20th-century british short story writers

A. A. Milne

English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various poems

Ian Fleming

British writer, journalist and naval intelligence officer who is best known for his James Bond series of spy novels

E. R. Eddison

English civil servant and author, writing epic fantasy novels under the name E. R. Eddison

Roald Dahl

British novelist, short-story writer, poet, screenwriter, and wartime fighter pilot

Agatha Christie

English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple

A. S. Byatt

English novelist, poet and Booker Prize winner, and won the 2017 Park Kyong-ni Prize

Ronald Blythe

British writer, essayist and editor, best known for his work Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village , an account of agricultural life in Suffolk from the turn of the century to the 1960s

Elizabeth Bowen

Irish – British novelist and short story writer notable for her books about the “big house” of Irish landed Protestants as well her fiction about life in wartime London.