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Abercrombie
Lascelles (1881-1938) Poet
and Critic. Born Manchester
Abse
Daniel (1923-_ Writer and
Physician. Born Cardiff
Ackerley
Joseph (1896-1967) Write.
Born Kent
Ackroyd,
Peter (1949-) Writer. Born
London
Adams,
Richard George. (1920-) Novelist.
Born Berkshire
Agate
James (1877-1947) Critic and
Writer. Born Manchester
Ahlberg
Janet & Allan (1938 Children's
authors
Ainsworth
William Harrison (1805-82)
Historical Novelist
Aldiss,
Brian (1925-) Writer. Born
Norfolk
Allen
Walter , Ernest (1911-) Novelist
and Critic. Born Birmingham
Allingham,
Margery (1904-1966) Detective
story writer. Born London
Ambler
Eric (1909-) Writer. Born
in London
Amis
Sir Kingsley, (1922-) Novelist
and poet. Born London
Anstey
F, (1856-1934) Writer, Born
London.
Arden
John (1930 Dramatist, Playwright.
Born South Yorkshire
Arlott
John (1914-91) Writer, Journalist
and broadcaster. Born Hampshire
Arnold
Sir Edwin (1832-1904) Poet
and Journalist. Born Kent
Arnold
Matthew (1822-88) Poet and
critic. Born Middlesex
Attwell Mabel Lucie (1879-1964)
Artist and writier. Born London
Auden
Wystan Hugh (1907-1973) Poet.
English born - acquired American
citizenship in later life.
Austin
Alfred (1835-1913) Journalist
and Poet Laureate.
Ayckbourn
Alan (1939-) Playwright. Born
London
Bainbridge
Beryl (1933-) Novelist.
Balchin,
Nigel (1908-70) Novelist.
Born Wiltshire
Ballantyne
Robert Michael (1825-1894)
Writer of boy's stories. Born
in Edinburgh
Banks
Lynne Reid (1929 Children's
writer
Bannerman,
Helen Brodie (1826-1946) Children's
writer. Born Edinburgh
Baring-Gould
Sabine (1834-1924) Write or
hymns, religious and miscellaneous
works and novelist.
Barker
George (Granville) (1913-1991)
Poet. Born in Essex.
Barker
Harley, Granville (Granville-Barker)
(1877-1946) Man of the theatre,
dramatist and Shakespearean
scholar.
Barker,
Howard (1946-) Playwright.
Born London
Barnes,
Peter (1931-) Writer and Playwright.
Born London
Barnes
William (1801-1886) Clergyman,
poet and local historian.
Born Dorset
Barrie
Sir James (Matthew) (1860-1937)
Dramatist and Novelist. Born
Scotland.
Barstow,
Stanley (1928-) Novelist.
Born West Yorkshire
Bates
Herbert Ernest (1905-1974)
Short story writer and novelist.
Born Northamptonshire.
Bawden,
Nina Mary (1925-) Writer.
Born London
Beasdale,
Alan (1946-) Playwright. Born
Liverpool
Beattie
James (1735-1803) Scottish
Poet. Born Scotland.
Beddoes
Thomas Lovell (1803-1849)
Poet. Born Somerset.
Behan
Brendan (1923-1964) Dramatist.
Born Dublin.
Behn,
Aphra (1640-89) Writer. Born
Kent
Bell Clive (1881-1964) Critic
of politics literature and art.
Bell
John Jay (1908-37) Poet and
essayist.
Belloc
Joseph Hilaire Pierre (1870-1953)
Essayist, historian novelist
and poet. Born in France to
an English mother, French
father, educated England.
Bennet
Alan (1934-) Playwright. Born
West Yorkshire
Bennet
Enoch Arnold (1867-1931) Journalist,
novelist and playright.
Benson
Arthur Christoper (1862-1925)
Essayist. Born at Wellington
College. Son of the headmaster.
Benson
Edward Frederick (1867-1940)
Novelist.
Benson
Stella (!892-1933) Novelist.
Born Shropshire.
Bentley
Edmund (1875-1832) Detective
writer.
Besant
Sir Walter (1836-1901) Historian,
novelist. Born Portsmouth
Binyon
Robert Laurence (1869-1943)
Poet. Born Lancaster.
Blackmore
Richard Doddridge (1825-1900)
Novelist. Born Berkshire.
Blackwood
Algernon (1869-1951) Novelist.
Born kent
Blake
George (1893-1961) Novelist.
Born Scotland.
Blake
William (1757-1827) Artist
and Poet. Born London.
Duncan
Grant, Clive Bell, Roger Fry,
Lytton Strachey, John
Maynard
Keynes, Leonard Wolf, Dora
Carrington. Later David Garnett
and Desmond MacCarthy became
associated with the group.
Blyton,
Enid (1897-1968) Children's
story writer. Born London
Bolt
Robert (1924-1995) Dramatist.
Born Manchester
Bond,
Edward (1934-) Playwright.
Born London
Bond
Thomas, Michael (1926-) Writer
of children's stores. Born
Berkshire.
Borrow,
George (1803-81) Writer and
traveller. Born Norfolk
Boswell,
James (1740-1876) Man of letters.
Born Edinburgh
Bottome
Phyllis (1884-1963) Novelist.
Born Kent.
Bottomley
Gordon (1874-1948) Poet and
dramatist. Born Yorkshire.
Bowen
Elizabeth (Dorothea Cole)
(1899-1973_) Novelist. Born
Dublin.
Bowles
William Lisle (1762-1850)
Poet and critic. Born Northamptonshire.
Bradbury,
Macolm (1932-) Writer of Science
Fiction. Born West Yorkshire
Bratby,
John (1928-92) Artist and
writer. Born London
Brent-Dyer,
Elinor, Mary (1894-1969) Born
Tyne & Wear
Brenton,
Howard (1942-) Playwright.
Born Portsmouth
Briane
John Gerard (1922-) Novelist.
Born Bradford
Bridges,
Robert Seymour (1844-1930)
Poet. Born Kent
Briggs,
Raymond (1934-) Children's
illustrator and writer. Born
London.
Brittain
Vera Mary (11896-1970) Novelist.
Born Newcastle Under Lyne.
Bronte
Ann (1820-49) Novelist. Born
Yorkshire.
Bronte
Emily Jane (1818-48) Poet
and novelist. Born Yorkshire.
Brooke
Rupert Chawner (1887-1915)
Poet, prose writer and critic.
Born Warwickshire
Brookner,
Anita (1928-) Writer. Born
London
Brophy,
Brigid Antonia (1929-) Writer.
Born London
Browning
Elizabeth Barrett (1806-61)
Poet. Born County Durham.
Browning
Robert (1812-89) Poet. Born
Camberwell.
Buchanan
Robert William (1841-1901)
Poet, novelist, critic and
playwright. Born Staffordshire.
Bunyan
John (1628-88) Allegorist.
Born Bedfordshire.
Burgess
Anthony ((1917-93) Novelist.
Born Manchester
Burke,
Thomas (1886-1945) Writer.
Born London
Burnett
Farnces Hodgson (1849-1924)
Novelist and chidlren's writer.
Butler
Samuel (1835-1902) writer,
satirist and novelist. Born
Nottinghamshire.
Byron
George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824)
Poet.
Campbell
Thomas (1777-1844) Poet. Born
Glasgow.
Carew,
Thomas (1595-1639) Poet. Born
Kent
Carroll
Lewis (pseud of Charles Lutwidge
Dodgso
n)
1832-98) Writer. Born Cheshire
Carswell
Catherine Roxburgh (1870-1946)
Novelist, biographer. Born
Scotland.
Carter,
Angela (1940-92) Writer. Born
Sussex
Cartland,
Barbara (1901-) Romantic Novelist.
Born West Midlands
Cather,
Willa (1876-1947) Writer.
Born Winchester
Caudwell
Christopher pseud of Chistopher
St John Sprigg) 1907-37) Theorist,
novelist and poet. Born London.
Chatterton,
Thomas (1752-70) Poet. Born
Bristol
Chesterton
Gilbert Keith (1874-1936)
Essayist, novelist, poet.
Born London.
Church,
Richard Thomas (1893-1972)
Writer. Born London
Churchill,
Caryl (1938-) Playwright.
Born London
Churchill
Charles (1731-1764) Poet and
clergyman. Born Westminster.
Churchill
Sir Winston (1874-1965) Statesman,
journalist, historian.
Born Blenheim Palace.
Clare,
John (1793-1864) Poet. Born
Cambridgshire
Clarke
Arthur C, (1917-) Writer of
Science Fiction. Born Somerset.
Clarke
Gillian (1937-) Poet. Born
Cardiff
Cleland,
John (1709-89) Novelist. Born
London
Clough,
Arthur Hugh (1819-61) Born
Liverpool
Clouston
Joseph Storer (1870-1944)
Prose writer. Born Scotland
Cobbold,
Richard (1797-1877) Writer.
Born Ipswich
Cobbett
William (1762-1835 Political
controversalist. Born Surrey
Coleridge
Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
Poet and critic. Born Devon.
Collins
William (1721-1759) Poet.
Born Chichester.
Collins
William Wilkie (1824-89) Novelist
and dramatist. Born London
Colman
George the Elder (1732-94)
Colman
George the Younger (1762-1836)
Dramatist
Colum
Padraic (1881- 1972) Poet
Born Ireland
Compton-Burnett
Ivy (1892-1969) Novelist.
Born London.
Connolly,
Cyril, Vernon (1903-74) Writer.
Born Warwickshire
Conrad
Joseph (1857-1924) Born Poland
naturalised British subject
1886
Cookson
Catherine (1906-1998) Novelist.
Born Tyne & Wear
Cooper,
Jilly ( 1937-) Writer and
Journalist. Born Yorkshire
Cotton
Charles (1630-87) Poet and
translator. Born Derbyshire
Courttia
Newland born
and still lives in West London. He is the author of two
acclaimed novels, The Scholar and Society Within (Abacus).
His third, Snakeskin, will be published Spring 2002
Coward
Noel (1899-1973)
Playwright, composer and actor.
Cowper
William (1731-1800) Poet and
letter wrtier. Born Hertfordshire
Crofts
Freeman Willis (1879-1957)
Dectective story writer. Born
Dublin.
Crompton,
Richmal (1890-1969) Writer
of Children's books. Born
Manchester
Cronin
Archibald Joseph ( 1896-1981)
Novelist. Born Scotland.
Cumberland
Richard (1631-1811) Writer. Born Cambridgeshire |
