C. S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis

male, deceased (1963)
Christian, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, philosopher, Old Malvernian, Narnia…Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, OxfordUniversity
Clive Staples Lewis, commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis, was an Irish author and scholar. Lewis is known for his work on medieval literature,...
Robert Penn Warren

Robert Penn Warren

male (Guthrie)
Louisiana State University faculty, New Criticism, American, rhodes scholar, Bone cancer death, All the King's Men…novelist, hired to teach at Yale University, University of California at Berkeley, Yale University, OxfordUniversity
Robert Penn Warren ( April 24 , 1905 - September 15 , 1989 ) was an American poet and writer. He was born in Guthrie, Kentucky and graduated from...
Robin Cook

Robin Cook

male, deceased (1994)
You only Die Twice, On ne meurt que 2 fois, He Died with His Eyes Open, Crime fiction writer, British, crime fiction…novelist, British novelist, OxfordUniversity
Robert William Arthur "Robin" Cook (12 June, 1931 - 30 July, 1994) was a British novelist who also wrote crime fiction under the pseudonym Derek...
Amitav Ghosh

Amitav Ghosh

male, 53 years old
bengali, Shadow Lines, The Glass Palace, From Kolkata, calcutta, writer…novelist, OxfordUniversity, Delhi University, City University of New York, Harvard University
Amitav Ghosh (born 1956 in Calcutta), is an Indian-Bengali author known for his work in the English language. He was educated at the Doon School...
Kingsley Amis

Kingsley Amis

male, deceased (1995)
poet, novelist, Sir Kingsley William Amis, Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, science fiction writer, Knights Bachelor…Alumni of St John's College, Oxford, cambridge university
Sir Kingsley William Amis (April 16, 1922 - October 22, 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher. He wrote more than twenty novels,...
Tobias Wolff

Tobias Wolff

male, 64 years old
Alumni of Hertford College, Oxford, Stanford University alumni, Syracuse University faculty, American military, New York writer, From Syracuse, New York…Stanford University faculty, novelist, Stanford University, OxfordUniversity, Stanford Junior University
Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff (born June 19, 1945, in Birmingham, Alabama) is a writer of fiction and nonfiction. He is best known for his short...
Michael Rosen

Michael Rosen

male, 63 years old
English, Michael Wayne Rosen, Old Fullerians, Children's Laureate, children's writer, Institute of Education…Wadham College, Oxford, Alumni of Wadham College, Oxford, OxfordUniversity, novelist, Reading University
Michael Wayne Rosen (born May 7, 1946 in Harrow, and brought up in Pinner, Middlesex, in England) is a children's novelist and poet and the author...
Reginald Hill

Reginald Hill

male, 73 years old
West Hartlepool, Crime Writers' Association, County Durham, Joe Sixsmith, Colin Buchanan, Dalziel and Pascoe…novelist, OxfordUniversity
Reginald Hill (born in 1936 at West Hartlepool in County Durham) is a contemporary English crime writer, and the winner in 1995 of the Crime...
Pico Iyer

Pico Iyer

male, 52 years old
Old Dragon, Buddhism, north korea, Harvard, paraguay, American…Harvard University, Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford, OxfordUniversity, novelist
Pico Iyer (born 1957) is a British-born essayist and novelist. Iyer was born in Oxford, England, to Indian parents, who were both teachers of...
Andrew Martin

Andrew Martin

male, 47 years old
OxfordUniversity, The Independent on Sunday, the North, Edwardian, Edwardian era, Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations…novelist
Andrew Martin (born 6 July 1962) is an English novelist and journalist. A former "Spectator" Young Writer of the Year, he grew up in Yorkshire and...
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