Wilkie Collins
English novelist and playwright known especially for The Woman in White , and for The Moonstone , which has been proposed as the first modern English detective novel
english short story writers
Lewis Carroll
English writer of children’s fiction, notably Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass
G. K. Chesterton
English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic
Agatha Christie
English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple
A. S. Byatt
English novelist, poet and Booker Prize winner, and won the 2017 Park Kyong-ni Prize
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
J. G. Ballard
English novelist, short story writer, satirist, and essayist who first became associated with the New Wave of science fiction for his post-apocalyptic novels such as The Drowned World . In the late 1960s, he produced a variety of experimental short stories , such as those collected in the controversial The Atrocity Exhibition . In the mid-1970s, Ballard published several novels, among them the highly controversial Crash , a story about car crash fetishism, and High-Rise , a depiction of a luxury apartment building’s descent into violent chaos
Kingsley Amis
English novelist, poet, critic and teacher