Alumni of King's College London - Literature

Literature

• Khushwant Singh - author, writer, and notable poet
• Dannie Abse – writer and poet
• John Adair – author
• Alfred Ainger – biographer and critic
• Sir Edwin Arnold – poet and journalist
• Ronan Bennett – novelist and screenwriter
• Tamasin Berry-Hart – novelist
• Sir Walter Besant – novelist, historian and academic
• Shahbano Bilgrami – novelist and poet
• Alain de Botton – writer, philosopher and television producer
• Charles Brookfield – playwright and actor
• Anita Brookner – Booker Prize winning novelist
• Sir Arthur C. Clarke – science fiction writer and inventor
• Helen Cresswell – children's author and screenwriter
• Sir George Webbe Dasent – writer
• Mike Dash – writer and journalist
• Ebou Dibba – novelist
• Maureen Duffy – novelist, poet and screenwriter
• Andreas Embirikos – poet
• Charles Finger – author
• C. S. Forester – historical novelist
• Chris Genoa – comedic novelist
• Sir W. S. Gilbert – one half of Gilbert and Sullivan.
• Bea Gonzalez – novelist and lecturer
• Bill Griffiths – poet
• Radclyffe Hall – poet and author
• Thomas Hardy – novelist and poet.
• Susan Hill – novelist
• Molly Holden – poet
• Africanus Horton – writer
• Susan Howatch – author
• Simon Ings – novelist
• Christopher Isherwood – novelist
• Storm Jameson – novelist
• B. S. Johnson – novelist
• Nihan Kaya – novelist
• John Keats – Romantic poet.
• Garry Kilworth – novelist
• Charles Kingsley – novelist
• Henry Kingsley – novelist
• Hanif Kureishi – Whitbread Award winning author and screenwriter
• Molly Lefebure – writer
• Marina Lewycka – novelist
• Menon Marath – novelist
• Alexander Masters – Whitbread Award winning author and screenwriter
• W. Somerset Maugham – novelist and playwright
• Henry Morley – writer and academic
• Michael Morpurgo – writer
• Lawrence Norfolk – novelist
• Barry Pilton – novelist and screenwriter
• Ross Raisin – novelist
• Vernon Richards – anarchist editor and author
• Anne Ridler – poet
• Michael Roberts – poet, writer and broadcaster
• John Ruskin – author, poet, artist, art critic and social critic
• Elizabeth Smart – novelist and poet
• Anne Somerset – historian
• Sir Leslie Stephen – author and mountaineer
• David Watmough – novelist, playwright and academic
• Virginia Woolf – novelist and essayist