English Literature

Writer, born in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, EC England, UK. He studied at Cambridge, then worked as a writer, producing material for radio and television shows,

Science-fiction writer and novelist, born in East Dereham, Norfolk, E England, UK.

English writer. He was a pioneer of science fiction with such novels as The Time Machine (1895) and The War of the Worlds ...

English writer of novels, essays, and verse. From the disillusionment and satirical eloquence

English writer. He was a pioneer of science fiction with such novels as The Time Machine (1895) and The War of the Worlds ...

Writer, born in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, SC England, UK. He is best known for his series of fantasy novels...

The English socialist and feminist has an enduring reputation as the author of one of the most moving accounts of the individual...

A contributor to Fabian Essays in Socialism (1889), though he resigned from the society in 1904. Wallas was an Oxford graduate who...

He achieved huge success with his first novel, Lucky Jim (1954), the story of a comic anti-hero in a provincial university...

English novelist and journalist. His works are characterized by their sharp black humour...

Novelist, born near Hanley, Staffordshire, C England, UK. He studied locally and at London University, and was a...

English novelist, critic, and composer. A prolific and versatile writer, Burgess wrote about 60 books...

By the time of her early death Angela Carter had established herself as one of the most individual voices in British...

English author. He wrote more than 80 books, the best known of which are the novels The Good Soldier...

English novelist, short-story writer, and critic. He was concerned with the interplay of personality and the conflict between convention and instinct

English novelist and dramatist. Winner of the 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature, he is best remembered for his series of novels tracing...

English novelist. His work is often principally concerned with the fundamental corruption and evil inherent in human nature.

Poet and novelist, born in London, UK. He studied at Oxford, served in the trenches in World War 1, became professor of English...

In his major novels, central religious issues and moral dilemmas emerge, first apparent...

English writer. His work expresses his belief in emotion and the sexual impulse as creative and true to human nature...

Novelist, born in Poole, Dorset, S England, UK. He studied at Bern and Oxford universities...

One of the most successful and prolific writers of adventure stories, many of his books were made into films, including Ice Station Zebra...

Novelist, playwright, and short-story writer, born in Paris, France. Orphaned at 10, he studied at Canterbury...

In 1969 he published Master and Commander, the first novel of the celebrated Aubrey-Maturin series...

Pen-name of Eric Arthur Blair, an English writer. His books include the satirical fable Animal Farm (1945), an attack on the Soviet...

Novelist, born in London, UK. He studied at Oxford, worked in publishing and journalism before World War 2, and by 1936 had published four satirical novels...

Scottish novelist, b. Muriel Sarah Camberg. She lived in Edinburgh, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), London, New York, and Rome, and spent...

English writer, considered the greatest satirist of his generation...

In addition to her novels Virginia Woolf produced a great variety of other work – short stories, criticism, and biography

English novelist. He became a US citizen in 1955. His humorous novels and stories portray the accident-prone world of such characters..

Actor, playwright, and composer, born in London, UK. An actor from the age of 12, his first play, written with Esme Wynne, was...

Playwright, novelist, and translator, born in London, UK. He studied at Cambridge, and first established his reputation with...

English dramatist. He became one of the first Angry Young Men (anti-establishment writers of the 1950s) of British theatre with his...

English dramatist. Born in Hackney in London's East End, he is the son of an English tailor of Eastern European Jewish ancestry, and...

English playwright, b. Zlín, Czechoslovakia (now in the Czech Republic), as Tomas Straussler. During his childhood he and his family...

English-born US poet. He wrote some of his most original poetry, such as Look, Stranger! (1936)...

Poet, broadcaster, and writer on architecture, born in London, UK. He studied at Magdalen College, Oxford, but left...

Irish poet, b. Northern Ireland. Heaney may be the finest poet writing in English today. In his early works,...

Poet, born in Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire, N England, UK. He studied at Cambridge, where he read English for two years, then...

Northern Irish poet, born in Belfast. He is noted for his low-key, socially committed but politically uncommitted verse; and his...

English poet, dramatist, songwriter, and performer. Along with Adrian Henri and Brian Patten he was one of the group known as the...

Welsh poet, born in Swansea. An extraordinarily individualistic writer...

English novelist, essayist, and poet. He wrote numerous short stories featuring a Catholic priest, Father Brown, who solves crimes by drawing on his knowledge...

Born in Torquay, Devon, of an American father and English mother, she enjoyed a quiet...

She had begun her series of detective novels about the elegant and apparently light-hearted Lord Peter Wimsey...