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British essayists

44 published records, arranged alphabetically. Each entry is published only where a named source supports it.

Adam ZamoyskiAuthor · BooksAdam Zamoyski (born 11 January 1949) is a Polish-British historian and author.[1]
Alister HardyAuthor · BooksSir Alister Clavering Hardy FRSE (10 February 1896 – 22 May 1985) was a British marine biologist, an expert on marine ecosystems spanning organisms from zooplankton to whales.
Bat Ye'orAuthor · BooksGisèle Littman (Orebi; born 1933), better known by her pen name Bat Ye'or (Daughter of the Nile), is an Egyptian-born, Jewish-British author, known for her promulgation of the Eurabia…
Bertrand RussellAuthor · BooksBertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970), was an English philosopher, logician, mathematician, and social reformer.
Borislav PekićAuthor · BooksBorislav Pekić (Борислав Пекић; 4 February 1930 – 2 July 1992) was a Serbian writer and political activist.
C. S. LewisAuthor · BooksClive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British author, literary scholar and Anglican lay theologian.
Clemence DaneArtist · SculptureWinifred Ashton CBE, better known by the pseudonym Clemence Dane (21 February 1888 – 28 March 1965), was an English novelist and playwright.
Émile ZolaAuthor · BooksÉmile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola (also; French: [emil zɔla]; 2 April 1840 – 29 September 1902) was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary…
Erich FriedAuthor · BooksErich Fried (6 May 1921 – 22 November 1988) was an Austrian-born poet, writer, and translator.
Erika MannAuthor · BooksErika Julia Hedwig Mann (9 November 1905 – 27 August 1969) was a German actress and writer, daughter of the novelist Thomas Mann.
Freya Madeline StarkPhotographer · PhotographyDame Freya Madeline Stark (31 January 18939 May 1993) was a British-Italian explorer and travel writer.
Guillermo Cabrera InfanteAuthor · BooksGuillermo Cabrera Infante (ɡiˈʝeɾmo kaˈβɾeɾa iɱˈfante; Gibara, 22 April 1929 – 21 February 2005) was a Cuban novelist, essayist, translator, screenwriter, and critic;
H. E. BatesAuthor · BooksHerbert Ernest Bates (16 May 1905 – 29 January 1974), better known as H. E. Bates, was an English writer of novels and short stories.
J. R. R. TolkienIllustrator · IllustrationJohn Ronald Reuel Tolkien (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer and academic philologist.
Jenny DiskiAuthor · BooksJenny Diski FRSL (née Simmonds; 8 July 1947 – 28 April 2016) was an English novelist, non-fiction writer and memoirist. She was a regular contributor to the London Review of Books;
John FowlesAuthor · BooksJohn Robert Fowles (31 March 1926 – 5 November 2005) was an English novelist, critically positioned between modernism and postmodernism.
Joseph ConradAuthor · BooksJoseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski; 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British novelist and story writer.
Mary ShelleyAuthor · BooksMary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein;
Michael ArlenAuthor · BooksMichael Arlen (born Dikran Sarkis Kouyoumdjian, ', 16 November 1895 – 23 June 1956) was an essayist, short story writer, novelist, playwright, and scriptwriter.
Nick HornbyAuthor · BooksNicholas Peter John Hornby[1][2] (born 17 April 1957) is an English writer. He is best known for his memoir Fever Pitch (1992) and novels High Fidelity (1995) and About a Boy (1998), all of…
Paul GrahamAuthor · BooksPaul Graham (born November 13, 1964) is an English-American computer scientist, writer, essayist, entrepreneur, and investor.
Peter HopkirkAuthor · BooksPeter Stuart Hopkirk (15 December 1930 – 22 August 2014) was a British journalist, author and historian who wrote six books about the British Empire, Russia and Central Asia.
Robert BurtonAuthor · BooksRobert Burton (8 February 1577 – 25 January 1640; sometimes writing under the pen name Democritus Junior) was an English author and fellow of Oxford University, known for his encyclopaedic…
Robert Louis StevensonAuthor · Books
Salman RushdiePerson · Film memorabiliaSir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (born 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British and American novelist.
Sid ChaplinAuthor · BooksSid Chaplin (20 September 191611 January 1986) was an English writer whose works (novels, television screenplays, poetry and short stories) are mostly set in the north-east of England, in…
T. S. EliotAuthor · Books
Thomas DayAuthor · BooksThomas Day (22 June 1748 – 28 September 1789) was an English writer, lawyer and abolitionist.
Thomas De QuinceyAuthor · BooksThomas Penson De Quincey (Thomas Penson Quincey; 15 August 17858 December 1859) was an English writer, essayist, and literary critic, best known for his Confessions of an English…
Vernon LeeAuthor · BooksViolet Paget (14 October 1856 – 13 February 1935), known by the pseudonym Vernon Lee, was a French-born British art historian and writer.
Virginia WoolfAuthor · BooksAdeline Virginia Woolf ("wolf";[1] Stephen; 25 January 1882 28 March 1941) was an English writer and one of the most influential 20th-century modernist authors.
William AuldAuthor · BooksWilliam Auld (6 November 1924 – 11 September 2006) was a British poet, author, translator and magazine editor who wrote chiefly in Esperanto.

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