20th-century english novelists

Henry James

American-British author

P. D. James

English novelist and life peer

Georgette Heyer

English novelist and short-story writer, in both the regency romance and detective fiction genres

Stella Gibbons

English author, journalist, and poet

William Golding

British novelist, playwright, and poet

Robert Graves

British poet, historical novelist, critic, and classicist

Graham Greene

English writer and journalist regarded by many as one of the leading English novelists of the 20th century

Penelope Fitzgerald

Booker Prizewinning novelist, poet, essayist and biographer from Lincoln, England

Ian Fleming

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

Ford Maddox Ford

English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals The English Review and The Transatlantic Review were instrumental in the development of early 20th-century English and American literature