young age by her father, William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle, himself an author and patron of the arts surrounded by a literary coterie which included Ben Jonson, Thomas...
, (born Cavendish, 1626–1663), poet and dramatist - George EgertonGeorge EgertonMary Chavelita Dunne Bright , better known by her pen name George Egerton, was a "New Woman" writer and feminist. Widely considered to be one of the most important of the "New Woman" writers of the nineteenth century fin de siecle, she was a friend of George Bernard Shaw, Ellen Terry and J. M...
, (real name Mary Chavelita Bright, 1859–1945), writer, translator and feminist - Rowland Egerton-WarburtonRowland Egerton-WarburtonRowland Eyles Egerton-Warburton was a landowner in Cheshire, England. He was a devout Anglican in the high church tradition and a local benefactor. He paid for the restoration of his parish church and for the building of two new churches in villages on his estates...
, (1804–1891), poet and landowner - Sarah Fyge EgertonSarah Fyge EgertonSarah Fyge Egerton was a female poet who wrote in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. She was one of six children born to Mary Beacham and Thomas Fyge...
, (1670–1723), poet - Thomas EgertonThomas Egerton, 1st Viscount BrackleyThomas Egerton, 1st Viscount Brackley PC was an English Nobleman, Judge and Statesman who served as Lord Keeper and Lord Chancellor for twenty-one years.-Early life, education and legal career:...
, Lord Ellesmere, later Lord Brackley (1540–1617), statesman and patron - Stephen ElbozStephen ElbozStephen Elboz is the writer of the children's books The Byzantium Bazaar and A Land without Magic.- Background :Born in 1956 in Wellingborough, Northants where he still lives, Elboz wrote his first novel in secret at his junior school in Wellingborough.Encouragement from teachers made him continue...
, (born 1956), children's writer - Josephine ElderJosephine ElderJosephine Elder was the penname of Olive Gwendoline Potter , an English children's author who published ten school stories between 1924 and 1940 as well as numerous short stories for annuals. She is widely regarded as one of the best writers of the girls' school story. Her most acclaimed book is...
, (real name Olive Gwendoline Potter, 1895–1988), children's writer - Peter Berresford EllisPeter Berresford EllisPeter Berresford Ellis is an English historian, literary biographer, and novelist who has published over 90 books to date either under his own name or his pseudonyms Peter Tremayne and Peter MacAlan. He has also published 95 short stories...
, (pen names Peter Tremayne and Peter MacAlan, born 1943), novelist - Charles EliotCharles Eliot (diplomat)Sir Charles Norton Edgecumbe Eliot GCMG, PC was a British knight diplomat, colonial administrator and botanist. He served as Commissioner of British East Africa in 1900-1904. He was British Ambassador to Japan in 1919-1925.He was also known as a malacologist and marine biologist...
, (1862–1931), travel writer, malacologist and diplomat - George EliotGeorge EliotMary Anne Evans , better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist and translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era...
, (real name Mary Ann Evans, 1819–1880), novelist, MiddlemarchMiddlemarchMiddlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Anne Evans, later Marian Evans. It is her seventh novel, begun in 1869 and then put aside during the final illness of Thornton Lewes, the son of her companion George Henry Lewes... - T. S. EliotT. S. EliotThomas Stearns "T. S." Eliot OM was a playwright, literary critic, and arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century. Although he was born an American he moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 and was naturalised as a British subject in 1927 at age 39.The poem that made his...
, (1888–1965), poet, playwright and critic, Nobel prizeNobel PrizeThe Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
winner, The Waste LandThe Waste LandThe Waste Land[A] is a 434-line[B] modernist poem by T. S. Eliot published in 1922. It has been called "one of the most important poems of the 20th century." Despite the poem's obscurity—its shifts between satire and prophecy, its abrupt and unannounced changes of speaker, location and time, its... - Frances Minto ElliotFrances Minto ElliotFrances Minto Elliot was a prolific English writer, primarily of non-fiction works on the social history of Italy, Spain, and France and travelogues. She also wrote three novels and published art criticism and gossipy, sometimes scandalous, sketches for The Art Journal, Bentley's Miscellany, and...
, (1820-1898), historical writer and novelist - Ebenezer ElliottEbenezer ElliottEbenezer Elliott was an English poet, known as the Corn Law rhymer.-Early life:Elliott was born at the New Foundry, Masbrough, in the Parish of Rotherham, Yorkshire. His father, was an extreme Calvinist and a strong Radical, and was engaged in the iron trade...
, (the "Corn Law Rhymer", 1781–1849), poet - Edith Ellis, (1861–1916), writer and anthologist
- Edwin John Ellis, (1848–1916), poet, editor and illustrator
- Havelock EllisHavelock EllisHenry Havelock Ellis, known as Havelock Ellis , was a British physician and psychologist, writer, and social reformer who studied human sexuality. He was co-author of the first medical textbook in English on homosexuality in 1897, and also published works on a variety of sexual practices and...
, (1859–1939), sexologist, social reformer and literary editor - Royston EllisRoyston EllisRoyston Ellis is a British writer heavily influenced by the American Beat Generation.Ellis began his career with two poetry collections published during that era: "Jiving To Gyp" and "Rave" . In June 1960, he travelled to Liverpool, England to perform a poetry reading at Liverpool University...
, (born 1941), novelist and poet - Warren EllisWarren EllisWarren Girard Ellis is an English author of comics, novels, and television, who is well-known for sociocultural commentary, both through his online presence and through his writing, which covers transhumanist themes...
, (born 1968), graphic novelist and comic book writer - R. J. Ellory, (born 1965), novelist
- Thomas EllwoodThomas EllwoodThomas Ellwood was an English religious writer.He was born in Oxfordshire, the son of a rural squire. Educated at Lord Williams's School, he later joined the Quakers and became a friend of William Penn and John Milton. However, he was persecuted for his faith and spent some time in prison. His...
, (1639-1713), poet and religious writer - Elizabeth ElstobElizabeth ElstobElizabeth Elstob , the 'Saxon Nymph,' was born and brought up in the Quayside area of Newcastle upon Tyne, and, like Mary Astell of Newcastle, is nowadays regarded as one of the first English feminists...
, (1683–1756), scholar and translator - Ben EltonBen EltonBenjamin Charles "Ben" Elton is an English comedian, author, playwright and director. He was a leading figure in the British alternative comedy movement of the 1980s, as a writer on such cult series as The Young Ones and Blackadder, as well as also a successful stand-up comedian on stage and TV....
, (born 1959), novelist, playwright and comedian - Oliver EltonOliver EltonOliver Elton was an English literary scholar whose works include A Survey of English Literature in six volumes, criticism, biography, and translations from several languages including Icelandic and Russian...
, (1861–1945), scholar and translator, - Alfred ElwesAlfred ElwesAlfred Elwes was a nineteenth century British author of children's literature, academic, philologist, and occasional translator of French, Italian and Portuguese literature into English...
, (1819–1888), children's writer and translator - Thomas ElyotThomas ElyotSir Thomas Elyot was an English diplomat and scholar.-Early Life:Thomas was the child of Sir Richard Elyot's first marriage with Alice De la Mare, but neither the date nor place of his birth is accurately known...
, (c. 1490-1536), scholar and diplomat - Sally EmersonSally EmersonSally Emerson is a British writer.She has written several novels and an anthology of poetry, as well as numerous articles for The Sunday Times, The Guardian and The Washington Post....
, (born 1954), novelist and anthologist - William EmpsonWilliam EmpsonSir William Empson was an English literary critic and poet.He was known as "燕卜荪" in Chinese.He was widely influential for his practice of closely reading literary works, fundamental to the New Critics...
, (1906–1984), critic and poet, Seven Types of Ambiguity - William EnfieldWilliam EnfieldWilliam Enfield was a British Unitarian minister who published a bestselling book on elocution entitled The Speaker .-Life:...
, (1741–1797), elocutionist and Unitarian minister - Barry EnglandBarry EnglandBarry England was an English novelist and playwright. He is chiefly known for his 1969 thriller Figures in a Landscape, which was nominated for the inaugural Booker Prize.-Life and work:...
, (1932–2009), novelist - Isobel EnglishIsobel EnglishJune Guesdon Braybrooke , better known by her pen name Isobel English, was an English writer.-Life:...
, (real name June Guesdon Braybrooke, 1920–1994), novelist - D. J. EnrightD. J. EnrightDennis Joseph Enright was a British academic, poet, novelist and critic, and general man of letters.-Life:He was born in Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, and educated at Leamington College and Downing College, Cambridge...
, (1920–2002), poet and critic - Sam EnthovenSam EnthovenSam Enthoven is a children's author who was born in 1974 and lives in North London. He is a graduate of the University of Manchester. He worked for ten years as a bookseller before writing The Black Tattoo. His second book is TIM Defender of the Earth, and his newest book, "Crawlers", has been...
, (born 1975), children's writer - EpheliaMary Stewart, Duchess of RichmondMary Stewart, Duchess of Richmond and Duchess of Lennox , formerly Lady Mary Villiers, was the daughter of the 1st Duke of Buckingham....
, (fl. 1679, real name probably Mary Stewart, Duchess of Richmond), poet - Barbara ErskineBarbara ErskineBarbara Erskine is an English novelist.-Biography:Erskine owns homes in Hereford and Colchester, England. Erskine's first novel was published in 1986...
, (born 1944), novelist - Susan ErtzSusan ErtzSusan Ertz was a British fiction writer and novelist, known for her "sentimental tales of genteel life in the country." She was born in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England to American parents Charles and Mary Ertz. She moved back and forth between both countries during her childhood but chose to...
, (1894–1985), novelist - George EtheregeGeorge EtheregeSir George Etherege was an English dramatist. He wrote the plays The Comical Revenge or, Love in a Tub in 1664, She Would if She Could in 1668, and The Man of Mode or, Sir Fopling Flutter in 1676.-Early life:George Etherege was born in Maidenhead, Berkshire, around 1635, to George Etherege and...
, (c. 1635–c. 1692), playwright, The Man of ModeThe Man of ModeThe Man of Mode, or, Sir Fopling Flutter is a Restoration comedy by George Etherege, written in 1676 and first performed March 2 of the same year. Gibbons argues that the play "offers the comedy of manners in its most concentrated form"... - Abel EvansAbel EvansAbel Evans was an English clergyman, academic, and poet, a self-conscious follower of John Milton.-Life:He was son of Abel Evans of London, born in February 1679. He entered Merchant Taylors' School in 1685. He was elected probationary fellow of St. John's College, Oxford , proceeded regularly to...
, (1679–1737), poet and cleric - Arthur EvansArthur EvansSir Arthur John Evans FRS was a British archaeologist most famous for unearthing the palace of Knossos on the Greek island of Crete and for developing the concept of Minoan civilization from the structures and artifacts found there and elsewhere throughout eastern Mediterranean...
, (1851–1941), archaeologist - Arthur Benoni EvansArthur Benoni EvansArthur Benoni Evans was a British writer.Evans was born at Compton Beauchamp in the English county of Berkshire , on 25 March 1781. His father, the Rev. Lewis Evans, vicar of Froxfield, Wiltshire, was a well-known astronomer, and held for many years the professorship of mathematics at the Royal...
, (1781–1854), poet, scholar and cleric - John EvansJohn Evans (archaeologist)Sir John Evans, KCB, FRS was an English archaeologist and geologist.-Biography:John Evans was the son of the Rev. Dr A. B. Evans, headmaster of Market Bosworth Grammar School, and was born at Britwell Court, Buckinghamshire...
, (1823–1908), archaeologist - Margiad EvansMargiad EvansMargiad Evans was the pseudonym of Peggy Eileen Whistler , a poet, novelist and illustrator with a lifelong identification with the Welsh border country.-Life and works:...
, (real name Peggy Eileen Williams, 1909–1958), novelist, poet and illustrator - Nicholas EvansNicholas EvansNicholas Evans is an English journalist, screenwriter television and film producer and novelist. Evans was born at in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, and educated at Bromsgrove School but before studying at Oxford University, he served in Africa with the charity Voluntary Service Overseas...
, (born 1950), novelist, The Horse WhispererThe Horse WhispererThe Horse Whisperer is a 1998 American drama film directed by and starring Robert Redford, based on the 1995 novel of the same name by Nicholas Evans... - Paul EvansPaul Evans (poet)Paul Evans was an English poet associated with the British Poetry Revival. He is included in the anthology British Poetry since 1945 and the 1969 anthology Children of Albion: Poetry of the Underground in Britain....
, (1945–1991), poet - John EvelynJohn EvelynJohn Evelyn was an English writer, gardener and diarist.Evelyn's diaries or Memoirs are largely contemporaneous with those of the other noted diarist of the time, Samuel Pepys, and cast considerable light on the art, culture and politics of the time John Evelyn (31 October 1620 – 27 February...
, (1620–1706), writer and diarist, Sylva, A Discourse of Forest Trees - Peter EverettPeter EverettPeter Everett is an Australian television host. He hosted the Australian adaptation of cook show Ready Steady Cook on Network Ten. He is known for appearing on Changing Rooms which aired on the Nine Network in 1998. He also took part in the reality figure skating series Skating on Thin Ice in...
, (1931–1999), novelist - Evelyn Everett-GreenEvelyn Everett-GreenEvelyn Ward Everett-Green was an English novelist who started her writing career with improving and pious stories for children, and later wrote historical fiction for older girls, and then adult romantic fiction.She wrote about 350 books: more than 200 under her own name, and others using the...
, (1856–1932), novelist and children's writer - George EveryGeorge EveryBrother George Every SSM was a British historian, theologian and writer on Christian mythology, and poet.He was a member of the Anglican religious community the Society of the Sacred Mission at Kelham, Nottinghamshire from 1929 to 1973...
, (1909–2003), theologian and poet - Gavin EwartGavin EwartGavin Buchanan Ewart was a British poet best known for contributing to Geoffrey Grigson's New Verse at the age of seventeen.-Life:...
, (1916–1995), poet and anthologist - Barbara EwingBarbara EwingBarbara Ewing is a UK-based actress, playwright and novelist. Born in New Zealand, she graduated from Victoria University of Wellington with a BA in English and Maori before coming to Britain in 1965 to train as an actress at RADA in London.She made her film debut in the horror film Torture...
, (born 1944), novelist and playwright - Juliana Horatia EwingJuliana Horatia EwingJuliana Horatia Ewing was an English writer of children's stories.-Youth and marriage:Known as Julie, she was the second of ten children of the Reverend Alfred Gatty, vicar of Ecclesfield in Yorkshire, and Margaret Gatty, who was herself a children's author...
, (1841–1885), children's writer, Mrs. Overtheway's RemembrancesMrs. Overtheway's RemembrancesMrs. Overtheway's Remembrances is the first children's book published by author Juliana Horatia Ewing . The book was published by George Bells and Sons, York Street, Covent Garden, London, and had illustrations by J.A. Pasquier and J. Wolf.... - Vincent EyreVincent EyreVincent Eyre was an English General in the Indian Army, who saw active service in India and Afghanistan.-Early life:Born in Portsdown, Portsmouth in 1811, Eyre was the third son of Captain Henry Eyre and was educated at Norwich School....
, (1811–1881), military writer and general
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- Frederick William Faber, (1814–1863), hymn writer and theologian, Faith of Our FathersFaith of Our Fathers (hymn)Faith of our Fathers is an English Catholic hymn, written in 1849 by Frederick William Faber in memory of the Catholic martyrs from the time of the establishment of the Church of England by Henry VIII. Faber wrote two versions of the hymn: with seven stanzas for Ireland and with four for England...
- Geoffrey FaberGeoffrey FaberSir Geoffrey Cust Faber was a British academic, publisher and poet.Geoffrey Cust Faber was educated at Rugby School and Christ Church, Oxford...
, (1889–1961), poet and publisher - George Stanley FaberGeorge Stanley FaberGeorge Stanley Faber was an Anglican theologian and prolific author....
, (1773–1854), theologian and cleric - Robert FabyanRobert FabyanRobert Fabyan , chronicler, was born in London, of which hebecame an Alderman and Sheriff. He kept a diary of notable events, whichhe expanded into a chronicle, which he entitled, The Concordance of Histories. It covers the period from the arrival of Brutus in England tothe death of King Henry VII...
, (died 1513), diarist and chronicler - Harry FainlightHarry FainlightHarry Fainlight was a British/American poet associated with the Beats movement.He was the younger brother of Ruth Fainlight , also a poet, who edited a posthumous volume of his work, Selected Poems, published in 1986.-Personal life:...
, (1935–1982), poet - Ruth FainlightRuth FainlightRuth Fainlight , is a poet, short story writer, translator and librettist.-Life and career:Fainlight was born in New York, but has mainly lived in England since she was fifteen, having also spent some years living in France and Spain. She studied for two years at the Birmingham and Brighton...
, (born 1932), poet, writer and translator - Thomas FairfaxThomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of CameronThomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron was a general and parliamentary commander-in-chief during the English Civil War...
, (1612–1671), poet and army commander-in-chief - Margaret FairleyMargaret FairleyMargaret Adele Keeling Fairley was a Canadian writer, educator, and political activist.She was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, UK and died in Toronto, Ontario, Canada....
, (1885-1968), scholar, editor and political activist - J. Meade FalknerJ. Meade FalknerJohn Meade Falkner was an English novelist and poet, best known for his 1898 novel, Moonfleet. An extremely successful businessman as well, he became chairman of the arms manufacturer Armstrong Whitworth during World War I.-Life and works:Falkner was born in Manningford Bruce, Wiltshire and spent...
, (1858–1932), novelist, MoonfleetMoonfleetMoonfleet is a tale of smuggling by the English novelist J. Meade Falkner, first published in 1898. The book was extremely popular among children worldwide up until the 1970s, mostly for its themes of adventure and gripping storyline... - Mildmay FaneMildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of WestmorlandMildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland was an English nobleman, politician, and writer.-Life:One of seven sons of Francis Fane by his wife Mary, granddaughter of Sir Walter Mildmay, Mildmay Fane was born in Kent and educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge . He became MP for Peterborough in 1620...
, earl of Westmorland (1602–1666), poet and playwright - Violet FaneViolet FaneViolet Fane was the literary pseudonym of Mary, Baroness Currie, née Mary Montgomerie Lamb , a British novelist, poet and essayist of Victorian era.-Biography:...
, (real name Mary Montgomerie Lamb, 1843–1905), novelist and poet - Catherine Maria FanshaweCatherine Maria FanshaweCatherine Maria Fanshawe was an English poet. The daughter of a Surrey squire, she wrote clever occasional verse. Her best-known production is the...
, (1765–1834), poet - Richard Fanshawe, (1608–1666), poet and translator
- U. A. FanthorpeU. A. FanthorpeUrsula Askham Fanthorpe, CBE, FRSL was an English poet. She published as UA Fanthorpe.-Early life:She was educated in Surrey and at St Anne's College, Oxford, where she received a first-class degree in English language and literature, and subsequently taught English at Cheltenham Ladies' College...
, (1929–2009), poet - Joseph FaringtonJoseph FaringtonJoseph Farington was an 18th-century English landscape painter and diarist.-Life and work:Born in Leigh, Lancashire, Farington was the second of seven sons of William Farington and Esther Gilbody. His father was the rector of Warrington and vicar of Leigh...
, (1747–1821), diarist and painter - Helen FarishHelen Farish-Life:She received her B.A. from University of Durham, M.A. and Ph.D. from Oxford Brookes University.She lectured in creative writing at Sheffield Hallam University....
, (born 1962), poet - Benjamin FarjeonBenjamin FarjeonBenjamin Leopold Farjeon was a British novelist, playwright, printer and journalist. As an author, he was known for his huge output....
, (1838–1903), novelist and playwright - Eleanor FarjeonEleanor FarjeonEleanor Farjeon was an English author of children's stories and plays, poetry, biography, history and satire. Many of her works had charming illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Some of her correspondence has also been published...
, (1881–1965), children's author and poet - Herbert FarjeonHerbert FarjeonHerbert Farjeon was a major figure in the British theatre from 1910 until his death. He was a presenter of revues in London's West End, a theatre critic, lyricist, librettist, playwright, theatre manager and researcher....
, (1887–1945), dramatist and critic - Paul FarleyPaul FarleyPaul Farley is an award-winning English poet. He studied painting at the Chelsea School of Art, and has lived in London, Brighton and Cumbria...
, (born 1965), poet - Jeffery FarnolJeffery FarnolJohn Jeffery Farnol , was an English author, known for his many romantic novels, some formulaic and set in the English Regency period, and swashbucklers...
, (1878–1952), novelist - Frederic William FarrarFrederic William FarrarFrederic William Farrar was a cleric of the Church of England .Farrar was born in Bombay, India and educated at King William's College on the Isle of Man, King's College London and Trinity College, Cambridge. At Cambridge he won the Chancellor's Gold Medal for poetry in 1852...
, (known as Dean Farrar, 1831–1903), novelist, religious writer and cleric, Eric, or, Little by LittleEric, or, little by littleEric, or, Little by Little is the title of a book by Frederic W. Farrar, first edition 1858. It was published by Adam & Charles Black, Edinburgh and London.The book deals with the descent into moral turpitude of a boy at a boarding school.The reads:... - J. G. Farrell, (1935–1979), novelist, The Siege of KrishnapurThe Siege of KrishnapurThe Siege of Krishnapur is a novel by the author J. G. Farrell, published in 1973.Inspired by events such as the sieges of Cawnpore and Lucknow, the book details the siege of a fictional Indian town during the Indian Rebellion of 1857 from the perspective of the British residents...
- Sebastian FaulksSebastian Faulks-Early life:Faulks was born on 20 April 1953 in Donnington, Berkshire to Peter Faulks and Pamela . Edward Faulks, Baron Faulks, is his older brother. He was educated at Elstree School, Reading and went on to Wellington College, Berkshire...
, (born 1953), novelist - Joseph FawcettJoseph FawcettJoseph Fawcett was an 18th-century English Presbyterian minister and poet.Fawcett began his education at Reverend French's school in Ware, Hertfordshire and in 1774 entered the dissenting academy at Daventry. At the school, he practiced his preaching on thorn bushes...
, (1758–1804), poet and cleric - Francis FawkesFrancis FawkesFrancis Fawkes was an English poet and translator. Fawkes translated Anacreon, Sappho, and other classics, modernised parts of the poems of Gavin Douglas, and was the author of the well-known song, The Brown Jug, and of two poems, Bramham Park and Partridge Shooting...
, (1721–1777), poet and translator - Eliza FayEliza FayEliza Fay was an English letter-writer and traveller.-Early life:...
, (1755/6-1816), correspondent and traveller - John Russell FearnJohn Russell FearnJohn Russell Fearn was a British author and one of the first British writers to appear in American pulp science fiction magazines.-Career:...
, (1908–1960), novelist - Daniel FeatleyDaniel FeatleyDaniel Featley, also called Fairclough and sometimes called Richard Fairclough/Featley , was an English theologian and controversialist...
, (also known as Fairclough, 1582–1645), controversialist, AV translator and cleric - Vicki FeaverVicki FeaverVicki Feaver is an English poet. She studied music at Durham University and English at University College, London, and later worked as a lecturer and tutor in English and Creative Writing at University College, Chichester, where she is an Emeritus Professor.She now lives with her psychiatrist...
, (born 1943), poet - Elaine FeinsteinElaine FeinsteinElaine Feinstein is a poet, novelist, short-story writer, playwright, biographer and translator.-Biography:...
, (born 1930), poet, novelist and dramatist - John FellJohn Fell (clergyman)John Fell was an English churchman and influential academic. He served as Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, and later concomitantly as Bishop of Oxford.-Education:...
, (1625–1686), scholar and cleric - Owen FelthamOwen FelthamOwen Feltham was an English writer, author of a book entitled Resolves, Divine, Moral, and Political , containing 146 short essays. It had great popularity in its day. Though sometimes stiff and affected in style, it contains many sound, if not original or brilliant, reflections, and occasional...
or Felltham (c. 1602–1668), aphorist and essayist - George Manville FennGeorge Manville FennGeorge Manville Fenn was an English novelist, journalist, editor and educationalist.-Life and works:...
, (1831–1909), novelist and children's writer - John FennJohn Fenn (priest)John Fenn was an English Roman Catholic priest and writer, in exile under Elizabeth I of England...
(died 1615), religious writer and RC priest - John FennJohn Fenn (antiquarian)Sir John Fenn was an English antiquary. He is best remembered for collecting, editing, and publishing the Paston Letters, describing the life and political scheming of the gentry in Medieval England...
, (1739–1794), antiquary and editor - Elijah FentonElijah Fenton-Life:Born in Shelton , and educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, for a time he acted as secretary to the Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery in Flanders, and was then Master of Sevenoaks Grammar School.In 1707, Fenton published a book of poems...
, (1683–1730), poet - James FentonJames FentonJames Martin Fenton is an English poet, journalist and literary critic. He is a former Oxford Professor of Poetry.-Life and career:...
, (born 1949), poet and critic - Roger FentonRoger Fenton (clergyman)Roger Fenton was an English clergyman, one of the translators of the Authorised King James Version.-Life:He was born in Lancashire and was educated at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, where he matriculated as a sizar in 1585. He graduated B.A. in 1589, becoming a fellow in 1590. He graduated M.A. in...
, (1565–1615), religious writer, AV translator and cleric - Eliza FenwickEliza FenwickEliza Fenwick was an English author whose works include, Secresy; or The Ruin on the Rock , as well as several children's books....
, (1766–1840), novelist and children's writer - Ruby FergusonRuby FergusonRuby Ferguson, 1899-1966, née Rubie Constance Ashby, was a British writer of popular fiction, including children's books, romances, and mysteries. She is best known today for her "Jill" books, a series of Pullein-Thompsonesque pony books for children and young adults.-Life and career:Ferguson was...
, (1899–1966), novelist and children's writer - Bernard Fergusson, Lord Ballantrae, (1911–1980), military historian and army general
- Patrick Leigh FermorPatrick Leigh FermorSir Patrick "Paddy" Michael Leigh Fermor, DSO, OBE was a British author, scholar and soldier, who played a prominent role behind the lines in the Cretan resistance during World War II. He was widely regarded as "Britain's greatest living travel writer", with books including his classic A Time of...
, (born 1915), travel writer and scholar - Elizabeth FerrarsElizabeth FerrarsElizabeth Ferrars , born Morna Doris MacTaggart, was a British crime writer.-Life:She was born in Rangoon , Burma into a Scottish timber and rice-trading family. Her early years were in the hands of a German nanny, and the initial intention was that she should be sent to Berlin to complete her...
, (1907–1995), novelist - Jasper FfordeJasper FfordeJasper Fforde is a British novelist. Fforde's first novel, The Eyre Affair, was published in 2001. Fforde is mainly known for his Thursday Next novels, although he has written several books in the loosely connected Nursery Crime series and begun two more independent series: The Last Dragonslayer...
, (born 1961), novelist - Michael FieldMichael Field (author)Michael Field was a pseudonym used for the poetry and verse drama of Katherine Harris Bradley and her niece and ward Edith Emma Cooper . As Field they wrote around 40 works together, and a long journal Works and Days...
, pen name of Katherine Harris Bradley (1846–1914) and Edith Emma Cooper (1862–1913), poets and diarists - Daphne FieldingDaphne FieldingHon. Daphne Winifred Louise Fielding, née Vivian , was a popular British author in the early 20th century....
, (1904-1997), writer and biographer - Helen FieldingHelen FieldingHelen Fielding is an English novelist and screenwriter, best known as the creator of the fictional character Bridget Jones, a sequence of novels and films that chronicle the life of a thirtysomething single woman in London as she tries to make sense of life and love.Her novels Bridget Jones's...
, (born 1958), novelist, screenwriter and journalist, Bridget Jones's DiaryBridget Jones's DiaryBridget Jones's Diary is a 1996 novel by Helen Fielding. Written in the form of a personal diary, the novel chronicles a year in the life of Bridget Jones, a thirty-something single working woman living in London. She writes about her career, self-image, vices, family, friends, and romantic... - Henry FieldingHenry FieldingHenry Fielding was an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich earthy humour and satirical prowess, and as the author of the novel Tom Jones....
, (1707–1754), novelist and poet, Tom JonesThe History of Tom Jones, a FoundlingThe History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, often known simply as Tom Jones, is a comic novel by the English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding. First published on 28 February 1749, Tom Jones is among the earliest English prose works describable as a novel... - Sarah FieldingSarah FieldingSarah Fielding was a British author and sister of the novelist Henry Fielding. She was the author of The Governess, or The Little Female Academy , which was the first novel in English written especially for children , and had earlier achieved success with her novel The Adventures of David Simple...
, (1709–1768), novelist and children's writer - Xan FieldingXan FieldingXan Fielding, born Alexander Wallace Fielding DSO , was a British soldier and writer, noted for his English translations of Planet of the Apes and The Bridge on the River Kwai, both by Pierre Boulle....
, (1918-1991), writer, translator and soldier - Celia FiennesCelia FiennesCelia Fiennes was an English traveller. Born in Wiltshire, she was the daughter of an English Civil War Parliamentarian Colonel, who was in turn the second son of the William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele. Celia Fiennes died in Hackney in 1741.-Pioneering Female Traveller:Fiennes never married...
, (1662–1741), diarist and travel writer - William FiennesWilliam Fiennes (author)William Fiennes is a British author.Fiennes was educated at the Dragon School in Oxford, Eton College, and Oxford University, where he received both undergraduate and graduate degrees...
, (born 1970), writer - Eva FigesEva FigesEva Figes is an English author.Figes has written novels, literary criticism, studies of feminism, and vivid memoirs relating to her Berlin childhood and later experiences as a Jewish refugee from Hitler's Germany. She arrived in Britain in 1939 with her parents and a younger brother...
, (born 1932), novelist and critic - Robert FilmerRobert Filmerthumbnail|150px|right|Robert Filmer Sir Robert Filmer was an English political theorist who defended the divine right of kings...
, (1588–1653), political writer - Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, (1661–1720), poet
- Anne FineAnne FineAnne Fine, OBE FRSL is a British author best known for her children's books, of which she has written more than 50. She also writes for adults...
, (born 1947), novelist and children's writer - Cordelia FineCordelia FineCordelia Fine is an Australian academic psychologist and writer. She is the author of two books on neuroscience, several book chapters and numerous academic publications...
, (born c. 1940s), academic psychologist and writer - George FinlayGeorge FinlayGeorge Finlay was a Scottish historian. He was the brother of Kirkman Finlay.Finlay was born at Faversham, Kent, where his Scottish father, Captain John Finlay FRS, an officer in the Royal Engineers, was inspector of government powder mills. His father died in 1802, and his Scottish mother and...
, (1799–1875), historian - Ronald FirbankRonald FirbankArthur Annesley Ronald Firbank was a British novelist.-Biography:Ronald Firbank was born in London, the son of society lady Harriet Jane Garrett and MP Sir Thomas Firbank. He went to Uppingham School, and then on to Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He converted to Catholicism in 1907...
, (1886–1926), novelist and playwright, ValmouthValmouththumb|1st edition Cover by [[Augustus John]] Valmouth is a 1919 novel by British author Ronald Firbank. Valmouth is an imaginary English spa resort that attracts centenarians owing to its famed pure air... - Charles Harding FirthCharles Harding FirthSir Charles Harding Firth was a British historian.Born in Sheffield, he was educated at Clifton College and at Balliol College, Oxford...
, (1857-1936), historian and biographer - Tibor FischerTibor FischerTibor Fischer is a British novelist and short story writer. In 1993 he was selected by the influential literary magazine Granta as one of the 20 best young British writers....
, (born 1959), novelist - Allen FisherAllen FisherAllen Fisher is a poet, painter, publisher, teacher and performer associated with the British Poetry Revival.Fisher was born in London and started writing poetry in 1962. His early long project Place was published in a series of books and pamphlets in the 1970s. He worked on a project called...
, (born 1944), poet and editor - John FisherJohn FisherSaint John Fisher was an English Roman Catholic scholastic, bishop, cardinal and martyr. He shares his feast day with Saint Thomas More on 22 June in the Roman Catholic calendar of saints and 6 July on the Church of England calendar of saints...
, (1469–1535), theologian, cardinal and martyr - Roy FisherRoy FisherRoy Fisher is a British poet and jazz pianist. He was one of the first British writers to absorb the poetics of William Carlos Williams and the Black Mountain poets into the British poetic tradition. Fisher was a key precursor of the British Poetry Revival.Fisher was born in Handsworth, Birmingham...
, (born 1930), poet and jazz pianist - Edward FitzgeraldEdward FitzGerald (poet)Edward FitzGerald was an English writer, best known as the poet of the first and most famous English translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. The spelling of his name as both FitzGerald and Fitzgerald is seen...
, (1809–1883), poet and translator, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam - Judith FlandersJudith FlandersJudith Flanders is a British history author and journalist. She spent her childhoood in Montreal, Canada, apart from a year in Israel in 1972, and then worked as a publisher's reader....
, (born 1959), writer on history - Thomas FlatmanThomas FlatmanThomas Flatman was an English poet and miniature painter. There were several editions of his Poems and Songs . One of his self-portraits is in the Victoria and Albert Museum. A portrait of Charles II is in the Wallace Collection, London...
, (1638–1688), poet and miniaturist - James Elroy FleckerJames Elroy FleckerJames Elroy Flecker was an English poet, novelist and playwright. As a poet he was most influenced by the Parnassian poets.-Biography:...
, (1884–1915), poet, novelist and playwright - Richard FlecknoeRichard FlecknoeRichard Flecknoe , English dramatist and poet, the object of Dryden's satire, was probably of English birth, although there is no corroboration of the suggestion of Joseph Gillow, that he was a nephew of a Jesuit priest, William Flecknoe, or more properly Flexney, of Oxford.The few known facts of...
, (c. 1600-c. 1678), poet, playwright and writer - Ian FlemingIan FlemingIan Lancaster Fleming was a British author, journalist and Naval Intelligence Officer.Fleming is best known for creating the fictional British spy James Bond and for a series of twelve novels and nine short stories about the character, one of the biggest-selling series of fictional books of...
, (1908–1964), author, creator of James BondJames BondJames Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,... - Peter Fleming, (1907–1971), travel writer and traveller
- Giles FletcherGiles FletcherGiles Fletcher was an English poet chiefly known for his long allegorical poem Christ's Victory and Triumph ....
, (1586–1623), poet - Giles FletcherGiles Fletcher, the ElderGiles Fletcher, the Elder was an English poet and diplomat, member of the English Parliament.Giles Fletcher was the son of Richard Fletcher, vicar of Bishop's Stortford. He spent his early life at Cranbrook before entering Eton College about 1561...
, (c. 1548-1611), poet - J. S. FletcherJ. S. FletcherJoseph Smith Fletcher was a British journalist and writer. He wrote about 200 books on a wide variety of subjects, both fiction and non-fiction. He was one of the leading writers of detective fiction in the "Golden Age"....
, (1863–1935), novelist and journalist - John FletcherJohn Fletcher (playwright)John Fletcher was a Jacobean playwright. Following William Shakespeare as house playwright for the King's Men, he was among the most prolific and influential dramatists of his day; both during his lifetime and in the early Restoration, his fame rivalled Shakespeare's...
, (1579–1625), playwright - Phineas FletcherPhineas FletcherPhineas Fletcher was an English poet, elder son of Dr Giles Fletcher, and brother of Giles the younger. He was born at Cranbrook, Kent, and was baptized on 8 April 1582.-Life:...
, (1582–1650), poet - Susan Fletcher, (born 1979), novelist
- Thomas Fletcher, (1666–1713), poet, translator and cleric
- Antony FlewAntony FlewAntony Garrard Newton Flew was a British philosopher. Belonging to the analytic and evidentialist schools of thought, he was notable for his works on the philosophy of religion....
, (1923–2010), philosopher - Robert Newton FlewRobert Newton FlewRobert Newton Flew Robert Newton Flew Robert Newton Flew ((1886–1962) was an English Methodist minister and theologian, and an advocate of ecumenism among the Christian churches.-Family and education:...
, (1886–1962), Methodist minister, theologian and religious writer - F. S. FlintF. S. FlintFrank Stuart Flint was an English poet and translator who was a prominent member of the Imagist group. Ford Madox Ford called him "one of the greatest men and one of the beautiful spirits of the country"....
, (1885–1960), poet - John Florio, (1553–1625), lexicographer and translator
- Robert FluddRobert FluddRobert Fludd, also known as Robertus de Fluctibus was a prominent English Paracelsian physician, astrologer, mathematician, cosmologist, Qabalist, Rosicrucian apologist...
, (1574–1637), physician and occultist - Giles FodenGiles FodenGiles Foden is an English author best known for his award-winning novel The Last King of Scotland .-Biography:Giles Foden was born in Warwickshire in 1967. His family moved to Malawi in 1971 where he was raised...
, (born 1967), novelist - Winifred FoleyWinifred FoleyWinifred Mary Foley was an English writer.-Forest life:...
, (1914-2009), autobiographer and novelist - Albany FonblanqueAlbany FonblanqueAlbany William Fonblanque was a celebrated English journalist and by his own example a reformer of that profession.-Family:Albany Fonblanque was descended from a noble French Huguenot family, the de Greniers of Languedoc, and was born in London....
, (1794–1872), journalist and editor - Samuel FooteSamuel FooteSamuel Foote was a British dramatist, actor and theatre manager from Cornwall.-Early life:Born into a well-to-do family, Foote was baptized in Truro, Cornwall on 27 January 1720. His father, John Foote, held several public positions, including mayor of Truro, Member of Parliament representing...
, (1720–1777), playwright and theater manager - Duncan ForbesDuncan Forbes (poet)Duncan Forbes is a British poet. He studied English at Corpus Christi College in Oxford. He works as a teacher.-Works:His first poetry collection, August Autumn, was published in 1984 by Secker and Warburg...
, (born 1947), poet - Anne FordAnne FordAnne or Ann Ford, after 1762 Mrs. Philip Thicknesse, was an 18th-century English musician and singer, famous in her time for a scandal that attended her struggle to perform in public.-Life and music:...
, (1737–1824), writer, musician and actress - Ford Madox FordFord Madox FordFord Madox Ford was an English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals, The English Review and The Transatlantic Review, were instrumental in the development of early 20th-century English literature...
, (original name Ford Madox Hueffer, 1873–1939), novelist and poet - John FordJohn FordJohn Ford was an American film director. He was famous for both his westerns such as Stagecoach, The Searchers, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and adaptations of such classic 20th-century American novels as The Grapes of Wrath...
, (1586–1640), playwright, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore'Tis Pity She's a Whore'Tis Pity She's a Whore is a tragedy written by John Ford. It was likely first performed between 1629 and 1633, by Queen Henrietta's Men at the Cockpit Theatre. The play was first published in 1633, in a quarto printed by Nicholas Okes for the bookseller Richard Collins... - Richard FordRichard Ford (writer)Richard Ford was an English writer. He graduated at Trinity College, Oxford, in 1817, and was afterward called to the bar, but never practiced. He spent four years traveling in Spain and in 1845 published his delightful Handbook for Travellers in Spain, in two volumes...
, (1796–1858), travel writer, A Handbook for Travellers in SpainA Handbook for Travellers in SpainRichard Ford’s A Handbook for Travellers in Spain marked a defining moment in English travel literature.British tourists were travelling through Europe in increasing numbers and the need for guidebooks was beginning to be supplied by publishers like John Murray.Ford, who had gained tremendous... - Thomas FordThomas Ford (composer)Thomas Ford was an English composer, lutenist, viol player and poet.He was attached to the court of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, son of James I, who died in 1612...
or Forde, (1580–1648), poet and composer - Michael ForemanMichael Foreman (author / illustrator)Michael Foreman is an award-winning British author and illustrator, mainly for children. He lives in London. He is one of the best-known and most prolific writer-illustrators of children's books. He was born and grew up in the seaside village of Pakefield, near Lowestoft, Suffolk, where his mother...
, (born 1938), children's writer and illustrator - C. S. ForesterC. S. ForesterCecil Scott "C.S." Forester was the pen name of Cecil Louis Troughton Smith , an English novelist who rose to fame with tales of naval warfare. His most notable works were the 11-book Horatio Hornblower series, depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic era, and The African Queen...
, (1899–1966), author, the Horatio HornblowerHoratio HornblowerHoratio Hornblower is a fictional Royal Navy officer who is the protagonist of a series of novels by C. S. Forester. He was later the subject of films and television programs.The original Hornblower tales began with the 1937 novel The Happy Return Horatio Hornblower is a fictional Royal Navy...
series - Simon FormanSimon FormanSimon Forman was arguably the most popular Elizabethan astrologer, occultist and herbalist active in London during the reigns of Queen Elizabeth I and James I of England. His reputation, however, was severely tarnished after his death when he was implicated in the plot to kill Sir Thomas Overbury...
, (1552–1611), astrologer, occultist and herbalist - David Forrest, novelist, a pseudonym of R. Forrest-Webb and David Eliades
- Helen ForresterHelen ForresterHelen Forrester, whose real name was June Bhatia was an English author known for her books about her early childhood in Liverpool during the Great Depression as well as several works of fiction....
, (born 1919), writer - E. M. ForsterE. M. ForsterEdward Morgan Forster OM, CH was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society...
, (1879–1970), author, A Passage to IndiaA Passage to IndiaA Passage to India is a novel by E. M. Forster set against the backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement in the 1920s. It was selected as one of the 100 great works of English literature by the Modern Library and won the 1924 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. Time... - John Forster, (1812–1876), biographer and critic
- Margaret ForsterMargaret ForsterMargaret Forster is a British author. She was born in Carlisle, England, where she attended Carlisle and County High School for Girls , and then won an Open Scholarship to read modern history at Somerville College, Oxford, from where she graduated in 1960.After a short period as a teacher at...
, (born 1938), novelist and biographer - Frederick ForsythFrederick ForsythFrederick Forsyth, CBE is an English author and occasional political commentator. He is best known for thrillers such as The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File, The Fourth Protocol, The Dogs of War, The Devil's Alternative, The Fist of God, Icon, The Veteran, Avenger, The Afghan and The Cobra.-...
, (born 1938), novelist, The Day of the JackalThe Day of the JackalThe Day of the Jackal is a thriller novel by English writer Frederick Forsyth, about a professional assassin who is contracted by the OAS, a French terrorist group of the early 1960s, to kill Charles de Gaulle, the President of France.... - Richard ForteyRichard ForteyRichard A. Fortey FRS is a British palaeontologist and writer.-Career:Richard Fortey studied geology at the University of Cambridge and had a long career as a palaeontologist at the Natural History Museum in London. Prof. Fortey’s research interests include, above all, trilobites...
, (born 1946), palaeontologist and science writer, Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth - Adam FouldsAdam FouldsAdam Foulds is a British novelist and poet.-Biography:Foulds was educated at Bancroft's School, read English at St Catherine's College, Oxford under Craig Raine, and graduated with an MA in creative writing from the University of East Anglia in 2001. Foulds published The Truth About These Strange...
, (born 1974), novelist and poet - Edith Henrietta FowlerEdith Henrietta FowlerEdith Henrietta Fowler was an English novelist. She was the daughter of Henry Hartley Fowler, 1st Viscount Wolverhampton and the younger sister of the author Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler. Edith Fowler wrote two very successful novels for children: The Young Pretenders and The Professor's Children...
, (1865–1944), novelist - Ellen Thorneycroft FowlerEllen Thorneycroft Fowler-Works:She published several volumes of verse and a volume of short stories. She first achieved fame by the publication of Concerning Isabel Carnaby...
, (1860–1929), novelist - Henry Watson FowlerHenry Watson FowlerHenry Watson Fowler was an English schoolmaster, lexicographer and commentator on the usage of the English language...
, (1858–1933), and Francis George FowlerFrancis George FowlerFrancis George Fowler , familiarly known as F.G. Fowler, was an English writer on English language, grammar and usage.Born in Tunbridge Wells, F. G. Fowler was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge. He lived on Guernsey in the Channel Islands...
, (1871–1918), lexicographers and grammarians, Fowler's Modern English UsageFowler's Modern English UsageA Dictionary of Modern English Usage , by Henry Watson Fowler , is a style guide to British English usage, pronunciation, and writing... - John FowlesJohn FowlesJohn Robert Fowles was an English novelist and essayist. In 2008, The Times newspaper named Fowles among their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".-Birth and family:...
, (1926–2005), novelist and essayist, The French Lieutenant's WomanThe French Lieutenant's WomanThe French Lieutenant’s Woman , by John Fowles, is a period novel inspired by the 1823 novel Ourika, by Claire de Duras, which Fowles translated into English in 1977... - Barclay FoxBarclay FoxRobert Barclay Fox was a businessman, gardener and diarist, a member of the influential Quaker Fox family of Falmouth.-Family relationships:...
, (181755), diarist and gardener - Caroline FoxCaroline FoxCaroline Fox was an English diarist. She was the daughter of Robert Were Fox FRS of the influential Fox family of Falmouth, and was the younger sister of both Barclay Fox, also a diarist, and Anna Maria Fox....
, (1819–1871), diarist - George FoxGeorge FoxGeorge Fox was an English Dissenter and a founder of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers or Friends.The son of a Leicestershire weaver, Fox lived in a time of great social upheaval and war...
, (16241691), diarist and Quaker - Robin Lane FoxRobin Lane FoxRobin Lane Fox is an English historian, currently a Fellow of New College, Oxford and University of Oxford Reader in Ancient History.-Life:Lane Fox was educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford....
, (born 1946), historian and gardening writer - Edgar FoxallEdgar FoxallEdgar Foxall was an English poet whose work features in one of the Penguin poetry anthologies, Poetry of the Thirties . Though notable for caustic political commentary and acute social observation, the natural world is a strong recurrent theme throughout his work.Born near Ellesmere Port on...
, (1906–1990), poet - John FoxeJohn FoxeJohn Foxe was an English historian and martyrologist, the author of what is popularly known as Foxe's Book of Martyrs, , an account of Christian martyrs throughout Western history but emphasizing the sufferings of English Protestants and proto-Protestants from the fourteenth century through the...
, (1517–1587, writer, Foxe's Book of MartyrsFoxe's Book of MartyrsThe Book of Martyrs, by John Foxe, more accurately Acts and Monuments, is an account from a Protestant point of view of Christian church history and martyrology... - Samuel FoxeSamuel FoxeSamuel Foxe , was an English diarist.Foxe was the eldest son of John Foxe, the martyrologist. He was born at Norwich on 31 December 1560, and admitted into Merchant Taylors' School, London, on 20 October 1572. In 1574 he went to Oxford, where he was elected demy of Magdalen College. In 1576 he left...
, (1560–1630), diarist - Dick FrancisDick FrancisRichard Stanley "Dick" Francis CBE was an English jockey and crime writer, many of whose novels centre around horse racing.- Personal life :...
, (1920–2010), novelist and jockey, Dead CertDead CertDead Cert is Dick Francis' first novel, published in 1962. Featured in the 2007 book 100 Must-Read Crime Novels. It was filmed by Tony Richardson in 1974.-Synopsis:... - Philip Francis, (1740–1818), pamphleteer and translator
- Suzanne FrancisSuzanne FrancisSuzanne Francis is an English science fiction and fantasy author. She was born in King's Lynn, Norfolk, and now lives in Dunedin, New Zealand. She has been married twice and has four children....
, (born 1959), novelist - Gilbert FrankauGilbert FrankauGilbert Frankau was a popular British novelist. He was known also for verse including a number of verse novels, and short stories....
, (1884–1952), novelist and poet - Julia FrankauJulia FrankauJulia Frankau, née Julia Davis was a successful novelist under the name of Frank Danby.She was the sister of Owen Hall, Harrie Davis and Eliza Davis. She was home-schooled by Laura Lafargue, the daughter of Karl Marx.She married the cigar importer Arthur Frankau...
, (pen name Frank Danby, 1863–1916), novelist - John FranklinJohn FranklinRear-Admiral Sir John Franklin KCH FRGS RN was a British Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer. Franklin also served as governor of Tasmania for several years. In his last expedition, he disappeared while attempting to chart and navigate a section of the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic...
, (1786–1847), explorer and novelist - Antonia FraserAntonia FraserLady Antonia Margaret Caroline Fraser, DBE , née Pakenham, is an Anglo-Irish author of history, novels, biographies and detective fiction, best known as Antonia Fraser...
, (born 1932), biographer and novelist - Caro FraserCaro FraserCaro Fraser is a British novelist, and the daughter of writer George MacDonald Fraser, author of the Flashman books.Fraser was born in Carlisle in 1953, but moved to Glasgow shortly afterwards and was brought up there until her mid-teens, attending Glasgow High School for Girls...
, (born 1953), novelist - Michael FraynMichael FraynMichael J. Frayn is an English playwright and novelist. He is best known as the author of the farce Noises Off and the dramas Copenhagen and Democracy...
, (born 1933), playwright and novelist, CopenhagenCopenhagenCopenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region... - Margaret FrazerMargaret FrazerMargaret Frazer is the pen name of an historical novelist known for more than twenty mystery novels and a variety of short stories. The pen name was originally used by Gail Frazer and Mary Monica Pulver Kuhfeld in their collaboration on The Novice's Tale, the first of the Sister Frevisse books...
, (pseudonym, fl. 1990s onwards), novelist - Jonathan FreedlandJonathan FreedlandJonathan Saul Freedland is a British journalist, who writes a weekly column for The Guardian and a monthly piece for the Jewish Chronicle. He is also a regular contributor to The New York Times and The New York Review of Books, and presents BBC Radio 4’s contemporary history series,...
, (born 1967), writer - Edward Augustus FreemanEdward Augustus FreemanEdward Augustus Freeman was an English historian. His reputation as a historian rests largely on his History of the Norman Conquest , his longest completed book...
, (1823–1892), historian - John FreemanJohn Freeman (Georgian poet)John Frederick Freeman, , was an English poet and essayist, who gave up a successful career in insurance to write full time.He was born in London, and started as an office boy aged 13...
, (1880–1929), poet - R. Austin Freeman, (1862–1943), novelist
- Elizabeth Wynne FremantleElizabeth Wynne FremantleElizabeth Wynne Fremantle was the main author of the extensive Wynne Diaries and wife of the Royal Navy officer Thomas Fremantle , a close associate of Nelson.-Life:Known in the family as Betsey, she was born Elizabeth Wynne, the second daughter of...
, (1779–1857), diarist - Celia FremlinCelia FremlinCelia Margaret Fremlin was born in Kingsbury, now part of London, England, the sister of nuclear physicist, John H. Fremlin.-Early life:...
, (1914–2009), novelist - Patrick FrenchPatrick FrenchPatrick French is a British writer and historian, based in London. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh where he studied English and American literature....
, (born 1966), biographer and author - John Hookham FrereJohn Hookham FrereJohn Hookham Frere PC was an English diplomat and author.Frere was born in London. His father, John Frere, the member of a Suffolk family, had been educated at Caius College, Cambridge, and would have been senior wrangler in 1763 but for the competition of William Paley; his mother, Jane,...
, (1769–1846), poet and translator - William Powell FrithWilliam Powell FrithWilliam Powell Frith , was an English painter specialising in genre subjects and panoramic narrative works of life in the Victorian era. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1852...
, (1819-1909), autobiographer and painter - James Anthony FroudeJames Anthony FroudeJames Anthony Froude , 23 April 1818–20 October 1894, was an English historian, novelist, biographer, and editor of Fraser's Magazine. From his upbringing amidst the Anglo-Catholic Oxford Movement, Froude intended to become a clergyman, but doubts about the doctrines of the Anglican church,...
, (1818–1894), historian - Richard Hurrell FroudeRichard Hurrell FroudeRichard Hurrell Froude was an Anglican priest and an early leader of the Oxford Movement.-Life:He was the son of Archdeacon R. H...
, (1803–1836), poet, religious writer and cleric - C. B. Fry, (1872-1956), cricket writer and cricketer
- Caroline FryCaroline FryCaroline Fry , a British Christian writer, later Mrs Caroline Wilson, was born and died at Tunbridge Wells in Kent. She was one of ten children born to John and Jane Fry. She married William Wilson at Desford, Leicestershire on 26 May 1831.-Life:Fry's family was affiliated with the "High Church"...
, (1787–1846), religious writer and poet - Christopher FryChristopher FryChristopher Fry was an English playwright. He is best known for his verse dramas, notably The Lady's Not for Burning, which made him a major force in theatre in the 1940s and 1950s.-Early life:...
, (1907–2005), dramatist - Stephen FryStephen FryStephen John Fry is an English actor, screenwriter, author, playwright, journalist, poet, comedian, television presenter and film director, and a director of Norwich City Football Club. He first came to attention in the 1981 Cambridge Footlights Revue presentation "The Cellar Tapes", which also...
, (born 1957), novelist and comedian - John FullerJohn Fuller (poet)John Fuller is an English poet and author, and Fellow Emeritus at Magdalen College, Oxford.Fuller was born in Ashford, Kent, England, the son of poet and Oxford Professor Roy Fuller, and educated at St Paul's School and New College, Oxford. He began teaching in 1962 at the State University of New...
, (born 1937), poet, novelist and anthologist - Roy FullerRoy FullerRoy Broadbent Fuller was an English writer, known mostly as a poet. He was born in Failsworth, Lancashire, and brought up in Blackpool. He worked as a lawyer for a building society, serving in the Royal Navy 1941-1946.Poems was his first book of poetry. He began to write fiction also in the 1950s...
, (1912–1991), poet and novelist - Thomas FullerThomas FullerThomas Fuller was an English churchman and historian. He is now remembered for his writings, particularly his Worthies of England, published after his death...
, (1608–1661), author and cleric - Georgiana Fullerton, (born Leverson-Gower, 1812–1885), novelist
- Ulpian FulwellUlpian FulwellUlpian Fulwell was an English Renaissance theatre playwright, satirist and poet.He became a rector of Naunton in 1570 and became a part of St. Mary Hall, Oxford in 1578....
, (1545/6-c. 1585), playwright, satirist and cleric - Monica FurlongMonica furlongMonica Furlong was a British author, journalist, and activist. She was born at Kenton near Harrow, north-west of London and died at Umberleigh in Devon. An obituary called her the Church of England's "most influential and creative layperson of the post-war period."Many of Furlong’s books reflected...
, (1930–2003), religious writer, biographer and journalist - Frederick James FurnivallFrederick James FurnivallFrederick James Furnivall , one of the co-creators of the Oxford English Dictionary , was an English philologist...
, (1825–1910), philologist and lexicographer
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- Neil GaimanNeil GaimanNeil Richard Gaiman born 10 November 1960)is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre and films. His notable works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book...
, (born 1960), novelist, graphic novelist and screenwriter - Winifred GalesWinifred GalesWinifred Marshall Gales was a novelist and memoirist. Gales was born in 1761 in Newark-upon-Trent, England, the daughter of John Marshall...
, (1761-1839), novelist and memoirist - Norman GaleNorman GaleFor the Wales international rugby union player see Norman Gale Norman Rowland Gale was a poet, story-teller and reviewer, who published many books over a period of nearly fifty years....
, (1862–1942), poet - John GalsworthyJohn GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy OM was an English novelist and playwright. Notable works include The Forsyte Saga and its sequels, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter...
, (1867–1933), author and dramatist, The Forsyte SagaThe Forsyte SagaThe Forsyte Saga is a series of three novels and two interludes published between 1906 and 1921 by John Galsworthy. They chronicle the vicissitudes of the leading members of an upper-middle-class British family, similar to Galsworthy's own... - Francis GaltonFrancis GaltonSir Francis Galton /ˈfrɑːnsɪs ˈgɔːltn̩/ FRS , cousin of Douglas Strutt Galton, half-cousin of Charles Darwin, was an English Victorian polymath: anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician...
, (1822–1911), polymath - Jane GardamJane GardamJane Mary Gardam OBE is a British author of children's and adult fiction. She also reviews for the Spectator and the Telegraph, and writes for BBC radio, where her current project is six programmes on the suburbs. She lives in Kent, Wimbledon, and Yorkshire. She has won numerous literary awards,...
, (born 1928), novelist and children's writer - Samuel Rawson GardinerSamuel Rawson GardinerSamuel Rawson Gardiner was an English historian.The son of Rawson Boddam Gardiner, he was born near Alresford, Hampshire. He was educated at Winchester College and Christ Church, Oxford, where he obtained a first class in literae humaniores. He was subsequently elected to fellowships at All Souls ...
, (1829–1902), historian - Gerald GardnerGerald GardnerGerald Brousseau Gardner , who sometimes used the craft name Scire, was an influential English Wiccan, as well as an amateur anthropologist and archaeologist, writer, weaponry expert and occultist. He was instrumental in bringing the Neopagan religion of Wicca to public attention in Britain and...
, (1884-1964), writer on witchcraft - Helen Gardner, (1908–1986), critic and scholar
- John GardnerJohn Gardner (thriller writer)John Edmund Gardner was an English spy novelist, most notably for the James Bond series.-Early life:Gardner was born in Seaton Delaval, Northumberland. He graduated from St John's College, Cambridge and did postgraduate study at Oxford...
, (1926–2007), novelist, The LiquidatorThe Liquidator (novel)The Liquidator was the first novel written by John Gardner and the first novel in his Boysie Oakes series.After publishing his autobiographical account of alcoholism Spin the Bottle, Gardner decided to write a novel about governments killing people... - Leon GarfieldLeon GarfieldLeon Garfield was a British writer of fiction. He is best known for his historical novels for children, though he also wrote for adults...
(1921–1996), novelist and children's writer - Simon GarfieldSimon GarfieldSimon Frank Garfield is a British journalist and non-fiction author. He was educated at the independent University College School in Hampstead, London, and the London School of Economics, where he was the Executive Editor of The Beaver....
, (born 1960), writer - Alex GarlandAlex GarlandAlexander Medawar "Alex" Garland is a British novelist and screenwriter.-Early life:Garland was born in London, England, the son of psychoanalyst Caroline and political cartoonist Nicholas Garland. His maternal grandparents were zoologist Peter Medawar and author Jean Medawar...
, (born 1970), novelist and screenwriter - Alan GarnerAlan GarnerWith his first book published, Garner abandoned his work as a labourer and gained a job as a freelance television reporter, living a "hand to mouth" lifestyle on a "shoestring" budget...
, (born 1934), children's writer, The Owl ServiceThe Owl ServiceThe Owl Service is a novel by Alan Garner first published in 1967. It is a contemporary interpretation, which Garner described as an "expression of the myth", of the story of the mythical Welsh figure of Blodeuwedd, whose story is told in the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi.The legend concerns a... - William GarnerWilliam Garner (novelist)William Garner is an English thriller writer.-Life and work:He graduated from the University of Birmingham in 1941 with a BSc...
, (born 1920), novelist - Constance GarnettConstance GarnettConstance Clara Garnett was an English translator of nineteenth-century Russian literature...
, (1861–1946), translator - David GarnettDavid GarnettDavid Garnett was a British writer and publisher. As a child, he had a cloak made of rabbit skin and thus received the nickname "Bunny", by which he was known to friends and intimates all his life.-Early life:...
, (1892–1981), novelist, editor and playwright, Lady into FoxLady into FoxLady into Fox was David Garnett's first novel under his own name, published in 1922. This short and enigmatic work won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the Hawthornden Prize a year later.-Plot summary:... - Edward GarnettEdward GarnettEdward Garnett was an English writer, critic and a significant and personally generous literary editor, who was instrumental in getting D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers published. His father Richard Garnett was a writer and librarian at the British Museum...
, (1868–1937), author and critic - Eve GarnettEve GarnettEve Garnett was an English author and illustrator. She was educated at two schools in Devon and at the Alice Ottley School in Worcester...
, (1900–1991), children's writer and illustrator, The Family from One End StreetThe Family from One End StreetThe Family From One End Street, written and illustrated by Eve Garnett, is an English children's book. Set in Otwell, a town resembling Lewes, it was published in 1937 by Frederick Muller. It won a Carnegie Medal for best children's book that same year, despite competition which included J. R. R.... - Richard GarnettRichard GarnettRichard Garnett C.B. was a scholar, librarian, biographer and poet. He was son of Richard Garnett, an author, philologist and assistant keeper of printed books in the British Museum....
, (1835–1906), scholar and poet - David GarrickDavid GarrickDavid Garrick was an English actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer who influenced nearly all aspects of theatrical practice throughout the 18th century and was a pupil and friend of Dr Samuel Johnson...
, (1717–1779), actor, playwright and poet - Samuel GarthSamuel GarthSir Samuel Garth FRS was an English physician and poet.Garth was born in Bolam in County Durham and matriculated at Peterhouse, Cambridge in 1676, graduating B.A. in 1679 and...
, (1661–1719), poet and physician - Charles GarviceCharles GarviceCharles Andrew Garvice was a prolific and popular author of romance novels in Britain, the United States and translated around the world. By 1913 he was selling 1.75 million books annually, a pace which he maintained at least until his death. Garvice published over 150 novels selling over seven...
, (other pen name Caroline Hart, 1850-1920), novelist - George GascoigneGeorge GascoigneGeorge Gascoigne was an English poet, soldier, artist, and unsuccessful courtier. He is considered the most important poet of the early Elizabethan era, following Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey and leading to the emergence of Philip Sidney...
, (1535–1577), poet and translator - David GascoyneDavid GascoyneDavid Gascoyne was an English poet associated with the Surrealist movement.-Early life and Surrealism:...
, (1916–2001), poet - Elizabeth GaskellElizabeth GaskellElizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, née Stevenson , often referred to simply as Mrs Gaskell, was a British novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era...
, (1810–1865), novelist, CranfordCranford (novel)Cranford is one of the better-known novels of the 19th century English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. It was first published in 1851 as a serial in the magazine Household Words, which was edited by Charles Dickens.-Plot:... - Jane GaskellJane GaskellJane Gaskell is a British fantasy writer. Gaskell was born in 1941. She wrote her first novel Strange Evil, when she was 14. It was published two years later...
, (born 1941), fantasy novelist - Francis Aidan Gasquet, (1846–1929), historian and cardinal
- Alfred GattyAlfred GattyAlfred Gatty was a Church of England vicar and author.He was born in London to Robert Gatty, a solicitor, and Margaret Jones. In 1831 he entered Exeter College, Oxford, graduating in 1836. He was ordained a deacon in 1837 and was appointed as curate of Bellerby in the North Riding of Yorkshire...
, (1813–1903), writer and cleric - Margaret GattyMargaret GattyMargaret Gatty was an English writer of children's literature.Gatty was born in Burnham on Crouch, Essex, the daughter of the Rev. Alexander John Scott, D.D., a Royal Navy chaplain, who served under, and was the trusted friend of, Lord Nelson on board the HMS Victory before and during the Battle...
, (wrote as Mrs. Alfred Gatty, 1809–1873), children's writer - John GaudenJohn GaudenJohn Gauden was an English bishop of Exeter then bishop of Worcester and writer, and the reputed author of the important Royalist work Eikon Basilike.-Life:...
, (1605–1662), writer and bishop, Eikon BasilikeEikon BasilikeThe Eikon Basilike , The Pourtrature of His Sacred Majestie in His Solitudes and Sufferings, was a purported spiritual autobiography attributed to King Charles I of England...
(attributed) - William GauntWilliam GauntWilliam Charles Anthony Gaunt is an English actor, sometimes credited as Bill Gaunt.-Early life:...
, (1900–1980), art historian - Jamila GavinJamila GavinJamila Gavin is a British writer born in Mussoorie, India in the foothills of the Himalayas.Her father was Indian and her mother English...
, (born 1941), novelist - John GayJohn GayJohn Gay was an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club. He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera , set to music by Johann Christoph Pepusch...
, (1685–1732), poet and playwright, The Beggar's OperaThe Beggar's OperaThe Beggar's Opera is a ballad opera in three acts written in 1728 by John Gay with music arranged by Johann Christoph Pepusch. It is one of the watershed plays in Augustan drama and is the only example of the once thriving genre of satirical ballad opera to remain popular today... - Maggie GeeMaggie GeeMaggie Mary Gee is an English novelist. She was born in Poole, Dorset, then moved to the Midlands and later to Sussex. She was educated at state schools and at Oxford University . She later worked in publishing and then had a research post at Wolverhampton Polytechnic where she completed a...
, (born 1948), novelist, The Ice PeopleThe Ice PeopleThe Ice People is a 1999 science fiction novel by Maggie Gee, set in a future world dominated by a new ice age. The novel examines different elements of contemporary society: the fundamental roles and relationships of men and women, sexuality, politics and the issue of global warming.Global warming... - Pam GemsPam GemsPam Gems was a British playwright. The author of numerous original plays, as well as of adaptations of works by major European playwrights of the past, Gems is best known for the 1978 musical play Piaf.-Personal life:...
, (born 1925), playwright - Emily GerardEmily GerardEmily Gerard was a nineteenth century author best known for the influence her collections of Transylvanian folklore had on Bram Stoker's Dracula...
, (1849–1905), novelist - John GerardJohn GerardJohn Gerard aka John Gerarde was an English herbalist notable for his herbal garden and botany writing. In 1597 he published a large and heavily illustrated "Herball, or Generall Historie of Plantes", which went on to be the most widely circulated botany book in English in the 17th century...
, (1545-1611/12), herbalist - William GerhardieWilliam GerhardieWilliam Alexander Gerhardie was a British novelist and playwright.Gerhardie was one of the most critically acclaimed English novelists of the 1920s . H.G. Wells also championed his work...
, (born Gerhardi, 1895–1977), novelist - Karen GershonKaren GershonKaren Gershon, born Kaethe Loewenthal was a German-born British writer and poet. She escaped to Britain in December 1938....
, (1923–1993), poet, writer and novelist - Edward GibbonEdward GibbonEdward Gibbon was an English historian and Member of Parliament...
, (1737–1794), history, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpireThe History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpireThe History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is a non-fiction history book written by English historian Edward Gibbon and published in six volumes. Volume I was published in 1776, and went through six printings. Volumes II and III were published in 1781; volumes IV, V, VI in 1788–89... - Stella GibbonsStella GibbonsStella Dorothea Gibbons was an English novelist, journalist, poet, and short-story writer.Her first novel, Cold Comfort Farm, won the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize for 1933...
, (1902–1989), novelist and poet, Cold Comfort FarmCold Comfort FarmCold Comfort Farm is a comic novel by Stella Gibbons, published in 1932. It parodies the romanticised, sometimes doom-laden accounts of rural life popular at the time, by writers such as Mary Webb... - Philip GibbsPhilip GibbsSir Philip Gibbs was an English journalist and novelist who served as one of five official British reporters during the First World War. Two of his siblings were also writers, A...
, (1877–1962), writer and journalist - Miles GibsonMiles GibsonMiles Gibson is a reclusive English novelist, poet and artist. He was born in a squatters camp at an abandoned World War II airbase - RAF Holmsley South in the New Forest and raised in Christchurch, Hampshire....
, (born 1947), novelist and poet - Wilfred Wilson Gibson, (1878–1962), poet
- John GiffordJohn GiffordJohn Gifford was an English political writer. He was born John Richards Green until changing his name at the age of 23....
, (1758–1818), historical and political writer, Anti-Jacobin ReviewAnti-Jacobin ReviewThe Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine, or, Monthly Political and Literary Censor , a conservative British political periodical, was founded by John Gifford [pseud. of John Richards Green] after the demise of William Gifford's The Anti-Jacobin, or, Weekly Examiner... - William GiffordWilliam GiffordWilliam Gifford was an English critic, editor and poet, famous as a satirist and controversialist.-Life:Gifford was born in Ashburton, Devonshire to Edward Gifford and Elizabeth Cain. His father, a glazier and house painter, had run away as a youth with vagabond Bampfylde Moore Carew, and he...
, (1756–1826), poet and satirist - W. S. GilbertW. S. GilbertSir William Schwenck Gilbert was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for his fourteen comic operas produced in collaboration with the composer Sir Arthur Sullivan, of which the most famous include H.M.S...
, (1836–1911), playwright, librettist and poet, The MikadoThe MikadoThe Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert, their ninth of fourteen operatic collaborations... - William Gilbert or Gilberd, (1544–1603), scientist, De MagneteDe MagneteDe Magnete, Magneticisque Corporibus, et de Magno Magnete Tellure is a scientific work published in 1600 by the English physician and scientist William Gilbert and his partner Aaron Dowling...
... - William GilbertWilliam Gilbert (author)William Gilbert, was a British novelist and Royal Navy surgeon, and the author of novels, biographies, histories and several popular fantasy stories, mostly in the 1860s and 1870s. He is perhaps best remembered, however, as the father of dramatist W. S...
, (1804-1890), novelist and naval surgeon - Alexander GilchristAlexander GilchristAlexander Gilchrist was the biographer of William Blake. Gilchrist's biography is still a standard reference work on the poet....
, (1828–1861), biographer and critic - Anne Gilchrist, (born Burrows, 1828–1885), writer
- Robert Murray GilchristRobert Murray Gilchristthumb|Robert Murray Gilchrist was an English novelist and author of regional interest books about the Peak District. He is best known today for his decadent and Gothic short fiction.- Biography :...
, (1867-1917), novelist and topographical writer - Morris GinsbergMorris GinsbergMorris Ginsberg was a UK sociologist. He was president of the Aristotelian Society from 1942 to 1943. Ginsberg helped draft the UNESCO 1950 statement titled The Race Question...
, (1879–1970), sociologist - George GissingGeorge GissingGeorge Robert Gissing was an English novelist who published twenty-three novels between 1880 and 1903. From his early naturalistic works, he developed into one of the most accomplished realists of the late-Victorian era.-Early life:...
, (1857–1903), novelist, New Grub StreetNew Grub StreetNew Grub Street is a novel by George Gissing published in 1891, which is set in the literary and journalistic circles of 1880s London. Gissing revised and shortened the novel for a French edition of 1901.... - Mary GladstoneMary GladstoneMary Drew , was a political secretary, writer and hostess. She was the daughter of the British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone, and achieved notability as his advisor, confidante and private secretary...
, (1847–1927), diarist and political secretary - William Gladstone, (1809–1898), statesman and writer
- Lesley GlaisterLesley GlaisterLesley Glaister is a British novelist and playwright. She has written 12 novels, Chosen being the most recent, one play and numerous short stories and radio plays. She is a lecturer in creative writing at the University of St Andrews, and is a regular contributor of book reviews to the Spectator...
, (born 1956), novelist and playwright - Joseph GlanvillJoseph GlanvillJoseph Glanvill was an English writer, philosopher, and clergyman. Not himself a scientist, he has been called "the most skillful apologist of the virtuosi", or in other words the leading propagandist for the approach of the English natural philosophers of the later 17th century.-Life:He was...
, (1636–1680), writer, philosopher and cleric - Hannah GlasseHannah GlasseHannah Glasse was an English cookery writer of the 18th century. She is best known for her cookbook, The Art of Cookery, first published in 1747...
, (1708–1770), writer on cookery and housekeeping, The Art of Cookery - Victoria GlendinningVictoria GlendinningThe Hon. Victoria Glendinning, CBE , is a British biographer, critic, broadcaster and novelist; she is President of English PEN, a winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, was awarded a CBE in 1998 and is Vice-President of the Royal Society of Literature.- Biography :She was born in Sheffield...
, (born 1937), biographer and novelist - Richard GloverRichard Glover (Poet)Richard Glover was an English poet and politician.-Life:The son of Richard Glover, a Hamburg merchant, was born in London. He was educated at Cheam in Surrey....
, (1712–1785), poet and playwright - Elinor GlynElinor GlynElinor Glyn , born Elinor Sutherland, was a British novelist and scriptwriter who pioneered mass-market women's erotic fiction. She popularized the concept It...
, (1864–1943), novelist - Robert GoddardRobert Goddard (novelist)Robert Francis Goddard is a British novelist.-Life and career:Goddard was educated at Wallisdean County Junior School and Price's Grammar School in Fareham before going on to study history at the University of Cambridge...
, (born 1954), novelist - Rumer GoddenRumer GoddenMargaret Rumer Godden OBE was an English author of over 60 fiction and nonfiction books written under the name of Rumer Godden. A few of her works were co-written by her sister, Jon Godden, who wrote several novels on her own...
, (1907–1998), novelist, children's writer and biographer, The DiddakoiThe DiddakoiThe Diddakoi is a 1972 novel for children by Rumer Godden. It won the 1972 Whitbread Award in the Children's Book category. It is the story of an orphan traveller or Romani girl called Kizzy, who faces persecution, grief and loss in a hostile, close-knit village community. This is a moving tale of... - A. D. GodleyA. D. GodleyAlfred Denis Godley was a classical scholar and author of humorous poems. From 1910 to 1920 he was Public Orator at the University of Oxford, a post that involved composing citations in Latin for the recipients of honorary degrees. One of these was for Thomas Hardy who received an Honorary D. Litt...
, (1856–1925), comic poet - Sidney GodolphinSidney Godolphin (poet)Sidney Godolphin , was an English poet, courtier and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1628 and 1643. He died fighting in the Royalist army in the English Civil War.-Biography:...
, (1610–1643), poet - William GodwinWilliam GodwinWilliam Godwin was an English journalist, political philosopher and novelist. He is considered one of the first exponents of utilitarianism, and the first modern proponent of anarchism...
, (1756–1836), novelist and philosopher - Louis GoldingLouis GoldingLouis Golding was a British writer, very famous in his time especially for his novels, though he is now largely neglected; he wrote also short stories, essays, fantasies, travel books and poetry....
, (1895–1958), novelist and poet - William GoldingWilliam GoldingSir William Gerald Golding was a British novelist, poet, playwright and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate, best known for his novel Lord of the Flies...
, (1911–1993), novelist, poet and Nobel prizeNobel PrizeThe Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
winner, The Lord of the Flies - Douglas GoldringDouglas GoldringDouglas Goldring was a British writer and journalist.-Life:He was born in Greenwich, England. He was educated initially at Hurstpierpoint, Magdalen College School and for his secondary education Felsted...
, (1887–1960), poet, travel writer and novelist - Laurence GommeLaurence GommeSir Laurence Gomme, FSA was a public servant and leading British folklorist. He helped found both the Victoria County History and the Folklore Society...
, (1853-1916), writer on folklore and public servant - Jason GoodwinJason GoodwinJason Goodwin is a British writer and historian. He studied Byzantine history at Cambridge University. Following the success of A Time For Tea: Travels in China and India in Search of Tea, he walked from Poland to Istanbul, Turkey...
, (born 1964), novelist and travel writer - Barnabe GoogeBarnabe GoogeBarnabe Googe or Gooche was a poet and translator, one of the earliest English pastoral poets.-Early life:...
or Gooche, (1540–1594), poet and translator - Catherine GoreCatherine GoreCatherine Grace Frances Gore was a British novelist and dramatist, daughter of a wine merchant at Retford, where she was born. She is amongst the well-known of the silver fork writers - authors of the Victorian era depicting the gentility and etiquette of high society.-Biography:Gore was born in...
, (1799–1861), novelist and playwright - Charles GoreCharles GoreCharles Gore was a British theologian and Anglican bishop.-Early life and education:Gore was the third son of the Honourable Charles Alexander Gore, and brother of the fourth Earl of Arran...
, (1853–1932), theologian and bishop - Edmund GosseEdmund GosseSir Edmund William Gosse CB was an English poet, author and critic; the son of Philip Henry Gosse and Emily Bowes.-Early life:...
, (1849–1928), poet, critic and author, Father and Son - Philip Henry GossePhilip Henry GossePhilip Henry Gosse was an English naturalist and popularizer of natural science, virtually the inventor of the seawater aquarium, and a painstaking innovator in the study of marine biology...
, (1810–1888), writer on science and natural history - Stephen GossonStephen GossonStephen Gosson was an English satirist.He was baptized at St George's church, Canterbury, on 17 April 1554. He entered Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1572, and on leaving the university in 1576 he went to London...
, (1554–1624), satirist and playwright - Elizabeth GoudgeElizabeth GoudgeElizabeth de Beauchamp Goudge was an English author of novels, short stories and children's books as Elizabeth Goudge...
, (1900–1984), novelist and children's writer - Gerald GouldGerald GouldGerald Gould was an English writer, known as a journalist and reviewer, essayist and poet.-Life:He was brought up in Norwich, and studied at University College, London and Magdalen College, Oxford...
, (1885–1936), poet and journalist - Nathaniel GouldNathaniel GouldNathaniel Gould, always known as Nat Gould, was a British novelist.Gould was born at Manchester, Lancashire, the only surviving child of Nathaniel Gould, a tea merchant, and his wife Mary, née Wright. Both parents came from Derbyshire yeomen families. The boy was indulgently brought up and well...
, (1857–1919), novelist - John GowerJohn GowerJohn Gower was an English poet, a contemporary of William Langland and a personal friend of Geoffrey Chaucer. He is remembered primarily for three major works, the Mirroir de l'Omme, Vox Clamantis, and Confessio Amantis, three long poems written in French, Latin, and English respectively, which...
, (c. 1330–1408), poet - Posie Graeme-EvansPosie Graeme-EvansPosie Graeme-Evans spent her childhood travelling between Europe, Asia and Australia. Having worked extensively in the Australian film and television industries as an editor, director, writer and producer/executive producer, Posie is now a full-time novelist .-Early life:Graeme-Evans is the...
, (born c. 1950), novelist and TV director - Eleanor GrahamEleanor GrahamEleanor Graham was a book editor and children's book author. She worked for Muriel Paget's aid mission in Czechoslovakia before becoming an editor for publishers Heinemann and Methuen Publishing and a reviewer of children's books at The Sunday Times, among others...
, (1896–1984), children's writer, editor and anthologist - Harry GrahamHarry Graham (poet)Jocelyn Henry Clive 'Harry' Graham was an English writer. He was a successful journalist and later, after distinguished military service, a leading lyricist for operettas and musical comedies, but he is now best remembered as a writer of humorous verse in the tradition of grotesquerie and black...
, (1874–1936), humorist and poet - Laurie GrahamLaurie Graham (novelist)Laurie Graham is a former journalist and author. She now lives in County Dublin, Ireland.- Career :...
, (born 1947), novelist and journalist - Stephen GrahamStephen Graham (author)Stephen Graham was a British journalist, travel-writer, essayist and novelist. His best-known books recount his travels around pre-revolutionary Russia and his journey to Jerusalem with a group of Russian Christian pilgrims...
, (1884–1975), travel writer and novelist - Kenneth GrahameKenneth GrahameKenneth Grahame was a Scottish writer, most famous for The Wind in the Willows , one of the classics of children's literature. He also wrote The Reluctant Dragon; both books were later adapted into Disney films....
, (1859–1931), writer, The Wind in the WillowsThe Wind in the WillowsThe Wind in the Willows is a classic of children's literature by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animal characters in a pastoral version of England... - Sarah GrandSarah GrandSarah Grand was a British feminist writer active from 1873 to 1922. Her work revolved around the New Woman ideal.- Early Life and Influences of Frances Elizabeth Bellenden Clarke:...
, (real name Mrs. David C. M'Fall, born Frances Elizabeth Clarke, 1854–1943), novelist and suffragist - Andrew Grant, (born 1968), novelist
- John Grant, (pen names Jonathan Gash and Graham Gaunt, born 1933), novelist and physician
- Linda Grant, (born 1951), novelist and writer
- George Granville, 1st Baron LansdowneGeorge Granville, 1st Baron LansdowneGeorge Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne PC was an English poet, playwright, and politician who served as a Privy Counsellor from 1712.-Early life:...
, (1666–1735), playwright and poet - Harley Granville-BarkerHarley Granville-BarkerHarley Granville-Barker was an English actor-manager, director, producer, critic and playwright....
, (1877–1946), playwright and actor - Richard GravesRichard GravesRichard Graves was an English minister, poet, and novelist.Born at Mickleton Manor, Mickleton, Gloucestershire, to Richard Graves, gentleman, and his wife, Elizabeth, Graves was a student at Abingdon School and Pembroke College, Oxford...
, (1715–1804), poet and novelist - Robert GravesRobert GravesRobert von Ranke Graves 24 July 1895 – 7 December 1985 was an English poet, translator and novelist. During his long life he produced more than 140 works...
, (1895–1985), poet, scholar and novelist, I, ClaudiusI, ClaudiusI, Claudius is a novel by English writer Robert Graves, written in the form of an autobiography of the Roman Emperor Claudius. As such, it includes history of the Julio-Claudian Dynasty and Roman Empire, from Julius Caesar's assassination in 44 BC to Caligula's assassination in AD 41... - John GrayJohn Gray (poet)John Gray was an English poet whose works include Silverpoints, The Long Road and Park: A Fantastic Story. It has often been suggested that he was the inspiration behind Oscar Wilde's fictional Dorian Gray....
, (1866–1934), poet and translator - Patience GrayPatience GrayPatience Jean Gray was a British cookery and travel writer of the mid-20th century. Her most popular books were Plats Du Jour , written with Primrose Boyd about French cooking, and Honey From A Weed , an account of the Mediterranean way of life.-Life and writings:Born Patience Jean Stanham at...
, (1917–2005), cookery writer - Thomas GrayThomas GrayThomas Gray was a poet, letter-writer, classical scholar and professor at Cambridge University.-Early life and education:...
, (1716–1771), poet, Elegy Written in a Country ChurchyardElegy Written in a Country ChurchyardElegy Written in a Country Churchyard is a poem by Thomas Gray, completed in 1750 and first published in 1751. The poem’s origins are unknown, but it was partly inspired by Gray’s thoughts following the death of the poet Richard West in 1742. Originally titled Stanza's Wrote in a Country... - Eliza S. Craven GreenEliza S. Craven GreenEliza S. Craven Green , née Craven, was an English poet.Eliza was born in Leeds in 1803. Her early years were spent in the Isle of Man. Subsequently she lived at Manchester, but she returned to Leeds, where she resided many years...
, (1803-1866), poet - Candida Lycett GreenCandida Lycett GreenCandida Lycett Green is the author of sixteen books including English Cottages, Goodbye London, The Perfect English House, Over the Hills and Far Away and The Dangerous Edge of Things. Her television documentaries include “The Englishwoman and the Horse” and “The Front Garden”...
, (born 1942), writer and journalist - Henry GreenHenry GreenHenry Green was the nom de plume of Henry Vincent Yorke , an English author best remembered for the novel Loving, which was featured by Time in its list of the 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005.- Biography :Green was born near Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, into an educated family...
, (pen name of Henry Vincent Yorke), (1905–1973), novelist - John Richard GreenJohn Richard GreenJohn Richard Green was an English historian.-Early life:Born the son of a tradesman in Oxford, where he was educated, first at Magdalen College School, and then at Jesus College where he is commemorated by the J. R...
, (1837–1883), historian - Matthew GreenMatthew Green (poet)Matthew Green was a British poet born of Nonconformist parents. For many years he held a post in the custom house. The few anecdotes that have been preserved show him to have been as witty as his poems would lead one to expect: on one occasion, when the government was about to cut off funds that...
, (1696–1737), poet - Roger Lancelyn Green, (1918–1987), biographer and children's writer
- Sarah GreenSarah Green (novelist)Sarah Green was an Irish-English novelist and writer.Green was apparently born in Ireland, though moved to London. She may have authored Charles Henly, or, The Fugitive Restored , but the first fictional work which can definitely be attributed to her is Court Intrigue, or, The Victim of Constancy...
, (fl. 1790-1825), novelist - Thomas Hill GreenThomas Hill GreenThomas Hill Green was an English philosopher, political radical and temperance reformer, and a member of the British idealism movement. Like all the British idealists, Green was influenced by the metaphysical historicism of G.W.F. Hegel...
, (1836–1882), philosopher and radical - Kate GreenawayKate GreenawayCatherine Greenaway , known as Kate Greenaway, was an English children's book illustrator and writer, who spent much of her childhood at Rolleston, Nottinghamshire. She studied at what is now the Royal College of Art in London, which at that time had a separate section for women, and was headed by...
, (1846–1901), children's author and illustrator - Graham GreeneGraham GreeneHenry Graham Greene, OM, CH was an English author, playwright and literary critic. His works explore the ambivalent moral and political issues of the modern world...
, (1904–1991), novelist and playwright, Our Man in HavanaOur Man in HavanaOur Man In Havana is a novel by British author Graham Greene, where he makes fun of intelligence services, especially the British MI6, and their willingness to believe reports from their local informants.... - Robert Greene, (1558–1592), playwright and pamphleteer
- Chris GreenhalghChris GreenhalghChris Greenhalgh is a British novelist, screenwriter, teacher and poet.-Life:Chris Greenhalgh was born in 1963 and brought up in Manchester. After studying English literature at university, he lived and worked for five years in Italy and Athens. Upon his return to England, he completed his doctoral...
, (born 1963), novelist, screenwriter and poet - Lavinia GreenlawLavinia Greenlaw-Biography:Greenlaw was born in London into a family of doctors and scientists, but spent much of her childhood in a small village in Essex. She began her working life in publishing and arts administration before embarking upon a career as a freelance artist, critic and radio broadcaster. She lives...
, (born 1962), poet and novelist - Frederick GreenwoodFrederick GreenwoodFrederick Greenwood , was an English journalist, editor, and man of letters.-Early years:He was one of three brothers — the others being James and Charles — who all gained reputation as journalists. Frederick started life in a printing house, but at an early age began to write in periodicals...
, (1830-1909), journalist and man of letters - James Greenwood, (c. 1830/35-1929), children's writer and investigative journalist
- Walter Wilson GregWalter Wilson GregSir Walter Wilson Greg was one of the leading bibliographers and Shakespeare scholars of the 20th century....
, (1875–1959), bibliographer and editor - Joyce GrenfellJoyce GrenfellJoyce Irene Grenfell, OBE was an English actress, comedienne, diseuse and singer-songwriter.-Early life:...
, (1910–1979), writer, actress and comedian - Julian GrenfellJulian GrenfellThe Honourable Julian Henry Francis Grenfell DSO , was a British soldier and poet of World War I.-Early life:Julian Grenfell was born at 4 St James's Square, London, the eldest son of William Grenfell, later Baron Desborough, and Ethel Priscilla Fane, daughter of Julian Fane...
, (1888–1915), poet - Charles Greville, (1794–1865), diarist and cricketer
- Frances GrevilleFrances GrevilleFrances Greville was an Irish poet and celebrity in Georgian England.She was born in Longford, Ireland in the mid-1720s; by the early 1740s, she was in London, accompanying Sarah Lennox, Duchess of Richmond...
, (c. 1724–1789), poet - Fulke Greville, Lord BrookeFulke Greville, 1st Baron BrookeFulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, de jure 13th Baron Latimer and 5th Baron Willoughby de Broke , known before 1621 as Sir Fulke Greville, was an Elizabethan poet, dramatist, and statesman....
, (1554–1628), poet and playwright - Bill GriffithsBill GriffithsBill Griffiths was a poet and Anglo-Saxon scholar associated with the British Poetry Revival.-Overview:...
, (1948–2007), poet, scholar and translator - Jane GriffithsJane Griffiths (poet)-Career and writings:Griffiths was born in Exeter, England, and brought up in the Netherlands. She studied English at Oxford University, where she won the Newdigate prize for her poem "The House"...
, (born 1970), poet and lecturer - Paul GriffithsPaul Griffiths (writer)Paul Griffiths is a British music critic, novelist and librettist. He is particularly noted for his writings on modern classical music and for having written the libretti for two 20th century operas, Tan Dun's Marco Polo and Elliott Carter's What Next?.-Biography and career:Paul Griffiths was...
, (born 1947), novelist, librettist and music critic - John Grigg, (1924-2001), biographer and journalist
- Geoffrey GrigsonGeoffrey GrigsonGeoffrey Edward Harvey Grigson was a British writer. He was born in Pelynt, a village near Looe in Cornwall.-Life:...
, (1905–1985), poet and editor - Arthur GrimbleArthur GrimbleSir Arthur Francis Grimble was a British Civil Servant and writer.After joining the Colonial Office, he became a cadet administrative officer in the Gilberts and became Resident Commissioner of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands colony in 1926.Specialist in the myths and oral traditions of Kiribati...
, (1888–1956), writer, anthropologist and colonial governor - Francis GroseFrancis GroseFrancis Grose was an English antiquary, draughtsman, and lexicographer. He was born at his father's house in Broad Street, St-Peter-le-Poer, London, son of a Swiss immigrant and jeweller, Francis Jacob Grose , and his wife, Anne , daughter of Thomas Bennett of Greenford in Middlesex...
, (1731–1791), antiquary and lexicographer - John GrossJohn GrossJohn Gross FRSL was an eminent English author, anthologist, literary and theatrical critic. The Spectator magazine called Gross “the best-read man in Britain”, as did The Guardian...
, (born 1935), critic, writer and anthologist - Philip GrossPhilip GrossPhilip Gross is a poet, novelist and playwright. He was born in Delabole, Cornwall and grew up in Plymouth. He lives in Penarth, South Wales, and was appointed Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Glamorgan in 2004, a position he still holds. He previously taught creative writing at...
, (born 1952), poet, novelist and playwright - George GrossmithGeorge GrossmithGeorge Grossmith was an English comedian, writer, composer, actor, and singer. His performing career spanned more than four decades...
, (1847–1912), writer and entertainer, co-author of Diary of a NobodyDiary of a NobodyThe Diary of a Nobody, an English comic novel written by George Grossmith and his brother Weedon Grossmith with illustrations by Weedon, first appeared in the magazine Punch in 1888 – 89, and was first printed in book form in 1892... - Weedon GrossmithWeedon GrossmithWalter Weedon Grossmith , better known as Weedon Grossmith, was an English writer, painter, actor and playwright, best known as co-author of The Diary of a Nobody with his famous brother, music hall comedian and Gilbert and Sullivan star, George Grossmith...
, (1854–1919), writer, artist and actor, co-author of Diary of a NobodyDiary of a NobodyThe Diary of a Nobody, an English comic novel written by George Grossmith and his brother Weedon Grossmith with illustrations by Weedon, first appeared in the magazine Punch in 1888 – 89, and was first printed in book form in 1892... - George GroteGeorge GroteGeorge Grote was an English classical historian, best known in the field for a major work, the voluminous History of Greece, still read.-Early life:He was born at Clay Hill near Beckenham in Kent...
, (1794–1871), classical historian and reformer - Charlotte GroveCharlotte GroveCharlotte Grove was first child and eldest daughter of Thomas Grove, a landowner of Ferne House, in Wiltshire, by his marriage to Charlotte Pilfold.She was the sister of Harriet Grove, known as the "first love" of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley....
, (1773–1860), diarist - George GroveGeorge GroveSir George Grove, CB was an English writer on music, known as the founding editor of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians....
, (1820–1900), editor and writer on music, Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians - Sydney GrundySydney GrundySydney Grundy was an English dramatist. Most of his works were adaptations of European plays, and many became successful enough to tour throughout the English-speaking world...
, (1848–1914), playwright and librettist - Philip GuedallaPhilip GuedallaPhilip Guedalla was a British barrister, and a popular historical and travel writer and biographer. His wit and epigrams are well-known, one example being "Even reviewers read a Preface," another being "History repeats itself...
, (1889–1944), historian, biographer and travel writer - Harry GuestHarry GuestHarry Guest is a British poet born in Wales. He was educated at Malvern College and read Modern Languages at Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge. He wrote a thesis on Mallarmé at the Sorbonne...
, (born 1932), poet - Thom GunnThom GunnThom Gunn, born Thomson William Gunn , was an Anglo-American poet who was praised both for his early verses in England, where he was associated with The Movement and his later poetry in America, even after moving toward a looser, free-verse style...
, (1929–2004), poet - Edmund GurneyEdmund GurneyEdmund Gurney was an English psychologist and psychic researcher.-Early life:He was born at Hersham, near Walton-on-Thames. He was educated at Blackheath and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took a high place in the classical tripos and obtained a fellowship. His work for the tripos was...
, (1847-1888), writer and psychologist - Ivor GurneyIvor GurneyIvor Bertie Gurney was an English composer and poet.-Life:Born at 3 Queen Street, Gloucester in 1890, the second of four children of David Gurney, a tailor, and his wife Florence, a seamstress, Gurney showed musical ability early...
, (1890–1937), poet and composer - Thomas Anstey GuthrieThomas Anstey GuthrieThomas Anstey Guthrie , was an English novelist and journalist, who wrote his comic novels under the pseudonym F. Anstey....
, (pen name F. Anstey, 1856–1934), novelist and journalist, Vice Versa - Bernard GutteridgeBernard GutteridgeBernard Gutteridge was an English poet, known for poems about the Spanish Civil War, or from his World War II experiences in Madagascar, India and with the 36th Division of the British Army in Burma ....
, (1916–1985), poet - Emma Jane GuytonEmma Jane GuytonEmma Jane Guyton or Worboise , was an English novelist and editor.Guyton was born Emma Jane Worboys in Birmingham on 20 April 1825 to George Baddeley Worboys , a gunsmith, and his wife, Maria Lane . She was a lifelong Congregationalist. She attended boarding school and may have worked as a governess...
or Worboise, (1825-1887), novelist - Brion GysinBrion GysinBrion Gysin was a painter, writer, sound poet, and performance artist born in Taplow, Buckinghamshire.He is best known for his discovery of the cut-up technique, used by his friend, the novelist William S. Burroughs...
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- Jen HadfieldJen HadfieldJen Hadfield is an English poet and artist.She won the 2008 T.S. Eliot Prize for poetry for her second collection, Nigh-No-Place...
, (born 1978), poet - William HabingtonWilliam HabingtonWilliam Habington was an English poet.He was born at Hindlip Hall, Worcestershire, and belonged to a well-known Catholic family...
, (1605–1654), poet - Mark HaddonMark HaddonMark Haddon is an English novelist and poet, best known for his 2003 novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.- Life and work :...
, (born 1962), novelist, children's writer and poet, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-timeThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-timeThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a 2003 novel by British writer Mark Haddon. It won the 2003 Whitbread Book of the Year and the 2004 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book... - Henry Rider Haggard, (1856–1925), novelist and story writer, King Solomon's MinesKing Solomon's MinesKing Solomon's Mines is a popular novel by the Victorian adventure writer and fabulist Sir H. Rider Haggard. It tells of a search of an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain for the missing brother of one of the party...
- Richard HakluytRichard HakluytRichard Hakluyt was an English writer. He is principally remembered for his efforts in promoting and supporting the settlement of North America by the English through his works, notably Divers Voyages Touching the Discoverie of America and The Principal Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques and...
, (c. 1552/3-1616), travel writer, translator and cleric, Discourse Concerning Western PlantingDiscourse Concerning Western PlantingDiscourse Concerning Western Planting was a document written by Richard Hakluyt in 1584This document was written to convince Queen Elizabeth I to support the colonization schemes of Walter Raleigh and to encourage English merchants and gentry to invest in those enterprises.The document makes the... - J. B. S. HaldaneJ. B. S. HaldaneJohn Burdon Sanderson Haldane FRS , known as Jack , was a British-born geneticist and evolutionary biologist. A staunch Marxist, he was critical of Britain's role in the Suez Crisis, and chose to leave Oxford and moved to India and became an Indian citizen...
, (1892–1964), scientist and communist, On Being the Right SizeOn Being the Right SizeOn Being the Right Size is a 1926 essay by J. B. S. Haldane which discusses proportions in the animal world and the essential link between the size of an animal and these systems an animal has for life.... - Kathleen HaleKathleen HaleKathleen Hale was a British artist, illustrator, and children's author. She is best remembered for her series of books about Orlando the Marmalade Cat....
, (1898–2000), children's writer and illustrator, Orlando the Marmalade CatOrlando (The Marmalade Cat)Orlando is the eponymous hero of a series of 19 illustrated children's books written by Kathleen Hale between 1938 and 1972 by various publishers including Country Life.... - Anne HalkettAnne HalkettLady Anne Halkett was a religious writer and autobiographer.-Early life:Halkett's father Thomas Murray was tutor to King James I's children. He later became Provost of Eton College. Her mother was governess to the king's children. When Thomas Murray died, Halkett was educated by her mother...
, (1623–1699), memoirist and religious writer - Edward HallEdward HallEdward Hall , English chronicler and lawyer, was born about the end of the 15th century, being a son of John Hall of Northall, Shropshire....
or Halle, (c. 1498–1547), chronicler - Evelyn Beatrice HallEvelyn Beatrice HallEvelyn Beatrice Hall, , who wrote under the pseudonym S.G. Tallentyre, was an English writer best known for her biography of Voltaire with the title The Friends of Voltaire, which she completed in 1906....
, (pen name S. G. Tallentyre, 1868-1919), biographer and translator - Henry HallHenry Hall (poet)Henry Hall was a 17th century English poet and also a composer of Church music.Hall, a contemporary of Henry Purcell, received his musical education under Pelham Humfrey and Dr John Blow and as one of the boys of the Chapel Royal...
, (c. 1656-1707), poet and composer - Joseph Hall, (1574–1656), satirist, moralist and bishop
- Radclyffe HallRadclyffe HallRadclyffe Hall was an English poet and author, best known for the lesbian classic The Well of Loneliness.- Life :...
, (1880–1943), novelist and poet, The Well of LonelinessThe Well of LonelinessThe Well of Loneliness is a 1928 lesbian novel by the British author Radclyffe Hall. It follows the life of Stephen Gordon, an Englishwoman from an upper-class family whose "sexual inversion" is apparent from an early age... - Sarah HallSarah Hall (writer)Sarah Hall is an English novelist, and poet. Her critically acclaimed second novel, The Electric Michelangelo, was nominated for the 2004 Man Booker Prize and achieved considerable international commercial success...
, (born 1974), novelist and poet - Simon HallSimon Hall (writer)Simon Hall is the BBC's Crime Correspondent in the South West of England. He is also the author of the Dan Groves and Adam Breen detective novels, in which a TV reporter and a detective work together to solve crimes....
, (born 1969), novelist and broadcaster - Steven HallSteven HallSteven Hall is a British author. He has written one novel, produced a number of plays, music videos, concrete prose/conceptual art pieces, and short stories....
, (born 1975), novelist and playwright - Tarquin HallTarquin HallTarquin Hall is a British writer and journalist.He was born in London, 1969, to an English father and American mother. Hall has spent much of his adult life away from the United Kingdom, living in the United States, Pakistan, India, Kenya and Turkey, and travelling extensively in Africa, the Middle...
, (born 1969), writer and journalist - Thomas HallThomas Hall (minister)-Life:He was son of Richard Hall, clothier, by his wife Elizabeth , and was born in St. Andrew's parish, Worcester, about 22 July 1610. He was educated at the King's School, Worcester, under Henry Bright , one of the most celebrated schoolmasters of the day. In 1624 he entered Balliol College,...
, (1610–1665), religious writer and cleric - Arthur HallamArthur HallamArthur Henry Hallam was an English poet, best known as the subject of a major work, In Memoriam A.H.H., by his best friend and fellow poet, Alfred Tennyson...
, (1811–1833), poet - Henry HallamHenry HallamHenry Hallam was an English historian.-Life:The only son of John Hallam, canon of Windsor and dean of Bristol, Henry Hallam was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, graduating in 1799...
, (1777–1859), historian - James Halliwell-Phillipps, (1820–1889), Shakespearean scholar and biographer
- Bruce Barrymore HalpennyBruce Barrymore HalpennyBruce Barrymore Halpenny is a widely respected English military historian and author, specialising in airfields and aircraft, as well as ghost stories and mysteries. He is also a broadcaster and games inventor.-Parents:...
(born early 20th c.), writer and military historian - A. H. Halsey, (born 1923), sociologist
- Alan HalseyAlan HalseyAlan Halsey is a British poet. He managed The Poetry Bookshop in Hay-on-Wye from 1979 to 1997. Since 1997, Halsey has lived in Sheffield, working as a specialist bookseller and publishing West House Books....
, (born 1947), poet - Michael HamburgerMichael HamburgerMichael Hamburger OBE was a noted British translator, poet, critic, memoirist, and academic. He was known in particular for his translations of Friedrich Hölderlin, Paul Celan, Gottfried Benn and W. G. Sebald from German, and his work in literary criticism...
, (1924–2007), writer, poet and translator - Philip Gilbert HamertonPhilip Gilbert HamertonPhilip Gilbert Hamerton , was an English artist and art critic and author.He was born at Laneside, a hamlet in Crompton, Lancashire, England. His mother died giving birth to him, and his father died ten years later...
, (pen name Adolphus Segrave, 1834-1894), writer and artist - Charles HamiltonCharles Hamilton (writer)Charles Harold St. John Hamilton , was an English writer, specializing in writing long-running series of stories for weekly magazines about recurrent casts of characters, his most frequent and famous genre being boys' public school stories, though he also dealt with other genres...
, (25 pen names including Frank Richards, 1876–1961), children's writer, Billy BunterBilly BunterWilliam George Bunter , is a fictional character created by Charles Hamilton using the pen name Frank Richards... - Cicely Mary Hamilton, (1872–1952), writer, playwright and feminist
- Cosmo HamiltonCosmo HamiltonCosmo Hamilton , born Henry Charles Hamilton Gibbs, was an English playwright and novelist. He took his mother's maiden name when he began to write. Hamilton was married twice: First to Beryl Faber, née Beryl Crossley Smith, the sister of C...
, (1870–1942), playwright and novelist - Edward Walter HamiltonEdward Walter HamiltonSir Edward Hamilton was political diarist and one time private secretary to William Ewart Gladstone when in 1880 when Gladstone became Prime Minister for the second time...
, (1847-1908), political diarist and civil servant - Ian HamiltonIan Hamilton (critic)Robert Ian Hamilton was a British literary critic, reviewer, biographer, poet, magazine editor and publisher....
, (1938–2001), critic, biographer and poet - Peter F. HamiltonPeter F. HamiltonPeter F. Hamilton is a British author. He is best known for writing space opera. As of the publication of his tenth novel in 2004, his works had sold over two million copies worldwide.- Biography :...
, (born 1960), SF novelist - Edward Bruce HamleyEdward Bruce HamleyLieutenant-General Sir Edward Bruce Hamley KCB KCMG was a British general and military writer and a Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1892.-Early life:...
, (1824–1893), military theorist and novelist - Edward HamleyEdward Hamley-Life:He was the elder son of the Rev. Thomas Hamley of St. Columb, Cornwall, who was buried at Bodmin 11 June 1766, and was baptised at St. Columb Major 25 Oct. 1764. He matriculated from New College, Oxford, 6 November 1783, and took his Bachelor of Civil Law degree in 1791...
, (1764–1834), poet and cleric - James HammondJames HammondJames Hammond was an eighteenth-century British poet included in Doctor Johnson's Lives of the Poets....
, (1710–1742), poet and politician - William HamptonWilliam Hampton (poet)William Hampton is a British poet.-Life:William took a degree in Religion with Literature from Bristol University....
, (born 1959), poet - Marika Hanbury-TenisonMarika Hanbury-TenisonMarika Hanbury-Tenison was an English journalist, cookery writer, and explorer. Born in London, in 1938, she was the daughter of John and Alexandra Hopkinson...
, (1938–1982), cookery and travel writer - St. John Hankin, (1869–1909), playwright
- James Hanley, (1897–1985), novelist and screenwriter
- Sophie HannahSophie HannahSophie Hannah is an English-born poet and novelist. From 1997 to 1999 she was Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge, and between 1999 and 2001 she was a junior research fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford...
, (born 1971), poet and novelist - Derek HansenDerek HansenDerek Hansen is a novelist and short story writer.He was born in England, raised in New Zealand and now lives in Sydney, Australia. He was formerly in advertising, but walked away at the peak of his career, to follow his dream to write novels. Derek Hansen's works have been published in the USA,...
, (born 1944), novelist - John HardingJohn Harding (President of Magdalen)John Harding was an English churchman and academic. He was Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford from 1591 to 1598, and President of Magdalen College, Oxford from 1607...
(died 1610), scholar, AV translator and cleric - Frances HardingeFrances HardingeFrances Hardinge is a British author best known for her novel Fly By Night which in 2006 won the Branford Boase Award and was listed as one of the School Library Journal's Best Books. She has also been shortlisted and achieved a number of other awards for both her novels as well as some of her...
, (born 1973), children's writer - Mollie HardwickMollie HardwickMollie Greenhalgh Hardwick was an English author who was best known for writing books that accompanied the TV series Upstairs, Downstairs....
, (1916–2003), novelist and writer of TV spinoffs - Ronald HardyRonald HardyRonald Harold Hardy was an English novelist and screenwriter. His first novel The Place of Jackals was published in 1954 to general acclaim. Hardy drew on his experiences as a liaison officer in Indochina during World War II in the writing of this novel...
, (born 1919), novelist - Thomas HardyThomas HardyThomas Hardy, OM was an English novelist and poet. While his works typically belong to the Naturalism movement, several poems display elements of the previous Romantic and Enlightenment periods of literature, such as his fascination with the supernatural.While he regarded himself primarily as a...
, (1840–1928), novelist and poet, The Mayor of CasterbridgeThe Mayor of CasterbridgeThe Mayor of Casterbridge , subtitled "The Life and Death of a Man of Character", is a tragic novel by British author Thomas Hardy. It is set in the fictional town of Casterbridge . The book is one of Hardy's Wessex novels, all set in a fictional rustic England... - Augustus HareAugustus HareAugustus John Cuthbert Hare was an English writer and raconteur.He was the youngest son of Francis George Hare of Herstmonceux, East Sussex, and Gresford, Flintshire, Wales, and nephew of Augustus William Hare and Julius Hare...
, (1834–1903), travel writer and raconteur - Augustus William HareAugustus William HareAugustus William Hare was the son of Francis Hare-Naylor. He was the author of a history of Germany....
, (1792–1834), essayist and cleric - Cyril HareCyril HareCyril Hare, the pseudonym of Alfred Alexander Gordon Clark was an English judge and crime writer.- Life and work :...
, (real name A. A. G. Clark, 1900–1958), novelist - David HareDavid Hare (playwright)Sir David Hare is an English playwright and theatre and film director.-Early life:Hare was born in St Leonards-on-Sea, Hastings, East Sussex, the son of Agnes and Clifford Hare, a sailor. He was educated at Lancing, an independent school in West Sussex, and at Jesus College, Cambridge...
, (born 1947), playwright, Racing DemonRacing Demon (play)Racing Demon is a 1990 play by English playwright David Hare. Part of a trio of plays about British institutions, it focuses on the Church of England, and tackles issues such as gay ordination, and the role of evangelism in inner-city communities... - Julius Charles HareJulius Charles HareJulius Charles Hare was an English theological writer.He was born at Valdagno, near Vicenza, in Italy. He came to England with his parents in 1799, but in 1804-1805 spent a winter with them at Weimar, Germany, where he met Goethe and Schiller, and took an interest in German literature which...
, (1795–1855), religious writer - Roger HargreavesRoger HargreavesCharles Roger Hargreaves was an English author and illustrator of children's books, notably the Mr. Men and Little Miss series, intended for very young readers...
, (1935–1988), children's writer and illustrator, Mr. MenMr. MenMr. Men is a series of 49 children's books by Roger Hargreaves commencing in 1971. Two of these books were not published in English. The series features characters with names such as Mr. Tickle and Mr. Happy who have personalities based on their names...
series - John Harington, (1561–1612), poet, translator and courtier
- John HarmarJohn HarmarJohn Harmar was an English classical scholar and headmaster of Winchester College.-Life:Harmar was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, under the patronage of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester...
, (c. 1555-1613), scholar, AV translator and cleric - Cynthia HarnettCynthia HarnettCynthia Harnett was a highly acclaimed English writer of children's historical fiction.Known for her exceptional attention to detail and meticulous background research, combined with ingenious and engrossing plots, Harnett wrote only seven novels. The Wool-Pack won the Carnegie Medal in 1951...
, (1893–1981), children's writer - Charles George HarperCharles George HarperCharles George Harper was an English author and illustrator. Born in London, England, Harper wrote many self-illustrated travel books, exploring the regions, roads, coastlines, literary connections, old inns etc. of Britain....
, (1863–1943), travel writer and illustrator - Beatrice HarradenBeatrice HarradenBeatrice Harraden was a British writer and suffragette.Born in London on 24 January 1864, Harraden studied in Dresden, at Cheltenham Ladies’ College in Gloucestershire and at Queen’s College and Bedford College in London, and received a bachelor’s degree...
, (1864–1936), novelist, lexicographer and suffragist - James Harington, (1611–1677), political writer
- Frank HarrisFrank HarrisFrank Harris was a Irish-born, naturalized-American author, editor, journalist and publisher, who was friendly with many well-known figures of his day...
, (1856–1931), writer, editor and autobiographer - James HarrisJames Harris (grammarian)James Harris, FRS was an English politician and grammarian.-Life and works:He was born at Salisbury and educated at the grammar school in the Close at Salisbury, and at Wadham College, Oxford. On leaving the university he was entered at Lincoln's Inn as a student of law, though not intended for...
, (1709–1780), philosopher and grammarian - Joanne HarrisJoanne HarrisJoanne Michèle Sylvie Harris is a British author.Biography=Born to a French mother and an English father in her grandparents' sweet shop, her family life was filled with food and folklore. Her great-grandmother had an odd reputation and enjoyed letting the gullible think she was a witch and healer...
, (born 1964), novelist, ChocolatChocolatChocolat is a 1999 novel by Joanne Harris. It tells the story of Vianne Rocher, a young mother, who arrives at a fictional insular French village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes with her six-year-old daughter, Anouk... - Robert HarrisRobert Harris (novelist)Robert Dennis Harris is an English novelist. He is a former journalist and BBC television reporter.-Early life:Born in Nottingham, Harris spent his childhood in a small rented house on a Nottingham council estate. His ambition to become a writer arose at an early age, from visits to the local...
, (born 1957), novelist, writer and screenplay writer - Rosemary HarrisRosemary HarrisRosemary Ann Harris is an English actress and a member of the American Theatre Hall of Fame. Throughout her career she has been nominated for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award and has won a Golden Globe, an Emmy, a Tony Award, an Obie, and five Drama Desk Awards.-Early life:Harris was born in...
, (born 1923), children's writer, The Moon in the CloudThe Moon in the CloudThe Moon in the Cloud is a light-hearted children's historical fantasy by Rosemary Harris, first published in 1968. The novel is set in ancient Canaan and Egypt at the time of the Biblical Flood. It was awarded the Carnegie Medal for 1968, and was adapted for television in 1978... - Austin HarrisonAustin HarrisonAustin Frederic Harrison was a British journalist and editor, best known for his editorship of The English Review from 1909 until 1923.-Early life and career:...
, (1873–1928), editor and writer - Jane Ellen HarrisonJane Ellen HarrisonJane Ellen Harrison was a British classical scholar, linguist and feminist. Harrison is one of the founders, with Karl Kerenyi and Walter Burkert, of modern studies in Greek mythology. She applied 19th century archaeological discoveries to the interpretation of Greek religion in ways that have...
, (1850-1928), classical scholar - Sarah HarrisonSarah Harrison (novelist)Sarah Harrison is an English novelist.Born in Exeter, she is the second of three children of an army officer and a former actress, and a cousin of the novelist Celia Dale. She was educated at boarding school and took an English degree at the University of London. She then worked for four years on...
, (born 1946), novelist and children's writer - Thomas HarrisonThomas Harrison (translator)Thomas Harrison was an English Puritan scholar, a Vice-Master of Trinity College, Cambridge and one of the translators for the King James Version of the Bible.-Life:...
, (1555–1631), scholar, AV translator and cleric - Tony HarrisonTony HarrisonTony Harrison is an English poet and playwright. He is noted for controversial works such as the poem V and Fram, as well as his versions of ancient Greek tragedies, including the Oresteia and Hecuba...
, (born 1938), poet and playwright - William HarrisonWilliam Harrison (clergyman)William Harrison was an English clergyman, whose Description of England was produced as part of the publishing venture of a group of London stationers who produced Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles...
, (1534–1593), writer and cleric - Tom HarrissonTom HarrissonMajor Tom Harnett Harrisson DSO OBE was a British polymath. In the course of his life he was an ornithologist, explorer, journalist, broadcaster, soldier, guerrilla, ethnologist, museum curator, archaeologist, documentarian, film-maker, conservationist, and writer...
, (also wrote as T. H. Harrisson, 1911–1976), conservationist and polymath, Mass-ObservationMass-ObservationMass Observation was a United Kingdom social research organisation founded in 1937. Their work ended in the mid 1960s but was revived in 1981. The Archive is housed at the University of Sussex....
with Humphrey JenningsHumphrey JenningsFrank Humphrey Sinkler Jennings was an English documentary filmmaker and one of the founders of the Mass Observation organization...
and Charles MadgeCharles MadgeCharles Madge , was an English poet, journalist and sociologist, now most remembered as a founder of Mass-Observation.As a sociologist, he co-founded Mass-Observation with Tom Harrisson in 1937, an endeavour which would occupy more of his time than literature...
. - David HarsentDavid HarsentDavid Harsent is an English poet & TV scriptwriter. As Jack Curtis and David Lawrence he has published a number of crime fiction novels....
, (pen names Jack Curtis and David Lawrence, born 1942), novelist, poet and scriptwriter - B. H. Liddell Hart, (1895–1970), military historian and army officer
- Adam Hart-DavisAdam Hart-DavisAdam John Hart-Davis is an English scientist, author, photographer, historian and broadcaster, well-known in the UK for presenting the BBC television series Local Heroes and What the Romans Did for Us, the latter spawning several spin-off series involving the Victorians, the Tudors, the Stuarts,...
, (born 1943), writer, scientist and broadcaster - Duff Hart-DavisDuff Hart-DavisPeter Duff Hart-Davis , generally known as Duff Hart-Davis, is a British biographer, naturalist and journalist, who writes for The Independent newspaper. He is married to Phyllida Barstow and has one son and one daughter, the journalist Alice Hart-Davis...
, (born 1936), biographer and naturalist - Walter HarteWalter HarteWalter Harte was a British poet and historian. He was a friend of Alexander Pope, Oxford don, canon of Windsor, and vice-principal of St. Mary's Hall, Oxford....
, (1709–1774), poet and historian - David HartleyDavid Hartley (philosopher)David Hartley was an English philosopher and founder of the Associationist school of psychology. -Early life and education:...
, (1705–1757), philosopher and psychologist - John HartleyJohn Hartley (poet)John Hartley was an English poet who worked in the Yorkshire dialect. He wrote a great deal of prose and poetry – often of a sentimental nature – dealing with the poverty of the district...
, (1839–1915), poet and writer in Yorkshire dialect - L. P. HartleyL. P. HartleyLeslie Poles Hartley was a British writer, known for novels and short stories. His best-known work is The Go-Between , which was made into a 1970 film, directed by Joseph Losey with a star cast, in an adaptation by Harold Pinter...
, (1895–1972), novelist, The Go-BetweenThe Go-BetweenThe Go-Between is a romantic novel by L. P. Hartley , published in London in 1953. The novel begins with the famous line "The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there."-Plot summary:... - Frederick William Harvey, (1888–1957), poet
- Gabriel HarveyGabriel HarveyGabriel Harvey was an English writer. Harvey was a notable scholar, though his reputation suffered from his quarrel with Thomas Nashe...
, (c. 1545–1630), poet and writer - John HarveyJohn Harvey (author)John Harvey is a British author of crime fiction most famous for his series of jazz-influenced Charlie Resnick novels, based in the City of Nottingham.-Writing Career:...
, (born 1938), novelist - William HarveyWilliam HarveyWilliam Harvey was an English physician who was the first person to describe completely and in detail the systemic circulation and properties of blood being pumped to the body by the heart...
, (1578–1657), physician - W. F. HarveyW. F. HarveyWilliam Fryer Harvey was an English writer of short stories, most notably in the mystery and horror genres. Among his better-known stories are "August Heat" and "The Beast with Five Fingers"....
, ((1885–1937), short-story writer - Lee HarwoodLee HarwoodLee Harwood is a poet associated with the British Poetry Revival.-Life:Travers Rafe Lee Harwood was born in Leicester to maths teacher Wilfred Travers Lee-Harwood and Grace Ladkin Harwood, who were then living in Chertsey, Surrey...
, (born 1939), poet - Christopher HassallChristopher HassallChristopher Vernon Hassall was an English actor, dramatist, librettist, lyricist and poet, who found his greatest fame in a memorable musical partnership with the actor and composer Ivor Novello after working together in the same touring company...
, (1912–1963), playwright, actor and poet - Edward HastedEdward HastedEdward Hasted was the author of a major county history, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent .-Life:...
, (1732–1812), historian of KentKentKent is a county in southeast England, and is one of the home counties. It borders East Sussex, Surrey and Greater London and has a defined boundary with Essex in the middle of the Thames Estuary. The ceremonial county boundaries of Kent include the shire county of Kent and the unitary borough of... - Michael HastingsMichael Hastings (playwright)Michael Gerald Hastings was a British playwright, screen-writer, and occasional novelist and poet.He is probably best known for his 1984 play about the poet T.S. Eliot and his wife Vivienne Haigh-Wood, Tom & Viv, which became a motion picture released in 1994.Hastings was born in London...
, (born 1938), playwright, novelist and screenwriter - Richard HathwayeRichard HathwayeRichard Hathwaye , was an English dramatist. Little is known about Hathwaye's life. There is no evidence that he was related to his namesake Richard Hathaway, the father of Shakespeare's wife, Anne Hathaway. Hathwaye is not heard of after 1603....
, (fl. 1597–1603), playwright - Joseph HattonJoseph HattonJoseph Paul Christopher Hatton was a novelist and journalist. He was the editor of The Sunday Times from1874 to 1881.- Life :...
, (1841–1907), novelist and editor - William HaughtonWilliam HaughtonWilliam Haughton was an English playwright in the age of English Renaissance theatre. During the years 1597 to 1602 he collaborated in many plays with Henry Chettle, Thomas Dekker, John Day, Richard Hathwaye and Wentworth Smith....
, (died 1605), playwright - Frances Ridley HavergalFrances Ridley HavergalFrances Ridley Havergal was an English religious poet and hymn writer. Take My Life and Let it Be and Thy Life for Me are two of her best known hymns. She also wrote hymn melodies, religious tracts, and works for children.-Life:She was born into an Anglican family, at Astley in Worcestershire...
, (1836–1879), poet and hymn writer - Stephen HawesStephen HawesStephen Hawes was a popular English poet during the Tudor period who is now little known. He was probably born in Suffolk owing to the commonness of the name in that area and, if his own statement of his age may be trusted, was born about 1474. It has been suggested that he was an illegitimate...
, (c. 1474–1523), poet - Robert Stephen HawkerRobert Stephen HawkerRobert Stephen Hawker was an Anglican priest, poet, antiquarian of Cornwall and reputed eccentric. He is best known as the writer of The Song of the Western Men with its chorus line of And shall Trelawny die? / Here's twenty thousand Cornish men / will know the reason why!, which he published...
, (1803–1875), poet and cleric, "The Song of the Western MenThe Song of the Western Men"The Song of the Western Men" was written by Robert Stephen Hawker. It is also known by the title of "Trelawny".Hawker wrote the song in 1824, telling of events that took place in 1688. When the song first appeared many thought it to be a contemporary record of events, although in fact the song...
" - John Hawkesworth, (1715–1773), writer, editor and dramatist
- John HawkinsJohn Hawkins (author)Sir John Hawkins was an English author and friend of Dr Samuel Johnson and Horace Walpole. He was part of Johnson's various clubs but later left The Literary Club after a disagreement with some of Johnson's other friends. His friendship with Johnson continued and he was made one of the executors...
, (1719–1789), writer and biographer - Laetitia Matilda HawkinsLaetitia Matilda HawkinsLaetitia Matilda Hawkins was an English novelist, associated with Twickenham. She is also a character in Beryl Bainbridge's novel According to Queeney....
, (1759–1835), novelist - Spike HawkinsSpike HawkinsSpike Hawkins is a British poet, best known for his 'Three Pig Poems', included in his one book, the Fulcrum Press collection The Lost Fire-Brigade . He was part of the poetry scene in Liverpool during the 1960s and much of his output upholds the values of that group; short, modernistic, humorous...
, (born 1943), poet and performer - Thomas Hawkins, (1575-c. 1640), poet and translator
- Roy HayRoy Hay (horticulturist)Roy Hay MBE was a British horticultural journalist and broadcaster. He was the author of many publications and the instigator of many organisations and events, including the annual Britain in Bloom competition....
, (1910–1989), gardening writer, journalist and broadcaster - Anna HaycraftAnna HaycraftAnna Haycraft was a British writer and essayist who wrote under the nom de plume Alice Thomas Ellis...
, (pen name Alice Thomas Ellis, 1932–2005), novelist - William HayleyWilliam HayleyWilliam Hayley was an English writer, best known as the friend and biographer of William Cowper.-Biography:...
, (1745–1820), poet, playwright and biographer - Carole HaymanCarole HaymanCarole Hayman is an English writer, broadcaster and journalist was born in Kent, and attended Leeds University and the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School...
, (born 1950s?), novelist, screenwriter and actor - Robert HaymanRobert HaymanRobert Hayman was a poet, colonist and Proprietary Governor of Bristol's Hope colony in Newfoundland.-Early life and education:...
, (1575–1629), poet and colonist - Mary HaysMary HaysMary Hays was an English novelist and feminist.- Early years :Mary Hays was born in Southwark, London on Oct. 13, 1759. Almost nothing is known of her first 17 years. In 1779 she fell in love with John Eccles who lived on Gainsford Street, where she also lived. Their parents opposed the match but...
, (1759–1843), novelist - Alethea Hayter, (1911–2006), biographer and historical writer
- William Hayter (diplomat), (1906–1995), political writer and diplomat
- Abraham HaywardAbraham HaywardAbraham Hayward was an English man of letters.-Life:He was son of Joseph Hayward, and was born in Wilton, near Salisbury, Wiltshire....
, (1801–1884), essayist - John HaywardJohn HaywardSir John Hayward , English historian, was born at or near Felixstowe, Suffolk, where he was educated, and afterwards proceeded to Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he took the degrees of B.A., M.A. and LL.D....
, (c. 1560-1627), historian - Eliza HaywoodEliza HaywoodEliza Haywood , born Elizabeth Fowler, was an English writer, actress and publisher. Since the 1980s, Eliza Haywood’s literary works have been gaining in recognition and interest...
, (1793–1756), novelist, playwright and poet - C. H. HazlewoodColin Henry HazlewoodColin Henry Hazlewood was an English playwright.Hazlewood was born in 1823, and became a low comedian on the Lincoln, York, and western circuits. In 1850 he wrote and produced at the City of London Theatre a farce entitled ‘Who's the Victim?’ which was received with favour, and he commenced...
, (1823–1875), - William HazlittWilliam HazlittWilliam Hazlitt was an English writer, remembered for his humanistic essays and literary criticism, and as a grammarian and philosopher. He is now considered one of the great critics and essayists of the English language, placed in the company of Samuel Johnson and George Orwell. Yet his work is...
, (1778–1830), essayist and literary critic - Mary HearneMary HearneMary Hearne is the name of a novelist published by Edmund Curll. It is possible, even likely, that the name does not accurately represent the author, as Curll frequently required hack writers to submit works and gave them assumed names...
(fl. 1718), novelist - Thomas HearneThomas HearneThomas Hearne or Hearn , English antiquary, was born at Littlefield Green in the parish of White Waltham, Berkshire.-Life:...
or Hearn (1678–1735), antiquary and scholar - Ambrose HeathAmbrose HeathAmbrose Heath was a journalist and food writer who wrote for newspapers including The Times and The Manchester Guardian, before becoming the food writer for The Morning Post...
, (born Francis Geoffrey Miller, 1891–1969), cookery writer and translator - John Heath-StubbsJohn Heath-StubbsJohn Francis Alexander Heath-Stubbs OBE was an English poet and translator, known for his verse influenced by classical myths, and the long Arthurian poem Artorius .- Biography :...
, (1918–2006), poet, translator and anthologist - Reginald HeberReginald HeberReginald Heber was the Church of England's Bishop of Calcutta who is now remembered chiefly as a hymn-writer.-Life:Heber was born at Malpas in Cheshire...
, (1783–1826), hymn writer and bishop, The Son of God Goes Forth to WarThe Son of God Goes Forth to WarThe Son of God Goes Forth to War is a hymn written in 1812 by Reginald Heber. It was used in the film version of The Man Who Would Be King, starring Sean Connery and Michael Caine, but was set to the tune of The Moreen/The Minstrel Boy and had reworked lyrics .The Son of God goes forth to war,a... - Richard HeberRichard HeberRichard Heber , English book-collector, the half-brother of Reginald Heber, was born in London.As an undergraduate at Brasenose College, Oxford, he began to collect a purely classical library, but his taste broadening, he became interested in early English drama and literature, and began his...
, (1773–1833), classical scholar and editor - Zoë HellerZoë HellerZoë Kate Hinde Heller is an English journalist and novelist.-Early life:Heller was born in North London as the youngest of four children of German-Jewish immigrant Lukas Heller, who was a successful screenwriter. Her mother was instrumental in keeping up the Labour Party's "Save London Transport...
, (born 1965), novelist and journalist - Elizabeth HelmeElizabeth HelmeElizabeth Helme was an English novelist and translator of the 18th century.She was born in County Durham, but her maiden name is not known. The family moved to London, where she met William Helme, who became her husband. They had five children. One of their daughters, Elizabeth Somerville, was...
, (c. 1753-c. 1812), novelist and translator - Arthur HelpsArthur HelpsSir Arthur Helps, KCB, DCL , English writer and dean of the Privy Council, youngest son of Thomas Helps, a London merchant, was born in Streatham in South London....
, (1813–1875), writer and biographer - Racey HelpsRacey HelpsAngus Clifford Racey Helps was an English children's author and illustrator. His books were written in a simple style and featured woodland creatures and birds, with illustrations by the author...
, (1913–1970), children's writer - Felicia HemansFelicia Hemans-Ancestry:Felicia Heman's paternal grandfather was George Browne of Passage, co. Cork, Ireland; her maternal grandparents were Elizabeth Haydock Wagner of Lancashire and Benedict Paul Wagner , wine importer at 9 Wolstenholme Square, Liverpool. Family legend gave the Wagners a Venetian origin;...
, (1793–1835), poet - John HenleyJohn HenleyJohn Henley , English clergyman, commonly known as 'Orator Henley', and one of the first entertainers and a precursor to the talk show hosts of today.The son of a vicar, John Henley was born in Melton Mowbray...
, (1692-1756), poet, writer and cleric - Samuel HenleySamuel HenleySamuel Henley D.D. was an English clergyman, school teacher and college principal, antiquarian, and man of letters.-Life:Born in England, he began his career when he was recruited as a professor of moral philosophy for William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Virginia. He arrived in 1770...
, (1740–1815), poet and writer - William Ernest HenleyWilliam Ernest HenleyWilliam Ernest Henley was an English poet, critic and editor, best remembered for his 1875 poem "Invictus".-Life and career:...
, (1849–1903), poet - Robert HenriquesRobert HenriquesRobert David Quixano Henriques was a British writer, broadcaster and farmer. He gained modest renown for two award-winning novels and two biographies of Jewish business tycoons, published during the middle part of the 20th century.-Life and career:Robert Henriques was born in 1905 to one of the...
, (1905–1967), novelist and biographer - Matthew HenryMatthew HenryMatthew Henry was an English commentator on the Bible and Presbyterian minister.-Life:He was born at Broad Oak, a farmhouse on the borders of Flintshire and Shropshire. His father, Philip Henry, had just been ejected under the Act of Uniformity 1662...
, (1662-1714), biblicalBibleThe Bible refers to any one of the collections of the primary religious texts of Judaism and Christianity. There is no common version of the Bible, as the individual books , their contents and their order vary among denominations...
commentator and cleric - Philip HenryPhilip Henry (clergyman)Philip Henry was an English Nonconformist clergyman and diarist.-Early life:Henry graduated from Oxford in 1652 and was ordained in 1657. He was the eldest son of John Henry, keeper of the orchard at Whitehall, and was born at Whitehall on 24 August 1631...
, (1631-1696), diarist and cleric - John Stevens HenslowJohn Stevens HenslowJohn Stevens Henslow was an English clergyman, botanist and geologist. He is best remembered as friend and mentor to his pupil Charles Darwin.- Early life :...
, (17961861), botanist, geologist and cleric - Philip HenslowePhilip HenslowePhilip Henslowe was an Elizabethan theatrical entrepreneur and impresario. Henslowe's modern reputation rests on the survival of his diary, a primary source for information about the theatrical world of Renaissance London...
, (c. 1550–1616), diarist and theatre manager - G. A. HentyG. A. HentyGeorge Alfred Henty , was a prolific English novelist and a special correspondent. He is best known for his historical adventure stories that were popular in the late 19th century. His works include Out on the Pampas , The Young Buglers , With Clive in India and Wulf the Saxon .-Biography:G.A...
, (1832–1902), novelist - Philip HensherPhilip HensherPhilip Michael Hensher FRSL is an English novelist, critic and journalist.Hensher was born in South London, although he spent the majority of his childhood and adolescence in Sheffield, attending Tapton School. He did his undergraduate degree at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford before attending...
, (born 1965), novelist and critic - Rayner HeppenstallRayner HeppenstallJohn Rayner Heppenstall was a British novelist, poet, diarist, and a BBC radio producer.-Early life:...
, (1911–1981), novelist and poet - A. P. HerbertA. P. HerbertSir Alan Patrick Herbert, CH was an English humorist, novelist, playwright and law reform activist...
, (1890–1971), humorist, novelist and playwright, Holy DeadlockHoly DeadlockHoly Deadlock is a 1934 satirical novel by the English author A. P. Herbert, which aimed to highlight the perceived inadequacies and absurdities of contemporary divorce law... - Edward HerbertEdward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of CherburyEdward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Chirbury was an Anglo-Welsh soldier, diplomat, historian, poet and religious philosopher of the Kingdom of England.-Early life:...
, Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1583–1648), poet and soldier - George HerbertGeorge HerbertGeorge Herbert was a Welsh born English poet, orator and Anglican priest.Being born into an artistic and wealthy family, he received a good education that led to his holding prominent positions at Cambridge University and Parliament. As a student at Trinity College, Cambridge, Herbert excelled in...
, (1593–1633), poet - James HerbertJames HerbertJames Herbert, OBE is a best-selling English horror writer who originally worked as the art director of an advertising agency. He is a full-time writer who also designs his own book covers and publicity.-Family:...
, (born 1943), novelist, The RatsThe RatsThe Rats were an American garage punk band from Portland, Oregon, formed by Fred Cole from the garage rock band The Lollipop Shoppe. Cole played guitar and sang, his wife Toody played bass and sang, and initially Rod Rat played drums. Their sound was a raw mix of punk rock and garage rock with... - Mary HerbertMary SidneyMary Herbert , Countess of Pembroke , was one of the first English women to achieve a major reputation for her literary works, poetry, poetic translations and literary patronage.-Family:...
, countess of Pembroke, (1561–1621), poet and translator, The Countesse of Pembroke's ArcadiaCountess of Pembroke's ArcadiaThe Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, also known simply as the Arcadia or the Old Arcadia, is a long prose work by Sir Philip Sidney written towards the end of the sixteenth century, and later published in several versions. It is Sidney's most ambitious literary work, by far, and as significant in... - Edward Heron-AllenEdward Heron-AllenEdward Heron-Allen was an English polymath, writer, scientist and Persian scholar who translated the works of Omar Khayyam.-Life:...
, (1861–1943), novelist, historian and translator - Robert HerrickRobert Herrick (poet)Robert Herrick was a 17th-century English poet.-Early life:Born in Cheapside, London, he was the seventh child and fourth son of Julia Stone and Nicholas Herrick, a prosperous goldsmith....
, (1591–1674), poet - James HerriotJames HerriotJames Herriot was the pen name of James Alfred Wight, OBE, FRCVS also known as Alf Wight , an English veterinary surgeon and writer, who used his many years of experiences as a veterinarian to write a series of books of stories about animals and their owners...
, (pen name of James Alfred Wight), (1916–1995), writer - Elizabeth HerveyElizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of DevonshireElizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire , , is best known as an early woman novelist, and as the close friend of Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire...
, (1759–1824), novelist - John Hervey, (1696–1743), political writer, memoirist and courtier
- D. G. HessayonD. G. HessayonDavid Gerald Hessayon is a British author and botanist of Cypriot descent who is known for a best-selling series of gardening manuals known as the "Expert Guides" under his title Dr. D. G. Hessayon. The series started in 1958 with Be Your Own Gardening Expert and in 2008 the celebrated their 50th...
, (born 1928), gardening writer - Maurice HewlettMaurice HewlettMaurice Henry Hewlett , was an English historical novelist, poet and essayist. He was born at Weybridge, the eldest son of Henry Gay Hewlett, of Shaw Hall, Addington, Kent. He was educated at the London International College, Spring Grove, Isleworth, and was called to the bar in 1891. He gave up...
, (1861–1923), historical novelist and poet - Christopher HeydonChristopher HeydonSir Christopher Heydon was an English soldier, Member of Parliament, and writer on astrology.-Background:Born in Surrey, Heydon was the eldest son of Sir William Heydon of Baconsthorpe, Norfolk, and his wife Anne, daughter of Sir William Woodhouse of Hickling, Norfolk...
, (1561–1623), writer on astrology - John HeydonJohn HeydonJohn Heydon was an English Neoplatonist occult philosopher, Rosicrucian, astrologer and attorney.-Life:Rosicrucian sources, including Heydon's own English Physician's Guide and Frederick Talbot's The Wise Man's Crown, give a florid biography for Heydon, in which he is descended from a King of...
, (1629–c. 1667), astrologer and occult philosopher - Georgette HeyerGeorgette HeyerGeorgette Heyer was a British historical romance and detective fiction novelist. Her writing career began in 1921, when she turned a story for her younger brother into the novel The Black Moth. In 1925 Heyer married George Ronald Rougier, a mining engineer...
, (1902–1974), novelist a - Peter HeylinPeter HeylinPeter Heylin or Heylyn was an English ecclesiastic and author of many polemical, historical, political and theological tracts. He incorporated his political concepts into his geographical books Microcosmus in 1621 and Cosmographie .-Life:He was born in Burford, Oxfordshire, the son of Henry Heylyn...
or Heylyn, (1600–1662), controversialist and cleric - Jasper HeywoodJasper HeywoodJasper Heywood, SJ , son of John Heywood, translated into English three plays of Seneca, the Troas , the Thyestes and Hercules Furens ....
, (1535–1598), poet and translator - John HeywoodJohn HeywoodJohn Heywood was an English writer known for his plays, poems, and collection of proverbs. Although he is best known as a playwright, he was also active as a musician and composer, though no works survive.-Life:...
, (c. 1497-c. 1580), playwright and poet - Thomas HeywoodThomas HeywoodThomas Heywood was a prominent English playwright, actor, and author whose peak period of activity falls between late Elizabethan and early Jacobean theatre.-Early years:...
, (early 1570s–1641), playwright, A Woman Killed with KindnessA Woman Killed with KindnessA Woman Killed with Kindness is an early seventeenth-century stage play, a tragedy written by Thomas Heywood. Acted in 1603 and first published in 1607, the play has generally been considered Heywood's masterpiece, and has received the most critical attention among Heywood's works... - Eleanor HibbertEleanor HibbertEleanor Hibbert was a British author who wrote under various pen names. Her best-known pseudonyms were Jean Plaidy, Victoria Holt, and Philippa Carr; she also wrote under the names Eleanor Burford, Elbur Ford, Kathleen Kellow, Anne Percival, and Ellalice Tate...
, (born Eleanor Alice Burford, pen names Jean Plaidy, Victoria Holt, Philippa Carr, etc., 1906–1993), novelist - Robert Smythe HichensRobert Smythe HichensRobert Smythe Hichens was an English journalist, novelist, music lyricist, short story writer, music critic and collaborated on successful plays. He is best remembered as a satirist of the "Naughty Nineties".-Biography:...
, (1864-1950), novelist and journalist, The Green CarnationThe Green CarnationThe Green Carnation, first published anonymously in 1894, was a scandalous novel by Robert Hichens whose lead characters are closely based on Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas - also known as 'Bosie', whom the author personally knew... - William HickeyWilliam Hickey (memoirist)William Hickey was an English lawyer, but is best known for his vast Memoirs, composed in 1808–10 and published between 1913 and 1925, which in their manuscript form cover seven hundred and forty closely written pages...
, (1749–1830), memoirist - Jack HigginsJack HigginsJack Higgins is the principal pseudonym of UK novelist Harry Patterson. Patterson is the author of more than 60 novels. As Higgins, most have been thrillers of various types and, since his breakthrough novel The Eagle Has Landed in 1975, nearly all have been bestsellers...
, (pen name of Harry Patterson, born 1929), novelist - Susanna HighmoreSusanna HighmoreSusanna Highmore was a British poet with a relatively small literary output. She was wife to Joseph Highmore, whom she married on 28 May 1716. Joseph Highmore was a portrait painter in high demand, and the couple lived in London and associated with Isaac Watts, William Duncombe, and Samuel...
, (1690–1750), poet - Aaron Hill, (1685–1750), playwright and writer
- Christopher HillChristopher Hill (historian)John Edward Christopher Hill , usually known simply as Christopher Hill, was an English Marxist historian and author of textbooks....
, (1912–2003), historian - Geoffrey HillGeoffrey HillGeoffrey Hill is an English poet, professor emeritus of English literature and religion, and former co-director of the Editorial Institute, at Boston University. Hill has been considered to be among the most distinguished poets of his generation...
, (born 1932), poet and academic - John HillJohn Hill (author)John Hill , called because of his Swedish honours, "Sir" John Hill, was an English author and botanist. He contributed to contemporary periodicals and was awarded the title of Sir in recognition of his illustrated botanical compendium The Vegetable System.He was the son of the Rev. Theophilus Hill...
, (c. 1716–1775), novelist, journalist and botanist - Justin HillJustin HillJustin Hill is an English novelist whose novels have been nominated for the Man Booker Prize three times. Born in Freeport, Grand Bahama Island in 1971, he grew up in Yorkshire. He was educated at the historic St Peter's School, York....
, (born 1971), novelist, biographer and translator - Lorna HillLorna HillLorna Hill , was a British author of over 40 books for children.-Life and works:...
, (1902-1991), children's writer and novelist - Reginald HillReginald HillReginald Charles Hill is an English crime writer, and the winner in 1995 of the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement.- Biography :...
, (born 1936), novelist, the Dalziel and PascoeDalziel and PascoeDalziel and Pascoe consist of Detective Superintendent Andrew Dalziel and Detective Sergeant Peter Pascoe....
stories - Selima HillSelima Hill-Life:She read at Cambridge University. She was a Fellow at University of Exeter.She lives in Lyme Regis.-Awards:* 1986 Cholmondeley Award* Arvon Poetry Prize* Whitbread Poetry Award* University of East Anglia Writing Fellowship...
, (born 1945), poet - Susan HillSusan HillSusan Hill is an English author of fiction and non-fiction works. Her novels include The Woman in Black, The Mist in the Mirror and I'm the King of the Castle for which she received the Somerset Maugham Award in 1971....
, (born 1942), novelist and author, The Woman in BlackThe Woman in BlackThe Woman in Black is a 1983 thriller fiction novel by Susan Hill about a menacing spectre that haunts a small English town.It was adapted into a stage play by Stephen Mallatratt... - Tobias HillTobias HillTobias Hill is an award-winning British poet, essayist, writer of short stories and novelist.-Life:Tobias Hill was born in Kentish Town, in North London, to parents of German Jewish and English extraction: his maternal grandfather was the brother of Gottfried Bermann, confidant of Thomas Mann and,...
, (born 1970), novelist and poet - Mischa HillerMischa HillerMischa Hiller is a British novelist. His novel, Sabra Zoo, won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, best first book shortlist.He grew up in Durham, London, Brighton, Beirut, and Dar es Salaam.He lives in Cambridge.-Works:...
, (born 1962), novelist - James HiltonJames HiltonJames Hilton was an English novelist who wrote several best-sellers, including Lost Horizon and Goodbye, Mr. Chips.-Biography:...
, (1900–1954), novelist, Lost Horizon - Walter HiltonWalter HiltonWalter Hilton was an English Augustinian mystic.-Biography:Hilton was born ca. 1340-45; he was first recorded in January 1371 as a bachelor of law attached to the diocesan court of Ely, and again in 1375...
, (1340–1396), mystic - Barry HinesBarry HinesMelvin Barry Hines, FRSL is a British author who has written several popular novels and television scripts.-Early life:Born in the mining village of Hoyland Common near Barnsley, England, he attended Ecclesfield Grammar School and played football for the England Grammar Schools team...
, (born 1939), novelist - Nigel HintonNigel HintonNigel Hinton is an English novelist.-Personal life and family:Nigel Hinton was born in London in 1941, and attended Dulwich College. He enjoys swimming, walking and films, and loves listening to music, especially blues, rock and roll from the 1950s, and the work of Bob Dylan...
, (born 1941), novelist and children's and young adults' writer - Henry HitchingsHenry HitchingsHenry Hitchings is an author, reviewer and critic, specializing in narrative non-fiction, with a particular emphasis on language and cultural history...
, (born 1974), writer and scholar - Alfred HitchcockAlfred HitchcockSir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE was a British film director and producer. He pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres. After a successful career in British cinema in both silent films and early talkies, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood...
, (1899–1980), screen writer and director - Christopher Eric HitchensChristopher HitchensChristopher Eric Hitchens is an Anglo-American author and journalist whose books, essays, and journalistic career span more than four decades. He has been a columnist and literary critic at The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, Slate, World Affairs, The Nation, Free Inquiry, and became a media fellow at the...
, (born 1949), author and journalist - Benjamin HoadlyBenjamin HoadlyBenjamin Hoadly was an English clergyman, who was successively Bishop of Bangor, Hereford, Salisbury, and Winchester. He is best known as the initiator of the Bangorian Controversy.-Life:...
, (1676–1761), religious controversialist and absentee bishop - Louisa Gurney HoareLouisa Gurney Hoare-Early life:Louisa Gurney, born on 25 September 1784, was the seventh of the eleven children of John Gurney of Earlham Hall near Norwich, a Quaker, and of Catherine Bell . Her father inherited ownership of Gurney's Bank in Norwich...
, (1784-1836), diarist and writer on education - Richard Colt Hoare, (1758–1838), diarist, travel writer and antiquary
- Thomas HobbesThomas HobbesThomas Hobbes of Malmesbury , in some older texts Thomas Hobbs of Malmsbury, was an English philosopher, best known today for his work on political philosophy...
, (1588–1679), political philosopher, LeviathanLeviathanLeviathan , is a sea monster referred to in the Bible. In Demonology, Leviathan is one of the seven princes of Hell and its gatekeeper . The word has become synonymous with any large sea monster or creature... - Peter HobbsPeter HobbsPeter Hobbs is a British novelist.He grew up in Cornwall and North Yorkshire and was educated at New College, Oxford. He began writing during a prolonged illness that cut short a potential diplomatic career....
, (born 1973), novelist - Margaret HobyLady Margaret HobyLady Margaret Hoby née Dakins was an English diarist of the Elizabethan period. Hers is the oldest known diary written by a woman in English.-Life:...
, (1571–1633), diarist - Joseph HockingJoseph HockingJoseph Hocking was a Cornish novelist and Methodist minister. He was born at St Stephen-in-Brannel, Cornwall, to James Hocking, part owner of a tin mine, and his wife Elizabeth.In 1884, he was ordained as a minister...
, (1860–1937), novelist and cleric - Silas HockingSilas HockingSilas Kitto Hocking was an Cornish novelist and Methodist preacher. He was born at St Stephen-in-Brannel, Cornwall, to James Hocking, part owner of a tin mine, and his wife Elizabeth. In 1870 he was ordained as a minister...
, (1850–1935), novelist and cleric - Jane Aiken HodgeJane Aiken HodgeJane Aiken Hodge was an American-born British writer.-Life:Born near Cambridge, Massachusetts to Pulitzer prize-winning poet Conrad Aiken and his first wife, the writer Jessie McDonald...
, (1917–2009), novelist - Ralph HodgsonRalph HodgsonRalph Hodgson , Order of the Rising Sun ,was an English poet, very popular in his lifetime on the strength of a small number of anthology pieces, such as The Bull. He was one of the more 'pastoral' of the Georgian poets...
, (1871–1962), poet and translator - Shadworth HodgsonShadworth HodgsonShadworth Hollway Hodgson was an English philosopher.He worked independently, without academic affiliation. He was acknowledged by William James as a forerunner of Pragmatism, although he viewed his work as a completion of Kant's project...
, (1832–1912), philosopher - W. N. HodgsonW. N. HodgsonWilliam Noel Hodgson MC was an English poet of the First World War. During the war, he published stories and poems under the pen name Edward Melbourne.-Life:...
, (pen name Edward Melbourne, 1893–1916), poet - Barbara HoflandBarbara HoflandBarbara Hofland was an English writer of some 66 didactic, moral stories for children, and of schoolbooks and poetry.-Life:...
, (1770–1844), children's writer - Thomas Jefferson HoggThomas Jefferson HoggThomas Jefferson Hogg was a British barrister and writer best known for his friendship with the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Hogg was raised in County Durham, but spent most of his life in London. He and Shelley became friends while studying at University College, Oxford, and remained close...
, (1792–1862), biographer - Pete HoidaPete HoidaPete Hoida was born in Birkenhead in 1944. He ceased writing circa 1985, after which he dedicated his time wholly to painting.- Poetry :He would be better represented by these later volumes: final publication “Literary Breakfast”, “The Correct Demanded Direction”, and “Stumble”, which were only...
, (born 1944), poet and painter - Thomas HolcroftThomas HolcroftThomas Holcroft was an English dramatist and miscellaneous writer.-Early life:He was born in Orange Court, Leicester Fields, London. His father had a shoemaker's shop, and kept riding horses for hire; but having fallen into difficulties was reduced to the status of hawking peddler...
, (1745–1809), playwright and miscellanist - Molly HoldenMolly HoldenMolly Winifred Holden was a British poet. Her maiden name is Gilbert, granddaughter of popular children's author Henry Gilbert.-Life:She grew up in Surrey, and Wiltshire.She graduated from King's College London in 1951....
, (1927–1981), poet - William HolderWilliam HolderWilliam Holder FRS was an English clergyman and music theorist of the 17th century. His most notable work was his widely known 1694 publication A Treatise on the Natural Grounds and Principles of Harmony.-Life:...
, (1616–1698), music scholar and cleric - Robert HoldstockRobert HoldstockRobert Paul Holdstock was an English novelist and author best known for his works of Celtic, Nordic, Gothic and Pictish fantasy literature, predominantly in the fantasy subgenre of mythic fiction....
, (1948-2009), novelist - Raphael HolinshedRaphael HolinshedRaphael Holinshed was an English chronicler, whose work, commonly known as Holinshed's Chronicles, was one of the major sources used by William Shakespeare for a number of his plays....
, (1529–1580), chronicler, translator and cleric - Jane HollandJane HollandJane Holland is an award-winning English poet, performer and novelist whose poems have been widely published in magazines and broadcast on the radio. She won an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors for her poetry in 1996...
, (born 1966), poet, performance poet and novelist - Philemon HollandPhilemon HollandPhilemon Holland was an English translator.His father, John Holland, was a clergyman who fled the Kingdom of England during the persecutions of Mary I of England...
, (1552–1637), translator - Sarah HollandSarah HollandSarah Holland is a writer, actress and singer best known for her 22 romantic novels for Harlequin which have been published in over 130 countries, selling millions of copies worldwide...
, (born 1961), writer and actress - Thomas HollandThomas Holland (translator)Thomas Holland was an English Calvinist scholar and theologian, and one of the translators of the King James Version of the Bible.He was a 1570 graduate of Exeter College, Oxford and Fellow of Baliol...
, (1539–1612), scholar, AV translator and cleric - William Holland, (1746–1819), diarist and cleric
- Alan HollinghurstAlan HollinghurstAlan Hollinghurst is a British novelist, and winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty.-Biography:Hollinghurst was born on 26 May 1954 in Stroud, Gloucestershire, the only child of James Hollinghurst, a bank manager, and his wife, Elizabeth...
, (born 1954), novelist and translator - John HollowayJohn Holloway (poet)John Holloway was an English poet, critic and academic. Born in South London and educated at the University of Oxford , he served in the artillery and intelligence during the Second World War and then pursued an academic career at the Universities of Oxford, Aberdeen and Cambridge, where he...
, (1920–1999), poet and scholar - Constance HolmeConstance HolmeEdith Constance Holme , married name Punchard, was an English writer and playwright. She was born in Milnthorpe, Westmorland , the youngest of fourteen children...
, (1880–1955), novelist and playwright - Richard HolmesRichard Holmes (biographer)Richard Holmes, OBE, FRSL, FBA is a British author and academic best known for his biographical studies of major figures of British and French Romanticism.-Biography:...
, (born 1945), biographer - Robert HolmesRobert Holmes (scriptwriter)This entry is about the television scriptwriter. For other people with the same name, see Robert Holmes .Robert Colin Holmes was an English television scriptwriter, who for over twenty-five years contributed to some of the most popular programmes screened in the UK...
, (1926–1986), TV scriptwriter, Doctor WhoDoctor WhoDoctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior... - Emily Sarah HoltEmily Sarah HoltEmily Sarah Holt was an English novelist.She wrote about fifty books, mainly for children. Most of her work can be classified as historical novels...
, (1836–1893), novelist and children's writer - Hazel HoltHazel HoltHazel Holt is a British novelist.Hazel Holt originated from Birmingham, England, where she attended King Edward VI High School for Girls. She studied at Newnham College, Cambridge, and went on to work at the International African Institute in London, where she became acquainted with the novelist...
, (born 1928), novelist - Winifred HoltbyWinifred HoltbyWinifred Holtby was an English novelist and journalist, best known for her novel South Riding.-Life and writings:...
, (1898–1935), novelist - Stewart HomeStewart HomeStewart Home is an English artist, filmmaker, writer, pamphleteer, art historian, and activist. He is best known for his novels such as the non-narrative 69 Things To Do With A Dead Princess , his re-imagining of the 1960s in Tainted Love , and earlier parodistic pulp fictions Pure Mania, Red...
, (born 1962), novelist, writer and artist - Joseph HoneJoseph HoneJoseph Hone is a writer of the Spy Novel. His most famous novels featured a British spy called Peter Marlow. The first of the series was The Private Sector , set in the Six Day War. Marlow's story continues in The Sixth Directorate , The Flowers of the Forest , and The Valley of the Fox...
, (born 1937), novelist - William HoneWilliam HoneWilliam Hone was an English writer, satirist and bookseller. His victorious court battle against government censorship in 1817 marked a turning point in the fight for British press freedom.-Biography:...
, (1780–1842), satirist and bookseller - Thomas HoodThomas HoodThomas Hood was a British humorist and poet. His son, Tom Hood, became a well known playwright and editor.-Early life:...
, (1799–1845), poet and humorist - Tom HoodTom HoodTom Hood , was an English humorist and playwright, son of the poet and author Thomas Hood. A prolific author, he was appointed, in 1865, editor of the magazine Fun. He also founded Tom Hood's Comic Annual in 1867....
, (1835–1874), humorist, playwright and poet - Theodore Hook, (1788–1841), writer
- Jeremy HookerJeremy HookerJeremy Hooker is an English poet, critic, teacher, and broadcaster. He grew up on the edge of the New Forest village of Pennington, about two miles north of Lymington. After studying at the University of Southampton, Hooker lectured at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth...
, (born 1941), poet, critic and broadcaster - Joseph Dalton HookerJoseph Dalton HookerSir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend...
, (1817–1911), botanist and explorer - Richard HookerRichard HookerRichard Hooker was an Anglican priest and an influential theologian. Hooker's emphases on reason, tolerance and the value of tradition came to exert a lasting influence on the development of the Church of England...
, (1554–1600), theologian - William Jackson HookerWilliam Jackson HookerSir William Jackson Hooker, FRS was an English systematic botanist and organiser. He held the post of Regius Professor of Botany at Glasgow University, and was the first Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He enjoyed the friendship and support of Sir Joseph Banks for his exploring,...
, (1785–1865), botanist - John HooleJohn HooleJohn Hoole was an English translator, the son of watch-maker and inventor, Samuel Hoole and Sarah Drury. He was born in London, and worked in India House , of which he rose to be principal auditor...
, (1727–1803), translator and poet - Alexander Beresford HopeAlexander Beresford HopeSir Alexander James Beresford Beresford Hope PC , known as Alexander Hope until 1854 Sir Alexander James Beresford Beresford Hope PC (25 January 1820 – 20 October 1887), known as Alexander Hope until 1854 Sir Alexander James Beresford Beresford Hope PC (25 January 1820 – 20 October 1887), known as...
, (1820–1887), writer - Anthony HopeAnthony HopeSir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope , was an English novelist and playwright. Although he was a prolific writer, especially of adventure novels, he is remembered best for only two books: The Prisoner of Zenda and its sequel Rupert of Hentzau...
, (real name Anthony Hope Hawkins, 1863–1933), novelist, The Prisoner of ZendaThe Prisoner of ZendaThe Prisoner of Zenda is an adventure novel by Anthony Hope, published in 1894. The king of the fictional country of Ruritania is drugged on the eve of his coronation and thus unable to attend his own coronation. Political forces are such that in order for the king to retain his crown his... - Thomas Hope, (1769–1831), writer and novelist
- Bill HopkinsBill Hopkins (novelist)Bill Hopkins was an English novelist and journalist, and has been grouped with the Angry Young Men. His father was Ted Hopkins, a popular stage performer; his mother Violet Brodrick....
, (1928-2011), novelist - Gerard Manley HopkinsGerard Manley HopkinsGerard Manley Hopkins, S.J. was an English poet, Roman Catholic convert, and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous 20th-century fame established him among the leading Victorian poets...
, (1844–1889), poet, The Windhover: To Christ our Lord - Sydney HorlerSydney HorlerSydney Horler was a prolific British novelist specialising in thrillers. Born in Leytonstone, London and was educated at Redcliffe School and Colston School in Bristol....
, (1888–1954), novelist, CheckmateCheckmate (Sydney Horler)Checkmate is one of the many popular novels written by Englishman Sydney Horler in the first half of the 20th century. Forgotten today, the book describes the exciting lifestyle of the wealthy social elite... - Nick HornbyNick HornbyNick Hornby is an English novelist, essayist and screenwriter. He is best known for the novels High Fidelity, About a Boy, and for the football memoir Fever Pitch. His work frequently touches upon music, sport, and the aimless and obsessive natures of his protagonists.-Life and career:Hornby was...
, (born 1957), novelist - Alistair HorneAlistair HorneSir Alistair Allan Horne is a British historian of modern France. He is the son of Sir James Horne and Lady Auriol Horne ....
, (born 1925), historian and biographer - Richard Henry HorneRichard Henry HorneRichard Hengist Horne was and English poet and critic most famous for his poem Orion.-Early life:...
, (1802–1884), poet and critic - Roy HornimanRoy HornimanRoy Horniman was a British writer.He was the owner of The Ladies Review for some years and was a member of the British Committee of The Indian National Congress. As well as acting he became tenant and manager of the Criterion Theatre and wrote many plays as well as adaptations of his own and...
, (1874–1930), novelist and playwright - E. W. Hornung, (1866–1921), author, the RafflesA. J. RafflesArthur J. Raffles is a character created in the 1890s by E. W. Hornung, a brother-in-law to Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes. Raffles is, in many ways, a deliberate inversion of Holmes — he is a "gentleman thief," living in the Albany, a prestigious address in London, playing...
stories - Frances HorovitzFrances HorovitzFrances Horovitz was an English poet and broadcaster.-Biography:Frances Horovitz was born in London. She was educated at Bristol University and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. As a reader and presenter for the BBC, she acquired a reputation for care of preparation and quality of...
, (1938–1983), poet and broadcaster - Michael HorovitzMichael HorovitzMichael Horovitz is an English poet, artist and translator.-Life and career:Michael Horovitz was the youngest of ten children who were brought to England from Nazi Germany by their parents, both of whom were part of a network of European-rabbinical families...
, (born 1935), poet and translator - Anthony HorowitzAnthony HorowitzAnthony Craig Horowitz is an English novelist and screenwriter. He has written many children's novels, including The Power of Five, Alex Rider and The Diamond Brothers series and has written over fifty books. He has also written extensively for television, adapting many of Agatha Christie's...
, (born 1956), novelist, children's writer and screenwriter - William HorwoodWilliam Horwood (novelist)William Horwood is an English novelist. He grew up on the East Kent coast, primarily in Deal, within a model modern family—fractious with "parental separation, secret illegitimacy, alcoholism and genteel poverty"....
, (born 1944), novelist and children's writer, Duncton WoodDuncton WoodDuncton Wood is the title of the first novel by author William Horwood, as well as a six-volume fantasy series to which it was later extended.- Overview :... - John HoskinsJohn Hoskins (poet)Serjeant John Hoskins was an English poet, scholar of Greek, and politician.-Life:He was the son of John and Margery Hoskins born in Mownton-upon-Wye, Llanwarne, Herefordshire. His father, impressed by his memory and mental abilities, arranged for him to be taught Greek at the age of ten. He...
or Hoskyns, (1566–1638), poet and politician - Stanley Houghton, (1881–1913), playwright
- Geoffrey HouseholdGeoffrey HouseholdGeoffrey Edward West Household was a prolific British novelist who specialized in thrillers. He is best known for his novel Rogue Male .-Personal life:...
, (1900–1988), novelist, Rogue MaleRogue Male (novel)Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household is a classic thriller novel of the 1930s.-Storyline:The protagonist, an unnamed British sportsman, sets out to see whether he can stalk and prepare to shoot a European dictator... - A. E. HousmanA. E. HousmanAlfred Edward Housman , usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known to the general public for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad. Lyrical and almost epigrammatic in form, the poems were mostly written before 1900...
, (1859–1936), poet and scholar, A Shropshire LadA Shropshire LadA Shropshire Lad is a cycle of sixty-three poems by the English poet Alfred Edward Housman . Some of the better-known poems in the book are "To an Athlete Dying Young", "Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now" and "When I Was One-and-Twenty".The collection was published in 1896... - Laurence HousmanLaurence HousmanLaurence Housman was an English playwright, writer and illustrator.-Early life:Laurence Housman was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, one of seven children who included the poet A. E. Housman and writer Clemence Housman. In 1871 his mother died, and his father remarried, to a cousin...
, (1865–1959), playwright - Anne HowardAnne Howard, Viscountess IrwinAnne, Viscountess Irwin lived from c.1696 to 1764. She was a poet and close friend of Horace Walpole.-Family:Anne's father was Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle and her mother was Anne Capel, daughter of the Earl of Essex and granddaughter of the Earl of Northumberland...
, (c. 1696-1764), poet - Brian Howard, (1905–1958), poet
- Edward HowardEdward Howard (playwright)Edward Howard was an English dramatist and author of the Restoration era. He was the fifth son of Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Berkshire, and one of four playwriting brothers: Sir Robert Howard, Colonel Henry Howard, and James Howard were the others...
, (1624-c. 1700), playwright and poet - Elizabeth Jane HowardElizabeth Jane HowardElizabeth Jane Howard, CBE is an English novelist. She was previously an actress and a model.In 1951 she won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for her first novel, The Beautiful Visit...
, (born 1923), novelist - Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of CarlisleFrederick Howard, 5th Earl of CarlisleFrederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle, KG, KT, PC was a British diplomat and the son of Henry Howard, 4th Earl of Carlisle and his second wife Isabella Byron....
, Earl of Carlisle (1748–1825), poet, playwright and pamphleteer - Hartley HowardHartley HowardHartley Howard was the pen name of Leopold Horace Ognall, a British crime novelist. Ognall was born in Montreal and worked as a journalist before starting his fiction career. He wrote over ninety novels before his death in 1979...
, (1908–1979), (pen name of Leopold Horace Ognall), crime novelist - Henry Howard, Earl of SurreyHenry Howard, Earl of SurreyHenry Howard, KG, , known as The Earl of Surrey although he never was a peer, was an English aristocrat, and one of the founders of English Renaissance poetry.-Life:...
, (1517–1547), poet - Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, (1540–1614), writer and courtier
- John HowardJohn Howard (prison reformer)John Howard was a philanthropist and the first English prison reformer.-Birth and early life:Howard was born in Lower Clapton, London. His father, also John, was a wealthy upholsterer at Smithfield Market in the city...
, (1726–1790), philanthropist and reformer - Robert HowardRobert Howard (playwright)Sir Robert Howard was an English playwright and politician, born to Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Berkshire and his wife Elizabeth.-Life:...
, (1626–1698), playwright - Sandra HowardSandra HowardSandra Howard, Baroness Howard of Lympne is an English novelist, former model and the wife of Michael Howard, a former leader of the Conservative party....
, (born 1940), novelist - David Armine HowarthDavid Armine HowarthDavid Howarth was a British historian and author. After graduating from the University of Cambridge, he was a radio war correspondent for the BBC at the start of World War II. Howarth joined the Navy after the fall of France...
, (1912–1991), historian and writer - James HowellJames HowellJames Howell was a 17th-century Anglo-Welsh historian and writer who is in many ways a representative figure of his age. The son of a Welsh clergyman, he was for much of his life in the shadow of his elder brother Thomas Howell, who became Lord Bishop of Bristol.-Education:In 1613 he gained his B.A...
, (1594–1666), Historiographer RoyalHistoriographer RoyalThe Historiographer Royal is a member of the Royal household in Scotland. The office was created in 1681, and was in abeyance from 1709 until 1763 when it was revived for Principal William Robertson of Edinburgh University. The post, which now has no formal responsibilities or salary, is held by...
and poet - Francis HowgillFrancis HowgillFrancis Howgill was a prominent early member of the Religious Society of Friends in England. He preached and wrote on the teachings of the Friends and is considered one of the Valiant Sixty--men and women who were early proponents of Friends beliefs and who suffered for those...
, (1618–1668), Quaker writer and preacher - Anna Mary HowittAnna Mary HowittAnna Mary Howitt was an English painter, writer and feminist.-Artist and feminist:...
, (1824-1884), poet, writer and painter - Mary HowittMary HowittMary Howitt was an English poet, and author of the famous poem The Spider and the Fly. She was born Mary Botham at Coleford, in Gloucestershire, the temporary residence of her parents, while her father, Samuel Botham, a prosperous Quaker of Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, was looking after some mining...
, (1799–1888), poet and translator, The Spider and the FlyThe Spider and the Fly (poem)The Spider and the Fly is a poem by Mary Howitt , published in 1829. The first line of the poem is "'Will you walk into my parlor?' said the Spider to the Fly." When Lewis Carroll was readying Alice's Adventures Under Ground for publication he replaced a parody he had made of a negro minstrel song... - Richard HowittRichard Howitt (poet)Richard Howitt , poet, born at Heanor in Derbyshire in 1799, was the son of Thomas Howitt and Phoebe Tantum. William Howitt, the writer, was his elder brother and Mary Howitt was William's wife. His younger brother was Godfrey Howitt...
, (1799-1869), poet - William HowittWilliam HowittWilliam Howitt , was an English author.He was born at Heanor, Derbyshire. His parents were Quakers, and he was educated at the Friends public school at Ackworth, Yorkshire. His younger brothers were Richard and Godrey whom he helped tutor. In 1814 he published a poem on the Influence of Nature and...
, (1792–1879), writer and traveller - Edmond HoyleEdmond HoyleEdmond Hoyle was a writer best known for his works on the rules and play of card games. The phrase "according to Hoyle" came into the language as a reflection of his generally-perceived authority on the subject; since that time, use of the phrase has expanded into general use in situations in...
, (1672–1769), writer on games and gaming - Sisley HuddlestonSisley HuddlestonSisley Huddleston was a British journalist and writer.-Life:After editing a British forces newspaper in World War I, he was resident in Paris after the war until the 1930s, writing for The Times and the Christian Science Monitor...
, (1883–1952), writer and journalist - Stephen HudsonStephen HudsonStephen Hudson was a pseudonym of the British novelist Sydney Schiff . He is now better remembered for his place as a piece in the social jigsaw around more celebrated artists....
, (real name Sydney Schiff, 1868–1944), novelist and translator - David HughesDavid Hughes (novelist)David Hughes was an English novelist. His best known work included The Pork Butcher and But for Bunter, published as The Joke of the Century in the United States....
, (1930-2005), novelist and biographer, The Pork ButcherThe Pork ButcherThe Pork Butcher is a novel by English writer David Hughes, first published in 1984 by Constable & Co, and winner of the 1985 WH Smith Literary Award.-Outline:... - Molly HughesMary Vivian HughesMary Vivian Hughes , usually known as Molly Hughes and published under M. V. Hughes, was a British educator and author....
, (1866–1956), writer and educationalist - Richard HughesRichard Hughes (writer)Richard Arthur Warren Hughes OBE was a British writer of poems, short stories, novels and plays.He was born in Weybridge, Surrey. His father was a civil servant Arthur Hughes, and his mother Louisa Grace Warren who had been brought up in Jamaica...
, (1900–1976), poet, novelist and playwright, A High Wind in Jamaica - Shirley HughesShirley HughesShirley Hughes is an English author and illustrator. She has written more than fifty books which have sold more than 11.5 million copies, and illustrated over two hundred. She currently lives in London....
, (born 1927), children's writer and illustrator - Ted HughesTed HughesEdward James Hughes OM , more commonly known as Ted Hughes, was an English poet and children's writer. Critics routinely rank him as one of the best poets of his generation. Hughes was British Poet Laureate from 1984 until his death.Hughes was married to American poet Sylvia Plath, from 1956 until...
, (1930–1998), Poet LaureatePoet LaureateA poet laureate is a poet officially appointed by a government and is often expected to compose poems for state occasions and other government events...
, translator and anthologist, Birthday LettersBirthday LettersBirthday Letters, published in 1998, is a collection of poetry by English poet and children's writer Ted Hughes. Released only months before Hughes's death, the collection won multiple prestigious literary awards... - Thomas HughesThomas HughesThomas Hughes was an English lawyer and author. He is most famous for his novel Tom Brown's Schooldays , a semi-autobiographical work set at Rugby School, which Hughes had attended. It had a lesser-known sequel, Tom Brown at Oxford .- Biography :Hughes was the second son of John Hughes, editor of...
, (1822–1896), writer and novelist, Tom Brown's SchooldaysTom Brown's SchooldaysTom Brown's Schooldays is a novel by Thomas Hughes. The story is set at Rugby School, a public school for boys, in the 1830s; Hughes attended Rugby School from 1834 to 1842... - E. M. HullEdith Maude HullEdith Maude Hull was a British novelist best known for being the author of the romantic novel The Sheik which became an international best seller in 1921....
, (real name Edith Maude Winstanley, 1880–1947), novelist, The SheikThe Sheik (novel)The Sheik is a book by Edith Maude Hull, an English novelist of the early twentieth century. It is similar to many of her other books, but it was her most popular and was the basis for the film of the same name starring Rudolph Valentino in the title role. Published in 1919, it is still in print... - Katharine HullThe Far-Distant OxusThe Far-Distant Oxus is a children’s novel of 1937, written by Katharine Hull and Pamela Whitlock . The title comes from Matthew Arnold's poem Sohrab and Rustum....
, (1921–1977) and Pamela Whitlock (1920–1982), children's writers, The Far-Distant OxusThe Far-Distant OxusThe Far-Distant Oxus is a children’s novel of 1937, written by Katharine Hull and Pamela Whitlock . The title comes from Matthew Arnold's poem Sohrab and Rustum.... - T. E. HulmeT. E. HulmeThomas Ernest Hulme was an English critic and poet who, through his writings on art, literature and politics, had a notable influence upon modernism.-Early life:...
, (1883–1917), critic and poet - Michael HulseMichael HulseMichael Hulse is an English translator, critic, and poet.-Life and Works:Hulse has translated over sixty books from the German, among them works by Goethe, Rilke, and Jakob Wassermann. He is nowadays most familiar as the translator of three of W. G. Sebald's books: The Emigrants, The Rings of...
(born 1955), translator, critic and poet - Fergus HumeFergus HumeFergusson Wright Hume, known as Fergus Hume was an English novelist.-Early life:Hume was born in England, the second son of Dr. James Hume. At the age of three years his father emigrated with his family to Dunedin, New Zealand. He attended Otago Boys' High School and studied law at the University...
, (1859–1932), novelist - Tobias HumeTobias HumeTobias Hume was a Scottish composer, viol player and soldier.Little is known of his life. Some have suggested that he was born in 1569 because he was admitted to the London Charterhouse in 1629, a pre-requisite to which was being at least 60 years old, though there is no certainty over this...
, (c. 1590–1645), musician and poet - Helen HumphreysHelen HumphreysHelen Humphreys is a Canadian poet and novelist who has written several books. She was born in London, England, and now lives in Kingston, Ontario. When she was younger she was kicked out of high school and had to attend an alternative school to finish her education...
, (born 1961), poet and novelist - Neil HumphreysNeil HumphreysNeil Humphreys is a British humour columnist and author of three best-selling humorous books about Singapore - Notes From an Even Smaller Island , Scribbles from the Same Island and Final Notes from a Great Island...
, (born 1974), writer on Singapore - Leigh Hunt, (1784–1859), poet and essayist
- Violet HuntViolet HuntIsobel Violet Hunt was a British author and literary hostess. Her father was the artist Alfred William Hunt, her mother the novelist and translator Margaret Raine Hunt. Her younger sister Venetia married the designer William Arthur Smith Benson .-Biography:Hunt was born in Durham; the family moved...
, (1862–1942), novelist and biographer - John Hunter, (1737–1821), explorer, travel writer and naval officer
- Rachel HunterRachel Hunter (author)Rachel Hunter was an English novelist of the early 19th century.-Works:*Letitia, or, The Castle without a Spectre *The History of the Grubthorpe Family...
, (c. 1754-1813), novelist - Richard Hurd, (1720–1808), writer, translator and bishop
- James HurdisJames HurdisJames Hurdis was a clergyman and a poet. He studied at St Mary Hall, Oxford and Magdalen College, Oxford, later becoming a Fellow of Magdalen College. He was the vicar for the West Sussex village of Burpham and it was there that he wrote The Village Curate...
, (1763–1801), poet and cleric - Dyneley HusseyDyneley HusseyDyneley Hussey was an English war poet, journalist, art critic and music critic.-Life:Hussey was the son of Colonel Charles Edward Hussey and was born in India. He was educated at St Cyprian's School Eastbourne, The King's School Canterbury and Corpus Christi College, Oxford...
, (1893–1972), poet and music critic - A. S. M. HutchinsonArthur Stuart-Menteth HutchinsonArthur Stuart-Menteth Hutchinson was a British novelist.Frequently referred to as A.S.M. Hutchinson, was born 2 June 1879 in India. His father was a distinguished soldier and his mother was a member of the Stuart Menteths, a noble Scottish family....
, (1880–1971), novelist - John HutchinsonJohn Hutchinson (writer)John Hutchinson was an English theological writer.He was born at Spennithorne, Yorkshire, and served as steward in several families of position, latterly in that of the Duke of Somerset, who ultimately obtained for him the post of riding purveyor to the master of the horse, a sinecure worth about...
, (1674–1737), theologian - Lucy HutchinsonLucy HutchinsonMrs. Lucy Hutchinson was an English biographer as well as the first translator into English of the complete text of Lucretius's De Rerum Natura during the years of the interregnum .-Biography:...
, (1620–1681), biographer and translator - R. C. HutchinsonR. C. HutchinsonRay Coryton Hutchinson was a best-selling British novelist. His 1975 novel Rising was short-listed for the Booker Prize....
, (1907–1975), novelist - Ralph HutchinsonRalph Hutchinson (President of St John's)Ralph Hutchinson was an English clergyman and academic, President of St John's College, Oxford and a translator of the Authorised King James Version.-Life:He was a younger son of John Hutchinson of London...
, (c. 1553-1606), scholar, AV translator and cleric - Angela HuthAngela HuthAngela Huth is an English novelist and journalist.-Personal life and career:Huth is the daughter of the actor Harold Huth. She left school at age 16 in order to paint and to study art in both France and Italy. At 18 she travelled, mostly alone, across the United States before returning to England...
, (born 1938), novelist and playwright - Leonard HuttenLeonard Hutten-Life:Born about 1557, he was educated on the foundation at Westminster School, and was elected to Christ Church, Oxford, in 1574. He graduated B.A. on 12 November 1578, and M.A. on 3 March 1582, commenced B.D. on 27 April 1591. and was admitted D.D. on 14 April 1600. In January 1587 he was...
, (c. 1557-1632), scholar, AV translator and cleric - Catherine HuttonCatherine HuttonCatherine Hutton was an English novelist and letter-writer.Born in Birmingham, the daughter of historian William Hutton, Hutton became a friend of the scientist and discoverer of oxygen Joseph Priestley and the novelist Robert Bage...
, (1856–1946), novelist and letter writer - William Hutton, (1723-1815), poet and historian
- Richard Holt HuttonRichard Holt HuttonRichard Holt Hutton was an English writer and theologian.The son of Joseph Hutton, Unitarian minister, he was born at Leeds. His family moved to London in 1835, and he was educated at University College School and University College, London, where he began a lifelong friendship with Walter...
, (1826–1897), writer and theologian - Aldous HuxleyAldous HuxleyAldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. Best known for his novels including Brave New World and a wide-ranging output of essays, Huxley also edited the magazine Oxford Poetry, and published short stories, poetry, travel...
, (1884–1963), novelist and essayist, Brave New WorldBrave New WorldBrave New World is Aldous Huxley's fifth novel, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Set in London of AD 2540 , the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology and sleep-learning that combine to change society. The future society is an embodiment of the ideals that form the basis of... - Julian HuxleyJulian HuxleySir Julian Sorell Huxley FRS was an English evolutionary biologist, humanist and internationalist. He was a proponent of natural selection, and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth century evolutionary synthesis...
, (1887–1975), biologist and science writer - Leonard HuxleyLeonard Huxley (writer)Leonard Huxley was an English schoolteacher, writer and editor.- Family :His father was the zoologist Thomas Henry Huxley, 'Darwin's bulldog'. Leonard was educated at University College School, London, St. Andrews University, and Balliol College, Oxford. He first married Julia Arnold, daughter of...
, (1860–1933), writer, biographer and editor - Thomas Henry Huxley, (1825–1895), scientist and essayist, "Darwin's bulldog"
- Edward Hyde, Lord ClarendonEdward Hyde, 1st Earl of ClarendonEdward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon was an English historian and statesman, and grandfather of two English monarchs, Mary II and Queen Anne.-Early life:...
, (1609–1774), historian and statesman - Henry HyndmanHenry HyndmanHenry Mayers Hyndman was an English writer and politician, and the founder of the Social Democratic Federation and the National Socialist Party.-Early years:...
, (1842–1921), writer and politician - Timothy HymanTimothy HymanTimothy Hyman is a British figurative painter, art writer and curator. A recognised authority on Sienese painting and the work of Pierre Bonnard, he has published acclaimed monographs on both subjects. He has written extensively on art and film, has been a regular contributor to the Times...
, (b. 1946), art writer - C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne, (pen name Weatherby Chesney, 1866–1944), novelist, The Lost Continent: The Story of AtlantisThe Lost Continent: The Story of AtlantisThe Lost Continent: The Story of Atlantis is a fantasy novel by C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne. It is considered one of the classic fictional retellings of the story of the drowning of Atlantis, combining elements of the myth told by Plato with the earlier Greek myth concerning the survival of a universal...
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- Eva IbbotsonEva IbbotsonEva Ibbotson was an Austrian-born British novelist, known for her award-winning children's books as well as her novels for adults - several of which have been successfully reissued for the young adult readership in recent years.-Personal life:Eva Ibbotson was born Maria Charlotte Michelle Wiesner...
, (born 1925), novelist and children's writer, The Secret of Platform 13The Secret of Platform 13The Secret of Platform 13 is a children's novel by Eva Ibbotson, and illustrated by Sue Porter, first published in 1994.The book has gained extra significance as many readers find it similar to the Harry Potter series by J.K... - David IckeDavid IckeDavid Vaughan Icke is an English writer and public speaker, best known for his views on what he calls "who and what is really controlling the world." Describing himself as the most controversial speaker in the world, he has written 18 books explaining his position, and has attracted a substantial...
, (born 1952), conspiracy theorist - Conn IgguldenConn IgguldenConn Iggulden is a British author who mainly writes historical fiction. He also co-authored The Dangerous Book for Boys.-Background:...
, (born 1971), novelist and children's writer, The Dangerous Book for BoysThe Dangerous Book for BoysThe Dangerous Book for Boys, by Conn and Hal Iggulden, is a guidebook published by HarperCollins, aimed at boys "from eight to eighty." It covers around eighty topics, including how to build a treehouse, grow a crystal, or tell direction with a watch... - Elizabeth InchbaldElizabeth InchbaldElizabeth Inchbald was an English novelist, actress, and dramatist.- Life :Born on 15 October 1753 at Standingfield, near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, Elizabeth was the eighth of the nine children of John Simpson , a farmer, and his wife Mary, née Rushbrook. The family, like several others in the...
, (1753–1821), novelist and playwright - William Ralph IngeWilliam Ralph IngeWilliam Ralph Inge was an English author, Anglican priest, professor of divinity at Cambridge, and Dean of St Paul's Cathedral, which provided the appellation by which he was widely known, "Dean Inge."- Life :...
, (known as Dean Inge, 1860–1954), writer, theologian and cleric - Thomas IngelendThe Disobedient ChildThe Disobedient Child is a theatrical comic interlude written c.1560 by Thomas Ingelend and first performed in a Tudor hall.-Morality play:...
, (fl. 1560), The Disobedient ChildThe Disobedient ChildThe Disobedient Child is a theatrical comic interlude written c.1560 by Thomas Ingelend and first performed in a Tudor hall.-Morality play:... - Jean IngelowJean IngelowJean Ingelow , was an English poet and novelist.- Early life and education :Born at Boston, Lincolnshire, she was the daughter of William Ingelow, a banker...
, (1820–1897), poet and novelist - Simon IngsSimon IngsSimon Ings is an English novelist and science writer living in London. He was born in July 1965 in Horndean and educated at Churcher's College, Petersfield and at King's College London and Birkbeck College, London....
, (born 1965), novelist - Mick InkpenMick InkpenMick Inkpen is an author and illustrator of children's books best known for his creations Kipper the Dog and Wibbly Pig.- Background :Inkpen was born in Romford, Essex, England in 1952, and educated at Royal Liberty School in Gidea Park...
, (born 1952), children's writer and illustrator - Hammond InnesHammond InnesRalph Hammond Innes was a British novelist who wrote over 30 novels, as well as children's and travel books....
, (pen name also Ralph Hammond, 1919–1998), novelist and children's writer - David IrvingDavid IrvingDavid John Cawdell Irving is an English writer,best known for his denial of the Holocaust, who specialises in the military and political history of World War II, with a focus on Nazi Germany...
, (born 1938), writer on history and Holocaust denierHolocaust denialHolocaust denial is the act of denying the genocide of Jews in World War II, usually referred to as the Holocaust. The key claims of Holocaust denial are: the German Nazi government had no official policy or intention of exterminating Jews, Nazi authorities did not use extermination camps and gas... - Margaret IrwinMargaret IrwinMargaret Emma Faith Irwin was an English author of several important historical novels, as well as a factual biography of Sir Walter Raleigh.- Biography :...
, (1889–1969), novelist and biographer - Nathaniel IsaacsNathaniel IsaacsNathaniel Isaacs was an English adventurer who played a part in the history of Natal, South Africa. He wrote a book spread over two volumes called "Travels and Adventures in Eastern Africa"...
, (1808–1872), traveller and writer - Christopher IsherwoodChristopher IsherwoodChristopher William Bradshaw Isherwood was an English-American novelist.-Early life and work:Born at Wyberslegh Hall, High Lane, Cheshire in North West England, Isherwood spent his childhood in various towns where his father, a Lieutenant-Colonel in the British Army, was stationed...
, (1904–1986), novelist, Goodbye to BerlinGoodbye to BerlinGoodbye to Berlin is a 1939 short novel by Christopher Isherwood set in pre-Nazi Germany. It is often published together with Mr Norris Changes Trains in a collection called The Berlin Stories.-Details:... - Kazuo IshiguroKazuo IshiguroKazuo Ishiguro OBE or ; born 8 November 1954) is a Japanese–English novelist. He was born in Nagasaki, Japan, and his family moved to England in 1960. Ishiguro obtained his Bachelor's degree from University of Kent in 1978 and his Master's from the University of East Anglia's creative writing...
, (b. 1954), novelist, An Artist of the Floating WorldAn Artist of the Floating WorldAn Artist of the Floating World is a novel by British-Japanese author Kazuo Ishiguro. It is set in post-World War II Japan and is narrated by Masuji Ono, an aging painter, who looks back on his life and how he has lived it. He notices how his once great reputation has faltered since the war and... - George Cecil IvesGeorge Cecil IvesGeorge Ives was a German-English poet, writer, penal reformer and early gay rights campaigner.-Life and career:...
, (1867–1950), poet and diarist - Helen IvoryHelen IvoryHelen Ivory is an English poet, tutor and editor.She was born in Luton but has lived in Norwich since 1990. In 1999 she won an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors....
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- Catherine JacksonCatherine JacksonLady Catherine Hannah Charlotte Elliott Jackson , was the wife of Knight Diplomat Sir George Jackson , whom she married in 1856, and a prolific author in her own right, especially in the area of European history and of the court of France in the 16th century.After the death of her husband in 1861,...
, (1824–1891), history writer and editor - Mick JacksonMick Jackson (author)Mick Jackson is a British writer from England, best known for his novel The Underground Man . The book, based on the life of William Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 5th Duke of Portland, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and for the 1997 Whitbread Award for best first novel.- Overview :Mick...
, (born 1960), novelist - Anna JacobsAnna JacobsAnna Jacobs is an English novelist.Anna grew up in Lancashire, England, before emigrating in 1973 to Australia. She has published historical sagas and romances, modern novels and SF/F...
, (born 1941), novelist - W. W. JacobsW. W. JacobsWilliam Wymark Jacobs , was an English author of short stories and novels.-Writings:Jacobs is now remembered for his macabre tale "The Monkey's Paw" and "The Toll House"...
, (1863–1943), novelist and story writer, The Monkey's PawThe Monkey's Paw"The Monkey's Paw" is a horror short story by author W. W. Jacobs. It was published in England in 1902.The story is based on the famous "setup" in which three wishes are granted. In the story, the paw of a dead monkey is a talisman that grants its possessor three wishes, but the wishes come with an... - Howard JacobsonHoward JacobsonHoward Jacobson is a Man Booker Prize-winning British Jewish author and journalist. He is best known for writing comic novels that often revolve around the dilemmas of British Jewish characters.-Background:...
, (born 1942), novelist and journalist, - Brian JacquesBrian JacquesJames Brian Jacques was an English author best known for his Redwall series of novels and Castaways of the Flying Dutchman series. He also completed two collections of short stories entitled The Ribbajack & Other Curious Yarns and Seven Strange and Ghostly Tales.-Biography:Brian Jacques was born...
, (born 1939), novelist - Frances JacsonFrances JacsonFrances Margaretta Jacson was an English novelist.-Family commitments:...
, (1754-1842), novelist - Richard JagoRichard JagoRichard Jago was an English poet. He was the third son of Richard Jago, Rector of Beaudesert, Warwickshire.-Education:Jago was educated at Solihull School in the West Midlands. One of the school's five houses bears his name...
, (1715–1781), poet and cleric - Christopher JamesChristopher James (poet)-Life:Christopher James was educated at Newcastle and the University of East Anglia, where he graduated with an MA in Creative Writing. He now lives in Suffolk with his wife, young family....
, (born 1975), poet - Elinor JamesElinor JamesElinor James was a British printer and controversialist who used her own printing press to address public concerns throughout her adult life. At seventeen, she married Thomas James, a printer in London, on 27 October 1662...
, (1644–1719), polemicist and printer - G. P. R. JamesGeorge Payne Rainsford JamesGeorge Payne Rainsford James , was an English novelist and historical writer, the son of a physician in London. He was for many years British Consul at various places in the United States and on the Continent...
, (1799–1860), novelist and Historiographer RoyalHistoriographer RoyalThe Historiographer Royal is a member of the Royal household in Scotland. The office was created in 1681, and was in abeyance from 1709 until 1763 when it was revived for Principal William Robertson of Edinburgh University. The post, which now has no formal responsibilities or salary, is held by...
, The King's HighwayThe King's HighwayThe King's Highway is a 1927 British romantic adventure film directed by Sinclair Hill and starring James Carew, Gerald Ames, Matheson Lang and Joan Lockton... - M. R. JamesM. R. JamesMontague Rhodes James, OM, MA, , who used the publication name M. R. James, was an English mediaeval scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge and of Eton College . He is best remembered for his ghost stories, which are regarded as among the best in the genre...
, (1862–1936), ghost-story writer and medievalist, Ghost Stories of an AntiquaryGhost Stories of an AntiquaryGhost Stories of an Antiquary is the title of M. R. James' first collection of ghost stories, published in 1904... - P. D. JamesP. D. JamesPhyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, OBE, FRSA, FRSL , commonly known as P. D. James, is an English crime writer and Conservative life peer in the House of Lords, most famous for a series of detective novels starring policeman and poet Adam Dalgliesh.-Life and career:James...
, (born 1920), novelist - Robert Rhodes JamesRobert Rhodes JamesSir Robert Vidal Rhodes James was a British historian and Conservative Member of Parliament. He was born in India and began his education in private schools there, returning to England to attend Sedbergh School and then Worcester College, Oxford.He wrote his first book, a much-acclaimed biography...
, (1933–1999), biographer, historian and politician - Thomas JamesThomas JamesThomas James was an English librarian, first librarian of the Bodleian Library, Oxford.James became a fellow of New College, Oxford in 1593...
, (1573–1629), librarian and poet - William Milbourne JamesWilliam Milbourne JamesAdmiral Sir William Milbourne James GCB was a British Naval commander, politician and author, perhaps most notable for his activities in the Naval Intelligence Division in the First World War.-Family:...
, (1881–1973), naval writer, poet and admiral - Anna Brownell JamesonAnna Brownell JamesonAnna Brownell Jameson was a British writer.-Biography:Jameson was born in Dublin.Her father, Denis Brownell Murphy , was a miniature and enamel painter...
, (1794–1860), writer - Storm JamesonStorm JamesonMargaret Storm Jameson was an English writer, known for her 45 novels, and criticism.She was born in Whitby, Yorkshire, and studied at the University of Leeds. She moved to London, where she earned an MA from King's College London in 1914 and then went on to teach before becoming a full-time writer...
, (1891–1986), novelist and autobiographer - James JanewayJames JanewayJames Janeway was a Puritan minister and author who, after John Bunyan, had the widest and longest popularity as the author of works read by English-speaking children.-Life:...
, (1636–1674), Puritan children's writer - Rosemary Hawley JarmanRosemary Hawley JarmanRosemary Hawley Jarman is an English novelist and writer of short stories. She was born in Worcester April 27, 1935. She was educated first at Saint Mary's Convent and then at The Alice Ottley School, leaving at eighteen to study singing in London for the next three years, having developed a fine...
, (born 1935), novelist and story writer - Claude Scudamore JarvisClaude Scudamore JarvisMajor Claude Scudamore Jarvis CMG OBE was a British colonial governor, Arabist and naturalist noted for his knowledge of and rapport with the desert Bedouin....
, (1879–1953), writer, colonial administrator and naturalist - Tim JealTim JealTim Jeal is a British novelist, and biographer of notable Victorian men. His publications include biographies of Baden-Powell, Livingstone and his most recent, Henry Morton Stanley . In 2004 his memoir Swimming with my Father was acclaimed and was shortlisted for the J.R...
, (born 1945), novelist and biographer, Baden-PowellBaden-Powell (book)Baden-Powell is a 1989 biography of Robert Baden-Powell by Tim Jeal. Tim Jeal's work, researched over five years, was first published by Hutchinson in the UK and Yale University Press . It was reviewed by the New York Times... - James Hopwood JeansJames Hopwood JeansSir James Hopwood Jeans OM FRS MA DSc ScD LLD was an English physicist, astronomer and mathematician.-Background:...
, (1877–1946), writer, astronomer and physicist, The Mysterious UniverseThe Mysterious UniverseThe Mysterious Universe, by the British astrophysicist Sir James Jeans, is a science book for lay persons, first published in 1930 by the Cambridge University Press.... - Richard JefferiesRichard JefferiesJohn Richard Jefferies was an English nature writer, noted for his depiction of English rural life in essays, books of natural history, and novels. His childhood on a small Wiltshire farm had a great influence on him and provides the background to all his major works of fiction...
, (1848–1887), nature writer and essayist - Agnes Jekyll, (1861–1937), writer
- Gertrude JekyllGertrude JekyllGertrude Jekyll was an influential British garden designer, writer, and artist. She created over 400 gardens in the UK, Europe and the USA and contributed over 1,000 articles to Country Life, The Garden and other magazines.-Early life:...
, (1843–1932), gardening writer - Alan Jenkins (poet)Alan Jenkins (poet)-Life:He was brought up on the outskirts of London in Richmond, and educated at the University of Sussex, and has worked for the Times Literary Supplement since 1981, first as poetry and fiction editor, and then as deputy editor. He was also a poetry critic for The Observer, and the Sunday...
, (born 1955), poet - Amy JenkinsAmy JenkinsAmy Jenkins is an English novelist and screenwriter. She is the daughter of the late political journalist Peter Jenkins and the stepdaughter of The Guardian columnist and author Polly Toynbee....
, (born 1966), novelist and screenwriter - Peter JenkinsPeter Jenkins (journalist)Peter George James Jenkins was a British journalist and Associate Editor of The Independent. During his career he wrote regular columns for The Guardian, The Sunday Times as well as the The Independent....
, (1934-1992), journalist and screenwriter - Elizabeth JenningsElizabeth JenningsElizabeth Jennings was an English poet.-Life and career:Jennings was born in Boston, Lincolnshire. When she was six, her family moved to Oxford, where she remained for the rest of her life. Couzyn, Jeni Contemporary Women Poets. Bloodaxe, pp. 98-100. There she later attended St Anne's College...
, (1926–2001), poet - Humphrey JenningsHumphrey JenningsFrank Humphrey Sinkler Jennings was an English documentary filmmaker and one of the founders of the Mass Observation organization...
, (1907–1950), writer and film maker, Mass-ObservationMass-ObservationMass Observation was a United Kingdom social research organisation founded in 1937. Their work ended in the mid 1960s but was revived in 1981. The Archive is housed at the University of Sussex....
project - Soame JenynsSoame JenynsSoame Jenyns was an English writer.- Biography :He was the son of Sir Roger Jenyns and his second wife Elizabeth Soame, the daughter of Sir Peter Soame. He was born in London, and was educated at St Johns College, Cambridge. In 1742 he was chosen M.P...
, (1704–1787), poet and essayist - Edgar JepsonEdgar JepsonEdgar Alfred Jepson was an English writer, principally of mainstream adventure and detective fiction, but also of some supernatural and fantasy stories that are better remembered. He used a pseudonym R...
, (pen name R. Edison Page, 1863–1938), writer and genre novelist - Selwyn JepsonSelwyn JepsonSelwyn Jepson was a British author, of the Far House, Farther Common, Liss, Hants.His father was the mystery/detective author Edgar Alfred Jepson , his mother was Frieda Holmes, daughter of the musician Henry Holmes. His sister Margaret , also a novelist, was the mother of Fay Weldon.Jepson was...
, (1899–1989), crime writer - Douglas William JerroldDouglas William JerroldDouglas William Jerrold was an English dramatist and writer.-Biography:Jerrold was born in London. His father, Samuel Jerrold, was an actor and lessee of the little theatre of Wilsby near Cranbrook in Kent. In 1807 Douglass moved to Sheerness, where he spent his childhood...
, (1803–1857), playwright, humorist and novelist - Jerome K. JeromeJerome K. JeromeJerome Klapka Jerome was an English writer and humorist, best known for the humorous travelogue Three Men in a Boat.Jerome was born in Caldmore, Walsall, England, and was brought up in poverty in London...
, (1859–1927), humorist and playwright, Three Men in a BoatThree Men in a BoatThree Men in a Boat ,The Penguin edition punctuates the title differently: Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog! published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K... - Douglas William JerroldDouglas William JerroldDouglas William Jerrold was an English dramatist and writer.-Biography:Jerrold was born in London. His father, Samuel Jerrold, was an actor and lessee of the little theatre of Wilsby near Cranbrook in Kent. In 1807 Douglass moved to Sheerness, where he spent his childhood...
, (1803–1857), playwright, Black-Ey'd SusanBlack-Eyed SusanBlack-Eyed Susan; or, All in the Downs is a comic play in three acts by Douglas Jerrold. The story concerns a sailor, William, who returns to England from the Napoleonic Wars and finds that his wife Susan is being harassed by her crooked landlord uncle and later by his drunken, dastardly captain,... - William Stanley JevonsWilliam Stanley JevonsWilliam Stanley Jevons was a British economist and logician.Irving Fisher described his book The Theory of Political Economy as beginning the mathematical method in economics. It made the case that economics as a science concerned with quantities is necessarily mathematical...
, (1840–1882), economist and logician - Geraldine JewsburyGeraldine JewsburyGeraldine Endsor Jewsbury was an English novelist and woman of letters.-Life and family:Jewsbury was born in Measham, then in Derbyshire, now in Leicestershire. She was the daughter of Thomas Jewsbury , a cotton manufacturer and merchant, and his wife Maria, née Smith,...
, (1812–1880), novelist and critic - Rowan JofféRowan JofféRowan Marc Joffé is a British screenwriter and director. He is the son of director Roland Joffé and actress Jane Lapotaire, and half-brother of actress Nathalie Lunghi....
, (born 1973), screenwriter - W. E. JohnsW. E. JohnsWilliam Earl Johns was an English pilot and writer of adventure stories, usually written under the name Captain W. E. Johns. He is best remembered as the creator of the ace pilot and adventurer Biggles.-Early life:...
, (1893–1968), novelist and pilot, BigglesBiggles"Biggles" , a pilot and adventurer, is the title character and main hero of the Biggles series of youth-oriented adventure books written by W. E. Johns.... - B. S. JohnsonB. S. JohnsonB. S. Johnson was an English experimental novelist, poet, literary critic, producer of television programmes and film-maker.-Biography:...
, (1933–1973), novelist and editor, Christie Malry's Own Double-EntryChristie Malry's Own Double-EntryChristie Malry's Own Double-Entry is the penultimate novel by the late British avant-garde novelist B. S. Johnson. It is the metafictional account of a disaffected young man, Christie Malry, who applies the principles of double-entry bookkeeping to his own life, "crediting" himself against society... - Lionel JohnsonLionel JohnsonLionel Pigot Johnson was an English poet, essayist and critic. He was born at Broadstairs, and educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, graduating in 1890. He became a Catholic convert in 1891. He lived a solitary life in London, struggling with alcoholism and his repressed...
, (1867–1902), poet and essayist - Pamela Hansford JohnsonPamela Hansford JohnsonPamela Hansford Johnson, Baroness Snow was an English novelist, playwright, poet, literary and social critic.-Career:...
, (1912–1981), novelist, playwright and critic - Richard JohnsonRichard Johnson (16th century)Richard Johnson was an English romance writer. He was baptized in London on May 4, 1573. His most famous work is The Famous Historie of the Seaven Champions of Christendom . The success of this book was so great that the author added a second and a third part in 1608 and 1616...
, (1573-c. 1659), writer - Samuel Johnson, (1649–1703), religious pamphleteer and cleric
- Samuel JohnsonSamuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson , often referred to as Dr. Johnson, was an English author who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer...
, (1709–1784), writer, poet and lexicographer, Lives of the Most Eminent English PoetsLives of the Most Eminent English PoetsLives of the Most Eminent English Poets was a work by Samuel Johnson, comprising short biographies and critical appraisals of 52 poets, most of whom lived during the eighteenth century... - Brian JonesBrian Jones (poet)Brian Jones was a British poet.Jones' first major collection, Poems , was published in 1966, and proved to be successful...
, (1938–2009), poet - David JonesDavid Jones (poet)David Jones CH was both a painter and one of the first generation British modernist poets. As a painter he worked chiefly in watercolor, painting portraits and animal, landscape, legendary and religious subjects. He was also a wood-engraver and designer of inscriptions. As a writer he was...
, (1895–1974), poet, writer and artist - Daniel JonesDaniel Jones (phonetician)Daniel Jones was a London-born British phonetician. A pupil of Paul Passy, professor of phonetics at the École des Hautes Études at the Sorbonne , Daniel Jones is considered by many to be the greatest phonetician of the early 20th century...
, (1881–1967), phonetician - Diana Wynne JonesDiana Wynne JonesDiana Wynne Jones was a British writer, principally of fantasy novels for children and adults, as well as a small amount of non-fiction...
, (born 1934), novelist - Ebenezer JonesEbenezer JonesEbenezer Jones wrote a good deal of poetry of very unequal merit, but at his best shows a true poetic vein. He was befriended by Browning and Rossetti....
, (1820–1860), poet - Ernest Charles JonesErnest Charles JonesErnest Charles Jones , was an English poet, novelist, and Chartist.- Background :Born in Berlin, he was the son of a British Army Major, equerry to the Duke of Cumberland, afterwards King of Hanover. In 1838 Jones came to England, and in 1841 published anonymously The Wood Spirit, a romantic novel....
, (1819–1869), poet, novelist and Chartist - Henry Arthur JonesHenry Arthur JonesHenry Arthur Jones was an English dramatist.-Biography:Jones was born at Granborough, Buckinghamshire to Silvanus Jones, a farmer. He began to earn his living early, his spare time being given to literary pursuits...
, (1851–1929), playwright - Sadie JonesSadie JonesSadie Jones is an English writer and novelist.Jones was raised in London, the daughter of Evan Jones, a Jamaican-born poet and scriptwriter, who worked with director Joseph Losey on several projects and Joanna Jones, an actor...
, (born 1967), novelist - William JonesWilliam Jones (ecclesiastic)William Jones , known as William Jones of Nayland, was a British clergyman and author.-Life:He was born at Lowick, Northamptonshire, but was descended from an old Welsh family. One of his ancestors was Colonel John Jones, brother-in-law of Oliver Cromwell. He was educated at Charterhouse School...
, (1726–1800), theologian and cleric - William JonesWilliam Jones (philologist)Sir William Jones was an English philologist and scholar of ancient India, particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among Indo-European languages...
, (1746–1794), philologist, polyglot and poet - Ben JonsonBen JonsonBenjamin Jonson was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. A contemporary of William Shakespeare, he is best known for his satirical plays, particularly Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair, which are considered his best, and his lyric poems...
, (1573–1637), poet and dramatist, Bartholomew FairBartholomew FairBartholomew Fayre: A Comedy is a comedy in five acts by Ben Jonson, the last written of his four great comedies. It was first staged on October 31, 1614 at the Hope Theatre by the Lady Elizabeth's Men... - Jenny JosephJenny Joseph-Life and career:She was born in Birmingham, and with a scholarship, studied English literature at St Hilda's College, Oxford .Her poems were first published when she was at university in the early 1950s...
, (born 1932), poet and novelist - Gabriel JosipoviciGabriel JosipoviciGabriel David Josipovici FBA, FRSL is a British novelist, short story writer, critic, literary theorist, and playwright.-Biography:...
, (born 1940), novelist and critic - John JosselynJohn JosselynJohn Josselyn was a seventeenth-century English traveler to New England who wrote with credulity about what he saw and heard during his sojourn there before returning to England. Yet his books give some of the earliest and most complete information on New England flora and fauna in colonial times,...
, (fl. 1638–1675), writer and traveler - Benjamin JowettBenjamin JowettBenjamin Jowett was renowned as an influential tutor and administrative reformer in the University of Oxford, a theologian and translator of Plato. He was Master of Balliol College, Oxford.-Early career:...
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- Carrie KabakCarrie KabakCarrie Kabak is an author and children's book illustrator. Born and raised in the United Kingdom, she now lives in Kansas City, Missouri.-Books written by Carrie Kabak :* Cover the Butter...
, (born 1951), novelist and illustrator - Sarah KaneSarah KaneSarah Kane was an English playwright. Her plays deal with themes of redemptive love, sexual desire, pain, torture — both physical and psychological — and death. They are characterised by a poetic intensity, pared-down language, exploration of theatrical form and, in her earlier work, the use of...
, (1971–1999), playwright, BlastedBlastedBlasted is the first play by British author Sarah Kane. It was first performed in 1995 at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs in London. This performance was highly controversial and the play was fiercely attacked by most newspaper critics, many of whom regarded it as a rather immature attempt to... - Anna KavanAnna KavanAnna Kavan was a British novelist, short story writer and painter.-Biography:...
, , novelist and painter - Joanna KavennaJoanna Kavenna-Biography:Kavenna spent her childhood in Suffolk and the Midlands as well as various other parts of Britain. She has also lived in the United States, France, Germany, Scandinavia and the Baltic States. These travels led to her first book, The Ice Museum, which was published in 2005...
, (born 1974), novelist and travel writer - Sheila Kaye-SmithSheila Kaye-SmithSheila Kaye-Smith was an English writer, known for her many novels set in the borderlands of Sussex and Kent in the English regional tradition...
, (1887–1956), novelist - Judith KazantzisJudith Kazantzis-Life:She grew up in East Sussex, the daughter of Lord and Lady Longford, and sister of Antonia Fraser.She took a Modern History degree and on 22 February 1998, married lawyer and writer Irving Weinman; Harry Mathews wrote an Epithalamium for Judith Kazantzis and Irving Weinman. They have two...
, (born 1940), poet and anthologist - Annie KearyAnnie KearyAnna Maria Keary was an English novelist, poet and children's writer.-Life:Born at the rectory in Bilston, now called Bilton-in-Ainsty, Yorkshire, Annie was the daughter of a former army chaplain, William Keary, who came from County Galway in Ireland, and his wife, Lucy Plumer, of Bilton Hall....
, (1825-1879), novelist, poet and children's writer - Jonathan KeatesJonathan KeatesJonathan Basil Keates, is an success English writer, biographer and novelist. He was educated at Bryanston School and went on to read for his undergraduate degree at Magdalen College, Oxford....
, (born 1946), writer and novelist - John KeatsJohn KeatsJohn Keats was an English Romantic poet. Along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, he was one of the key figures in the second generation of the Romantic movement, despite the fact that his work had been in publication for only four years before his death.Although his poems were not...
, (1795–1821), poet, Ode to a NightingaleOde to a Nightingale"Ode to a Nightingale" is a poem by John Keats written in May 1819 in either the garden of the Spaniards Inn, Hampstead, or, as according to Keats' friend Charles Armitage Brown, under a plum tree in the garden of Keats House, Hampstead, London. According to Brown, a nightingale had built its nest... - John KebleJohn KebleJohn Keble was an English churchman and poet, one of the leaders of the Oxford Movement, and gave his name to Keble College, Oxford.-Early life:...
, (1792–1866), poet and cleric, The Christian YearThe Christian YearThe Christian Year is a series of poems for every day of the year for Christians written by John Keble in 1827. The book is the source for several hymns, and the work was extremely popular in the 19th century.... - Ann KelleyAnn KelleyAnn Kelley is the author of The Burying Beetle and The Bower Bird ]...
, (born 1941), children's writer and poet - Fanny KembleFanny KembleFrances Anne Kemble , was a famous British actress and author in the early and mid nineteenth century.-Youth and acting career:...
, (1809–1893), actress, playwright and diarist - Gene KempGene KempGene Kemp Nee Rushton is a British author best known for her children's books. Her first novel, The Pride of Tamworth Pig was published in 1972. She won The Other Award in 1977 and the UK Carnegie Medal in 1978 for The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler ...
, (born 1926), children's writer, The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler - Margery KempeMargery KempeMargery Kempe is known for dictating The Book of Margery Kempe, a work considered by some to be the first autobiography in the English language. This book chronicles, to some extent, her extensive pilgrimages to various holy sites in Europe and Asia, as well as her mystical conversations with God...
, (c. 1373-after 1438), mystic - Thomas KenThomas KenThomas Ken was an English cleric who was considered the most eminent of the English non-juring bishops, and one of the fathers of modern English hymnology.-Early life:...
, (1637–1711), cleric and hymn writer - May KendallMay KendallMay Kendall was an English poet, novelist, and satirist. She is best known as the co-author of the novel That Very Mab and the poetry collections Dreams to Sell and Songs from Dreamland....
, (born Emma Goldworth Kendall, 1861–?1943), poet, novelist and satirist. - Tim KendallTim KendallTim Kendall is an English poet, editor and critic. In 1994 he founded the magazine Thumbscrew, which published work by poets including Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney and Miroslav Holub, and which ran under his editorship until 2003. In 1997 he won an Eric Gregory Prize for his poetry...
, (born 1970), poet, editor and critic - Luke KennardLuke KennardLuke Kennard is a British poet, playwright and academic born in 1982.His first prose-poems collection - The Solex Brothers was published by Stride, and won him an Eric Gregory Award in 2005...
, (born 1982), poet and lecturer - Lena KennedyLena KennedyLena Kennedy , was an English author. Her books were mostly historic romantic fiction set in and around the East End of London where she lived for all her life...
, (1914–1986), novelist - Margaret KennedyMargaret KennedyMargaret Kennedy was an English novelist and playwright.-Family and education:Margaret Kennedy was born in Hyde Park Gate, London, the eldest of the four children of Charles Moore Kennedy , a barrister, and his wife Ellinor Edith Marwood...
, (1896–1967), novelist and playwright, The Constant Nymph - Ally KennenAlly KennenAlly Kennen is an award-winning British young adult and children's author.- Life :Ally Kennen grew up on a farm in Exmoor, England. Ally studied Archaeology and history at Birmingham University...
, (born 1975), children's writer and singer, BeastBeast (novel)Beast is a young adult novel by Ally Kennen, published in 2006. It won the 2007 Manchester Book Award, and was shortlisted for the 2006 Booktrust Teenage Prize, the 2007 Carnegie Medal and the 2007 Branford Boase Award... - William KenrickWilliam Kenrick (writer)William Kenrick was an English novelist, playwright, translator and satirist, who spent much of his career libelling and lampooning his fellow writers.- Life and career :Kenrick was born at Watford, Hertfordshire, son of a stay-maker...
, (c. 1725-1779), satirist and playwright - Judith KerrJudith KerrJudith Kerr is a German-born British writer and illustrator who has created both enduring picture books such as the Mog series and The Tiger Who Came To Tea and acclaimed novels for older children such as the autobiographical When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit which give a child's-eye view of the...
, (born 1923), children's writer and screenwriter - David KesslerDavid Kessler (author)David Kessler is a British author of mystery novels and thrillers. The plots of his novels often involve people falsely accused of crimes, legal battles, DNA, computer hacking and police investigations and are characterised by multiple plot twists and last-minute surprises...
, (also writes as Adam Palmer, born 1957), novelist - Sidney KeyesSidney KeyesSidney Arthur Kilworth Keyes was an English poet of World War II.- Early years :Keyes was born on 27 May 1922. He attended Tonbridge School for his secondary education and later, for his tertiary, the University of Oxford...
, (1922–1943), poet - John Maynard KeynesJohn Maynard KeynesJohn Maynard Keynes, Baron Keynes of Tilton, CB FBA , was a British economist whose ideas have profoundly affected the theory and practice of modern macroeconomics, as well as the economic policies of governments...
, (1883–1946), economist, General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money - Richard KilbyRichard Kilby-Life:He was born in Ratcliffe-on-the-Wreake, Leicestershire. He matriculated at Lincoln College, Oxford on 20 December 1577, and was elected fellow on 18 January 1578. He was admitted B.A. on 9 December 1578, M.A. in 1582, B.D. and D.D. in 1596. On 10 December 1590 he was elected rector of Lincoln...
, (1560–1620), scholar, AV translator and cleric - Anne KilligrewAnne KilligrewAnne Killigrew was an English poet. Born in London, Killigrew is perhaps best known as the subject of a famous elegy by the poet John Dryden entitled To The Pious Memory of the Accomplish'd Young Lady Mrs. Anne Killigrew . She was however a skilful poet in her own right, and her Poems were...
, (1660–1685), poet - Henry Killigrew, (1613–1700), playwright and cleric
- Thomas KilligrewThomas KilligrewThomas Killigrew was an English dramatist and theatre manager. He was a witty, dissolute figure at the court of King Charles II of England.-Life and work:...
, (1612–1683), playwright, The Parson's WeddingThe Parson's WeddingThe Parson's Wedding is a Caroline era stage play, a comedy written by Thomas Killigrew. Often regarded as the author's best play, the drama has sometimes been considered an anticipation of Restoration comedy, written a generation before the Restoration; "its general tone foreshadows the comedy of... - William KilligrewWilliam KilligrewSir William Killigrew was an English court official under Charles I and Charles II.He was the son of Sir Robert Killigrew and Mary Woodhouse, of Kimberley, Norfolk, his wife. He was the elder brother to Thomas Killigrew...
, (1606–1695), playwright and courtier - Francis KilvertFrancis KilvertRobert Francis Kilvert , always known as Francis, or Frank, was born at The Rectory, Hardenhuish Lane, near Chippenham, Wiltshire, to the Rev. Robert Kilvert, Rector of Langley Burrell, Wiltshire, and Thermuthis, daughter of Walter Coleman and Thermuthis Ashe...
, (1840–1879), diarist and cleric - Francis KingFrancis KingFrancis Henry King, CBE was a British novelist, poet and short story writer.He was born in Adelboden, Switzerland, brought up in India and educated at Shrewsbury School and Balliol College, Oxford. During World War II he was a conscientious objector, and left Oxford to work on the land...
, (born 1923), novelist and story writer - Geoffrey KingGeoffrey King (theologian)Geoffrey King was an English Protestant theologian, a Fellow and Regius Professor of Hebrew at King's College, Cambridge. He was among the First Westminster Company charged by James I of England with the translation of the first 12 books of the King James Version of the Bible.-References:*McClure,...
, (fl. 1600s), theologian, AV translator and cleric - Henry KingHenry King (poet)-Life:The eldest son of John King, Bishop of London, and his wife Joan Freeman, he was baptised at Worminghall, Buckinghamshire, 16 January 1592. He was educated at Lord Williams's School, Westminster School and in 1608 became a student of Christ Church, Oxford...
, (1592–1669), poet and bishop - William KingWilliam King (poet)-Life:Born in London, the son of Ezekiel King, he was related to the family of Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon. From Westminster School, where he was a scholar under Richard Busby, at the age of eighteen he was elected to Christ Church, Oxford in 1681. There he is said to have dedicated himself...
, (1663–1712), poet and essayist - William KingWilliam King (author)William King also known as "Bill King" is the writer of a number of successful science-fiction and fantasy books, most notably in Games Workshop's Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 series, all published by GW's fiction arm, The Black Library...
, (born 1959), novelist, TrollslayerTrollslayerThis article is about the novel by William King. For information on Trollslayers in the Warhammer Fantasy fictional universe see Dwarfs .... - Alexander William KinglakeAlexander William KinglakeAlexander William Kinglake was an English travel writer and historian.He was born near Taunton, Somerset and educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge...
, (1809–1891), travel writer and historian, - Charles KingsleyCharles KingsleyCharles Kingsley was an English priest of the Church of England, university professor, historian and novelist, particularly associated with the West Country and northeast Hampshire.-Life and character:...
, (1819–1875), novelist, The Water BabiesThe Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land BabyThe Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a children's novel by the Reverend Charles Kingsley. Written in 1862–1863 as a serial for Macmillan's Magazine, it was first published in its entirety in 1863... - Henry KingsleyHenry KingsleyHenry Kingsley was an English novelist, brother of the better-known Charles Kingsley.Kingsley was born at Barnack rectory, Northamptonshire, son of the Rev. Charles Kingsley the elder, Mary, née Lucas. Charles Kingsley came of a long line of clergymen and soldiers, and in addition to the two...
, (1830–1876), novelist - Dick King-SmithDick King-SmithRonald Gordon King-Smith OBE, Hon.M.Ed. , better known by his pen name Dick King-Smith, was a prolific English children's author, best known for writing The Sheep-Pig, retitled in the United States as Babe the Gallant Pig, on which the movie Babe was based...
, (born 1922), children's writer - W. H. G. KingstonWilliam Henry Giles KingstonWilliam Henry Giles Kingston , writer of tales for boys, was born in London, but spent much of his youth in Oporto, where his father was a merchant.-Popularity:His first book, The Circassian Chief, appeared in 1844...
, (1814–1880), children's writer - Rudyard KiplingRudyard KiplingJoseph Rudyard Kipling was an English poet, short-story writer, and novelist chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. Kipling received the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature...
, (1865–1936), author and poet, The Jungle BookThe Jungle BookThe Jungle Book is a collection of stories by British Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling. The stories were first published in magazines in 1893–4. The original publications contain illustrations, some by Rudyard's father, John Lockwood Kipling. Kipling was born in India and spent the first six... - Andrew KippisAndrew KippisAndrew Kippis was an English nonconformist clergyman and biographer.The son of Robert Kippis, a silk-hosier, he was born at Nottingham. Having gone to school at Sleaford in Lincolnshire he passed at the age of sixteen to the Dissenting academy at Northampton, of which Dr Philip Doddridge was then...
, (1725–1795), writer and Presbyterian minister, Biographia BritannicaBiographia BritannicaBiographia Britannica was a multi-volume biographical compendium, "the most ambitious attempt in the latter half of the eighteenth century to document the lives of notable British men and women". The first edition, edited by William Oldys, appeared in 6 volumes between 1747 and 1766... - Francis KirkmanFrancis KirkmanFrancis Kirkman appears in many roles in the English literary world of the second half of the seventeenth century, as a publisher, bookseller, librarian, author and bibliographer...
, (1632-c. 1680), writer, bookseller and publisher - James KirkupJames KirkupJames Falconer Kirkup, FRSL was a prolific English poet, translator and travel writer. He was brought up in South Shields, and educated at South Shields Secondary School and Durham University. He wrote over 30 books, including autobiographies, novels and plays...
, (1918–2009), poet, translator and travel writer - C. H. B. KitchinC. H. B. KitchinClifford Henry Benn Kitchin was a British novelist of the early twentieth century. He was best known for his mystery novels, notably Death of His Uncle and Death of My Aunt, but his other novels were also highly regarded, especially by other writers. His best known novels are The Auction Sale,...
, (1895–1967), novelist - Flora KlickmannFlora KlickmannEmily Flora Klickmann was an English journalist, author and editor. She was the second editor of the Girl's Own Paper, but became best known for her Flower-Patch series of books of anecdotes, autobiography and nature description.-Life:Flora Klickmann was born in Brixton, London, one of six children...
, (1867–1958), journalist, editor and children's writer - Matthew KnealeMatthew KnealeMatthew Kneale is a British writer, best known for his 2000 novel English Passengers, which won the prestigious Whitbread Book Award and was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He went to school at Latymer Upper School and then studied Modern History at Magdalen College, Oxford, and afterwards...
, (born 1960), novelist - Nigel KnealeNigel KnealeNigel Kneale was a British screenwriter from the Isle of Man. Active in television, film, radio drama and prose fiction, he wrote professionally for over fifty years, was a winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and was twice nominated for the British Film Award for Best Screenplay...
, (1922–2006), screenwriter and genre novelist - Anne KnightAnne Knight (children's writer)For this author's namesake, the social reformer, see Anne Knight.Anne Knight was a Quaker children's writer and educationalist.-Life:...
, (1792-1860), children's writer and educationalist - Charles KnightCharles Knight (publisher)Charles Knight was an English publisher and author.-Early life:The son of a bookseller and printer at Windsor, he was apprenticed to his father...
, (1791–1873), writer, encyclopedist and publisher - Cornelia Knight, (1757–1837), novelist and painter
- G. Wilson KnightG. Wilson KnightGeorge Richard Wilson Knight was an English literary critic and academic, known particularly for his interpretation of mythic content in literature, and his essays The Wheel of Fire on Shakespeare's drama...
, (1897–1985), critic and scholar - Richard KnollesRichard KnollesRichard Knolles was an English historian, famous for his account of the Ottoman Empire, the first major description in the English language....
, (c. 1545-1610), historian and translator - Hanserd KnollysHanserd Knollys-Life:He was born at Cawkwell, Lincolnshire, about 1599. He was educated privately under a tutor, was for a short time at Great Grimsby grammar school, and afterwards matriculated at St Catharine's College, Cambridge in 1627 or 1629. Leaving the university, he became master of the grammar school at...
, (1599–1691), translator and Baptist minister - Frederick KnottFrederick KnottFrederick Major Paull Knott was an English playwright, best known for writing the London-based stage thriller Dial M for Murder, which was later filmed in Hollywood by Alfred Hitchcock....
, (1916–2002), playwright and screenwriter - Ronald KnoxRonald KnoxRonald Arbuthnott Knox was an English priest, theologian and writer.-Life:Ronald Knox was born in Kibworth, Leicestershire, England into an Anglican family and was educated at Eton College, where he took the first scholarship in 1900 and Balliol College, Oxford, where again...
, (1888–1957), writer, translator and theologian - Vicesimus KnoxVicesimus KnoxVicesimus Knox was an English essayist and minister. He was born December 8, 1752, at Newington Green, Middlesex. Knox was educated at St John's College, Oxford, took orders, and became Head Master of Tonbridge School. He published Essays Moral and Literary , and compiled the formerly well-known...
, (1752–1821), essayist and proto-pacifist cleric - Dorothy KoomsonDorothy KoomsonDorothy Koomson is a contemporary English novelist.Koomson has two degrees in Psychology and Journalism when she graduated from Leeds University. She has written for a number of women's magazines and newspapers, not to mention writing 7 successful novels being published in the UK and US...
, (born 1971), novelist, - Bernard KopsBernard KopsBernard Kops is a British Dramatist, poet and novelist, born in the East End of London in 1926.His first play, The Hamlet of Stepney Green, was produced at the Oxford Playhouse in 1957...
, (born 1926), playwright and novelist - Michael KordaMichael KordaMichael Korda is a writer and novelist who was editor-in-Chief of Simon & Schuster in New York City.-Early Years:...
, (born 1933), writer and editor - Hari Kunzru, (born 1969), novelist
- Hanif KureishiHanif KureishiHanif Kureishi CBE is an English playwright, screenwriter and filmmaker, novelist and short story writer. The themes of his work have touched on topics of race, nationalism, immigration, and sexuality...
, (born 1954), novelist and playwright - Thomas KydThomas KydThomas Kyd was an English dramatist, the author of The Spanish Tragedy, and one of the most important figures in the development of Elizabethan drama....
, (1558–1595), playwright, The Spanish TragedyThe Spanish TragedyThe Spanish Tragedy, or Hieronimo is Mad Again is an Elizabethan tragedy written by Thomas Kyd between 1582 and 1592. Highly popular and influential in its time, The Spanish Tragedy established a new genre in English theatre, the revenge play or revenge tragedy. Its plot contains several violent... - Francis KynastonFrancis KynastonSir Francis Kynaston or Kinaston was an English courtier and poet, noted for his translation of Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde into Latin verse ; he also made a Latin translation of Henryson's The Testament of Cresseid.-Life:He was born at Oteley, near Ellesmere, Shropshire, eldest son...
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- Robert LaceyRobert LaceyRobert Lacey is a British historian and biographer. He is the author of a number of bestselling biographies, including those of Henry Ford and Queen Elizabeth II, as well as works of popular history....
, (born 1944), biographer and historian - James LackingtonJames LackingtonJames Lackington was a bookseller who is credited with revolutionizing the British book trade. A shoemaker's son trained as a cobbler, he showed early initiative, selling pies and cakes in the street when aged 10...
, (1746–1815), memoir writer and bookseller - Caroline LambLady Caroline LambThe Lady Caroline Lamb was a British aristocrat and novelist, best known for her affair with Lord Byron in 1812. Her husband was the 2nd Viscount Melbourne, the Prime Minister...
, (1785–1828), novelist - Charles Lamb, (1775–1834), essayist
- Charlotte LambCharlotte LambSheila Holland, née Sheila Ann Mary Coates was best known as the pseudonym Charlotte Lamb, a prolific and bestselling romantic novelist...
, (real name Sarah Coates, several pen names, 1937–2000), novelist - Mary LambMary LambMary Ann Lamb , was an English writer, the sister and collaborator of Charles Lamb.-Biography:She was born on 3 December 1764. In 1796, Mary, who had suffered a breakdown from the strain of caring for her family, killed her mother with a kitchen knife, and from then on had to be kept under constant...
, (1764–1847), essayist - Joseph LancasterJoseph LancasterJoseph Lancaster was an English Quaker and public education innovator.-Life:Lancaster was born the son of a shopkeeper in Southwark, south London....
, (1778–1838), educational reformer - Osbert LancasterOsbert LancasterSir Osbert Lancaster, CBE was an English cartoonist, author, art critic and stage designer, best known to the public at large for his cartoons published in the Daily Express.-Biography:Lancaster was born in London, England...
, (1908–1986), writer and cartoonist - John LanchesterJohn LanchesterJohn Henry Lanchester is a British journalist and novelist. He was born in Hamburg, brought up in Hong Kong and educated in England, at Gresham's School, Holt between 1972 and 1980 and St John's College, Oxford.-Works:...
, (born 1962), novelist - Letitia Elizabeth LandonLetitia Elizabeth LandonLetitia Elizabeth Landon , English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L. E. L.- Early life :...
, (pen name L. E. L., 1802–1838), poet and novelist - Robert Eyres LandorRobert Eyres LandorRobert Eyres Landor was an English writer, dramatist, poet, and Anglican clergyman.Landor was the third son of Dr Walter Landor a physician and his wife Elizabeth Savage, and thereby the brother of Walter Savage Landor. He was born at Warwick and went to Bromsgrove School, then as a scholar, to...
, (1781–1869), playwright, poet and cleric - Walter Savage LandorWalter Savage LandorWalter Savage Landor was an English writer and poet. His best known works were the prose Imaginary Conversations, and the poem Rose Aylmer, but the critical acclaim he received from contemporary poets and reviewers was not matched by public popularity...
, (1775–1864), writer and poet - Edward William LaneEdward William LaneEdward William Lane was a British Orientalist, translator and lexicographer....
, (1801–1876), scholar and translator, One Thousand and One Nights - Joel LaneJoel LaneJoel Lane is a British novelist, short story writer, poet, critic and anthology editor. He has twice received the British Fantasy Award.-Works:...
, (born 1963), novelist, story writer and poet - John Langhorne, (1735–1779), poet and translator
- William LanglandWilliam LanglandWilliam Langland is the conjectured author of the 14th-century English dream-vision Piers Plowman.- Life :The attribution of Piers to Langland rests principally on the evidence of a manuscript held at Trinity College, Dublin...
, (c. 1332-c. 1386), poet, Piers PlowmanPiers PlowmanPiers Plowman or Visio Willelmi de Petro Plowman is the title of a Middle English allegorical narrative poem by William Langland. It is written in unrhymed alliterative verse divided into sections called "passus"... - Peter Langtoft, (died c. 1305), historian and chronicler
- Bennet LangtonBennet LangtonBennet Langton was an English writer and a founding member of the Literary Club. He is best known for his close friendship with writer Samuel Johnson and his numerous appearances in James Boswell's book The Life of Samuel Johnson....
, (1736–1801), writer - Emilia LanierEmilia LanierEmilia Lanier, also spelled Lanyer, was the first Englishwoman to assert herself as a professional poet through her single volume of poems, Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum...
or Lanyer, (1569–1645), poet - R. F. LangleyR. F. LangleyRoger Francis Langley was an English poet and diarist. During his life, he was loosely affiliated with the Cambridge poetry scene.-Life and work:...
, (born 1938), poet - Nathaniel Lardner, (1684–1768), theologian
- Philip LarkinPhilip LarkinPhilip Arthur Larkin, CH, CBE, FRSL is widely regarded as one of the great English poets of the latter half of the twentieth century...
, (1922–1985), poet and anthologist, The Whitsun Weddings - Harold LaskiHarold LaskiHarold Joseph Laski was a British Marxist, political theorist, economist, author, and lecturer, who served as the chairman of the Labour Party during 1945-1946, and was a professor at the LSE from 1926 to 1950....
, (1893–1950), political theorist, economist and writer - Marghanita LaskiMarghanita LaskiMarghanita Laski was an English journalist, radio panellist and novelist: she also wrote literary biography, plays and short stories.- Personal life :...
, (1915–1988), novelist and broadcaster, Little Boy LostLittle Boy LostLittle Boy Lost is a 1953 Paramount Pictures black-and-white drama motion picture starring Bing Crosby. Others in the cast include Claude Dauphin, Christian Fourcade, Gabrielle Dorziat, and Nicole Maurey.... - David LassmanDavid LassmanDavid Lassman is a British author, arts journalist and scriptwriter responsible for the 'Rejecting Jane' article, which became the 'literary story of 2007'.-Biography:...
(born 1963), author, arts journalist and scriptwriter - Hugh LatimerHugh LatimerHugh Latimer was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, Bishop of Worcester before the Reformation, and later Church of England chaplain to King Edward VI. In 1555, under Queen Mary, he was burnt at the stake, becoming one of the three Oxford Martyrs of Anglicanism.-Life:Latimer was born into a...
, (c. 1487-1555), preacher, bishop and martyr - William LaudWilliam LaudWilliam Laud was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1633 to 1645. One of the High Church Caroline divines, he opposed radical forms of Puritanism...
, (1573–1645), theologian, archbishop and martyr - Hugh LaurieHugh LaurieJames Hugh Calum Laurie, OBE , better known as Hugh Laurie , is an English actor, voice artist, comedian, writer, musician, recording artist, and director...
, (born 1959), actor, comedian and novelist - William LawWilliam LawWilliam Law was an English cleric, divine and theological writer.-Early life:Law was born at Kings Cliffe, Northamptonshire in 1686. In 1705 he entered as a sizar at Emmanuel College, Cambridge; in 1711 he was elected fellow of his college and was ordained...
, (1686–1761), theologian. - D. H. LawrenceD. H. LawrenceDavid Herbert Richards Lawrence was an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter who published as D. H. Lawrence. His collected works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation...
, (1885–1930), novelist, poet and playwright, Lady Chatterley's LoverLady Chatterley's LoverLady Chatterley's Lover is a novel by D. H. Lawrence, first published in 1928. The first edition was printed privately in Florence, Italy with assistance from Pino Orioli; it could not be published openly in the United Kingdom until 1960... - George A. LawrenceGeorge Alfred LawrenceGeorge Alfred Lawrence was a British novelist and barrister.-Biography:George Alfred Lawrence was born at Buxted, Sussex, the eldest child of the Revd Alfred Charnley Lawrence, Curate of Uxfield Chapel, Buxted, and the Hon...
, (1827–1876), novelist - T. E. LawrenceT. E. LawrenceLieutenant Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence, CB, DSO , known professionally as T. E. Lawrence, was a British Army officer renowned especially for his liaison role during the Arab Revolt against Ottoman Turkish rule of 1916–18...
, (1888–1935), writer and soldier, Seven Pillars of WisdomSeven Pillars of WisdomSeven Pillars of Wisdom is the autobiographical account of the experiences of British soldier T. E. Lawrence , while serving as a liaison officer with rebel forces during the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Turks of 1916 to 1918.... - Benjamin LayBenjamin LayBenjamin Lay was a Quaker philanthropist and abolitionist.-Life and beliefs:Lay was born in Colchester, England. In 1710, he moved to Barbados as a merchant, but his abolition principles, fueled by his Quaker radicalism, became obnoxious to the people who lived there so he moved to Abington,...
, (1681–1760), pamphleteer and philanthopist - LayamonLayamonLayamon or Laghamon (ˈlaɣamon; in American English often modernised as ; ), occasionally written Lawman, was a poet of the early 13th century and author of the Brut, a notable English poem of the 12th century that was the first English language work to discuss the legends of Arthur and the...
or Laȝamon, (early 13th c.), verse chronicler, Brut - John LayfieldJohn Layfield (theologian)John Layfield, D.D. was an English scholar and translator.Layfield was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood before proceeding to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a Fellow from 1585 to 1603. He was chaplain to George Clifford, the 3rd Earl of Cumberland on his 1592 voyage to...
, (died 1617), scholar, AV translator and cleric - John le CarréJohn le CarréDavid John Moore Cornwell , who writes under the name John le Carré, is an author of espionage novels. During the 1950s and the 1960s, Cornwell worked for MI5 and MI6, and began writing novels under the pseudonym "John le Carré"...
, (real name D. J. M. Cornwell, born 1931), novelist, The Spy Who Came in from the ColdThe Spy Who Came in from the ColdThe Spy Who Came in from the Cold , by John le Carré, is a British Cold War spy novel that became famous for its portrayal of Western espionage methods as being morally inconsistent with Western democracy and values. The novel received critical acclaim at the time of its publication and became an... - Richard Le GallienneRichard Le GallienneRichard Le Gallienne was an English author and poet. The American actress Eva Le Gallienne was his daughter, by his second marriage.-Life and career:...
, (1866–1947), writer and poet - William Le QueuxWilliam Le QueuxWilliam Tufnell Le Queux was an Anglo-French journalist and writer. He was also a diplomat , a traveller , a flying buff who officiated at the first British air meeting at Doncaster in 1909, and a wireless pioneer who broadcast music from his own station long...
, (1866–1947), novelist, poet and essayist - Jane LeadeJane LeadeJane Ward Leade was a Christian mystic born in Norfolk, England. Her spiritual visions, recorded in a series of publications, were central in the founding and philosophy of the Philadelphian Society in London at the time.-Early life:...
, (1624–1704), religious writer and mystic - Mary LeaporMary LeaporMary Leapor was an English poet, born in Marston St. Lawrence, Northamptonshire, the only child of Anne Sharman and Philip Leapor , a gardener...
, (1722–1746), poet - Edward LearEdward LearEdward Lear was an English artist, illustrator, author, and poet, renowned today primarily for his literary nonsense, in poetry and prose, and especially his limericks, a form that he popularised.-Biography:...
, (1812–1888), artist, humorist and poet, The Owl and the PussycatThe Owl and the Pussycat"The Owl and the Pussycat" is a nonsense poem by Edward Lear, first published in 1871.- Background :Lear wrote the poem for a three-year-old girl, Janet Symonds, the daughter of Lear's friend poet John Addington Symonds and his wife Catherine Symonds... - F. R. LeavisF. R. LeavisFrank Raymond "F. R." Leavis CH was an influential British literary critic of the early-to-mid-twentieth century. He taught for nearly his entire career at Downing College, Cambridge.-Early life:...
, (1895–1978), literary critic and editor - Norman LebrechtNorman LebrechtNorman Lebrecht is a British commentator on music and cultural affairs and a novelist. He was a columnist for The Daily Telegraph from 1994 until 2002 and assistant editor of the Evening Standard from 2002 until 2009...
, (born 1948), writer on music and novelist - Harriet LeeHarriet LeeHarriet Lee was a novelist and playwright.Born the daughter of actor John Lee, Harriet Lee grew up in an artistic family. In 1786 she published The Errors of Innocence, an epistolary novel...
, (1757–1851), novelist and playwright - Laurie LeeLaurie LeeLaurence Edward Alan "Laurie" Lee, MBE was an English poet, novelist, and screenwriter, raised in the village of Slad, and went to Marling School, Gloucestershire. His most famous work was an autobiographical trilogy which consisted of Cider with Rosie , As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning and...
, (1914–1997), poet and autobiographer, Cider with RosieCider with RosieCider with Rosie is a 1959 book by Laurie Lee . It is the first book of a trilogy that continues with As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning and A Moment of War... - Nathaniel LeeNathaniel LeeNathaniel Lee was an English dramatist.He was the son of Dr Richard Lee, a Presbyterian clergyman who was rector of Hatfield and held many preferments under the Commonwealth...
, (1653–1692), playwright - Sidney LeeSidney LeeSir Sidney Lee was an English biographer and critic.He was born Solomon Lazarus Lee at 12 Keppel Street, Bloomsbury, London and educated at the City of London School and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated in modern history in 1882. In the next year he became assistant-editor of the...
, (1859–1926), biographer, editor and critic, Dictionary of National BiographyDictionary of National BiographyThe Dictionary of National Biography is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published from 1885... - Sophia LeeSophia LeeSophia Lee was an English novelist and dramatist.She was the daughter of John Lee , actor and theatrical manager, and was born in London...
, (1750–1824), novelist and playwright - Vernon LeeVernon LeeVernon Lee was the pseudonym of the British writer Violet Paget . She is remembered today primarily for her supernatural fiction and her work on aesthetics. An early follower of Walter Pater, she also wrote over a dozen volumes of essays on art, music, and travel.-Biography:She was born at Château...
, (real name Violet Paget, 1856–1935), novelist and essayist - Eugene Lee-HamiltonEugene Lee-HamiltonEugene Lee-Hamilton was a late Victorian English poet. His work includes some notable sonnets in the style of Petrarch. He endowed a literary prize administered by Oriel College in Oxford University, where he was a student...
, (1845–1907), poet - James Lees-MilneJames Lees-MilneJames Lees-Milne was an English writer and expert on country houses. He was an architectural historian, novelist, and a biographer. He is also remembered as a diarist.-Biography:...
, (1908–1997), architectural writer and diarist - Joseph LeftwichJoseph LeftwichJoseph Leftwich , born Joseph Lefkowitz, was a British-Jewish critic and translator into English of Yiddish literature. He is known particularly for his 1939 anthology The Golden Peacock of Yiddish poetry, and his 1957 biography of Israel Zangwill.He was one of the 'Whitechapel Boys' group of...
, (real name Lefkovicz, 1892–1984), poet, translator and anthologist - John LehmannJohn LehmannRudolf John Frederick Lehmann was an English poet and man of letters, and one of the foremost literary editors of the twentieth century, founding the periodicals New Writing and The London Magazine.The fourth child of journalist Rudolph Lehmann, and brother of Helen Lehmann, novelist Rosamond...
, (1907–1987), poet and editor - R. C. LehmannR. C. LehmannRudolph Chambers "R.C." Lehmann was an English writer and Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1906 to 1910. As a writer he was best known for three decades in which he was a major contributor to Punch as well as founding editor of Granta magazine.Lehmann was born in...
, (1856–1929), writer and lyricist - Rosamond LehmannRosamond LehmannRosamond Nina Lehmann, CBE , was a British novelist. Her first novel, Dusty Answer , was a succès de scandale; she subsequently became established in the literary world and intimate with members of the Bloomsbury set...
, (1901–1990), novelist, autobiographer and translator - Richard LeighRichard Leigh (poet)Richard Leigh , English poet, was the younger son of Edward Leigh and Elizabeth Talbot of Rushall, Staffordshire. He entered Queen’s College, Oxford in 1666 at age sixteen. Sources rumor that, after school, Leigh left Oxford for London and became an actor in the Duke of York’s or King's Company...
, (1649/50-1728), poet - Clare LeightonClare LeightonClare Veronica Hope Leighton was an English/American artist, writer and illustrator, best known for her wood engravings.Clare Leighton was born in London on 12 April 1898, the daughter of Robert Leighton and Marie Connor Leighton , both authors...
, (1898–1989), writer and illustrator - John Leland or Leyland, (c. 1503/6-1552), antiquary
- John LelandJohn Leland (Presbyterian)John Leland was an English Presbyterian minister and author of theological works.Leland was born in Wigan, Lancashire on October 18, 1691. He was educated in Dublin, Ireland , and went into the ministry there. He received his Doctor of Divinity degree from the University of Aberdeen in 1739. His...
(1691–1766), Presbyterian minister and author - Mark LemonMark LemonMark Lemon was founding editor of both Punch and The Field.-Biography:Lemon was born in London on the 30 November 1809. He was the son of Martin Lemon, a hop merchant, and Alice Collis. His parents married on 26 December 1808 at St Mary, Marylebone, London...
, (1809–1870), playwright, novelist and editor - John LemprièreJohn LemprièreJohn Lemprière , English classical scholar, lexicographer, theologian, teacher and headmaster...
, (c. 1765-1824), scholar and lexicographer, Bibliotheca ClassicaLemprière's Bibliotheca ClassicaThe Bibliotheca Classica , or Classical Dictionary containing a full Account of all the Proper Names mentioned in Ancient Authors is the best-known work of John Lemprière, an English classical scholar. Edited by various later scholars, the dictionary long remained a readable if not absolutely... - Sue LenierSue LenierSusan Jennifer Lenier is an English writer. She published two books of poetry and a number of plays.-Biography:Sue Lenier was born in Birmingham, schooled in Tyneside, and attended Clare College, Cambridge...
, (born 1957) poet and playwright - John LennonJohn LennonJohn Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...
, (1940–1980), singer, songwriter and humorist - Charlotte LennoxCharlotte LennoxCharlotte Lennox was an English author and poet. She is most famous now as the author of The Female Quixote and for her association with Samuel Johnson, Joshua Reynolds, and Samuel Richardson, but she had a long career and wrote poetry, prose, and drama.-Life:Charlotte Lennox was born in Gibraltar...
, (1730–1804), writer and poet - Alan LeoAlan LeoAlan Leo, born William Frederick Allan, , was a prominent British astrologer, author, publisher and theosophist, and is considered by many to be the father of modern astrology....
, (born William Frederick Allan, 1860–1917), astrologer and publisher - Roger L'EstrangeRoger L'EstrangeSir Roger L'Estrange was an English pamphleteer and author, and staunch defender of royalist claims. L'Estrange was involved in political controversy throughout his life...
, (1615–1704), pamphleteer, polemicist and translator - Ada LeversonAda LeversonAda Leverson was a British writer who is now known primarily for her work as a novelist.She began writing during the 1890s, as a contributor to Black and White, Punch, and The Yellow Book. She was a loyal friend to Oscar Wilde, who called her Sphinx...
, (1862–1933), novelist - Denise LevertovDenise Levertov-Early life and influences:Levertov was born and grew up in Ilford, Essex.Couzyn, Jeni Contemporary Women Poets. Bloodaxe, p74 Her mother, Beatrice Spooner-Jones Levertoff, came from a small mining village in North Wales...
, (1923-1997), poet - Michael LeveyMichael LeveySir Michael Vincent Levey, LVO was a British art historian and was director of the National Gallery for thirteen years, from 1973 to 1986.-Biography:...
, (1927–2008), art historian - Peter LeviPeter LeviPeter Chad Tigar Levi, FSA, FRSL, , Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford was a poet, archaeologist, sometime Jesuit priest, travel writer, biographer, academic and prolific reviewer and critic.-Early life and education:Levi was born in Ruislip, Middlesex of parents with Mediterranean...
, (1931–2000), poet, critic and travel writer - Amy LevyAmy Levy- Biography :Levy was born in Clapham, London, the second daughter of Lewis Levy and Isobel Levin. Her Jewish family was mildly observant, but as an adult Levy no longer practised Judaism; she continued to identify with the Jews as a people....
, (1861–1889), poet and novelist - Andrea LevyAndrea LevyAndrea Levy is a British author, born in London to Jamaican parents who sailed to England on the Empire Windrush in 1948.-Identity and writings:...
, (born 1956), novelist, Small IslandSmall IslandSmall Island is a 2004 prize-winning novel by British author Andrea Levy. It was adapted for television in two episodes by the BBC in 2009.... - George Henry LewesGeorge Henry LewesGeorge Henry Lewes was an English philosopher and critic of literature and theatre. He became part of the mid-Victorian ferment of ideas which encouraged discussion of Darwinism, positivism, and religious scepticism...
, (1817–1878), philosopher and critic - Alethea LewisAlethea LewisAlethea Lewis was an English novelist, born at Acton, near Nantwich, Cheshire. Her father was the Reverend James Brereton. Althea was two years old when her mother died, and her father sent her away to live with her maternal grandfather...
, (1749–1827), novelist - C. S. LewisC. S. LewisClive Staples Lewis , commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as "Jack", was a novelist, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist from Belfast, Ireland...
, (1898–1963), novelist, children's writer and critic, The Chronicles of NarniaThe Chronicles of NarniaThe Chronicles of Narnia is a series of seven fantasy novels for children by C. S. Lewis. It is considered a classic of children's literature and is the author's best-known work, having sold over 100 million copies in 47 languages... - David LewisDavid Lewis (poet)-Life:Lewis was the son of Roger Lewis of Llanddewi Felffre, in the county of Pembrokeshire, and was probably born in Wales. He studied at Jesus College, Oxford, matriculating in 1698 and obtaining his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1702. He was undermaster at Westminster School...
, (1682–1760), poet and playwright - George Cornewall Lewis, (1806–1863), writer, philologist and politician
- Hilda LewisHilda LewisHilda Winifred Lewis was a British writer.She wrote a noted children's book, The Ship that Flew which concerns Norse mythology and time travel. It was republished in the Oxford Children's Modern Classics series in 1998. Several of her historical novels, e.g. I am Mary Tudor , received attention...
, (1896-1974), novelist and children's writer - Leopold Davis LewisLeopold Davis LewisLeopold Davis Lewis , was an English dramatist.Lewis was born in London and educated at the King's College School, and upon graduation became a solicitor, practising as such from 1850 to 1875...
, (1828–1890), playwright and translator - Matthew Lewis, (1775–1818), novelist and diarist, The MonkThe MonkThe Monk: A Romance is a Gothic novel by Matthew Gregory Lewis, published in 1796. It was written before the author turned 20, in the space of 10 weeks.-Characters:...
- Roger LewisRoger LewisRoger Lewis , a former Fellow of Wolfson College at Oxford University, is the biographer of Anthony Burgess. Lewis's book, Anthony Burgess: A Life, was published in 2002....
, (born 1960), biographer and scholar - Ted Lewis (writer)Ted Lewis (writer)Ted Lewis was a British writer.He was born in Manchester, an only child. After World War II the family moved to Barton-on-Humber...
, (1940–1982), novelist and screenwriter, Z Cars - Wyndham LewisWyndham LewisPercy Wyndham Lewis was an English painter and author . He was a co-founder of the Vorticist movement in art, and edited the literary magazine of the Vorticists, BLAST...
, (1882–1957), writer and painter, The Apes of GodThe Apes of GodThe Apes of God is a 1930 novel by the British artist and writer Wyndham Lewis. It is a satire of London's contemporary literary and artistic scene.... - Marina LewyckaMarina LewyckaMarina Lewycka is a British novelist of Ukrainian origin, currently living in Sheffield, England.-Biography:Marina Lewycka was born in a refugee camp in Kiel, Germany after World War II. Her family subsequently moved to England where she now lives...
, (born 1946), novelist and medical writer, A Short History of Tractors in UkrainianA Short History of Tractors in UkrainianA Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian is a novel by Marina Lewycka, first published in 2005 by Viking .The novel won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize at the Hay literary festival, the Waverton Good Read Award 2005/6, and was short-listed for the 2005 Orange Prize for Fiction, losing to... - Nell LeyshonNell LeyshonNell Leyshon is a British dramatist and novelist.She was born in Glastonbury, England, and lives in the county of Dorset. She attended the University of Southampton, gaining a first in English Literature.Leyshon writes regularly for Radio 4 and 3...
, (fl. 2000s), dramatist and novelist - Henry George Liddell, (1811–1898), scholar and lexicographer
- John LilburneJohn LilburneJohn Lilburne , also known as Freeborn John, was an English political Leveller before, during and after English Civil Wars 1642-1650. He coined the term "freeborn rights", defining them as rights with which every human being is born, as opposed to rights bestowed by government or human law...
, (c. 1614–1657), political activist and pamphleteer - George LilloGeorge LilloGeorge Lillo was an English playwright and tragedian. He was a jeweler in London as well as a dramatist. He produced his first stage work, Silvia, or The Country Burial, in 1730. A year later, he produced his most famous play, The London Merchant...
, (1693–1739), playwright - Thomas LinacreThomas LinacreThomas Linacre was a humanist scholar and physician, after whom Linacre College, Oxford and Linacre House The King's School, Canterbury are named....
or Lynaker (c. 1460-1524), humanist, physician and translator - David LindsayDavid Lindsay (novelist)David Lindsay was a Scottish author now most famous for the philosophical science fiction novel A Voyage to Arcturus .-Biography:...
, (1876-1945), novelist, A Voyage to ArcturusA Voyage to ArcturusA Voyage to Arcturus is a novel by Scottish writer David Lindsay, first published in 1920. It combines fantasy, philosophy, and science fiction in an exploration of the nature of good and evil and their relationship with existence. It has been described by critic and philosopher Colin Wilson as the... - John LingardJohn LingardDr. John Lingard was an English Catholic priest, born in St Thomas Street in Central Winchester to recusant parents and the author of The History Of England, From the First Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of Henry VIII, an 8-volume work published in 1819...
, (1771–1851), historian and hymn writer - Anne ListerAnne ListerAnne Lister was a well-off Yorkshire landowner, diarist, mountaineer and traveller.Throughout her life she kept diaries which chronicled the details of her everyday life, including her lesbian relationships, her financial concerns, her industrial activities and her work improving Shibden Hall...
, (1791–1840), diarist and traveler - Thomas Henry ListerThomas Henry ListerThomas Henry Lister was an English novelist and Registrar General.-Life and writings:Lister was the son of Thomas Lister of Armitage Park and his first wife Harriet Anne Seale. His maternal grandfather was John Seale...
, (1800–1842), novelist and registrar general - Emanuel LitvinoffEmanuel LitvinoffEmanuel Litvinoff was a British writer and human rights campaigner, and a well known figure in Anglo-Jewish literature.-Background:...
, (born 1915), novelist, poet and autobiographer - Edward LivelyEdward LivelyEdward Lively was an English linguist and biblical scholar. He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he became a Fellow, He was Regius Professor of Hebrew from 1575 to 1605...
, (1545–1605), scholar, AV translator and cleric - Penelope LivelyPenelope LivelyPenelope Lively CBE, FRSL is a prolific, popular and critically acclaimed author of fiction for both children and adults. She has been shortlisted three times for the Booker Prize, winning once for Moon Tiger in 1987.-Personal:...
, (born 1933), novelist and children's writer, The Ghost of Thomas KempeThe Ghost of Thomas KempeThe Ghost of Thomas Kempe is a novel for children by Penelope Lively published in 1973. The novel won the Carnegie Medal in 1973.-Plot summary:... - Richard LlewellynRichard LlewellynRichard Dafydd Vivian Llewellyn Lloyd , better known by his pen name Richard Llewellyn, was a Welsh novelist.Llewellyn Richard Dafydd Vivian Llewellyn Lloyd (8 December 1906 – 30 November 1983), better known by his pen name Richard Llewellyn, was a Welsh novelist.Llewellyn Richard Dafydd...
, (real name Richard Llewellyn Lloyd, 1906–1983), novelist and screenwriter, How Green Was My ValleyHow Green Was My ValleyHow Green Was My Valley is a 1939 novel by Richard Llewellyn, telling the story through narration of the main character, of his Welsh family and the mining community in which they live. The author had claimed to have based the book on his own knowledge of the Gilfach Goch area, but this was proven... - Charles LloydCharles Lloyd (poet)Charles Lloyd II , poet, was a friend of Charles Lamb, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Thomas de Quincey. His best-known poem is "Desultory Thoughts in London".-Early life:...
, (1775–1839), poet and translator - Christopher LloydChristopher Lloyd (gardener)Christopher Hamilton Lloyd, OBE was a British gardener and author. He was the 20th Century chronicler for the heavily planted, labour-intensive, country garden.-Life:...
, (1921–2006), gardening writer - Robert LloydRobert Lloyd (poet)Robert Lloyd was an English poet and satirist.-Life:Robert Lloyd was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1755 and M.A. in 1758. He was author of the popular poem The Actor and the comic opera The Capricious Lovers , first performed at Drury Lane just...
, (1733–1764), poet and satirist - John LockeJohn LockeJohn Locke FRS , widely known as the Father of Liberalism, was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers. Considered one of the first of the British empiricists, following the tradition of Francis Bacon, he is equally important to social...
, (1632–1704), philosopher, An Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingAn Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingFirst appearing in 1690 with the printed title An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke concerns the foundation of human knowledge and understanding. He describes the mind at birth as a blank slate filled later through experience... - William John LockeWilliam John LockeWilliam John Locke was a novelist and playwright, born in Cunningsbury St George, Christ Church, Demerara, British Guyana on the 20 March 1863, the elder son of John Locke, Bank Manager, of Barbados, and his first wife, Sarah Elizabeth. His parents were English. In 1864 his family moved to...
, (1863–1930), novelist and playwright - Frederick Locker-LampsonFrederick Locker-Lampson[File:Frederick Locker .jpg|thumb|right|[File:Frederick Locker .jpg|thumb|right|[File:Frederick Locker .jpg|thumb|right|[[File:Frederick Locker .jpg|thumb|right|...
, (1821–1895), poet - David Lodge (author)David Lodge (author)David John Lodge CBE, is an English author.In his novels, Lodge often satirises academia in general and the humanities in particular. He was brought up Catholic and has described himself as an "agnostic Catholic". Many of his characters are Catholic and their Catholicism is a major theme...
, (born 1935), novelist and critic - Edmund LodgeEdmund LodgeSir Edmund Lodge, KH , herald, was a long-serving English officer of arms, a writer on heraldic subjects, and a painstaking supplier of short, accurate biographies.-Life and career:...
, (1756–1839), herald and biographer - Oliver Lodge, (1851–1940), physicist and science writer
- Thomas LodgeThomas LodgeThomas Lodge was an English dramatist and writer of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods.-Early life and education:...
, (c. 1558–1625), playwright and poet - John LodwickJohn LodwickJohn Alan Patrick Lodwick, was a British novelist.-Life:Son of a father in the Indian Army, who died in the sinking of the SS Persia just before his son's birth, Lodwick attended Cheltenham College and the Royal Naval Academy at Dartmouth. He spent some time working as a journalist in Dublin...
, (1916–1959), novelist - Hugh LoftingHugh LoftingHugh John Lofting was a British author, trained as a civil engineer, who created the character of Doctor Dolittle — one of the classics of children's literature.-Personal life:...
, (1886–1947), children's writer and poet, Dr. Dolittle - Norah LoftsNorah LoftsNorah Lofts, née Norah Robinson, was a 20th century best-selling British author. She wrote more than fifty books specialising in historical fiction, but she also wrote non-fiction and short stories...
, (1904–1983), novelist and biographer - Christopher LogueChristopher LogueChristopher Logue, CBE is an English poet associated with the British Poetry Revival. He has also written for the theatre and cinema as well as acting in a number of films. His two screenplays are Savage Messiah and The End of Arthur's Marriage...
, (born 1926), poet and screenwriter - Herbert LomasHerbert Lomas (poet)Herbert Lomas was a British poet and translator. He served in the infantry from 1943 to 1946). He then graduated from University of Liverpool, and taught at the University of Helsinki and Borough Road College....
, (born 1924), poet and translator - Elizabeth LongfordElizabeth LongfordElizabeth Pakenham, Countess of Longford, CBE, better known as Elizabeth Longford was a British author.-Life:...
, (1906–2002), biographer - E. C. R. LoracE. C. R. LoracEdith Caroline Rivett was a British crime writer. She was born in Hendon, Middlesex . She attended the South Hampstead High School, and the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London. She was a member of the Detection Club...
, (real name Edith Caroline Rivett, other pen name Carol Carnac, 1884–1959), novelist - F. G. LoringF. G. LoringFrederick George Loring was an English naval officer, wireless expert, and writer.-Family:Loring was born on 11 March 1869 in Ryde, Isle of Wight, the eldest son of Admiral Sir William Loring , and his wife, Frances Louisa Adams...
, ((1869–1951), short-story writer and naval wireless engineer - Jane C. LoudonJane C. LoudonJane C. Webb Loudon was an early pioneer of science fiction, long before the term was invented, so that she was discussed for a century as a writer of Gothic fiction or fantasy or horror, though she did none of these things as we now categorize fiction...
, (1807–1858), novelist - Richard LovelaceRichard LovelaceRichard Lovelace was an English poet in the seventeenth century. He was a cavalier poet who fought on behalf of the king during the Civil war. His best known works are To Althea, from Prison, and To Lucasta, Going to the Warres....
, (1618–1657), poet, To Althea, from PrisonTo Althea, from PrisonTo Althea, from Prison is a romantic poem written by Richard Lovelace in 1642. The poem is one of Lovelace's best known works, and its final stanza's first line is often quoted. Lovelace wrote the poem while imprisoned in Gatehouse Prison for petitioning to have the Clergy Act 1640... - William LovettWilliam LovettWilliam Lovett was a British activist who was a leader of the political movement Chartism as well as one of the leading London-based Artisan Radicals of his generation....
, (1800–1877), political writer and Chartist - Archibald LowArchibald LowArchibald Montgomery Low was an English consulting engineer, research physicist and inventor, and author of more than 40 books....
, (1888–1956), science writer - Edward LowburyEdward LowburyEdward Joseph Lister Lowbury was a pioneering and innovative English medical bacteriologist and pathologist, and also a published poet.-Life:...
, (1913–2007), poet and bacteriologist - Marie Adelaide Belloc LowndesMarie Adelaide Belloc LowndesMarie Adelaïde Lowndes, née Belloc , was a prolific English novelist.Active from 1904 until her death, she had a literary reputation for combining exciting incident with psychological interest...
, (1868-1947), novelist - William Thomas LowndesWilliam Thomas LowndesWilliam Thomas Lowndes , English bibliographer, was born about 1798, the son of a London bookseller.His principal work, The Bibliographer’s Manual of English Literature—the first systematic work of the kind—was published in four volumes in 1834...
, (c. 1798-1843), bibliographer - Malcolm LowryMalcolm LowryClarence Malcolm Lowry was an English poet and novelist who was best known for his novel Under the Volcano, which was voted No. 11 in the Modern Library 100 Best Novels list.-Biography:...
, (1909–1957), poet and novelist, Under the VolcanoUnder the VolcanoUnder the Volcano is a 1947 semi-autobiographical novel by English writer Malcolm Lowry . The novel tells the story of Geoffrey Firmin, an alcoholic British consul in the small Mexican town of Quauhnahuac , on the Day of the Dead.Surrounded by the helpless presences of his ex-wife, his... - Mina LoyMina LoyMina Loy born Mina Gertrude Löwry was an artist, poet, playwright, novelist, Futurist, actress, Christian Scientist, designer of lamps, and bohemian. She was one of the last of the first generation modernists to achieve posthumous recognition. Her poetry was admired by T. S...
, (born Mina Gertrude Löwry, 1882–1966), poet, playwright and novelist - John LubbockJohn Lubbock, 1st Baron AveburyJohn Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury PC , FRS , known as Sir John Lubbock, 4th Baronet from 1865 until 1900, was a polymath and Liberal Member of Parliament....
, (1834–1913), archaeologist, zoologist and politician - Percy LubbockPercy LubbockPercy Lubbock, CBE was an English man of letters, known as an essayist, critic and biographer.-Life:Percy Lubbock was the son of the merchant banker Frederic Lubbock and his wife Catherine, daughter of John Gurney of Earlham Hall, Norfolk...
, (1879–1965), essayist, critic and biographer - E. V. LucasE. V. LucasEdward Verrall Lucas was a versatile and popular English writer. His nearly 100 books demonstrate great facility with style, and are generally acknowledged as humorous by contemporary readers and critics. Some of his essays about the sport cricket are still considered among the best instructional...
, (1868–1938), essayist - Edward Lucie-SmithEdward Lucie-SmithJohn Edward McKenzie Lucie-Smith is a British writer, poet, art critic, curator, broadcaster and author of exhibition catalogues.-Biography:Lucie-Smith was born in Kingston, Jamaica, moving to the United Kingdom in 1946...
, (born 1933), writer, poet and anthologist - Edmund LudlowEdmund LudlowEdmund Ludlow was an English parliamentarian, best known for his involvement in the execution of Charles I, and for his Memoirs, which were published posthumously in a rewritten form and which have become a major source for historians of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. After service in the English...
, (c. 1617-1692), memoirist and regicide - Jane LumleyJane LumleyJane , Lady Lumley was the first person to translate Euripides into English. She was the eldest child of Henry Fitzalan, 19th Earl of Arundel , patron of the arts, and his first wife, Katherine Grey Fitzalan...
, Lady Lumley (1537–1538), translator - Henry Luttrell, (c. 1765–1851), poet
- Narcissus LuttrellNarcissus LuttrellNarcissus Luttrell was an English historian, diarist, and bibliographer, and briefly Member of Parliament for two different Cornish towns...
, (1657–1732), historian, diarist and bibliographer - Alfred Comyn LyallAlfred Comyn LyallSir Alfred Comyn Lyall, GCIE, KCB was a British civil servant, literary historian and poet.-Early life:He was born at Coulsdon in Surrey, the second son of Alfred Lyall and Mary Drummond Broadwood, daughter of James Shudi Broadwood. He was educated at Eton...
, (1835–1911), historian and poet - John LydgateJohn LydgateJohn Lydgate of Bury was a monk and poet, born in Lidgate, Suffolk, England.Lydgate is at once a greater and a lesser poet than John Gower. He is a greater poet because of his greater range and force; he has a much more powerful machine at his command. The sheer bulk of Lydgate's poetic output is...
, (c. 1370-c. 1451), poet, Siege of ThebesSiege of Thebes (poem)Siege of Thebes is a poem written by John Lydgate and completed around 1420.... - Charles LyellCharles LyellSir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, Kt FRS was a British lawyer and the foremost geologist of his day. He is best known as the author of Principles of Geology, which popularised James Hutton's concepts of uniformitarianism – the idea that the earth was shaped by slow-moving forces still in operation...
, (1797–1875), geologist, Principles of GeologyPrinciples of GeologyPrinciples of Geology, being an attempt to explain the former changes of the Earth's surface, by reference to causes now in operation, is a book by the Scottish geologist Charles Lyell.... - John LylyJohn LylyJohn Lyly was an English writer, best known for his books Euphues,The Anatomy of Wit and Euphues and His England. Lyly's linguistic style, originating in his first books, is known as Euphuism.-Biography:John Lyly was born in Kent, England, in 1553/1554...
(1553/4-1606), writer and dramatist - George Lyttelton, 1st Baron LytteltonGeorge Lyttelton, 1st Baron LytteltonGeorge Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton PC , known as Sir George Lyttelton, Bt between 1751 and 1756, was a British politician and statesman and a patron of the arts.-Background and education:...
, (1709–1773), politician, patron and poet - Rosina Bulwer LyttonRosina Bulwer LyttonRosina Bulwer Lytton wrote and published fourteen novels, a volume of essays and a volume of letters. Her husband was Edward Bulwer-Lytton, a novelist and politician...
, (1802-1882), novelist and campaigner, A Blighted LifeA Blighted LifeA Blighted Life is an 1880 book by Rosina Bulwer Lytton chronicling the events surrounding her incarceration in a Victorian madhouse by her husband Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton and her subsequent release a few weeks later.-Further reading:...
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- James MabbeJames MabbeJames Mabbe or Mab was an English scholar and poet, and a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. He was involved in translations from Spanish, in particular of some of the work of Cervantes...
, (1572–1642), poet and translator - Rose MacaulayRose MacaulayDame Emilie Rose Macaulay, DBE was an English writer. She published thirty-five books, mostly novels but also biographies and travel writing....
, (1881–1958), novelist and biographer - Thomas Babington MacaulayThomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron MacaulayThomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay PC was a British poet, historian and Whig politician. He wrote extensively as an essayist and reviewer, and on British history...
, (1800–1859), historian and poet, Lays of Ancient RomeLays of Ancient RomeThe Lays of Ancient Rome is a once-famous collection of four lays by Thomas Babington Macaulay describing semi-mythical heroic episodes in Roman history with strong dramatic and tragic themes... - Desmond MacCarthyDesmond MacCarthySir Desmond MacCarthy was a British literary critic and journalist.-Early life and education:MacCarthy was born in Plymouth, Devon, and educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. At Cambridge he got to know Lytton Strachey, Bertrand Russell and G. E...
, (1877–1952), critic - Philip MacDonaldPhilip MacDonaldPhilip MacDonald was an English author of thrillers.-Life and work:...
, (also wrote as Oliver Fleming, Anthony Lawless, etc., 1900–1980), novelist and screenwriter - A. G. MacdonellA. G. MacdonellArchibald Gordon Macdonell was a Scottish writer, journalist and broadcaster, whose most famous work is the gently satirical novel England, Their England .-Life and work:...
, (1895–1941), England, Their EnglandEngland, Their EnglandEngland, Their England is an affectionately satirical comic novel of 1920s English urban and rural society by the Scottish writer A. G. Macdonell. It is particularly famed for its portrayal of village cricket.-Social satire:... - Robert MacfarlaneRobert MacfarlaneRobert Macfarlane, , is a British travel writer and literary critic. Educated at Nottingham High School, Pembroke College, Cambridge and Magdalen College, Oxford, he is currently a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and teaches in the Faculty of English at Cambridge.-Books:Macfarlane's first...
, (born 1976), travel writer and critic - Arthur MachenArthur MachenArthur Machen was a Welsh author and mystic of the 1890s and early 20th century. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. His novella The Great God Pan has garnered a reputation as a classic of horror...
, (born Arthur Llewelyn Jones, 1863–1947), novelist and mystic, The Great God PanThe Great God Pan"The Great God Pan" is a novella written by Arthur Machen. A version of the story was published in the magazine The Whirlwind in 1890, and Machen revised and extended it for its book publication in 1894... - Colin MacInnesColin MacInnesColin MacInnes was an English novelist and journalist.-Early life:MacInnes was born in London, the son of singer James Campbell McInnes and novelist Angela Thirkell, who was also related to Rudyard Kipling and Stanley Baldwin. His family moved to Australia in 1920, MacInness returning in 1930...
, (1914–1976), novelist - Denis MackailDenis MackailDenis George Mackail was an English novelist and short-story writer, publishing between the two world-wars.Although his work is now largely forgotten, 'Greenery Street', a novel of early married life in upper-middle class London, was republished by Persephone Books in 2002.-Biography:He was born...
, (1892–1971), novelist - Compton MackenzieCompton MackenzieSir Compton Mackenzie, OBE was a writer and a Scottish nationalist.-Background:Compton Mackenzie was born in West Hartlepool, England, into a theatrical family of Mackenzies, but many of whose members used Compton as their stage surname, starting with his grandfather Henry Compton, a well-known...
, (1883–1972), novelist, Whisky Galore - Serena MackesySerena Mackesy-Life and education:Serena Mackesy is the daughter of the Scots-born Oxford military historian Piers Mackesy. She is also the granddaughter on her mother's side of the novelist Margaret Kennedy and on her father's side of Leonora Mackesy , who wrote Harlequin romances as Leonora Starr and Dorothy...
, (born c. 1960s), novelist - Joseph MacleodJoseph MacleodJoseph Todd Gordon Macleod was a British poet, actor, playwright, theatre director, theatre historian and BBC Newsreader. He also published poetry under the pseudonym Adam Drinan.- Biography :...
, (also wrote as Adam Drinan, 1903–1984), poet, playwright and broadcaster - Barry MacSweeneyBarry MacSweeneyBarry MacSweeney was an English poet and journalist.-Life and work:Barry MacSweeney was born in Newcastle upon Tyne. He worked as a professional journalist throughout most of his life...
, (1948–2000), poet and journalist - Falconer MadanFalconer MadanFalconer Madan was Librarian of the Bodleian Library of Oxford University.Falconer was the fifth son of George and Harriet Madan. He was educated at Marlborough College and Brasenose College, Oxford, where he took part in Oxford and Cambridge Chess matches in 1873 and 1874, and won the University...
, (1851–1935), writer, bibliographer and librarian - Judith MadanJudith MadanJudith Madan was an English poet. She was the grand daughter of Lady Sarah Cowper , the diarist....
, (born Judith Cowper, 1702–1781), poet - Martin MadanMartin MadanMartin Madan was an English barrister, clergyman and writer, known for controversial views on marriage expressed in his book Thelyphthora.-Life:...
, (1726–1790), writer, translator and cleric - Charles MadgeCharles MadgeCharles Madge , was an English poet, journalist and sociologist, now most remembered as a founder of Mass-Observation.As a sociologist, he co-founded Mass-Observation with Tom Harrisson in 1937, an endeavour which would occupy more of his time than literature...
, (1912–1996), poet and sociologist - Thomas MadoxThomas MadoxThomas Madox was a legal antiquary and historian, known for his publication and discussion of medieval records and charters; and in particular for his History of the Exchequer, tracing the administration and records of that branch of the state from the Norman Conquest to the time of Edward II...
, (1666–1727), Historiographer RoyalHistoriographer RoyalThe Historiographer Royal is a member of the Royal household in Scotland. The office was created in 1681, and was in abeyance from 1709 until 1763 when it was revived for Principal William Robertson of Edinburgh University. The post, which now has no formal responsibilities or salary, is held by...
and antiquary - Magnus MagnussonMagnus MagnussonMagnus Magnusson KBE was a television presenter, journalist, translator and writer. He was born in Iceland but lived in Scotland for almost all of his life, although he never took British citizenship...
, (1929-2007), broadcaster, scholar and translator, MastermindMastermind (TV series)Mastermind is a British quiz show, well known for its challenging questions, intimidating setting and air of seriousness.Devised by Bill Wright, the basic format of Mastermind has never changed — four and in later contests five contestants face two rounds, one on a specialised subject of the...
quiz host - Michelle MagorianMichelle MagorianMichelle Magorian is an English author of children's books, including Goodnight Mister Tom, Back Home and A Little Love Song.- Biography :...
, (born 1947), children's writer, Goodnight Mister TomGoodnight Mister TomGoodnight Mister Tom novel by Michelle Magorian. It follows a young boy, William Beech, who is evacuated from London during the Blitz of World War II, and put into the care of Tom Oakley, an elderly recluse... - Henry James Sumner MaineHenry James Sumner MaineSir Henry James Sumner Maine, KCSI , was an English comparative jurist and historian. He is famous for the thesis outlined in Ancient Law that law and society developed "from status to contract." According to the thesis, in the ancient world individuals were tightly bound by status to traditional...
, (1822–1888), jurist and historian - Frederic William MaitlandFrederic William MaitlandFrederic William Maitland was an English jurist and historian, generally regarded as the modern father of English legal history.-Biography:...
, (1850–1906), jurist and historian - Julia MaitlandJulia MaitlandJulia Charlotte Maitland , was a writer and traveller, and the great-niece of the novelists Fanny Burney and Sarah Burney.-Family:...
, (1808-1864), writer and traveller - Sara MaitlandSara MaitlandSara Maitland is a British writer and feminist. An accomplished novelist, she is also known for her short stories. Her work has a magic realist tendency.-Biography:...
, (born 1950), novelist and religious writer - Bathsua MakinBathsua MakinBathsua Reginald Makin was a proto-feminist, middle-class Englishwoman who contributed to the emerging criticism of woman’s position in domestic and public spheres in 17th-century England. Herself a highly educated woman, Makin was referred to as “England’s most learned lady,” skilled in Greek,...
, (real name Bathsua Reginald, c. 1600-c.1675), writer and scholar - Lucas MaletLucas MaletLucas Malet is the pseudonym of Mary St Leger Kingsley , Victorian novelist.She was the daughter of Charles Kingsley, author of The Water Babies...
, (real name Mary St. Leger Kingsley, 1852–1931), novelist - William Hurrell MallockWilliam Hurrell MallockWilliam Hurrell Mallock was an English novelist and economics writer.-Biography:He was educated privately and then at Balliol College, Oxford. He won the Newdigate prize in 1872 and took a second class in the final classical schools in 1874, securing his Bachelor of Arts degree from Oxford...
, (1849–1923), novelist, satirist and poet, The New RepublicThe New RepublicThe magazine has also published two articles concerning income inequality, largely criticizing conservative economists for their attempts to deny the existence or negative effect increasing income inequality is having on the United States... - Thomas MaloryThomas MalorySir Thomas Malory was an English writer, the author or compiler of Le Morte d'Arthur. The antiquary John Leland as well as John Bale believed him to be Welsh, but most modern scholars, beginning with G. L...
, (c. 1430-c. 1471), author, Le Morte d'ArthurLe Morte d'ArthurLe Morte d'Arthur is a compilation by Sir Thomas Malory of Romance tales about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, and the Knights of the Round Table... - Eric MalpassEric MalpassEric Lawson Malpass was an English novelist noted for his humorous and witty descriptions of rural family life, in particular that of his creation, the extended Pentecost family. However, Malpass also wrote historical fiction, ranging in scope from the late Middle Ages to Edwardian England...
, (1910-1996), novelist - Thomas Robert Malthus, (1766–1834), political economist
- Bernard Mandeville, (1670–1733), philosopher and satirist
- Andrew MangoAndrew MangoAndrew James Alexander Mango Andrew James Alexander Mango Andrew James Alexander Mango (born 1926 in Istanbul (Constantinople) is a British author who was born in Turkey as one of three sons of a prosperous Anglo-Russian family. He is the brother of the distinguished Oxford historian and...
, (born 1926), author - Delarivier ManleyDelarivier ManleyDelarivier Manley was an English novelist of amatory fiction, playwright, and political pamphleteer...
, (1663 or 1670–1724), novelist, playwright and pamphleteer - Mary E. MannMary E. MannMary E. Mann, née Rackham, was an English writer of novels and short stories, primarily on themes of poverty and rural English life.-Life:...
, (1848-1929), novelist and story writer - Ethel ManninEthel ManninEthel Edith Mannin was a popular British novelist and travel writer. She was born in London into a family with an Irish background....
, (1900–1984), novelist, essayist and travel writer - Anne ManningAnne ManningAnne Manning was a British novelist. Born in London, England, Manning was an active writer during the Victorian age, having 51 works to her credit. Her writings have much literary charm, and show a delicate historical imaginationManning initially produced two books of non-fiction, followed by...
, (1807–1879), novelist - Olivia ManningOlivia ManningOlivia Mary Manning CBE was a British novelist, poet, writer and reviewer. Her fiction and non-fiction, frequently detailing journeys and personal odysseys, were principally set in England, Ireland, Europe and the Middle East. She often wrote from her personal experience, though her books also...
, (1908–1980), novelist and critic - Robert MannyngRobert MannyngRobert Manning was an English chronicler and Gilbertine monk. Mannyng provides a surprising amount of information about himself in his two known works, Handlyng Synne and a Chronicle...
, (c. 1275-c. 1338), poet - Henry Longueville ManselHenry Longueville ManselThe Very Reverend Henry Longueville Mansel, D.D. was an English philosopher and ecclesiastic.He was born at Cosgrove, Northamptonshire .He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, London and St John's College, Oxford...
, (1820–1871), philosopher - Katherine MansfieldKatherine MansfieldKathleen Mansfield Beauchamp Murry was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield. Mansfield left for Great Britain in 1908 where she encountered Modernist writers such as D.H. Lawrence and...
, (1888–1923), story writer and poet, The Garden PartyThe Garden Party"The Garden Party" is the pilot episode of the Adult Swim animated series The Boondocks, although the production number, 103, suggests it was the third episode produced... - Keith MansfieldKeith MansfieldKeith Mansfield is a British composer and arranger known for his creation of prominent television theme tunes, including the Grandstand theme for the BBC...
, (born 1965), novelist and screenwriter - Richard MantRichard Mant-Life:He was born at Southampton and educated at Winchester College and at Trinity College, Oxford.He was elected fellow of Oriel in 1798, and afterwards took orders, holding a curacy at Southampton in 1802...
, (1776–1848), writer, translator and cleric - Hilary MantelHilary MantelHilary Mary Mantel CBE , née Thompson, is an English novelist, short story writer and critic. Her work, ranging in subject from personal memoir to historical fiction, has been short-listed for major literary awards...
, (born 1952), novelist and critic, Wolf HallWolf HallWolf Hall is a multi-award winning historical novel by English author Hilary Mantel, published by Fourth Estate. Set in the period from 1500 to 1535, Wolf Hall is a fictionalized biography documenting the rapid rise to power of Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex in the court of Henry VIII of... - Francis MarburyFrancis MarburyFrancis Marbury, or Merbury was a Cambridge educated English clergyman, school master, and Puritan reformer now remembered as a playwright and the father of Anne Hutchinson.-Life:...
or Merbury, (1555-1611), playwright and cleric - Jane MarcetJane MarcetJane Marcet was a successful writer of popular introductory science books.-Life:She was born in London, one of twelve children of the merchant and banker Anthony Francis Haldimand and his wife Jane , and was tutored at home with her brothers...
, (1769–1858), science writer - Bessie MarchantBessie MarchantBessie Marchant was a prolific English writer of adventure novels featuring young female heroines.Marchant was born in Kent, and despite never leaving England herself, she wrote over 150 novels set in locations around the world...
(1862–1941), children's writer - Jan MarkJan MarkJan Mark was a British author, best known as a writer for children. She was christened Janet Marjorie Brisland in Welwyn Garden City in 1943 and was raised and educated in Kent. She was a secondary school teacher between 1965 and 1971, and became a full-time writer in 1974. She wrote over fifty...
, (born Janet Marjorie Brisland, 1943–2006), children's writer, Thunder and LightningsThunder and LightningsThunder and Lightnings is a children's book, the first novel written by Jan Mark. It won the Penguin Guardian Award for a first children’s book and the Carnegie Medal for 1976... - Gervase MarkhamGervase MarkhamGervase Markham was an English poet and writer, best known for his work The English Huswife, Containing the Inward and Outward Virtues Which Ought to Be in a Complete Woman first published in London in 1615.-Life:Markham was the third son of Sir Robert Markham of Cotham, Nottinghamshire, and was...
, (c. 1568–1637), poet and writer - Mrs. MarkhamMrs MarkhamMrs Markham, the pseudonym of Elizabeth Penrose was an English writer.She was the daughter of Edmund Cartwright, the inventor of the power loom. She was born at her father's rectory at Goadby Marwood, Leicestershire...
, (real name Elizabeth Penrose, 1780–1837), children's writer - Jane MarcetJane MarcetJane Marcet was a successful writer of popular introductory science books.-Life:She was born in London, one of twelve children of the merchant and banker Anthony Francis Haldimand and his wife Jane , and was tutored at home with her brothers...
, (1769–1858), science writer for children - Stephen MarleyStephen Marley (writer)Stephen Marley is a British author and video game designer, best known for his Chia Black Dragon series. He was born in Derby of Irish parents and was educated in Bemrose School in Derby and at Nottingham. He graduated in Social Anthropology in 1971 in London, gained an M.Sc in the Sociology of...
, (born 1946), novelist and screenwriter - Christopher MarloweChristopher MarloweChristopher Marlowe was an English dramatist, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. As the foremost Elizabethan tragedian, next to William Shakespeare, he is known for his blank verse, his overreaching protagonists, and his mysterious death.A warrant was issued for Marlowe's arrest on 18 May...
, (1564–1593), playwright, The Tragical History of Doctor FaustusThe Tragical History of Doctor FaustusThe Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor Faustus, is a play by Christopher Marlowe, based on the Faust story, in which a man sells his soul to the devil for power and knowledge... - Derek MarloweDerek MarloweDerek William Mario Marlowe was an English playwright, novelist, and screenwriter.- Life :Derek Marlowe was born in Perivale, Middlesex, and lived there and in Greenford as a child. His father was Frederick William Marlowe and his mother Helene Alexandroupolos...
, (1938–1996), novelist and playwright, A Dandy in AspicA Dandy in AspicA Dandy in Aspic is a 1968 British spy film, directed by Anthony Mann, based on the novel of the same name by Derek Marlowe and starring Laurence Harvey, Tom Courtenay and Mia Farrow.... - Martin MarprelateMartin MarprelateMartin Marprelate was the name used by the anonymous author or authors of the seven Marprelate tracts which circulated illegally in England in the years 1588 and 1589...
, (pseudonym, fl. 1588–1590), tractarian - Ellen MarriageEllen MarriageEllen Marriage was an English translator from French, notably of Balzac's novels...
, (1865–1946), translator, La Comédie humaineLa Comédie humaineLa Comédie humaine is the title of Honoré de Balzac's multi-volume collection of interlinked novels and stories depicting French society in the period of the Restoration and the July Monarchy .-Overview:... - Florence MarryatFlorence MarryatFlorence Marryat was a British author and actress. The daughter of author Capt. Frederick Marryat and his wife Catherine, she was particularly known for her sensational novels and her involvement with several celebrated spiritual mediums of the late nineteenth century...
, (1833–1899), novelist and actress - Frederick MarryatFrederick MarryatCaptain Frederick Marryat was an English Royal Navy officer, novelist, and a contemporary and acquaintance of Charles Dickens, noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story...
, (known as Captain Marryat, 1792–1848), novelist and children's writer, Mr Midshipman EasyMr Midshipman EasyMr. Midshipman Easy is an 1836 novel by Frederick Marryat, a retired Captain in the 19th century Royal Navy. The novel is set during the Napoleonic Wars, in which Marryat himself served with distinction.-Plot summary:... - Philip MarsdenPhilip MarsdenPhilip Marsden also known as Philip Marsden-Smedley is an English travel writer and novelist.Marsden has a degree in anthropology and worked for some years for The Spectator magazine. He became a full-time writer in the late 1980s...
, (born 1961), travel writer and novelist - Edward Marsh, (1872–1953), polymath and translator
- Edward Garrard MarshEdward Garrard MarshEdward Garrard Marsh was an English poet and Anglican clergyman.He was son of the composer John Marsh. He was a good friend of William Hayley, and associated with him and William Blake....
, (1783–1862), poet and cleric - Richard MarshRichard Marsh (author)Richard Marsh was the pseudonym of the British author born Richard Bernard Heldmann. He is best known for his supernatural thriller The Beetle: A Mystery, which was published in the same year as Bram Stoker's Dracula and was initially even more popular...
, (real name Richard Bernard Heldemann, 1857–1915), novelist - Alfred MarshallAlfred MarshallAlfred Marshall was an Englishman and one of the most influential economists of his time. His book, Principles of Economics , was the dominant economic textbook in England for many years...
, (1842–1924), economist - Archibald MarshallArchibald MarshallArthur Hammond Marshall , better known by his pen name Archibald Marshall, was an English author, publisher and journalist whose novels were particularly popular in the United States. He published over 50 books and was recognized as a realist in his writing style, and was considered by some as a...
, (1866–1934), novelist and journalist - Arthur Marshall, (1910–1989), writer and broadcaster
- Christabel MarshallChristabel MarshallChristabel Gertrude Marshall was a British campaigner for women's suffrage, a playwright and author...
(1871–1960), writer, playwright and suffragist - Emma MarshallEmma Marshall-External links:*...
(1830-1899), childrens writer - Sybil MarshallSybil MarshallSybil Marshall was a British writer, teacher and educationalist.As a teacher in a one-room school in Cambridgeshire during the 1940s, Marshall developed teaching methods based on integrating subjects and encouraging children's creativity...
, (1913–2005), writer, novelist and educationalist - Adam Mars-JonesAdam Mars-JonesAdam Mars-Jones is a British novelist and critic.Mars-Jones was born in London, to parents William Mars-Jones, the Welsh High Court judge and President of the London Welsh Trust, and Sheila . Mars-Jones studied at Westminster School, and read Classics at Trinity Hall, Cambridge...
, (born 1954), novelist and critic - John MarstonJohn MarstonJohn Marston was an English poet, playwright and satirist during the late Elizabethan and Jacobean periods...
, (1576–1634), poet, playwright and satirist - John Westland MarstonJohn Westland MarstonJohn Westland Marston was an English dramatist.Born in Boston, Lincolnshire, Marston wrote several plays, including Strathmore and Marie de Méranie...
, (1819–1890), playwright - Philip Bourke MarstonPhilip Bourke MarstonPhilip Bourke Marston was an English poet.He was born in London. His father, John Westland Marston , wrote verse dramas, and was a friend of Dickens, Macready and Charles Kean. Philip's godparents were Philip James Bailey and Dinah Mulock...
, (1850–1887), poet - J. P. Martin, (1879–1966), children's writer, the UncleUncle (novel)Uncle is a children's novel written by J. P. Martin, the first book of six forming the Uncle series. It is named after the main character, a rich philanthropic elephant who lives in a huge fantastical castle populated by many other eccentric animals and people...
books - Harriet MartineauHarriet MartineauHarriet Martineau was an English social theorist and Whig writer, often cited as the first female sociologist....
, (1802–1876), sociologist and translator - James MartineauJames MartineauJames Martineau was an English religious philosopher influential in the history of Unitarianism. For 45 years he was Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy and Political Economy in Manchester New College, the principal training college for British Unitarianism.-Early life:He was born in Norwich,...
, (1805–1900), philosopher - Andrew MarvellAndrew MarvellAndrew Marvell was an English metaphysical poet, Parliamentarian, and the son of a Church of England clergyman . As a metaphysical poet, he is associated with John Donne and George Herbert...
, (1621–1678), poet, To His Coy MistressTo His Coy MistressTo His Coy Mistress is a metaphysical poem written by the British author and statesman Andrew Marvell either during or just before the Interregnum.... - Eleanor MarxEleanor MarxJenny Julia Eleanor "Tussy" Marx , also known as Eleanor Marx Aveling, was the English-born youngest daughter of Karl Marx. She was herself a socialist activist, who sometimes worked as a literary translator...
, (1855–1898), translator and writer - Theo MarzialsTheo MarzialsThéophile-Jules-Henri "Theo" Marzials was a British composer, singer and poet. Marzials was described in 1894 as a "poet and eccentric" by parodist Max Beerbohm, and, after writing and performing several popular songs, vanished into obscurity...
, (1850–1920), poet, composer and singer - Eric MaschwitzEric MaschwitzAlbert Eric Maschwitz OBE , known as Eric Maschwitz and sometimes credited as Holt Marvell, was an English entertainer, writer, broadcaster and broadcasting executive.-Life and work:...
, (1901–1969), writer, lyricist and entertainer - John MasefieldJohn MasefieldJohn Edward Masefield, OM, was an English poet and writer, and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 until his death in 1967...
, (1878–1967), Poet LaureatePoet LaureateA poet laureate is a poet officially appointed by a government and is often expected to compose poems for state occasions and other government events...
and novelist - A. E. W. Mason, (1865–1948), novelist
- Anita MasonAnita MasonAnita Mason is an English novelist.An only child, her mother was a housewife, and her father worked at a factory that manufactured aircraft engines....
, (born 1942), novelist - Paul Nicholas MasonPaul Nicholas MasonPaul Nicholas Mason is a Canadian novelist, playwright, and occasional journalist.Born in London, England, he was raised in Rhodesia, British Columbia and Ontario...
, (born 1958), novelist and playwright - Richard Mason, (1919–1997), novelist,The World of Suzie WongThe World of Suzie WongThe World of Suzie Wong is a 1957 novel written by Richard Mason. The main characters are Robert Lomax, a young British artist living in Hong Kong, and Suzie Wong, the title character, a Chinese woman who works as a prostitute...
- William MasonWilliam Mason (poet)William Mason was an English poet, editor and gardener.He was born in Hull and educated at Hull Grammar School and St John's College, Cambridge. He was ordained in 1754 and held a number of posts in the church....
, (1724–1797), poet - Gerald MasseyGerald MasseyGerald Massey was an English poet and self-educated Egyptologist. He was born near Tring, Hertfordshire in England.-Biography:...
, (1828–1907), poet and Egyptologist - William Nathaniel MasseyWilliam Nathaniel MasseyWilliam Nathaniel Massey was a British barrister, author and Liberal politician.Massey studied law, being admitted as a student at the Inner Temple in 1826, and was called to the bar in 1844...
, (1809–1881), writer and politician - Philip MassingerPhilip MassingerPhilip Massinger was an English dramatist. His finely plotted plays, including A New Way to Pay Old Debts, The City Madam and The Roman Actor, are noted for their satire and realism, and their political and social themes.-Early life:The son of Arthur Massinger or Messenger, he was baptized at St....
, (1584–1640), playwright - Harold MassinghamHarold MassinghamHarold W. Massingham was a British poet.-Life:He is the son of H. W. Massingham...
, (born 1932) poet - H. J. MassinghamH. J. MassinghamHarold John Massingham was a prolific British writer on matters to do with the countryside and agriculture. He was also a published poet.-Life:...
, (1888–1952), nature writer and poet - John MastersJohn MastersLieutenant Colonel John Masters, DSO was an English officer in the British Indian Army and novelist. His works are noted for their treatment of the British Empire in India.-Life:...
, (1914–1983), novelist, autobiographer and army officer - Steve MatchettSteve MatchettSteve Matchett is currently a commentator for American TV network Speed Channel on its various Formula One programs...
, (born 1962), broadcaster & writer - Ellen Buckingham MathewsEllen Buckingham MathewsEllen Buckingham Mathews was a popular female English novelist during the late 19th and early 20th century. She was also known as Mrs Reeves after her marriage to Dr. Henry Reeves but was best known under her pen name, Helen Mathers....
, (pen name Helen Mathers, 1853-1920), novelist - Thomas James MathiasThomas James MathiasThomas James Mathias, FRS was a British satirist and scholar.Mathias was educated in Kingston upon Thames and Trinity College, Cambridge...
, (1754?-1835), satirist and translator - Aylmer and Louise MaudeAylmer and Louise MaudeAylmer Maude and Louise Maude were English translators of Tolstoy's works, and Aylmer Maude also wrote his friend Tolstoy's biography. After living many years in Russia the Maudes spent the rest of their life in England translating Tolstoy's writing and promoting public interest in his work...
, (1858–1938 and 1855–1939), translators and writers - Robin Maugham, (1916–1981), novelist, playwright and travel writer
- William Somerset Maugham, (1874–1965), novelist and writer, The Moon and SixpenceThe Moon and SixpenceThe Moon and Sixpence is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham, told in episodic form by the first-person narrator as a series of glimpses into the mind and soul of the central character, Charles Strickland, a middle-aged English stockbroker who abandons his wife and children abruptly to pursue his desire...
- Henry MaundrellHenry MaundrellHenry Maundrell was an academic at Oxford University and later a Church of England clergyman who served from 20 December 1695 as chaplain to the Levant Company in Syria. His Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter A.D...
, (1665–1701), travel writer and cleric - Frederick Denison Maurice, (1805–1872), religious writer and socialist
- Thomas MauriceThomas MauriceThe son of a schoolmaster, Thomas Maurice was educated at the Wesleyan seminary at Bristol before entering University College, Oxford in 1774, aged 19 ; he was chaplain to the 87th regiment , Vicar of Wormleighton, Warwickshire and Cudham, Kent...
, (1754–1824), poet and historian - Simon MawerSimon MawerSimon Mawer is a British author who currently lives in Italy.-Life and work:Educated at Millfield School in Somerset and at Brasenose College, Oxford, Mawer took a degree in Zoology and has worked as a biology teacher for most of his life. He published his first novel, Chimera, at the...
, (born 1948), novelist - Donald MaxwellDonald MaxwellDonald Maxwell was a British writer and illustrator.-Life and family:Donald Maxwell was the son of Dr Frederick Charles Maxwell, a Methodist clergyman and schoolmaster, and his wife Lucilla, also an illustrator...
, (1877–1936), travel writer and illustrator - W. B. MaxwellW. B. MaxwellWilliam Babington Maxwell was a British novelist. He was a son of novelist Mary Elizabeth Braddon.Though nearly 50 years old at the outbreak of the First World War, he was accepted as a lieutenant in the Royal Fusiliers and served in France until 1917.He wrote The Last Man In, a drama, produced 14...
, (1866-1938), novelist - Thomas MayThomas MayThomas May was an English poet, dramatist and historian of the Renaissance era.- Early life and career until 1630 :...
, (1595–1650), poet, playwright and translator - Henry MayhewHenry MayhewHenry Mayhew was an English social researcher, journalist, playwright and advocate of reform. He was one of the two founders of the satirical and humorous magazine Punch, and the magazine's joint-editor, with Mark Lemon, in its early days...
, (1812–1887), social researcher and reformer, London Labour and the London PoorLondon Labour and the London PoorLondon Labour and the London Poor is a work of Victorian journalism by Henry Mayhew. In the 1840s he observed, documented and described the state of working people in London for a series of articles in a newspaper, the Morning Chronicle, that were later compiled into book form.-Overview:The... - Peter MaylePeter MaylePeter Mayle is a British author famous for his series of books detailing life in Provence, France. He spent fifteen years in the advertising industry before leaving the business in 1975 to write educational books, including a series on sex education for children and young people...
, (born 1939), writer and novelist - Jasper MayneJasper MayneJasper Mayne was an English clergyman, translator, and a minor poet and dramatist.Mayne was baptized at Hatherleigh, Devon, on 23 November 1604, and educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford...
, (1604–1672), poet and playwright - William MayneWilliam MayneWilliam James Carter Mayne was an English writer of children's fiction. He was born in Hull, the son of a doctor and was educated at the choir school attached to Canterbury Cathedral and his memories of that time contributed to his early books. During the Second World War the school was evacuated...
, (1928–2010), children's writer, A Grass RopeA Grass RopeA Grass Rope is a children's novel by William Mayne, set in the Yorkshire Dales. It was first published in 1957 and was awarded the Carnegie Medal for that year... - Margaret MayoMargaret Mayo (novelist)Margaret Mayo is a British writer of over 75 romance novels since 1976.-Biography:Margaret Mayo was born on February 7, 1936 in Staffordshire, England. She left school at fifteen, and learned shorthand and typing, to worked as a secretary for many years...
, (born 1936), novelist - Steve McCafferySteve McCafferySteven McCaffery is a Canadian poet and scholar who was a professor at York University. He currently holds the Gray Chair at SUNY Buffalo . McCaffery was born in Sheffield, England and lived in the UK for most of his youth attending University of Hull. He moved to Toronto in 1968...
, (born 1947), poet and scholar - Keith McCarthy, (born 1960), crime writer and pathologist
- Tom McCarthyTom McCarthy (writer)-Life and work:Tom McCarthy is a writer and conceptual artist. He was born in 1969 and lives in central London. McCarthy grew up in Greenwich, south London and was educated at Dulwich College and later New College, Oxford, where he studied English literature. He lived in Prague, Berlin and...
, (born 1969), novelist, artist and screenwriter - Geraldine McCaughreanGeraldine McCaughreanGeraldine McCaughrean is a British children's novelist.The youngest of three children, McCaughrean studied teaching but did not like it, and found her true vocation in writing. She claims that what makes her love writing is the desire to escape from an unsatisfactory world...
, (born 1951), novelist and children's writer - Flora McDonnellLady Flora McDonnellLady Flora Mary McDonnell , also known by her married name Flora Pennybacker, is an artist, illustrator, and prize-winning author of children's books.-Family:...
, (born 1963), children's writer - Ian McEwanIan McEwanIan Russell McEwan CBE, FRSA, FRSL is a British novelist and screenwriter, and one of Britain's most highly regarded writers. In 2008, The Times named him among their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945"....
, (born 1948), novelist and screenwriter - William McFeeWilliam McFeeWilliam McFee was a writer of sea stories.- Biography :He was born on the Erin's Isle, a three-master owned by his father, a sea captain. Educated at Culford School, he became a mechanical engineer at Richard Moreland & Sons and W. Summerscales & Sons in the City, before going to sea as a marine...
, (1881-1966), writer of sea stories - John McGrath, (1935–2002), playwright
- Patrick McGrath, (born 1950), novelist, The GrotesqueThe Grotesque (novel)The Grotesque is a 1989 gothic fiction novel by British author Patrick McGrath. It was adapted into a 1995 film starring Alan Bates, Lena Headey, Theresa Russell and Sting.-Plot summary:...
- Jon McGregorJon mcgregorJon McGregor is a British author who has written three novels; If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things, which was nominated for the 2002 Booker Prize, winner of the Betty Trask Prize and winner of the Somerset Maugham Award in 2003, and So Many Ways to Begin, which was published in 2006 and also...
, (born 1976), novelist - Hilary McKayHilary McKayHilary McKay is a British children's author.-Biography:She was born in Boston, Lincolnshire, and is the eldest of four daughters. She studied English, Zoology and Botany at St Andrews University before becoming a public protection scientist. Her first novel,The Exiles, was written in 1991...
, (born 1960s?), children's writer - Jamie McKendrickJamie McKendrick-Poetry:McKendrick has published five collections of poetry.He is also the editor of The Faber Book of 20th-Century Italian Poems .-Awards:...
, (born 1955), poet - Ronald Brunlees McKerrowRonald Brunlees McKerrowRonald Brunlees McKerrow was one of the leading bibliographers and Shakespeare scholars of the 20th century.-Life:R.B...
, (1872–1940), literary historian and bibliographer - Andy McNabAndy McNabSergeant ‘Andy McNab’ DCM MM is the pseudonym of an English novelist and former SAS operative and soldier.McNab came into public prominence in 1993, when he published his account of the failed Special Air Service patrol, Bravo Two Zero for which he was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal in...
, (born 1959), novelist and ex-soldier - H. C. McNeileH. C. McNeileCyril McNeile MC was a British author, who published under the pen name Sapper.He was one of the most successful British popular authors of the Interwar period; his principal character was Bulldog Drummond.-Biography:Cyril McNeile was born in 1888 at Bodmin in Cornwall...
, (pen name Sapper, 1888–1937), novelist, Bulldog DrummondBulldog DrummondBulldog Drummond is a British fictional character, created by "Sapper", a pseudonym of Herman Cyril McNeile , and the hero of a series of novels published from 1920 to 1954.- Drummond :... - Cilla McQueenCilla McQueenCilla McQueen is a poet and three-time winner of the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry.-Early years and Education:McQueen's family moved to New Zealand when she was four....
, (born 1949), poet - J. M. E. McTaggartJ. M. E. McTaggartJohn McTaggart was an idealist metaphysician. For most of his life McTaggart was a fellow and lecturer in philosophy at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was an exponent of the philosophy of Hegel and among the most notable of the British idealists.-Personal life:J. M. E. McTaggart was born in 1866...
, (1866–1925), philosopher, The Unreality of TimeThe Unreality of TimeThe Unreality of Time is the best-known philosophical work of the Cambridge idealist J. M. E. McTaggart. In the paper, first published in 1908 in Mind 17: 457-73, McTaggart argues that time is unreal because our descriptions of time are either contradictory, circular, or insufficient... - Henry MedwallHenry MedwallHenry Medwall was the first known English vernacular dramatist. Fulgens and Lucrece , whose heroine must choose between two suitors, is the earliest known secular English play. The other play of Medwall is titled Nature. He stayed at the court of Cardinal Morton, Chancellor in the time of Henry...
, (c. 1462-1502), playwright, Fulgens and LucreceFulgens and LucreceFulgens and Lucrece is a late 15th-century interlude by Henry Medwall. It is the earliest purely secular English play that survives. Since John Cardinal Morton, for whom Medwall wrote the play, died in 1500, the work must have been written before that date... - Arthur MeeArthur MeeArthur Henry Mee was a British writer, journalist and educator. He is best known for The Harmsworth Self-Educator, The Children's Encyclopaedia, The Children's Newspaper, and The King's England...
, (1875–1943), writer and educator, The Children's Encyclopaedia - Charlotte MendelsonCharlotte Mendelson-Biography:Her maternal grandparents were, in her words, "Hungarian-speaking-Czech, Ruthenian for about 10 minutes, Carpathian mountain-y, impossible to describe", who left Prague in 1939.She was born in 1972 in west London, in a flat on the Queensway...
, (born 1972), novelist - George MeredithGeorge MeredithGeorge Meredith, OM was an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era.- Life :Meredith was born in Portsmouth, England, a son and grandson of naval outfitters. His mother died when he was five. At the age of 14 he was sent to a Moravian School in Neuwied, Germany, where he remained for two...
, (1828–1909), novelist and poet, The EgoistThe Egoist (novel)The Egoist is a tragicomical novel by George Meredith published in 1879.The novel recounts the story of self-absorbed Sir Willoughby Patterne and his attempts at marriage; jilted by his first bride-to-be, he vacillates between the sentimental Laetitia Dale and the strong-willed Clara Middleton... - Louisa Anne MeredithLouisa Anne MeredithLouisa Anne Meredith , also known as Louisa Anne Twamley, was an Anglo/Australian writer and illustrator.-Biography:...
, (1812-1895), poet and novelist - Francis MeresFrancis MeresFrancis Meres was an English churchman and author.He was born at Kirton in the Holland division of Lincolnshire in 1565. He was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he received a B.A. in 1587 and an M.A. in 1591. Two years later he was incorporated an M.A. of Oxford...
, (1565–1672), anthologist and cleric, Palladis Tamia, Wit's TreasuryPalladis TamiaPalladis Tamia, subtitled "Wits Treasury", is a 1598 book written by the minister Francis Meres. Meres calls it "A Comparative Discourse of our English Poets, with the Greek, Latin, and Italian Poets", and is important in English literary history as the first critical account of the poems and early... - Charles MerivaleCharles MerivaleThe Very Reverend Charles Merivale was an English historian and churchman, for many years dean of Ely Cathedral...
, (1808–1893), historian and cleric - Herman Charles MerivaleHerman Charles MerivaleHerman Charles Merivale MA was an English dramatist and poet, son of Herman Merivale. He also used the punning pseudonym Felix Dale....
, (pen name Felix Dale, 1839–1906), playwright and poet - Herman MerivaleHerman MerivaleHerman Merivale CB was an English civil servant and historian. He was the elder brother of Charles Merivale, and father of the poet Herman Charles Merivale....
, (1806–1874), historian - John Herman MerivaleJohn Herman MerivaleJohn Herman Merivale was an English barrister and man of letters.-Life:He was the only son of John Merivale of Barton Place, Exeter, and Bedford Square, London, by Ann Katencamp or Katenkamp, daughter of a German merchant settled in Exeter, and was born in that city on 5 August 1779...
, (1779–1844), translator and man of letters - Leonard MerrickLeonard MerrickLeonard Merrick was an English novelist. Although largely forgotten today, he was widely admired by his peers, J. M. Barrie called Merrick the "novelist's novelist."-Life:...
, (1864-1939), novelist - Robert MerryDella CruscansThe Della Cruscans were a circle of European late-18th-century sentimental poets founded by Robert Merry .- History and influence :...
, (1755–1798), poet - Charlotte MewCharlotte MewCharlotte Mary Mew was an English poet, whose work spans the cusp between Victorian poetry and Modernism.She was born in Bloomsbury, London the daughter of the architect Frederick Mew, who designed Hampstead town hall and Anna Kendall. She attended Lucy Harrison's School for Girls and lectures at...
, (1869–1928), poet - Alice MeynellAlice MeynellAlice Christiana Gertrude Thompson Meynell was an English writer, editor, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet.-Biography:...
, (1847–1922), poet and essayist - Viola MeynellViola MeynellViola Meynell Dallyn was an English writer, novelist and poet. She wrote around 20 books, but was best-known for her short stories and novels.Her parents were Wilfrid and Alice Meynell...
, (1885–1956), poet and novelist - Nicholas MichellNicholas MichellNicholas Michell , was a Cornish writer, best known for his poetry.- Personal life :Michell, born at Calenick, near Truro, Cornwall, a son of John Michell , who was known as the "father of the tin trade", a tin smelter and chemist, and one of the discoverers of tantalite...
, (1807–1880), poet and novelist - Peter MiddlebrookPeter MiddlebrookDr. Peter J. Middlebrook is the Managing Director of Geopolicity Inc., and an English political economist/Political Scientist and Emerging Markets expert specializing in fragile states, international relations and the development of Transition economies...
, (born 1965), author - Christopher MiddletonChristopher Middleton (poet)Christopher Middleton is a British poet and translator, especially of German literature.-Life:He was born in Truro, Cornwall, in 1926. He studied at Merton College, Oxford. He then held academic positions at the University of Zürich and King's College London. He became Professor of Germanic...
, (born 1926), poet, translator and scholar - Conyers MiddletonConyers MiddletonConyers Middleton was an English clergyman.Middleton was born at Richmond in Yorkshire, and was educated at school in York and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He graduated from the University of Cambridge, took holy orders, and in 1706 obtained a fellowship, which he resigned upon entering into an...
, (1683–1750), biographer, controversialist and cleric - Richard Barham MiddletonRichard Barham MiddletonRichard Barham Middleton was a British poet, who is remembered mostly for his short stories, in particular The Ghost Ship....
, (1882–1911), poet and writer of ghost stories - Stanley MiddletonStanley MiddletonStanley Middleton FRSL was a British novelist. He was born in Bulwell, Nottinghamshire and educated at High Pavement School, Stanley Road, Nottingham and University College Nottingham....
, (1919–2009), novelist - Thomas MiddletonThomas MiddletonThomas Middleton was an English Jacobean playwright and poet. Middleton stands with John Fletcher and Ben Jonson as among the most successful and prolific of playwrights who wrote their best plays during the Jacobean period. He was one of the few Renaissance dramatists to achieve equal success in...
, (1580–1627), playwright and poet, The Revenger's TragedyThe Revenger's TragedyThe Revenger's Tragedy is an English language Jacobean revenge tragedy, in the past attributed to Cyril Tourneur but is sometimes considered to be the work of Thomas Middleton by "Middletonians"... - China MiévilleChina MiévilleChina Tom Miéville is an award-winning English fantasy fiction writer. He is fond of describing his work as "weird fiction" , and belongs to a loose group of writers sometimes called New Weird. He is also active in left-wing politics as a member of the Socialist Workers Party...
, (born 1972), novelist and political writer - Grace MildmayGrace MildmayGrace Mildmay was an English noblewoman, diarist and medical practitioner. Her autobiography is one of the earliest existing autobiographies of an English woman. Originally from Wiltshire, she married Sir Anthony Mildmay in 1567 and moved to Apethorpe Hall, his father's home in Northamptonshire...
(ca. 1552–1620), diarist - Susan MilesSusan MilesSusan Miles was the nom de plume of Ursula Wyllie Roberts . She was born in India, where her father was a colonel in the British military....
, (real name Ursula Wyllie Roberts, 1887–1975), novelist and poet - John Stuart MillJohn Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill was a British philosopher, economist and civil servant. An influential contributor to social theory, political theory, and political economy, his conception of liberty justified the freedom of the individual in opposition to unlimited state control. He was a proponent of...
, (1806–1873), philosopher - John Guille MillaisJohn Guille MillaisJohn Guille Millais , known as "Johnny" Millais, was an English artist, naturalist, gardener and travel writer who specialised in wildlife and flower portraiture. He travelled extensively around the world in the late Victorian period detailing wildlife often for the first time...
, (1865–1931), naturalist and travel writer - Andrew MillerAndrew Miller (novelist)Andrew Miller is an English novelist.He grew up in the West Country and has lived in Spain, Japan, Ireland and France....
, (born 1960), novelist - Thomas MillerThomas Miller (poet)Thomas Miller , poet and novelist, was born in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, the son of George Miller, an unsuccessful wharfinger and ship-owner who deserted his wife and two sons in 1810. Thomas grew up in Sailors Alley, and one of his childhood friends was the future journalist Thomas Cooper...
, (1807–1874), novelist and poet - Spike MilliganSpike MilliganTerence Alan Patrick Seán "Spike" Milligan Hon. KBE was a comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright, soldier and actor. His early life was spent in India, where he was born, but the majority of his working life was spent in the United Kingdom. He became an Irish citizen in 1962 after the...
, (1918–2002), comedian and humorous writer - Arthur F. H. MillsArthur F. H. MillsArthur Frederick Hobart Mills is one of a family of authors. His father, Arthur Mills , was a Tory and an expert of colonial economies and governance. The senior Mills' India in 1858 is still in print and accurately describes the political and economic conditions in India after the Indian...
, (died 1955), novelist - Dorothy MillsLady Dorothy MillsLady Dorothy Rachel Melissa Walpole Mills was an author of both novels and accounts of her many travels and explorations.-Family:...
, (1896–1959), novelist and travel writer - George MillsGeorge Mills (writer)George Ramsay Acland Mills was a British preparatory schoolmaster and an author of children's adventure stories. His whimsical tales often revolve around boys' preparatory schools in Great Britain and often involve sports like cricket, pranks, and mysteries, as well as a beloved pet bulldog, Uggles...
, (1896–1972), children's writer, Meredith and Co.Meredith and Co.Meredith and Co. is a classic 1933 children's novel by George Mills . Meredith and Co. and its sequel, King Willow , HAD been popular from their initial publications in 1933 and 1938, through at least one reprinting in the late 1950s.The text was originally published in 1933 by Oxford University... - Magnus MillsMagnus Mills- Background :Magnus Mills was born in Birmingham and brought up in Bristol. After graduating with an economics degree from Wolverhampton Polytechnic, he started a masters degree at the University of Warwick but dropped out before completion....
, (born 1954), novelist - Henry Hart MilmanHenry Hart MilmanThe Very Reverend Henry Hart Milman was an English historian and ecclesiastic.He was born in London, the third son of Sir Francis Milman, 1st Baronet, physician to King George III . Educated at Eton and at Brasenose College, Oxford, his university career was brilliant...
, (1791–1868), playwright, poet and cleric - A. A. MilneA. A. MilneAlan Alexander Milne was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various children's poems. Milne was a noted writer, primarily as a playwright, before the huge success of Pooh overshadowed all his previous work.-Biography:A. A...
, (1882–1956), novelist, journalist and playwright, Winnie-the-PoohWinnie-the-PoohWinnie-the-Pooh, also called Pooh Bear, is a fictional anthropomorphic bear created by A. A. Milne. The first collection of stories about the character was the book Winnie-the-Pooh , and this was followed by The House at Pooh Corner... - Drew MilneDrew Milne- Published works :Milne’s books of poetry include Sheet Mettle , Bench Marks , The Damage: new and selected poems , Mars Disarmed , and Go Figure...
, (born 1964), poet and scholar - John MilnerJohn Milner (bishop)John Milner was an English Roman Catholic bishop and writer who served as the Vicar Apostolic of the Midland District from 1803 to 1826.-Early life:...
, (1752-1826), religious controversialist and RCRoman Catholic ChurchThe Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the world's largest Christian church, with over a billion members. Led by the Pope, it defines its mission as spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ, administering the sacraments and exercising charity...
bishop - Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord HoughtonRichard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron HoughtonRichard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton FRS was an English poet, patron of literature and politician.-Background and education:...
, (1809–1885), poet and politician - John MiltonJohn MiltonJohn Milton was an English poet, polemicist, a scholarly man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell...
, (1608–1674), poet and writer on philosophy and theology, Paradise LostParadise LostParadise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. It was originally published in 1667 in ten books, with a total of over ten thousand individual lines of verse... - Ted MiltonTed MiltonTed Milton is an English poet and musician, best known for leading the Blurt, an experimental jazz-rock group.Milton grew up in Africa, Canada and Great Britain. He published some early poems in magazines like Paris Review...
, (born 1943), poet and musician - Laurence MinotLaurence MinotLaurence Minot was an English poet. Nothing is certainly known of him. He may have been a soldier. Eleven poems are attributed to them, all of which appear uniquely in...
, (c. 1300-c. 1352), poet - Hope MirrleesHope MirrleesHope Mirrlees was a British translator, poet and novelist. She is best known for the 1926 Lud-in-the-Mist, a fantasy novel and influential classic, and for Paris: A Poem, a modernist poem which critic Julia Briggs deemed "modernism's lost masterpiece, a work of extraordinary energy and intensity,...
, (1887-1978), novelist, translator and poet, Lud-in-the-MistLud-in-the-MistLud-in-the-Mist is the third of three novels by Hope Mirrlees, and the only one still in print . It continues the author's exploration of the themes of Life and Art, by a method already described in the preface of her first novel, Madeleine: One of Love's Jansenists : "to turn from time to time... - Adrian MitchellAdrian MitchellAdrian Mitchell FRSL was an English poet, novelist and playwright. A former journalist, he became a noted figure on the British anti-authoritarian Left. For almost half a century he was the foremost poet of the country's anti-Bomb movement...
, (1932–2008), poet, playwright and novelist, - David Mitchell)David Mitchell (author)David Stephen Mitchell is an English novelist. He has written five novels, two of which were shortlisted for the Booker Prize.- Biography :...
, (born 1969), novelist - Gladys MitchellGladys MitchellGladys Mitchell was an English author best known for her creation of Mrs. Bradley, the heroine of numerous detective novels. She also wrote under the pseudonyms Stephen Hockaby and Malcolm Torrie...
, (pen names Stephen Hockaby and Malcom Torrie, 1901–1983), novelist - Julian MitchellJulian MitchellJulian Mitchell FRSL , full name Charles Julian Humphrey Mitchell, is an English playwright, screenwriter and occasional novelist...
, (born 1935), playwright and screenwriter - Bertram MitfordAlgernon Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron RedesdaleAlgernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale GCVO, KCB , of Batsford Park, Gloucestershire, and Birdhope Craig, Northumberland, was a British diplomat, collector and writer...
, Lord Redesdale, (1837–1916), writer and diplomat - John MitfordJohn MitfordJohn Mitford, also known as Jack Mitford , was a British naval officer, poet and journalist who is best remembered for his book The adventures of Johnny Newcome in the navy.-Early life and naval career:...
, (1782–1831), poet and naval officer - Mary Russell MitfordMary Russell MitfordMary Russell Mitford , was an English author and dramatist. She was born at Alresford, Hampshire. Her place in English literature is as the author of Our Village...
, (known as Miss Mitford, 1787–1855), essayist, novelist and playwright, Our VillageOur VillageOur Village is a collection of about 100 literary sketches of rural life written by Mary Russell Mitford , and originally published during the 1820s and 1830s. The series first appeared in The Lady's Magazine. The full title is: Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery... - Nancy MitfordNancy MitfordNancy Freeman-Mitford, CBE , styled The Hon. Nancy Mitford before her marriage and The Hon. Mrs Peter Rodd thereafter, was an English novelist and biographer, one of the Bright Young People on the London social scene in the inter-war years...
, (1904–1973), novelist and writer, Noblesse ObligeNoblesse obligeNoblesse oblige is a French phrase literally meaning "nobility obliges".The Dictionnaire de l’Académie française defines it thus:# Whoever claims to be noble must conduct himself nobly.... - William MitfordWilliam MitfordWilliam Mitford , English historian, was the elder of the two sons of John Mitford, a barrister and his wife Philadelphia Reveley.-Youth:...
, (1744–1827), historian - Timothy MoTimothy MoTimothy Peter Mo is an Anglo-Chinese novelist. Born to a Welsh-Yorkshire mother and a Hong Kong Chinese father, Mo lived in Hong Kong until the age of 10 before he moved to Britain, studying at St John's College, Oxford.He self-publishes his books under the label "Paddleless Press".- Novels :*The...
, (born 1950), novelist, Sour SweetSour SweetSour Sweet is a novel by Timothy Mo first published in 1982.Written as a 'sour sweet' comedy the story follows the tribulations of a Hong Kong Chinese immigrant and his initially reluctant wife as they attempt to make a home for themselves in 1960s London.... - Ivan MoffatIvan MoffatIvan Moffat was a British screenwriter and associate producer who, with Fred Guiol, was nominated for an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay for adapting Edna Ferber's novel Giant into the film Giant....
, (1918–2002), screenwriter - John MoleJohn Mole (poet)John Mole is a British poet and jazz clarinettist.He has won several prizes for his poetry including an Eric Gregory Award, the Cholmondeley Award, and the Signal Award for children's poetry. He is Writer in Residence at Magdalene College, Cambridge and Poet in Residence to the Poets Society in...
, (born 1941), poet - Mary Louisa MolesworthMary Louisa MolesworthMary Louisa Molesworth was an English writer of children's stories who wrote for children under the name of Mrs Molesworth. She was born in Rotterdam, a daughter of Charles Augustus Stewart who later became a rich merchant in Manchester and his wife Agnes Janet Wilson . Mary had three brothers...
, known as Mrs Molesworth, (pen name Ennis Graham, 1839–1921), children's writer - Mary MollineuxMary MollineuxMary Mollineux , probably the daughter of Catholic parents who converted to Quakerism, differed from many of her Quaker contemporaries because of an early education in Latin, Greek, science, and arithmetic...
, (1651–1696), poet - Rowland MolonyRowland Molony-Life:Molony graduated from St John's Catholic Comprehensive School Gravesend, Kent, in 1962, and joined the RAF. He spent several years in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, where he married the artist Elizabeth Baxendale, and has two daughters. He now lives in Beer, Devon....
, (born 1946), poet and writer - Nicola MonaghanNicola MonaghanNicola Monaghan is an English novelist and author of The Killing Jar, Starfishing and The Okinawa Dragon.Monaghan was listed in The Independent’s New Year 2006 list of rising talent, and won a Betty Trask Award, the Author's Club Best First Novel Prize and the Waverton Good Read Award for her debut...
, (born c. 1970s), novelist - William Thomas MoncrieffWilliam Thomas MoncrieffWilliam Thomas Moncrieff was an English dramatist.-Biography:He was born in London, the son of a Strand tradesman named Thomas. The name Moncrieff he assumed for theatrical purposes...
, (1794–1857), playwright - Francis Money-CouttsFrancis Money-Coutts, 5th Baron LatymerFrancis Burdett Thomas Nevill Money-Coutts, 5th Baron Latymer was a London solicitor, poet, librettist, and wealthy heir to the fortune of the Coutts banking family. He is now remembered chiefly as a patron and collaborator of the Spanish composer Isaac Albéniz.-Family history:His father was the...
(pen name Mountjoy, 1852–1923), poet - Geraldine MonkGeraldine MonkGeraldine Monk is a British poet. She was born in Blackburn, Lancashire in 1952. Since the late 1970s, she has published many collections of poetry and has recorded her poetry in collaboration with musicians...
, (born 1952), poet - William Cosmo MonkhouseWilliam Cosmo MonkhouseWilliam Cosmo Monkhouse , English poet and critic.-Biography:Monkhouse was born in London. His father, Cyril John Monkhouse, was a solicitor; his mother's maiden name was Delafosse...
, (1840–1901), poet and critic - Harold MonroHarold MonroHarold Edward Monro was a British poet, the proprietor of the Poetry Bookshop in London which helped many famous poets bring their work before the public....
, (1879–1932), poet and bookseller - Basil MontaguBasil MontaguBasil Montagu was a British jurist, barrister, writer and philanthropist. He was educated in Charterhouse School and studied law in Cambridge, later wrote and worked on reforms in bankruptcy laws of Britain. He served as Accountant-General in Bankruptcy between 1835 and 1846. He was highly...
, (1770–1851), jurist and miscellanist - Charles MontaguCharles Montagu, 1st Earl of HalifaxCharles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, KG, PC, FRS was an English poet and statesman.-Early life:Charles Montagu was born in Horton, Northamptonshire, the son of George Montagu, fifth son of 1st Earl of Manchester...
, earl of Halifax (1661–1715), poet and statesman - Elizabeth MontaguElizabeth MontaguElizabeth Montagu was a British social reformer, patron of the arts, salonist, literary critic, and writer who helped organize and lead the bluestocking society...
, (1718–1800), reformer, writer and bluestocking - Lady Mary Wortley MontaguLady Mary Wortley MontaguThe Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was an English aristocrat and writer. Montagu is today chiefly remembered for her letters, particularly her letters from Turkey, as wife to the British ambassador, which have been described by Billie Melman as “the very first example of a secular work by a woman about...
, (1689–1762), letter writer and poet - Charles Edward MontagueCharles Edward MontagueCharles Edward Montague, , was an English journalist, known also as a writer of novels and essays.He was born and brought up in London, the son of an Irish Roman Catholic priest who had left the church to marry. He was educated at the City of London School and Balliol College, Oxford. In 1890 he...
, (1867–1928), novelist, essayist and journalist - Florence MontgomeryFlorence Montgomery-Life and works:She was born Florence Harriet Montgomery in Chelsea, London on 17 January 1843, the second of the seven surviving children of Admiral Alexander Leslie Montgomery and his wife Caroline Rose Campbell of Hampton Court, Middlesex. Her father was also an MP. He succeeded to a baronetcy...
, (1843-1923), novelist and children's writer - Robert MontgomeryRobert Montgomery (poet)Robert Montgomery was an English poet, the son of Robert Gomery. He was educated at a private school in Bath, Somerset, and founded an unsuccessful weekly paper in that city. In 1828 he published The Omni-presence of the Deity, which hit popular religious sentiment so exactly that it ran through...
, (1807–1855), poet and cleric - Agustus MontroseAgustus MontroseAgustus Horatio Montrose was an English novelist and playwright operating in the northeast of London in the mid to late 19th century. He is especially notable for one novel and several plays, although he wrote 22 known pieces and there is a possibility that more were created unknown to the...
, (1830–1899), playwright and novelist, Lilies In DecemberLilies In DecemberLilies In December is the sole novel and debut work of 19th Century Literature author and playwright Agustus Montrose. He was inspired by travels to Ireland during the Great Famine. It is widely recognized as one of the best psychological realism novels of the era. It has been praised for its... - Michael MoorcockMichael MoorcockMichael John Moorcock is an English writer, primarily of science fiction and fantasy, who has also published a number of literary novels....
, (born 1939), novelist - Alan MooreAlan MooreAlan Oswald Moore is an English writer primarily known for his work in comic books, a medium where he has produced a number of critically acclaimed and popular series, including Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and From Hell...
, (born 1953), comic book/graphic novel writer - Edward Moore, (1712–1757), playwright
- Francis MooreFrancis Moore (astrologer)Francis Moore was a British physician and astrologer who wrote and published Old Moore's Almanack.He was born into poverty in Bridgnorth. Moore was self-educated, learning to read by himself, and became a physician and astrologer...
, (1657–1715, astrologer and physician, the original Old Moore's AlmanackOld Moore's AlmanackOld Moore’s Almanack is an astrological almanac which has been published in Britain since 1697.It was written and published by Francis Moore, a self-taught physician and astrologer who served at the court of Charles II.... - G. E. Moore, (1873–1958), philosopher
- Jonas MooreJonas MooreSir Jonas Moore, FRS was an English mathematician, surveyor, Ordnance Officer and patron of astronomy. He participated in two of the most ambitious English civil engineering projects of the 17th century: the draining of the Great Level of the Fens and the building of the Mole at Tangier...
, (1617-1679), mathematician and surveyor - Nicholas MooreNicholas MooreNicholas Moore was an English poet, associated with the New Apocalyptics in the 1940s, who later dropped out of the literary world.Moore was born in Cambridge, England; his father was the philosopher G. E. Moore...
, (1918–1986), poet - Thomas Sturge MooreThomas Sturge MooreThomas Sturge Moore was an English poet, author and artist. He was born on 4 March 1870 and was educated at Dulwich College, the Croydon Art School and Lambeth Art School. He was a long-term friend and correspondent of W. B. Yeats...
, (1870–1944), poet and playwright - Henrietta MoraesHenrietta MoraesHenrietta Moraes was a British artists' model, bohémienne, and memoirist. During the 1950s and '60s, she was the muse and inspiration for many artists of the Soho subculture, like Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon, and known for her marriages and love affairs.A femme fatale and a bon vivant, she was...
, (1931-1999), writer, model and cat burglar - Philip MorantPhilip MorantPhilip Morant was an English clergyman, author and historian.He was educated at Abingdon School and Pembroke College, Oxford, eventually taking his Masters Degree at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge in 1729.Ordained in 1722, he began his association with the county of Essex with a curacy at Great...
, (1700–1770), antiquarian - Thomas Osbert MordauntThomas Osbert MordauntThomas Osbert Mordaunt , a British officer and poet, is best remembered for his oft-quoted poem `The Call', written during the Seven Years' War of 1756–1763:-References:...
(1730–1809), poet and army officer - Hannah MoreHannah MoreHannah More was an English religious writer, and philanthropist. She can be said to have made three reputations in the course of her long life: as a poet and playwright in the circle of Johnson, Reynolds and Garrick, as a writer on moral and religious subjects, and as a practical...
, (1745–1833), poet and religious writer - Henry MoreHenry MoreHenry More FRS was an English philosopher of the Cambridge Platonist school.-Biography:Henry was born at Grantham and was schooled at The King's School, Grantham and at Eton College...
, (1614–1687), philosopher and poet - Thomas MoreThomas MoreSir Thomas More , also known by Catholics as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman and noted Renaissance humanist. He was an important councillor to Henry VIII of England and, for three years toward the end of his life, Lord Chancellor...
, (1478–1535), author and scholar - E. D. MorelE. D. MorelEdmund Dene Morel, originally Georges Eduard Pierre Achille Morel de Ville was a British journalist, author and socialist politician. In collaboration with Roger Casement, the Congo Reform Association and others, Morel, in newspapers such as his West African Mail, led a campaign against slavery...
, (1873–1924), author and human rights campaigner - Charles Langbridge MorganCharles Langbridge MorganCharles Langbridge Morgan , was an English-born playwright and novelist of English and Welsh parentage. The main themes of his work were, as he himself put it, "Art, Love, and Death", and the relation between them...
, (1894–1958), novelist, playwright and poet - James Justinian MorierJames Justinian MorierJames Justinian Morier was a British diplomat and author noted for his novels about Qajar dynasty Iran, most famously for the Hajji Baba series.-Early life:...
, (1780–1849), novelist, travel writer and diplomat - Stanley MorisonStanley MorisonStanley Morison was an English typographer, designer and historian of printing.Born in Wanstead, Essex, Morison spent most of his childhood and early adult years at the family home in Fairfax Road, Harringay...
, (1889–1967), typographer and writer on printing - Samuel MorlandSamuel MorlandSir Samuel Morland, 1st Baronet , or Moreland, was a notable English academic, diplomat, spy, inventor and mathematician of the 17th century, a polymath credited with early developments in relation to computing, hydraulics and steam power.-Education:The son of Thomas Morland, the rector of...
or Moreland, (1625-1695), polymath and inventor - David MorleyDavid Morley (poet)David Morley is a British poet, critic, anthologist, editor and scientist of partly Romani extraction. His bestselling textbook The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing has been translated into several languages including Arabic...
, (born 1964), poet, critic and anthologist - Henry MorleyHenry MorleyHenry Forster Morley was a writer on English literature and one of the earliest Professors of English Literature.-Life:...
, (1822–1894), critic and biographer - John MorleyJohn Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of BlackburnJohn Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn OM, PC was a British Liberal statesman, writer and newspaper editor. Initially a journalist, he was elected a Member of Parliament in 1883...
, (1838–1923), statesman, biographer and political writer - Sheridan MorleySheridan MorleySheridan Morley was an English author, biographer, critic, director, actor and broadcaster. He was the eldest son of actor Robert Morley and grandson of actress Dame Gladys Cooper, and wrote biographies of both...
, (1941-2007), biographer, theatre critic and broadcaster - Michael MorpurgoMichael MorpurgoMichael Morpurgo, OBE FKC AKC is an English author, poet, playwright and librettist, best known for his work in children's literature. He was the third Children's Laureate.-Early life:...
, (born 1943), children's writer, poet and playwright - Clare MorrallClare MorrallClare Morrall is an English novelist. Born in Exeter, she has lived mainly in Birmingham, where she worked for many years as a music teacher. She achieved sudden success with her first published novel, Astonishing Splashes of Colour, which reached the shortlist for the 2003 Booker Prize. Her...
, (born 1952), novelist - Ivan MorrisIvan MorrisIvan Ira Esme Morris was a British author and teacher in the field of Japanese Studies.Ivan Morris was born in London, of mixed American and Swedish parentage, to Ira Victor Morris and Edita Morris. He studied at Gordonstoun, before graduating from Phillips Academy...
, (1925–1976), writer, scholar and translator - Jan MorrisJan MorrisJan Morris CBE is a Welsh nationalist, historian, author and travel writer. She is known particularly for the Pax Britannica trilogy, a history of the British Empire, and for portraits of cities, notably Oxford, Venice, Trieste, Hong Kong, and New York City.With an English mother and Welsh father,...
, (born James Morris 1926), historian and travel writer - William MorrisWilliam MorrisWilliam Morris 24 March 18343 October 1896 was an English textile designer, artist, writer, and socialist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement...
, (1834–1896), writer, artist and poet - Arthur MorrisonArthur MorrisonArthur George Morrison was an English author and journalist known for his realistic novels about London's East End and for his detective stories....
, (1863–1945), novelist and journalist - Blake MorrisonBlake MorrisonPhilip Blake Morrison is a British poet and author who has published in a wide range of fiction and non-fiction genres. His greatest success came with the publication of his memoirs And When Did You Last See Your Father? which won the J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography. He has also written a...
, (born 1950), poet, novelist and critic - Graham MortGraham MortGraham Mort 'is acknowledged as one of contemporary verse's most accomplished practitioners'. He is the author of seven volumes of poetry and has written short fiction and radio drama for BBC Radio 4....
, (1940s?), poet and story writer - Chapman MortimerChapman MortimerChapman Mortimer was the pen name of William Charles Chapman Mortimer , a Scottish novelist. He won the James Tait Black Award for fiction in 1951 for his novel Father Goose.-Publications:...
, (born 1922), novelist and screenwriter - John MortimerJohn MortimerSir John Clifford Mortimer, CBE, QC was a British barrister, dramatist, screenwriter and author.-Early life:...
, (1923–2009), novelist, playwright and barrister, the Horace Rumpole books - Penelope MortimerPenelope MortimerPenelope Ruth Mortimer , was a British journalist, biographer and novelist.-Early life:...
, (1918–1999), novelist, biographer and critic - J. B. MortonJ. B. MortonJohn Cameron Andrieu Bingham Michael Morton, better known by his preferred abbreviation J. B. Morton was an English humorous writer noted for authoring a column called By the Way under the pen name Beachcomber in the Daily Express from 1924 to 1975.G. K...
, (pen name Beachcomber, 1893–1979), humorist - John Maddison MortonJohn Maddison MortonJohn Maddison Morton was an English playwright who specialized in one-act farces. His most famous farce was Box and Cox . He also wrote comic dramas, pantomimes and other theatrical pieces.-Biography:...
, (1811–1891), playwright - Thomas MortonThomas Morton (playwright)Thomas Morton was an English playwright.-Life:Morton was born in the city of Durham. He was the son of John and Grace Morton of Whickham, County Durham. He went to London to study law at Lincoln's Inn, but abandoned his studies for playwriting. For much of his life, Thomas lived in Pangbourne in...
, (1764–1838), playwright - Brian MosesBrian MosesBrian Moses was born in 1950 and is a French poet. He mainly writes for children, has over 160 published works and is a well known children's poet. Brian was asked to write a poem for the Queens 80th birthday....
, (born 1950), poet and children's writer - Nicholas Mosley, (born 1923), novelist
- Geoffrey MossGeoffrey MossMajor Geoffrey Cecil Gilbert McNeill-Moss was a British soldier and writer who published under the name Geoffrey Moss....
, (1885–1954), novelist and soldier - Thomas MossThomas Moss (minister)Thomas Moss was minister of Brierly Hill, and of Trentham, in Staffordshire. In 1769, he anonymously published a collection of miscellaneous poems, forming a thin quarto, which hehad printed at Wolverhampton...
, (1740–1808), poet and cleric - James MossmanJames MossmanDavid James Mossman was a British journalist, broadcaster, a TV reporter, film-maker, interviewer and former MI6 agent with a famously acerbic interviewing style. He once verbally attacked then-Prime Minister Harold Wilson live on air, over his support of US President Lyndon Johnson over the...
, (1926–1971), broadcaster and writer - Andrew MotionAndrew MotionSir Andrew Motion, FRSL is an English poet, novelist and biographer, who presided as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1999 to 2009.- Life and career :...
, (born 1952), Poet LaureatePoet LaureateA poet laureate is a poet officially appointed by a government and is often expected to compose poems for state occasions and other government events...
and editor - Peter Anthony MotteuxPeter Anthony MotteuxPeter Anthony Motteux , born Pierre Antoine Motteux, was an English author, playwright, and translator...
, (born Pierre Antoine, 1663–1718), poet, playwright and translator - Eric MottramEric MottramEric Mottram was a teacher, critic, editor and poet who was one of the central figures in the British Poetry Revival.-Early life and education:...
, (1924–1995), poet and editor - Ralph Hale MottramRalph Hale MottramRalph Hale Mottram was an English writer, known as a novelist, particularly for the Spanish Farm books, and as a war poet of World War I....
, (1883–1971), novelist and poet - John Moultrie, (1799–1874), poet and cleric
- Ferdinand MountFerdinand MountSir William Robert Ferdinand Mount, 3rd Baronet , usually known as Ferdinand Mount, is a British writer and novelist, columnist for The Sunday Times and commentator on politics, and Conservative Party politician...
, (born 1939), novelist - Edward MoxonEdward MoxonEdward Moxon was a British poet and publisher, significant in Victorian literature.Moxon was born at Wakefield in Yorkshire, where his father Michael worked in the wool trade. In 1817 he left for London, joining Longman in 1821...
, (1801–1858), poet and publisher - Jojo MoyesJojo MoyesJojo Moyes is a British novelist.Moyes studied at Royal Holloway, University of London. She won a bursary financed by The Independent newspaper to study journalism at City University, London and subsequently worked for The Independent for 10 years. In 2001 she became a full time novelist...
, (born 1969), romantic novelist - Henry MuddimanHenry MuddimanHenry Muddiman was an English journalist and publisher active after the restoration of the monarchy, in 1660....
, (1628–1692), journalist and publisher, London GazetteLondon GazetteThe London Gazette is one of the official journals of record of the British government, and the most important among such official journals in the United Kingdom, in which certain statutory notices are required to be published... - Malcolm MuggeridgeMalcolm MuggeridgeThomas Malcolm Muggeridge was an English journalist, author, media personality, and satirist. During World War II, he was a soldier and a spy...
, (1903–1990), writer and broadcaster - Lodowicke MuggletonLodowicke MuggletonLodowicke Muggleton was an English plebeian religious thinker, who gave his name to Muggletonianism. He spent his working life as a journeyman tailor in the City of London and was imprisoned twice for his beliefs. He held opinions hostile to all forms of philosophical reason...
, (1609–1698), religious writer - Richard MulcasterRichard MulcasterRichard Mulcaster , is known best for his headmasterships and pedagogic writings. He is often regarded as the founder of English language lexicography.-Educational achievements:...
, (c. 1531-1611), writer on education - Clare MulleyClare MulleyClare Mulley is a British author and philanthropist. She is known for documenting the life of Eglantyne Jebb, the founder of Save the Children. In 2007, she was honored by the Daily Mail Biographers' Club for her book, The Woman Who Saved the Children: A Biography of Eglantyne Jebb.- Personal...
, (born 1969), biographer and social activist - A. J. MunbyArthur MunbyArthur Joseph Munby was a Victorian British diarist, poet, barrister and solicitor. He is also known by his initials, A. J. Munby.-Biography:...
, (1828–1910), diarist and poet - Anthony MundayAnthony MundayAnthony Munday was an English dramatist and miscellaneous writer. The chief interest in Munday for the modern reader lies in his collaboration with Shakespeare and others on the play Sir Thomas More and his writings on Robin Hood.-Biography:He was once thought to have been born in 1553, because...
, (c. 1560–1633), playwright, poet and translator - Iris MurdochIris MurdochDame Iris Murdoch DBE was an Irish-born British author and philosopher, best known for her novels about political and social questions of good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious...
, (1919–1999], novelist, The BellThe Bell (novel)The Bell is a novel written by Iris Murdoch in 1958. It was her fourth to be published, and is set in Imber Court, a lay religious community situated next to an enclosed order of Benedictine nuns in Gloucestershire.-Plot summary:... - Margaret MurphyMargaret Murphy- Biography :Murphy was born and brought up in Liverpool where she gained a degree in Environmental Biology at the University of Liverpool and later an MA with Distinction in Writing at Liverpool JMU, a course on which she now lectures...
, (born 1959), novelist - Gilbert MurrayGilbert MurrayGeorge Gilbert Aimé Murray, OM was an Australian born British classical scholar and public intellectual, with connections in many spheres. He was an outstanding scholar of the language and culture of Ancient Greece, perhaps the leading authority in the first half of the twentieth century...
, (1866–1957), scholar - John MurrayJohn Murray (novelist)John Murray is an English writer and novelist known for writing satirical novels on a range of subjects.In 1984 he founded the prestigious fiction magazine Panurge, which he edited with fellow author David Almond until 1996...
, (born 1950), novelist - John Middleton MurryJohn Middleton MurryJohn Middleton Murry was an English writer. He was prolific, producing more than 60 books and thousands of essays and reviews on literature, social issues, politics, and religion during his lifetime...
, (1889–1957), writer and critic - Ernest MyersErnest MyersErnest James Myers , was a poet, Classicist and author. He was the second son of the Rev. Frederic Myers, author of Catholic Thoughts, and Susan Harriett Myers...
, (1844–1921), poet and translator - Frederic William Henry MyersFrederic William Henry MyersFrederic William Henry Myers was a classical scholar, poet, philosopher, and past president of the Society for Psychical Research.-Early life:...
, (1843–1901), poet and essayist - Leo MyersLeo Myers-Life:He was born in Cambridge into a cultured family; his father was the writer Frederic William Henry Myers and his mother the photographer Eveleen Tennant. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge...
, (1881–1944), novelist - Julie MyersonJulie MyersonJulie Myerson is an English author and critic. As well as writing both fiction and non-fiction books, she is also known for having written a long-running column in The Guardian entitled "Living with Teenagers" based on her own family experiences...
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- Thomas NabbesThomas NabbesThomas Nabbes was an English dramatist.He was born in humble circumstances in Worcestershire, and educated at Exeter College, Oxford in 1621...
, (1605–1641), playwright - Daljit NagraDaljit NagraDaljit Nagra is a British poet whose debut collection, Look We Have Coming to Dover! — a title alluding to W. H. Auden's Look, Stranger!, D. H. Lawrence's Look! We have come through! and by epigraph also to Matthew Arnold's 'Dover Beach' — was published by Faber in February 2007...
, (born 1966), poet - V. S. NaipaulV. S. NaipaulSir Vidiadhar Surajprasad "V. S." Naipaul, TC is a Nobel prize-winning Indo-Trinidadian-British writer who is known for his novels focusing on the legacy of the British Empire's colonialism...
, (born 1932), novelist and Nobel PrizeNobel PrizeThe Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
winner, A House for Mr. Biswas - Priscilla NapierPriscilla NapierPriscilla Napier was an English author, specializing in biography.-Early life:Born at Oxford in 1908, Hayter was the daughter of Sir William Hayter, an adviser to the Egyptian government, and his wife, Alethea Slessor, daughter of a Hampshire rector...
, (1908–1998), biographer, translator and poet - Edward NaresEdward NaresEdward Nares was an English historian and theologian, and general writer.-Life:He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford. He was Fellow of Merton College, Oxford and became in 1813 Regius Professor of Modern History...
, (1762–1841), theologian, comic novelist and cleric - Roger NashRoger NashRoger Nash BA, MA, PhD is a Canadian philosopher and poet. He was born in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England on November 3, 1942. He grew up in England, Egypt, Cyprus, Singapore and Hong Kong. He has a B.A. from the University of Wales , an M.A. from McMaster University and a Ph.D...
, (born 1942), philosopher and poet - Thomas NasheThomas NasheThomas Nashe was an English Elizabethan pamphleteer, playwright, poet and satirist. He was the son of the minister William Nashe and his wife Margaret .-Early life:...
or Nash, (1567–1601), poet and pamphleteer - Bill NaughtonBill NaughtonWilliam John Francis Naughton, or Bill Naughton was an Irish-born British playwright and author, best known for his play Alfie.-Early life:...
, (1910-1992), playwright - John Mason NealeJohn Mason NealeJohn Mason Neale was an Anglican priest, scholar and hymn-writer.-Life:Neale was born in London, his parents being the Revd Cornelius Neale and Susanna Neale, daughter of John Mason Good...
, (1818–1866), cleric, hymn writer and translator, O Come, O Come, EmmanuelO come, O come, EmmanuelO come, O come, Emmanuel is a translation of the Latin text by John Mason Neale and Henry Sloane Coffin in the mid-19th century. It is a metrical version of a collation of various Advent Antiphons , which now serves as a popular Advent hymn... - Patrick NeatePatrick NeatePatrick Neate is an award-winning British novelist, journalist, poet, screenwriter and podcaster.-Early life:Born and raised as a Roman Catholic in South London, he was educated at St. Paul's School and Cambridge University. He spent a gap year in Zimbabwe and has since returned to Africa on many...
, (born 1970), novelist and playwright - Graham NelsonGraham NelsonGraham A. Nelson is a British mathematician and poet and the creator of the Inform design system for creating interactive fiction games. He has also authored several IF games, including the acclaimed Curses and Jigsaw , using the experience of writing Curses in particular to expand the range of...
, (born 1968), poet and mathematician - E. NesbitE. NesbitEdith Nesbit was an English author and poet whose children's works were published under the name of E. Nesbit. She wrote or collaborated on over 60 books of fiction for children, several of which have been adapted for film and television...
, (1858–1924), children's writer, poet and political writer, The Railway ChildrenThe Railway ChildrenThe Railway Children is a children's book by Edith Nesbit, originally serialised in The London Magazine during 1905 and first published in book form in 1906... - Alexander NevilleAlexander Neville (scholar)-Life:He was brother of Thomas Neville, dean of Canterbury, and son of Richard Neville of South Leverton, Nottinghamshire, by Anne, daughter of Sir Walter Mantell of Heyford, Northamptonshire. His mother's sister Margaret was mother of Barnabe Googe...
, (1544–1614), historian and translator - Linda NewberyLinda NewberyLinda Newbery is a British author, who began writing as a young adult author but has now broadened her range to encompass all ages. Now a full-time writer, she published her first novel Run with the Hare in 1988, while still working as an English teacher in a comprehensive school.Linda is a regular...
, (born 1952), novelist and children's writer - Henry NewboltHenry NewboltSir Henry John Newbolt, CH was an English poet. He is best remembered for Vitaï Lampada, a lyrical piece used for propaganda purposes during the First World War.-Background:...
, (1862–1938), poet - P. H. NewbyP. H. NewbyPercy Howard Newby CBE was an English novelist and broadcasting administrator. He was the first winner of the Booker Prize, his novel Something to Answer For having received the inaugural award in 1969.-Early life:P.H...
, (1918–1997), novelist - Bernard NewmanBernard Newman (author)Bernard Charles Newman was a British author of over 100 books, both fiction and non-fiction. An historian, he was considered an authority on spies, but also wrote travel books and on politics. His fiction included children's books, mystery novels and science fiction.-Biography:Bernard Newman was...
, (1897–1968), novelist and propagandist - John Henry Newman, (1801–1890), cleric, religious writer and autobiographer, Apologia Pro Vita SuaApologia Pro Vita SuaApologia Pro Vita Sua is the classic defence by John Henry Newman of his religious opinions, published in 1864 in response to what he saw as an unwarranted attack on him, the Catholic priesthood, and Roman Catholic doctrine by Charles Kingsley. The work quickly became a bestseller and has...
- Isaac NewtonIsaac NewtonSir Isaac Newton PRS was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian, who has been "considered by many to be the greatest and most influential scientist who ever lived."...
, (1642–1727), polymath, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia MathematicaPhilosophiae Naturalis Principia MathematicaPhilosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, Latin for "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy", often referred to as simply the Principia, is a work in three books by Sir Isaac Newton, first published 5 July 1687. Newton also published two further editions, in 1713 and 1726... - John NewtonJohn NewtonJohn Henry Newton was a British sailor and Anglican clergyman. Starting his career on the sea at a young age, he became involved with the slave trade for a few years. After experiencing a religious conversion, he became a minister, hymn-writer, and later a prominent supporter of the abolition of...
, (1725–1807), hymn writer and pamphleteer, Amazing GraceAmazing Grace"Amazing Grace" is a Christian hymn with words written by the English poet and clergyman John Newton , published in 1779. With a message that forgiveness and redemption are possible regardless of the sins people commit and that the soul can be delivered from despair through the mercy of God,... - Thomas NewtonThomas Newton (poet)Thomas Newton was an English physician, clergyman, poet, author and translator.-Life:The eldest son of Edward Newton of Park House, in Butley, a part of the parish of Prestbury, Cheshire, he was educated first at the Macclesfield grammar school by John Brownsword, a much-praised schoolmaster...
, (c. 1542–1607), poet and translator - William NewtonWilliam Newton (poet)William Newton , the Peak Minstrel was born near Abney, in the parish of Eyam, Derbyshire on 28 November 1750. He was well regarded by other more notable writers and made his fortune as a partner in a mill in Tideswell; where he died in 1830. His poetry is said to have led to an end to gibbetting...
, (1750–1830), poet - Charles NichollCharles Nicholl (author)Charles Nicholl is an award-winning English author specializing in works of history, biography, literary detection, and travel. His subjects have included Christopher Marlowe, Arthur Rimbaud, Leonardo Da Vinci, Thomas Nashe, and most recently William Shakespeare. Besides his literary output,...
, (born 1950s?), biographer - David NichollsDavid Nicholls (writer)-Background:Nicholls is the middle of three siblings. He attended Barton Peveril sixth-form college at Eastleigh, Hampshire, from 1983 to 1985 , and playing a wide range of roles in college drama productions...
, (born 1966), novelist and screenwriter - Sally NichollsSally Nicholls- Life :Nicholls was born and grew up in Stockton-on-Tees. She attended Great Ayton Friends' School until its closure and subsequently Egglescliffe School until 2001.On finishing school, Nicholls chose to travel around the world...
, (born 1983), children's writer, Ways to Live ForeverWays to Live ForeverWays to Live Forever is a children's novel by Sally Nicholls, first published in 2008. The author's debut novel, it was written when Nicholls was 23 years old.... - Beverley NicholsBeverley NicholsJohn Beverley Nichols , was an author, playwright, journalist, composer, and public speaker.-Career:...
, (1898–1983), novelist, playwright and gardening writer - John NicholsJohn Nichols (printer)John Nichols was an English printer, author and antiquary.-Early life and apprenticeship:He was born in Islington, London to Edward Nichols and Anne Wilmot. On 22 June 1766 he married Anne Cradock daughter of William Cradock...
, (1745–1826), antiquary, editor and anthologist - Bowyer NicholsJohn Bowyer Buchanan NicholsJohn Bowyer Buchanan Nichols , known as Bowyer Nichols was an English poet. He became a trustee of the Wallace Collection. The poet Robert Nichols was his son.-Works:...
, (1859–1939), poet - Peter NicholsPeter NicholsPeter Nichols FRSL is an English writer of stage plays, film and television.Born in Bristol, England, he was educated at Bristol Grammar School, and served his compulsory National Service as a clerk in Calcutta and later in the Combined Services Entertainments Unit in Singapore where he...
, (born 1927), playwright and screenwriter, A Day in the Death of Joe EggA Day in the Death of Joe EggA Day in the Death of Joe Egg is a 1967 play by English playwright Peter Nichols, first staged at the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow, Scotland before transferring to London's West End theatres in 1968.-Plot summary:Characters* Bri* Grace* Joe* Freddie... - Robert Nichols, (1893–1944), poet and playwright
- Joseph Shield NicholsonJoseph Shield NicholsonJoseph Shield Nicholson was an English economist, born at Wrawby, Lincolnshire.He was educated at King's College London, Edinburgh, Cambridge, and Heidelberg. He was private tutor at Cambridge and became professor of political economy at Edinburgh in 1880...
, (1850-1927), economist and novelist - Norman NicholsonNorman NicholsonNorman Cornthwaite Nicholson OBE, , was an English poet, known for his association with the Cumberland town of Millom...
, (1914–1987), poet - Renton NicholsonRenton NicholsonRenton Nicholson was an English impresario, businessman, actor, and writer. He is best known for his Judge and Jury Society performances and for his ownership of the newspaper The Town....
, (1809–1861), writer and impresario - William Nicholson (artist)William Nicholson (artist)Sir William Newzam Prior Nicholson was an English painter of still-life, landscape and portraits, also known for his work as a wood-engraver, illustrator, author of children's books and designer for the theatre....
, (1872–1949), children's writer, illustrator and painter - William Nicholson (writer)William Nicholson (writer)William Nicholson FRSL is a British screenwriter, playwright, and novelist.-Family:A native of Lewes, Sussex, William Nicholson was raised in a Catholic family in Gloucestershire. By the time he reached his tenth birthday, he had decided to become a writer. He was educated at Downside School,...
, (born 1948), novelist, screenwriter and playwright, Wind on FireWind On FireWind On Fire is a fantasy trilogy written by William Nicholson. It is set in a realm similar to ours, but distinctly unrelated to it.-Plot overview:...
trilogy - Adam NicolsonAdam NicolsonAdam Nicolson, Baron Carnock, FRSL, FSA , is a British author who writes about English history, landscape and the sea....
, (born 1957), historian and nature writer - Harold NicolsonHarold NicolsonSir Harold George Nicolson KCVO CMG was an English diplomat, author, diarist and politician. He was the husband of writer Vita Sackville-West, their unusual relationship being described in their son's book, Portrait of a Marriage.-Early life:Nicolson was born in Tehran, Persia, the younger son of...
, (1886–1968), writer, diarist and politician - Roden NoelRoden NoelRoden Berkeley Wriothesley Noel, also known as Noël , was an English poet.The son of Charles Noel, Lord Barham, afterwards 1st Earl of Gainsborough, he was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he obtained his M.A. in 1858. He then spent two years travelling in the East...
, (1834–1894), poet - Jeff NoonJeff NoonJeff Noon is a novelist, short story writer and playwright whose works make extensive use of word play and fantasy. Noon's speculative fiction books have ties to the works of writers such as Lewis Carroll and Jorge Luis Borges...
, (born 1957), novelist and playwright - Lawrence NorfolkLawrence NorfolkLawrence Norfolk is a British novelist known for historical works with complex plots and intricate detail. His novels also feature an unusually large vocabulary....
, (born 1963), novelist - Barry NormanBarry NormanBarry Leslie Norman, CBE is a British novelist, impresario, film critic and media personality. He was the BBC film critic on television from 1972 to 1998.-Early life:...
, (born 1933), novelist and broadcaster - Roger NormanRoger NormanRoger Norman is a professional offroad racing competitor. He has raced in numerous off-road circuits, including SCORE International/Tecate Baja series and Best In The Desert ....
, (born 1948), writer for children and young adults - John Norris, (1657–1711), philosopher and poet
- William Edward NorrisWilliam Edward NorrisWilliam Edward Norris , English novelist, was the son of Sir W Norris, chief justice of Ceylon.He was educated at Eton, and called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1874...
, (1847–1925), novelist - Dudley NorthDudley North, 4th Baron NorthDudley North, 4th Baron North K.B. was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1640 and 1660.-Life:...
, Lord North (1602–1677), writer and poet - Roger NorthRoger North (17th century)Roger North, KC , English lawyer, biographer, and amateur musician, was the sixth son of t he fourth Baron North....
, (1653–1734), lawyer and biographer - Thomas NorthThomas NorthSir Thomas North was an English translator of Plutarch, second son of the 1st Baron North.-Life:He is supposed to have been a student of Peterhouse, Cambridge, and was entered at Lincoln's Inn in 1557. In 1574 he accompanied his brother, Lord North, on a visit to the French court. He served as...
, (1535–1604), translator, Plutarch's LivesParallel LivesPlutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, commonly called Parallel Lives or Plutarch's Lives, is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings, written in the late 1st century... - Caroline Norton, (1808–1877), novelist, pamphleteer and poet
- Mary NortonMary Norton (author)Mary Norton, née Pearson, was an English children's author. Her books include The Borrowers series.-Background:...
, (1903–1992), children's writer, The BorrowersThe BorrowersThe Borrowers, published in 1952, is the first in a series of children's fantasy novels by English author Mary Norton. The novel and its sequels are about tiny people who live in people's homes and "borrow" things to survive while keeping their existence unknown... - Thomas NortonThomas NortonThomas Norton was an English lawyer, politician, writer of verse — but not, as has been claimed, the chief interrogator of Queen Elizabeth I.-Official career:...
, (1532-1584), poet and lawyer - Richard Norton-TaylorRichard Norton-TaylorRichard Norton-Taylor is a British editor, journalist and playwright.He is a security-affairs editor of the British newspaper The Guardian.-Early life and education:...
, (born 1944), playwright and journalist - John Julius NorwichJohn Julius NorwichJohn Julius Cooper, 2nd Viscount Norwich CVO — known as John Julius Norwich — is an English historian, travel writer and television personality.-Early life:...
, (born John Julius Cooper, 1929), historian and travel writer - Julian of NorwichJulian of NorwichJulian of Norwich is regarded as one of the most important English mystics. She is venerated in the Anglican and Lutheran churches, but has never been canonized, or officially beatified, by the Catholic Church, probably because so little is known of her life aside from her writings, including the...
, (1342-c. 1416), mystic - Alexander NowellAlexander NowellAlexander Nowell was an English Puritan theologian and clergyman, who served as dean of St Paul's during much of Elizabeth I's reign.-Biography:...
, (1507-1602), religious writer and cleric - Alfred NoyesAlfred NoyesAlfred Noyes was an English poet, best known for his ballads, "The Highwayman" and "The Barrel-Organ".-Early years:...
, (1880–1958), poet - Robert NyeRobert NyeRobert Nye FRSL is an English poet who has also written novels and plays as well as stories for children. His bestselling novel Falstaff published in 1976 was described by Michael Ratcliffe as 'one of the most ambitious and seductive novels of the decade,' and went on to win both The Hawthornden...
, (born 1939), poet, novelist and editor - John NyrenJohn NyrenJohn Nyren was an English cricketer and author. Nyren made 16 known appearances in first-class cricket from 1787 to 1817...
, (1764–1837), writer on cricket
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- Ann OakleyAnn OakleyAnn Oakley is a distinguished British sociologist, feminist, and writer. She is Professor and Founder-Director of the Social Science Research Unit at the Institute of Education, University of London and in 2005 partially retired from full-time academic work to concentrate on her writing and...
, (born 1944), novelist and sociologist - Graham OakleyGraham OakleyGraham Oakley is an English author and illustrator. He was born on August 27, 1929 to Thomas and Flora Oakley in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. He currently lives in Lyme Regis, Dorset and was listed in the 2008 Modern Classics edition of The Church Mice as 'mostly retired'.-Art career:In 1950,...
, (born 1929), children's writer - Patrick O'BrianPatrick O'BrianPatrick O'Brian, CBE , born Richard Patrick Russ, was an English novelist and translator, best known for his Aubrey–Maturin series of novels set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars and centred on the friendship of English Naval Captain Jack Aubrey and the Irish–Catalan physician Stephen...
, (born Richard Patrick Russ, 1914–2000), novelist, the Aubrey–Maturin seriesAubrey–Maturin seriesThe Aubrey–Maturin series is a sequence of nautical historical novels—20 completed and one unfinished—by Patrick O'Brian, set during the Napoleonic Wars and centering on the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey of the Royal Navy and his ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin, who is also a physician,... - Sean O'BrienSean O'Brien (writer)Sean O'Brien is a British poet, critic, playwright. Prizes he has garnered include the Eric Gregory Award , the Somerset Maugham Award , the Cholmondeley Award , the Forward Poetry Prize and the T. S. Eliot Prize...
, (born 1952), poet, playwright and editor - Thomas OccleveThomas OccleveThomas Hoccleve or Occleve was an English poet and clerk.-Biography:Hoccleve is thought to have been born in 1368/9 as he states when writing in 1421/2 Thomas Hoccleve or Occleve (c. 1368–1426) was an English poet and clerk.-Biography:Hoccleve is thought to have been born in 1368/9 as he...
or Hoccleve, (c. 1368-1426), poet - William Ockham or Occam, (c. 1288-c. 1348), scholastic philosopher, Occam's RazorOccam's razorOccam's razor, also known as Ockham's razor, and sometimes expressed in Latin as lex parsimoniae , is a principle that generally recommends from among competing hypotheses selecting the one that makes the fewest new assumptions.-Overview:The principle is often summarized as "simpler explanations...
- Philip O'ConnorPhilip O'ConnorPhilip O'Connor was a British writer and surrealist poet, who also painted. He was one of the 'Wheatsheaf writers' of 1930s Fitzrovia...
, (1916–1998), writer and poet - John OldhamJohn Oldham (poet)John Oldham was an English satirical poet and translator.-Life and work:Oldham was born in Shipton Moyne, Gloucestershire, the son of John Oldham, a non-conformist minister, and grandson of John Oldham the staunch anti-papist rector of Shipton Moyne and before that of Long Newton in Wiltshire...
, (1653–1683), poet - John OldmixonJohn OldmixonJohn Oldmixon was an English historian.He was a son of John Oldmixon of Oldmixon, Weston-super-Mare in Somerset. His first writings were poetry and dramas, among them being Amores Britannici; Epistles historical and gallant ; and a tragedy, The Governor of Cyprus...
, (1673–1742), historian and pamphleteer - William OldysWilliam OldysWilliam Oldys was an English antiquarian and bibliographer.The illegitimate son of Dr William Oldys, chancellor of Lincoln, London was probably his place of birth. His father had held the office of advocate of the admiralty, but lost it in 1693 because he would not prosecute as traitors and...
, (1696–1761), antiquarian and bibliographer - Laurence Oliphant, (1829–1888), writer and traveler
- F. S. Oliver, (1864–1934), political writer
- Alfred OllivantAlfred OllivantAlfred Ollivant was an academic who went on to become bishop of Llandaff.Born in Manchester, he was educated at St Paul's School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He won the Tyrwhitt Hebrew scholarship in 1822 and was elected to a fellowship at Trinity College. In 1827, he was appointed the first...
, (1874–1927), children's writer - Daniel O'MahonyDaniel O'MahonyDaniel O'Mahony is a half-British half-Irish author, born in Croydon. He is the oldest of five children, his siblings including Eoin O'Mahony of the band Hamfatter, and Madeleine O'Mahony, who has designed and made hats for Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge.-Biography:O'Mahony's first professionally...
, (born 1973), novelist and writer, Dr. Who spinoffs - Michael O'NeillMichael O'Neill (academic)Michael O'Neill is an English poet, and academic, specialising in the Romantic period and post-war poetry.-Academic career:...
, (born 1953), poet and scholar - Oliver OnionsOliver OnionsGeorge Oliver Onions was a significant English novelist who published over forty novels and story collections. Originally trained as a commercial artist, he worked as a designer of posters and books, and as a magazine illustrator, before starting his career in writing...
, (1873–1961), novelist - OnyekaOnyekaOnyeka Nubia is a British writer, law lecturer and historian. His books document the lives of Black Britons and his third novel called The Phoenix has been awarded the 2009 African Achievers award for Communication and Media for the psychological portrayal of the Black British...
, (real name Onyeka Nubia, fl. 2000s), writer and playwright - Amelia OpieAmelia OpieAmelia Opie, née Alderson , was an English author who published numerous novels in the Romantic Period of the early 19th century, through 1828.-Life and work:...
, (1769–1853), novelist and poet - Iona Opie, (born 1923), and Peter Opie (1918–1982), ethnographers
- E. Phillips OppenheimE. Phillips OppenheimEdward Phillips Oppenheim , was an English novelist, in his lifetime a major and successful writer of genre fiction including thrillers.-Life:...
, (pen name Anthony Partridge, 1866–1946), novelist - Emma Orczy, (Baroness Orczy, 1865–1947), novelist, playwright and translator, The Scarlet PimpernelThe Scarlet PimpernelThe Scarlet Pimpernel is a play and adventure novel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy, set during the Reign of Terror following the start of the French Revolution. The story is a precursor to the "disguised superhero" tales such as Zorro and Batman....
- Joe OrtonJoe OrtonJohn Kingsley Orton was an English playwright.In a short but prolific career lasting from 1964 until his death, he shocked, outraged and amused audiences with his scandalous black comedies...
, (1933–1967), dramatist - George OrwellGeorge OrwellEric Arthur Blair , better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English author and journalist...
, (pen name of Eric Blair), (1903–1950), novelist and journalist, 1984 - Martin OrwinMartin OrwinMartin Orwin is a British linguist, scholar and writer, specializing in the languages and cultures of the Horn of Africa.-Biography:Orwin studied Arabic and Amharic and has a Ph.D. in the phonology of the Somali language...
, (born 1963), poet, educator, writer - Dorothy OsborneDorothy OsborneDorothy Osborne, Lady Temple was a British writer of letters and wife of Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet.-Life:Osborne was born at Chicksands Priory, Bedfordshire, England, the youngest of ten children born to a staunchly Royalist family. Her father was the nobleman Sir Peter Osborne, who was the...
, (1627–1695), letter writer - John OsborneJohn OsborneJohn James Osborne was an English playwright, screenwriter, actor and critic of the Establishment. The success of his 1956 play Look Back in Anger transformed English theatre....
, (1929–1994), dramatist, Look Back in AngerLook Back in AngerLook Back in Anger is a John Osborne play—made into films in 1959, 1980, and 1989 -- about a love triangle involving an intelligent but disaffected young man , his upper-middle-class, impassive wife , and her haughty best friend . Cliff, an amiable Welsh lodger, attempts to keep the peace... - Arthur O'ShaughnessyArthur O'ShaughnessyArthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy was a British poet of Irish descent, born in London.-Biography:At the age of seventeen, in June 1861, Arthur O'Shaughnessy received the post of transcriber in the library of the British Museum, reportedly through the influence of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton...
, (1844–1881), poet - Maggie O'SullivanMaggie O'SullivanMaggie O'Sullivan is a British poet, performer and visual artist associated with the British Poetry Revival.O'Sullivan was born in Lincoln, England of Irish immigrant parents. She moved to London in 1971 and worked for the BBC until 1988. Her early work appeared in magazines such as Angel Exhaust...
, (born 1951), poet and performer - Alice OswaldAlice Oswald-Career:Oswald read Classics at New College, Oxford, has worked as a gardener at Chelsea Physic Garden, and today lives with her husband, the playwright Peter Oswald , and her three children in Devon, in the South-West of England....
, (born 1966), poet - Thomas OtwayThomas OtwayThomas Otway was an English dramatist of the Restoration period, best known for Venice Preserv'd, or A Plot Discover'd .-Life:...
, (1652–1685), playwright - OuidaOuidaOuida was the pseudonym of the English novelist Maria Louise Ramé .-Biography:...
, (real name Maria Louise Ramé, 1839–1908), novelist, Under Two FlagsUnder Two Flags (novel)Under Two Flags was a best-selling novel of the late 1860s by Ouida. Perhaps "her best" novel.-Plot:The novel is about The Hon. Bertie Cecil .... - William OughtredWilliam OughtredWilliam Oughtred was an English mathematician.After John Napier invented logarithms, and Edmund Gunter created the logarithmic scales upon which slide rules are based, it was Oughtred who first used two such scales sliding by one another to perform direct multiplication and division; and he is...
, (1574–1660), mathematician - Keith OvendenKeith OvendenKeith Ovenden is an English novelist and biographer.Ovenden was born and raised in London; he was educated at Wanstead County High School. He went on to study for degrees at the University of Keele , University of Michigan and the University of Oxford.He started his career lecturing at the...
, (born 1943), novelist and biographer - John Overall (bishop)John Overall (Bishop)John Overall was the 38th bishop of the see of Norwich from 1618 until his death one year later. He had previously served as Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield , as Dean of St Pauls Cathedral from 1601, as Master of Catharine Hall from 1598, and as Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge...
, (1559–1619), scholar, AV translator and bishop - Thomas OverburyThomas OverburySir Thomas Overbury was an English poet and essayist, and the victim of one of the most sensational crimes in English history...
, (1581–1613), poet and essayist - Richard OvertonRichard OvertonRichard Overton was an English pamphleteer and Leveller during the Civil War. Little is known of the early life of Overton, but he is believed to have matriculated at Queens' College, Cambridge, before working as an actor and playwright in Southwark. Here he picked up Leveller sympathies, and...
, (c. 1599–1664), pamphleteer - Richard OwenRichard OwenSir Richard Owen, FRS KCB was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist.Owen is probably best remembered today for coining the word Dinosauria and for his outspoken opposition to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection...
, (1804–1892), anatomist, palaeontologist and zoologist - Wilfred OwenWilfred OwenWilfred Edward Salter Owen MC was an English poet and soldier, one of the leading poets of the First World War...
, (1893–1918), war poet - Elsie J. OxenhamElsie J. OxenhamElsie Jeanette Dunkerley , was an English girls' story writer, who took the name Oxenham as her pseudonym when her first book, Goblin Island, was published in 1907. Her Abbey Series of 38 titles are her best-known and best-loved books...
, (real name Elsie Jeanette Dunkerley, 1880–1960), children's writer, the Abbey Series - John OxenhamJohn OxenhamWilliam Arthur Dunkerley was a prolific English journalist, novelist and poet. He was born in Manchester, spent a short time after his marriage in America before moving to Ealing, west London, where he served as deacon and teacher at the Ealing Congregational Church from the 1880s, and he...
, (real name William Arthur Dunkerley, 1852–1941), novelist, journalist and poet - Mary OxlieMary OxlieMary Oxlie would seem to have been an early 17th century Scottish or Northumbrian coterie poet, though extremely little is known of her beyond one attribution....
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- Ruth PadelRuth PadelRuth Sophia Padel is a British poet, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Zoological Society of London. She also writes non-fiction and more recently fiction, broadcasts on wildlife, poetry and literature for BBC Radio 3 and 4, and is Writer in Residence at The Environment Institute,...
, (born 1946), poet and journalist - Lynda PageLynda PageLynda Page is a Leicestershire-based author.Page is one of the UK's top-selling saga authors who has written over 20 bestselling critically praised novels. Her novels have reached the bestseller charts of WH Smiths and The Sunday Times....
, (born 1950), novelist - Russell PageRussell PageMontague Russell Page was a British gardener, garden designer and landscape architect.Former partner of Geoffrey Jellicoe and author of The Education of a Gardener . In this book he includes some reference to Islamic and classical gardens...
, (1906-1985), gardening writer and landscape architect - John PagetJohn PagetJohn Paget was an English nonconforming clergyman, who became pastor at the English Reformed Church, Amsterdam.-Life:He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, proceeding B.A. in 1595, and M.A. in 1598. After having held some other benefices, he was appointed in 1598 rector of Nantwich....
, (died 1638), religious writer and Presbyterian minister - Barry PainBarry PainBarry Eric Odell Pain was an English journalist, poet and writer.-Biography:Born in Cambridge, Barry Pain was educated at Sedbergh School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He became a prominent contributor to The Granta...
, (1864–1928), novelist and humorist - Thomas PaineThomas PaineThomas "Tom" Paine was an English author, pamphleteer, radical, inventor, intellectual, revolutionary, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States...
, (1737–1809), political writer and pamphleteer, Rights of ManRights of ManRights of Man , a book by Thomas Paine, posits that popular political revolution is permissible when a government does not safeguard its people, their natural rights, and their national interests. Using these points as a base it defends the French Revolution against Edmund Burke's attack in... - William PainterWilliam PainterWilliam Painter was an English author and translator.William Painter was a native of Kent. He matriculated at St John's College, Cambridge, in 1554. In 1561 he became clerk of the ordnance in the Tower of London, a position in which he appears to have amassed a fortune out of the public funds...
, (c. 1540-1594), writer - William PaleyWilliam PaleyWilliam Paley was a British Christian apologist, philosopher, and utilitarian. He is best known for his exposition of the teleological argument for the existence of God in his work Natural Theology, which made use of the watchmaker analogy .-Life:Paley was Born in Peterborough, England, and was...
, (1743–1805), philosopher, theologian and cleric - Francis PalgraveFrancis PalgraveSir Francis Palgrave FRS, born Francis Ephraim Cohen, was an English historian.- Early life :He was born in London, the son of Meyer Cohen, a Jewish stockbroker by his wife Rachel Levien Cohen . He was initially articled as a clerk to a London solicitor's firm, and remained there as chief clerk...
, (1788–1861), historian - Francis Turner PalgraveFrancis Turner PalgraveFrancis Turner Palgrave was a British critic and poet.He was born at Great Yarmouth, the eldest son of Sir Francis Palgrave, the historian and his wife Elizabeth Turner, daughter of the banker Dawson Turner. His brothers were William Gifford Palgrave, Inglis Palgrave and Reginald Palgrave...
, (1824–1897), poet and anthologist, Golden Treasury of English Songs and LyricsPalgrave's Golden TreasuryThe Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics is a popular anthology of English poetry, originally selected for publication by Francis Turner Palgrave in 1861. It was considerably revised, with input from Tennyson, about three decades later... - William Gifford PalgraveWilliam Gifford PalgraveWilliam Gifford Palgrave was an Arabic scholar, born at Westminster, England. He was the son of Sir Francis Palgrave, K.H. and Elizabeth Turner....
, (1826–1888), travel writer and orientalist - Edward Henry PalmerEdward Henry PalmerEdward Henry Palmer was an English orientalist.Palmer was born in Cambridge as the son of a private schoolmaster. He was educated at The Perse School, and as a schoolboy showed the characteristic bent of his mind by picking up the Romany tongue and a great familiarity with the life of the Gypsies...
, (1840–1882), translator and orientalist - Herbert Edward PalmerHerbert Edward PalmerHerbert Edward Palmer was an English poet and critic.He was born in Market Rasen, Lincolnshire and educated at Woodhouse Grove School, Birmingham University and Bonn University...
, (1880–1961), poet and critic - Samuel PalmerSamuel PalmerSamuel Palmer was a British landscape painter, etcher and printmaker. He was also a prolific writer. Palmer was a key figure in Romanticism in Britain and produced visionary pastoral paintings.-Early life:...
, (1805–1881), poet and painter - Robert PaltockRobert PaltockRobert Paltock was an English novelist and attorney. His most famous work is The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, a Cornish Man .Paltock was admired by Walter Scott, Coleridge, and Charles Lamb....
, (1697–1767), novelist - Bernard ParesBernard ParesSir Bernard Pares KBE was an English historian and academic known for his work on Russia.-Early Life:Pares was educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated in Classics taking a third...
, (1867–1949), historian and Russian expert - Edith PargeterEdith PargeterEdith Mary Pargeter, OBE, BEM , also known by her nom de plume Ellis Peters, was a British author of works in many categories, especially history and historical fiction, and was also honoured for her translations of Czech classics; she is probably best known for her murder mysteries, both...
, (also wrote as Ellis Peters, 1913–1995), novelist and history writer - Henry ParkerHenry Parker (writer)Henry Parker was an English barrister and political writer in the Parliamentarian cause.He was a major figure as a propagandist and pamphleteer, "the most influential writer to defend the parliamentary cause in the 1640s". He provided the "ideological ballast for resistance", according to Geoffrey...
, (1604–1652), political writer - Martin ParkerMartin ParkerMartin Parker , was an English ballad writer, and probably a London tavern-keeper.-Life:About 1625 he seems to have begun publishing ballads, a large number of which bearing his signature or his initials, M.P., are preserved in the British Museum. John Dryden considered him the best ballad writer...
, (c. 1600-c. 1656), balladeer - Matthew ParkerMatthew ParkerMatthew Parker was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1559 until his death in 1575. He was also an influential theologian and arguably the co-founder of Anglican theological thought....
, (1504–1575), Bible translator and archbishop, the Bishops' BibleBishops' BibleThe Bishops' Bible is an English translation of the Bible which was produced under the authority of the established Church of England in 1568. It was substantially revised in 1572, and this revised edition was to be prescribed as the base text for the Authorized King James Version of...
(instigator and contributor) - Norman ParkerNorman Parker (author)Norman Parker , after serving a six year sentence for manslaughter, was convicted of murder in 1970 and sentenced to life imprisonment. He served 24 years in prisons including Parkhurst...
, (born 1954), memoirist - Samuel Parker, (1640–1688), theologian, religious writer and bishop
- Samuel ParkerSamuel Parker (writer)-Ancestors:Parker's father was the English theologian and clergyman Samuel Parker , who served as Bishop of Oxford during the tumultuous reign of James II-Life and work:...
, (1681–1730), religious writer and translator - Bessie Rayner ParkesBessie Rayner ParkesBessie Rayner Parkes Belloc was one of the most prominent English feminists and campaigners for women’s rights in Victorian times and also a poet, essayist and journalist.- Early life :...
, (1829–1925), writer and poet - C. Northcote ParkinsonC. Northcote ParkinsonCyril Northcote Parkinson was a British naval historian and author of some sixty books, the most famous of which was his bestseller Parkinson's Law, which led him to be also considered as an important scholar within the field of public administration.-Early life and education:The youngest son of...
, (1909-1993), naval historian and writer on administration, Parkinson's LawParkinson's lawParkinson's law is the adage first articulated by Cyril Northcote Parkinson as the first sentence of a humorous essay published in The Economist in 1955:... - John Parkinson (botanist)John Parkinson (botanist)John Parkinson was the last of the great English herbalists and one of the first of the great English botanists. He was apothecary to James I and a founding member of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries in December 1617, and was later Royal Botanist to Charles I...
, (1567–1650), herbalist - Adele Parks, (born 1969), novelist
- Tim ParksTim ParksTim Parks is a British novelist, translator and author.-Life:Tim Parks was born in Manchester in 1954, the son of a clergyman. He grew up in Finchley , London and was educated at Cambridge University and Harvard. He has lived near Verona in Italy since 1981...
, (born 1954), novelist and translator - David ParlettDavid ParlettDavid Parlett is a games scholar from South London, who has studied both card games and board games. His published works include many popular books on games and the more academic volumes "Oxford Guide to Card Games" and "Oxford History of Board Games", both now out of print...
, (born 1939), writer on card and other games - Samuel ParrSamuel ParrSamuel Parr , was an English schoolmaster, writer, minister and Doctor of Law. He was known in his time for political writing, and as "the Whig Johnson", though his reputation has lasted less well that Samuel Johnson's, and the resemblances were at a superficial level, Parr being no prose stylist,...
, (1747–1825), political writer, scholar and schoolmaster - Frances PartridgeFrances PartridgeFrances Catherine Partridge CBE was a long-lived member of the Bloomsbury Group and a writer, probably best known for the publication of her diaries...
, (1900–2004), diarist and translator - John PassJohn PassJohn Pass is a Canadian poet. He has lived in Canada since 1953, and was educated at the University of British Columbia....
, (born 1947), poet and scholar - Paston Family, (14th–16th cc.), Paston LettersPaston LettersThe Paston Letters are a collection of letters and papers from England, consisting of the correspondence of members of the gentry Paston family, and others connected with them, between the years 1422 and 1509, and also including some state papers and other important documents.- History of the...
- Walter PaterWalter PaterWalter Horatio Pater was an English essayist, critic of art and literature, and writer of fiction.-Early life:...
, (1839–1894), essayist and novelist, Marius the EpicureanMarius the EpicureanMarius the Epicurean: his sensations and ideas is an historical and philosophical novel by Walter Pater , written between 1881 and 1884, published in 1885 and set in A.D. 161-177, in the Rome of the Antonines... - Coventry PatmoreCoventry PatmoreCoventry Kersey Dighton Patmore was an English poet and critic best known for The Angel in the House, his narrative poem about an ideal happy marriage.-Youth:...
, (1823–1896), poet and critic - Brian PattenBrian Patten-Background:Born near Liverpool's docks, he attended Sefton Park School in the Smithdown Road area of Liverpool, where he was noted for his essays and greatly encouraged in his work by Harry Sutcliffe his form teacher. He left school at fifteen and began work for The Bootle Times writing a column...
, (born 1946), poet and children's writer - Mark PattisonMark PattisonMark Pattison was an English author and a Church of England priest. He served as Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford.-Life:...
, (1813–1884), writer and cleric - Tom PaulinTom PaulinThomas Neilson Paulin is a Northern Irish poet and critic of film, music and literature. He lives in England, where he is the GM Young Lecturer in English Literature at Hertford College, Oxford.- Life and work :...
, (born 1949), poet, academic and broadcaster - Michelle PaverMichelle PaverMichelle Paver is a British-based novelist and children's writer, author of the six-book series Chronicles of Ancient Darkness, set in the pre-agricultural Stone Age.- Biography :...
, (born 1960), children's writer, Chronicles of Ancient DarknessChronicles of Ancient DarknessChronicles of Ancient Darkness is a series of six fantasy books from British author Michelle Paver, her first books for children. The books chronicle the adventures of Torak, an adolescent boy from the Wolf Clan, and his friends Renn and Wolf...
series - Stel PavlouStel PavlouStelios Grant Pavlou is a British author and screenwriter.-Biography:Stel Pavlou was born in Gillingham, Kent in England, of Greek Cypriot descent. He grew up in Rochester and Chatham, Medway and attended Chatham Grammar School for Boys. The middle child of three, his younger brother is the...
, (born 1970), novelist and screenwriter - James PaynJames PaynJames Payn , was an English novelist.-Family:Payn's father, William Payn , was clerk to the Thames Commissioners and at one time treasurer to the county of Berkshire...
, (1830–1898), novelist and miscellanist - John PayneJohn Payne (poet)John Payne was an English poet and translator, from Devon. Initially he pursued a legal career, and associated with Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Later he became involved with limited edition publishing, and the Villon Society.He is now best known for his translations of Boccaccio's Decameron, The...
, (1842–1917), poet and translator - Henry PeachamHenry PeachamHenry Peacham is the name shared by two English Renaissance writers who were father and son.The elder Henry Peacham was an English curate, best known for his treatise on rhetoric titled The Garden of Eloquence first published in 1577....
the Elder, (1546–1634), writer on rhetoric and cleric - Henry PeachamHenry PeachamHenry Peacham is the name shared by two English Renaissance writers who were father and son.The elder Henry Peacham was an English curate, best known for his treatise on rhetoric titled The Garden of Eloquence first published in 1577....
the Younger, (c. 1573-c. 1643), poet and writer on art and literature - Thomas Love PeacockThomas Love PeacockThomas Love Peacock was an English satirist and author.Peacock was a close friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley and they influenced each other's work...
, (1785–1866), satirical novelist and poet, Nightmare AbbeyNightmare AbbeyNightmare Abbey was the third of Thomas Love Peacock's novels to be published. It was written in late March and June 1818, and published in London in November of the same year by T. Hookham Jr of Old Bond Street and Baldwin, Craddock & Joy of Paternoster Row... - Mervyn PeakeMervyn PeakeMervyn Laurence Peake was an English writer, artist, poet and illustrator. He is best known for what are usually referred to as the Gormenghast books. They are sometimes compared to the work of his older contemporary J. R. R...
, (1911–1968), novelist and poet, GormenghastGormenghast (series)The Gormenghast series comprises three novels by Mervyn Peake, featuring Castle Gormenghast, and Titus Groan, the title character of the first book.-Works in the series:... - Philippa PearcePhilippa PearceAnn Philippa Pearce OBE was an English children's author.-Early life:The youngest of four children, Pearce was brought up in the Mill House in the village of Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire...
, (1920–2006), children's writer, Tom's Midnight GardenTom's Midnight GardenTom's Midnight Garden is a children's novel by Philippa Pearce. It won the Carnegie Medal in 1958, the year of its publication. It has been adapted for radio, television, the cinema, and the stage.-Plot summary:... - Pearl PoetPearl PoetThe "Pearl Poet", or the "Gawain Poet", is the name given to the author of Pearl, an alliterative poem written in 14th-century Middle English. Its author appears also to have written the poems Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Patience, and Cleanness; some scholars suggest the author may also have...
, (designation for unnamed poet, fl. 14th c.), poet, Sir Gawain and the Green KnightSir Gawain and the Green KnightSir Gawain and the Green Knight is a late 14th-century Middle English alliterative romance outlining an adventure of Sir Gawain, a knight of King Arthur's Round Table. In the poem, Sir Gawain accepts a challenge from a mysterious warrior who is completely green, from his clothes and hair to his... - Hugh PearmanHugh Pearman (architecture critic)Hugh Pearman is the architecture critic of The Sunday Times and editor of The RIBA Journal, the magazine of the Royal Institute of British Architects...
, (born 1955), critic and architect. - Tim PearsTim PearsTim Pears is an English novelist. His novels explore social issues as they are processed through the dynamics of family relationships.- Biography :...
, (born 1956), novelist - Hesketh PearsonHesketh PearsonEdward Hesketh Gibbons Pearson was a British actor, theatre director and writer. He is known mainly for his popular biographies; they made him the leading British biographer of his time, in terms of commercial success....
, (1887–1964), biographer - John PearsonJohn Pearson (author)John Pearson is a writer best associated with James Bond creator Ian Fleming.Pearson was Fleming's assistant at the London Sunday Times and would go on to write the first biography of Ian Fleming, 1966's The Life of Ian Fleming....
, (born 1930), biographer - John Pearson, (1612–1686), theologian and bishop
- Edward R. PeaseEdward R. PeaseEdward Reynolds Pease was an English writer and a founding member of the Fabian Society.Pease, the sixth of fifteen children, was born near Bristol, the son of devout Quakers, Thomas Pease and Susanna Ann Fry sister of Edward Fry, the judge...
, (1857-1955), writer and politician - Reginald PecockReginald PecockReginald Pecock was an English prelate, Scholastic, and writer.-Life:Pecock was probably born in Wales, and was educated at Oriel College, Oxford....
, (c. 1395-1460), theologian and bishop - Margaret PedlerMargaret PedlerMargaret Pedler was a British novelist, who wrote popular works of romantic fiction.-Biography:Initially Pedler studied piano and singing at the Royal Academy of Music, and published several songs for which she wrote both the music and lyrics...
, (died 1948), novelist - J. H. B. PeelJ. H. B. PeelJohn Hugh Brignal Peel was a British journalist, author and poet, writing, as J. H. B. Peel, about farming and the countryside....
, (1913–1983), writer, poet and journalist - George PeeleGeorge PeeleGeorge Peele , was an English dramatist.-Life:Peele was christened on 25 July 1556. His father, who appears to have belonged to a Devonshire family, was clerk of Christ's Hospital, and wrote two treatises on bookkeeping...
, (1556–1596), playwright and poet - Mal PeetMal PeetMal Peet is an English author who writes mainly for young adults. His novels have won several awards, including the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.- Biography :...
, (born 1960s?), children's writer - Samuel PeggeSamuel PeggeSamuel Pegge the elder was an antiquary.Born at Chesterfield, Derbyshire, he was the son of Christopher Pegge and his wife Gertrude, daughter of Francis Stephenson of Unstone, near Chesterfield...
, (1704–1796), antiquary, translator and cleric - Isaac PeningtonIsaac PeningtonIsaac Penington may refer to:*Isaac Penington , Lord Mayor of London*Isaac Penington , early Quaker, son of Isaac Penington above...
, (1616–1679), Quaker writer on religion - William PennWilliam PennWilliam Penn was an English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania, the English North American colony and the future Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He was an early champion of democracy and religious freedom, notable for his good relations and successful...
, (1644–1718), politician and political and religious writer - Thomas PennantThomas PennantThomas Pennant was a Welsh naturalist and antiquary.The Pennants were a Welsh gentry family from the parish of Whitford, Flintshire, who had built up a modest estate at Bychton by the seventeenth century...
, (1726–1798), naturalist, antiquary and travel writer - Hilary PeplerHilary Douglas Clark PeplerHarry Douglas Clark Pepler , known as Hilary Pepler, was an English printer, writer and poet. He was an associate of both Eric Gill and G. K. Chesterton, working on publications in which they had an interest...
, (1878–1951), writer and poet - Emily PepysEmily Pepys-Family:Emily was born on 9 August 1833, at Westmill, Hertfordshire, where her father was rector at that time. Her father, Henry Pepys , was created Anglican bishop of Sodor and Man in 1840 and translated only a year later to Worcester. He played a minor political role as a Liberal in the House of...
, (1833–1877), child diarist - Samuel PepysSamuel PepysSamuel Pepys FRS, MP, JP, was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament who is now most famous for the diary he kept for a decade while still a relatively young man...
, (1633–1703), diarist - Thomas Percy, (1729–1811), bishop, poet and anthologist, Percy's ReliquesReliques of Ancient English PoetryThe Reliques of Ancient English Poetry is a collection of ballads and popular songs collected by Thomas Percy and published in 1765.-Sources:...
- John PerrinJohn Perrin (translator)John Perrin was an English churchman and academic, Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford and one of the translators of the Authorised King James Version of the Bible.-Life:...
, (c. 1558-1615), scholar, AV translator and cleric - Chris Petit, (born 1949), novelist and film director
- William PettyWilliam PettySir William Petty FRS was an English economist, scientist and philosopher. He first became prominent serving Oliver Cromwell and Commonwealth in Ireland. He developed efficient methods to survey the land that was to be confiscated and given to Cromwell's soldiers...
, (1623–1687), economist and philosopher - K. M. PeytonK. M. PeytonKathleen Wendy Herald Peyton, who writes as K.M. Peyton is a British author.Born in Birmingham, Peyton has written more than fifty novels, including the much loved Flambards and its sequels for which she won both the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Award...
, (born Kathleen Herald, 1929), children's writer, The Edge of the CloudThe Edge of the CloudThe Edge of the Cloud is the second novel in the Flambards sequence by K. M. Peyton. It is set in the years prior to the First World War and has a strong backdrop of aviation as it follows the romance of Christina Parsons and Will Russell... - St. John PhilbySt. John PhilbyHarry St John Bridger Philby CIE , also known as Jack Philby or Sheikh Abdullah , his Arabic name, was an Arabist, explorer, writer, and British colonial office intelligence officer...
, (1885–1960), writer, intelligence officer and Arabist - Ambrose PhilipsAmbrose Philips-Life:He was born in Shropshire of a Leicestershire family. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and St John's College, Cambridge, of which he became a fellow in 1699. He seems to have lived chiefly at Cambridge until he resigned his fellowship in 1708, and his pastorals were probably written in...
, (1674–1739), poet - John PhilipsJohn PhilipsJohn Philips was an 18th century English poet.- Early life and education :Philips was born at Bampton, Oxfordshire, the son of Rev. Stephen Philips, later archdeacon of Salop, and his wife Mary Wood. He was at first taught by his father and then went to Winchester College...
, (1676–1709), poet - Katherine PhilipsKatherine PhilipsKatherine Philips was an Anglo-Welsh poet.-Biography:Katherine Philips was the first Englishwoman to enjoy widespread public acclaim as a poet during her lifetime. Born in London, she was daughter of John Fowler, a Presbyterian, and a merchant of Bucklersbury, London. Philips is said to have read...
, (1632–1644), poet - Caryl PhillipsCaryl PhillipsCaryl Phillips is a British writer with a Caribbean background, best known as a novelist. He is now professor at Yale University and a visiting professor at Barnard College of Columbia University.-Life:...
, (born 1958), novelist - Edward PhillipsEdward PhillipsEdward Phillips , was an English author.-Life:He was the son of Edward Phillips of the crown office in chancery, and his wife Anne, only sister of John Milton, the poet. Edward Phillips the younger was born in the Strand, London. His father died in 1631, and Anne eventually married her husband's...
, (1630-c. 1696), writer and philologist - John PhillipsJohn Phillips (author)John Phillips was an English author, the brother of Edward Phillips, and a nephew of John Milton.Anne Phillips, mother of John and Edward, was the sister of John Milton, the poet. In 1652, John Phillips published a Latin reply to the anonymous attack on Milton entitled Pro Rege et populo anglicano...
, (1631–1706), writer - J. B. PhillipsJohn Bertram PhillipsJohn Bertram Phillips was a Bible translator, writer and clergyman, often referred to as just J. B. Phillips....
, (1906–1982), Bible translator and cleric - Stephen PhillipsStephen PhillipsStephen Phillips was a highly famed English poet and dramatist, who enjoyed considerable popularity in his lifetime....
, (1864–1915), poet and playwright - Eden PhillpottsEden PhillpottsEden Phillpotts was an English author, poet and dramatist. He was born in India, educated in Plymouth, Devon, and worked as an insurance officer for 10 years before studying for the stage and eventually becoming a writer....
, (1862–1960), novelist, poet and playwright - Henry PhillpottsHenry PhillpottsHenry Phillpotts , often called "Henry of Exeter", was the Anglican Bishop of Exeter from 1830 to 1869. He was England's longest serving bishop since the 14th century and a striking figure of the 19th century Church.- Early life :...
, (1778–1869), pamphleteer and bishop - Gervase PhinnGervase PhinnGervase Phinn is an English author and educator. After a career as a teacher he became a schools inspector and, latterly, Visiting Professor of Education at the University of Teesside....
, (born 1946), novelist, poet and writer on education - David Andrew PhoenixDavid Andrew PhoenixDavid Andrew Phoenix OBE DSc was born in 1966 in Greater Manchester, England. After attending school in Bolton he progressed to study Biochemistry at Liverpool University where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science...
, (born 1966), author, scientist and educationalist - Tom PickardTom PickardTom Pickard is a poet, radio and film maker who was an important initiator of the movement known as the British Poetry Revival....
, (born 1946), poet and scriptwriter - David PickeringDavid PickeringFor the Wales international rugby union player see David Pickering David Pickering is an experienced reference books compiler. He has contributed to some 150 reference books, mostly in the areas of the arts, language, local history and popular interest...
, (born 1958), compiler of reference books - Marmaduke PickthallMarmaduke PickthallMarmaduke Pickthall was a Western Islamic scholar, noted as an English translator of the Qur'an into English. A convert from Christianity, Pickthall was a novelist, esteemed by D. H. Lawrence, H. G. Wells, and E. M. Forster, as well as a journalist, headmaster, and political and religious leader...
, (1875–1936), scholar, Qur'an translator and novelist - Sarah PiersSarah PiersSarah, Lady Piers was a literary patron, political commentator, and a poet.Her father was originally of Roydon in Yorkshire. She was the daughter of Matthew Roydon and wife of Sir George Piers , a Kentish army captain and Clerk of the Privy Seal. She had two sons, one of whom died in childhood...
, (died 1719), poet - Arthur Cecil PigouArthur Cecil PigouArthur Cecil Pigou was an English economist. As a teacher and builder of the school of economics at the University of Cambridge he trained and influenced many Cambridge economists who went on to fill chairs of economics around the world...
, (1877–1959), economist - Mary PilkingtonMary PilkingtonMary Pilkington was an English novelist and poet.She was born in Cambridge, England. When her father died, she was aged fifteen, and went to live with her grandfather. The man who had taken over her father's medical practice became Mary's husband in 1786. While he was away working as a naval...
, (1766–1839), novelist and children's writer - Arthur Wing PineroArthur Wing PineroSir Arthur Wing Pinero was an English actor and later an important dramatist and stage director.-Biography:...
, (1855–1934), playwright - William PinnockWilliam PinnockWilliam Pinnock was a British publisher and educational writer.He was at first a schoolmaster, then a bookseller. In 1817 he went to London and, in partnership with Samuel Maunder, began to publish cheap educational works...
, (1782–1843) educational writer and publisher - Harold PinterHarold PinterHarold Pinter, CH, CBE was a Nobel Prize–winning English playwright and screenwriter. One of the most influential modern British dramatists, his writing career spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include The Birthday Party , The Homecoming , and Betrayal , each of which he adapted to...
, (1930–2008), Nobel prizeNobel PrizeThe Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
winner, playwright and screenwriter, The CaretakerThe CaretakerThe Caretaker is a play by Harold Pinter. It was first published by both Encore Publishing and Eyre Methuen in 1960. The sixth play that Pinter wrote for stage or television production, it was his first significant commercial success... - Isaac PitmanIsaac PitmanSir Isaac Pitman , knighted in 1894, developed the most widely used system of shorthand, known now as Pitman shorthand. He first proposed this in Stenographic Soundhand in 1837. Pitman was a qualified teacher and taught at a private school he founded in Wotton-under-Edge...
, (1813–1897), writer on shorthand - Christopher PittChristopher PittChristopher Pitt was a British poet and translator.His translations to English include Virgil's Aeneid and Vida's Art of Poetry.Pitt was educated at Winchester College, leaving in 1719 to study at New College, Oxford...
, (1699–1748), poet and translator - Ruth PitterRuth PitterEmma Thomas "Ruth" Pitter, CBE, FRSL was a 20th century British poet.She was the first woman to receive the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1955, and was appointed a CBE in 1979 to honour her many contributions to English literature.In 1974, she was named a "Companion of Literature", the highest...
, (1897–1992), poet - Mary PixMary PixMary Pix was an English novelist and playwright. Church records indicate that she lived in London, marrying George Pix, a merchant tailor from Hawkhurst, Kent in 1684. Baptismal records reveal that she had two sons, George and William...
, (1666–1709), playwright and novelist - James PlanchéJames PlancheJames Robinson Planché was a British dramatist, antiquary and officer of arms. Over a period of approximately 60 years he wrote, adapted, or collaborated on 176 plays in a wide range of genres including extravaganza, farce, comedy, burletta, melodrama and opera...
, (1796–1880), playwright - Victor PlarrVictor PlarrVictor Gustave Plarr was an English poet; he is probably best known for the poem Epitaphium Citharistriae....
, (1863–1929), poet and biographer - Alan PlaterAlan PlaterAlan Frederick Plater, CBE, FRSL was an English playwright and screenwriter, who worked extensively in British television from the 1960s to the 2000s.-Career:...
, (1935–2010), playwright, screenwriter and novelist - Karen PlattKaren PlattKaren Platt is a British gardening author and publisher, best known for the reference book Black Magic and Purple Passion. She started her writing career in 1996 by self-publishing her first book, The Seed Search. She has been on BBC television, KATU, HGTV and BBC Radio several times. Her...
(fl. 2004-present), gardening writer. - Max PlowmanMax PlowmanMax Plowman was a British writer and pacifist.-Life to 1918:He was born in Northumberland Park, Tottenham, in London. He left school at 16, and worked for a decade in his father's brick business. He became a journalist and poet...
, (1883–1941), writer and poet - J. H. PlumbJ. H. PlumbSir John Harold Plumb, FBA , known as Jack, was a British historian, known for his books on British 18th century history. He wrote over thirty books.-Biography:...
, (1911-2001), historian - Anne PlumptreAnne PlumptreAnne Plumptre was an English writer and translator.She was born in Norwich. She and her sister, Annabella [Bell] Plumptre , daughters of Robert Plumptre, became active in the Enfield circle, a local group of literati. Later she became involved in politics during the period of the French Revolution...
, (1760–1818), writer and translator - Tom PocockTom PocockThomas Allcot Guy Pocock, writing under the name Tom Pocock, was an English biographer, war correspondent, journalist and naval historian.-Life:...
, (1925–2007), biographer and historian - Richard PocockeRichard PocockeRichard Pococke was an English prelate and anthropologist. He was Protestant Bishop of Ossory and Meath , both dioceses of the Church of Ireland...
, (1704-1765), travel writer, diarist and bishop - Frank PodmoreFrank PodmoreFrank Podmore was an English author, founding member of the Fabian Society, and writer on psychic matters.-Life:...
, (1856-1910), writer and politician - Elizabeth PolackElizabeth PolackElizabeth Polack was an English playwright of the 1830s, notable for having been described by chroniclers of the period as England's first Jewish woman melodramatist.Few historical records survive which detail Elizabeth Polack's life...
, (fl. 1830-38), playwright - John William Polidori, (1795-1821), writer and physician, The VampyreThe Vampyre"The Vampyre" is a short story or novella written in 1819 by John William Polidori which is a progenitor of the romantic vampire genre of fantasy fiction...
- Alfred Oliver PollardAlfred Oliver PollardAlfred Oliver Pollard VC, MC & Bar, DCM was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces...
, (1893–1960), novelist, autobiographer and army officer - Alfred W. PollardAlfred W. PollardAlfred William Pollard was an English bibliographer, widely credited for bringing a higher level of scholarly rigor to the study of Shakespearean texts....
, (1859–1944), bibliographer and scholar - Margaret Steuart PollardMargaret Steuart PollardMargaret Steuart Pollard was a scholar of Sanskrit, a poet and self styled bard of the Cornish language. She was a member of Ferguson's Gang, a secret society of supporters of the National Trust....
, (1903–1996), poet and writer on Cornwall - William PollardWilliam PollardWilliam Pollard was a Quaker writer and recorded minister.-Early life:Pollard was born at Horsham, Sussex, on 10 June 1828, the son of James Pollard and his wife, Susannah. He became a junior teacher at the Friends' School, Croydon in 1843, and in 1849 entered the Flounders Institute at Ackworth,...
, (1828-1893), Quaker writer on religion - Jacob PolleyJacob PolleyJacob Polley is a British poet, born in Carlisle, Cumbria.He graduated with an MA in Creative Writing from Lancaster University in 1997....
, (born 1975), poet and novelist - Elizabeth PolwheeleElizabeth PolwheeleElizabeth Polewhele , playwright, was one of the first women to write for the professional stage in London. Her comedy The Frolicks was performed at the Dorset Garden Theatre in 1671; it features Claribell, a witty Restoration heroine, and Rightwit, a rake.-Plays:*Elysium *The Faithful Virgins...
or Polewhele, (c. 1651-c. 1691), playwright - Richard PolwheleRichard PolwheleRichard Polwhele was a Cornish clergyman, poet and topographer.-Biography:Born at Truro, Cornwall, Polwhele met literary luminaries Catharine Macaulay and Hannah More at an early age. He was educated at Truro Grammar School, where he precociously published The Fate of Llewellyn...
, (1760–1838), poet, writer and cleric - John PomfretJohn PomfretJohn Pomfret was an English poet and clergyman.John Pomfret was the son of Thomas Pomfret, vicar of Luton, and went to school in Bedford...
, (1667–1703), poet and cleric - John PooleJohn Poole (playwright)John Poole , an English playwright, was one of the earliest and best known 19th century playwrights of the comic drama, the farce. Paul Pry is considered his most notable work, while Hamlet Travestie, performed as a burlesque, was the first Shakespeare parody since the Restoration.-Partial...
, (1786–1872), playwright - Alexander PopeAlexander PopeAlexander Pope was an 18th-century English poet, best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. He is the third-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare and Tennyson...
, (1688–1744), poet - Dudley PopeDudley PopeDudley Bernard Egerton Pope was a British writer of both nautical fiction and history, most notable for his Lord Ramage series of historical novels. Greatly inspired by C.S. Forester, Pope was one of the most successful authors to explore the genre of nautical fiction, often compared to Patrick...
, (1925–1997), novelist, the Lord RamageLord RamageNicholas, Lord Ramage was the fictional character at the centre of a series of sea novels written by Dudley Pope. Ramage was an officer in the British Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars.-Early life:...
series - Jessie PopeJessie PopeJessie Pope was an English poet, writer and journalist, who remains best known for her patriotic motivational poems published during World War I...
, (1868–1941), poet and writer - Walter PopeWalter PopeWalter Pope was an English astronomer and poet. He was born in Northamptonshire and was the half brother of John Wilkins, who would become bishop of Chester. He was educated at Wadham College, Oxford, with a BA in 1649, MA in 1651...
, (1627–1714), astronomer and poet - James Pope-HennessyJames Pope-HennessyJames Pope Hennessy CVO was a British biographer and travel writer.-Life:Richard James Arthur Pope-Hennessy was born in London on 20 November 1916, the younger son of Ladislaus Herbert Richard Pope-Hennessy, a soldier from County Cork in Ireland, and his wife, Una Constance Pope-Hennessy who was...
, (1916–1974), biographer and travel writer - Samuel PordageSamuel PordageSamuel Pordage was a 17th century English poet. He is best known by his Azaria and Hushai , a reply to John Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel.-Life:...
, (1633–1691), poet - Richard PorsonRichard PorsonRichard Porson was an English classical scholar. He was the discoverer of Porson's Law; and the Greek typeface Porson was based on his handwriting.-Early life:...
, (1759–1808), scholar, editor and translator - Anna Maria PorterAnna Maria PorterAnna Maria Porter , poet, novelist and sister of Jane Porter, was born in the Bailey in Durham, the posthumous child of William Porter , who had served as an army surgeon for 23 years. He is buried in St Oswald's church, Durham....
, (1780–1832), novelist - Henry Porter, (died 1599), playwright
- Henry PorterHenry Porter (journalist)Henry Porter is an English author and journalist. He is a writer of thrillers and a regular columnist for The Observer newspaper. He is also the British editor of Vanity Fair....
, (born 1953), writer on liberty and novelist - Jane PorterJane PorterJane Porter was a Scottish historical novelist and dramatist.-Life and work:Jane Porter was an avid reader. Said to rise at four in the morning in order to read and write, she read the whole of Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene while still a child...
, (1776–1850), novelist - Sheena PorterSheena PorterSheena Porter is a British children's novelist. She received the 1964 Carnegie Medal for Nordy Bank.Sheena Porter has worked as a librarian in Leicester, Nottingham and Shropshire, and currently lives in Ludlow....
, (born 1935), children's writer, Nordy BankNordy Bank (novel)Nordy Bank is a children's novel by Sheena Porter, published in 1964. It was awarded the Carnegie Medal for that year.- Plot summary :Six children plan a camping trip in the Easter holidays, deciding on Brown Clee Hill as it is out of the way of summer visitors. They set up camp on the top of the... - Raymond PostgateRaymond PostgateRaymond William Postgate was an English socialist, journalist and editor, social historian, mystery novelist and gourmet.-Early life:...
, (1896–1971), novelist and social historian - Beatrix PotterBeatrix PotterHelen Beatrix Potter was an English author, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist best known for her imaginative children’s books featuring animals such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit which celebrated the British landscape and country life.Born into a privileged Unitarian...
, (1866–1943), children's writer and illustrator, The Tale of Peter RabbitThe Tale of Peter RabbitThe Tale of Peter Rabbit is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter that follows mischievous and disobedient young Peter Rabbit as he is chased about the garden of Mr. McGregor. He escapes and returns home to his mother who puts him to bed after dosing him with camomile tea... - Robert PotterRobert Potter (1721-1804)Rev. Robert Potter was an English clergyman of the Church of England, translator, poet and pamphleteer.-Life:...
, (1721–1804), translator, poet and cleric - Anthony PowellAnthony PowellAnthony Dymoke Powell CH, CBE was an English novelist best known for his twelve-volume work A Dance to the Music of Time, published between 1951 and 1975....
, (1905–2000), novelist, A Dance to the Music of TimeA Dance to the Music of TimeA Dance to the Music of Time is a twelve-volume cycle of novels by Anthony Powell, inspired by the painting of the same name by Nicolas Poussin. One of the longest works of fiction in literature, it was published between 1951 and 1975 to critical acclaim... - Michael PowellMichael Powell (director)Michael Latham Powell was a renowned English film director, celebrated for his partnership with Emeric Pressburger...
, (1905–1990), writer and film director - Eileen PowerEileen PowerEileen Edna LePoer Power was an important British economic historian and medievalist. Eileen Power was the eldest daughter of a stockbroker and was born at Altrincham in 1889. She was a sister of Rhoda Power, the children's writer and broadcaster...
, (1889–1940), historian - Rhoda PowerRhoda PowerRhoda Dolores le Poer Power , was a broadcaster and children's writer.-Life and career:...
, (1890–1957), children's writer and broadcaster, Redcap Runs Away - John Cowper PowysJohn Cowper Powys-Biography:Powys was born in Shirley, Derbyshire, in 1872, the son of the Reverend Charles Francis Powys , who was vicar of Montacute, Somerset for thirty-two years, and Mary Cowper Johnson, a descendent of the poet William Cowper. He came from a family of eleven children, many of whom were also...
, (1872–1963), novelist - Llewelyn PowysLlewelyn PowysLlewelyn Powys was a British writer and younger brother of John Cowper Powys and T. F. Powys.-Life:Powys was born in Dorchester, the son of a clergyman, and was educated at Sherborne School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. While lecturing in the United States he contracted tuberculosis...
, (1884–1939), travel writer, biographer - T. F. PowysT. F. PowysTheodore Francis Powys was a British novelist and short story writer, born in Shirley, Derbyshire on the 20 December, 1875, the son of the Reverend Charles Francis Powys , vicar of Montacute, Somerset for thirty-two years, and Mary Cowper Johnson, a descendent of the poet William Cowper. He came...
, (1875–1953), novelist and story writer - Winthrop Mackworth PraedWinthrop Mackworth PraedWinthrop Mackworth Praed was an English politician and poet.-Early life:He was born in London. The family name of Praed was derived from the marriage of the poet's great-grandfather to a Cornish heiress. Winthrop's father, William Mackworth Praed, was a serjeant-at-law. His mother belonged to the...
, (1802–1839), poet and politician - Terry PratchettTerry PratchettSir Terence David John "Terry" Pratchett, OBE is an English novelist, known for his frequently comical work in the fantasy genre. He is best known for his popular and long-running Discworld series of comic fantasy novels...
, (born 1948), novelist, DiscworldDiscworldDiscworld is a comic fantasy book series by English author Sir Terry Pratchett, set on the Discworld, a flat world balanced on the backs of four elephants which, in turn, stand on the back of a giant turtle, Great A'Tuin. The books frequently parody, or at least take inspiration from, J. R. R....
series - Anne PrattAnne PrattAnne Pratt was a botanical illustrator from Strood, Kent. She was one of the best known English botanical illustrators of the Victorian age. She was the second of three daughters of Robert Pratt , a grocer, and Sara Bundock...
, (1806-1893), botanical writer and illustrator - Thomas PrestonThomas Preston (writer)Thomas Preston was an English master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge and possibly a dramatist.-Life:Preston was born at Simpson, Buckinghamshire, in 1537, and was educated at Eton and at King's College, Cambridge, where he was elected scholar, 16 Aug. 1553, and fellow, 18 Sept. 1556. He graduated B.A....
, (1537–1598), scholar and playwright - Thomas PrestonThomas Preston (monk)Thomas Preston was a Benedictine monk.He studied in the English College in Rome and became a Benedictine at Monte Cassino and was sent to England on mission....
, (1563–1640), religious writer and RC monk - Diana PrimroseDiana PrimroseDiana Primrose author of the eulogy to the deceased Queen Elizabeth published A Chaine of Pearle, Or a Memoriall of the peerles Graces, and Heroick Vertues of Queene Elizabeth of Glorious Memory. Composed by the Noble Lady, Diana Primrose...
, (fl. 1630), poet - Matthew PriorMatthew PriorMatthew Prior was an English poet and diplomat.Prior was the son of a Nonconformist joiner at Wimborne Minster, East Dorset. His father moved to London, and sent him to Westminster School, under Dr. Busby. On his father's death, he left school, and was cared for by his uncle, a vintner in Channel...
, (1664–1721), poet - Bonamy PriceBonamy PriceBonamy Price was an English political economist.He was born at St Peter Port, Guernsey, and entered at Worcester College, Oxford, in 1825, where he took a double first in 1829. From 1830 to 1850 he was an assistant master at Rugby school...
, (1807–1888), political economist - Nancy PriceNancy PriceNancy Price, CBE , was an English actress on stage and screen, authoress and theatre director. Her acting career began in a repertory theatre company before progressing to the London stage, silent films, talkies and finally television. In addition to appearing on stage she became involved in...
, (1880–1970), dramatist, novelist, poet and diarist - Richard PriceRichard PriceRichard Price was a British moral philosopher and preacher in the tradition of English Dissenters, and a political pamphleteer, active in radical, republican, and liberal causes such as the American Revolution. He fostered connections between a large number of people, including writers of the...
, (1723–1791), economist, moral philosopher and Unitarian minister - Susan PriceSusan PriceSusan Price, born 1955 in Dudley in the West Midlands, is an award-winning English writer of novels for young adults. She also writes for younger children. She still lives in the Black Country.- Writing :...
, (born 1955), children's writer, The Ghost DrumThe Ghost DrumThe Ghost Drum is a children's fantasy novel by Susan Price, first published in 1987. It is an original fairy tale using elements from Russian history and folklore and, like many traditional tales, is full of cruelty, violence and sudden death. It is the first of the Ghost World Sequence, which... - Christopher Priest, (born 1943), novelist
- J. B. PriestleyJ. B. PriestleyJohn Boynton Priestley, OM , known as J. B. Priestley, was an English novelist, playwright and broadcaster. He published 26 novels, notably The Good Companions , as well as numerous dramas such as An Inspector Calls...
, (1894–1984), dramatist and novelist, The Good CompanionsThe Good CompanionsThe Good Companions is a novel by the English author J. B. Priestley.Written in 1929 , it focuses on the trials and tribulations of a concert party in England between World War I and World War II. It is arguably Priestley's most famous novel, and the work which established him as a national figure... - Joseph PriestleyJoseph PriestleyJoseph Priestley, FRS was an 18th-century English theologian, Dissenting clergyman, natural philosopher, chemist, educator, and political theorist who published over 150 works...
, (1733–1804), theologian, natural philosopher and political theorist - Peter PrincePeter PrincePeter Prince is a British novelist. He was born in England and studied in America. His first novel Play Things won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1973. He won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Limited Series or a Special for his work on the 1980 BBC miniseries Oppenheimer. His novel The...
, (fl. 1973-present), novelist and screenwriter - V. S. PritchettV. S. PritchettSir Victor Sawdon Pritchett CH CBE , was a British writer and critic. He was particularly known for his short stories, collected in a number of volumes...
, (1900–1997), writer - May ProbynMay ProbynJuliana Mary Louisa Probyn, known as May Probyn , was an English poet.Her poem "Is it nothing to you" is in the Oxford Book of English Verse.She is also included in many other anthologies, such as...
, (1856–1909), poet - Adelaide Anne ProcterAdelaide Anne ProcterAdelaide Anne Procter was an English poet and philanthropist. She worked on behalf of a number of causes, most prominently on behalf of unemployed women and the homeless, and was actively involved with feminist groups and journals. Procter never married, and some of her poetry has prompted...
, (1825–1864), poet and philanthropist - Bryan Waller Procter, (pen name Barry Cornwall, 1787–1874), songwriter and playwright
- Sally PrueSally PrueSally Prue is a British author known for her novel Cold Tom, which won the Branford Boase Award 2002 and the Smarties Prize Silver Award in 2002. Sally Prue has written eight novels.- Biography :...
, (born 1970s?), children's writer - Adelaide Anne ProcterAdelaide Anne ProcterAdelaide Anne Procter was an English poet and philanthropist. She worked on behalf of a number of causes, most prominently on behalf of unemployed women and the homeless, and was actively involved with feminist groups and journals. Procter never married, and some of her poetry has prompted...
, (1825–1864), poet and philanthropist - Bryan ProcterBryan ProcterBryan Waller Procter was an English poet.Born at Leeds, Yorkshire, he was educated at Harrow School, where he had for contemporaries Lord Byron and Robert Peel. On leaving school he was placed in the office of a solicitor at Calne, Wiltshire, remaining there until about 1807, when he returned to...
, (pen name Barry Cornwall, 1787–1874), poet - Sophie Amelia ProsserMrs. ProsserMrs. Prosser or Sophie Amelia Prosser, born Sophia Amelia Dibdin, , was a British author. She was known for her sentimental morality tales and fables.-Personal:...
, (1807-1882), children's writer - J. H. PrynneJ. H. PrynneJeremy Halvard Prynne is a British poet closely associated with the British Poetry Revival.Prynne's early influences include Charles Olson and Donald Davie. His first book, Force of Circumstance and Other Poems was published in 1962; Prynne has excluded it from his canon...
, (born 1936), poet - William PrynneWilliam PrynneWilliam Prynne was an English lawyer, author, polemicist, and political figure. He was a prominent Puritan opponent of the church policy of the Archbishop of Canterbury, William Laud. Although his views on church polity were presbyterian, he became known in the 1640s as an Erastian, arguing for...
, (1600–1699), religious pamphleteer and writer on history - John PudneyJohn PudneyJohn Sleigh Pudney was a British journalist and writer. He was known for short stories, poetry, non-fiction and children's fiction .-Education:...
, (1909–1977), writer and poet - Sheenagh PughSheenagh PughSheenagh Pugh is a British poet, novelist and translator who writes in the English language.-Life:Sheenagh Pugh studied languages at the University of Bristol. She now lives in Shetland but lived for many years in Cardiff and taught creative writing at the University of Glamorgan until retiring in...
, (born 1950), poet and novelist - Pullein-Thompson sistersPullein-Thompson sistersThe Pullein-Thompson sisters – Josephine Pullein-Thompson MBE , Diana Pullein-Thompson and Christine Pullein-Thompson – are British writers of many pony books, mostly fictional, aimed at children and mostly popular with girls...
, Josephine, (born 1924), Diana, (born 1925) and Christine, (1925–2005), children's writers - Charlotte Pullein-ThompsonCharlotte Pullein-ThompsonCharlotte Pullein-Thompson , also known as Charlotte Popescu, is an author of cookbooks and books related to horses and ponies. Although she married and became Charlotte Fyfe, she has not published under her married name....
, (pen name Charlotte Popescu, born 1957), writer on ponies and gardening - Philip PullmanPhilip PullmanPhilip Pullman CBE, FRSL is an English writer from Norwich. He is the best-selling author of several books, most notably his trilogy of fantasy novels, His Dark Materials, and his fictionalised biography of Jesus, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ...
, (born 1946), children's writer, His Dark MaterialsHis Dark MaterialsHis Dark Materials is a trilogy of fantasy novels by Philip Pullman comprising Northern Lights , The Subtle Knife , and The Amber Spyglass... - Samuel PurchasSamuel PurchasSamuel Purchas , was an English travel writer, a near-contemporary of Richard Hakluyt.Purchas was born at Thaxted, Essex, and graduated at St John's College, Cambridge, in 1600; later he became a B.D., and with this degree was admitted at Oxford in 1615. In 1604 he was presented by James I to the...
, (c. 1575–1626), travel writer - C. B. PurdomCharles PurdomCharles Benjamin Purdom, usually credited as C. B. Purdom , was a British author, drama critic, economist and editor of an English periodical called Everyman. Everyman covered books, drama, music and travel and featured articles by renowned authors such as Ivor Brown, Arthur Machen, G. K....
, (1883–1965), critic, author and biographer - Edward Bouverie PuseyEdward Bouverie PuseyEdward Bouverie Pusey was an English churchman and Regius Professor of Hebrew at Christ Church, Oxford. He was one of the leaders of the Oxford Movement.-Early years:...
, (1800–1882), theologian, scholar and cleric - George PuttenhamGeorge PuttenhamGeorge Puttenham was a sixteenth-century English writer, literary critic, and notorious rake. He is generally considered to be the author of the enormously influential handbook on poetry and rhetoric, The Arte of English Poesie ....
, (1529–1590), and Richard Puttenham (c. 1520-c. 1601), critics and courtiers - Henry James PyeHenry James PyeHenry James Pye was an English poet. Pye was Poet Laureate from 1790 until his death. He was the first poet laureate to receive a fixed salary of £27 instead of the historic tierce of Canary wine Henry James Pye (20 February 1745 – 11 August 1813) was an English poet. Pye was Poet Laureate...
(1745–1813), Poet LaureatePoet LaureateA poet laureate is a poet officially appointed by a government and is often expected to compose poems for state occasions and other government events...
and writer - Barbara PymBarbara PymBarbara Mary Crampton Pym was an English novelist. In 1977 her career was revived when two prominent writers, Lord David Cecil and Philip Larkin, nominated her as the most underrated writer of the century...
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- Bernard QuaritchBernard QuaritchBernard Quaritch, full name Bernard Alexander Christian Quaritch, was a German-born British bookseller and collector....
, (1819–1899), bookseller and bibliographer - Francis QuarlesFrancis QuarlesFrancis Quarles was an English poet most famous for his Emblem book aptly entitled Emblems.-Career:Francis was born in Romford, Essex, , and baptised there on 8 May 1592. He traced his ancestry to a family settled in England before the Norman Conquest with a long history in royal service...
, (1592–1644), poet - C. H. B. QuennellC. H. B. QuennellCharles Henry Bourne Quennell , was an English architect, designer, illustrator and writer.-Biography:Quennell was the son of a builder and grew up in a house at Cowley Road on the Holland Town Estate, Kennington, London. Bourne was his mother's maiden name...
, (1872–1935), writer and architect - Marjorie QuennellMarjorie QuennellMarjorie Quennell was a British historian, illustrator and museum curator.Her husband was architect Charles Henry Bourne Quennell . They met at the Junior Art Workers Guild...
, (1884–1972), historian - Peter QuennellPeter QuennellSir Peter Courtney Quennell CBE was an English biographer, literary historian, editor, essayist, poet, and critic....
, (1905–1993), biographer, poet and essayist - William Le QueuxWilliam Le QueuxWilliam Tufnell Le Queux was an Anglo-French journalist and writer. He was also a diplomat , a traveller , a flying buff who officiated at the first British air meeting at Doncaster in 1909, and a wireless pioneer who broadcast music from his own station long...
, (1864–1927), novelist and journalist - Arthur Quiller-CouchArthur Quiller-CouchSir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch was a Cornish writer, who published under the pen name of Q. He is primarily remembered for the monumental Oxford Book Of English Verse 1250–1900 , and for his literary criticism...
(pen name Q, 1863–1944), novelist and literary critic, Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250–1900 - Mabel Quiller-CouchMabel Quiller-CouchMabel Quiller-Couch was an English editor, compiler and children's writer.-Biography:Mabel Quiller-Couch was the daughter of Thomas Quiller Couch of Bodmin and his wife Mary and younger sister of the critic Arthur Quiller-Couch. She was one of five children of whom Arthur was the eldest son...
, (c. 1866-1924), children's writer and editor - Edward QuillinanEdward QuillinanEdward Quillinan was an English poet who was a son-in-law and defender of William Wordsworth and a translator of Portuguese poetry.-Early life:...
, (1791–1851), poet and translator - Ann QuinAnn quinAnn Quin was a British writer noted for her experimental style. The author of Berg , Three , Passages and Tripticks , she committed suicide in 1973 at the age of 37, the same year as B.S. Johnson...
, (1936–1973), experimental novelist - Anthony QuineyAnthony QuineyAnthony Prosper Quiney is an architectural historian, building archaeologist, writer and photographer who has lived in Blackheath for many years. Dr. Quiney is Professor Emeritus of Architectural History at the University of Greenwich, a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and a former...
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- Michael RabbetMichael RabbetMichael Rabbet was an English clergyman and translator of the Authorised King James Version of the Bible.-Life:...
, (c. 1562-1630), AV translator and cleric - Ann RadcliffeAnn RadcliffeAnne Radcliffe was an English author, and considered the pioneer of the gothic novel . Her style is romantic in its vivid descriptions of landscapes, and long travel scenes, yet the Gothic element is obvious through her use of the supernatural...
, (1764–1823), novelist, The Mysteries of UdolphoThe Mysteries of UdolphoThe Mysteries of Udolpho, by Ann Radcliffe, was published in four volumes on 8 May 1794 by G. G. and J. Robinson of London. The firm paid her £500 for the manuscript. The contract is housed at the University of Virginia Library. Her fourth and most popular novel, The Mysteries of Udolpho follows... - Jeremiah RadcliffeJeremiah RadcliffeJeremiah Radcliffe was an English priest, scholar and translator.Radcliffe was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He became a Fellow of Trinity in 1572. He served as Vicar of Evesham from 1588 and Rector of Orwell, Cambridgeshire from 1590. From 1597 to 1611 he was...
, (died 1612 or 1620?), scholar, AV translator and cleric - Dollie RadfordDollie RadfordCaroline Maitland was an English poet and writer. She married in 1883 Ernest Radford, and wrote as Dollie Radford. They had three children, one being Maitland Radford....
, (real name Caroline Maitland, 1858–1920), poet and writer - Simon RaeSimon RaeSimon Rae is a British poet, broadcaster, biographer and playwright who runs the Top Edge Productions theatre company. He won the Poetry Society's National Poetry Competition in 1999 and has also been awarded an Eric Gregory Award and a Southern Arts Literature Bursary and held Royal Literary Fund...
, (born c. 1960), poet and cricket writer - Elizabeth RaffaldElizabeth RaffaldElizabeth Raffald was an English businesswoman and writer, author of the "extremely successful" The Experienced English Housekeeper. Her book went through 13 authorised editions and at least 23 pirated ones. In 1773, she sold the copyright to her publisher for £1400, equivalent to more...
, (1833-1881), cookery writer - Bali RaiBali RaiBali Rai is an author of teenage novels. He was born in Leicester in 1971.He is hailed as a great author and visits many schools også sutter han pik...-For his book arranged marriage:*South Lanarkshire Book Award shortlist...
, (born 1971), young-adult novelist - Craig RaineCraig RaineCraig Raine is an English poet and critic born in Bishop Auckland, County Durham, England. Along with Christopher Reid, he is the best-known exponent of Martian poetry.-Life:...
, (born 1944) poet and critic - Kathleen RaineKathleen RaineKathleen Jessie Raine was a British poet, critic, and scholar writing in particular on William Blake, W. B. Yeats and Thomas Taylor. Known for her interest in various forms of spirituality, most prominently Platonism and Neoplatonism, she was a founder member of the Temenos Academy.-Life:Raine was...
, (1908–2003), poet and translator - Nina RaineNina RaineNina Raine is an English theatre director and playwright, and the only daughter of the poet Craig Raine.She graduated from Christ Church, Oxford in 1998 with a First in English Literature.-Career:...
, (born 1978?), playwright and director - John RainoldsJohn RainoldsJohn Rainolds , English divine, was born about Michaelmas 1549 at Pinhoe, near Exeter.He was educated at Merton and Corpus Christi Colleges, Oxford, becoming a fellow of the latter in 1568. In 1572-73 he was appointed reader in Greek, and his lectures on Aristotle's Rhetoric laid the sure basis of...
, (1549–1607), scholar, AV translator and cleric - Ross RaisinRoss RaisinRoss Raisin is a British novelist. He was born in Keighley in Yorkshire, and after attending Bradford Grammar School he studied English at King's College London, which was followed by a period as a trainee wine bar manager and a postgraduate degree in creative writing at Goldsmith's...
, (born 1979), novelist - Arthur RaistrickArthur RaistrickArthur Raistrick was born in a working class home in Saltaire, Yorkshire. He was a scholar in many related, and some unrelated, fields. He published some 330 articles, books, pamphlets and scholarly treatises.-Early life and work:...
, (1896-1991), polymath - Walter RaleighWalter RaleighSir Walter Raleigh was an English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy, and explorer. He is also well known for popularising tobacco in England....
or Ralegh, (1552–1618), poet, mariner and courtier - Walter RaleighWalter Raleigh (professor)Professor Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh was an English scholar, poet and author.He was born in London, the fifth child and only son of a local Congregationalist minister...
, (1861–1922), scholar and poet - Thomas RandolphThomas Randolph (poet)Thomas Randolph was an English poet and dramatist. He was baptized on 18 June 1605 and was the uncle of American colonist William Randolph.-Education:...
, (1605–1635), poet - William Brighty RandsWilliam Brighty RandsWilliam Brighty Rands was a British writer and one of the major authors of nursery rhymes of Victorian era.- Biography :...
, (pen names Henry Holbeach and Matthew Browne, 1823–1882), children's writer, hymn writer and journalist - Arthur RansomeArthur RansomeArthur Michell Ransome was an English author and journalist, best known for writing the Swallows and Amazons series of children's books. These tell of school-holiday adventures of children, mostly in the Lake District and the Norfolk Broads. Many of the books involve sailing; other common subjects...
, (1884–1967), author and journalist, Swallows and AmazonsSwallows and AmazonsSwallows and Amazons is the first book in the Swallows and Amazons series by Arthur Ransome; it was first published in 1930, with the action taking place in the summer of 1929 in the Lake District... - Hastings RashdallHastings RashdallHastings Rashdall was an English philosopher who expounded a theory known as ideal utilitarianism.Son of an Anglican priest, he was educated at Harrow and received a scholarship for New College, Oxford...
, (1858–1924), philosopher and cleric - John RastellJohn RastellJohn Rastell was an English printer and author.-Life:Born in London, he is vaguely reported by Anthony à Wood to have been "educated for a time in grammaticals and philosophicals" at Oxford. He became a member of Lincoln's Inn, and practised successfully as a barrister. He was also M.P...
or Rastall (c. 1475–1536), chronicler, playwright and printer - Julian RathboneJulian RathboneJulian Christopher Rathbone was an English novelist.- Life :Julian Rathbone attended Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he was a contemporary of Bamber Gascoigne and Sylvia Plath. At Cambridge he took tutorials with FR Leavis, for whom, without having ever been what might be described as a...
, (1935–2008), novelist - Simon RavenSimon RavenSimon Arthur Noël Raven was an English novelist, essayist, dramatist and raconteur who, in a writing career of forty years, caused controversy, amusement and offence...
, (1927–2001), novelist, screenwriter and playwright - Ralph RavensRalph RavensRalph Ravens was an English clergyman and academic. He was nominated in 1604 as one of the translators for the Authorised King James Version, in the Second Oxford Company, but his status is unclear. It is said that he was substituted, for reasons unknown, and did not actually take part in the...
, (c. 1553-1615), scholar, AV translator and cleric - Edward RavenscroftEdward RavenscroftEdward Ravenscroft , English dramatist, belonged to an ancient Flintshire family.He was entered at the Middle Temple, but devoted his attention mainly to literature. Among his pieces are...
, (c. 1654–1707), playwright - Thomas RavisThomas RavisThomas Ravis was a Church of England clergyman and academic.-Early life:He was born at Old Malden in Surrey, probably in 1560, and was educated at Westminster School...
, (c. 1560-1609), scholar, AV translator and bishop - George RawlinsonGeorge RawlinsonCanon George Rawlinson was a 19th century English scholar, historian, and Christian theologian. He was born at Chadlington, Oxfordshire, and was the younger brother of Sir Henry Rawlinson....
, (1812–1902), scholar, historian and cleric - Hardwicke RawnsleyHardwicke RawnsleyCanon Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley , was an English clergyman, poet, writer of hymns and conservationist, known as one of the co-founders of the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty...
, (1851–1920), poet and hymn writer - Tom RaworthTom RaworthTom Raworth is a London-born poet and visual artist who has published over forty books of poetry and prose since 1966. His works has been translated and published in many countries. Raworth is a key figure in the British Poetry Revival. He lives in Brighton, England.-Early life and work:Raworth...
, (born 1938), poet - John RayJohn RayJohn Ray was an English naturalist, sometimes referred to as the father of English natural history. Until 1670, he wrote his name as John Wray. From then on, he used 'Ray', after "having ascertained that such had been the practice of his family before him".He published important works on botany,...
, (1627–1705), naturalist and lexicographer - Derek RaymondDerek RaymondRobert William Arthur Cook , better known since the 1980s by his pen name Derek Raymond, was an English crime writer, credited with being the founder of English noir.-Early life:...
, (real name Robert William Arthur Cook, 1931–1994), novelist - Claire RaynerClaire RaynerClaire Berenice Rayner OBE was an English nurse, journalist, broadcaster and novelist, best known for her role for many years as an agony aunt.-Early life:...
, (1931-2010), novelist, agony aunt and broadcaster - Jay RaynerJay RaynerJay Rayner is a British journalist, writer, broadcaster, and food critic.Rayner is the younger son of journalist Claire Rayner and Desmond Rayner, and attended the independent Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School. He joined The Observer newspaper after graduating from Leeds University in 1988 where...
, (born 1966), novelist and food writer - JS RaynorJS RaynorJohn Stephen Raynor is a British novelist who resides in Sale, Cheshire, England. Registered blind for over 30 years and publishes as JS Raynor....
, (born 1944), novelist - Herbert ReadHerbert ReadSir Herbert Edward Read, DSO, MC was an English anarchist, poet, and critic of literature and art. He was one of the earliest English writers to take notice of existentialism, and was strongly influenced by proto-existentialist thinker Max Stirner....
, (1893–1968), poet and novelist - Piers Paul ReadPiers Paul ReadPiers Paul Read, FRSL is a British novelist and non-fiction writer.-Background:Read was born in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire...
, (born 1941), novelist and writer, Alive: The Story of the Andes SurvivorsAlive: The Story of the Andes SurvivorsAlive: The Story of the Andes Survivors is a 1974 book by the British writer Piers Paul Read documenting the events of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571.-Story:... - Charles ReadeCharles ReadeCharles Reade was an English novelist and dramatist, best known for The Cloister and the Hearth.-Life:Charles Reade was born at Ipsden, Oxfordshire to John Reade and Anne Marie Scott-Waring; William Winwood Reade the influential historian , was his nephew. He studied at Magdalen College, Oxford,...
, (1814–1884), historical novelist, The Cricket on the HearthThe Cricket on the HearthThe Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home is a novella by Charles Dickens, published by Bradbury and Evans, and released 20 December 1845 with illustrations by Daniel Maclise, John Leech, Richard Doyle, Clarkson Stanfield and Edwin Henry Landseer. Dickens began writing the book around... - John RedfordJohn RedfordJohn Redford was a major English composer and organist of the Tudor period.From about 1525 he was organist at St Paul's Cathedral and choirmaster there from 1534. Many of his works are represented in the Mulliner Book...
, (died 1547), poet, dramatist and composer - Peter RedgrovePeter RedgrovePeter William Redgrove was a prolific and widely respected British poet, who also wrote works with his second wife Penelope Shuttle on menstruation and women's health, novels and plays.-Life:...
, (1932–2003), poet, novelist and editor - Henry Reed, (1914–1986), poet and translator
- Jeremy ReedJeremy Reed (writer)Jeremy Reed is a Jersey-born writer, poet and prose stylist. Reed has published 50 major works in 25 years. He has written more than two dozen books of poetry, 12 novels, and volumes of literary and music criticism. He has also published translations of Montale, Cocteau, Nasrallah, Adonis, Bogary...
, (born 1951), poet, novelist and critic - Talbot Baines ReedTalbot Baines ReedTalbot Baines Reed was an English writer of boys' fiction who established a genre of school stories that endured into the second half of the 20th century. Among his best-known work is The Fifth Form at St. Dominic's. He was a regular and prolific contributor to The Boy's Own Paper , in which most...
, (1852–1893), children's novelist, The Fifth Form at St. Dominic's - Douglas ReemanDouglas ReemanDouglas Edward Reeman, born at Thames Ditton, is a British author who has written many historical fiction books on the Royal Navy, mainly set during either World War II or the Napoleonic Wars....
, (pen name Alexander Kent, born 1924), novelist - David ReesDavid Rees (author)David Bartlett Rees was a British author, lecturer and reviewer. Much of his work was written for children and young adults. His books included The Exeter Blitz, which won the Carnegie Medal for 1978.-Biography:...
, (1936–1993), children's writer, The Exeter BlitzThe Exeter BlitzThe Exeter Blitz is a children's historical novel by David Rees, first published in 1978. It won the Carnegie Medal for that year. The novel is about the heavy air raid on the city of Exeter in Devon in May 1942, and its effect on the life of one family, the Lockwoods.-Plot summary:The novel opens... - Clara ReeveClara ReeveClara Reeve was an English novelist, best known for her Gothic fiction work The Old English Baron .Reeve was born in Ipswich, England, one of the eight children of Reverend Willian Reeve, M.A., Rector of Freston and of Kreson in Suffolk, and perpetual curate of St Nicholas...
, (1729–1807), novelist, The Old English BaronThe Old English BaronThe Old English Baron is an early gothic novel by the English author Clara Reeve. It was first published under this title in 1778 although it had anonymously appeared in 1777 under its original name of The Champion of Virtue.... - John ReeveJohn ReeveJohn Reeve was an English plebeian prophet who believed the voice of God had instructed him to found a Third Commission in preparation for the last days of earth. This commission was third in succession to the Mosaic Law and the gospel of Christ Jesus.He and his followers came to be known as...
, (1608-1658), religious writer - Philip ReevePhilip ReevePhilip Reeve is a British author and illustrator. He presently lives on Dartmoor with his wife Sarah and their son Samuel.-Biography:...
, (born 1966), children's writer and illustrator, Here Lies ArthurHere Lies ArthurHere Lies Arthur is a young adult novel by Philip Reeve. It was first published in April 2007. The Arthur of the title is the King Arthur of legend... - James Reeves, (real name John Morris Reeves, 1909–1978), poet and children's writer
- Christopher ReidChristopher ReidChristopher Reid is a Hong Kong-born British poet, essayist, cartoonist, and writer. He has been nominated twice for the Whitbread Awards in 1996 and in 1997. A contemporary of Martin Amis, he was educated at Exeter College, Oxford. He is one of the exponents of Martian poetry which employs...
, (born 1949), poet and essayist - Jonathan RendallJonathan RendallJonathan Rendall is a Somerset Maugham Award winning writer. He previously acted as Managerial Advisor to the World Featherweight boxing champion, Colin "Sweet C" McMillan - and has written three multi-award winning books....
, (born 1964), novelist - Ruth RendellRuth RendellRuth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE, , who also writes under the pseudonym Barbara Vine, is an English crime writer, author of psychological thrillers and murder mysteries....
, (pen name also Barbara Vine, born 1930), novelist - John Reresby, (1634–1689), politician and diarist
- Frederic ReynoldsFrederick ReynoldsFrederic Reynolds was a British dramatist. During his literary career composed nearly one hundred tragedies and comedies, many of which were printed, and about twenty of them obtained temporary popularity...
, (1764–1841), playwright - George W. M. ReynoldsGeorge W. M. ReynoldsGeorge William MacArthur Reynolds was a British author and journalist.He was born in Sandwich, Kent, the son of Captain Sir George Reynolds, a flag officer in the Royal Navy. Reynolds was educated first at Dr. Nance's school in Ashford, Kent, and then passed on to the Royal Military College,...
, (1814–1879, novelist and journalist, The Mysteries of LondonThe Mysteries of LondonThe Mysteries of London is a penny dreadful or city mysteries novel begun by George W. M. Reynolds in 1844. Reynolds wrote the first two series of this long-running narrative of life in the seedy underbelly of mid-nineteenth-century London. Thomas Miller wrote the third series and Edward L... - Henry ReynoldsHenry Reynolds (poet)Henry Reynolds was a Suffolk man, schoolmaster, English poet and literary critic of the seventeenth century.He is known for two works, Aminta Englisht of 1628, a translation from Tasso, and Mythomystes, a 1632 critical work on poetry considered to be most influenced by the Neoplatonism of the...
, (1564–1632), poet, translator and critic - John Hamilton ReynoldsJohn Hamilton ReynoldsJohn Hamilton Reynolds was an English poet, satirist, critic, and playwright. He was a close friend and correspondent of poet John Keats whose letters to Reynolds constitute a significant body of Keats' poetic thought...
, (1794–1852), poet - Dan Rhodes, (born 1972), novelist and story writer
- William Barnes RhodesWilliam Barnes RhodesWilliam Barnes Rhodes was an English author, best known for his burlesque opera, Bombastes Furioso.Rhodes was born in Leeds on Christmas Day 1772, the second son of Richard Rhodes and his wife, Mercy. He worked as a writer in an attorney's office, before gaining a position as a clerk in the Bank...
, (1772–1826), playwright, Bombastes FuriosoBombastes FuriosoBombastes Furioso, subtitled A Burlesque Tragic Opera, was written in 1810 by William Barnes Rhodes . The first authorized printed edition was published in 1822... - Ernest RhysErnest RhysErnest Percival Rhys was an English writer, best known for his role as founding editor of the Everyman's Library series of affordable classics. He wrote essays, stories, poetry, novels and plays...
, (1859–1946), writer, poet and editor - David RicardoDavid RicardoDavid Ricardo was an English political economist, often credited with systematising economics, and was one of the most influential of the classical economists, along with Thomas Malthus, Adam Smith, and John Stuart Mill. He was also a member of Parliament, businessman, financier and speculator,...
, (1772–1823), political economist - Ben RiceBen RiceBen Rice , is a prize-winning British author.Rice was born in Tiverton, Devon, educated at Blundell's School and read English literature at Newcastle University and then Wadham College, Oxford, before studying Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.His novel Pobby and Dingan was awarded...
, (born 1972), novelist - James Rice (1843–1882), novelist
- Barnabe RichBarnabe RichBarnabe Rich , was an English author and soldier, and a distant relative of Lord Chancellor Rich....
, (c. 1540-1617), writer and soldier - Alfred Bate RichardsAlfred Bate RichardsAlfred Bate Richards was an English journalist and author. He turned from law to literature and was the author of a number of popular dramas, volumes of poems, essays, etc. He was the first editor of the Daily Telegraph, and...
, (1820-1876), playwright, poet and essayist - I. A. RichardsI. A. RichardsIvor Armstrong Richards was an influential English literary critic and rhetorician....
, (1893–1979), literary critic, The Meaning of MeaningThe Meaning of MeaningAlthough the original text was published in 1923 it has been used as a textbook in many fields including linguistics, philosophy, language, cognitive science and most recently semantics. The book has been in print continuously since 1923. The most recent edition is the critical edition prepared...
(with C. K. Ogden) - Dorothy RichardsonDorothy RichardsonDorothy Miller Richardson was a British author and journalist.-Biography:Richardson was born in Abingdon in 1873. Her family moved to Worthing, West Sussex in 1880 and then Putney, London in 1883...
, (1873–1957), novelist and translator - John RichardsonJohn Richardson (translator)Doctor John Richardson was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1615 until his death.John Richardson matriculated as a sizar from Clare College, Cambridge in 1578...
, (died 1625), scholar, AV translator and cleric - John RichardsonJohn Richardson (Quaker)John Richardson was an English Quaker minister and autobiographer.-Early life:John Richardson was born in 1667, probably in the village of North Cave, East Riding of Yorkshire, where his father, William Richardson , a shepherd, had been converted to Quakerism by William Dewsberry or Dewsbury in...
, (1657–1753), Quaker minister and autobiographer - Samuel RichardsonSamuel RichardsonSamuel Richardson was an 18th-century English writer and printer. He is best known for his three epistolary novels: Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded , Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady and The History of Sir Charles Grandison...
, (1689–1761), novelist, PamelaPamelaPamela, or Virtue Rewarded is an epistolary novel by Samuel Richardson, first published in 1740. It tells the story of a beautiful but poor 15-year old servant-maid named Pamela Andrews whose master, Mr. B, a nobleman, makes unwanted advances towards her after the death of his mother whose maid she... - Christopher RicksChristopher RicksSir Christopher Bruce Ricks, FBA is a British literary critic and scholar. He is the William M. and Sara B. Warren Professor of the Humanities at Boston University and Co-Director of the Editorial Institute at Boston University, and was Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford from 2004...
, (born 1933), critic and anthologist, - Edgell RickwordEdgell RickwordJohn Edgell Rickword, MC was an English poet, critic, journalist and literary editor. He became one of the leading communist intellectuals active in the 1930s.-Early life:He was born in Colchester, Essex...
, (1898–1982), poet, critic and editor - Anne RidlerAnne RidlerAnne Barbara Ridler OBE was a British poet, and Faber and Faber editor, selecting the Faber A Little Book of Modern Verse with T. S. Eliot . Her Collected Poems were published in 1994...
, (1912–2001), poet and editor - Nicholas RidleyNicholas Ridley (martyr)Nicholas Ridley was an English Bishop of London. Ridley was burned at the stake, as one of the Oxford Martyrs, during the Marian Persecutions, for his teachings and his support of Lady Jane Grey...
, (1500–1555), theologian, bishop and martyr - D. C. H. RieuD. C. H. RieuDominic Christopher Henry Rieu was a classical scholar and son of the famous E. V. Rieu. After attending Highgate School, he studied English and Classics at Queen's College, Oxford. As part of the West Yorkshire Regiment in 1941, he was injured at Cheren and subsequently awarded the Military Cross...
, (1916–2008), scholar and translator - E. V. RieuE. V. RieuEmile Victor Rieu CBE was a classicist, publisher and poet, best known for his lucid translations of Homer, as editor of Penguin Classics, and for a modern translation of the four Gospels which evolved from his role as editor of a projected Penguin translation of the Bible...
, (1887–1972), scholar, translator and poet - Denise RileyDenise RileyDenise Riley is an English poet and philosopher who began to be published in the 1970s. Her poetry is remarkable for its paradoxical interrogation of selfhood within the lyric mode. Her critical writings on motherhood, women in history, identity, and philosophy of language, are recognised as an...
, (born 1948), poet and scholar - Gwendoline RileyGwendoline RileyGwendoline Riley is an English writer, born in 1979. Born in London, she attended Manchester Metropolitan University.Her first book, Cold Water, was named one of the five outstanding debut novels of 2002 by The Guardian 'Weekend' magazine and also won a Betty Trask Award. Sick Notes followed in...
, (born 1979), novelist - Peter RileyPeter RileyPeter Riley is a contemporary English poet, essayist, and editor. Riley is known as a Cambridge poet, part of the group vaguely associated with J. H. Prynne which today is acknowledged as an important epicenter of innovative poetry in the United Kingdom. Riley was an editor and major contributor...
, (born 1940), poet and essayist - Stella RimingtonStella RimingtonDame Stella Rimington, DCB is a British author, who was the Director General of MI5 from 1992 to 1996. She was the first female DG of MI5, and the first DG whose name was publicised on appointment...
, (born 1935), novelist and intelligence officer - James RiordanJames RiordanJames Riordan is a retired English novelist, broadcaster, association football player and Russian scholar.Well known for his work Sport in Soviet Society, the first academic look at sport in the Soviet Union, and for his children's novels.He claims to have been the first Briton to play football in...
, (born 1936), children's writer and football player - Anne Isabella Thackeray RitchieAnne Isabella Thackeray RitchieAnne Isabella, Lady Ritchie, née Thackeray was an English writer. She was the eldest daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray.- Life :...
, (1837–1919), novelist and essayist - Joseph RitsonJoseph RitsonJoseph Ritson was an English antiquary.He was born at Stockton-on-Tees, of a Westmorland yeoman family. He was educated for the law, and settled in London as a conveyancer at the age of twenty-two. He devoted his spare time to literature, and in 1782 published an attack on Thomas Warton's History...
, (born Richardson, 1752–1803), antiquary, editor and spelling reformer - David RobertsDavid Roberts (novelist)David Roberts is an English editor and novelist.Roberts worked for several years as a book editor at Chatto and Windus, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, and Michael O'Mara Books...
, (born ?), novelist and editor - Katherine RobertsKatherine RobertsKatherine Roberts is an English author, best known for her fantasy trilogy The Echorium Sequence. She was born in Torquay, England and spent most of her childhood in Devon and Cornwall, England...
, (born 1962), children's writer - Keith RobertsKeith RobertsKeith John Kingston Roberts , was an English science fiction author. He began publishing with two stories in the September 1964 issue of Science Fantasy magazine, "Anita" and "Escapism.Several of his early stories were written using the pseudonym...
, (1935–2000), novelist and story writer - Lynette RobertsLynette RobertsLynette Roberts was a Welsh poet, born Evelyn Beatrice Roberts in Buenos Aires to parents of Welsh extraction.-Life:...
, (born Evelyn Beatrice Roberts, 1909–1995), poet - Michael RobertsMichael Roberts (writer)Michael Roberts , originally named William Edward Roberts, was an English poet, writer, critic and broadcaster, who made his living as a teacher.-Life:...
, (1902–1948), poet and critic - Michael Symmons RobertsMichael Symmons RobertsMichael Symmons Roberts is a British poet. He has published five collections of poetry, all with Cape , and has won the Whitbread Poetry Award, as well as major prizes from the Arts Council and Society of Authors. He has been shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize twice, the Griffin International...
, (born 1963), poet and librettist - Michèle RobertsMichèle RobertsMichèle Brigitte Roberts is a British writer, novelist and poet. Roberts was the daughter of a French Catholic teacher mother and English Protestant father ; she has dual UK-France nationality.-Early life:She was raised in Edgware, Middlesex and educated at a convent, expecting to become a nun,...
, (born 1949), novelist and poet - Morley RobertsMorley RobertsMorley Roberts was an English novelist and short story writer, best known for The Private Life of Henry Maitland.-Early life:Roberts was born in London, the son of a superintending inspector of income tax...
, (1857–1942), novelist - Thomas William RobertsonThomas William RobertsonThomas William Robertson , usually known professionally as T. W. Robertson, was an Anglo-Irish dramatist and innovative stage director best known for a series of realistic or naturalistic plays produced in London in the 1860s that broke new ground and inspired playwrights such as W.S...
, (1829–1871), playwright - Denise RobinsDenise RobinsDenise Robins, née Denise Naomi Klein was a prolific British romantic novelist and the first President of the Romantic Novelists' Association...
, (several pen names, 1897–1985), novelist - Patricia RobinsPatricia RobinsPatricia Robins is a British romance novelist, also known as Claire Lorrimer.Robins comes from an artistic family. Her maternal grandfather was Herman Klein, a musician and her maternal grandmother was the writer Kathleen Clarice Groom...
, (pen name also Claire Lorrimer, born 1921), novelist - Austin RobinsonAustin RobinsonProfessor E. Austin G. Robinson was a University of Cambridge economist. He was a fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge....
, (1897–1993), economist - Derek Robinson, (born 1932), novelist
- Henry Crabb RobinsonHenry Crabb RobinsonHenry Crabb Robinson , diarist, was born in Bury St. Edmunds, England.He was articled to an attorney in Colchester. Between 1800 and 1805 he studied at various places in Germany, and became acquainted with nearly all the great men of letters there, including Goethe, Schiller, Johann Gottfried...
, (1775–1867), diarist and journalist - Hilary RobinsonHilary Robinson (author)Hilary Robinson is a children’s author, book reviewer, award winning radio producer and feature writer. She is a Patron of The Children's University. - Background :...
, (born 1962), children's writer - Joan RobinsonJoan RobinsonJoan Violet Robinson FBA was a post-Keynesian economist who was well known for her knowledge of monetary economics and wide-ranging contributions to economic theory...
, (1903–1983), economist - Mary RobinsonMary RobinsonMary Therese Winifred Robinson served as the seventh, and first female, President of Ireland from 1990 to 1997, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, from 1997 to 2002. She first rose to prominence as an academic, barrister, campaigner and member of the Irish Senate...
, (1757–1800), poet and novelist - Nigel RobinsonNigel RobinsonNigel Robinson is an English author, known for such works as the First Contact series.Nigel was born in Preston, Lancashire and attended St Thomas More school....
, (fl. 1980s), writer and editor, Dr. Who tie-ins - Peter RobinsonPeter Robinson (poet)Peter Robinson is a British poet born in Salford, Lancashire.-Life and career:...
, (born 1953), poet and translator - Rony RobinsonRony RobinsonRony Robinson is a writer, educationalist and iconic, Sony Award-winning BBC Radio Sheffield daytime presenter. His novels include: The Ted Carp Tradition , The Beano...
, (born 1940), novelist, playwright and broadcaster - Paul RochePaul RocheDonald Robert Paul Roche was a British poet, novelist, and professor of English, a critically acclaimed translator of Greek and Latin classics, notably the works of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Sappho, and Plautus...
, (1916–2007), poet, novelist and critic - Rennell RoddRennell Rodd, 1st Baron RennellJames Rennell Rodd, 1st Baron Rennell, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, PC , known as Sir Rennell Rodd before 1933, was a British diplomat, poet and politician...
, (1858–1941), poet and politician - John RodkerJohn RodkerJohn Rodker was a British writer, modernist poet, and publisher of some of the major modernist figures. He was born in Manchester into a Jewish immigrant family, who moved to London while he was still young.-Career:...
, (1894–1955), writer and poet - Jane RogersJane RogersJane Rogers is a British novelist, editor, scriptwriter, lecturer, and teacher. She is best known for her novels Mr. Wroe's Virgins and The Voyage Home...
, (born 1952), novelist - Samuel RogersSamuel RogersSamuel Rogers was an English poet, during his lifetime one of the most celebrated, although his fame has long since been eclipsed by his Romantic colleagues and friends Wordsworth, Coleridge and Byron...
, (1763–1855), poet - Thorold Rogers, (1823–1890), political economist and radical
- Woodes RogersWoodes RogersWoodes Rogers was an English sea captain, privateer, and, later, the first Royal Governor of the Bahamas. He is known as the captain of the vessel that rescued the marooned Alexander Selkirk, whose plight is generally believed to have inspired Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.Rogers came from an...
, (d. 1732), mariner and travel writer - Sax RohmerSax RohmerArthur Henry Sarsfield Ward , better known as Sax Rohmer, was a prolific English novelist. He is best remembered for his series of novels featuring the master criminal Dr...
, (real name A. H. S. Ward, 1883–1959), novelist, Fu ManchuFu ManchuDr. Fu Manchu is a fictional character introduced in a series of novels by British author Sax Rohmer during the first half of the 20th century... - Frederick RolfeFrederick RolfeFrederick William Rolfe, better known as Baron Corvo, and also calling himself 'Frederick William Serafino Austin Lewis Mary Rolfe', , was an English writer, artist, photographer and eccentric...
, (1860–1913), novelist, artist and photographer, Hadrian the SeventhHadrian the SeventhHadrian the Seventh is a 1904 novel by the English novelist Frederick Rolfe, who wrote under the pseudonym "Baron Corvo".... - Richard RolleRichard RolleRolle is honored in the Church of England on January 20 and in the Episcopal Church together with Walter Hilton and Margery Kempe on September 28.-Works in print:*English Prose Treatises of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Edited by George Perry...
, (1290–1349), religious writer, Bible translator and hermit - L. T. C. RoltL. T. C. RoltLionel Thomas Caswall Rolt was a prolific English writer and the biographer of major civil engineering figures including Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Thomas Telford...
, (1910–1974), transport writer and biographer - William RoscoeWilliam RoscoeWilliam Roscoe , was an English historian and miscellaneous writer.-Life:He was born in Liverpool, where his father, a market gardener, kept a public house called the Bowling Green at Mount Pleasant. Roscoe left school at the age of twelve, having learned all that his schoolmaster could teach...
, (1753–1831), scholar and poet - Michael RosenMichael RosenMichael Wayne Rosen is a broadcaster, children's novelist and poet and the author of 140 books. He was appointed as the fifth Children's Laureate in June 2007, succeeding Jacqueline Wilson, and held this honour until 2009....
, (born 1946), children's writer and poet - Isaac RosenbergIsaac RosenbergIsaac Rosenberg was an English poet of the First World War who was considered to be one of the greatest of all English war poets...
, (1890–1918), poet and playwright - Alan RossAlan RossAlan John Ross, , was a British poet, writer and editor. He was born in Calcutta, India, where he spent the first seven years of his life...
, (1922–2001), poet, writer and editor - Christina RossettiChristina RossettiChristina Georgina Rossetti was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems...
, (1830–1894), poet, In the Bleak MidwinterIn the Bleak Midwinter"In the Bleak Midwinter" is a Christmas carol based on a poem by the English poet Christina Rossetti written before 1872 in response to a request from the magazine Scribner's Monthly for a Christmas poem.... - Dante Gabriel RossettiDante Gabriel RossettiDante Gabriel Rossetti was an English poet, illustrator, painter and translator. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais, and was later to be the main inspiration for a second generation of artists and writers influenced by the movement,...
, (1828–1882), poet and Pre-RaphaelitePre-Raphaelite BrotherhoodThe Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was a group of English painters, poets, and critics, founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti...
painter - Maria Francesca RossettiMaria Francesca RossettiMaria Francesca Rossetti was an English author. She was the sister of artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti as well as William Michael Rossetti and Christina Georgina Rossetti, who dedicated her poem Goblin Market to Maria...
, (1827–1876), writer and translator - William Michael RossettiWilliam Michael RossettiWilliam Michael Rossetti was an English writer and critic.-Biography:Born in London, he was a son of immigrant Italian scholar Gabriele Rossetti, and the brother of Maria Francesca Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Christina Georgina Rossetti.He was one of the seven founder members of the...
, (1829–1919), writer and critic - John Horace RoundJohn Horace RoundHorace Round was a historian and genealogist of the English medieval period. He translated the Domesday Book for Essex into contemporary English. As an expert in the history of the British peerage he was appointed Honorary Historical Adviser to the Crown.-Family and early life:Round was born on 22...
, (1854–1928), historian and genealogist - Martin Routh, (1755–1854), Classical scholar
- Alick RoweAlick RoweAlick Rowe was a British writer born in 1939. He died on 30 October 2009 in Chiang Mai, Thailand of a suspected heart attack.He was head boy at Hereford Cathedral School before graduating from St. Catharine's College, Cambridge. From the early 1970s onwards he wrote prolifically for radio and...
, (1939–2009), writer for radio and TV, novelist - Elizabeth RoweElizabeth Rowe-Life:She was the eldest daughter of Elizabeth Portnell and Walter Singer, a dissenting minister. Born in Ilchester, Somerset, England, she began writing at the age of twelve and when she was nineteen, began a correspondence with John Dunton, bookseller and founder of the Athenian Society.Between...
, (1674–1737), poet and novelist - Nicholas Rowe, (1674–1718), Poet LaureatePoet LaureateA poet laureate is a poet officially appointed by a government and is often expected to compose poems for state occasions and other government events...
- Richard RowlandsRichard RowlandsRichard Rowlands , Anglo-Dutch antiquary, whose real name was Verstegen , was the son of a cooper established in East London. His grandfather, Theodore Roland Verstegen, a Dutch emigrant, came from Gelderland to the Kingdom of England c...
(c. 1550–1640), historian and antiquary - Samuel RowlandsSamuel RowlandsSamuel Rowlands , English author of pamphlets in prose and verse, which reflect the follies and humours of the lower middle-class life of his time, seems to have had no contemporary literary reputation; but his work throws considerable light on the development of popular literature and social life...
, (c. 1573–1630), poet and pamphleteer - Samuel RowleySamuel RowleySamuel Rowley was a 17th century English dramatist and actor.Rowley first appears in the historical record as an associate of Philip Henslowe in the late 1590s. Initially he appears to have been an actor, perhaps a sharer, in the Admiral's Men, who performed at the Rose Theatre...
, (died c. 1633), playwright and actor - William RowleyWilliam RowleyWilliam Rowley was an English Jacobean dramatist, best known for works written in collaboration with more successful writers. His date of birth is estimated to have been c. 1585; he was buried on 11 February 1626...
, (c. 1585–1626), playwright and actor - J. K. RowlingJ. K. RowlingJoanne "Jo" Rowling, OBE , better known as J. K. Rowling, is the British author of the Harry Potter fantasy series...
, (born 1965), children's writer, Harry PotterHarry PotterHarry Potter is a series of seven fantasy novels written by the British author J. K. Rowling. The books chronicle the adventures of the adolescent wizard Harry Potter and his best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, all of whom are students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry...
books - Lucinda RoyLucinda RoyLucinda Roy is an American-based British novelist, educator and poet.She was born in Battersea, South London, England, to Namba Roy, a Jamaican writer and artist, and Yvonne Roy, an English actor and teacher. She grew up in England and received her B.A. in English from King's College London before...
, (born 1955), novelist and poet - Carol RumensCarol RumensCarol Rumens FRSL is a British poet.-Life:Carol Rumens was born in Forest Hill, South London. She won a scholarship to grammar school and later studied Philosophy at London University, but left before completing her degree...
, (born 1944), poet and scholar - Peter RushforthPeter RushforthPeter Scott Rushforth was an English teacher and novelist. He published only two novels in his lifetime; although they were separated by a quarter of a century, both were released to considerable critical acclaim...
, (1945–2005), novelist, KindergartenKindergartenA kindergarten is a preschool educational institution for children. The term was created by Friedrich Fröbel for the play and activity institute that he created in 1837 in Bad Blankenburg as a social experience for children for their transition from home to school... - John RuskinJohn RuskinJohn Ruskin was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, also an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects ranging from geology to architecture, myth to ornithology, literature to education, and botany to political...
, (1819–1900), essayist, poet and art critic - Bertrand RussellBertrand RussellBertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic. At various points in his life he considered himself a liberal, a socialist, and a pacifist, but he also admitted that he had never been any of these things...
, (1872–1970), philosopher - Lord John RussellJohn Russell, 1st Earl RussellJohn Russell, 1st Earl Russell, KG, GCMG, PC , known as Lord John Russell before 1861, was an English Whig and Liberal politician who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century....
, (1792–1878), prime minister and biographer - William Clark RussellWilliam Clark RussellWilliam Clark Russell was a popular American writer of nautical novels and horror stories.Born in New York City, he gained his experience of sea life during eight years' service as a sailor...
, (1844–1911), novelist, The Wreck of the GrosvenorThe Wreck of the GrosvenorThe Wreck of the Grosvenor is a nautical novel by William Clark Russell first published in 3 volumes by Sampson Low. According to John Sutherland, it was "the most popular mid-Victorian melodrama of adventure and heroism at sea." It remained popular and widely read in illustrated editions well... - William Howard RussellWilliam Howard RussellWilliam Howard Russell was an Irish reporter with The Times, and is considered to have been one of the first modern war correspondents, after he spent 22 months covering the Crimean War including the Charge of the Light Brigade.-Career:As a young reporter, Russell reported on a brief military...
, (1820–1907), travel writer and war correspondent - Chris RyanChris RyanSergeant ‘Chris Ryan’ MM is the pseudonym of a former British Special Forces operative and soldier turned novelist...
, (born 1961), novelist and ex-soldier - Gilbert RyleGilbert RyleGilbert Ryle , was a British philosopher, a representative of the generation of British ordinary language philosophers that shared Wittgenstein's approach to philosophical problems, and is principally known for his critique of Cartesian dualism, for which he coined the phrase "the ghost in the...
, (1900–1976), philosopher - Thomas RymerThomas RymerThomas Rymer , English historiographer royal, was the younger son of Ralph Rymer, lord of the manor of Brafferton in Yorkshire, described by Clarendon as possessed of a good estate, who was executed for his share in the Presbyterian rising of 1663.-Early life and education:Thomas Rymer was born at...
, (c. 1643-1713), Historiographer Royal and poet
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- Oliver SacksOliver SacksOliver Wolf Sacks, CBE , is a British neurologist and psychologist residing in New York City. He is a professor of neurology and psychiatry at Columbia University, where he also holds the position of Columbia Artist...
, (born 1933), neurologist and writer, AwakeningsAwakeningsAwakenings is a 1990 American drama film based on Oliver Sacks's 1973 memoir Awakenings. It tells the true story of British neurologist Oliver Sacks, fictionalized as American Malcolm Sayer and portrayed by Robin Williams who, in 1969, discovers beneficial effects of the then-new drug L-Dopa... - Charles Sackville, Earl of DorsetCharles Sackville, 6th Earl of DorsetCharles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset and 1st Earl of Middlesex was an English poet and courtier.-Early Life:He was son of Richard Sackville, 5th Earl of Dorset...
, (1638–1706), poet and rake - Lady Margaret SackvilleLady Margaret SackvilleLady Margaret Sackville was an English poet and children’s author.-Life:Born at 60 Grosvenor Street, Mayfair, Lady Margaret was the youngest child of Reginald Windsor Sackville, 7th Earl De La Warr, who died when she was fourteen...
, (1881–1963), poet and children's writer - Thomas Sackville, Earl of DorsetThomas Sackville, 1st Earl of DorsetThomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset was an English statesman, poet, dramatist and Freemason. He was the son of Richard Sackville, a cousin to Anne Boleyn. He was a Member of Parliament and Lord High Treasurer.-Biography:...
, (1536–1608), poet and statesman - Vita Sackville-WestVita Sackville-WestThe Hon Victoria Mary Sackville-West, Lady Nicolson, CH , best known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author, poet and gardener. She won the Hawthornden Prize in 1927 and 1933...
, (1892–1962), poet and novelist - George SaintsburyGeorge SaintsburyGeorge Edward Bateman Saintsbury , was an English writer, literary historian, scholar and critic.-Biography:...
, (1845–1933), critic - SakiSakiHector Hugh Munro , better known by the pen name Saki, and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirised Edwardian society and culture. He is considered a master of the short story and often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy...
(real name Hector Hugh Munro), (1870–1916), short story writer and satirist - Ignatius SanchoIgnatius SanchoIgnatius Sancho was a composer, actor, and writer. He is the first known Black Briton to vote in a British election. He gained fame in his time as "the extraordinary Negro", and to 18th century British abolitionists he became a symbol of the humanity of Africans and immorality of the slave trade...
, (c. 1729-1780), writer and domestic servant - Nicholas SandersNicholas SandersNicholas Sanders was an English Roman Catholic priest and polemicist.-Early life:Sanders was born at Chariwood , Surrey, the son of William Sanders, once sheriff of Surrey, who was descended from the Sanders of Sanderstead...
, (c. 1530-1581), polemicist and RC priest - Robert SandersonRobert SandersonRobert Sanderson was an English theologian and casuist.He was born in Sheffield in Yorkshire and grew up at Gilthwaite Hall, near Rotherham. He was educated at Lincoln College, Oxford. Entering the Church, he rose to be Bishop of Lincoln.His work on logic, Logicae Artis Compendium , was long a...
, (1587–1663), theologian and logician - George SandysGeorge SandysGeorge Sandys was an English traveller, colonist and poet.-Life:He was born in Bishopsthorpe, the seventh and youngest son of Edwin Sandys, archbishop of York. He studied at St Mary Hall, Oxford, but took no degree...
, (1577–1644), poet and traveler - Peter SangerPeter SangerPeter Sanger is a Canadian poet and prose writer. Sanger, who is also described as a critic and an editor, was born in Bewdley, Worcestershire, England, and immigrated to Canada in 1953. He was educated at the University of Melbourne, University of Victoria, and Acadia University...
, (born 1943), poet and scholar - C. J. SansomC. J. SansomChristopher John "C.J." Sansom is a British writer of crime novels. He was born in 1952 in Edinburgh, Scotland, and was educated at the University of Birmingham, where he took a BA and then a PhD in history. After working in a variety of jobs, he decided to retrain as a solicitor...
, (born 1952), novelist - Clive SansomClive Sansom-Life and work:Sansom was born on 21 June 1910 in East Finchley, London and educated at Southgate County School, where he matriculated in 1926. He worked as a clerk until 1934, and then studied speech and drama at the Regent Street Polytechnic and the London Speech Institute under Margaret Gullan...
, (1910-1981), poet, playwright and writer on education - William SansomWilliam SansomWilliam Sansom FRSL was a British novelist, travel and short story writer known for his highly descriptive prose-style...
, (1912–1976), novelist and travel writer - Siegfried SassoonSiegfried SassoonSiegfried Loraine Sassoon CBE MC was an English poet, author and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches, and satirised the patriotic pretensions of those who, in Sassoon's...
, (1886–1967), poet and novelist, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting ManMemoirs of a Fox-Hunting ManMemoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man is a novel by Siegfried Sassoon, first published in 1928 by Faber and Faber. It won both the Hawthornden Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, being immediately recognised as a classic of English literature... - Hilary Saint George SaundersHilary Saint George SaundersHilary Aidan Saint George Saunders was a British author. Saunders was born in Clifton, near Bristol. During World War I he served with the Welsh Guards....
, (pen names Francis Beeding, etc., 1898–1951), novelist - Richard SavageRichard SavageRichard Savage was an English poet. He is best known as the subject of Samuel Johnson's Life of Savage , on which is based one of the most elaborate of Johnson's Lives of the English Poets....
, (c. 1697–1743), poet and satirist - Henry Savile, (1549–1622), scholar and AV translator
- Dorothy L. SayersDorothy L. SayersDorothy Leigh Sayers was a renowned English crime writer, poet, playwright, essayist, translator and Christian humanist. She was also a student of classical and modern languages...
, (1893–1957), author, Lord Peter WimseyLord Peter WimseyLord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey is a bon vivant amateur sleuth in a series of detective novels and short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers, in which he solves mysteries; usually, but not always, murders...
series - Francis ScarfeFrancis ScarfeFrancis Scarfe was an English poet, critic and novelist, who became an academic, translator and Director of the British Institute in Paris....
, (1911–1986), poet and novelist - Vernon ScannellVernon ScannellVernon Scannell was a British poet and author. He was at one time a professional boxer, and wrote novels about the sport.-Personal life:Vernon Scannell was born in 1922 in Spilsby, Lincolnshire...
, (1922–2007), poet - Ann SchleeAnn Schlee- Childhood and education :As a children, she was brought up in the USA by her mother and grandparents until the end of the Second World War. After WWII, she lived in Cairo, Egypt, with her parents. They later moved to Sudan and Eritrea...
, (born 1934), novelist - Catherine Amy Dawson ScottCatherine Amy Dawson ScottCatherine Amy Dawson Scott was an English writer, playwright and poet. She is best known as a co-founder of International PEN, a worldwide association of writers.-Works:*Charades for Home Acting....
, (1865–1934), poet, playwright and novelist - Geoffrey Scott, (1884–1929), writer and poet
- Hugh Stowell ScottHugh Stowell ScottHugh Stowell Scott was an English novelist .-Life:Born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, he became an underwriter at Lloyd's of London, but then devoted himself to travel and to writing novels, many of which had great popularity...
, (pen name Henry Seton Merriman, c. 1863–1903), novelist - Jane ScottJane Scott (theatre manager)Jane M. Scott was a British theatre manager, performer, and playwright.With her father, John Scott , Jane developed the Sans Pareil Theatre , where they offered music and light shows...
, (1779–1839), playwright and theatre manager - John ScottJohn Scott (editor)John Scott , editor and publisher. He edited several liberal newspapers: the Statesman, which Leigh Hunt had recently founded; the Stamford News, published by John Drakard; Drakard's Paper , which he renamed The Champion; and the most notable, the London Magazine, which he revived, as a monthly,...
, (1783–1821), editor and writer - John Scott of AmwellJohn Scott of AmwellJohn Scott , known as Scott of Amwell, was a poet and writer on the alleviation of poverty.He was a wealthy Quaker who lived at Amwell near Ware in Hertfordshire, England...
, (1731–1783), poet and patron - John A. ScottJohn A. ScottJohn Alan Scott is an English-Australian poet, novelist and academic....
, (born 1948), poet and novelist - Mary ScottMary Scott (poet)Mary Scott , poet, was born in Somerset, England.Scott's father was a linen draper. Not much else is known about her life before the publication of The Female Advocate, dedicated to her friend Anne Steele, in 1774...
, (1751/2-1793), poet - Paul Mark Scott, (1920–1978), novelist, playwright and poet, The Jewel in the CrownThe Jewel in the Crown (novel)The Jewel in the Crown is the 1966 novel by Paul Scott that starts his Raj Quartet.-Plot introduction:Much of the novel is written in the form of interviews and reports of conversations and research from the point of view of a narrator. Other portions are in the form of letters from one character...
- Sarah ScottSarah ScottSarah Scott was an English novelist, translator, and social reformer. Her father, Matthew Robinson, and her mother, Elizabeth Robinson, were both from distinguished families, and Sarah was one of nine children who survived to adulthood...
, (1720–1795), novelist and translator, Millenium HallMillenium HallA Description of Millenium Hall and the Country Adjacent is a 1762 novel by Sarah Scott. was Scott's most significant novel. It was popular enough to go to four editions by 1778, and interest in it has revived in the 21st century among feminist literary scholars...
(sic) - William Bell ScottWilliam Bell ScottWilliam Bell Scott was a Scottish poet and artist.-Life:The son of Robert Scott , the engraver, and brother of David Scott, the painter, he was born in Edinburgh. While a young man he studied art and assisted his father, and he published verses in the Scottish magazines...
, (1811–1890), poet and artist - Will ScottWilliam Matthew ScottWilliam Matthew Scott , pen name Will Scott, was a British author of stories and books for adults and children, published from 1920 to 1965. Towards the end of his life he was best known for The Cherrys series, written for children and published between 1952 and 1965...
, (1893−1964), short story writer, crime writer, playwright, children's fiction writer - E. J. ScovellE. J. ScovellEdith Joy Scovell was an English poet. She was born in Sheffield, and studied in Westmorland and at Somerville College, Oxford. She married the ecologist Charles Sutherland Elton in 1937. She also translated work of Giovanni Pascoli...
, (1907–1999), poet - James ScudamoreJames Scudamore (author)James Scudamore is an author. He grew up in Japan, Brazil and the UK, and is a graduate of Christ Church, Oxford and of the University of East Anglia.-Books:...
, (born 1976), novelist - George Bazeley ScurfieldGeorge Bazeley ScurfieldGeorge Bazeley Scurfield was an English author, poet, and politician. He was born on 19 March 1920 in Leicestershire, England, and died on 15 December 1991 in Norwich, England. He married Cecilia Hopkinson in 1947 at Cambridge, England...
, (1920–1991), poet, novelist, author, and politician - Marcus SedgwickMarcus SedgwickMarcus Sedgwick was born in Kent, England. Marcus is a British author and illustrator as well as a musician. He used to play for two bands namely playing the drums for Garrett and as the guitarist in an ABBA tribute group...
, (born 1968), children's writer - Charles Sedley, poet and rake
- Kate SedleyKate SedleyKate Sedley is the pen-name of Brenda Margaret Lilian Honeyman Clarke, an English historical novelist. She was born in Bristol in 1926 and educated at The Red Maid's School, Westbury-on-Trym. She is married and has a son and a daughter, and one granddaughter...
, (real name Brenda Clarke, born 1926), novelist - John Robert SeeleyJohn Robert SeeleySir John Robert Seeley, KCMG was an English essayist and historian.-Life:He was born in London, the son of R.B. Seeley, a publisher. Seeley developed a taste for religious and historical subjects...
, (1834-1895), historian and essayist - Rachel SeiffertRachel Seiffert- Biographical Details :She was born in 1971 in Oxford to German and Australian parents, and was brought up bilingually. She currently lives in London.- Publications and Awards :Seiffert has published three works of fiction to date:The Dark Room...
, (born 1971), novelist - Catherine SeldenCatherine SeldenCatherine Selden was a Gothic novelist of the early 19th century.She wrote seven novels. Her first was The English Nun , written in imitation of Diderot...
, (fl. 1797-1817), novelist - John SeldenJohn SeldenJohn Selden was an English jurist and a scholar of England's ancient laws and constitution and scholar of Jewish law...
, (1584–1654), polymath - Will SelfWill SelfWilliam Woodard "Will" Self is an English novelist and short story writer. His fictional style is known for being satirical, grotesque, and fantastical. He is a prolific commentator on contemporary British life, with regular appearances on Newsnight and Question Time...
, (born 1961), novelist, reviewer and columnist - George Selwyn, (1719–1791), letter writer and wit
- Nassau William SeniorNassau William SeniorNassau William Senior , English economist, was born at Compton, Berkshire, the eldest son of the Rev. JR Senior, vicar of Durnford, Wiltshire.-Biography:...
, (1790–1864), economist - SepharialSepharialDr Walter Gorn Old was a notable 19th century astrologer, better known as Sepharial....
, (real name Walter Gorn Old, 1864–1929), astrologer and numerologist - Gitta SerenyGitta SerenyGitta Sereny is an Austrian-born biographer, historian and investigative journalist whose writing focuses mainly on the Holocaust and child abuse. She is the stepdaughter of the economist Ludwig von Mises....
, (born 1921), biographer and historian - Ian SerraillierIan SerraillierIan Serraillier was a British novelist and poet. He was also appreciated by children for being a storyteller retelling legends from Rome, Greece and England...
, (1912–1994), novelist and poet - Robert ServiceRobert Service (historian)Robert John Service is a British historian, academic, and author who has written extensively on the history of Soviet Russia, particularly the era from the October Revolution to Stalin's death...
, (born 1947), historian and Russian specialist - Diane SetterfieldDiane SetterfieldDiane Setterfield is a British author whose 2006 debut novel, The Thirteenth Tale, became a New York Times #1 bestseller...
, (born 1964), novelist - Elkanah SettleElkanah SettleElkanah Settle was an English poet and playwright.He was born at Dunstable, and entered Trinity College, Oxford, in 1666, but left without taking a degree. His first tragedy, Cambyses, King of Persia, was produced at Lincoln's Inn Fields in 1667...
, (1648–1724), playwright and poet - Anna SewardAnna SewardAnna Seward was an English Romantic poet, often called the Swan of Lichfield.-Life:Seward was the elder daughter of Thomas Seward , prebendary of Lichfield and Salisbury, and author...
, (the "Swan of Lichfield," 1747-1809), poet and biographer - Thomas SewardThomas SewardThomas Seward was an English Anglican clergyman, author and editor who was part of the Lichfield intellectual circle of Samuel Johnson, Erasmus Darwin and his own daughter Anna Seward.-Bibliography:...
, (1708–1790), writer - William SewardWilliam Seward (anecdotist)William Seward was an English man of letters, known for his collections of anecdotes.-Life:Seward was the only son of William Seward, a partner in the major London brewery Calvert & Seward. He was born in London in January 1747...
, (1747-1799), anecdotist - Anna SewellAnna SewellAnna Sewell was an English novelist, best known as the author of the classic novel Black Beauty.-Biography:Anna Mary Sewell was born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England into a devoutly Quaker family...
, (1820–1878), novelist, Black BeautyBlack BeautyBlack Beauty is an 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell. It was composed in the last years of her life, during which she remained in her house as an invalid. The novel became an immediate bestseller, with Sewell dying just five months after its publication, long enough to see her first and only... - Elizabeth Missing SewellElizabeth Missing SewellElizabeth Missing Sewell was an English author of religious and educational texts notable in the 19th century.-Biography:Elizabeth Missing Sewell was born at High Street, Newport, Isle of Wight, on 19 February 1815, was third daughter in a family of seven sons and five daughters of Thomas Sewell ,...
, (1815–1906), novelist and religious writer - Mary Wright SewellMary Wright SewellMary Wright Sewell was the mother of Anna Sewell a very well known children's author who wrote Black Beauty. Mary, less known today, was a then-popular author of juvenile bestsellers....
, (1797–1884), children's writer - William SewellWilliam SewellWilliam Sewell , English divine and author, was born at Newport, Isle of Wight, the son of a solicitor.He was educated at Winchester and Merton College, Oxford, was elected a fellow of Exeter College in 1827, and from 1831-1853 was a tutor there. From 1836-1841 he was White's Professor of Moral...
, (1804–1874), writer, translator and cleric - Thomas ShadwellThomas ShadwellThomas Shadwell was an English poet and playwright who was appointed poet laureate in 1689.-Life:Shadwell was born at Stanton Hall, Norfolk, and educated at Bury St Edmunds School, and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, which he entered in 1656. He left the university without a degree, and...
, (c. 1642–1692), Poet LaureatePoet LaureateA poet laureate is a poet officially appointed by a government and is often expected to compose poems for state occasions and other government events...
, Historiographer RoyalHistoriographer RoyalThe Historiographer Royal is a member of the Royal household in Scotland. The office was created in 1681, and was in abeyance from 1709 until 1763 when it was revived for Principal William Robertson of Edinburgh University. The post, which now has no formal responsibilities or salary, is held by...
and playwright - Anthony Shaffer, (born 1926), playwright and novelist, SleuthSleuth (play)Sleuth is a 1970 play written by Anthony Shaffer. The play is set in the Wiltshire, England manor house of Andrew Wyke, an immensely successful mystery writer. His home reflects Wyke's obsession with the inventions and deceptions of fiction and his fascination with games and game-playing...
- Peter ShafferPeter ShafferSir Peter Levin Shaffer is an English dramatist and playwright, screenwriter and author of numerous award-winning plays, several of which have been filmed.-Early life:...
, (born 1926), playwright, EquusEquus (play)Equus is a play by Peter Shaffer written in 1973, telling the story of a psychiatrist who attempts to treat a young man who has a pathological religious fascination with horses.... - Nicholas ShakespeareNicholas ShakespeareNicholas William Richmond Shakespeare is a British journalist and writer. Born to a diplomat, Shakespeare grew up in the Far East and in South America. He was educated at the Dragon School preparatory school then Winchester College and Cambridge and worked as a journalist for BBC television and...
, (born 1957), novelist and biographer - William ShakespeareWilliam ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...
, (c. 1564–1616), poet and playwright - Edward ShanksEdward ShanksEdward Richard Buxton Shanks was an English writer, known as a war poet of World War I, then as an academic and journalist, and literary critic and biographer. He also wrote some science fiction....
, (1892–1953), poet and critic - Jo ShapcottJo ShapcottJo Shapcott FRSL, is an English poet, editor and lecturer who has won the National Poetry Competition, the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, the Costa Book of the Year Award, a Forward Poetry Prize and the Cholmondeley Award.-Career:...
, (born 1953), poet and scholar - Margery SharpMargery SharpMargery Sharp , was an English author. She was a prolific writer in her long career, writing 26 novels for adults, 14 stories for children, 4 plays, 2 mysteries, as well as numerous short stories...
, (1905-1991), novelist, children's writer and playwright - Tom SharpeTom SharpeTom Sharpe is an English satirical author, best known for his Wilt series of novels.Sharpe was born in London and moved to South Africa in 1951, where he worked as a social worker and a teacher, before being deported for sedition in 1961...
, (born 1928), novelist - Robert ShawRobert Shaw (actor)Robert Archibald Shaw was an English actor and novelist, remembered for his performances in The Sting , From Russia with Love , A Man for All Seasons , the original The Taking of Pelham One Two Three , Black Sunday , The Deep and Jaws , where he played the shark hunter Quint.-Early life...
, (1927–1978), actor and novelist - John ShebbeareJohn ShebbeareJohn Shebbeare was a British tory political satirist.-Life:He was the eldest son of an attorney and corn-factor of Bideford, Devonshire. A hundred and a village in Devon, where the family had owned land, bear their name...
, (1709–1788), novelist and satirist - John SheffieldJohn Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and NormanbyJohn Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, KG, PC , was a poet and notable Tory politician of the late Stuart period, who served as Lord Privy Seal and Lord President of the Council.-Career:...
(known as Mulgrave, later Buckingham, 1647–1721), poet, essayist and politician - Mary ShelleyMary ShelleyMary Shelley was a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus . She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley...
, (1797–1851), author, FrankensteinFrankensteinFrankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel about a failed experiment that produced a monster, written by Mary Shelley, with inserts of poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Shelley started writing the story when she was eighteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty-one. The first... - Percy Bysshe ShelleyPercy Bysshe ShelleyPercy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets and is critically regarded as among the finest lyric poets in the English language. Shelley was famous for his association with John Keats and Lord Byron...
, (1792–1822), poet - William ShenstoneWilliam ShenstoneWilliam Shenstone was an English poet and one of the earliest practitioners of landscape gardening through the development of his estate, The Leasowes.-Life:...
, (1714–1763), poet - Richard Brinsley SheridanRichard Brinsley SheridanRichard Brinsley Butler Sheridan was an Irish-born playwright and poet and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. For thirty-two years he was also a Whig Member of the British House of Commons for Stafford , Westminster and Ilchester...
, (1751–1816), playwright, The RivalsThe RivalsThe Rivals, a play by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, is a comedy of manners in five acts. It was first performed on 17 January 1775.- Production :... - William SherlockWilliam SherlockNot to be confused with William Sherlock William Sherlock was an English church leader.-Life:He was born at Southwark, and was educated at St. Saviour's School and Eton, and then at Peterhouse, Cambridge. In 1669 he became rector of St George's, Botolph Lane, London, and in 1681 he was appointed a...
, (1641–1707), theologian, controversialist and cleric - R. C. SherriffR. C. Sherriff-External links:**...
, (1890–1975), playwright, novelist and screenwriter, Journey's EndJourney's EndJourney's End is a 1928 drama, the seventh of English playwright R. C. Sherriff. It was first performed at the Apollo Theatre in London by the Incorporated Stage Society on 9 December 1928, starring a young Laurence Olivier, and soon moved to other West End theatres for a two-year run... - Charles Scott SherringtonCharles Scott SherringtonSir Charles Scott Sherrington, OM, GBE, PRS was an English neurophysiologist, histologist, bacteriologist, and a pathologist, Nobel laureate and president of the Royal Society in the early 1920s...
, (1857–1952), scientific writer, physiologist and Nobel PrizeNobel PrizeThe Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
winner - Norman SherryNorman SherryNorman Sherry is an English born American novelist, biographer, and educator who is most well known for his three-volume biography of the British novelist Graham Greene. He has an older brother Thomas Taylor Sherry and a twin brother called Alan Sherry...
, (born 1935), novelist and biographer - Mary Martha SherwoodMary Martha SherwoodMary Martha Sherwood was a prolific and influential writer of children's literature in 19th-century Britain...
, (1775–1851), children's writer and tractarian - James ShirleyJames ShirleyJames Shirley was an English dramatist.He belonged to the great period of English dramatic literature, but, in Lamb's words, he "claims a place among the worthies of this period, not so much for any transcendent genius in himself, as that he was the last of a great race, all of whom spoke nearly...
, (1596–1666), playwright - Joseph Henry ShorthouseJoseph Henry Shorthouse-Biography:He was born at Birmingham, educated at Grove School , and became a chemical manufacturer. Originally a Quaker, he joined the Church of England. His first book, John Inglesant, appeared in 1881, and at once made him famous...
, (1834–1903), novelist - Fredegond ShoveFredegond ShoveFredegond Shove was an English poet.Fredegond was the daughter of the historian Frederic William Maitland and his wife Florence Henrietta Fisher. She married the economist Gerald Shove....
, (1889–1949), poet - Nevil ShuteNevil ShuteNevil Shute Norway was a popular British-Australian novelist and a successful aeronautical engineer. He used his full name in his engineering career, and 'Nevil Shute' as his pen name, in order to protect his engineering career from any potential negative publicity in connection with his novels.-...
, (1899–1960), novelist and aeronautical engineer, A Town Like AliceA Town Like AliceA Town Like Alice is a novel by the British author Nevil Shute about a young Englishwoman in Malaya during World War II and in outback Australia post-war.... - Penelope ShuttlePenelope Shuttle-Life:Shuttle "left school at 17, completing her first novel when she was 20." Her home is in Falmouth, Cornwall since 1970. She married the poet Peter Redgrove, who died in 2003, and they have a daughter, Zoe...
, (born 1947), poet and novelist - Elizabeth SiddalElizabeth SiddalElizabeth Eleanor Siddal was an English artists' model, poet and artist who was painted and drawn extensively by artists of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, including Walter Deverell, William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais and most of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's early paintings of women.-Early...
, (1829–1862), artist and poet - Mary SidneyMary SidneyMary Herbert , Countess of Pembroke , was one of the first English women to achieve a major reputation for her literary works, poetry, poetic translations and literary patronage.-Family:...
, later Mary Herbert, countess of Pembroke, (1561–1621), poet and translator - Philip SidneyPhilip SidneySir Philip Sidney was an English poet, courtier and soldier, and is remembered as one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan Age...
, (1554–1586), poet and soldier - Robert SidneyRobert Sidney, 1st Earl of LeicesterRobert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester , second son of Sir Henry Sidney, was a statesman of Elizabethan and Jacobean England. He was also a patron of the arts and an interesting poet...
, earl of Leicester (1563–1626), poet and statesman - Una Lucy SilberradUna Lucy SilberradUna Lucy Silberrad was a British writer. As seen on her grave slab and on the brass in St.Mary's Burnham-on-Crouch, she described herself as "authoress", avoiding the gender-neutral term "writer", and probably reflecting her feminist views...
, (1872–1955), novelist - Jon SilkinJon SilkinJon Silkin was a British poet.-Early life:Jon Silkin was born in London, in a Jewish immigrant family and named after Jon Forsyte in The Forsyte Saga, and attended Wycliffe College and Dulwich College During the Second World War he was one of the children evacuated from London ; he remembered that...
, (1930–1997), poet, editor and critic - Alan SillitoeAlan SillitoeAlan Sillitoe was an English writer and one of the "Angry Young Men" of the 1950s.. He disliked the label, as did most of the other writers to whom it was applied.- Biography :...
, (1928-2010), novelist, poet and translator, The Loneliness of the Long Distance RunnerThe Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner"The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" is a short story by Alan Sillitoe which was set in Irvine Beach, and published in 1959 as part of a short story collection of the same name. The work focuses on Colin, a poor Nottingham teenager from a dismal home in a blue-collar area, who has bleak... - Elizabeth SimcoeElizabeth SimcoeElizabeth Simcoe was an artist and diarist in colonial Canada. She was the wife of John Graves Simcoe, the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada.-Biography:...
, (1762-1850), diarist - George Augustus SimcoxGeorge Augustus SimcoxGeorge Augustus Simcox was a British classical scholar and poet. He was a Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford.He was educated at the University of Oxford. He was also a critic and busy literary reviewer, in magazines such as the Argosy, the Fortnightly Review and the Academy; and essayist for The...
, (1841–1905), poet and scholar - Kathryn SimmondsKathryn Simmonds-Life:She graduated from the University of East Anglia with an MA in Creative Writing.She has also experimented with playwriting, and her first radio play Poetry for Beginners, a comic drama set on a creative writing residential course, was broadcast on Radio 4 in 2008.She lives in London, England,...
, (born 1972), poet and story writer - Helen SimpsonHelen Simpson (author)Helen Simpson is an English novelist and short story writer. She was born in 1959 in Bristol, in the West of England, and went to a girls' school. She worked at Vogue for five years before her success in writing short stories meant she could afford to leave and concentrate full-time on her writing...
, (born 1959), novelist and story writer - Joe SimpsonJoe Simpson (mountaineer)Joe Simpson is an English mountaineer, author and motivational speaker. He is best known for his book Touching the Void and the 2003 film adaptation of his book.-Early life:...
, (born 1960), mountaineer and writer, Touching the VoidTouching the VoidTouching the Void is a 1988 book by Joe Simpson, recounting his and Simon Yates's disastrous and nearly fatal climb of the 6,344-metre Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in 1985.... - John Palgrave SimpsonJohn Palgrave SimpsonJohn Palgrave Simpson was a Victorian playwright. He wrote more than fifty pieces in a variety of genres, including dramas, comedies, operas, and spectacles, between 1850 and 1885. Simpson also published novels, travel books and journalistic commentaries...
, (1807–1887), playwright - George Robert SimsGeorge Robert SimsGeorge Robert Sims was an English journalist, poet, dramatist, novelist and bon vivant.Sims began writing lively humour and satiric pieces for Fun magazine and The Referee, but he was soon concentrating on social reform, particularly the plight of the poor in London's slums...
, (1847–1922), writer, poet and journalist - Andrew SinclairAndrew SinclairDr Andrew Sinclair is a prolific British novelist, historian, biographer, critic and film-maker. He was a Founding Member of Churchill College, Cambridge. He directed the film, now regarded as a classic, of Under Milk Wood. His book The Better Half: The Emancipation of the American Woman won the...
, (born 1945), novelist, historian and biographer - Clive SinclairClive SinclairSir Clive Marles Sinclair is a British entrepreneur and inventor, most commonly known for his work in consumer electronics in the late 1970s and early 1980s....
, (born 1948), novelist - Ian SinclairIan SinclairIan McCahon Sinclair AC , is an Australian politician and former leader of the National Party of Australia.Sinclair was born in Sydney, the son of a suburban accountant. He was educated at Knox Grammar School and at the University of Sydney, where he graduated in arts and law...
, writer, poet and film-maker - May SinclairMay SinclairMay Sinclair was the pseudonym of Mary Amelia St. Clair , a popular British writer who wrote about two dozen novels, short stories and poetry. She was an active suffragist, and member of the Woman Writers' Suffrage League...
, (real name Mary Amelia St. Clair, 1863-1946), novelist and poet - C. H. SissonC. H. SissonCharles Hubert Sisson CH was a British writer, best known as a poet and translator.-Life:...
, (1914–2003), poet, translator and writer - Edith SitwellEdith SitwellDame Edith Louisa Sitwell DBE was a British poet and critic.-Background:Edith Sitwell was born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, the oldest child and only daughter of Sir George Sitwell, 4th Baronet, of Renishaw Hall; he was an expert on genealogy and landscaping...
, (1887–1964), poet - Osbert SitwellOsbert SitwellSir Francis Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Baronet, was an English writer. His elder sister was Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell and his younger brother was Sir Sacheverell Sitwell; like them he devoted his life to art and literature....
, (1892–1969), writer - Sacheverell SitwellSacheverell SitwellSir Sacheverell Sitwell, 6th Baronet CH was an English writer, best known as an art critic and writer on architecture, particularly the baroque. He was the younger brother of Dame Edith Sitwell and Sir Osbert Sitwell....
, (1897–1988), poet and writer - Barbara SkeltonBarbara SkeltonBarbara Skelton was an English memoirist, novelist and socialite.-Background:The daughter of an army officer, she spent some of her early years in India. Her good looks allowed her to work as a model for several years. Later years found her in Yugoslavia, Egypt, the USA, Cuba and back in England...
, (1916–1996), novelist and memoir writer - John SkeltonJohn SkeltonJohn Skelton, also known as John Shelton , possibly born in Diss, Norfolk, was an English poet.-Education:...
, (c. 1460–1529), poet and satirist - Robert Skidelsky, (born 1939), economic historian and biographer
- Joseph SkipseyJoseph SkipseyJoseph Skipsey was an English poet, born near North Shields.From childhood he worked in the mines. He published a few pieces of poetry in 1859, and soon after left working underground and became caretaker of Shakespeare's house at Stratford-on-Avon...
, (1832–1903), poet and editor - George Edward MacKenzie SkuesGeorge Edward MacKenzie SkuesGeorge Edward MacKenzie Skues, usually known as G. E. M. Skues , was a British lawyer, author and fly fisherman most noted for the invention of modern-day nymph fishing and the controversy it caused with the Chalk stream dry fly doctrine developed by Frederic M. Halford...
, (1858–1949), writer on fishing - Barbara SleighBarbara SleighBarbara Grace de Riemer Sleigh was a well-known British children's writer and broadcaster.-Family and career:Barbara Sleigh was born in Birmingham, the daughter of the artist Bernard Sleigh and his wife Stella, née Phillp, who had married in 1901. Both came from a Methodist background, but she was...
, (1906–1982), children's writer, JessamyJessamyJessamy by Barbara Sleigh is a children's book that sheds light on English life during World War I through a time slip narrative.-The setting:... - Edward SlowEdward SlowEdward Slow was a poet born in Wilton, Wiltshire, England. By profession he was a carriage builder. He wrote many poems and tracts based on his everyday observations of contemporary Victorian and Edwardian rural life...
, (1841-1925), Wiltshire dialect poet and carriage maker - Carolyn SmartCarolyn SmartCarolyn Smart is an author, mostly of poetry, who lives in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. She currently teaches Contemporary Canadian Literature and Creative Writing at Queen's University....
, (born 1952), poet - Christopher SmartChristopher SmartChristopher Smart , also known as "Kit Smart", "Kitty Smart", and "Jack Smart", was an English poet. He was a major contributor to two popular magazines and a friend to influential cultural icons like Samuel Johnson and Henry Fielding. Smart, a high church Anglican, was widely known throughout...
, (1722–1771), poet - Francis Edward SmedleyFrancis Edward SmedleyFrancis Edward Smedley, was an English novelist born in Great Marlow, Buckinghamshire, to Francis Smedley and Frances Sarah Ellison. His name appears in print usually as Frank E. Smedley...
, (1818–1864), novelist - Menella Bute SmedleyMenella Bute SmedleyMenella Bute Smedley was a novelist and poet. A relative of Lewis Carroll, she wrote some minor novels and books of poems, including the anonymous, The Story of Queen Isabel, and Other Verses, 1863....
, (1819–1877), novelist, poet and translator - Albert Richard SmithAlbert Richard SmithAlbert Richard Smith , was an English author, entertainer, and mountaineer.-Biography:Smith was born at Chertsey, Surrey. The son of a surgeon, he studied medicine in London and in Paris, and his first literary effort was an account of his life there, which appeared in the Mirror. He gradually...
, (1816–1860), writer, entertainer and mountaineer - Charlotte SmithCharlotte Turner SmithCharlotte Turner Smith was an English Romantic poet and novelist. She initiated a revival of the English sonnet, helped establish the conventions of Gothic fiction, and wrote political novels of sensibility....
, (1749–1806), poet and novelist - Dodie SmithDodie SmithDorothy Gladys "Dodie" Smith was an English novelist and playwright. Smith is best known for her novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians. Her other works include I Capture the Castle and The Starlight Barking....
, (1896–1990), novelist and playwright, The Hundred and One DalmatiansThe Hundred and One DalmatiansThe Hundred and One Dalmatians, or the Great Dog Robbery is a 1956 children's novel by Dodie Smith. A sequel entitled The Starlight Barking continues from the end of the first novel.... - Edmund SmithEdmund SmithEdmund Smith , born Edmund Neale, was a minor English poet in the early 18th century. He is little read today but Samuel Johnson included him in his Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets in 1781.-Biography:...
, (1672–1710), poet and translator - Eleanor SmithEleanor SmithLady Eleanor Furneaux Smith was an English writer. The eldest of the politician F. E. Smith's three children, she worked as a society reporter and cinema reviewer for a while, then as a publicist for circus companies...
, (1902-1945), novelist - Emma SmithEmma Smith (author)-Early life and fame:Emma Smith was born as Elspeth Hallsmith in Cornwall in 1923. She was educated privately up to the age of 16, when she decided to take up a job at the War Office. During the Second World War, she volunteered to work on the canals as a boatwoman...
, (born 1923), novelist and children's writer - Horace Smith, (born Horatio Smith, 1779–1849), novelist and poet
- Joan SmithJoan SmithJoan Alison Smith is an English novelist, journalist and human rights activist, who is a former chair of the Writers in Prison committee in the English section of International PEN.-Life and work:...
, (born 1953), novelist and journalist - John Frederick SmithJohn Frederick SmithJohn Frederick Smith was a popular English novelist, who has been called "England's most popular novelist of the mid-nineteenth century".Smith became famous for his serializations in The London Journal.-Works:...
, (1806–1890), novelist - Ken SmithKen Smith (poet)Ken Smith was a British poet.-Life:He was son of a farm labourer, and he had an itinerant childhood...
, (1938–2003), poet - Michael Marshall SmithMichael Marshall SmithMichael Marshall Smith is a British novelist, screenwriter and short story writer who also writes as Michael Marshall.-Biography:...
, (born 1965), novelist and screenwriter - Miles SmithMiles SmithMiles Smith was a scholar, theologian, and bibliophile.-Life:He attended Corpus Christi College, Oxford, but graduated from Brasenose, in the same University, where he "proved at length an incomparable theologist." In time, he became resident canon of Hereford Cathedral and earned his Doctor of...
, (1554–1624), scholar, AV translator and cleric - Sid SmithSid Smith (writer)Sid Smith is an award-winning English novelist and journalist.-Life and career:Smith was born in Preston, Lancashire, the son of a lorry driver. For seven years he worked in labouring jobs, including dustman, gravedigger and construction worker...
, (born 1949), novelist and journalist - Stevie SmithStevie SmithFlorence Margaret Smith, known as Stevie Smith was an English poet and novelist.-Life:Stevie Smith, born Florence Margaret Smith in Kingston upon Hull, was the second daughter of Ethel and Charles Smith. Contemporary Women Poets...
, (1902–1971), poet and novelist - Sydney SmithSydney SmithSydney Smith was an English writer and Anglican cleric. -Life:Born in Woodford, Essex, England, Smith was the son of merchant Robert Smith and Maria Olier , who suffered from epilepsy...
, (1771–1845), writer and cleric - Tom Rob SmithTom Rob SmithTom Rob Smith is an English writer. The son of a Swedish mother and an English father, Smith was born and raised in London.Smith studied at St. John's College, Cambridge, following his graduation in 2001 he received the Harper Wood Studentship for English Poetry and Literature and continued his...
, (born 1979), novelist - Wentworth SmithWentworth SmithWentworth Smith , was a minor English dramatist of the Elizabethan period who may have been responsible for some of the plays in the Shakespeare Apocrypha, though no work known to be his is extant.-Life and career:...
, (1571-c. 1623), playwright - William SmithWilliam Smith (poet)William Smith was an English sonneteer, poet, and friend of Edmund Spenser. He participated in The Phoenix Nest , England's Helicon and published a sonnet sequence Chloris or The Complaint of the passionate despised Shepheard in 1596.-External links:*...
, (fl. 1590s), poet - William SmithWilliam Smith (geologist)William 'Strata' Smith was an English geologist, credited with creating the first nationwide geological map. He is known as the "Father of English Geology" for collating the geological history of England and Wales into a single record, although recognition was very slow in coming...
, (1769–1839), geologist - William SmithWilliam Smith (lexicographer)Sir William Smith Kt. was a noted English lexicographer.-Early life:Born at Enfield in 1813 of Nonconformist parents, he was originally destined for a theological career, but instead was articled to a solicitor. In his spare time he taught himself classics, and when he entered University College...
, (1813–1893), lexicographer - Zadie SmithZadie SmithZadie Smith is a British novelist. To date she has written three novels. In 2003, she was included on Granta's list of 20 best young authors...
, (born 1975), novelist - C. P. SnowC. P. SnowCharles Percy Snow, Baron Snow of the City of Leicester CBE was an English physicist and novelist who also served in several important positions with the UK government...
, (1905–1980), novelist and physicist, Strangers and BrothersStrangers and BrothersStrangers and Brothers is a series of novels by C. P. Snow, published between 1940 and 1974. They deal with – amongst other things – questions of political and personal integrity, and the mechanics of exercising power....
series - William SomervileWilliam SomervileWilliam Somervile or Somerville was an English poet.-Ancestry:The name Somervile is derived from a town near Caen in Normandy subsequently named Somervile....
, (1675–1742), poet - Charles SorleyCharles SorleyCharles Hamilton Sorley was a British poet of World War I.Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, he was the son of William Ritchie Sorley. He was educated, like Siegfried Sassoon, at Marlborough College...
, (1895–1915), poet - William SothebyWilliam SothebyWilliam Sotheby FRS was an English poet and translator.He was born into a wealthy London family, the son of William and Elizabeth Sotheby, and was educated at Harrow School and the Military Academy, Angers, France before joining the army at 17...
, (1757–1833), poet and translator - Ahdaf SoueifAhdaf SoueifAhdaf Soueif is an Anglo-Egyptian novelist and political and cultural commentator.-Life and career:Soueif was born in Cairo and educated in Egypt and England...
, (born 1950), novelist and translator - Robert SouthRobert SouthRobert South was an English churchman, known for his combative preaching.-Early life:He was the son of Robert South, a London merchant, and Elizabeth Berry...
, (1634–1716), theologian, controversialist and cleric - R. W. Southern, (1912–2001), historian
- Robert SoutheyRobert SoutheyRobert Southey was an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the so-called "Lake Poets", and Poet Laureate for 30 years from 1813 to his death in 1843...
, (1774–1843), Poet LaureatePoet LaureateA poet laureate is a poet officially appointed by a government and is often expected to compose poems for state occasions and other government events... - Robert Southwell, (1561–1595), poet, tractarian and Jesuit martyr
- Robert SpauldingRobert SpauldingRobert Spaulding was an English scholar, Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge and one of the translators, in the "First Cambridge Company", of the King James Version of the Bible. He succeeded Edward Lively as Regius Professor of Hebrew at Cambridge....
, (fl. 1610s), scholar, AV translator and cleric - Rachel SpeghtRachel SpeghtRachel Speght was a poet and polemicist. She was the first Englishwoman to identify herself, by name, as a polemicist and critic of gender ideology. Speght, a feminist and a Calvinist, is perhaps best known for her tract A Mouzell for Melastomus...
, (born 1596), poet and polemicist - Henry SpelmanHenry SpelmanSir Henry Spelman was an English antiquary, noted for his detailed collections of medieval records, in particular of church councils.-Life:...
, (c. 1562-1641), historian and antiquary - Bernard SpencerBernard SpencerCharles Bernard Spencer was an English poet, translator, and editor.He was born in Madras, India and educated at Marlborough College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. At Marlborough he knew John Betjeman and Louis MacNeice; at Oxford Stephen Spender, and he also came across W. H. Auden. He...
, (1909–1963), poet - Herbert SpencerHerbert SpencerHerbert Spencer was an English philosopher, biologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist of the Victorian era....
, (1820–1903), philosopher - Stephen SpenderStephen SpenderSir Stephen Harold Spender CBE was an English poet, novelist and essayist who concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle in his work...
, (1909–1995), poet, novelist and travel writer - Edmund SpenserEdmund SpenserEdmund Spenser was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. He is recognised as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy, and one of the greatest poets in the English...
, (c. 1552–1599), poet, The Faerie QueeneThe Faerie QueeneThe Faerie Queene is an incomplete English epic poem by Edmund Spenser. The first half was published in 1590, and a second installment was published in 1596. The Faerie Queene is notable for its form: it was the first work written in Spenserian stanza and is one of the longest poems in the English... - John SpenserJohn SpenserJohn Spenser was an English academic, president of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.-Life:He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, London, and Oxford....
, (1559–1614), scholar, AV translator and cleric - Dennis SpoonerDennis SpoonerDennis Spooner was an English television screenwriter and story editor, known primarily for his programmes about fictional spies and his work in children's television in the 1960s...
, (1932–1986), TV screenwriter, Doctor WhoDoctor WhoDoctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior... - Jean SpracklandJean SpracklandJean Sprackland is an English poet, the author of three collections of poetry published since 1997.-Biography:Originally from Burton upon Trent, Jean Sprackland studied English and Philosophy at the University of Kent at Canterbury, then taught for a few years before beginning to write poetry at...
], (born 1962), poet - Francis SpuffordFrancis Spufford-Early life:He studied English Literature at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, gaining a BA in 1985.-Career:He was Chief Publisher's Reader from 1987-90 for Chatto & Windus....
, (born 1964), writer - Charles SpurgeonCharles SpurgeonCharles Haddon Spurgeon was a large British Particular Baptist preacher who remains highly influential among Christians of different denominations, among whom he is still known as the "Prince of Preachers"...
, (1834–1892), religious writer and Baptist minister, the Wordless BookWordless BookA Wordless Book is a Christian evangelistic book. Evidence points to it being invented by the famous London Baptist preacher Charles Haddon Spurgeon, in , 1866 to several hundred orphans regarding Psalm 51:7 "Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow." It is called a "book", as it is usually... - J. C. SquireJ. C. SquireSir John Collings Squire was a British poet, writer, historian, and influential literary editor of the post-World War I period.- Biography :...
, (1884–1958), poet and historian - Edward St AubynEdward St AubynEdward St Aubyn is a British author and journalist.-Early life:He attended Westminster School and Keble College, Oxford.-Work:...
, (born 1960), novelist and journalist - Bayle St. JohnBayle St. JohnBayle St. John was a British travel writer and biographer, one of four sons of James Augustus St. John, all of whom went on to become journalists and authors of some literary distinction. Bayle St...
, (1822–1859), travel writer and biographer - Henry St John, Lord Bolingbroke (1678–1751), politician and philosopher
- James Augustus St. JohnJames Augustus St. JohnJames Augustus St. John , was a British author and traveller. He was born in Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, Wales, the son of Gelly John, shoemaker. He recorded that he received instruction from a local clergyman, eventually mastering the classics, and acquiring proficiency in French, Italian,...
, (born James John, 1795–1875), journalist, writer and traveler - Spenser St. John, (1825–1910), biographer, travel writer and diplomat
- Brian StablefordBrian StablefordBrian Michael Stableford is a British science fiction writer who has published more than 70 novels. His earlier books were published as by Brian M. Stableford, but more recent ones have dropped the middle initial and appeared under the name Brian Stableford...
, (born 1948), science fiction writer - Tom StaceyTom StaceyTom Stacey is a British novelist, publisher, man of letters , traveller/kingmaker, and penologist.-Early life:...
, (born 1930), novelist, writer and publisher - John StallworthyJohn StallworthyJohn Stallworthy was a Liberal Party Member of Parliament in New Zealand.He won the seat in the , and held it to , when he was defeated by the then Independent Liberal candidate Gordon Coates.-References:...
, (born 1935), scholar and poet - John StammersJohn Stammers-Life:Stammers read philosophy at King's College London and is an Associate of Kings' College. He took up writing poetry in his 40s, joining Michael Donaghy’s City University poetry group. Stammers now teaches at Birkbeck College, University of London and City Lit. In 2002/03 he was appointed...
, (born 1954), poet - Josiah StampJosiah Stamp, 1st Baron StampJosiah Charles Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp, Bt, GCB, GBE, FBA, was a British civil servant, industrialist, economist, statistician, writer, and banker. He was a director of the Bank of England and chairman of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.Josiah was born in London, the third of seven...
, (1880–1941), economist and banker - Derek StanfordDerek StanfordDerek Stanford FRSL was a British writer, known as a biographer, essayist and poet. He was educated at Upper Latymer School, Hammersmith, London.As a conscientious objector during World War II he served in the Non-combatant Corps...
, (1918–2008), biographer and poet - Louisa StanhopeLouisa StanhopeLouisa Sidney Stanhope was an English novelist of the early 19th century. She wrote mainly historical and Gothic romances.-Novels:*Montbrasil Abbey: or, Maternal Trials...
, (fl. 1806-1827), novelist - Philip StanhopePhilip Stanhope, 4th Earl of ChesterfieldPhilip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield PC KG was a British statesman and man of letters.A Whig, Lord Stanhope, as he was known until his father's death in 1726, was born in London. After being educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, he went on the Grand Tour of the continent...
, Lord Chesterfield, (1694–1773), politician and writer - Arthur Penrhyn StanleyArthur Penrhyn StanleyArthur Penrhyn Stanley was an English churchman, Dean of Westminster, known as Dean Stanley. His position was that of a Broad Churchman and he was the author of works on Church History.-Life and times:...
, (1815–1881), church historian - Thomas StanleyThomas Stanley (author)Sir Thomas Stanley was an English author and translator.-Life:He was born in Cumberlow, Hertfordshire, the son of Sir Thomas Stanley of Cumberlow, Hertfordshire and his wife, Mary Hammond. Mary was the cousin of Richard Lovelace, and Stanley was educated in company with the son of Edward Fairfax,...
, (1625–1678), poet and philosopher - Olaf StapledonOlaf StapledonWilliam Olaf Stapledon was a British philosopher and author of several influential works of science fiction.-Life:...
, (1886–1950), philosopher and novelist, Star MakerStar Maker-External links:*... - Freya StarkFreya StarkDame Freya Madeline Stark, Mrs. Perowne, DBE was a British explorer and travel writer. She wrote more than two dozen books on her travels, which were mainly in Arabia, Iran and Afghanistan....
, (1893–1993), travel writer - Mariana StarkeMariana StarkeMariana Starke was an English author. She is best known for her ground-breaking travel guide of France and Italy which served as an essential companion for British travellers to the Continent in the early nineteenth century. She also wrote plays and poetry early in her career but was discouraged...
, (1761/2-1838), travel writer, poet and playwright - Boris StarlingBoris StarlingBoris Starling is a British novelist and screenwriter. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a first in History.-Life:Starling is the great-grandson of the English physiologist Ernest Starling...
, (born c. 1969), novelist and screenwriter - William Thomas SteadWilliam Thomas SteadWilliam Thomas Stead was an English journalist and editor who, as one of the early pioneers of investigative journalism, became one of the most controversial figures of the Victorian era. His 'New Journalism' paved the way for today's tabloid press...
, (1849–1912), journalist and social campaigner, The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon - Anne SteeleAnne SteeleAnne Steele , English hymn writer, was born at Broughton, Hampshire.The drowning of her betrothed, a Mr. Elscourt, a few hours before the time fixed for her marriage deeply affected an otherwise quiet life, and her hymns rather emphasize the less optimistic phases of Christian experience...
, (pen name Theodosia, 1717–1778), hymn writer - Marguerite SteenMarguerite SteenMarguerite Steen was a British writer, most popular in the 1930s and 1940s.- Life :Daughter of Capt. George Connolly Benson and Margaret Jones, Marguerite was adopted by Joseph and Margaret Jane Steen...
, (1894–1975), novelist and biographer - George SteevensGeorge SteevensGeorge Steevens was an English Shakespearean commentator.He was born at Poplar, the son of a captain and later director of the East India Company. He was educated at Eton College and at King's College, Cambridge, where he remained from 1753 to 1756...
, (1736–1800), Shakespearean scholar and editor - James Kenneth StephenJames Kenneth StephenJames Kenneth Stephen was an English poet, and tutor to Prince Albert Victor, eldest son of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales.-Early life:...
, (1859–1892), poet - Leslie StephenLeslie StephenSir Leslie Stephen, KCB was an English author, critic and mountaineer, and the father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell.-Life:...
, (1832–1904), writer and mountaineer - James Francis StephensJames Francis StephensJames Francis Stephens was an English entomologist.-Biography:Stephens was born in Shoreham-by-Sea and studied at Christ's Hospital.He was employed in the Admiralty office, Somerset House, from 1807 to 1845...
, (1792–1852), entomologist - Robert StephensRobert Stephens (historian)Robert Stephens , who was appointed historiographer royal in 1727, was a public servant and historian. He was the first to publish much of Francis Bacon's private correspondence.-Life:...
, (1665–1732), Historiographer RoyalHistoriographer RoyalThe Historiographer Royal is a member of the Royal household in Scotland. The office was created in 1681, and was in abeyance from 1709 until 1763 when it was revived for Principal William Robertson of Edinburgh University. The post, which now has no formal responsibilities or salary, is held by...
and historian - G. B. SternGladys Bronwyn SternGladys Bronwyn Stern or GB Stern born Gladys Bertha Stern in London, England, wrote many novels, short stories, plays, memoirs, biographies and literary criticism....
, (1890–1973), novelist, playwright and biographer - Laurence SterneLaurence SterneLaurence Sterne was an Irish novelist and an Anglican clergyman. He is best known for his novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy; but he also published many sermons, wrote memoirs, and was involved in local politics...
, (1713–1768), novelist, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman - George Alexander StevensGeorge Alexander StevensGeorge Alexander Stevens was an English actor, playwright, poet, and songwriter. He was born in the parish of St. Andrews, in Holborn, a neighbourhood of London...
, (1710–1780), playwright, poet and actor - Matthew StevensonMatthew StevensonMatthew Stevenson , also referred to as Mathew Stevenson, was an English poet and a member of the circle of cavalier wits who frequented the lawcourts following the Restoration...
, (died 1654), poet - William StevensonWilliam Stevenson (poet)William Stevenson was an English clergyman and presumed playwright of the early English language comedy Gammer Gurton's Needle....
, poet and playwright, presumed author of Gammer Gurton's Needle - Mary StewartMary StewartMary Florence Elinor Stewart is a popular English novelist, best known for her Merlin series, which straddles the boundary between the historical novel and the fantasy genre.-Career:...
, (born 1916), novelist - William StobbsWilliam StobbsWilliam Stobbs was an author and illustrator. From 1950 to 1958, he served as the head of the design department at the London School of Printing and Kindred Trades....
, (1914–2000), children's writer and illustrator - Julian StockwinJulian StockwinJulian Stockwin is an author of historical action-adventure fiction.-Biography:Born in 1944, Stockwin soon developed a love for the sea...
, (born 1944), novelist - Sewell StokesSewell StokesFrancis Martin Sewell Stokes was an English novelist, biographer, playwright, screenwriter, broadcaster and prison visitor. He collaborated on a number of occasions with his brother, Leslie Stokes, an actor and later in life a BBC radio producer, with whom he shared a flat for many years...
, (1902-1979), novelist, playwright and screenwriter - Nick StoneNick Stone (author)Nick Stone , is a British thriller writer.-Background:Born in Cambridge to historian Norman Stone and his Haitian wife,...
, (born 1966), novelist - Samuel John StoneSamuel John StoneSamuel John Stone was an ordained minister in the Church of England, chiefly remembered for his hymn The Church's One Foundation....
, (1839–1900), hymn writer and cleric, The Church's One FoundationThe Church's one foundationThe Church's One Foundation is a Christian hymn written in the 1860s by Samuel John Stone.The hymn was written as a direct response to some teaching, considered unorthodox at the time, by John William Colenso, first Bishop of Natal, which created schism within the church in South Africa... - David StoreyDavid StoreyDavid Rhames Storey is an English playwright, screenwriter, award-winning novelist and a former professional rugby league player....
, (born 1933), novelist and playwright - Catherine StorrCatherine StorrCatherine Storr was an English children's writer, best known for her novel Marianne Dreams and for a series of books about a wolf ineptly pursuing a young girl, beginning with Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf.-Life:She was born in Kensington, London, one of three children of a barrister, Arthur...
, (1913-2001), children's writer - Thomas StoryThomas StoryThomas Story was an English Quaker convert and friend of William Penn, whose writings were very influential to Quakers. In 1698, he visited colonial America, lectured to Quakers there, and held positions in the Pennsylvania colony.-Early life:...
,(1670?–1742), religious writer and Quaker preacher - John StowJohn StowJohn Stow was an English historian and antiquarian.-Early life:The son of Thomas Stow, a tallow-chandler, he was born about 1525 in London, in the parish of St Michael, Cornhill. His father's whole rent for his house and garden was only 6s. 6d. a year, and Stow in his youth fetched milk every...
, (c. 1525-1605), historian and antiquarian - Herbert StrangHerbert StrangHerbert Strang was the pseudonym of two English authors, George Herbert Ely and Charles James L'Estrange . They specialized in writing adventure stories for boys....
, (pen name of George Herbert Ely, 1866–1958, and Charles James L'Estrange, 1867–1947), children's writers - James StracheyJames StracheyJames Beaumont Strachey was a British psychoanalyst, and, with his wife Alix, a translator of Sigmund Freud into English...
, (1887-1967), psychoanalyst, translator and editor - Julia StracheyJulia StracheyJulia Strachey was an English writer, born in Allahabad, India, where her father, Oliver Strachey, the elder brother of Lytton Strachey, was a civil servant. Her mother, Ruby, was of Swiss-German origin...
, (1901–1979), novelist, Cheerful Weather for the WeddingCheerful Weather for the WeddingCheerful Weather for the Wedding is a novella by Julia Strachey. Published by the Hogarth Press in 1932, it tells the story of a brisk March day in England, somewhere on the Dorset coast, during which Dolly is due to marry the Honourable Owen Bigham... - Lytton StracheyLytton StracheyGiles Lytton Strachey was a British writer and critic. He is best known for establishing a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit...
, (1880–1932), biographer and critic, Eminent VictoriansEminent VictoriansEminent Victorians is a book by Lytton Strachey , first published in 1918 and consisting of biographies of four leading figures from the Victorian era. Its fame rests on the irreverence and wit Strachey brought to bear on three men and a woman who had till then been regarded as heroes and heroine... - Ray StracheyRay StracheyRay Strachey, née Costelloe was a British novelist, born Rachel Costelloe in London, England.-Early life:She is the elder of the two girls in her family...
, (born Rachel Costelloe, 1887-1940), biographer and writer on women's suffrage - Paul StrathernPaul StrathernPaul Strathern is a British writer and academic. He was born in London, and studied at Trinity College, Dublin, after which he served in the Merchant Navy over a period of two years. He then lived on a Greek island. In 1966 he travelled overland to India and the Himalayas...
, (born 1940), novelist and scholar - Noel StreatfeildNoel StreatfeildMary Noel Streatfeild OBE , known as Noel Streatfeild, was an author, most famous for her children's books including Ballet Shoes . Several of her novels have been adapted for film or television.-Biography:...
, (1895–1986), children's writer, Ballet ShoesBallet shoesBallet shoes, or ballet slippers, are lightweight shoes designed specifically for ballet dancing. They may be made from soft leather, canvas, or satin, and have flexible, thin soles. Traditionally, women wear pink shoes and men wear white or black shoes... - A. G. StreetA. G. StreetArthur George Street , who wrote under the name of A. G. Street, was an English farmer, writer and broadcaster. His books were published by the literary publishing house of Faber and Faber...
, (1892–1966), writer and broadcaster - Cecil StreetCecil StreetCecil John Charles Street, MC, OBE, , known as CJC Street and John Street, began his military career as an artillery officer in the British army. During the course of World War I, he became a propagandist for MI7, in which role he held the rank of Major...
, (pen names John Rhode, Miles Burton and Cecil Waye, 1884–1965), novelist - Joe StretchJoe StretchJoe Stretch is an English writer born in 1982.His first novel, Friction, was published by Vintage Books at Random House in 2008. His second novel, Wildlife, was published in 2009...
(born 1982), novelist - Hesba StrettonHesba StrettonHesba Stretton was the pen name of Sarah Smith , an English writer of children's books. She concocted the name from the initials of her five siblings and the name of a neighbouring village.-Early life:...
, (real name Sarah Smith, 1832–1911), novelist, short-story writer and children's writer - Agnes StricklandAgnes StricklandAgnes Strickland was an English historical writer and poet.-Biography:The daughter of Thomas Strickland of Reydon Hall, Suffolk, Agnes was educated by her father, and began her literary career with a poem, Worcester Field, followed by The Seven Ages of Woman and Demetrius...
, (1796–1874), history writer, poet and children's writer - William StrodeWilliam StrodeWilliam Strode was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England variously between 1624 and 1645. He was one of the five members impeached by King Charles and fought on the Parliamentarian side in the English Civil War.-Life:...
, (1600–1643), poet - Leonard StrongLeonard StrongLeonard Alfred George Strong was an English writer, known as a novelist, journalist, poet and director of the publishers Methuen Ltd.- Life :...
, (1896–1958), novelist, poet and critic - Jan StrutherJan StrutherJan Struther was the pen name of Joyce Anstruther, later Joyce Maxtone Graham and finally Joyce Placzek , an English writer remembered for her character Mrs...
, (real name Joyce Anstruther, (1901-1953), novelist and hymn writer - Alexander StuartAlexander Stuart (writer)Alexander Stuart is a British-born, Los Angeles-based novelist and screenwriter.Stuart's books include The War Zone, Tribes, Life On Mars , Five And A Half Times Three , and the...
, (fl. 1970s-), novelist and screenwriter - Muriel StuartMuriel StuartMuriel Stuart The daughter of a Scottish barrister, was a poet, particularly concerned with the topic of sexual politics, though she first wrote poems about World War I. She later gave up poetry writing; her last work was published in the 1930s...
, (1885–1967), poet and gardening writer - John StubbsJohn StubbsJohn Stubbs was an English pamphleteer or political commentator during the Elizabethan era.He was born in Norfolk, and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. After studying law at Lincoln's Inn, he lived at Thelveton, Norfolk...
, (or Stubbe, c. 1543–1591), pamphleteer - John StudleyJohn StudleyJohn Studley was an English academic, known as a translator of Seneca. He contributed to the Seneca his tenne tragedies translated into English , compiled by Thomas Newton and the sole printed translations of Seneca available in Elizabethan England; some echoes of his work have been detected in...
, (c. 1545-c. 1590), translator - Joseph SturgeJoseph SturgeJoseph Sturge , son of a farmer in Gloucestershire, was an English Quaker, abolitionist and activist. He founded the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society . He worked throughout his life in Radical political actions supporting pacifism, working-class rights, and the universal emancipation of...
, (1793–1859) abolitionist writer and campaigner - Howard SturgisHoward Sturgis-Biography:Born into an affluent New England family in London, he attended Eton and Cambridge and was friends with Henry James and Edith Wharton. After the death of his parents, he moved into a country house with his lover William Haynes-Smith...
, (1855–1920), novelist - Julian SturgisJulian SturgisJulian Russell Sturgis was an American-born novelist, poet, librettist and lyricist who lived and worked in Britain nearly all of his life. He played football as an amateur for the Wanderers F.C...
, (1848–1904), novelist and poet - George SturtGeorge SturtGeorge Sturt , who also wrote under the pseudonym George Bourne, was an English writer on rural crafts and affairs. He was born and grew up in Farnham, Surrey....
, (pen name George Bourne, 1863–1927), country writer - John StrypeJohn StrypeJohn Strype was an English historian and biographer. He was a cousin of Robert Knox, a famous sailor.Born in Houndsditch, London, he was the son of John Strype, or van Stryp, a member of a Huguenot family whom, in order to escape religious persecution within Brabant, had settled in East London...
, (1643-1737), historian and biographer - Showell StylesShowell StylesFrank Showell Styles was a Welsh writer and mountaineer.Showell Styles was born in Four Oaks, Birmingham and was educated at Bishop Vesey's Grammar School, Sutton Coldfield. Known to his friends as 'Pip', Showell Styles' childhood was spent in the hills of North Wales where he became an avid...
, (1908–2005), novelist, children's writer and mountaineer - John SucklingJohn Suckling (poet)Sir John Suckling was an English poet and one prominent figure among those renowned for careless gaiety, wit, and all the accomplishments of a Cavalier poet; and also the inventor of the card game Cribbage...
, (1609–1642), poet - J. W. N. SullivanJ. W. N. SullivanJohn William Navin Sullivan , was a popular science writer and literary journalist, and the author of a study of Beethoven. He wrote some of the earliest non-technical accounts of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, and was known personally to many important writers in London in the 1920s,...
, (1886–1937), science writer and journalist - Montague SummersMontague SummersAugustus Montague Summers was an eccentric English author and clergyman. He is known primarily for his scholarly work on the English drama of the 17th century, as well as for his idiosyncratic studies on witches, vampires, and werewolves, in all of which he professed to believe...
, (1880–1948), author, translator and critic - Kate SummerscaleKate SummerscaleKate Summerscale is an award-winning English writer and journalist.She is the author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House which won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction 2008, and the bestselling The Queen of Whale Cay, about Joe Carstairs, 'fastest woman on water',...
, (born 1965), writer and journalist - Alfred SutroAlfred SutroAlfred Sutro OBE was a British author and dramatist.He was a translator and friend of Maeterlinck. Educated at the City of London School and in Brussels, he began his career with a series of translations of Maeterlinck's works, all of which except the dramas he translated from the French...
, (1863–1933), playwright and translator - Robert Smith SurteesRobert Smith SurteesRobert Smith Surtees was an English editor, novelist and sporting writer. He was the second son of Anthony Surtees of Hamsterley Hall, a member of an old County Durham family.-Early life:...
, (1805–1864), novelist - E. W. SwantonE. W. SwantonErnest William Swanton CBE is chiefly known for being a cricket writer and commentator under his initials, E. W. Swanton. He worked as a sports journalist for The Daily Telegraph and as a broadcaster for BBC Radio for 30 years. He was a regular commentator on Test Match Special, easily recognised...
, (1907–2000), cricket writer and broadcaster - Graham SwiftGraham SwiftGraham Colin Swift FRSL is a British author. He was born in London, England and educated at Dulwich College, London, Queens' College, Cambridge, and later the University of York. He was a friend of Ted Hughes...
, (b. 1949), novelist, WaterlandWaterlandWaterland is a municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It is located north of Amsterdam, on the borders of the IJsselmeer.-Population centres :... - Algernon Charles SwinburneAlgernon Charles SwinburneAlgernon Charles Swinburne was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic. He invented the roundel form, wrote several novels, and contributed to the famous Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica...
, (1837–1909), poet - Robert SwindellsRobert SwindellsRobert E. "Bob" Swindells is an English author of children's and young adult literature.- Biography :Born in Bradford, Yorkshire, Swindells worked for a newspaper after leaving school aged 15. He served with the Royal Air Force and held various jobs before training as a primary school teacher...
, (born 1939), children's writer, ' - Randall SwinglerRandall SwinglerRandall Swingler MM was an English poet, writing extensively in the 1930s in the communist interest.His was a prosperous middle class Anglican family near Nottingham, with an industrial background in the Midlands. He was educated at Winchester College, and New College, Oxford...
, (1909–1967), poet - Frank Swinnerton, (1884–1982), novelist and editor
- Christopher SykesChristopher Sykes (author)Christopher Hugh Sykes FRSL was an English author. Born into a wealthy north-of-England land-owning family, he was the second son of the diplomat Sir Mark Sykes ....
, (1907–1986), travel writer and biographer - Percy SykesPercy SykesBrigadier-General Sir Percy Molesworth Sykes KCIE, CB, CMG was a soldier, diplomat and scholar, with a considerable literary output. He wrote historical, geographical, and biographical works, as well as describing his travels in Persia. Sykes was born in Brompton, Kent, England the only son of Rev...
, (1867–1945), travel writer, historian and general - Joshua SylvesterJoshua SylvesterJoshua Sylvester was an English poet.-Biography:Sylvester was the son of a Kentish clothier. In his tenth year he was sent to school at King Edward VI School, Southampton, where he gained a knowledge of French...
, (1563–1618), poet - John Addington SymondsJohn Addington SymondsJohn Addington Symonds was an English poet and literary critic. Although he married and had a family, he was an early advocate of male love , which he believed could include pederastic as well as egalitarian relationships. He referred to it as l'amour de l'impossible...
, (1840–1893), poet and critic - A. J. A. SymonsA. J. A. SymonsAlphonse James Albert Symons was an English writer and bibliographer.In 1922, he founded the First Edition Club to publish limited editions and to organize exhibitions of rare books and manuscripts. In 1924 he published a bibliography of first editions of the works of Yeats, and in 1930 he founded...
, (1900–1941), writer and bibliographer - Arthur SymonsArthur SymonsArthur William Symons , was a British poet, critic and magazine editor.-Life:Born in Milford Haven, Wales, of Cornish parents, Symons was educated privately, spending much of his time in France and Italy...
, (1865–1945), poet and essayist - Julian SymonsJulian SymonsJulian Gustave Symons 1912 - 1994) was a British crime writer and poet. He also wrote social and military history, biography and studies of literature.-Life and work:...
, (1912–1994), crime writer and poet - Mitchell SymonsMitchell SymonsMitchell Symons is a Journalist/Writer from London, England. Born in 1957, he was educated at Mill Hill School and the LSE where he studied Law. Since leaving the BBC, where he was a researcher and director, he worked as a writer, broadcaster and journalist...
, (born 1957), writer and journalist, That Book ...of Perfectly Useless InformationThat Book ...of Perfectly Useless InformationThat Book ...of Perfectly Useless Information, commonly abbreviated as "That Book" is a book written by writer and journalist Mitchell Symons, and published in 2004.-Material:... - George SzirtesGeorge SzirtesGeorge Szirtes is a Hungarian-born British poet, writing in English, as well as a translator from the Hungarian language into English. He has lived in the United Kingdom for most of his life.-Life:...
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- Thomas Noon TalfourdThomas Noon TalfourdSir Thomas Noon Talfourd, SL , was an English judge and author.The son of a well-to-do brewer, he was born at Reading, Berkshire ....
, (1795–1854), writer, playwright and lawyer - Derek TangyeDerek TangyeDerek Tangye was a well-known author who lived in Cornwall for nearly fifty years. He wrote 19 books which became known as 'The Minack Chronicles'--they were about his simple life on a clifftop daffodil farm called Dorminack, affectionately referred to as Minack, at St Buryan in the far west of...
, (1912–1996), writer - Nigel TangyeNigel Tangye-Family:He was the brother of Derek Tangye, and grandson of Richard Tangye. He was married to the actress Ann Todd.-Career:Born in Kensington, Nigel Tangye started his career in the Royal Navy, spending three years in the Mediterranean having graduated at the Royal Naval College in Dartmouth. He...
, (1909–1988), writer and flying instructor - Heather TannerHeather TannerHeather Tanner , née Heather Muriel Spackman, was a writer and campaigner on issues relating to peace, the environment and social justice...
, (1903–1993), countryside writer and peace campaigner - James T. TannerJames T. TannerJames Tolman Tanner was an English stage director and dramatist who wrote many of the successful musicals produced by George Edwardes.-Life and career:...
, (1858–1915), dramatist and director - Thomas TannerThomas Tanner (writer)Thomas Tanner was an English clergyman and writer, the author of The Entrance of Mazzarini .He was educated at St Paul's School, London, and at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge. He became a barrister and later a clergyman, being vicar of Colyton, Devon, and afterwards of Winchfield, Hampshire.-External...
, (1630–1682), writer and cleric - Thomas TannerThomas Tanner (bishop)Thomas Tanner was an English antiquary and prelate.-Life:He was born at Market Lavington in Wiltshire, and was educated at Queen's College, Oxford, taking holy orders in 1694...
, (1674–1735), antiquary and bishop - TheaurauJohn Tany, (born Thomas Totney, 1608-1659), religious writer
- John TathamJohn TathamJohn Tatham was an English dramatist of the mid-seventeenth century.Little is known of him. He was a Cavalier who hated the Puritans — and the Scots;he invented a dialect which he claimed was their vernacular tongue...
, (fl. 1632-64), playwright and poet - Baroness TautphoeusBaroness TautphoeusBaroness Jemima von Tautphoeus was an English novelist who wrote several stories dealing with Bavarian life, manners and history of which the first, The Initials , is perhaps the best...
, (born Jemima Montgomery, 1807-1893), novelist - R. H. TawneyR. H. TawneyRichard Henry Tawney was an English economic historian, social critic, Christian socialist, and an important proponent of adult education....
, (1880–1962), economic historian, - A. J. P. TaylorA. J. P. TaylorAlan John Percivale Taylor, FBA was a British historian of the 20th century and renowned academic who became well known to millions through his popular television lectures.-Early life:...
, (1906–1990), historian - Andrew TaylorAndrew Taylor (author)Andrew Taylor is a British author best known for his crime novels, which include the Dougal series, the Lydmouth series, the Roth Trilogy and the historical novel The American Boy.-Biography:...
, (born 1951), novelist - Ann TaylorAnn Taylor (poet)Ann Taylor was an English poet and literary critic. In her youth she was a writer of verse for children, for which she achieved long-lasting popularity. In the years immediately preceding her marriage, she became an astringent literary critic of growing reputation...
, (1782–1866, poet, children's writer and critic - D. J. TaylorD. J. TaylorDavid John Taylor is a British critic, novelist and biographer. After attending school in Norwich, he read Modern History at St John's College, Oxford, and has received the 2003 Whitbread Biography Award for his biography of George Orwell. His novel Derby Day was longlisted for the 2011 Man Booker...
, (born 1960), novelist and biographer - Elizabeth TaylorElizabeth Taylor (novelist)Elizabeth Taylor was a British novelist and short story writer.-Life and writings:...
, (1912–1975), novelist, AngelAngel (novel)Angel is a novel by the English novelist Elizabeth Taylor first published in 1957.It tells the life story of Angelica Deverell from her adolescence and first attempts at writing, through the course of her career as a successful writer of sensational romances, into her decline, old age and death... - Graham TaylorGraham Taylor (author)Graham Peter Taylor , pen-name G. P. Taylor, is the author of the best-selling novels Shadowmancer, Wormwood and Tersias. Before taking up writing full-time, he was an Anglican vicar in the village of Cloughton, North Yorkshire.His works reflect his faith, carrying Christian messages like The...
, (born 1958), novelist and cleric - Henry TaylorHenry Taylor (clergyman)Henry Taylor was a Church of England clergyman and religious controversialist.Henry Taylor was educated at a Hackney school and then at Queens' College, Cambridge. He was Vicar of Portsmouth from 1845 and Rector of Crawley from 1855...
, (1711–1785), controversialist and cleric - Henry TaylorHenry Taylor (dramatist)Sir Henry Taylor was an English dramatist.Taylor was born in Bishop Middleham, the son of a gentleman farmer, and spent his youth in Witton-le-Wear with his stepmother at Witton Hall in the high street...
, (1800–1886), playwright - Isaac TaylorIsaac TaylorIsaac Taylor was an English philosophical and historical writer, artist, and inventor.-Life:He was the eldest surviving son of Isaac Taylor of Ongar. He was born at Lavenham, Suffolk, on 17 August 1787, and moved with his family to Colchester and, at the end of 1810, to Ongar. In the family...
, (1787–1865), scholar, cleric and inventor - Jane TaylorJane Taylor (poet)Jane Taylor , was an English poet and novelist. She wrote the words for the song Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star in 1806 at age 23, while living in Shilling Street, Lavenham, Suffolk....
, (1783–1824), children's poet and novelist, Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star - Jeremy TaylorJeremy TaylorJeremy Taylor was a clergyman in the Church of England who achieved fame as an author during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell. He is sometimes known as the "Shakespeare of Divines" for his poetic style of expression and was often presented as a model of prose writing...
, (1613–1667), religious writer - John TaylorJohn Taylor (oculist)"Chevalier" John Taylor was the first in a long line of British eye surgeons. While there is some evidence that he showed promise as an eye surgeon early in his career, it became evident that his major talent was that of self-promotion....
, (1703–1772), oculist and autobiographer - John TaylorJohn Taylor (poet)John Taylor was an English poet who dubbed himself "The Water Poet".-Biography:He was born in Gloucester, 24 August 1578....
, (the "Water Poet," 1578-1653), poet - John Taylor, (1750–1826), poet and hymn writer
- Philip Meadows TaylorPhilip Meadows TaylorColonel Philip Meadows Taylor CSI , an Anglo-Indian administrator and novelist, was born in Liverpool, England....
, (1808–1876), novelist and Indian administrator - Richard TaylorRichard Taylor (editor)Richard Taylor was an English naturalist and publisher of scientific journals. He became joint editor of the Philosophical Magazine in 1822 and went of to publish the Annals of Natural History in 1838. He edited and published Scientific Memoirs, Selected from the Transactions of Foreign Academies...
(1782–1858), naturalist and editor - Sean TaylorSean Taylor (author)Sean Taylor is a British author of children's books. He grew up in Surrey and taught in Zimbabwe before studying at Cambridge, and divides his time between the United Kingdom and Brazil, where his wife is from....
, (born c. 1970s), children's writer, When a Monster is BornWhen a Monster is BornWhen a Monster is Born is a children's book written by Sean Taylor and illustrated by Nick Sharratt, published in 2006. It won the Nestlé Children's Book Prize Gold Award and has been nominated for the Kate Greenaway Medal.... - Thomas Taylor, (1758–1835), translator
- Tom TaylorTom TaylorTom Taylor was an English dramatist, critic, biographer, public servant, and editor of Punch magazine...
, (1817–1880), playwright and editor - William TaylorWilliam Taylor (Lollard)William Taylor was a mediæval theologian and priest, executed as a Lollard.Nothing is known of Taylor's career before he named as Principal of St Edmund Hall, Oxford in a rent roll for 1405–1406...
, (died 1423), Lollard theologian - William Taylor, (1765–1836), scholar and translator
- Barry TebbBarry TebbBarry Tebb is an English poet, publisher and author. He was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire in 1942.His poetry was first published by Alan Tarling's 'Poet and Printer Press' in the sixties, along with Ted Hughes, Michael Longley and Ian Crichton Smith...
, (born 1942), poet, publisher and anthologist - William TempleWilliam Temple (logician)Sir William Temple was an English Ramist logician and fourth Provost of Trinity College, Dublin.-Early life:He was educated at Eton College, and passed with a scholarship to King's College, Cambridge, in 1573. In 1576 he was elected a fellow of King's, and graduated B.A. in 1577-8 and M.A. in...
, (1555–1627), logician - William Temple, (1628–1699), essayist and statesman
- William TempleWilliam Temple (archbishop)William Temple was a priest in the Church of England. He served as Bishop of Manchester , Archbishop of York , and Archbishop of Canterbury ....
, (1881–1944), religious writer and archbishop - William F. TempleWilliam F. TempleWilliam Frederick Temple was a British science fiction writer. He was a member of the British Interplanetary Society and involved in science fiction fandom before writing. His best known work might be the novel which formed the basis for the film Four Sided Triangle, a novel which Groff Conklin...
, (1914–1989), science fiction writer - Edward Wyndham TennantEdward Wyndham TennantLt. Edward Wyndham Tennant , was an English war poet, killed at the Battle of the Somme.He was the son of Edward Tennant, who became Lord Glenconner in 1911, and Pamela Wyndham, a writer, Lady Glenconner and later wife of Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon...
, (1897–1916), poet - Emma TennantEmma TennantEmma Christina Tennant FRSL is a British novelist and editor. She is known for a postmodern approach to her fiction, which is often imbued with fantasy or magic. Several of her novels give a feminist or dreamlike twist to classic stories, such as Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr....
, (born 1937), novelist - Alfred, Lord Tennyson, (1809–1892), Poet LaureatePoet LaureateA poet laureate is a poet officially appointed by a government and is often expected to compose poems for state occasions and other government events...
, The Charge of the Light BrigadeThe charge of the light brigadeThe Charge of the Light Brigade may refer to the following:* Charge of the Light Brigade, a military action in the Crimean War* The Charge of the Light Brigade, a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson* The Charge of the Light Brigade, a 1936 film... - Frederick TennysonFrederick TennysonFrederick Tennyson was an English poet.-Life:Frederick Tennyson was the eldest son of George Clayton Tennyson, Rector of Somersby, Lincolnshire, and brother of Alfred Tennyson. He was educated at Eton College and St John's College, Cambridge...
, (1807–1898), poet - Henry TeongeHenry TeongeHenry Teonge was an English cleric and Royal Navy chaplain who kept informative diaries of voyages he made in 1675–76 and 1678–79.-Life:...
, (c. 1620–1690), diarist and naval chaplain - Lisa St Aubin de TeránLisa St Aubin de TeránLisa St Aubin de Terán is an award-winning English novelist, writer of autobiographical fictions, and memoirist.Lisa St Aubin de Terán was born in 1953 and brought up in Clapham in South London. She attended the James Allen's Girls' School...
, (born 1953), novelist and memoirist - A. S. J. TessimondA. S. J. TessimondArthur Seymour John Tessimond was an English poet.He went to Charterhouse School, but ran away at age 16...
, (1902–1962), poet - Anne Isabella Thackeray, Lady RitchieAnne Isabella Thackeray RitchieAnne Isabella, Lady Ritchie, née Thackeray was an English writer. She was the eldest daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray.- Life :...
(1837–1919), novelist and essayist - William Makepeace ThackerayWilliam Makepeace ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray was an English novelist of the 19th century. He was famous for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of English society.-Biography:...
, (1811–1863), novelist, Vanity Fair - Algernon Sydney ThelwallAlgernon Sydney ThelwallAlgernon Sydney Thelwall was an evangelical Church of England clergyman and teacher of elocution.-Life:...
, (1795–1863), writer and cleric - John ThelwallJohn ThelwallJohn Thelwall , was a radical British orator, writer, and elocutionist.-Life:Thelwall was born in Covent Garden, London, but was descended from a Welsh family which had its seat at Plas y Ward, Denbighshire...
, (1764–1834), poet and writer - Sydney Thelwall, (1834–1922), scholar, translator and cleric
- Lewis TheobaldLewis TheobaldLewis Theobald , British textual editor and author, was a landmark figure both in the history of Shakespearean editing and in literary satire...
, (1688–1744), scholar, critic and translator - Marcel TherouxMarcel TherouxMarcel Raymond Theroux is a British novelist and broadcaster. He wrote The Stranger in The Earth and The Confessions of Mycroft Holmes: a paper chase for which he won the Somerset Maugham Award in 2002. His third novel, A Blow to the Heart, was published by Faber in 2006. His fourth, Far North was...
, (born 1968), novelist and broadcaster - Philip ThicknessePhilip ThicknesseCaptain Philip Thicknesse was a British author, eccentric and friend of the artist Thomas Gainsborough.Philip Thicknesse was born in Staffordshire, England, son of John Thicknesse, the Rector of Farthinghoe, Northamptonshire and Joyce Thicknesse and brought up in Farthinghoe. In later life he...
, (1719–1792), writer - Angela ThirkellAngela ThirkellAngela Margaret Thirkell , was an English and Australian novelist. She also published one novel, Trooper to Southern Cross, under the pseudonym Leslie Parker.-Early life:...
, (1890–1961), novelist - Adam ThirlwellAdam ThirlwellAdam Thirlwell is a British novelist. He was educated at the independent Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, Elstree. He is assistant editor of Areté, an arts tri-quarterly. He also writes a column for Esquire magazine....
, (born 1978), novelist - William Turner Thiselton-DyerWilliam Turner Thiselton-DyerSir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer KCMG FRS FLS was a leading British botanist, and the third director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.- Life and career :Thiselton-Dyer was born in Westminster, London...
, (1843–1926), botanist - D. M. ThomasD. M. ThomasDonald Michael Thomas, known as D. M. Thomas , is a Cornish novelist, poet, and translator.Thomas was born in Redruth, Cornwall, UK. He attended Trewirgie Primary School and Redruth Grammar School before graduating with First Class Honours in English from New College, Oxford in 1959...
(born 1935), novelist, poet and translator - Donald ThomasDonald ThomasDonald Serrell Thomas is an English author of Victorian-era historical, crime and detective fiction, as well as books on factual crime and criminals, in particular several academic books on the history of crime in London...
, (born 1926), novelist - Edward ThomasEdward Thomas (poet)Philip Edward Thomas was an Anglo-Welsh writer of prose and poetry. He is commonly considered a war poet, although few of his poems deal directly with his war experiences. Already an accomplished writer, Thomas turned to poetry only in 1914...
, (1878–1917), poet - Elizabeth ThomasElizabeth Thomas (poet)Elizabeth Thomas , poet, was born in London, the only child of Elizabeth Osborne , aged 16, and lawyer Emmanuel Thomas , aged 60. Her father died when she was an infant and she and her mother faced financial hardship. She was educated at home, was well read, and learnt some French and Latin...
, (1675–1731), poet - Elizabeth ThomasElizabeth Thomas (Poet/novelist)Elizabeth Thomas [née Wolferstan] , novelist and poet, is an ambiguous figure. Details of her early life are missing, and her authorship of some works attributed to her is contested....
, (used pen names Mrs Bridget Bluemantle and Mrs Martha Homely, 1770/71-1855), novelists and poets - Hugh ThomasHugh ThomasHugh Thomas , is a British historian and life peer.Hugh Thomas may also refer to:* Hugh Thomas , American choral conductor, pianist and educator* Hugh Thomas , Australian rules football coach...
, (born 1931), historian - Scarlett ThomasScarlett ThomasScarlett Thomas, born 1972 in Hammersmith, is an English author. She has written eight novels, including The End of Mr. Y and PopCo, and teaches Creative Writing at the University of Kent.-Biography:...
, (born 1972), novelist - Flora ThompsonFlora ThompsonFlora Jane Thompson was an English novelist and poet famous for her semi-autobiographical trilogy about the English countryside, Lark Rise to Candleford.-Early life and family:...
, (1876–1947), novelist and poet, Lark Rise to CandlefordLark Rise to CandlefordLark Rise to Candleford is a trilogy of semi-autobiographical novels about the countryside of north-east Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire, England, at the end of the 19th century. They were written by Flora Thompson and first published together in 1945... - Francis ThompsonFrancis ThompsonFrancis Thompson was an English poet and ascetic. After attending college, he moved to London to become a writer, but in menial work, became addicted to opium, and was a street vagrant for years. A married couple read his poetry and rescued him, publishing his first book, Poems in 1893...
, (1859–1907), poet - Harry ThompsonHarry ThompsonHarry William Thompson was an English radio and television producer, comedy writer, novelist and biographer....
, (1960–2005), television producer, biographer and novelist - Kate ThompsonKate Thompson (author)Kate Thompson is an award-winning writer for children and adults. Born in Halifax, Yorkshire, she has lived in Ireland, where many of her books are set, since 1981. She is the youngest child of the social historians and peace activists E. P. Thompson and Dorothy Towers...
, (born 1956), novelist and children's writer - William ThomsWilliam ThomsWilliam John Thoms was a British writer credited with coining the term "folklore" in the 1840s. Thoms's investigation of folklore and myth led to a later career of debunking longevity myths...
, (1803–1885), antiquarian and miscellanist - Giles ThomsonGiles Thomson-Life:He was born in London, and educated at Merchant Taylors' School, and to University College, Oxford where he matriculated in 1571. He became a Fellow of All Souls College in 1580, and Divinity Reader at Magdalen College. Queen Elizabeth made him one of her chaplains.He became Dean of Windsor...
, (1553–1612), scholar, AV translator and cleric - Richard Thomson, (fl. 1600s), scholar, AV translator and cleric
- Wilfrid ThorleyWilfrid ThorleyWilfrid Thorley was an English poet and translator.He was educated privately, then at the Liverpool Institute and Grenoble University...
, (1878–1963), poet and educationalist - George Walter ThornburyGeorge Walter ThornburyGeorge Walter Thornbury was an English author. He was the son of a London solicitor, reared by his aunt and educated by her husband, Reverend Barton Bouchier. A journalist by profession, he also wrote verse, novels, art criticism and popular historical and topographical sketches...
, (1828–1876), poet, novelist and travel writer - Matt ThorneMatt ThorneMatt Thorne is an English writer born in 1974 who has published seven novels. Thorne grew up in Bristol, England, and was educated at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University. Thorne's first book, Tourist, was published in 1998. The book is an attack on the negative effects of tourism on...
, (b. 1974), novelist - William ThorneWilliam Thorne (orientalist)William Thorne was an English clergyman and orientalist, Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford in 1598.-Life:He was born at Semley, Wiltshire, in 1568 or 1569, entered Winchester College in 1582. Proceeding to New College, Oxford, he matriculated on 15 April 1586, and was elected a fellow in the...
, (c. 1568-1630), orientalist, AV translator and cleric - Robert John ThorntonRobert John ThorntonRobert John Thornton was an English physician and botanical writer, noted for "A New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus Von Linnæus" and "The British Flora" of 1812. He was the son of Bonnell Thornton and studied at Trinity College, Cambridge...
, (1768–1837), botanist and physician - Tim ThorntonTim ThorntonTim Thornton is an English drummer and novelist.Thornton was born in Darlington, had a boarding-school education, and gained a degree in drama. He is currently playing drums for the indie rock act Fink. His debut novel The Alternative Hero has been described by The Guardian as "the indiest book...
, (born 1973), novelist and drummer - Adam ThorpeAdam ThorpeAdam Thorpe is a British poet, novelist and playwright whose works also include short stories and radio dramas.-Career:Adam Thorpe was born in Paris and grew up in India, Cameroon and England...
, (born 1956), poet and novelist - Kay ThorpeKay ThorpeKay Thorpe is a British author of over seventy-five romance novels. She published her novels in Mills & Boon since 1968. All her novels have also been published under Harlequin Enterprises Limited. Over a period of four decades, she has produced a body of sensuous work that investigates heritage,...
, (born 1940s), author of Harlequin romances - Hester ThraleHester ThraleHester Lynch Thrale was a British diarist, author, and patron of the arts. Her diaries and correspondence are an important source of information about Samuel Johnson and 18th-century life.-Biography:Thrale was born at Bodvel Hall, Caernarvonshire, Wales...
, (later Piozzi, 1741–1821), diarist and biographer, - Colin ThubronColin ThubronColin Gerald Dryden Thubron, CBE is a British travel writer and novelist.In 2008, The Times ranked him 45th on their list of the 50 greatest postwar British writers. He is a contributor to The New York Review of Books, The Times, The Times Literary Supplement and The New York Times. His books...
, (born 1939), travel writer and novelist - Edward ThurlowEdward Thurlow, 1st Baron ThurlowEdward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow PC, KC was a British lawyer and Tory politician. He served as Lord Chancellor of Great Britain for fourteen years and under four Prime Ministers.- Early life:...
, Lord Thurlow, (1731–1806), poet and lord chancellor - E. Temple ThurstonE. Temple ThurstonErnest Temple Thurston was an Anglo-Irish poet, playwright and author. He was born in Halesworth, Suffolk, England, and his family moved to Cork when he was aged ten. In 1901 he married the popular novelist, Katherine Cecil Madden, . The marriage did not last and they separated in 1907 and were...
, (1879-1933), playwright, poet and novelist - Anthony ThwaiteAnthony ThwaiteAnthony Simon Thwaite, OBE, is an English poet and writer. He is married to the writer Ann Thwaite. He was awarded the OBE in 1992, for services to poetry. He was mainly brought up in Yorkshire and currently lives in Norfolk....
, (born 1930), poet and writer - Chidiock TichborneChidiock TichborneChidiock Tichborne is remembered as an English conspirator and poet.-Biography:He was born in Southampton sometime after 24 August 1562 to Roman Catholic parents, Peter Tichborne and his wife Elizabeth . His birth date has been given as circa 1558 in many sources, though unverified, and thus...
, (1558–1586), poet and conspirator - Thomas TickellThomas TickellThomas Tickell was a minor English poet and man of letters.-Life:The son of a clergyman, he was born at Bridekirk near Cockermouth, Cumberland. He was educated at St Bees School 1695-1701, and in 1701 entered the Queen's College, Oxford, taking his M.A. degree in 1709...
, (1686–1740), poet - Robert TigheRobert TigheRobert Tighe , was an English cleric and linguist. He was educated at both Oxford and Cambridge and served as Archdeacon of Middlesex and Vicar of the Church of All Hallows Barking, London. He left his son an unusually large estate of £1000 per annum...
, (died 1620), AV translator and cleric - Terence TillerTerence TillerTerence Rogers Tiller was an English poet and radio producer.-Early life:He was born in Truro, Cornwall. His early career was in medieval history at the University of Cambridge. During the World War II he taught in Cairo.-BBC:In 1946 he joined the BBC; and was a known Fitzrovian...
, (1916–1987), poet and radio producer - E. M. W. TillyardE. M. W. TillyardEustace Mandeville Wetenhall Tillyard was a British classical scholar and literary scholar. He was a Fellow in English at Jesus College and later Master of Jesus College , Cambridge. He is known mainly for his book The Elizabethan World Picture, as background to Elizabethan Literature,...
, (1889-1962), classical scholar and literary critic - Stella TillyardStella TillyardStella Tillyard is a British author and historian born in 1957, best known for the best-selling Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox, 1740-1832 which was made into a BBC Miniseries in 1999.-From academic to novelist:...
, (born 1957), historian and novelist - William M. TimlinWilliam M. TimlinWilliam Mitcheson Timlin was an architect and illustrator. He was born in Ashington, Northumberland, the son of a colliery foreman. He showed talent for drawing at Morpeth Grammar School, and received a scholarship to the Armstrong College of Art in Newcastle...
, (1892–1943), writer and illustrator - Peter TinniswoodPeter TinniswoodPeter Tinniswood was an English radio and TV comedy scriptwriter, and author of a series of popular cricketing novels...
, (1936–2003), novelist and comedy scriptwriter - John TobinJohn Tobin (dramatist)John Tobin was a British playwright, who was for most of his life unsuccessful, but in the year of his death made a hit with The Honey Moon...
, (1770–1804), playwright - Barbara Euphan ToddBarbara Euphan ToddBarbara Euphan Todd was a British writer, most notable for her children's books about the scarecrow Worzel Gummidge....
, (1890–1976), novelist and children's writer, Worzel GummidgeWorzel GummidgeWorzel Gummidge is a British children's fictional character who originally appeared in a series of books by the novelist Barbara Euphan Todd. A walking, talking scarecrow, Gummidge has a set of interchangeable turnip, mangel worzel and swede heads, each of which suit a particular occasion or endow... - H. E. ToddH. E. Todd- Writing :He is best known for his "Bobby Brewster" children's books. Often the stories would have common household items suddenly coming to life and chatting to young Bobby Brewster....
, (died 1988), children's writer - J. R. R. TolkienJ. R. R. TolkienJohn Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.Tolkien was Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Pembroke College,...
, (1892–1973), fantasy writer and scholar, The Lord of the RingsThe Lord of the RingsThe Lord of the Rings is a high fantasy epic written by English philologist and University of Oxford professor J. R. R. Tolkien. The story began as a sequel to Tolkien's earlier, less complex children's fantasy novel The Hobbit , but eventually developed into a much larger work. It was written in... - Elizabeth TolletElizabeth TolletElizabeth Tollet was a British poet. Her surviving works are varied; she produced translations of classical themes, religious and philosophical poetry and poems arguing for better education for women...
, (1694-1754), poet - Thomas TomkisThomas TomkisThomas Tomkis was an English playwright of the late Elizabethan and the Jacobean eras, and arguably one of the more cryptic figures of English Renaissance drama....
, (c. 1580-1634), playwright - Claire TomalinClaire TomalinClaire Tomalin is an English biographer and journalist. She was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge.She was literary editor of the New Statesman and of the Sunday Times, and has written several noted biographies...
, (born 1933), literary biographer - Charles TomlinsonCharles TomlinsonAlfred Charles Tomlinson, CBE is a British poet and translator, and also an academic and artist. He was born and raised in Penkhull in the city of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.-Life:...
, (born 1927), poet and translator - H. M. TomlinsonH. M. TomlinsonHenry Major Tomlinson was a British writer and journalist. He was known for anti-war and travel writing, novels and short stories, especially of life at sea.He was brought up in Poplar, London...
, (1873–1958), travel writer, novelist and journalist - Rosemary TonksRosemary TonksRosemary Tonks is an English author and poet. She disappeared from the public eye after her conversion to Fundamentalist Christianity in the 1970s, and nothing is known about her life since.- Early life :...
, (born 1932), poet and novelist - Charlotte Elizabeth TonnaCharlotte Elizabeth TonnaCharlotte Elizabeth Tonna was an English evangelical Protestant writer and novelist who wrote as Charlotte Elizabeth.- Life :...
, (pen name Charlotte Elizabeth, 1790–1846), tractarian and novelist - John Horne TookeJohn Horne TookeJohn Horne Tooke was an English politician and philologist.-Early life and work:He was born in Newport Street, Long Acre, Westminster, the third son of John Horne, a poulterer in Newport Market. As a youth at Eton College, Tooke described his father to friends as a "turkey merchant"...
, (1736–1812), philologist and politician - Augustus Montague TopladyAugustus Montague TopladyAugustus Montague Toplady was an Anglican cleric and hymn writer. He was a major Calvinist opponent of John Wesley. He is best remembered as the author of the hymn "Rock of Ages"...
, (1740–1778), theologian and hymn writer, Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me - Paul TordayPaul TordayPaul Torday is a British writer and the author of the comic novel, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. The book was the winner of the 2007 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic writing and was serialised on BBC Radio 4...
, (born 1946), novelist - Chris TorranceChris TorranceChris Torrance is a poet and musician associated with the British Poetry Revival.- Biography :Born in Edinburgh, Torrance grew up in London and moved to rural Wales in 1970. He has been teaching creative writing at the Cardiff University since 1976...
, (born 1941), poet and musician - Richard TottelRichard TottelRichard Tottel was an English publisher and influential member of the legal community. He ran his business from a shop was located at Temple Bar on Fleet Street in London...
, (died 1594), publisher and anthologist, Tottel's MiscellanyTottel's MiscellanySonges and Sonettes, usually called Tottel's Miscellany, was the first printed anthology of English poetry. It was published by Richard Tottel in 1557, and ran to many editions in the sixteenth century.-Richard Tottel:... - Cyril TourneurCyril TourneurCyril Tourneur was an English dramatist who enjoyed his greatest success during the reign of King James I of England. His best-known work is The Revenger's Tragedy , a play which has alternatively been attributed to Thomas Middleton.-Life:Cyril Tourneur was possibly the son of Captain Richard...
, (1575–1626), playwright - Nigel TourneurNigel TourneurNigel Tourneur was a fin de siecle writer known for one work only - Hidden Witchery. a collection of seven short stories and a short prose drama. Set in the indeterminate past, these sensually charged stories are concerned with obsessive love, often given a macabre or supernatural twist.In an...
, (fl. 1898), writer - Doreen ToveyDoreen ToveyDoreen Tovey was an English writer and cat lover.She was the author of more than a dozen books about the life she and her husband 'Charles' shared with their Siamese cats and other animals in Somerset, England...
, (1918–2008), cat writer - Sue TownsendSue Townsend-Adrian Mole series:* The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ , her best selling book, and the best-selling new British fiction book of the 1980s.* The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole * The True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole...
, (born 1946), novelist, the Adrian MoleAdrian MoleAdrian Albert Mole is the fictional protagonist in a series of books by English author Sue Townsend. The character first appeared in a BBC Radio 4 play in 1982. The books are written in the form of a diary, with some additional content such as correspondence...
books - Aurelian TownshendAurelian TownshendAurelian Townshend was a seventeenth-century English poet and playwright.-Life:Very little is well established about Townshend's life...
, (1583–1643), poet and playwright - Arnold ToynbeeArnold ToynbeeArnold Toynbee was a British economic historian also noted for his social commitment and desire to improve the living conditions of the working classes.-Biography:...
, (1852–1883), economic historian - Arnold J. ToynbeeArnold J. ToynbeeArnold Joseph Toynbee CH was a British historian whose twelve-volume analysis of the rise and fall of civilizations, A Study of History, 1934–1961, was a synthesis of world history, a metahistory based on universal rhythms of rise, flowering and decline, which examined history from a global...
, (1889–1975), historian - Philip ToynbeePhilip ToynbeeTheodore Philip Toynbee was a British writer and communist. He wrote experimental novels, and distinctive verse novels, one of which was an epic called Pantaloon, a work in several volumes, only some of which are published...
, (1916–1981), novelist, poet and journalist - Polly ToynbeePolly ToynbeePolly Toynbee is a British journalist and writer, and has been a columnist for The Guardian newspaper since 1998. She is a social democrat and broadly supports the Labour Party, while urging it in many areas to be more left-wing...
, (born 1946), journalist and writer - John TradescantJohn Tradescant the youngerJohn Tradescant the Younger , son of John Tradescant the elder, was a botanist and gardener, born in Meopham, Kent and educated at The King's School, Canterbury...
, (1608–1662), botanist and antiquary - Thomas TraherneThomas TraherneThomas Traherne, MA was an English poet and religious writer. His style is often considered Metaphysical.-Life:...
, (1636/7-1674), poet and religious writer - Henry Duff TraillHenry Duff TraillHenry Duff Traill , was a British author and journalist.Born at Blackheath, he belonged to an old Caithness family, the Traills of Rattar, and his father, James Traill, was the stipendiary magistrate of Greenwich and Woolwich Police Court...
, (1842–1900), humorist, editor and biographer - Anna TrapnellAnna TrapnellAnna Trapnell was an alleged Prophetess in England in the 1650s, associated with the Fifth Monarchists whom she joined in 1652. In January 1654, Trapnell fell into a trance for eleven or twelve days, during which time she sang, prayed, and prophesied before a large crowd of people. Her trance and...
, (fl. 1650s), religious writer - Ben TraversBen TraversBen Travers AFC CBE in London) was a British playwright best remembered for his farces.Born in the London borough of Hendon, Travers was educated at Charterhouse, where today there is a theatre named for him...
, (1886–1980), playwright and novelist - Karen TravissKaren TravissKaren Traviss is a science fiction author, and full-time novelist from Wiltshire, England. Originally from the Portsmouth area, Traviss worked as both a journalist and defence correspondent before turning her attention to writing fiction. She also served in both the Territorial Army and the Royal...
, (fl. 2004-present), novelist - Mary TreadgoldMary TreadgoldMary Treadgold was a British author who won the Carnegie Medal in 1941 for her children's book We Couldn't Leave Dinah.Treadgold attended St Paul's Girls' School and Bedford College, London...
, (1910–2005), children's writer - Geoffrey TreaseGeoffrey TreaseGeoffrey Trease was a prolific writer, publishing 113 books between 1934 and 1997 . His work has been translated into 20 languages...
, (1909–1998), children's writer, Bows Against the BaronsBows Against the BaronsBows Against the Barons is a 1934 children's novel by British author Geoffrey Trease. Based on the legend of Robin Hood, it tells the story of an adolescent boy who joins his outlaw band and takes part in a great rebellion against the feudal elite. As Trease's first novel, Bows Against the Barons... - Miles TredinnickMiles TredinnickMiles Tredinnick, also known as Riff Regan, is a rock musician, songwriter and a stage and screen writer. In the 1970s, he was the lead singer with the British rock band London. Afterwards he went on to write comedy plays for the stage...
, (born 1955), playwright, screenwriter and singer - Iris TreeIris TreeIris Tree was an English poet, actress and artists' model, described as a bohemian, an eccentric, a wit and an adventuress....
, (1897–1968), poet and actress - Viola TreeViola TreeViola Tree was an English actress, singer, playwright and author. Daughter of the actor Herbert Beerbohm Tree, she made many of her early appearances with his company at His Majesty's Theatre...
, (1884–1938), writer, singer and actress - Henry TreeceHenry TreeceHenry Treece was a British poet and writer, who worked also as a teacher, and editor. He is perhaps best remembered now as a historical novelist, particularly as a children's historical novelist, although he also wrote some adult historical novels.-Life and work:Treece was born in Wednesbury,...
, (1911–1966), poet, novelist and children's writer, the Viking TrilogyViking TrilogyThe Viking Trilogy is a trilogy of juvenile historical novels by Henry Treece.They are Viking's Dawn, The Road to Miklagard and Viking's Sunset. Treece wrote several juvenile historical novels, some set during the viking era, but this trilogy is regarded as among his best.The three novels describe... - Edward John Trelawney, (1792–1881), biographer and novelist
- Rose TremainRose TremainRose Tremain CBE is an English author.-Life:Rose Tremain was born Rosemary Jane Thomson on August 2, 1943 in London and attended Francis Holland School then Crofton Grange School from 1954 to 1961; the Sorbonne from 1961–1962; and graduated from the University of East Anglia in 1965 where she then...
, (born 1943), novelist - Richard Chevenix Trench, (1807–1886), philologist, poet and archbishop
- Robert TressellRobert TressellRobert Tressell was the nom-de-plume of Robert Croker, latterly Robert Noonan, an Irish writer best known for his novel The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists.-Early life:...
or Tressall (real name Robert Croker, later Noonan, 1870–1911), novelist, The Ragged Trousered PhilanthropistsThe Ragged Trousered PhilanthropistsThe Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists is a novel by Robert Tressell first published in 1914 after his death in 1911. An explicitly political work, it is widely regarded as a classic of working-class literature.-Background:... - G. M. TrevelyanG. M. TrevelyanGeorge Macaulay Trevelyan, OM, CBE, FRS, FBA , was a British historian. Trevelyan was the third son of Sir George Otto Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet, and great-nephew of Thomas Babington Macaulay, whose staunch liberal Whig principles he espoused in accessible works of literate narrative avoiding a...
, (1876–1962), historian - George TrevelyanSir George Trevelyan, 2nd BaronetSir George Otto Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet OM, PC was a British statesman and author. In a ministerial career stretching almost 30 years, he was most notably twice Secretary of State for Scotland under William Ewart Gladstone and the Earl of Rosebery...
, (1838–1928), writer and statesman - R. C. TrevelyanR. C. TrevelyanRobert Calverly Trevelyan was an English poet and translator, of a traditionalist sort, and a follower of the lapidary style of Logan Pearsall Smith.-Life:...
, (1872–1951), poet and translator - John TrevisaJohn TrevisaJohn Trevisa , was a Cornish writer and translator.Trevisa was born at Trevessa in the parish of St Enoder in mid-Cornwall, and was a native Cornish speaker...
, (1342–1402), translator - Elleston TrevorElleston TrevorElleston Trevor was the pseudonym, and eventually legal name, of the British novelist Trevor Dudley-Smith , who also wrote as Adam Hall, Simon Rattray, Howard North, Roger Fitzalan, Mansell Black, Trevor Burgess, Warwick Scott, Caesar Smith and Lesley Stone...
, (born Trevor Dudley-Smith, other pen names Adam Hall, Simon Rattray, Howard North, Roger Fitzalan, Mansell Black, Trevor Burgess, Warwick Scott, Caesar Smith, Lesley Stone, 1920–1995), novelist - Rachel TrickettRachel TrickettRachel Trickett was an English novelist, non‑fiction writer, literary scholar, and a prominent British academic; she served as Principal of St Hugh’s College, Oxford for nearly twenty years, between 1973 and 1991....
, (1923–1999), novelist and scholar - Jonathan Trigell, (born 1974), novelist
- Sarah TrimmerSarah TrimmerSarah Trimmer was a noted writer and critic of British children's literature in the eighteenth century...
, (1741–1810), children's writer, Fabulous HistoriesFabulous HistoriesFabulous Histories , is the best-known work of Sarah Trimmer. Originally published in 1786, it remained in print until the beginning of the twentieth century.-Plot:... - Anthony TrollopeAnthony TrollopeAnthony Trollope was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Some of his best-loved works, collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, revolve around the imaginary county of Barsetshire...
, (1815–1882), novelist, Chronicles of BarsetshireChronicles of BarsetshireThe Chronicles of Barsetshire is a series of six novels by the English author Anthony Trollope, set in the fictitious cathedral town of Barchester... - Frances TrollopeFrances TrollopeFrances Milton Trollope was an English novelist and writer who published as Mrs. Trollope or Mrs. Frances Trollope...
, (1780–1863), novelist and writer - Joanna TrollopeJoanna TrollopeJoanna Trollope OBE , is an English novelist.-Life:Joanna Trollope was educated at Reigate County School for Girls followed by St Hugh's College, Oxford. From 1965 to 1967, she worked at the Foreign Office...
, (pen name Caroline Harvey, born 1943), novelist - Thomas Adolphus TrollopeThomas Adolphus TrollopeThomas Adolphus Trollope was born in Bloomsbury, London on 29 April 1810, the eldest son of Thomas Anthony & Frances Trollope . He was educated at Harrow School and Winchester College...
, (1810–1892), travel writer and novelist - Peter TrowerPeter TrowerPeter Gerald Trower is a Canadian poet and novelist.Trower was born in St Leonards-on-Sea, England, and came to Canada in 1940. He worked for 22 years as a logger and has been writing professionally since 1971....
, (born 1930), poet and novelist - Edwin Charles TubbEdwin Charles TubbEdwin Charles Tubb was a British writer of science fiction, fantasy and western novels. The author of over 140 novels and 230 short stories and novellas, Tubb is best known for The Dumarest Saga an epic science-fiction saga set in the far future...
, (countless pen names, born 1919), novelist - Abraham TuckerAbraham TuckerAbraham Tucker was an English country gentleman, who devoted himself to the study of philosophy. He wrote The Light of Nature Pursued under the name of Edward Search.-Biography:...
, (pen name Edward Search, 1705–1774), philosopher - Cuthbert TunstallCuthbert TunstallCuthbert Tunstall was an English Scholastic, church leader, diplomat, administrator and royal adviser...
, (or Tonstall, 1474–1559), religious writer and bishop - Martin Farquhar TupperMartin Farquhar TupperMartin Farquhar Tupper was an English writer, and poet, and the author of Proverbial Philosophy.-Early life:...
, (1810–1889), writer and poet - George TurbervilleGeorge TurbervilleGeorge Turberville, or Turbervile was an English poet, second son of Henry Turberville of Winterborne Whitechurch, Dorset, and nephew of James Turberville, Bishop of Exeter...
, (c. 1540-before 1597), poet - Charles Tennyson TurnerCharles Tennyson TurnerCharles Tennyson Turner was an English poet.Born in Somersby, Lincolnshire, he was an elder brother of Alfred Tennyson; his friendship and "heart union" with his greater brother is revealed in Poems by Two Brothers. He married Louisa Sellwood, the younger sister of Alfred's future wife; another...
, (1808–1879), poet and translator - Philip TurnerPhilip TurnerPhilip William Turner is an English author best known for his children's books about the fictional town of Darnley Mills and about the Reverend Septimus Treloar.-Life:...
, (pen name Stephen Chance, 1925–2006), children's writer and cleric, The Grange at High ForceThe Grange at High ForceThe Grange at High Force is a children's novel by Philip Turner, published in 1965. It won the Carnegie Medal for that year. It is the second in the author's Darnley Mills series, set in a mill town in the north of England, between the moors and the sea... - Reginald Turner, (1869–1938), novelist and aesthete
- Sharon TurnerSharon TurnerSharon Turner was an English historian.-Life:Born in Pentonville, Turner was the eldest son of William and Ann Turner, Yorkshire natives who had settled in London upon marrying. He left school at fifteen to be articled to an attorney in the Temple...
, (1768–1847), historian, History of the Anglo-SaxonsHistory of the Anglo-SaxonsHistory of the Anglo-Saxons is a writing by English historian Sharon Turner written between 1799 and 1805. Under the influence of Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry he compiled the first edition of the History of the Anglo-Saxons between 1799 and 1805, and became one of the earliest... - Thomas Turner, (1729–1793), diarist and shopkeeper
- Thomas TusserThomas TusserThomas Tusser was an English poet and farmer, best known for his instructional poem Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, published in 1557. It contains the lines...
, (1524–1580), poet and farmer - Robert TwiggerRobert TwiggerRobert Twigger is a British poet, writer and explorer. He lives in Cairo, Egypt.-Life:Twigger was educated at Balliol College, Oxford University. He first began to study engineering, but after six weeks switched to politics, philosophy and economics. His attendance record was poor, and he left...
, (born 1964), writer - Kenneth TynanKenneth TynanKenneth Peacock Tynan was an influential and often controversial English theatre critic and writer.-Early life:...
, (1927-1980), drama critic and producer - William TyndaleWilliam TyndaleWilliam Tyndale was an English scholar and translator who became a leading figure in Protestant reformism towards the end of his life. He was influenced by the work of Desiderius Erasmus, who made the Greek New Testament available in Europe, and by Martin Luther...
, (1494–1536), scholar and Bible translator - George TyrrellGeorge TyrrellGeorge Tyrrell was a Jesuit priest and a Modernist theologian and scholar. His attempts to evolve and adapt Catholic teaching in the context of modern ideas made him a key figure in the Modernist controversy within the Roman Catholic Church in the late 19th century.Tyrrell was born in Dublin,...
, (1861–1909), theologian and scholar - Robert Yelverton TyrrellRobert Yelverton TyrrellRobert Yelverton Tyrrell was an Irish classical scholar who was Regius Professor of Greek at Trinity College, Dublin.-Biography:...
, (1844–1914), writer, scholar and translator - Thomas TyrwhittThomas TyrwhittThomas Tyrwhitt was an English classical scholar and critic.-Life:He was born in London, where he also died. He was educated at Eton and Queen's College, Oxford . In 1756 he was appointed under-secretary at war, in 1762 clerk of the House of Commons...
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- Nicholas UdallNicholas UdallNicholas Udall was an English playwright, cleric, pederast and schoolmaster, the author of Ralph Roister Doister, generally regarded as the first comedy written in the English language.-Biography:...
, Uvedale or Woodall, (1505–1556), playwright and translator, Ralph Roister DoisterRalph Roister DoisterRalph Roister Doister is a comic play by Nicholas Udall, generally regarded as the first comedy to be written in the English language.The date of its composition is disputed, but the balance of opinion suggests that it was written in about 1553, when Udall was a teacher in London, and was intended... - Jenny UglowJenny UglowJennifer Sheila Uglow OBE is a British biographer, critic and publisher. The editorial director of Chatto & Windus, she has written critically acclaimed biographies of Elizabeth Gaskell, William Hogarth, Thomas Bewick and the Lunar Society, among others, and has also compiled a women's...
, (born c. 1945), biographer and critic - Evelyn UnderhillEvelyn UnderhillEvelyn Underhill was an English Anglo-Catholic writer and pacifist known for her numerous works on religion and spiritual practice, in particular Christian mysticism....
, (1875–1941), religious writer and novelist - Barry UnsworthBarry UnsworthBarry Unsworth is a British novelist who is known for novels with historical themes. He has published 15 novels, and has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times, winning once for the 1992 novel Sacred Hunger....
, (born 1930), historical novelist - Cathi UnsworthCathi UnsworthCathi Unsworth is an English writer and journalist. After working for Melody Maker and Bizarre, she began writing novels, with The Not Knowing in 2005 and The Singer in 2007, on Serpent's Tail...
, (born c. 1970s), novelist and journalist - Edward UpwardEdward UpwardEdward Falaise Upward was a British novelist and short story writer and, prior to his death, was believed to be the UK's oldest living author.-Biography:...
, (1903–2009), novelist and story writer - Thomas UskThomas UskThomas Usk was appointed the under-sheriff of London by Richard II in 1387.- Author of The Testament of Love :Born in London, he is the author of The Testament of Love, which was once thought to be by Geoffrey Chaucer.- Appeal :...
, (died 1388), poet - Alison UttleyAlison UttleyAlison Uttley , née Alice Jane Taylor, was a prolific British writer of over 100 books. She is now best known for her children's series about Little Grey Rabbit, and Sam Pig....
, (1884–1976), children's writer, Little Grey RabbitLittle Grey RabbitLittle Grey Rabbit is the lead character in an English classic series of children's books, written by Alison Uttley and illustrated by Margaret Tempest.-Characters:* Little Grey Rabbit* Hare* Milkman Hedgehog* Mrs Hedgehog* Fuzzypeg, a hedgehog...
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- Horace Annesley VachellHorace Annesley VachellHorace Annesley Vachell was a prolific English writer of novels, plays, short stories, essays and autobiographical works.Born in Sydenham, Kent on 30 October 1861, he was educated at Harrow and Sandhurst. After a short period in the Rifle Brigade, he went to California where he became partner in...
, (1861-1955), novelist and playwright - John Van der KisteJohn Van der KisteJohn Van der Kiste, author, was born in Wendover, Buckinghamshire, on September 15, 1954, son of Wing Commander Guy Van der Kiste . He was educated at Blundell's School, Tiverton, where he briefly formed a rock band Cobweb with fellow pupil Miles Tredinnick, later vocalist with new wave band...
, (born 1954), writer and polymath - John VanbrughJohn VanbrughSir John Vanbrugh – 26 March 1726) was an English architect and dramatist, perhaps best known as the designer of Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard. He wrote two argumentative and outspoken Restoration comedies, The Relapse and The Provoked Wife , which have become enduring stage favourites...
, (1664–1726), playwright and architect - Thomas Vaux, (1510–1556), poet
- R. V. VernèdeR. V. VernèdeRaymond Veveysan Vernède was an English colonial administrator in India and a writer. He was educated at Bradfield College and Hertford College, Oxford. He was in the Indian Civil Service from 1928 to 1947; later he became Fellow of St. Peter's College, Oxford.On 6 Nov...
, (1905–2003), writer and colonial administrator - Frances VernonFrances VernonFrances Vernon was a British novelist. She wrote her first novel Privileged Children at the age of sixteen. It won the Author's Club First Novel Award. She studied at New Hall, Cambridge, but soon left to continue her writing...
, (1963–1991), novelist, The Fall of Doctor OnslowThe Fall of Doctor OnslowThe Fall of Doctor Onslow is a novel by Frances Vernon, published in 1994. Many of its characters are loosely based on real people, sometimes with names changed.-Plot summary:... - F. B. VickersF. B. VickersFrederick Bert Vickers was an Australian novelist.Born in England F. B. Vickers migrated to Australia in 1925. He worked on the land, on sheep stations, as a poultry farmer and in road gangs, before serving with the Australian Imperial Force in the Middle East during World War II...
, (1903-1985), novelist and playwright - Salley VickersSalley VickersSalley Vickers is an English novelist whose works include the word-of-mouth bestseller Miss Garnet's Angel, Mr. Golightly's Holiday, The Other Side of You and Where Three Roads Meet, a retelling of the Oedipus myth to Sigmund Freud in the last months of his life...
, (born 1948), novelist and psychotherapist - Sherard VinesSherard VinesWalter Sherard Vines was an English writer and academic who wrote poetry, novels, and criticism.He was born in Oxford and educated at Magdalen College School and New College, Oxford. He was published in Oxford Poetry, and took an academic position at Belfast University in 1914. He served in the...
, (1890–1974), poet, novelist and critic - Elfrida VipontElfrida VipontElfrida Vipont was the pen name of Elfrida Vipont Foulds , a British children's author. She was also a schoolteacher and a prominent member of the Society of Friends in England.-Parentage and education:...
, (real name Elfrida Vipont Foulds, 1902–1992), children's writer - E. H. VisiakE. H. VisiakEdward Harold Physick was an English writer, known chiefly as a critic and authority on John Milton; also a poet and fantasy writer. He used the pseudonym E. H. Visiak from 1910.-Life:...
, (real name Edward Harold Physick, 1878–1972), poet and novelist - E. C. VivianE. C. VivianEvelyn Charles Henry Vivian was the pseudonym of Charles Henry Cannell, a British editor and writer of fantasy and supernatural, detective novels and stories.-Biography:...
, (real name Charles Henry Cannell, 1882–1947), novelist and military history writer - Ernest Alfred VizetellyErnest Alfred VizetellyErnest Alfred Vizetelly , author, son of English publisher Henry Vizetelly. Ernest re-published some of his fathers works about Emile Zola but modified them...
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- Thomas WadeThomas Wade (writer)Thomas Wade was an English poet and dramatist.Wade a.k.a Wade Lavender by his early readers was born at Woodbridge, Suffolk. He early went to London, where he began to publish verse of considerable merit under the inspiration of Byron, Keats and especially Shelley...
, (1805–1875), poet and playwright - Rekha WaheedRekha WaheedRekha Waheed is a British writer and novelist. She is best known as the author of "The A-Z Guide To Arranged Marriage."-Background and education:Waheed was born in West London, United Kingdom to parents of Bangladeshi origin...
, (born c. 1980s), novelist - John WainJohn WainJohn Barrington Wain was an English poet, novelist, and critic, associated with the literary group "The Movement". For most of his life, Wain worked as a freelance journalist and author, writing and reviewing for newspapers and the radio. He seems to have married in 1947, since C. S...
, (1925–1994), poet and novelist - Edward Gibbon WakefieldEdward Gibbon WakefieldEdward Gibbon Wakefield was a British politician, the driving force behind much of the early colonisation of South Australia, and later New Zealand....
, (1796–1862), writer, colonist and politician - Gilbert WakefieldGilbert WakefieldGilbert Wakefield was an English scholar and controversialist.Gilbert Wakefield was the third son of the Rev. George Wakefield, then rector of St Nicholas' Church, Nottingham but afterwards at Kingston-upon-Thames. He was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. as second...
, (1756–1801), scholar and controversialist - H. Russell WakefieldH. Russell WakefieldHerbert Russell Wakefield was an English short story writer, novelist, publisher, and civil servant chiefly remembered today for his ghost stories.-Life:...
, (1890–1964), novelist and story writer - George WaldronGeorge WaldronGeorge Waldron , was an English topographer and poet.Waldron, born in 1690, was son of Francis Waldron of London, who was descended from an ancient family in Essex. He appears to have received his early education at Felsted School, and on 7 May 1706 he was matriculated at The Queen's College, Oxford...
, (1690-c. 1730), topographer and poet - Arthur WaleyArthur WaleyArthur David Waley CH, CBE was an English orientalist and sinologist.-Life:Waley was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, as Arthur David Schloss, son of the economist David Frederick Schloss...
, (1889–1966), orientalist and translator - George WalkerGeorge Walker (Puritan)George Walker was an English clergyman, known for strong Puritan views. He was imprisoned in 1638 by William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, an affair that was raised later against Laud at his trial...
, (c. 1581-1651), religious writer and cleric - George WalkerGeorge Walker (Presbyterian)George Walker was a versatile English dissenter, known as a mathematician, theologian, Fellow of the Royal Society, and activist.-Life:...
, (c. 1734–1807), dissenting writer and mathematician - George WalkerGeorge Walker (novelist)George Walker was an English gothic novelist. He was born in Falcon Square, Cripplegate, London, England. He worked as a bookseller and music publisher...
, (1772-1847), novelist and political writer - George WalkerGeorge Walker (chess player)George Walker was an English chess player and author of The Celebrated Analysis of A D Philidor , The Art of Chess-Play: A New Treatise on the Game of Chess , A Selection of Games at Chess played by Philidor , Chess Made Easy , and Chess Studies .In 1839 visited...
, (1803-after 1851), chess writer, player and promoter - Obadiah WalkerObadiah WalkerObadiah Walker was an English academic and Master of University College, Oxford from 1676 to 1688.-Life:Walker was born at Darfield near Barnsley, South Yorkshire, and was educated at University College, Oxford, becoming a fellow and tutor of this College and a prominent figure in University circles...
, (1616–1699), scholar and writer on education - Ted WalkerTed WalkerEdward Joseph Walker was a prize-winning English poet, short story writer, travel writer, TV and radio dramatist and broadcaster.-Early life:...
, (1934–2004), poet, dramatist and broadcaster - Alfred Russel WallaceAlfred Russel WallaceAlfred Russel Wallace, OM, FRS was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist...
, (1823–1913), naturalist and biologist - Edgar WallaceEdgar WallaceRichard Horatio Edgar Wallace was an English crime writer, journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and playwright, who wrote 175 novels, 24 plays, and numerous articles in newspapers and journals....
, (1875–1932), novelist and playwright - Nick WallaceNick WallaceNick Wallace is a novelist and short story writer based in Tunbridge Wells, best known for his work in Doctor Who spin-offs. He is the author of Fear Itself, the only BBC novel to date featuring solely the Eighth Doctor not to be published as part of the ongoing Eighth Doctor Adventures line;...
, (born 1972), novelist - Edmund WallerEdmund WallerEdmund Waller, FRS was an English poet and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1624 and 1679.- Early life :...
, (1606–1687), poet - John WallerSir John Waller, 7th BaronetSir John Stanier Waller, 7th Baronet was an English author, poet and journalist. He was one of the group of Cairo poets during World War II...
, (1917–1995), poet and anthologist - John Wallis, (1616–1703), mathematician and writer
- Martin WallsMartin Walls-Life:Martin Walls was born in Brighton, England in 1970 and now lives in Baldwinsville, New York with his wife, Christine, and son Alexander. A US Library of Congress Witter Bynner Fellow, he is the author of three books of poems: , , and...
, (born 1970), poet and journalist - Leo WalmsleyLeo WalmsleyLeo Walmsley was an English writer.He was born at 7 Clifton Place, Shipley in the county of West Yorkshire in 1892, and two years later his family moved to Robin Hood's Bay on the coast of present-day North Yorkshire, where he was schooled at the old Wesleyan chapel...
, (1892–1966), novelist and autobiographer - Horace Walpole, (1717–1797), novelist and man of letters, The Castle of OtrantoThe Castle of OtrantoThe Castle of Otranto is a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole. It is generally regarded as the first gothic novel, initiating a literary genre which would become extremely popular in the later 18th century and early 19th century...
- Hugh WalpoleHugh WalpoleSir Hugh Seymour Walpole, CBE was an English novelist. A prolific writer, he published thirty-six novels, five volumes of short stories, two plays and three volumes of memoirs. His skill at scene-setting, his vivid plots, his high profile as a lecturer and his driving ambition brought him a large...
, (1884–1941), novelist - Helen WalshHelen WalshHelen Walsh is an English writer. To date she has written three novels: Brass , Once Upon a Time in England , and Go to Sleep , all of which have been published by Canongate.-Biography:...
, (born 1977), novelist - Jill Paton WalshJill Paton WalshJill Paton Walsh, CBE, FRSL is an English novelist and children's writer.Born as Gillian Bliss and educated at St. Michael's Convent, North Finchley, London, she read English Literature at St Anne's College, Oxford...
(born 1937), novelist and children's writer - Sheila WalshSheila Walsh (novelist)Sheila Walsh, née Sheila Frances O'Nions was a British writer of romance novels from 1975 to 2001; she also wrote as Sophie Leyton....
, (1928-2009), novelist - William Walsh, (1663–1708), poet and critic
- Guy WaltersGuy WaltersGuy Walters is a British author and journalist.-Life and career:Guy Walters was born in Kensington, London. A descendant of Richard Harris Barham and Edward Augustus Bond, he was educated at Cheam School, Eton College, Westfield College, University of London , and is studying for a PhD in history...
, (born 1971), novelist and journalist - Hugh WaltersHugh Walters (author)Hugh Walters was a writer of juvenile Science Fiction novels from Bradley in the West Midlands region of the United Kingdom.-Biography:...
, (1910–1993), novelist - Minette WaltersMinette WaltersMinette Walters is an English crime writer.- Life and work :After her birth in Bishop’s Stortford to a serving army officer, Capt Samuel Jebb and his wife Colleen, the first 10 years of Minette’s life were spent moving between army bases in the north and south of England...
, (born 1949), novelist - Vanessa WaltersVanessa WaltersVanessa Walters, born in London, 1978 is an English novelist and playwright. She is also a commentator and critic. She is best known as the teenage novelist discovered to be writing a novel as a hobby to share with her school friends...
, (born 1978), novelist and playwright - Izaak WaltonIzaak WaltonIzaak Walton was an English writer. Best known as the author of The Compleat Angler, he also wrote a number of short biographies which have been collected under the title of Walton's Lives.-Biography:...
, (1593–1683), writer, The Compleat Angler - William WalwynWilliam WalwynWilliam Walwyn was an English pamphleteer, a Leveller and a medical practitioner.Walwyn was a silkman in London who took the parliamentary side in the English Civil War. He advocated religious toleration and emerged as a leader of the Levellers in 1647 which led to his imprisonment in 1649...
, (1600–1681), pamphleteer - Humfrey WanleyHumfrey WanleyHumfrey Wanley was a librarian, palaeographer and scholar of Old English, employed by manuscript collectors such as Robert and Edward Harley. He was the first keeper of the Harlein Library, now the Harleian Collection.-Life:...
, (1672–1726), scholar and palaeographer - William WarburtonWilliam WarburtonWilliam Warburton was an English critic and churchman, Bishop of Gloucester from 1759.-Life:He was born at Newark, where his father, who belonged to an old Cheshire family, was town clerk. William was educated at Oakham and Newark grammar schools, and in 1714 he was articled to Mr Kirke, an...
, (1698–1779), critic and bishop - Chris WardChris Ward (playwright)Chris Ward is an English/Canadian playwright, born in 1958.From 1979-82 attended the London International Film School.His play Demonstration of Affection was produced at the Arts Theatre in 1981, starring Richard Jobson of The Skids....
, (born 1958), playwright - Edward WardNed WardNed Ward , also known as Edward Ward, was a satirical writer and publican in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century based in London, England. His most famous work is The London Spy. Published in 18 monthly instalments starting in November 1698 it was described as a "complete survey" of...
, (1660 or 1667–1731), satirist and tavern keeper - Keith WardKeith WardKeith Ward is a British cleric, philosopher, theologian and scholar. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and an ordained priest of the Church of England. He was a canon of Christ Church, Oxford until 2003...
, (born 1938), philosopher and cleric - Mrs. Humphry WardMary Augusta WardMary Augusta Ward née Arnold; , was a British novelist who wrote under her married name as Mrs Humphry Ward.- Early life:...
, (born Mary Augusta Arnold, 1851–1920), novelist - Robert WardRobert Ward (scholar)Robert Ward was an English scholar, a fellow of King's College, Cambridge and prebendary of Chichester Cathedral. He served in the "Second Cambridge Company" charged by James I of England with translating the Apocrypha for the King James Version of the Bible....
, (fl. 1611), AV translator and cleric - Samuel WardSamuel Ward (scholar)Samuel Ward was an English academic and a master at the University of Cambridge.-Life:He was born at Bishop Middleham, county Durham. He was a scholar of Christ's College, Cambridge, where in 1592 he was admitted B.A. In 1595 he was elected to a fellowship at Emmanuel, and in the following year...
, (1572–1643), scholar, AV translator and cleric - Seth WardSeth Ward (bishop)Seth Ward was an English mathematician, astronomer, and bishop.-Early life:He was born in Hertfordshire, and educated at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1636 and M.A. in 1640, becoming a Fellow in that year...
, (1617–1689), controversialist, astronomer and bishop - Thomas Humphry WardThomas Humphry WardHumphry Ward was an English author and journalist, most notable as the husband of Mrs Humphry Ward....
, (1845–1926), writer and journalist - William George WardWilliam George WardWilliam George Ward was an English Roman Catholic theologian and mathematician whose career illustrates the development of religious opinion at a time of crisis in the history of English religious thought....
, (1812–1882), theologian and mathematician - Marina Warner, (born 1946), novelist
- Rex WarnerRex WarnerRex Warner was an English classicist, writer and translator. He is now probably best remembered for The Aerodrome , an allegorical novel whose young hero is faced with the disintegration of his certainties about his loved ones and with a choice between the earthy, animalistic life of his home...
, (1905–1986), novelist and translator - Sylvia Townsend WarnerSylvia Townsend WarnerSylvia Nora Townsend Warner was an English novelist and poet.-Life:Sylvia Townsend Warner was born at Harrow on the Hill, the only child of George Townsend Warner and his wife Eleanora Hudleston...
, (1893–1978), novelist and poet - John Warren, Lord de TableyJohn Warren, 3rd Baron de TableyJohn Byrne Leicester Warren, 3rd Baron De Tabley was an English poet, numismatist, botanist and an authority on bookplates.-Biography:...
(1835–1895), poet and botanist - Samuel WarrenSamuel Warren (English lawyer)Samuel Warren , was a British lawyer, novelist and MP.He was born near Wrexham, Denbighshire, the son of a Nonconformist minister...
, (1807-1877), novelist and barrister - Thomas Herbert WarrenThomas Herbert WarrenSir Thomas Herbert Warren was an English academic and administrator.Educated at Clifton College school, he entered Balliol College, Oxford in 1872, becoming a Fellow in 1877...
, (1853–1930), scholar and poet - Joseph WartonJoseph WartonJoseph Warton was an English academic and literary critic.He was born in Dunsfold, Surrey, England, but his family soon moved to Hampshire, where his father, the Reverend Thomas Warton, became vicar of Basingstoke. There, a few years later, Joseph's younger brother, the more famous Thomas Warton,...
, (1722–1800), poet and critic - homas Warton the Elder|Thomas Warton), (?1688–1745), poet and professor of poetry
- Thomas WartonThomas WartonThomas Warton was an English literary historian, critic, and poet. From 1785 to 1790 he was the Poet Laureate of England...
, (1728–1790), Poet LaureatePoet LaureateA poet laureate is a poet officially appointed by a government and is often expected to compose poems for state occasions and other government events...
and critic - Andrew WaterhouseAndrew WaterhouseAndrew Waterhouse was a British poet, and musician.-Life:He grew up in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire. He studied at Newcastle University, and Wye College, taking an MSc. in environmental science...
, (1958–2001), poet and environmentalist - Keith WaterhouseKeith WaterhouseKeith Spencer Waterhouse CBE was a novelist, newspaper columnist, and the writer of many television series.-Biography:Keith Waterhouse was born in Hunslet, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England...
, (1929–2009), novelist and screenwriter, Billy LiarBilly LiarBilly Liar is a 1959 novel by Keith Waterhouse, which was later adapted into a play, a film, a musical and a TV series. The work has inspired and featured in a number of popular songs.... - Sarah WatersSarah WatersSarah Waters is a British novelist. She is best known for her novels set in Victorian society, such as Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith.-Childhood:Sarah Waters was born in Neyland, Pembrokeshire, Wales in 1966....
, (born 1966), novelist - Charles WatertonCharles WatertonCharles Waterton was an English naturalist and explorer.-Heritage and Life:"Squire" Waterton was born at Walton Hall, Wakefield, Yorkshire to Thomas Waterton and Anne Bedingfield. He was of a Roman Catholic landed gentry family descended from Reiner de Waterton...
, (1782–1865), naturalist and explorer - Denys Watkins-PitchfordDenys Watkins-PitchfordDenys James Watkins-Pitchford MBE was a British naturalist, children's writer, and illustrator who wrote under the pseudonym "BB".-Early life:...
, (pen name BB, 1905–1990), naturalist and children's writer - David WatmoughDavid WatmoughDavid Arthur Watmough is a Canadian playwright, short story writer and novelist.Watmaugh was born in London, England, and attended King's College London. He has worked as a reporter David Arthur Watmough (born 17 August 1926) is a Canadian playwright, short story writer and novelist.Watmaugh was...
, (born 1926), playwright and novelist - Colin WatsonColin Watson (writer)Colin Watson was a British writer of detective fiction and the creator of characters such as Inspector Purbright and Lucilla Teatime. He is most famous for the twelve Flaxborough novels, typified by their comic and dry wit and set in a fictional small town in England which is closely based on...
, (1920–1983), novelist - Richard Watson, (1781–1833), Methodist theologian
- Richard WatsonRichard Watson (bishop)Rt Rev Richard Watson was an Anglican clergyman and academic, who served as the Bishop of Llandaff from 1782 to 1816. He wrote some notable political pamphlets....
, (1737–1816), religious and economic writer and bishop - Rosamund Marriott WatsonRosamund Marriott WatsonRosamund Marriott Watson was a Victorian poet and critic who wrote under the pseudonym of Graham R. Tomson. Her poems, which presaged modernism, are informed by aestheticism and occasionally avant-garde sensibilities. Watson's personal life was fraught with scandal, she left first husband George...
, (pen name Graham R. Tomson, 1860–1911), poet and gardening writer - Thomas WatsonThomas Watson (poet)Thomas Watson , English lyrical poet, was the son of William Watson and Anne Lee . He was educated at Winchester College and OxfordUniversity. He then spent 7 years in France and Italy before studying law in London...
, (1555–1592), poet and translator - Thomas WatsonThomas Watson (Puritan)Thomas Watson was an English, non-conformist, Puritan preacher and author.He was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he was noted for remarkably intense study. In 1646 he commenced a sixteen year pastorate at St. Stephen's, Walbrook...
, (c. 1620-1686), religious writer and preacher - William WatsonWilliam Watson (poet)Sir William Watson , was an English poet, popular in his time for the political content of his verse. He was born in Burley, in West Yorkshire....
, (1858–1935), poet - Winifred WatsonWinifred WatsonWinifred Eileen Watson was an English writer. She is best known for her novel, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, which was adapted into a major motion picture of the same name.-Biography:...
(1906–2002), novelist - Isaac WattsIsaac WattsIsaac Watts was an English hymnwriter, theologian and logician. A prolific and popular hymnwriter, he was recognised as the "Father of English Hymnody", credited with some 750 hymns...
, (1674–1748), hymn writer, O God, Our Help in Ages PastO God, Our Help in Ages PastO God, Our Help in Ages Past is a hymn by Isaac Watts and paraphrases Psalm 90. It originally consisted of nine stanzas. In present usage, however, the hymn is usually limited to stanzas one, two, three, five and nine... - Theodore Watts-DuntonTheodore Watts-DuntonTheodore Watts-Dunton was an English critic and poet. He is often remembered as the friend and minder of Algernon Charles Swinburne, whom he rescued from alcoholism.-Birth and education:...
, (1832–1914), critic, novelist and poet - Alec WaughAlec WaughAlexander Raban Waugh , was a British novelist, the elder brother of the better-known Evelyn Waugh and son of Arthur Waugh, author, literary critic, and publisher...
, (1898–1981), novelist - Auberon WaughAuberon WaughAuberon Alexander Waugh was a British author and journalist, son of the novelist Evelyn Waugh. He was known to his family and friends as Bron Waugh.-Life and career:...
, (1939–2001), novelist and journalist - Edwin WaughEdwin WaughEdwin Waugh , poet, son of a shoemaker, was born in Rochdale, Lancashire, England, and, after a little schooling, apprenticed to a printer, Thomas Holden, at the age of 12...
, (1817–1890), Lancashire dialect poet - Evelyn WaughEvelyn WaughArthur Evelyn St. John Waugh , known as Evelyn Waugh, was an English writer of novels, travel books and biographies. He was also a prolific journalist and reviewer...
, (1903–1966), novelist, travel writer and diarist, Brideshead RevisitedBrideshead RevisitedBrideshead Revisited, The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder is a novel by English writer Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1945. Waugh wrote that the novel "deals with what is theologically termed 'the operation of Grace', that is to say, the unmerited and unilateral act of love by... - Camilla WayCamilla WayCamilla Way is an English author and was previously an editor at men's style magazine Arena since 2005. Her first book, The Dead of Summer, was published in 2007.Camilla Way is the daughter of poet and author Peter Way...
, (born 1973), novelist and editor - Willoughby WeavingWilloughby WeavingWilloughby Weaving was a British writer and poet of the First World War era.Willoughby Weaving was the son of Harry Walker Weaving, brewer and farmer, of Pewet House, Abingdon. He entered Abingdon School and Pembroke College, Oxford, becoming a schoolmaster at Rockport School and headmaster and...
, (1885–1977), poet - Clifford WebbClifford WebbClifford Webb was an English artist, illustrator and author: RBA 1936, RE 1948.He was apprenticed as a lithographer, served in the British Army in World War I and then studied at the Westminster School of Art. Fought in Mons, Gallipoli and Mesopotamina. Wounded four times and mentioned in...
, (1895–1972), children's writer and illustrator - Mary WebbMary WebbMary Webb , was an English romantic novelist and poet of the early 20th century, whose work is set chiefly in the Shropshire countryside and among Shropshire characters and people which she knew. Her novels have been successfully dramatized, most notably the film Gone to Earth in 1950 by Michael...
, (1881–1927), novelist and poet, Precious BanePrecious BanePrecious Bane is a novel by Mary Webb, first published in 1924. It won the Prix Femina Vie Heureuse Prize.In 1957 it was made into a six part BBC television drama series starring Patrick Troughton and Daphne Slater... - Philip Barker WebbPhilip Barker WebbPhilip Barker Webb was an English botanist.Webb, who was born to a wealthy aristocratic family studied languages, botany, and geology at Harrow and Oxford. He collected plants in Italy, Spain and Portugal, and was the first person to collect in the Tetuan Mountains of Morocco...
, (1793–1854), botanist and traveler - Sidney Webb, (1859–1947), and Beatrice WebbBeatrice WebbMartha Beatrice Webb, Lady Passfield was an English sociologist, economist, socialist and social reformer. Although her husband became Baron Passfield in 1929, she refused to be known as Lady Passfield...
, (1858–1943), economists and political writers, Industrial DemocracyIndustrial DemocracyIndustrial Democracy is a book written by British socialist reformers Sidney Webb and Beatrice Webb, concerning the organisation of trade unions and collective bargaining... - Augusta WebsterAugusta WebsterAugusta Webster born in Poole, Dorset as Julia Augusta Davies, was an English poet, dramatist, essayist, and translator. The daughter of Vice-admiral George Davies and Julia Hume she spent her younger years on board the ship he was stationed, the Griper. After an informal education, she studied at...
, (1837–1894), poet and playwright - John WebsterJohn WebsterJohn Webster was an English Jacobean dramatist best known for his tragedies The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, which are often regarded as masterpieces of the early 17th-century English stage. He was a contemporary of William Shakespeare.- Biography :Webster's life is obscure, and the dates...
, (c. 1580–1634), playwright, The Duchess of MalfiThe Duchess of MalfiThe Duchess of Malfi is a macabre, tragic play written by the English dramatist John Webster in 1612–13. It was first performed privately at the Blackfriars Theatre, then before a more general audience at The Globe, in 1613-14... - C. V. Wedgwood, (1910–1997), historian
- Ernest WeekleyErnest WeekleyErnest Weekley was a British philologist. From 1898 to 1938 he was Professor of Modern Languages at the University of Nottingham. But he is best known as the author of a number of works on etymology...
, (1865–1964), philologist - Samantha WeinbergSamantha WeinbergSamantha Fletcher is a British Green politician, and under her maiden name of Samantha Weinberg, a novelist, journalist and travel writer. Educated at St Paul's Girls' School and Trinity College, Cambridge, she is the author of books such as A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth and...
, (born 1967), novelist, travel writer and politician - Denton WelchDenton WelchMaurice Denton Welch was an English-American writer and painter, admired for his vivid prose and precise descriptions.-Biography:...
, (1915–1948), novelist, diarist and artist - Ronald WelchRonald WelchRonald Welch was the pseudonym of British writer Ronald Oliver Felton TD. He took the name from his wartime regiment. He was for many years Headmaster of Okehampton Grammar School in Devon....
, (real name Ronald Oliver Felton, 1909–1982), novelist, children's writer and teacher - Fay WeldonFay WeldonFay Weldon CBE is an English author, essayist and playwright, whose work has been associated with feminism. In her fiction, Weldon typically portrays contemporary women who find themselves trapped in oppressive situations caused by the patriarchal structure of British society.-Biography:Weldon was...
, (born 1931), novelist and screenwriter - Dorothy WellesleyDorothy Wellesley, Duchess of WellingtonDorothy Violet Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington , styled Lady Gerald Wellesley between 1914 and 1943, was an English socialite, author, poet, and literary editor...
, (1889–1956), poet and editor - Charles Jeremiah WellsCharles Jeremiah WellsCharles Jeremiah Wells was an English poet.-Life:He was born in London, probably in the year 1798. He was educated at Cowden Clarke's school at Edmonton, with Tom Keats, the younger brother of the poet, and with RH Horne...
, (c. 1798-1879), poet - H. G. WellsH. G. WellsHerbert George Wells was an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, even writing text books and rules for war games...
, (1866–1946), novelist and social critic, The War of the WorldsThe War of the WorldsThe War of the Worlds is an 1898 science fiction novel written by H. G. Wells.The War of the Worlds may also refer to:- Radio broadcasts :* The War of the Worlds , the 1938 radio broadcast by Orson Welles... - Leonard WelstedLeonard WelstedLeonard Welsted was an English poet and "dunce" in Alexander Pope's writings . Welsted was an accomplished writer who composed in a relaxed, light hearted vein...
, (1688–1747), poet - Louise WenerLouise WenerLouise Jane Wener is an English writer and singer, formerly of the band Sleeper. Sleeper recorded three full length albums: Smart, The It Girl, and Pleased to Meet You...
, (born 1966), novelist and singer - Arnold WeskerArnold WeskerSir Arnold Wesker is a prolific British dramatist known for his contributions to kitchen sink drama. He is the author of 42 plays, 4 volumes of short stories, 2 volumes of essays, a book on journalism, a children's book, extensive journalism, poetry and other assorted writings...
, (born 1932), playwright, Chicken Soup with BarleyChicken Soup with BarleyChicken Soup with Barley is a 1956 play by British playwright Arnold Wesker. It is the first of a trilogy and was first performed on stage in 1958 at the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry, where Wesker's two other plays of that trilogy—Roots and I'm Talking About Jerusalem—also premiered... - Charles WesleyCharles WesleyCharles Wesley was an English leader of the Methodist movement, son of Anglican clergyman and poet Samuel Wesley, the younger brother of Anglican clergyman John Wesley and Anglican clergyman Samuel Wesley , and father of musician Samuel Wesley, and grandfather of musician Samuel Sebastian Wesley...
, (1707–1788), preacher and hymn writer, Hark! the Herald Angels SingHark! The Herald Angels Sing“Hark! The Herald Angels Sing” is a Christmas carol that first appeared in 1739 in the collection Hymns and Sacred Poems, having been written by Charles Wesley. This is not the version widely known today. A sombre man, Wesley had requested and received slow and solemn music for his lyrics, not the... - John WesleyJohn WesleyJohn Wesley was a Church of England cleric and Christian theologian. Wesley is largely credited, along with his brother Charles Wesley, as founding the Methodist movement which began when he took to open-air preaching in a similar manner to George Whitefield...
, (1703–1791), preacher, theologian and diarist - Mary WesleyMary WesleyMary Wesley, CBE was an English novelist. During her career, she was one of Britain's most successful novelists, selling three million copies of her books, including 10 best-sellers in the last 20 years of her life.-Background:...
, (1912–2002), novelist - Samuel WesleySamuel Wesley (poet)Samuel Wesley was a poet and a writer of controversial prose. He was also the father of John Wesley and Charles Wesley, founders of the Methodist Church.-Family and early life:...
, (1662–1735), poet and polemicist - Gilbert WestGilbert WestGilbert West was a minor English poet, translator and Christian apologist in the early and middle eighteenth century. Samuel Johnson included him in his Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets.-Biography:...
, (1703–1756), poet and translator - Jane WestJane WestJane West [née Iliffe] , who published as "Prudentia Homespun" and "Mrs. West," was an English novelist, poet, playwright, and writer of conduct literature and educational tracts.- Life :...
(pen name Prudentia Homespun, 1758–1852), novelist, writer and poet - Paul West, (born 1930), novelist and poet
- Rebecca WestRebecca WestCicely Isabel Fairfield , known by her pen name Rebecca West, or Dame Rebecca West, DBE was an English author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer. A prolific, protean author who wrote in many genres, West was committed to feminist and liberal principles and was one of the foremost public...
, (real name Cicely Isabel Fairfield, (1892–1983), novelist, political commentator and travel writer, Black Lamb and Grey FalconBlack Lamb and Grey FalconBlack Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia is a travel book written by Dame Rebecca West, published in 1941.The book is of exceptional length . It gives an account of Balkan history and ethnography, and the significance of Nazism, structured about West's six week trip to Yugoslavia in... - Robert WestallRobert WestallRobert Atkinson Westall was the author of many books, mostly children's fiction, though also for adults, and non-fiction. Many of his novels, while supposedly aimed at a teenage audience, deal with many complex, dark and in many ways adult themes...
, (1929–1993), children's writer - William Bury Westall, (1834–1903), novelist
- Joyce WetheredJoyce WetheredJoyce Wethered, Lady Heathcoat-Amory was a golfer widely regarded as the greatest British woman player of all time....
, (1901-1997), golf writer, golfer and gardener - Robert WeverRobert WeverRobert Wever was an English poet and dramatist of the sixteenth century about whom little biographical information seems to have survived. His name is often given as Richard Wever or simply R. Wever. An Enterlude called lusty Juventus, an interlude, attributed to him, was published in 1565...
, (fl. 1550), poet - Stanley J. WeymanStanley J. WeymanStanley John Weyman was an English novelist sometimes referred to as the "Prince of Romance".-Biography:Weyman was born at Ludlow, Shropshire. The second son of a solicitor, he was educated at Shrewsbury School, and at Christ Church, Oxford...
, (1855–1928), novelist - Anne WhartonAnne WhartonAnne Wharton, née Lee was an English poet and verse dramatist.-Life:...
, (1659–1685), poet and playwright - George Wharton, (1618–1681), pamphleteer and astrologer
- Gordon WhartonGordon WhartonGordon Wharton is a British poet.He left school aged 14 and says that anything he knows now was self-taught...
, (born 1929), poet - Richard Whateley, (1787–1863), theologian, economist and archbishop
- Dennis WheatleyDennis WheatleyDennis Yates Wheatley was an English author. His prolific output of stylish thrillers and occult novels made him one of the world's best-selling authors from the 1930s through the 1960s.-Early life:...
, (1897–1977), thriller writer - Eric WhelptonEric WhelptonEric Whelpton was the son of the Revd George Whelpton, minister of Trinity Methodist church, Abingdon. From Abingdon School and the Leys School, Cambridge, Eric entered Hertford College, Oxford, then taught at Christ Church Cathedral School.At Oxford, Whelpton became a close friend of Dorothy...
, (1894–1981), travel writer - George WhetstoneGeorge WhetstoneGeorge Whetstone was an English dramatist and author.He was the third son of Robert Whetstone , a member of a wealthy family that owned the manor of Walcot at Barnack, near Stamford, Lincolnshire...
, (c. 1544-c. 1587), writer and playwright - Charles WhibleyCharles WhibleyCharles Whibley was an English literary journalist and author. Whibley’s style was described by Matthew as “often acerbic high-tory commentary”.-Life:...
, (1859–1930), journalist, critic and writer - Dorothy WhippleDorothy WhippleDorothy Whipple was an English writer of popular fiction.-Overview:Described as the "Jane Austen of the 20th Century" by J. B. Priestley, her work enjoyed a period of great popularity between the wars, two of her novels being made into feature films, They Were Sisters and They Knew Mr Knight...
, (1893–1966), novelist - Laurence WhistlerLaurence WhistlerSir Alan Charles Laurence Whistler, CBE was a British poet and artist who devoted himself to glass engraving, on goblets and bowls blown to his own designs, and on large-scale panels and windows in churches and private houses...
, (1912–2000), poetry and engraver - Antonia WhiteAntonia WhiteAntonia White was a British writer.-Early life:White was born as Eirine Botting to parents Cecil and Christine Botting. She later took her mother's maiden name, White. Her father taught Greek and Latin at St. Paul’s School...
, (real name Eirine Botting, 1899–1980), novelist, playwright and children's writer - Gilbert WhiteGilbert WhiteGilbert White FRS was a pioneering English naturalist and ornithologist.-Life:White was born in his grandfather's vicarage at Selborne in Hampshire. He was educated at the Holy Ghost School and by a private tutor in Basingstoke before going to Oriel College, Oxford...
, (1720–1795), naturalist and cleric, The Natural History of Selborne - Hale White, (pen name Mark Rutherford, (1831–1913), writer
- Henry Kirke WhiteHenry Kirke WhiteHenry Kirke White was an English poet, who died at a young age.White was born in Nottingham, the son of a butcher, a trade for which he was himself intended. However, he was greatly attracted to book-learning...
, (1785–1806), poet and hymn writer - Michael WhiteMichael White (author)Michael White is a British writer based in Sydney, Australia. He has been a science editor of British GQ, a columnist for the Sunday Express in London and, 'in a previous incarnation', he was a member of the band the Thompson Twins and Colour me Pop...
, (pen name Sam Fisher, born c. 1970s), writer - T. H. WhiteT. H. WhiteTerence Hanbury White was an English author best known for his sequence of Arthurian novels, The Once and Future King, first published together in 1958.-Biography:...
, (1906–1964), children's writer and poet, The Once and Future KingThe Once and Future KingThe Once and Future King is an Arthurian fantasy novel written by T. H. White. It was first published in 1958 and is mostly a composite of earlier works written in a period between 1938 and 1941.... - Tony WhiteTony White (writer)Tony White is an English novelist and journalist.White first published pulp novels, such as Road Rage! , Satan! Satan! Satan! , and Charlie Uncle Norfolk Tango . He also acted as editor of the Britpulp! anthology...
, (born c. 1960s), novelist and travel writer - George WhitefieldGeorge WhitefieldGeorge Whitefield , also known as George Whitfield, was an English Anglican priest who helped spread the Great Awakening in Britain, and especially in the British North American colonies. He was one of the founders of Methodism and of the evangelical movement generally...
, (1714–1770), religious writer, diarist and preacher - Alfred North WhiteheadAlfred North WhiteheadAlfred North Whitehead, OM FRS was an English mathematician who became a philosopher. He wrote on algebra, logic, foundations of mathematics, philosophy of science, physics, metaphysics, and education...
, (1861–1947), mathematician and philosopher - Charles WhiteheadCharles WhiteheadCharles Whitehead was an English poet, novelist, and dramatist.Whitehead was born in London, the eldest son of a wine merchant...
(1804–1862), poet and novelist - William WhiteheadWilliam Whitehead__FORCETOC__William Whitehead was an English poet and playwright. He became Poet Laureate in 1757 after Thomas Gray declined the position.-Life:...
, (1715–1785), Poet LaureatePoet LaureateA poet laureate is a poet officially appointed by a government and is often expected to compose poems for state occasions and other government events...
and playwright - Richard WhiteingRichard WhiteingRichard Whiteing , English author and journalist.-Biography:Richard Whiteing was born in London the son of Mary Lander and William Whiteing, a civil servant employed as an Inland Revenue Officer...
, (pen name Whyte Thorne, 1840–1928), novelist and journalist - Dorothy WhitelockDorothy WhitelockDorothy Whitelock was an English historian. Her best-known work is English Historical Documents, vol. I: c. 500-1042, which she edited...
, (1901–1982), historian - Bulstrode WhitelockeBulstrode WhitelockeSir Bulstrode Whitelocke was an English lawyer, writer, parliamentarian and Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England.- Biography :...
, (1605–1675), chronicler, lawyer and politician - Crispin Whittel, (born 1969), playwright, Darwin in MalibuDarwin in MalibuDarwin in Malibu is a play by British playwright and director, Crispin Whittell.Darwin in Malibu imagines a meeting between Charles Darwin , Thomas Huxley and the Bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce on the deck of a beach house overlooking the Pacific over a hundred years after their deaths.It...
- Geoffrey WhitneyGeoffrey WhitneyGeoffrey Whitney was an English poet, now best known for the influence on Elizabethan writing of the Choice of Emblemes that he compiled.-Life:...
, (c. 1548–c. 1601), poet - Isabella WhitneyIsabella WhitneyIsabella Whitney is the earliest identified woman to have published secular poetry in the English language. She has been called "the first professional woman poet in England."-Biography:...
, (fl. 1567-1573), poet - Thomas WhythorneThomas WhythorneThomas Whythorne was an English composer who wrote what some consider to be the earliest surviving autobiography in English.Born in Somerset to a wealthy family, Whythorne attended and matriculated from Magdalen College School, Oxford...
, (1528–1595), poet, autobiographer and composer - Frederick WicksFrederick WicksFrederick Wicks was an English author and inventor, whose book The British Constitution and Government was first published in 1871 and ran to several editions...
, (1840–1910), novelist and inventor - Susan WicksSusan WicksSusan Wicks is a British poet, and novelist.She studied at the University of Hull, University of Sussex. She taught at University College, Dublin, University of Dijon, and the University of Kent....
, (born 1947), poet and novelist - William WilberforceWilliam WilberforceWilliam Wilberforce was a British politician, a philanthropist and a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade. A native of Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, he began his political career in 1780, eventually becoming the independent Member of Parliament for Yorkshire...
, (1759–1833), religious writer, philanthropist and social reformer - John WilbyeJohn WilbyeJohn Wilbye , was an English madrigal composer. The son of a tanner, he was born at Brome, Suffolk, near Diss, and received the patronage of the Cornwallis family. It is thought that he accompanied Elizabeth Cornwallis to Hengrave Hall near Bury St...
, (1574–1638), madrigal writer - Peter WildebloodPeter WildebloodPeter Wildeblood was a British-Canadian journalist, novelist, playwright, and gay rights campaigner. He was one of the first men in the UK to publicly declare his homosexuality.-Career:...
, (1923–1999), writer and journalist - John WilkesJohn WilkesJohn Wilkes was an English radical, journalist and politician.He was first elected Member of Parliament in 1757. In the Middlesex election dispute, he fought for the right of voters—rather than the House of Commons—to determine their representatives...
, (1725–1797), journalist and radical - George WilkinsGeorge WilkinsGeorge Wilkins was an English dramatist and pamphleteer best known for his probable collaboration with Shakespeare on the play Pericles, Prince of Tyre. By profession he was an inn-keeper, but he was also apparently involved in criminal activities.-Life:Wilkins was an inn-keeper in Cow-Cross,...
, (fl. 1607), playwright and pamphleteer - Vaughan WilkinsVaughan WilkinsWilliam Vaughan Wilkins was a Welsh historical novelist and journalist.-Biography:Vaughan Wilkins was born in London. He married Mary Isabel Stanistreet and had two children. He spent some time...
, (1890–1959), novelist and journalist - John WilkinsonJohn Wilkinson (poet)John Wilkinson is a contemporary English poet.From 1972 to 1975, he studied English at Jesus College, Cambridge, United Kingdom, where he founded, with Charlie Bulbeck and Charles Lambert, the Blue Room, a society devoted to the propagation of poetry and the other fine arts.His first publication,...
, (born 1953), poet - John Gardner WilkinsonJohn Gardner WilkinsonSir John Gardner Wilkinson was an English traveller, writer and pioneer Egyptologist of the 19th century. He is often referred to as "the Father of British Egyptology".-Childhood and education:...
, (1797–1875), writer, traveller and Egyptologist - Barbara WillardBarbara WillardBarbara Mary Willard, a British historical/children's author, was born in Brighton, Sussex in 1909, the daughter of the Shakespearean actor Edmund Willard and the great-niece of Victorian era actor Edward Smith Willard....
, (1909–1994), children's writer - Anna WilliamsAnna Williams (poet)Anna Williams was a poet and companion of Samuel Johnson.-Early life:She was born at Rosemarket, Pembrokeshire to Zachariah Williams and his wife, Martha. Her father provided her with a wide artistic and scientific education, including Italian and French...
, (1706–1783), poet - Charles Williams, (1886–1945), novelist, poet and scholar
- Charlie Williams, (born 1971), novelist
- Frederick Smeeton WilliamsFrederick Smeeton WilliamsFrederick Smeeton Williams was a minister in the Congregational Church, but is best known for his books on the early history of the railway....
, (1829-1886), writer on railways - Helen Maria WilliamsHelen Maria WilliamsHelen Maria Williams was a British novelist, poet, and translator of French-language works. A religious dissenter, she was a supporter of abolitionism and of the ideals of the French Revolution; she was imprisoned in Paris during the Reign of Terror, but nonetheless spent much of the rest of her...
, (1761/2-1827), poet, translator and radical - Hugo WilliamsHugo WilliamsHugo Williams is a British poet, journalist and travel writer. His full name is Hugh Mordaunt Vyner Williams He is the son of actor Hugh Williams and the model and actress Margaret Vyner, who co-wrote some upper-middle-class comedies in the late 1950s...
, (born 1942), poet and travel writer - Isaac WilliamsIsaac WilliamsThe Reverend Isaac Williams was a prominent member of the Oxford Movement, a student and disciple of John Keble and, like the other members of the movement, associated with Oxford University...
, (1802–1865), religious writer, poet and cleric - Nigel WilliamsNigel Williams (author)Nigel Williams is an English novelist, screenwriter and playwright.-Biography:He was educated at Highgate School and Oriel College, Oxford, is married with three sons and lives in Putney, south-west London...
, (born 1948), novelist, playwright and screenwriter - Robina WilliamsRobina WilliamsRobina Williams is an English author.Williams lives in Liverpool. She has an Honours degree in Modern Languages from Oxford University and a Master of Philosophy research degree in English Literature from Liverpool University. Her research thesis was on the links between Wilkie Collins and...
, (born c. 1970s), novelist - Sarah WilliamsSarah WilliamsSarah Williams was an English poet, most famous as the author of "The Old Astronomer", also known as "The Old Astronomer to His Pupil".A segment of her poem is used in the introduction to Ian Rankin's novel Set in Darkness.-Sources:...
, (1837–1868), poet - Alice Muriel WilliamsonAlice Muriel WilliamsonAlice Muriel Williamson was a British novelist.Born Alice Muriel Livingston, she married Charles Norris Williamson in 1894 and many of her books were jointly written with her husband. After her marriage she introduced herself as Mrs. C.N.Williamson...
, (1869-1933), novelist - Charles Norris WilliamsonCharles Norris WilliamsonCharles Norris Williamson was a British writer, motoring journalist and founder of the Black and White who was perhaps best-known for his collaboration with his wife, Alice Muriel Williamson, in a number of novels and travelogues....
, (1859-1920), novelist and motoring journalist - Henry WilliamsonHenry WilliamsonHenry William Williamson was an English naturalist, farmer and prolific author known for his natural and social history novels. He won the Hawthornden Prize for literature in 1928 with his book Tarka the Otter....
, (1895–1977), novelist, Tarka the OtterTarka the OtterTarka the Otter: His Joyful Water-Life and Death in the Country of the Two Rivers is a novel by Henry Williamson. The book narrates the experience of an otter. It was first published in 1927 by G.P. Putnam's Sons, with an introduction by the Hon. Sir John Fortescue, K.C.V.O..-Plot summary:The plot... - Ted WillisTed WillisEdward Henry Willis, Baron Willis , commonly known as Ted Willis, was a British television dramatist who was also politically active in support of the Labour Party.-Political life:...
, (1914–1992), playwright and screenwriter - Tim WillocksTim WillocksTimothy Willocks is a British doctor and novelist born in Stalybridge Greater Manchester, England. An experienced psychiatrist, Willocks has worked for some years on the rehabilitation of the sufferers of drug addiction.-Career:...
, (fl. 1991-present), novelist, screenwriter and psychiatrist - Francis WillughbyFrancis Willughbythumbnail|200px|right|A page from the Ornithologia, showing [[Jackdaw]], [[Chough]], [[European Magpie|Magpie]] and [[Eurasian Jay|Jay]], all [[Corvidae|crows]]....
or Willoughby, (1635–1672), ornithologist - John Wilmot, Earl of RochesterJohn Wilmot, 2nd Earl of RochesterJohn Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester , styled Viscount Wilmot between 1652 and 1658, was an English Libertine poet, a friend of King Charles II, and the writer of much satirical and bawdy poetry. He was the toast of the Restoration court and a patron of the arts...
, (1647–1680), satirical poet and libertine - A. N. WilsonA. N. WilsonAndrew Norman Wilson is an English writer and newspaper columnist, known for his critical biographies, novels, works of popular history and religious views...
, (born 1950), novelist and biographer, Betjeman - Angus WilsonAngus WilsonSir Angus Frank Johnstone Wilson, CBE was an English novelist and short story writer. He was awarded the 1958 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot and later received a knighthood for his services to literature.-Biography:Wilson was born in Bexhill, Sussex, England, to...
, (1913–1991), novelist, Anglo-Saxon AttitudesAnglo-Saxon AttitudesAnglo-Saxon Attitudes is a satirical novel by Angus Wilson, published in 1956. It was Wilson's most popular book, and many consider it his best work.-Plot summary:... - Colin WilsonColin WilsonColin Henry Wilson is a prolific English writer who first came to prominence as a philosopher and novelist. Wilson has since written widely on true crime, mysticism and other topics. He prefers calling his philosophy new existentialism or phenomenological existentialism.- Early biography:Born and...
, (born 1931), novelist and philosopher - Harriette WilsonHarriette WilsonHarriette Wilson was a celebrated British Regency courtesan, whose clients included the Prince of Wales, the Lord Chancellor and four future Prime Ministers.- Life :...
, (1786–1845), courtesan and memoir writer - J. Dover WilsonJ. Dover WilsonJohn Dover Wilson CH was a professor and scholar of Renaissance drama, focusing particularly on the work of William Shakespeare...
, (1881–1969), scholar and critic - Jacqueline WilsonJacqueline WilsonDame Jacqueline Wilson, DBE, FRSL is an award-winning English author, known for her vast and diverse work in children's literature. Her novels have been adapted numerous times for television, and commonly deal with such challenging themes as adoption, divorce and mental illness...
, (born 1945), children's writer, The Story of Tracy BeakerThe Story of Tracy BeakerThe Story of Tracy Beaker is a British children's book first published in 1991, written by Jacqueline Wilson and illustrated by Nick Sharratt.-Background:... - John WilsonJohn Wilson (playwright)John Wilson was an English playwright.He was son of Aaron Wilson, a royalist divine, and was born in London in 1627. He matriculated from Exeter College, Oxford, in 1644, and entered Lincoln's Inn two years later, being called to the bar in 1649...
, (1527–1596), playwright and translator - Robert WilsonRobert Wilson (dramatist)Robert Wilson , was an Elizabethan dramatist who worked primarily in the 1580s and 1590s. He is also believed to have been an actor who specialized in clown roles....
, (fl. 1572-1600), playwright - Sandy WilsonSandy WilsonSandy Wilson is an English composer and lyricist, best known for his musical The Boy Friend .-Biography:Wilson was born Alexander Galbraith Wilson in Sale, Greater Manchester, and was educated at Harrow School and Oriel College, Oxford. During the war he served in the Royal Ordnance Corps in Great...
, (born 1924), lyricist and composer, The Boy FriendThe Boy FriendThe Boy Friend is a musical by Sandy Wilson. The musical's original 1954 London production ran for 2,078 performances, making it briefly the third-longest running musical in West End or Broadway history until it was surpassed by Salad Days... - T. P. Cameron WilsonT. P. Cameron WilsonTheodore Percival Cameron Wilson , was an English poet and novelist of World War I, best known for his poem Magpies in Picardy....
, (1888–1918), poet - Thomas WilsonThomas Wilson (rhetorician)Thomas Wilson was an English diplomat, judge, and privy councillor in the government of Elizabeth I. He is now remembered for his Logique and The Arte of Rhetorique , an influential text...
, (1524–1581), rhetorician and diplomat - Thomas WilsonThomas Wilson (poet)Thomas Wilson was a Tyneside poet, from Low Fell in Gateshead. His most famous work, an example of Tyneside Dialect Literature, is The Pitman's Pay, originally published between 1826 and 1830.-Works:*The Pitman's Pay...
, (1773–1858), Tyneside dialect poet - Jane Wilson-HowarthJane Wilson-HowarthJane Wilson-Howarth is a British physician, lecturer and author. She has written three travel health guides, two travel narratives and innumerable articles and scientific papers.-Early life:...
, (also writes as Jane Wilson, born 1954) writer on travel and health, and physician - R. D. WingfieldR. D. WingfieldRodney David Wingfield was an English author and radio dramatist. He is best remembered for creating the character of Detective Inspector Jack Frost, who was later played by Sir David Jason in A Touch of Frost....
, (1928–2007), novelist and radio dramatist, A Touch of FrostA Touch of Frost (novel)A Touch of Frost is a crime novel by, R.D. Wingfield. The series inspired a popular television series of the same name, starring David Jason as the titular character, Detective Inspector Jack Frost; a disheveled, unorthodox and caustic police officer.-Plot summary:The murder of a local drug... - Catherine WinkworthCatherine WinkworthCatherine Winkworth was an English translator. She is best known for bringing the German chorale tradition to English speakers with her numerous translations of hymns.-Biography:...
, (1827–1878), translator and hymn writer - Gerrard WinstanleyGerrard WinstanleyGerrard Winstanley was an English Protestant religious reformer and political activist during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell...
, (1609–1676), pamphleteer - Stephen WinstenStephen WinstenStephen Winsten was the name adopted by Samuel Weinstein, one of the 'Whitechapel Boys' group of young Jewish men and future writers in London's East End in the years before World War I . In the First World War he was a conscientious objector, and imprisoned in Bedford and Reading gaols...
, (real name Samuel Weinstein, 1893–1991), writer - John Strange WinterJohn Strange WinterJohn Strange Winter was the pen-name of Henrietta Eliza Vaughan Stannard , an English novelist.She was the daughter of Reverent H. V. Palmer, rector of St Margarets, York. She early began to write fiction for different magazines, producing sentimental stories, chiefly of army life...
, (real name Henrietta Eliza Vaughan Stannard 1856–1911), novelist - Jeanette WintersonJeanette WintersonJeanette Winterson OBE is a British novelist.-Early years:Winterson was born in Manchester and adopted on 21 January 1960. She was raised in Accrington, Lancashire, by Constance and John William Winterson...
, (born 1959), novelist - Jane WisemanJane WisemanJane Holt [née Wiseman] was an actress, poet, and playwright. She seems to have been from a modest labouring-class background and self-taught, but very little is known about her. Her one known play, Antiochus the Great, or, The Fatal Relapse, was successfully produced at the New Theatre, Lincoln's...
, (c. 1682-1717), poet and playwright - George WitherGeorge WitherGeorge Wither was an English poet, pamphleteer, and satirist. He was a prolific writer who adopted a deliberate plainness of style; he was several times imprisoned. C. V...
, (1588–1667), poet and satirist - P. G. WodehouseP. G. WodehouseSir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE was an English humorist, whose body of work includes novels, short stories, plays, poems, song lyrics, and numerous pieces of journalism. He enjoyed enormous popular success during a career that lasted more than seventy years and his many writings continue to be...
, (1881–1975), novelist, playwright and lyricist, JeevesJeevesReginald Jeeves is a fictional character in the short stories and novels of P. G. Wodehouse, being the valet of Bertie Wooster . Created in 1915, Jeeves would continue to appear in Wodehouse's works until his final, completed, novel Aunts Aren't Gentlemen in 1974, making him Wodehouse's most famous... - John WolcotJohn WolcotJohn Wolcot , satirist, born in Dodbrooke, near Kingsbridge in Devon, was educated by an uncle, and studied medicine. In 1767 he went as physician to Sir William Trelawny, Governor of Jamaica, and whom he induced to present him to a Church in the island then vacant, and was ordained in 1769...
, (pen name Peter Pindar, 1738–1819), poet and satirist - Humbert WolfeHumbert WolfeHumbert Wolfe CB CBE , was an Italian-born English poet, man of letters and civil servant, from a Jewish family background, his father, Martin Wolff of German descent and his mother, Consuela, née Terraccini, Italian...
, (1885–1940), poet and translator - Mary WollstonecraftMary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft was an eighteenth-century British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children's book...
, (1759–1797), polemicist, philosopher and novelist, A Vindication of the Rights of WomanA Vindication of the Rights of WomanA Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects , written by the 18th-century British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, is one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy. In it, Wollstonecraft responds to those educational and political theorists of the 18th... - Anthony WoodAnthony WoodAnthony Wood or Anthony à Wood was an English antiquary.-Early life:Anthony Wood was the fourth son of Thomas Wood , BCL of Oxford, where Anthony was born...
, (1632–1695), antiquary - Christopher WoodChristopher Wood (writer)Christopher Wood is an English screenwriter and novelist best known under the pseudonym 'Timothy Lea' for the Confessions series of novels and films. Under his own name, he adapted two James Bond novels for the screen: The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker .Wood has written many novels...
, (pen name Timothy Lea, born 1935), novelist and screenwriter - Ellen WoodEllen Wood (author)Ellen Wood , was an English novelist, better known as "Mrs. Henry Wood". She is best known for her 1861 novel East Lynne.-Life:...
, (Mrs. Henry Wood, 1814–1887), novelist, East LynneEast LynneEast Lynne is an English sensation novel of 1861 by Ellen Wood. East Lynne was a Victorian bestseller. It is remembered chiefly for its elaborate and implausible plot, centering on infidelity and double identities... - Sara WoodSara Wood (novelist)Sara Wood was a popular British writer of 49 romance novels in Mills & Boon from 1986 to 2004.-Biography:Sara Wood was born in England in a poor family. She was a good student, but when was 16, she decided to take a secretarial course....
, (fl. 1986-present), novelist and story writer - James WoodfordeJames WoodfordeJames Woodforde was an English clergyman, best known as the author of The Diary of a Country Parson.-Early life:James Woodforde was born at the Parsonage, Ansford, Somerset, England on 27 June 1740...
, (1740–1803), diarist and cleric - Walter Bradford WoodgateWalter Bradford WoodgateWalter Bradford Woodgate was a British barrister and oarsman who won the Wingfield Sculls three times, and various events at Henley Royal Regatta including the Silver Goblets five times and the Diamond Challenge Sculls once...
, (pen name Wat Bradwood, 1841–1920), writer and barrister - Cecil Woodham-SmithCecil Woodham-SmithCecil Blanche Woodham-Smith was a British historian and biographer. She wrote four popular history books, each dealing with a different aspect of the Victorian era.-Early life:...
, (1896–1977), historian and biographer, The Great Hunger - Martin WoodhouseMartin WoodhouseMartin Charlton Woodhouse was a British author and scriptwriter. He is most famous as a writer for the TV series The Avengers, but he also authored or co-authored eleven novels...
, (born 1932), novelist and screenwriter - Richard WoodmanRichard WoodmanRichard Woodman is an English novelist and naval historian who retired in 1997 from a 37 year nautical career, mainly working for Trinity House, to write full time. His main work is 14 volumes about the career of Nathaniel Drinkwater, and shorter series about James Dunbar and William Kite, but he...
, (born 1944), novelist and mariner - Margaret Louisa WoodsMargaret Louisa WoodsMargaret Louisa Woods was an English writer, known for novels and poetry. She was the daughter of the scholar George Granville Bradley and sister to fellow writer Mabel Birchenough...
, (1856–1945), novelist and poet - Anthony WoodvilleAnthony Woodville, 2nd Earl RiversAnthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers was an English nobleman, courtier, and writer.He was the eldest son of Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers and Jacquetta of Luxembourg. Like his father, he was originally a Lancastrian, fighting on that side at the Battle of Towton, but later became a Yorkist...
or Wydeville, Earl Rivers (c. 1440-1483), translator and magnate - Gerard WoodwardGerard WoodwardGerard Woodward is an award-winning British novelist, poet and short story writer, best known for his trilogy of novels concerning the troubled Jones family, the second of which, I'll Go To Bed at Noon, was shortlisted for the 2004 Man-Booker Prize.He was born in London and briefly studied...
, (born 1961), novelist and poet - John WoodwardJohn Woodward (naturalist)John Woodward was an English naturalist, antiquarian and geologist, and founder by bequest of the Woodwardian Professorship of Geology at Cambridge University...
, (1665–1728), naturalist and antiquarian - Leonard WoolfLeonard WoolfLeonard Sidney Woolf was an English political theorist, author, publisher and civil servant, and husband of author Virginia Woolf.-Early life:...
, (1880–1969), writer, editor and publisher - Virginia WoolfVirginia WoolfAdeline Virginia Woolf was an English author, essayist, publisher, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century....
, (1882–1941), author, biographer and diarist, To the LighthouseTo the LighthouseTo the Lighthouse is a novel by Virginia Woolf. A novel set on the Ramsays and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920, it skilfully manipulates temporal and psychological elements.... - Thomas WoolnerThomas WoolnerThomas Woolner RA was an English sculptor and poet who was one of the founder-members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. He was the only sculptor among the original members....
(1825–1892) poet and sculptor - Christopher WordsworthChristopher WordsworthChristopher Wordsworth was an English bishop and man of letters.-Life:Wordsworth was born in London, the youngest son of the Rev. Dr. Christopher Wordsworth, Master of Trinity and a nephew of the poet William Wordsworth...
, (1807–1885), poet, classicist and bishop - Dorothy WordsworthDorothy WordsworthDorothy Mae Ann Wordsworth was an English author, poet and diarist. She was the sister of the Romantic poet William Wordsworth, and the two were close for all of their lives...
, (1771–1855), diarist and poet, - William WordsworthWilliam WordsworthWilliam Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads....
, (1770–1850), poet, The PreludeThe PreludeThe Prelude; or, Growth of a Poet's Mind is an autobiographical, "philosophical" poem in blank verse by the English poet William Wordsworth. Wordsworth wrote the first version of the poem when he was 28, and worked over the rest of it for his long life without publishing it... - T. C. WorsleyT. C. WorsleyThomas Cuthbert Worsley , who wrote as T. C. Worsley, was a British teacher, writer, editor, and theatre and television critic. He is best-remembered for his autobiographical Flannelled Fool: A Slice of a Life in the Thirties.-Biography:...
, (1907–1977), writer and critic - Henry WottonHenry WottonSir Henry Wotton was an English author and diplomat. He is often quoted as saying, "An ambassador is an honest gentleman sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." -Life:The son of Thomas Wotton , brother of Edward Wotton, 1st Baron Wotton, and grandnephew of the diplomat...
, (1568–1639), poet and translator - Nathaniel Wraxall, (1751–1831), memoirist and political writer
- P. C. WrenP. C. WrenPercival Christopher Wren was a British writer, mostly of adventure fiction. He is remembered best for Beau Geste, a much-filmed book of 1924, involving the French Foreign Legion in North Africa, and its main sequels, Beau Sabreur and Beau Ideal Percival Christopher Wren (1 November 187522...
, (1875–1941), novelist, Beau GesteBeau GesteBeau Geste is a 1924 adventure novel by P. C. Wren. It has been adapted for the screen several times.-Plot summary:Michael "Beau" Geste is the protagonist. The main narrator , by contrast, is his younger brother John... - David WrightDavid Wright (poet)David John Murray Wright was an author and "an acclaimed South African-born poet".-Biography:Wright was born in Johannesburg, South Africa 23 February 1920 of normal hearing....
, (1920–1994), poet, translator and biographer - Derrick WrightDerrick WrightDerrick Wright is a British author specializing in military history and particularly battles in the Pacific against the Japanese in World War II. He grew up in Teesside, an area in the North East of England, which was repeatedly bombed by German forces during the war...
, (born 1928), military historian - Kit WrightKit WrightKit Wright is the author of more than twenty-five books, for both adults and children, and the winner of awards including an Arts Council Writers' Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Hawthornden Prize, the Alice Hunt Bartlett Award and the Heinemann Award...
, (born 1944), poet and children's writer - Thomas Wright, (1810–1877), writer and antiquary
- Mary WrothLady Mary WrothLady Mary Wroth was an English poet of the Renaissance. A member of a distinguished literary English family, Wroth was among the first female British writers to have achieved an enduring reputation...
, (1587–1651/3), writer and poet - Thomas WyattThomas Wyatt (poet)Sir Thomas Wyatt was a 16th-century English lyrical poet credited with introducing the sonnet into English. He was born at Allington Castle, near Maidstone in Kent – though his family was originally from Yorkshire...
, (1503–1542), poet and translator - William WycherleyWilliam WycherleyWilliam Wycherley was an English dramatist of the Restoration period, best known for the plays The Country Wife and The Plain Dealer.-Biography:...
, (c. 1640–1715), playwright - Robert WydowRobert WydowRobert Wydow was an English poet, church musician, and religious figure.Born in Thaxted, Essex, he was initially educated by his stepfather, who was the local schoolmaster. By 1455 or 1456, he was studying music and Latin in the chapel of King's College, Cambridge, where he was a chorister...
, (c. 1446-1505), poet, musician and cleric - John WycliffeJohn WycliffeJohn Wycliffe was an English Scholastic philosopher, theologian, lay preacher, translator, reformer and university teacher who was known as an early dissident in the Roman Catholic Church during the 14th century. His followers were known as Lollards, a somewhat rebellious movement, which preached...
, (mid-1320s–1384), theologian and translator - William WycherleyWilliam WycherleyWilliam Wycherley was an English dramatist of the Restoration period, best known for the plays The Country Wife and The Plain Dealer.-Biography:...
, (1640–1715), playwright, The Country WifeThe Country WifeThe Country Wife is a Restoration comedy written in 1675 by William Wycherley. A product of the tolerant early Restoration period, the play reflects an aristocratic and anti-Puritan ideology, and was controversial for its sexual explicitness even in its own time. The title itself contains a lewd pun... - John WyndhamJohn WyndhamJohn Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris was an English science fiction writer who usually used the pen name John Wyndham, although he also used other combinations of his names, such as John Beynon and Lucas Parkes...
, (also wrote as John Beynon, 1903–1969), novelist, The Day of the TriffidsThe Day of the TriffidsThe Day of the Triffids is a post-apocalyptic novel published in 1951 by the English science fiction author John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris, under the pen-name John Wyndham. Although Wyndham had already published other novels using other pen-name combinations drawn from his lengthy real... - D. B. Wyndham-LewisD. B. Wyndham-LewisDominic Bevan Wyndham-Lewis FRSL was a British writer best known for his humorous contributions to newspapers and for biographies. His family were originally from Wales, but he was born in Liverpool and brought up in Cardiff...
, (pen name Timothy Shy, 1891–1969), humorist
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- Jane YardleyJane YardleyJane Yardley is an English author, raised in a village in 1960s Essex, . She went to university in London and gained a Ph.D. degree from Charing Cross Hospital Medical School...
, (born c. 1950s), novelist - William YarrellWilliam YarrellWilliam Yarrell was an English bookseller and naturalist.Yarrell is best known as the author of The History of British Fishes and The History of British Birds . The latter went into several editions and was the standard reference work for a generation of British ornithologists...
, (1784–1856), naturalist - Dornford YatesDornford YatesDornford Yates was the pseudonym of the British novelist, Cecil William Mercer , whose novels and short stories, some humorous , some thrillers , were best-sellers in the 21-year interwar period between the First and Second world wars.The pen name, Dornford Yates, first in print in 1910, resulted...
, (real name Cecil William Mercer, 1885–1960), novelist - Edmund YatesEdmund YatesEdmund Hodgson Yates was a British novelist and dramatist. He was born in Edinburgh to the actor and theatre manager Frederick Henry Yates and held an appointment for a period of time in the General Post Office as an adult...
, (1831–1894), novelist and playwright - Ann YearsleyAnn YearsleyAnn Yearsley née Cromartie was an English poet and writer.Born in Bristol to John and Anne Cromartie , Ann married John Yearsley, a yeoman, in 1774. A decade later the family were rescued from destitution by the charity of Hannah More and others. More organized subscriptions for Yearsley to...
, (1753–1806), poet - Victor Maslin YeatesVictor Maslin YeatesVictor Maslin Yeates , often abbreviated to VM Yeates, was a British fighter pilot in World War I who wrote what is widely regarded as one of the most realistic and moving accounts of aerial combat and the futility of war.-Background:Yeates, who was born at Dulwich, and educated at Colfe's School...
, (1897–1934), writer and fighter pilot, Winged Victory - R. J. YeatmanR. J. YeatmanRobert Julian Yeatman was a British humorist who wrote for Punch. He is best known for the book 1066 and All That, 1930, ISBN 0-413-77270-5), a tongue-in-cheek guide to "all the history you can remember", which he wrote with W. C...
, (1897–1968), humorist, 1066 and All That1066 and All That1066 and All That: A Memorable History of England, comprising all the parts you can remember, including 103 Good Things, 5 Bad Kings and 2 Genuine Dates is a tongue-in-cheek reworking of the history of England. Written by W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman and illustrated by John Reynolds, it first...
(with W. C. Sellar) - Tamar YellinTamar YellinTamar Yellin is a teacher and author who lives in Yorkshire, and studied at Oxford University. She is the author of the novels The Genizah at the House of Shepher, and The House of the Ten Lost Tribes, and the short-story collection Kafka in Bronteland.-External links:*...
, (born c. 1950s), novelist and story writer - Theresa YelvertonTheresa YelvertonTheresa Yelverton was an English woman who became notorious because of her involvement in the Yelverton case, a 19th century Irish law case, which eventually resulted in a change to the law on mixed religion marriages in Ireland....
, (born Maria Theresa Longworth, 1833-1881), travel writer - Charlotte Mary YongeCharlotte Mary YongeCharlotte Mary Yonge , was an English novelist, known for her huge output, now mostly out of print.- Life :Charlotte Mary Yonge was born in Otterbourne, Hampshire, England, on 11 August 1823 to William Yonge and Fanny Yonge, née Bargus. She was educated at home by her father, studying Latin, Greek,...
, (1823–1901), novelist - Walter Yonge of ColytonWalter Yonge of ColytonWalter Yonge of Colyton and Devon was an English lawyer, merchant and diarist.-Life:He was the ancestor of Sir George Yonge, and great-great-grandson of John Yonge of Colliton and Devon, a well known merchant in Elizabethan England....
, (1579-1649), diarist and lawyer - Barbara YorkeBarbara YorkeBarbara Yorke is a historian of Anglo-Saxon England.She studied history and archaeology at Exeter University, where she completed both her undergraduate degree and her Ph.D. She is currently Professor of Early Medieval History at the University of Winchester, and is a Fellow of the Royal...
, (born 1951), historian - Margaret YorkeMargaret YorkeMargaret Yorke is an English crime fiction writer, real name Margaret Beda Nicholson .-Life and work:Born in Compton, Surrey, she spent her childhood in Dublin, moving to England in 1937. During World War II she worked as a hospital librarian, then at eighteen she joined the WRNS as a driver...
, (born 1924), novelist - Matthew YorkeMatthew YorkeMatthew Yorke is a British novelist and editor. His most recent work was 2005's critically acclaimed Chancing It - a short novel for young adults...
, (born 1958), novelist and editor - Arthur Young, (1741–1820), writer and economist
- E. H. YoungE. H. Young-Life:Although almost completely forgotten by recent generations, E. H. Young was a best-selling novelist of her time. She was born in Whitley, Northumberland, , the daughter of a shipbroker. She attended Gateshead Secondary School and Penrhos College, Colwyn Bay, Wales...
, (1880–1949), novelist - Edward YoungEdward YoungEdward Young was an English poet, best remembered for Night Thoughts.-Early life:He was the son of Edward Young, later Dean of Salisbury, and was born at his father's rectory at Upham, near Winchester, where he was baptized on 3 July 1683. He was educated at Winchester College, and matriculated...
, (1683–1765), poet - Francis Brett YoungFrancis Brett YoungFrancis Brett Young was an English novelist, poet, playwright, and composer.-Life:Brett Young was born in Halesowen, Worcestershire. He schooled first at a private school in Sutton Coldfield...
, (1884–1954), novelist - Hilton Young, Lord Kennet, (1879–1960), writer and politician
- Thomas YoungThomas Young (scientist)Thomas Young was an English polymath. He is famous for having partly deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphics before Jean-François Champollion eventually expanded on his work...
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- Helen ZahaviHelen ZahaviHelen Zahavi is an English novelist and screenwriter. Before becoming a writer she worked as a Russian translator, and has spent several years living in Paris....
, (born 1966), novelist - Israel ZangwillIsrael ZangwillIsrael Zangwill was a British humorist and writer.-Biography:Zangwill was born in London on January 21, 1864 in a family of Jewish immigrants from Czarist Russia, to Moses Zangwill from what is now Latvia and Ellen Hannah Marks Zangwill from what is now Poland. He dedicated his life to championing...
, (1864–1926), novelist and playwright - Louis ZangwillLouis ZangwillLouis Zangwill was an English novelist; born at Bristol, England. He was educated at Jews' Free School, and for a time acted as teacher there, but left together with his brother, Israel Zangwill, and set up a printing establishment. Afterward, however, he turned to literature, and produced, under...
, (1869-1938), novelist - Oliver ZangwillOliver ZangwillOliver Louis Zangwill FRS was an influential British neuropsychologist. He was Professor of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, 1952-81, then Professor Emeritus. He was the son of Israel Zangwill and the grandson of William Edward Ayrton...
, (1913–1987), psychologist - Benjamin ZephaniahBenjamin ZephaniahBenjamin Obadiah Iqbal Zephaniah is an English writer and dub poet. He is a well-known figure in contemporary English literature, and was included in The Times list of Britain's top 50 post-war writers in 2008....
, (born 1958), poet and dub poet - Alice ZimmernAlice ZimmernAlice Zimmern was an English writer, translator and suffragist.-Background and education:Zimmern was born in Nottingham, the youngest of the three daughters of the lace merchant Hermann Theodore Zimmern, a German Jewish immigrant, and his wife Antonia Marie Therese Regina, née Leo...
, (1855-1939), writer, translator and suffragist - Helen ZimmernHelen ZimmernHelen Zimmern was a German-British writer and translator.-Biography:Zimmern and her parents emigrated in 1850 to Britain, where her father became a Nottingham lace merchant. She was naturalized upon coming of age. She was the sister of the suffragist Alice Zimmern and a cousin of the political...
, (1846–1934), writer and translator
See also
- List of English novelists
- List of children's literature authors
- English novelEnglish novelThe English novel is an important part of English literature.-Early novels in English:A number of works of literature have each been claimed as the first novel in English. See the article First novel in English.-Romantic novel:...
- English literatureEnglish literatureEnglish literature is the literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England; for example, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Joseph Conrad was Polish, Dylan Thomas was Welsh, Edgar Allan Poe was American, J....