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The Novelists

Our A to Z listing gives essential details on 40 of the most significant authors.
 

George Eliot

George Eliot's personal life was as controversial as her heroines were feisty. She lived with her married lover for more than 20 years

Margaret Atwood
Jane Austen
Charlotte Bronte
Emily Bronte
Peter Carey
Wilkie Collins
Joseph Conrad
Daniel Defoe
Charles Dickens
George Eliot
William Faulkner
Henry Fielding
EM Forster
Elizabeth Gaskell
William Golding
Alasdair Gray
Graham Greene
Thomas Hardy
Henry James
James Joyce

DH Lawrence
Ian McEwan
Herman Melville
Brian Moore
Toni Morrison
VS Naipaul
Ann Radcliffe
Samuel Richardson
Salman Rushdie
JD Salinger
Walter Scott
Alan Sillitoe
Muriel Spark
John Steinbeck
Laurence Sterne
William Thackeray
John Updike
HG Wells
Rebecca West
Virginia Woolf