20th-century english novelists

John Wyndham

English science fiction writer best known for his works published under the pen name John Wyndham, although he also used other combinations of his names, such as John Beynon and Lucas Parkes

Virginia Woolf

English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device

Henry Williamson

English author who wrote novels concerned with wildlife, English social history and ruralism

T. H. White

English author best known for his Arthurian novels, published together in 1958 as The Once and Future King

Evelyn Waugh

English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books; he was also a prolific journalist and book reviewer

Sylvia Townsend Warner

English novelist, poet and musicologist, known for works such as Lolly Willowes, Whether a Dove or a Seagull, and After the Death of Don Juan.

J. R. R. Tolkien

English writer, poet, philologist, and academic, best known as the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings