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For
T.S. Eliot, John
Galsworthy, Harold Pinter and Patrick White see Nobel
Prize Winners
In
1906 the poet
John Betjeman was born in Islington. He succeeded Cecil Day-Lewis
as Poet
Laureate
in 1972 and on his death in 1984 was succeeded by Ted Hughes.
 John
Betjeman
Poets
laureate
Poetry Archive
Daphne
du Maurier was born in London in 1907.
Daphne
du Maurier
The
journalist and thriller writer Ian
Fleming was born in Mayfair in 1908. Starting with Casino
Royale (published 1953) he wrote 12 novels and 2 short story
collections featuring the British spy James Bond. All of the books
were made into highly successful films, starting with Dr No
in 1962.
Ian
Fleming
The
poet
Stephen Spender was born in London in 1909. He became
friends with W.H. Auden and Cecil Day-Lewis whilst studying at Oxford
where he also met Christopher Isherwood, whom he would later spend
time with in 1930s Germany. Their writings would reflect and chronicle
the political and social divides of the decade which ended in the
outbreak of World War Two. Spender died in London in 1995.
Stephen
Spender
With
Christopher Isherwood and W.H. Auden
What I had not foreseen;
Was the gradual day
Weakening the will
Leaking the brightness away.
What I expected, was (1933)
Bram
Stoker, author of Dracula, died in London in 1912.
The
American-born author Henry James
died in London in 1916. He is buried in the United
States, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Henry
James
The
author of King Solomon's Mines Henry
Rider Haggard,
died in London in 1925 and is buried at Ditchingham in Norfolk.
Henry
Rider Haggard
The
Scottish writer and creator of Peter Pan
J.M. Barrie died in London in 1937.
J.M. Barrie
The
author of The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine H.G.
Wells, died at his home at 13 Hanover Terrace in Westminster
in 1946.
H.G.
Wells
The
author of 1984 and Animal Farm George
Orwell, died at Westminster Hospital in London in 1950. He is
buried in Sutton Courtenay in Oxfordshire.
George
Orwell
George
Orwell
Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present
controls the past.
Nineteen-Eighty-Four (1949)
The
poet Andrew
Motion was born in London n 1952. In 1999 he became Poet
Laureate,
succeeding Ted Hughes who had died the year before. Previously held
for life, the position of poet laureate is now restricted to a 10-year
period and so in 2009 Motion was succeeded by the first woman to
hold the post, Carol Ann Duffy.
Andrew
Motion
Poets
laureate
The
American-born poet Sylvia
Plath committed suicide in London in 1963. She is buried in
Heptonstall in Yorkshire.
Sylvia
Plath
With
Ted Hughes
Dying,
Is an art, like everything else.
Lady
Lazarus (1963)
The
poet Louis
MacNeice died in London in 1963.
Louis
MacNeice
By a high star our course is set,
Our end is Life. Put out to sea.
Thalassa (1964)
The
novelist L.P. Hartley died in 1972
in London.
L.P.
Hartley
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