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List of English novelists
List of novelists from England
(See also:
English novel
,
English literature
)
A. A. Milne
, (1882-1956),
The Red House Mystery
and
Mr. Pim Passes By
(a novelization of his own
play
)
A. E. W. Mason, author of
The Four Feathers
Agatha Christie
, (1890-1976)
Alain de Botton
(born 1969)
Aldous Huxley
, (1884-1963), author of
Brave New World
Alex Garland
, author of
The Beach
Amanda Craig
, author of
A Vicious Circle
and
In a Dark Wood
Angela Carter
(1940-1992), postfeminist, wrote
magical realism
Angus Wilson
, (1913-1991)
Anita Brookner
Anne Brontė
, (1820-1849)
Anthony Berkeley, mystery writer (
The Poisoned Chocolates Case
)
Anthony Buckeridge
Anthony Burgess
, (1917-1993),
composer
,
essayist
, author of
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Trollope
, (1815-1882), prolific documentor of life in
Victorian
England
Arnold Bennett
, (1867-1931)
Arthur Koestler
, (1905-1983)
Dame Barbara Cartland
, (1901-2000)
Barbara Pym
Ben Elton
, (born 1959)
Bernard Cornwell
, author of the Sharpe novels
Beryl Bainbridge
, (born 1934)
C. H. B. Kitchin
C. P. Snow
, (1905-1980)
C. S. Lewis
, (1898-1963),
Christian
, author of
The Chronicles of Narnia
, wrote a book called
Surprised by Joy
, years of
English
bachelorhood later, married an American fan named Joy
Carole Hayman
Charles Dickens
, (1812-1870), master of the
novel
, wrote for serial publication
Charlotte Brontė
, (1816-1855)
Christopher Isherwood
, (1904-1986)
D. H. Lawrence
, (1885-1930), author of
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Daniel Defoe
,
journalist
, author of
Robinson Crusoe
(
1719
),
Moll Flanders
Daphne Du Maurier
, (1907-1989)
David Lodge
, author of
Thinks
(2001)
Doris Lessing
, (born 1919), author of
The Grass is Singing
The Golden Notebook
and
Canopus in Argos: Archives
Dornford Yates
, (1885-1960), escapist adventure stories
Dorothy L. Sayers
, (1893-1957), mystery writer (creator of
Lord Peter Wimsey
),
playwright
, translator of
Dante
Douglas Adams
(1952 - 2001), author of
the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
E. M. Forster
, (1879-1970)
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
, (1803-1873), the annual bad writing contest is named after him.
Elizabeth Gaskell
Emily Brontė
, (1818-1848)
Evelyn Waugh
, (1903-1966), comic novelist (
Scoop
), tragic novelist (
Brideshead Revisited
), sometimes in the same book.
Fay Weldon
Ford Madox Ford
, author of
The Good Soldier
(
1914
), promoter of many other writers.
Frederick Forsyth
, (born 1938), author of
The Day of the Jackal
Frederick Marryat
, (1792-1848),
Mr Midshipman Easy
and other sea stories
G. K. Chesterton
, (1874-1936), mystery writer and
Christian apologist
George A. Moore
, (1852-1933)
George Du Maurier
George Eliot
, (1819-1880)
George Meredith
, (1828-1909)
George Orwell
, pen name of
Eric Arthur Blair
,
journalist
, volunteer soldier in the
Spanish Civil War
, author of
Animal Farm
(
1945
),
1984
(
1949
)
Graham Greene
, (1904-1991)
Graham Swift
won the
Booker Prize
in 1996 for
Last Orders
; also known for an earlier novel
Waterland
(1984).
H. G. Wells
, (1866-1946), author and
essayist
, early writer of
science fiction
, author of
The War of the Worlds
H. Rider Haggard
, (1856-1925), adventure novels set in exotic locations, such as
King Solomon's Mines
,
She
Hall Caine
, (1853-1931)
Hammond Innes
, (1914-1998)
Helen Zahavi, author of
Dirty Weekend
(1991), a modern-day
picaresque novel
Henry Fielding
, (1707-1754)
Henry Green
, (1905-1973)
Henry Williamson
, (1895-1977), author
Hilary Mantel
Ian McEwan
Iris Murdoch
, (1919-1999), author of
A Severed Head
Ivy Compton-Burnett, author of novels about dysfunctional families
James Herbert, Horror writer
J. B. Priestley
J. G. Ballard
, (born 1930), author of
Crash
,
Empire of the Sun
J. R. Ackerley
J. R. R. Tolkien
, (1892-1973), author of
The Lord of the Rings
Jane Austen
, (1775-1817)
Jeffrey Archer
Jerome K. Jerome
, (1859-1927), author of
Three Men in a Boat
Joanne Harris
, (born 1964), author of
Chocolat
,
Five Quarters of the Orange
John Braine
, author of
Room at the Top
and
The Jealous God
John Bunyan
, (1628-1688)
John Fowles
, author of
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Jonathan Coe
Joseph Conrad
, (1857-1924),
Polish-born
mariner
, author of
The Heart of Darkness
Josephine Hart, author of '\'
Damage
''
Julian Barnes
, (born 1946), author of
England, England
Kazuo Ishiguro
, author of
The Remains of the Day
Kingsley Amis
, (1922-1995), novelist and
poet
, young author of
Lucky Jim
and old author of
The Old Devils
.
Lawrence Durrell
, (1912-1990), author of
The Alexandria Quartet
Malcolm Bradbury, author of
The History Man
Margaret Drabble
, (born 1939)
Marie Corelli
, (1855-1924), best-selling novelist
Martin Amis
, (born 1949), son of
Kingsley
, author of
Dead Babies
,
Money
, and
The Information
Mary Augusta Ward
, (1851-1920)
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
, (1837-1915)
Mary Webb, tales of rural life
Mary Wesley
, (1912-2002), author of
The Camomile Lawn
Muriel Spark
, (born 1918)
Nancy Mitford
, (1904-1973)
Neil Gaiman
, (born 1960)
Nell Leyshon
Nick Hornby
, author of
About a Boy
(1998)
Oliver Goldsmith
, (1730-1774),
The Vicar of Wakefield
Ouida
, (
1839
-
1908
)
P. G. Wodehouse
, (1881-1975), creator of
Jeeves
and
Wooster
P.D. James
, author of
crime fiction
but also the
dystopian
novel
The Children of Men
(1992)
Patrick O'Brian
, (1914-2000), author of the Aubrey/Maturin naval historical novels (
Master and Commander
is the first in the series)
Peter Ackroyd
, (born 1949)
Rhoda Broughton
, (1840-1920)
Richard Francis Burton
, (1821-1890)
Robert Graves
, (1895-1985),
The White Goddess
Rudyard Kipling
, author of
Kim
(
1904
)
Ruth Rendell
(aka
Barbara Vine
), author of
King Solomon's Carpet
Samuel Butler
, (1612-80)
Samuel Richardson
,
printer
, contender for the title of "first
English
novelist", author of
Pamela
(
1740
)
Sax Rohmer
, (1883-1959), creator of
Dr. Fu Manchu
, "the
yellow peril
incarnate in one man".
Simon Brett
, (born 1945), (whodunnits)
Stella Gibbons
, author of
Cold Comfort Farm
, found something nasty in Mary Webb's woodshed.
Stephen Fry
, (born 1957)
Stewart Home
, (born 1962), his
1999
novel
Sue Townsend
-
Adrian Mole
books
T. H. White
, author of
The Sword in the Stone
and
The Once and Future King
Terry Pratchett
, (born 1948)
Thomas Hardy
, (1840-1928)
Thomas Love Peacock
, (1785-1866)
Tom Sharpe, author of
Wilt
Virginia Woolf
, (1882-1941),
feminist
,
modernist
Wilkie Collins
, (1824-1889), author of
The Moonstone
and many others
Will Self
William Cooper
,
twentieth century
William G. Golding
, (1911-1993),
The Lord of the Flies
William Horwood
William Makepeace Thackeray
, (1811-1863), author of
Vanity Fair
William Somerset Maugham
, (1874-1965), author of
Liza of Lambeth
and
The Razor's Edge
and creator of
Sadie Thompson
in
Rain
See also:
List of novelists
by country