John le Carre
British-Irish author, best known for his espionage novels
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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
P. J. Kavanagh
English poet, lecturer, actor, broadcaster and columnist
John Keegan
English military historian, lecturer, writer and journalist
Francis Kilvert
English clergyman whose diaries reflected rural life in the 1870s, and were published over fifty years after his death.
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
German-born British and American Booker prize-winning novelist, short story writer and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter
Samuel Johnson
English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer
Pat Jordan
British Trotskyist who was central to founding the International Marxist Group
James Joyce
Irish novelist, short story writer, poet and literary critic