Ellen Ullman
American computer programmer and author
Creator
Jo Walton
Welsh-Canadian fantasy and science fiction writer and poet
Sigrid Undset
Norwegian-Danish novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928.Undset was born in Kalundborg, Denmark, but her family moved to Norway when she was two years old
Sylvia Townsend Warner
English novelist, poet and musicologist, known for works such as Lolly Willowes, Whether a Dove or a Seagull, and After the Death of Don Juan.
John Updike
American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic
Gertrude Chandler Warner
American author, mainly of children’s stories
Vincent van Gogh
Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who posthumously became one of the most famous and influential figures in Western art history
D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson
Scottish biologist, mathematician and classics scholar
Cecil Torr
British antiquarian and author.After education at Harrow School, Cecil Torr matriculated on 7 June 1876 at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating there B.A. 1880 and M.A. 1883. He was admitted in 1879 at the Inner Temple and was called to the Bar in 1882.
He lived in Wreyland, Dartmoor and wrote Small Talk at Wreyland ; the first volume was an unexpected commercial success
Flora Thompson
English novelist and poet best known for her semi-autobiographical trilogy about the English countryside, Lark Rise to Candleford.