List of British Jewish Writers - Authors, K-Z

Authors, K-Z

• Judith Kerr, children's writer
• Gerald Kersh, novelist.
• Matthew Kneale, writer (Jewish mother)
• Arthur Koestler, novelist & critic
• Marghanita Laski, writer
• Sir Sidney Lee (1859–1926), biographer and literary scholar
• Joseph Leftwich, writer, one of the Whitechapel Boys
• David Levi, writer on Jewish subjects
• Amy Levy, 1861–1889, poet, novelist, short story writer, essayist.
• Paul Levy, food writer, biographer. Long rabbinical pedigree, vide "Finger Lickin' Good: A Kentucky Childhood," (London 1986)
• Emanuel Litvinoff, novelist.
• Leo Marks, cryptographer & screenwriter
• Anna Maxted, writer, journalist
• George Mikes, Encyclopaedia Judaica vol 6, column 789, Hungarian-born comic writer
• Santa Montefiore, author (convert)
• Simon Sebag Montefiore, writer
• Alexander Piatigorsky writer, philosopher, culture theorist Winner of the Russian Bely Prize (2002)for literature
• Harold Pinter, writer, playwright
• Frederic Raphael, screenwriter, novelist & critic
• Michael Rosen, novelist, poet & broadcaster
• Bernice Rubens, novelist
• Will Self, novelist (Jewish mother)
• Muriel Spark, novelist (Jewish father, possible Jewish mother; converted to Catholicism later in life)

Jewish Chronicle 13/3/1998 p1: "Dame Muriel Spark, the author of "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" and several other celebrated works, is halachically Jewish." (Says her mother was Jewish too.)

Judith Summers

• William Sutcliffe, Novelist - New Boy(1986), Are You Experienced? (1997), Whatever Makes You Happy (2008)
• Adam Thirlwell, novelist
• Fredric Warburg, author and publisher
• Stephen Winsten Jewish Quarterly article on the Whitechapel Boys, writer
• Leonard Woolf, writer & activist
• Israel Zangwill, novelist

"Israel Zangwill, Anglo-Jewish writer and political activist, was probably the best known Jew in the English-speaking world at the start of the twentieth century."

• Theodore Zeldin, writer