Alan Bennett
English actor, author, playwright and screenwriter
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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
Jorge Luis Borges
Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature
James Boswell
Scottish biographer, diarist, and lawyer, born in Edinburgh
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.