My favourite English writers Plan

Aganta Christie (1890-1976) British fictioncal crime writer. Many of her books focused on series featuring her detectives ‘Poirot’ and Mrs Marple.
J. R. R Tolkien (1892 - 1973) - Professor of Angola - Saxon and English at Oxford University. Tolkien wrote the best-selling mythical trilogy The Lord of the Rings. Other words include The Hobbit and The Silmarillion, and a translation of Beowulf.
Vera Brittain (1893-1970) British writer best known for her autobiography - Testament of Youth (1933) - sharing her traumatic experiences of the First World War.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940) American author. An iconic writer of the ‘jazz age’. Notable works include The Great Gatsby (1925), and Tender Is the Night (1934) – cautionary tales about the ’Jazz decade’ and the American Dream based on pleasure and materialism.
Enid Blyton (1897-1968 ) British children’s writer , known for her series of children’s book - The Famous Five and The Secret Seven. Blyton wrote an estimated 800 books over 40 years.
C. S. Levis (1898-1963) Irish / English author and professor at Oxford University. Lewis is best know for The Chronicles of Narnia, a children’s fantasy series. Also well known as a Christian apologist.
Barbara Cartland (1901-2000) One of most prolific and best selling authors of the romantic fiction genre. Some suggest she has sold over 2 billion copies worldwide.
John Steinbeck (1902-1968) American writer who captured the social change experienced in the US around the time of the Great Depression. Famous works include – Of Mice and Men (1937), Ten Grapes of Wrath (1939) and East of Eden (1952).
George Orvell (1903-1950) English author. Famous works include Animal Farm, and 1984.- Both stark warnings about the dangers of totalitarian states, Orwell was also a democratic socialist who fought in the Spanish Civil War, documenting his experiences in “Homage to Catalonia” (1938) .
Addison Joseph (1 May 1672 – 17 June 1719) was an English essayist, poet, playwright and politician. He was a man of letters, eldest son of Lancelot Addison. His name is usually remembered alongside that of his long - standing friend, Richard Steele, with whom he founded The Spectator magazine. English essayist poet writer and politician.
Here at No Sweat Shakespeare we have no doubt that William Shakespeare is by far the best (and probably most famous) writer in English library history. And that’s no mean feat, give the many centuries of English history that have been adorned with authors who have placed England as the top literary country in the world. There are other great English writing scene, and could have been included in this list had they been born England. Writers like Irishmen, James Joyce, William Butler Yeats Jonathan Swift and Oscar Wilde, and the American, T. S.Eliot.