List of British Jewish writers

List of British Jewish writers is a list that includes writers (novelists, poets, playwrights, journalists and others) from the United Kingdom and its predecessor states who are or were Jewish or of Jewish descent.

Authors, A-J

• Grace Aguilar,^[1] novelist and poet
• Naomi Alderman,^[2] novelist, winner of the 2006 Orange Award for new writers
• Lisa Appignanesi,^[3] novelist
• Alain de Botton,^[4] writer
• Caryl Brahms,^[5] writer
• David Bret, biographer, broadcaster and chansonnier (French-born; Jewish father)
• Elias Canetti,^[6] novelist, man of letters, 1981 Nobel Prize (Bulgarian-born)
• Chapman Cohen,^[7] writer on secularism
• Jackie Collins,^[8] novelist
• Alan Coren,^[9] humorous writer; his children, Giles and Victoria, are also writers
• Charlotte Dacre,^[10] novelist and poet
• Jenny Diski,^[11] writer
• Isaac D'Israeli,^[12] writer
• Richard Ellmann,^[13] literary scholar and biographer
• Moris Farhi, writer (Turkish-born)^[14]
• Benjamin Farjeon ^[15]
• Eleanor Farjeon, daughter of Benjamin Farjeon
• Gilbert Frankau,^[16] writer
• Gillian Freeman,^[17] novelist and screenwriter
• Stephen Fry,^[18] actor and writer
• Neil Gaiman,^[19] fantasy writer
• Ralph Glasser, wrote Growing up in the Gorbals
• Louis Golding,^[20] novelist
• Lewis Goldsmith, journalist and political writer ^[21]
• Linda Grant,^[22] novelist
• Charlotte Haldane,^[23] feminist writer
• Basil Henriques^[24]
• Muriel Gray,^[25] author, The Tube presenter
• Izak Goller, poet, playwright, novelist
• Zoë Heller,^[26] author (Jewish father)
• Noreena Hertz,^[27] great granddaughter of Joseph Hertz (Chief Rabbi of the British Empire)
• Anthony Horowitz, works include the Alex Rider series
• Eva Ibbotson, known for her award-winning children's books and for her romance novels
• Joseph Jacobs,^[28] folklorist
• Howard Jacobson,^[29] writer and broadcaster
• Ruth Prawer Jhabvala,^[30] novelist and screenwriter
• Gabriel Josipovici, novelist and short story writer^[31]

Authors, K-Z

• Judith Kerr,^[32] children's writer
• Gerald Kersh,^[33] novelist
• Matthew Kneale,^[34] writer (Jewish mother)
• Arthur Koestler,^[35] novelist and critic
• Bernard Kops,^[36] poet
• Marghanita Laski,^[37] writer
• Stephen Laughton, playwright
• Sir Sidney Lee (1859–1926),^[38] biographer and literary scholar
• Joseph Leftwich,^[39] writer, one of the Whitechapel Boys
• David Levi,^[40] writer on Jewish subjects
• Amy Levy (1861–1889), poet, novelist, short story writer, essayist
• Paul Levy, food writer, biographer; long rabbinical pedigree^[41]
• Emanuel Litvinoff,^[42] novelist
• Leo Marks,^[43] cryptographer and screenwriter
• Anna Maxted, writer, journalist
• George Mikes, Hungarian-born comic writer^[44]
• Santa Montefiore,^[45] author (convert)
• Simon Sebag Montefiore,^[46] writer
• Joseph Pardo (c. 1624 – 1677), hazzan and writer
• Alexander Piatigorsky,^[47] writer, philosopher, culture theorist; winner of the 2002 Russian Bely Prize for literature
• Harold Pinter,^[48] writer, playwright
• Frederic Raphael,^[49] screenwriter, novelist and critic
• Michael Rosen,^[50] novelist, poet and broadcaster
• Bernice Rubens,^[51] novelist
• Will Self,^[52] novelist (Jewish mother)
• J. David Simons, novelist
• Muriel Spark,^[53] novelist (Jewish father, possible Jewish mother; converted to Catholicism later in life)^[54]
• William Sutcliffe, novelist; New Boy (1986), Are You Experienced? (1997), Whatever Makes You Happy (2008), and The Wall (2013), set in an Israeli colony
• Mitchell Symons, writer
• Adam Thirlwell, novelist
• Fredric Warburg, author and publisher
• Stephen Winsten,^[55] writer
• Leonard Woolf,^[56] writer and activist
• Israel Zangwill, novelist^[57]
• Theodore Zeldin, writer

Poets

• Dannie Abse,^[58] poet, brother of Leo Abse and psychoanalyst Wilfred Abse
• Al Alvarez,^[59] poet
• Ivor Cutler,^[60] poet, humorist, musician
• Elaine Feinstein,^[61] poet, writer, biographer
• Rose Fyleman,^[62] children's writer
• Karen Gershon,^[63] German-born poet
• Philip Hobsbaum,^[64] poet
• Jenny Joseph, poet^[65]
• Amy Levy,^[66] poet and novelist
• Vivian de Sola Pinto,^[67] poet
• John Rodker, poet and publisher^[68]
• Isaac Rosenberg,^[69] war poet
• Jon Silkin,^[70] poet
• Arthur Waley, poet and prose writer
• Humbert Wolfe,^[71] poet and civil servant

Playwrights

• Peter Barnes,^[72] playwright
• Steven Berkoff,^[73] playwright, actor, author, and theatre director
• Ronald Harwood,^[74] playwright and screenwriter
• Tom Kempinski,^[75] playwright and screenwriter
• Stephen Laughton,^[76] playwright
• Patrick Marber,^[77] playwright and comedian
• Harold Pinter,^[48] playwright
• Jack Rosenthal,^[78] TV playwright
• Peter and Anthony Shaffer,^[79] playwrights
• Tom Stoppard.^[80] playwright
• Alfred Sutro,^[38] playwright
• Arnold Wesker,^[81] playwright

Journalists

• Barbara Amiel ^[82]
• Lionel Blue, rabbi and journalist
• Alex Brummer, economic and financial journalist and biographer
• Ian Buruma,^[83] Dutch-born author and journalist
• Giles Coren
• John Diamond,^[84] journalist
• Jonathan Freedland,^[85] journalist
• Ernest Abraham Hart ^[86]
• Matthew Kalman, editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Report
• Dominic Lawson,^[87] journalist
• Nigella Lawson,^[88] cookery writer
• Norman Lebrecht,^[89] journalist, writer and critic
• Bernard Levin,^[90] journalist and broadcaster
• Emily Maitlis,^[91] TV newscaster and reporter
• Robert Peston,^[92] BBC Business Editor
• Melanie Phillips,^[93] journalist
• Eve Pollard,^[94] journalist and newspaper editor
• Marjorie Proops, agony aunt
• Richard Quest,^[95] CNN International anchorman
• Kimberly Quinn,^[96] publisher
• Claire Rayner,^[97] agony aunt
• Jon Ronson,^[98] journalist, author, documentary filmmaker and radio presenter
• Jon Sopel,^[99] journalist; presents The Politics Show on BBC One; one of the lead presenters on News 24
• Victor Weisz, Vicky,^[100] cartoonist

References

External links

• Jinfo

See also

• List of Scottish Jews#Arts, literature and music
• Lists of Jews
• List of British Jews