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- J. B. Priestley - Theater reviewer and contributed articles to the Spectator, novelist and playwright with over 50 plays. Helped established the socialist Common Wealth Party. Includes biography, excerpts from his work and photo. (1894-1984)
- Mark Lemon - English journalist and prolific playwright, with over 60 plays to his credit. Best known as one of the founding members of Punch Magazine and served as joint editor with Henry Mayhew. Includes biography and photo. (1809-1870)
- Charles Kingsley - Clergyman, novelist and poet. Author of The Water Babies. Includes short biography and photo. (1810-1875)
- George Sims - Playwright, social reformist and journalist. Wrote series of newspaper articles depicting poverty of the working class in London and another series later published as books on child poverty. (1847-1922)
- Douglas Jerrold - Resident playwright at the Coburg Theatre in London. As a journalist, wrote a large number of political and humorous articles for Punch Magazine during a sixteen year period, and worked as a sub-editor, under Charles Dickens, on the Daily News. (1803-1857)
- Oscar Wilde - Irish poet, dramatist and novelist. Wrote the novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray. Achieved his greatest success with a series of light comedies, including Lady Windermere's Fan and The Importance of Being Ernest. (1854-1900)
- British Council - Benjamin Zephaniah - Professional biography of the poet, novelist and playwright. Bibliography, prizes and awards, and critical perspective.
- George Orwell - Born in India. Novelist and essayist. Wrote Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Includes short biography, excerpts from his works and photo. (1903-1950)
- George Bernard Shaw - Irish dramatist, critic and novelist. Includes short biography, photo and excerpts from his writing. (1856-1950)
- H. G. Wells - Novelist and historian. Wrote science fiction stories, The Time Machine, The Island of Dr. Moreau, and The War of the Worlds. Includes short biography, excerpts from his works and photo. (1866-1946)
Wikipedia Articles
- Robert Giard - Robert Giard (1939-2002) was an American photographer, whose main project in his three-decade career was the portrait documentation of roughly 600 gay and lesbian writers gathered under the title Particular Voices. In addition to portraits of prominent gay and lesbian playwrights, novelists, historians, poets, and activists, Giard photographed landscapes, still lifes, nudes, and sites of import to the gay and lesbian community.
- List of British Jewish writers - List of British Jewish writers is a list that includes writers (novelists, poets, playwrights, journalists and others) from the United Kingdom and its predecessor states who are or were Jewish or of Jewish descent.
- List of Belarusian writers - Below is an alphabetical list of famous novelists, poets, and playwrights, Belarusian and those of Belarusian origin.
- Outwrites - OUTwrites (formerly Toronto-based Queer Writing Group) is defined as a dynamic writing group that exists to foster and promote a queer-positive artistic environment from novelists and poets to songwriters and playwrights. It is an ethnically and sexually diverse conglomeration of writers, based in Toronto.
- List of Puerto Rican writers - This is a list of Puerto Rican literary figures, including poets, novelists, and playwrights