Author, biographer, mountaineer, literary editor of the New Statesman, vice-president of the Alpine Club, and President of the RLF 1976-1984.

Book illustrator and children’s author initially with his wife Lena until her death, scholar of seventeenth century English poetry, especially Alexander Pope.

Poet and translator. Primarily known for A Collection of Chinese Lyrics Rendered into Verse co-written with Duncan Mackintosh, (Routledge, 1965).

Children’s author of over 40 books in UK, USA and Europe. Nominated for the Carnegie Medal, three of her family adventures were adapted for TV.

Artist, memoirist. His fictionalised autobiography was withdrawn following legal action and re-published in 2009 to coincide with Tate St Ives exhibition.

Author of evocative books, essays and short stories capturing agricultural life in Suffolk throughout his 100-year life.

Poet, whose five war sonnets expressed the hopeful idealism with which Britain entered the First World War.

Poet, playwright, columnist, prolific author of novels and short stories, encompassing history, theology, criticism, crime and mystery. First president of the Detection Club.

Prolific author of children’s songs and religious plays, Secretary of the Parents’ National Educational Union, organising conferences, speaking, and editing publications.

Painter, assembly artist, responsive to her surroundings. Generous and highly influential teacher to the post-war generation.

English historian and Professor of French History at University College London, with particular emphasis on reinterpreting the history of the French Revolution.

Novelist, publishing as Audrey Blanshard, author of at least 23 historical fiction or romance titles for the public lending library market.

Novelist, following publication of debut novel Summer Palace (1960), under his own name, wrote over 50 Western or Adventure novels under pseudonyms for the lending library market.

Documentary film researcher, memoirist of family history travelling with the British Council 1939-1975, and Egypt 1917-1919.

Non-fiction, popular history, biography, and travel. Chaired 1936 British Council overseas films initiative, President of British Zionist Federation and Jewish Historical Society.

Novelist, playwright, wrote from personal experience about alcoholism and addiction. Originator of term ‘gaslighting’ after the Alfred Hitchcock film of his 1938 play Gas Light.

Non-fiction author of art and literary biographies, often co-written with wife Elizabeth Hanson, who also wrote children’s books.

Novelist, between 1961-1996 published 24 novels often featuring central female characters seen against a background of work and society.

Debut novelist aged 54, she published 13 novels often inspired by her youth in Ireland. Virago later reprinted three in 2013, and The Oldie published her columns.

Non-fiction, local historian of Norfolk and biographer of politicians including William Windham and Horace Walpole, and poet Thomas Gray.

Cartoonist, architectural historian, stage designer and author, his lifelong aim was to raise awareness of architectural heritage. From 1939-1981 best known for his 10,000 newspaper cartoons.

Non-fiction, published textbooks guidebooks as ‘John Lawson’, author of 96 titles between 1970s-2017. Further information required.

Novelist, he wrote about urban poverty, racial issues, bisexuality, and drugs. His books have been adapted by or influenced various writers and artists.

Author of 13 books and textbooks on Scots law, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and advocate for animal welfare and veganism.

Novelist, celebrated playwright and author of short stories, many of which were adapted for radio, cinema and television, a Companion of Literature and Commandeur of the French Legion of Honour.

Architectural historian and author of books on town planning with a particular emphasis on Victorian London.

Playwright, novelist, screenwriter, best known for his children’s poems and stories inspired by his son’s toys Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, Kanga, Roo and Tigger.

Poet, playwright and author of short stories, among 16 Great War poets commemorated on a slate slab unveiled in Westminster Abbey’s Poet’s Corner.

Prolific author of crime, thriller, fantasy and science fiction novels and short stories, poetry, non-fiction and 27 plays. President of Dartmoor Preservation Association.

Journalist, non-fiction author, Eastern Front correspondent for the 1917 Russian Revolution, who made his name with the Swallows and Amazons children’s books.

Poet, playwright, non-fiction author, translator, BBC radio dramatist and adaptor 1944-1979, including the popular Hilda Tablet series. Translator of verse drama and novels.

Prolific radio, TV and film dramatist of original plays and adaptations, screenplay adaptations include The 39 Steps and Arthur Ransome’s Swallows and Amazons.

Prolific author of popular fiction, thrillers, westerns and science fiction under many pseudonyms for the public lending library market.

Historian of modern Germany based at the The University of Wales Trinity Saint David at Lampeter who published several books on 20th century German political history.

Playwright, script and sketch writer, particularly of comedy drama series on radio and TV, Literary Manager of the English Stage Company at the Royal Court.

Playwright, novelist, particularly historical fiction as well as biographies and autobiography, her saga The Sun Is My Undoing  (1941) was serialised on BBC Radio.

Private Secretary to Minister Aneurin Bevan during the passage of the National Health Bill in 1945, he wrote poetry while a British civil servant and published six collections of poetry 1944-1991.

Playwright, translator, produced by the National Theatre, RSC, Royal Court and elsewhere in UK, he also wrote for radio, cinema and TV. RLF Fellow at the University of East Anglia.

Editor of the Kipling Journal, who wrote frequently on Rudyard Kipling and his work and co-edited the volume, Kipling’s Japan.

Novelist, LGBTQ+ campaigner, as Professor of English Literature at the University of East Anglia jointly with Malcolm Bradbury established ground-breaking MA in Creative Writing.