Christopher Isherwood
Anglo-American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist
Kazuo Ishiguro
British novelist, screenwriter, musician, and short-story writer
Shirley Jackson
American writer known primarily for her works of horror and mystery
Jane Jacobs
American-Canadian journalist, author, theorist, and activist who influenced urban studies, sociology, and economics
C. L. R. James
Trinidadian historian, journalist and Marxist
Clive James
Australian critic, journalist, broadcaster and writer who lived and worked in the United Kingdom from 1962 until his death in 2019. He began his career specialising in literary criticism before becoming television critic for The Observer in 1972, where he made his name for his wry, deadpan humour
Henry James
American-British author
M. R. James
English author, medievalist scholar and provost of King’s College, Cambridge , and of Eton College . He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge .
James’s work as a medievalist and scholar is still highly regarded, but he is best remembered for his ghost stories, which some consider among the best in the genre
P. D. James
English novelist and life peer
William James
American philosopher, historian, and psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States