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
20th-century memoirists
H. G. Wells
English writer
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist and pioneering aviator
Iris Origo
English-born biographer and writer
Vladimir Nabokov
Russian-American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist
Frank O’Connor
Irish writer of over 150 works, best known for his short stories and memoirs
Nuala O’Faolain
Irish journalist, TV producer, book reviewer, teacher and writer
Beryl Markham
English-born Kenyan aviator , adventurer, racehorse trainer and author
Primo Levi
Italian Jewish chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor and writer
Geoffrey Household
Prolific British novelist who specialised in thrillers