Were Lytton Strachey and Irène Némirovsky both writers?
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Lytton Strachey Giles Lytton Strachey ( ; 1 March 1880 – 21 January 1932) was a British writer and critic.
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Irène Némirovsky Irène Némirovsky (] ; 24 February 1903 – 17 August 1942) was a novelist of Ukrainian Jewish origin born in Kiev Ukraine under the Russian Empire; she lived more than half her life in France and wrote in French, but was denied French citizenship. Arrested as a Jew under the racial laws – which did not take into account her conversion to Roman Catholicism – she died at Auschwitz at the age of 39. Successful in her day, she is now best known for the posthumously published "Suite française.
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John Strachey (geologist) John Strachey (10 May 1671 – 11 June 1743) was a British geologist and topographer.
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Maurice Hatton Maurice Hatton (1938–1997) was a British screenwriter and film director.
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L C Tyler L C (Len) Tyler is a British writer of comic crime fiction. His "Elsie and Ethelred" mysteries feature Ethelred Tressider, a crime writer, and Elsie Thirkettle, his literary agent.
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Robert Keable Robert Keable (6 March 1887 – 22 December 1927) was a British novelist, formerly a missionary and priest in the Church of England. He resigned his ministry following his experiences in the First World War and caused a scandal with his 1921 novel "Simon Called Peter", the tale of a priest's wartime affair with a young nurse. The book sold 600,000 copies in the 1920s alone, was referenced in "The Great Gatsby", and was cited in a double murder investigation. Fêted in the United States, but critically less than well-received, Keable moved to Tahiti where he continued to write, producing both novels and theological works, until his death at age 40 of a kidney complaint.
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Henry Gardiner Adams Henry Gardiner Adams (c.1811–1881) was an English druggist and chemist, known as an author and anthologist. He wrote juvenile literature under the pseudonym Nemo.
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Vladimir Nabokov Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov ( ; Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Набо́ков , ] , also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin; (April 22nd, 1899 — July 2nd, 1977) was a Russian-American novelist and entomologist. His first nine novels were in Russian, but he achieved international prominence after he began writing English prose.
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Tony Waddington (songwriter) Anthony Brandon "Tony" Waddington (born 1 January 1943) is an English film producer, songwriter, screenplay writer, record producer, and creative media executive. He became well known, with Wayne Bickerton, as writer and producer of a series of UK chart hits in the 1970s for The Rubettes. He also received an Ivor Novello Award as 'Songwriter of the Year'.
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Seekers (TV series) Seekers is a two-part TV mini-series released on ITV from 25 to 28 April 1993 about a police officer who disappears, and when his wife tries to find him, she discovers... another wife. They team up to search for him. It starred Brenda Fricker and Josette Simon, and was written by the celebrated novelist and screenwriter Lynda La Plante who also wrote the book of the same name.
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Theodore Odrach Theodore Odrach (February 13, 1912 – October 7, 1964), born Theodore Sholomitsky, was a Ukrainian and Polesian writer of novels, short stories and memoirs. He is generally known as the "writer of the Pinsk Marshes."
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Eileen Ascroft Eileen Ascroft (1914 – 29 April 1962) was a journalist and writer.
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Ellis Pierce Ellis Pierce (29 January 1841 – 31 July 1912) also known as Elis o'r Nant, was a Welsh writer and bookseller.
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Kay Stonham Kay Stonham is a British actress, writer and academic.
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Philip Caveney Philip Caveney (born 1951) is a British children's author, best known for the Sebastian Darke, Alec Devlin and Movie Maniacs novels. He previously wrote a number of thrillers for adults. He was born in Prestatyn, North Wales but for many years has lived in Stockport and has co-ordinated the Manchester Writers' Workshop for over twenty five years.
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Victor Pemberton Victor Pemberton (10 October 1931 – 13 August 2017) was a British writer and television producer.
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Lady Dorothy Nevill Lady Dorothy Fanny Nevill (1 April 1826 London - 24 March 1913 London), was an English writer, hostess, horticulturist and plant collector.
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Le Bal (novella) Le Bal is the title of collection of 2 novellas written by Irène Némirovsky. Published in France in 1930, it has been recently re-issued, due to the increasing interest in and popularity of the author's work, following the discovery and publication of Suite Française.
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Stanley Middleton Stanley Middleton FRSL (1 August 1919 – 25 July 2009) was a British novelist.
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Elinor Glyn Elinor Glyn ("née" Sutherland; 17 October 1864 – 23 September 1943) was a British novelist and scriptwriter who specialised in romantic fiction that was considered scandalous for its time. She popularized the concept of "It". Although her works are relatively tame by modern standards, she had tremendous influence on early 20th-century popular culture and perhaps on the careers of notable Hollywood stars such as Rudolph Valentino, Gloria Swanson and Clara Bow in particular.
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Katherine Strueby Katherine Strueby (28 May 1908 – 14 November 1988) was an American-born British screenwriter. She was married to the writer Gordon Wellesley.
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Josef Škvorecký Josef Škvorecký, CM (] ; September 27, 1924 – January 3, 2012) was a Czech-Canadian writer and publisher. He spent half of his life in Canada, publishing and supporting banned Czech literature during the communist era. Škvorecký was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1980. He and his wife were long-time supporters of Czech dissident writers before the fall of communism in that country. Škvorecký's fiction deals with several themes: the horrors of totalitarianism and repression, the expatriate experience, and the miracle of jazz.