A Guide to Twentieth Century Literature in English

Abercrombie, Lascelles

Abrahams, Peter

Abse, Dannie

Achebe, Chinua

Adams, Richard

Adcock, Fleur

AIDOO, (Christina) AMA ATA

Aldington, Richard

Ali, Ahmed

ALUKO, T.M. (Timothy Mafalarurso)

Amadi, Elechi

Amis, Kingsley

Anand, Mulk Raj

Anthony, Michael

Arden, John

Armah, Ayi Kwei

ARNIM, MARY ANNETTE VON (née Beauchamp; pen-name 'Elizabeth')

Astley, Thea

Atwood, Margaret

AUDEN, W.H. (Wystan Hugh)

AWOONOR, KOFI (formerly George Awoonor-Williams)

Ayckbourn, Alan

BAINBRIDGE, BERYL (Margaret)

BALLARD, J.G. (James Graham)

Baring, Maurice

Barker, George

Barker, Harley Granville

BARRIE, J.M. (Sir James Matthew)

BATES, H.E. (Herbert Ernest)

Bawden, Nina

BAXTER, JAMES K. (Keir)

Beaver, Bruce

Beckett, Samuel

Bedford, Sybille

Beer, Patricia

BEERBOHM, MAX (full name Sir Henry Maximilian)

Behan, Brendan

Belloc, Hilaire

Bennett, Alan

Bennett, Arnold

BENSON, E.F. (Edward Frederick)

Bentley, Phyllis

Berry, Francis

BETJEMAN, JOHN (Sir)

Bhattacharya, Bhabani

Binyon, Laurence

Birney, Earle

Blackburn, Thomas

Blackwood, Algernon

Blake, George

Blunden, Edmund

Bolt, Robert

Bond, Edward

Bosman, Herman Charles

Bottomley, Gordon

Bottrall, Ronald

Bowen, Elizabeth

Boyd, Martin

Bradbury, Malcolm

Bragg, Melvyn

Braine, John

Brasch, Charles

BRATHWAITE, EDWARD KAMAU (formerly L. Edward)

Brennan, Christopher

Bridges, Robert

BRIDIE, JAMES (pseudonym of Dr O.H. Mavor)

Brighouse, Harold

Brittain, Vera

Broderick, John

Brooke, Jocelyn

Brooke, Rupert

Brophy, Brigid

Brown, George Mackay

Brownjohn, Alan

Bruce, George

Brutus, Dennis

BUCHAN, JOHN (1st Baron Tweedsmuir)

Buchanan, George

Buckley, Vincent

Bulletin, The

Bunting, Basil

Burgess, Anthony

Butler, Frederick Guy

Buzo, Alexander

BY ATT, A, S. (Antonia Susan)

Callaghan, Morley

Cameron, Norman

Campbell, David

CAMPBELL, ROY (Ignatius Roy Dunnachie)

Carey, Peter

Cary, Joyce

Causley, Charles

CECIL, DAVID (Lord)

Chaplin, Sid

Chaudhuri, Nirad C.

CHESTERTON, G.K. (Gilbert Keith)

Childers, Erskine

CHRISTIE, AGATHA (née Miller)

Church, Richard

Clark, John Pepper

Clarke, Austin

Clarke, Austin Chesterfield

Clemo, Jack

Cloete, Stuart

Cohen, Leonard

Colum, Padraic

Common, Jack

COMPTON-BURNETT, IVY (Dame)

Connolly, Cyril

Connor, Tony

Conquest, Robert

Conrad, Joseph

COOPER, WILLIAM (pseudonym of Harry Summer-field Hoff)

COPPARD, A.E. (Alfred Edgar)

Cornford, Frances

COWARD, NOEL (Sir)

Craig, Gordon

CRONIN, A.J. (Archibald Joseph)

Curnow, Allen

Das, Kamala

Davie, Donald

Davies, Rhys

Davies, Robertson

DAVIES, W.H. (Wiiliam Henry)

Davin, Dan

Dawe, Bruce

Day Lewis, Cecil

De Boissiére, Ralph

De La Mare, Walter

Delaney, Shelagh

Dennis, Nigel

Desai, Anita

DESANI, G.V. (Govindas Vishnoodas)

Devlin, Denis

Dobson, Rosemary

DOUGHTY, C.M. (Charles Montague)

Douglas, Keith

Douglas, Norman

DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN (Sir)

Drabble, Margaret

Dransfield, Michael

Drink Water, John

Dudek, Louis

Duggan, Alfred

Duggan, Maurice

DU MAURIER, DAPHNE (Dame)

Duncan, Ronald

Dunn, Douglas

DUNSANY, LORD (Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett)

Durrell, Lawrence

Ek Wensi, Cyprian

ELIOT, T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

Empson, William

ENRIGHT, D.J. (Dennis Joseph)

Ervine, St John

Evans, Caradoc

Ewart, Gavin

Ezekiel, Nissim

FAIRBURN, A.R.D. (Arthur Rex Dugard)

FARRELL, J.G. (James Gordon)

Fenton, James

FIRBANK, (Arthur Annesley) RONALD

Fisher, Roy

FITZGERALD, R.D. (Robert David)

Flecker, James Elrgy

Fleming, Ian

FLINT, F.S. (Frank Stewart)

Ford, Ford Madox

FORSTER, E.M. (Edward Morgan)

Fowles, John

Frame, Janet

FRASER, G.S. (George Sutherland)

Friel, Brian

Fry, Christopher

Fugard, Athol

Fuller, Roy

Fukphy, Joseph

Galsworthy, John

Garioch, Robert

Garnett, David

Gascoyne, David

Gekhardi(E), William

Ghose, Zulfikar

GIBBON, LEWIS GRASSIC (pseudonym of James Leslie Mitchell)

Gibbons, Stella

Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson

Gittings, Robert

Glover, Denis

Godden, Rumer

Gogarty, Oliver St John

Golding, William (Gerald)

Gordimer, Nadine

GOSSE, EDMUND (Sir)

GRAHAM, W.S. (William Sydney)

Grahame, Kenneth

Graves, Robert

GREEN, HENRY (pseudonym of Henry Vincent Yorke)

GREENE, (Henry) GRAHAM

Greenwood, Walter

Gregory, Lady Augusta

Grenfell, Julian

Griffiths, Trevor

Grigson, Geoffrey

Grove, F.P.

Gunn, Neil

Gunn, Thom

Gurney, Ivor

Hall, Radclyffe

Hall, Rodney

Hampton, Christopher

Hanley, James

Hardy, Thomas

Hare, David

Harris, Frank

Harris, Wilson

Harrison, Tony

HARTLEY, L.P. (Leslie Poles)

Head, Bessie

Heaney, Seamus

Hearne, John

Heath-Stubbs, John

Heppenstall, Rayner

HERBERT, A.P. (Sir Alan Patrick)

Herbert, Xavier

Hewitt, John

Hibberd, Jack

Hill, Geoffrey

Hill, Susan

Hilton, James

Hine, Daryl

Hobsbaum, Philip

Hodgson, Ralph

Hqlbrook, David

Holtby, Winifred

HOPE, A.D. (Alec Derwent)

Houghton, Stanley

HOUSMAN, A.E. (Alfred Edward)

HUDSON, W.H.(WilliamHenry)

Hughes, Richard

Hughes, Ted

HULME, T.E. (Thomas Ernest)

Humphreys, Emyr

Huxley, Aldous

HYDE, ROBIN (pseudonym of Iris Williamson)

Ihimaera, Witi

Iremonger, Valentin

ISHERWOOD, CHRISTOPHER (Christopher William Bradshaw)

JACOB, VIOLET (née Erskine)

Jacobson, Dan

JAMES, C.L.R. (Cyril Lionel Robert)

James, Henry

JAMES, M.R. (Montague Rhodes)

Jameson, Storm

Jennings, Elizabeth

Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer

JOHNSON, B.S. (Bryan Stanley)

Johnson, Louis

Johnson, Pamela Hansford

Johnston, Denis

Johnston, Jennifer

JONES, DAVID (Michael)

Jones, Glyn

Jones, Gwyn

JONES, T.H. (Thomas Henry)

JOSEPH, M.K. (Michael Kennedy)

Joyce, James

Kavan, Anna

Kavanagh, Patrick

Keneally, Thomas

Kennedy, Margaret

Kennelly, Brendan

Keyes, Sidney

Khan, Ismith

Kinsella, Thomas

Kipling, Rudyard

Kirkup, James

Klein, A.M.

Koestler, Arthur

La Guma, Alex

Lal, P.

Lamming, George

Larkin, Philip

Lavin, Mary

LAWRENCE D.H. (David Herbert)

LAWRENCE, T.E. (Thomas Edward)

Lawson, Henry

Layton, Irving

Leacock, Stephen

LEAVIS, F.R. (Frank Raymond)

Ledwidge, Francis

Lehmann, John

Lehmann, Rosamond

LEONARD, HUGH (pseudonym of John Keyes Byrne)

Lessing, Doris

Levine, Norman

Lewis, Alun

LEWIS, C.S. (Give Staples)

Lewis, Percy Wyndham

Lindsay, Jack

Lindsay, Maurice

Lindsay, Norman

Linklater, Eric

Livesay, Dorothy

Livings, Henry

Logue, Christopher

Longley, Michael

Lowry, Malcolm

Lucie-Smith, Edward

MACAULAY, ROSE (Dame)

Mc AULEY, JAMES

MacBETH, GEORGE

MacCAIG, NORMAN

MacCARTHY, DESMOND

McCRAE, HUGH

MacDIARMID, HUGH (pseudonym of Christopher Murray Grieve)

MacDONAGH, DONAGH

McGAHEEN, JOHN

Machen, Arthur

MacINNES, COLIN

McKAY, CLAUDE

McKENNA, STEPHEN

MACKENZIE, COMPTON (Sir)

Mackintosh, Elizabeth

MacLENNAN, HUGH

MacNEICE, LOUIS

Mahon, Derek

Mais, Roger

Malgonkar, Manohar

Malouf, David

Mander, Jane

Manning, Olivia

MANSFIELD, KATHERINE (pseudonym of Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp)

MARKANDAYA, KAMALA (Mrs Taylor)

Marsh, Edward (Sir)

Martyn, Edward

Masefield, John

MASON, A.E.W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

MASON, R.A.K. (Ronald Arthur Kells)

Mathers, Peter

Maugham, W. Somerset

Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna

Mehta, Ved

Mercer, David

Mew, Charlotte

Middleton, Stanley

MILUN. SARAH GERTRUDE (nee Liebson)

MILNE, A. A. (Alan Alexander)

Mitchell, Adrian

Mitchell, W.O.

Mitchison, Naomi

Mitford, Nancy

Mittelholzer, Edgar

Monro, Harold

MONTAGUE, C.E. (Charles Edward)

Montague, John

Moore, Brian

Moose, George

Moorhouse, Frank

MORAES, DOM (Dominic)

Morgan, Edwin

Mortimer, John

Mortimer, Penelope

MOTTRAM, E.H. {Ralph Hale)

MPHAHLELE, ES'KIA (formerly Ezekiel)

Mtshali, Oswald Mbuyiseni

Muir, Edwin

Muldoon, Paul

Mulgan, John

Munro, Alice

Munro, Neil

Murdoch, Iris

Murphy, Richard

MURRAY, LES (Leslie Allan)

Murry, John Middleton

MYERS, L.H. (Leo Hamilton)

Nahal, Chaman

Naipaul, Shiva

NAIPAUL, V.S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad)

Nandy, Pritish

NARAYAN, R.K. (Rasipuram Krishnaswami)

Neilson, John Shaw

NESBIT, E. (Edith)

NEWBOLT, HENRY (Sir)

NEWBY, P.H. (Percy Howard)

NGUGI WA THIONG'O (formerly lames Ngugi)

Nichols, Peter

Nicholson, Norman

NICOLSON, HAROLD (Sir)

NICOLE, CHRISTOPHER (pseudonyms Andrew York, Peter Grange)

Nortje, Arthur

Noyes, Alfred

Oakley, Barry

O'brien, Edna

O'BRIEN, FLANN (pseudonym of Brian O'Nolan)

O'brien, Kate

O'casey, Sean

O'CONNOR, FRANK (pseudonym of Michael O'Donovan)

O'donovan, Gerald

O'faolain, Sean

O'flaherty, Liam

Okara, Gabriel I.G.

Okigbo, Christopher

Okot P'bitek

Ondaatje, Michael

Orton, Joe

ORWELL, GEORGE (pseudonym of Eric Blair)

Osborne, John

Owen, Wilfred

Palmer, Vance

Parthasarathy, R.

Paton, Alan Stewart

Patten, Brian

Patterson, Orlando

Paulin, Tom

Peake, Mervyn

Peters, Lenrie

Pinter, Harold

Pitter, Ruth

Plaatje, Solomon Tshekisho

Plomer, William

PLUNKETT, JAMES (pseudonym of James Plunkett Kelly)

Porter, Hal

Porter, Peter

Potter, Beatrix

POWELL, ANTHONY (Dymoke)

Powys, John Cowper

Powys, Llewelyn

POWYS, T.F. (Theodore Francis)

PRATT, E.J. (Edwin John)

PRESCOTT, H.F.M. (Hilda Frances Margaret)

PRIESTLEY, J.B. (John Boynton)

PRINCE, F.T. (Frank Templeton)

PRITCHETT, V. S. (Victor Sawdon)

Pym, Barbara

QUILLER-COUCH, ARTHUR ('Q') (Sir)

Raine, Craig

Raine, Kathleen

Ramanujan, A.K.

Ransome, Arthur

Rao, Raja

Rattigan, Tekence

Raymond, Ernest

READ, HERBERT (Sir)

Read, Piers Paul

Reaney, James

Reed, Henry

Reeves, James

REID, VIC S. (Victor)

Reitz, Deneys

RENAULT, MARY (pseudonym of Mary Chailans)

Rhys, Jean

RICHARDS, FRANK (pseudonym of Charles Hamilton)

Richardson, Dorothy

RICHARDSON, HENRY HANDEL (pseudonym of Ethel Florence Richardson)

Richler, Mordecai

Rickwokd, Edgell

Midler, Anne

Rive, Richard

Roberts, Michae L

Robinson, Lennox

RODGERS, W.R, (William Robert)

Rolfe, Frederick William

Rosenberg, Isaac

Ross, Sinclair

RUSSELL, GEORGE WILLIAM (pen-name AE)

Sackville-West, Victoria

SAHGAL, NYANTARA {née Pandit)

St Omer, Garth

Saintsbury, George

SAKI (pseudonym of Hector Hugh Munro)

Salkey, Andrew

Sansom, William

Sargeson, Frank

SASSOON, SIEGFRIED (Captain Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, CBE, MC)

Satchell, William

SAYERS, DOROTHY L. (Leigh)

SCANNELL, VERNON

Schreiner, Olive

Scott, Alexander

SCOTT, F.R. (Francis Reginald)

Scott, Paul

Scott, Tom

SCOVELL, E.J. (Edith Joy)

Scupham, Peter

Selvon, Samuel

Serote, Mongane Wally

Shadbolt, Maurice

Shaffer, Peter

Shapcott, Thomas

Shaw, George Bernard

SHERRIFF, R.C. (Robert Cedric)

Skelton, Robin

Silkin, Jon

Sillitoe, Alan

SIMPSON, N.F. (Norman Frederick)

Singh, Khushwant

SISSON, C.H. (Charles Hubert)

SITWELL, EDITH (Dame)

SITWELL, OSBERT (Sir)

SITWELL, SACHEVERELL (Sir)

Slessor, Kenneth

Smith, A.J.M.

Smith, Iain Crichton

Smith, Pauline Janet

SMITH, STEVIE (Florence Margaret)

Smith, Sydney Goodsih

Smithyman, Kendrick

SNOW, C.P. (Charles Percy)

SOMERVILLE, E.O. (Edith Oenone)

Sorley, Charles Hamilton

Soutar, William

Soyinka, Wole

Spark, Muriel

Spencer, Bernard

Spender, Stephen

Spring, Howard

SQUIRE, J.C. (Sir John Codings)

Stall Worthy, Jon

Stead, Christina

Stephens, James

Stewart, Douglas

STEWART, J.I.M. (John Innes Mackintosh

Stoppard, Tom

Storey, David

Stow, Randolph

Strachey, Lytton

STRONG, L.A.G. (Leonard Alfred George)

Sutherland, Efua Theodora

Swinnerton, Frank

Symons, Arthur

SYNGE, J.M. (John Millington)

Taylor, Elizabeth

THOMAS, D.M. (Donald Michael)

THOMAS, DYLAN (Marlais)

Thomas, Edward

THOMAS, R.S. (Ronald Stuart)

THOMPSON, FLORA (née Timms)

Thwaite, Anthony

TOLKIEN, J.R.R. (John Ronald Revel)

Tomlinson, Charles

Tonks, Rosemary

Toynbee, Philip

Travers, Ben

TRESSELL, ROBERT (pseudonym of Robert Noonan)

TREVOR, WILLIAM (William Trevor Cox)

Tuohy, Frank

Tutuola, Amos

Tuwhare, Hone

Upward, Edward

Van Dek Post, Laurens

Waddell, Helen

Wain, John

Walcott, Derek

Waley, Arthur

Wallace, Edgar

Wallace-Crabbe, Chris

WALPOLE, HUGH(Sir)

Warner, Rex

Warner, Sylvia Townsend

Waterhouse, Keith

Watkins, Vernon

WATSON, WILLIAM (Sir)

WAUGH, EVELYN (Arthur St John)

Webb, Francis

WEBB. MARY (née Meredith)

Welch, Denton

Weldon, Fay

WELLS, H.G. (Herbert George)

Wendt, Albert

Wesker, Arnold

WEST, REBECCA (Dame)

White, Patrick

WHITE, T.H. (Terence Hanbury)

Whiting, John

Wiebe, Rudy

Wijen Aike, Punyakante

Wilding, Mich Ael

Williams, Charles

Williams, Emlyn

Williamson, David

Williamson, Henry

WILSON, A.N. (Andrew Norman)

Wilson, Angus

Wilson, Colin

Wingfield, Sheila

WODEHOUSE, P.G. (Sir)

Woolf, Virginia

Wright, David

Wright, Judith

Wyndham, John (pseudonym of John Benyon Harris)

YEATS, W.B. (William Butler)

Young, Andrew