Christopher Isherwood
Anglo-American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist
20th-century lgbt people
Louise Fitzhugh
American writer and illustrator of children’s books, known best for the novel Harriet the Spy
Bruce Chatwin
English travel writer, novelist and journalist
John Cheever
American novelist and short story writer
Paul Bowles
American expatriate composer, author, and translator
Margaret Wise Brown
American writer of children’s books, including Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny, both illustrated by Clement Hurd
Elizabeth Bishop
American poet and short-story writer
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.
James Baldwin
American novelist, playwright, essayist, poet, and activist
J. R. Ackerley
British writer and editor