James Boswell
Scottish biographer, diarist, and lawyer, born in Edinburgh
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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.
Lillian Beckwith
English writer best known for her series of semi-autobiographical books set on the Isle of Skye
Alan Bennett
English actor, author, playwright and screenwriter
John Berger
English art critic, novelist, painter and poet
Hector Berlioz
French Romantic composer and conductor
Julia Blackburn
British author of both fiction and non-fiction
William Blake
English poet, painter, and printmaker
Lesley Blanch
British author, historian and traveller
Ronald Blythe
British writer, essayist and editor, best known for his work Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village , an account of agricultural life in Suffolk from the turn of the century to the 1960s