List of King's College London Alumni - 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

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