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
bisexual writers
Marguerite Yourcenar
French novelist and essayist born in Brussels, Belgium, who became a US citizen in 1947. Winner of the Prix Femina and the Erasmus Prize, she was the first woman elected to the Acadmie franaise, in 1980, and the seventeenth person to occupy seat 3.
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.
Gore Vidal
American writer and public intellectual known for his epigrammatic wit, erudition, and patrician manner
James Tiptree Jr.
American science fiction and fantasy author better known as James Tiptree Jr., a pen name she used from 1967 to her death
Ali Smith
Scottish author, playwright, academic and journalist
Siegfried Sassoon
English war poet, writer, and soldier
Vikram Seth
Indian novelist and poet
Vita Sackville-West
English author and garden designer