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Jon Spence
Jane Austen was born in 1775 in Hampshire, England and was educated at Reading Ladies Boarding School. In 1801, following her father’s retirement, the family moved to Bath which provides the setting for many of her novels. Her works include the novels Northanger Abbey (1798), Sense and Sensibility (1811)......
Peter Jinks
Peter Jinks was born in 1976 and lives in Sicily. He has been a journalist (winner of the Young Journalist of the Year award), a playwright (shortlisted for the STV/Traverse comedy theatre award) and a screenplay writer (his script is in development with the BBC). Hallam Foe (2001) is his first novel......
Helen Cross
Helen Cross was born in 1967 and brought up in East Yorkshire, England which provides the setting for her novels. She was educated at Goldsmith's College, University of London, and later completed an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. Her first novel, My Summer of Love (2001)......
Giles Foden
Giles Foden was born in Warwickshire in 1967. His family moved to Malawi in 1972 where he was brought up. He returned to England at the age of 13 and was educated at Malvern College and Cambridge University where he read English. He worked as a journalist for Media Week magazine and became an assistant editor on the Times Literary Supplement......
Zoe Heller
Zoe Heller was born in London in 1965 and educated at Oxford University and Columbia University, New York. She is a journalist who, after writing book reviews for various newspapers, became a feature writer for The Independent. She wrote a weekly confessional column for the Sunday Times for four years......
Alan Bennett
Alan Bennett was born in 1934 in Leeds. He studied at Exeter College, Oxford, then after a period of National Service, became a lecturer for a short time at Oxford University. He started writing for the stage in 1963, and later, plays for television. To date he has been actor, director, broadcaster......
Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan was born in 1948 in Hampshire, England. He read English at Sussex University, followed by an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Arts, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences......
Graham Swift
Graham Swift was born in London in 1949. He was educated at Dulwich College, Queens' College, Cambridge, and York University. He was nominated as one of the 20 “Best of Young British Novelists” in the Book Marketing Council's promotion in 1983. He is the author of seven novels......
Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan in 1954 and came to Britain in 1960. He was educated at the University of Kent, Canterbury, where he read English and Philosophy, followed by the Creative Writing postgraduate course at the University of East Anglia. He has won a number of literary awards: his first novel, A Pale View of Hills (1982), was awarded the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize......
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy was born in Dorset, England in 1840. His formal education ended at age 16, when he became apprenticed to a local architect. Following his training he moved to London, but returned to Dorset after 5 years to dedicate himself to writing. He wrote fifteen novels, including Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), The Woodlanders (1887), Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891)......
Graham Greene
Graham Green was born in Hertfordshire, England in 1904, and was educated at Berkhamstead School while his father was headmaster, followed by Balliol College, Oxford. His initial career was as a journalist, first in Nottingham and then as sub-editor of The Times, and he later used freelance journalism to supplement......
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, England and was married at the age of 18. Shortly after he moved to London where he found success as an actor, writer, and part-owner of the acting company the Lord Chamberlain's Men. He was a prolific poet and playwright, with his surviving work......
Ben Rice
Ben Rice was born in Devon in 1972. He studied English at the universities of Newcastle and Oxford before undertaking a Creative Writing course at the University of East Anglia.
His novella Pobby and Dingan (2000) was shortlisted for the 2001 Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, and won the Somerset Maugham Award......
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens was born in Hampshire, England in 1812 and moved with his family to London in 1822. Following his father’s imprisonment for debt, he began working in a factory at the age of twelve. The conditions under which working-class people lived became major themes of his works. Eventually his family’s financial situation......
