Penelope Fitzgerald
Booker Prizewinning novelist, poet, essayist and biographer from Lincoln, England
20th-century biographers
Loren Eiseley
American anthropologist, educator, philosopher, and natural science writer, who taught and published books from the 1950s through the 1970s. He received many honorary degrees and was a fellow of multiple professional societies
John Stewart Collis
Irish biographer, rural author, and pioneer of the ecology movement
Winston Churchill
British statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. Best known for his wartime leadership as Prime Minister, Churchill was also a Sandhurst-educated soldier, a Nobel Prize-winning writer and historian, a prolific painter, and one of the longest-serving politicians in British history
John Buchan
British novelist, historian, and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation
Anthony Burgess
English writer and composer