Writers Flashcards
(26 cards)
Sir William Golding, Seamus Heaney, Harold Pinter
Winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature
Agatha Christie
Writer of detective stories
Ian Fleming
Writer of James Bond
JRR Tolkien
Writer of The Lord of the Rings
Jane Austen
Writer of Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility
Charles Dickens
Writer of Oliver Twist and Great Expectations
Robert Louis Stevenson
Writer of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde
Thomas Hardy
Poet and author, wrote Far from the Madding Crowd and Jude the Obscure
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Scottish doctor and writer of Sherlock Holmes
Evelyn Waugh
Writer of satirical novels, including Brideshead Revisited
Sir Kingsley Amis
Poet and novelist, wrote Lucky Jim.
Graham Greene
Writer influenced by religious beliefs
JK Rowling
Writer of Harry Potter
Geoffrey Chaucer
Writer of the Canterbury Tales
John Milton
Protestant poet, wrote Paradise Lost
William Wordsworth
Poet inspired by nature
Sir Walter Scott
Wrote poems and novels inspired by Scotland
William Blake, John Keats, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert and Elisabeth Browning
19th century poets
Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon
Poets inspired by WW1
Sir Walter de la Mare, John Masefield, Sir John Betjeman, Ted Hughes
Recent popular poets
Ian MacEwan, Hilary Mantel, Julian Barnes
Man Booker Prize winning authors
John Barbour
Scottish poet who wrote The Bruce about the Battle of Bannockburn
Robert Burns
Scottish poet
Rudyard Kipling
Wrote books and poems set India and the UK, including The Jungle Book
