Literature
- E.F. Benson, novelist
- John Betjeman, poet
- Humphrey Carpenter, biographer and broadcaster
- Bruce Chatwin, novelist and travel writer
- J. Meade Falkner, author of Moonfleet and armaments manufacturer
- Anthony Hope, writer
- Dick King-Smith, writer
- Louis MacNeice, poet
- John Beverley Nichols, writer
- David Nobbs, comedy writer (Reginald Perrin)
- Redmond O'Hanlon, travel writer
- Ben Pimlott, biographer
- Siegfried Sassoon, poet
- Charles Sorley, poet
- Bernard Spencer, poet
- R.J. Yeatman, co-author of 1066 and All That
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