category: writing
Life stories are listed by date of birth.
Evelyn, John. Born 1620. (623 pages). Diarist, writer and environmentalist.
Gibbon, Edward. Born 1737. (104 pages). Historian.
Jerome, Jerome K. Born 1859. (108 pages). Author of ‘Three Men in a Boat’.
Wells, H. G. Born 1866. (328 pages). Futurist writer.
Buchan, John. Born 1875. (133 pages). Writer and Governor General of Canada.
Zweig, Stefan. Born 1881. (334 pages). Novelist, biographer and playwright.
Savery, Constance. Born 1897. (15 pages). Author.
Reid, Hilda Stewart. Born 1898. (37 pages). Novelist between the wars.
Gillie, Darsie. Born 1903. (12 pages). Foreign correspondent and broadcaster.
Reid, Louisa. Born 1906. (88 pages). Naval wife and writer.
Thomas, Dylan. Born 1914. (107 pages). Writer.
Hobsbawm, Eric. Born 1917. (16 pages). Historian of the 19th century.
Macfarlane, Iris. Born 1922. (461 pages). Writer and wife of an Assam tea planter.
McKee, David. Born 1935. (23 pages). Writer and illustrator of children’s books.
Brand, Stewart. Born 1938. (37 pages). Writer and social entrepreneur.
Dale, Reginald. Born 1940. (11 pages). Foreign correspondent.
Brandon, Ruth. Born 1943. (12 pages). Author.
Campbell, John. Born 1947. (39 pages). Political biographer.
Burford, Tim. Born 1959. (49 pages). Travel writer and hiking guide.
Heath-Caldwell, Jeremy James. Born 1959. (302 pages). Family historian.
Hislop, Ian. Born 1960. (13 pages). Editor of satirical magazine Private Eye.
Reid, Anna. Born 1965. (13 pages). Author.
Niemann, Derek. (9 pages). Author.
Hobson, Theo. Born 1972. (23 pages). Writer and artist.