Hugh Lofting
English author trained as a civil engineer, who created the classic children’s literature character of Doctor Dolittle
20th-century english novelists
Rudyard Kipling
English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist
D. H. Lawrence
English writer and poet
John le Carre
British-Irish author, best known for his espionage novels
Laurie Lee
English poet, novelist and screenwriter, who was brought up in the small village of Slad in Gloucestershire
James Lees-Milne
English writer and expert on country houses, who worked for the National Trust from 1936 to 1973. He was an architectural historian, novelist and biographer
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
German-born British and American Booker prize-winning novelist, short story writer and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter
Nick Hornby
English writer and lyricist
Aldous Huxley
English writer and philosopher
Christopher Isherwood
Anglo-American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist