English Classics

1. See the Irish Literature for James Joyce, Bram Stoker, Jonathan Swift, Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats, George Bernard Shaw et al.

2. Thomas Carlyle was Scottish. He moved to London in 1834. Carlyle died in London in 1881, but according to his wishes, he was buried in Ecclefachan, Scotland, where he was born and where his parents laid.

3. Conrad was born in Ukraine. He was of Polish descent. He left Russia in early 1870s. In 1886 he became a British subject.

4. Roald Dahl was born in Wales, of Norwegian parents. He was educated in Wales and England.

5. Lawrence Durrell was born in India and he died in France. He spent most of his life outside of England. He was educated in India until he reached age 11 and moved in 1935 to the island of Corfu. During World War II he served as press attaché to the British embassies in Cairo and Alexandria, and after the war he spent time in Yugoslavia, Rhodes, Cyprus, and the south of France.

6. American-English poet, playwright, literary critic and editor T.S. Eliot was born in Missouri, USA. However, he became a British subject in 1927 and he lived and died in London, England.

7. Novelist and Playwright Llewellyn is actually Welsh, but he is temporarily listed in here until a separate list for Welsh Literature is ready.

8. Murdoch was born in Dublin, Ireland. However, she spent most of her life in England. Please let me know if you believe she should be listed under Irish Literature.

9. Trinidadian writer of Indian descent, Naipaul has settled in England, however, travelled extensively.

10. Salman Rushdie is an Anglo-Indian author born in Bombay, India and educated in England. When we have a seperate list for Indian authors, I can be convinced to move him there. Make your objections now.

11. Sir Walter Scott is a Scottish author, but he is temporarily listed in here until a separate list for Scottish Literature is ready.

12. Author and poet Stevenson is Scottish, he is temporarily listed in here until a separate list for Scottish Literature is ready.

13. Dylan Thomas was Welsh. While on an exhausting American tour, he died in New York from an overdose of hard-liquor.

14. English-born novelist, short-story writer, lyricist and playwright Wodehouse settled in United States in 1944-45 (after the war) and later became a US citizen. He was knighted in 1975. Wodehouse has written about 100 books. Here you can find his complete bibliography.

English Literature
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Martin Amis (1949)
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Sir Kingsley Amis (1922 - 1995)
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Kate Atkinson (1951)
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	Human Croquet	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Emotionally Weird	read the reviews	#	write a review
	Abandonment	read the reviews	#	write a review
Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
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	Sense and Sensibility	read the reviews	#	write a review
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	Mansfield Park	read the reviews	#	write a review
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J.G. Ballard (1930)
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	Empire of the Sun	read the reviews	#	write a review
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Anne Brontë (1820 - 1849)
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English Literature

Martin Amis (1949)

Sir Kingsley Amis (1922 - 1995)

Kate Atkinson (1951)

Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)

J.G. Ballard (1930)

Anne Brontë (1820 - 1849)

Charlotte Brontë (1816 - 1855)

Emily Brontë (1818 - 1848)

Anthony Burgess (1917 - 1993)

Fanny Burney (1752 - 1840)

Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)

Thomas Carlyle 2 (1795 - 1881)

Geoffrey Chaucer (1342/43 - 1400)

Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1953

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)

Joseph Conrad 3 (1857 - 1924)

Jim Crace (1946)

Roald Dahl 4 (1916 - 1990)

Daniel Defoe (1660 - 1731)

Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)

John Dryden (1631 - 1700)

Lawrence Durrell 5 (1912 - 1990)

George Eliot Mary Ann (Marian) Evans (1819 - 1880)

T. S. Eliot 6 (1888 - 1965) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1948

Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754)

Ford Madox Ford (1873 - 1939)

E.M. Forster (1879 - 1970)

John Galsworthy (1867 - 1933) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1932

Sir William Golding (1911 - 1993) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1983

Oliver Goldsmith (1730 - 1774)

Robert Graves (1895 - 1985)

Graham Greene (1904 - 1991)

Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928)

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889)

Ted Hughes (1930 - 1998)

Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)

James I, King of England from 1603 to 1625 (1566 - 1625)

Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)

John Keats (1795 - 1821)

Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1907

Philip Larkin (1922 - 1985)

D.H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930)

John Le Carre (1931)

Doris Lessing (1919)

Richard Llewellyn 7 (1906 - 1983)

Christopher Marlowe (1564 - 1593)

William Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)

Ian McEwan (1948)

John Milton (1608 - 1674)

David Mitchell (1969)

Dame Iris Murdoch 8 (1919)

Sir V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad) Naipaul 9 (1932) Nobel Prize in Literature, 2001

Geoff Nicholson (1953)

George Orwell ( 1903 - 1950)

Harold Pinter (1930)

Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)

Salman Rushdie 10 (1947)

Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1950

Sir Walter Scott 11 (1771 - 1832)

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

Tom Sharpe (1928)

Mary Shelley (1797 - 1817)

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822)

Zadie Smith (1975)

Robert Louis Stevenson 12 (1850 - 1895)

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 - 1863)

Dylan Thomas 13 (1914 - 1953)

J.R.R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973)

Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882)

Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966)

Denton Welch (1915 - 1948)

H.G. (Herbert George) Wells (1866 - 1946)

Jeanette Winterson

Sir P.G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse 14 (1881 - 1975)

Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941)

William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)