Society of Authors

Before the First World War EHY was a keen climber or mountaineer. During the war she worked in a munitions factory after some time as a groom. She joined the Society of Authors during the...

NB sat on various literary committees: PEN International , the Society of Authors , and the Royal Society of Literature . She was president of the Society of Women Writers and Journalists , following in...

MG has held creative-writing positions at universities including Sussex , the University of East Anglia , Sheffield Hallam, and Bath Spa University. She also teaches for the Arvon Foundation and similar bodies, has...

PB is a member of the Society of Authors and of PEN .

This big book, under its working title of The Keeper of the Gate, was to be the second of two contracted to Flamingo . But after the first book, Lost Children, the head...

She had begun the story in order to amuse her sick brother Boris. Her father encouraged her to prepare her work for publication, and she dedicated the book to him by his initials. She sent...

The commission for this book from Chatto had been spurred by an invitation from Frank Debenham on behalf of the Colonial Office for a book of 100,000 words, for which they would offer £400 and...

This, her most substantial publication, was published by Jonathan Cape . Her choice of this firm greatly bothered her existing publisher, Leonard Woolf , who constantly worried about larger commercial companies luring away successful authors...

She was helped and encouraged in this work by her friend the novelist Walter Lionel George . This and her next novel were written on the dining-room table of her parents' house, with all...

By about now, says HB , a serial by Oliver Sandys could command two hundred pounds for its first printing, and the book publisher would offer an advance of another two hundred. While she enjoyed...

HD contributed to The Author (journal of the Society of Authors ) an article, Cheques for Authors, about being an assessor for the award of prizes.

For this novel she changed her publisher to Collins , who had made her a generous offer a couple of years before. She set out not to hurt the feelings of Harold Raymond of Chatto and Windus

PL is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a former Chair of the Society of Authors . She was made a CBE in the New Year's Honours List at the end...

The Times Literary Supplement reviewer found Out exhausting to read and hard to grasp. It was, however, a winner of the Travelling Prize of the Society of Authors .

Growing Up was praised in print by Elizabeth Bowen and privately by C. P. Snow . The Times Literary Supplement found the stories distinguished for both their clarity and their good writng but marred by...