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
- Gilad Atzmon, radical activist, agent provocateur, musician and pro Palestinian author.
- 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
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881), novelist, poet, playwright, writer, and prime minister[12]
- Isaac D'Israeli,[13] writer
- Richard Ellmann,[14] literary scholar and biographer
- Moris Farhi, writer (Turkish-born)[15]
- Benjamin Farjeon[16]
- Eleanor Farjeon, daughter of Benjamin Farjeon
- Gilbert Frankau,[17] writer
- Gillian Freeman,[18] novelist and screenwriter
- Stephen Fry,[19] actor and writer
- Neil Gaiman,[20] fantasy writer
- Ralph Glasser, wrote Growing up in the Gorbals
- Louis Golding,[21] novelist
- Lewis Goldsmith, journalist and political writer[22]
- Linda Grant,[23] novelist
- Charlotte Haldane,[24] feminist writer
- Basil Henriques[25]
- Muriel Gray,[26] author, The Tube presenter
- Zoë Heller,[27] author (Jewish father)
- Noreena Hertz,[28] 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,[29] folklorist
- Howard Jacobson,[30] writer and broadcaster
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala,[31] novelist and screenwriter
- Gabriel Josipovici, novelist and short story writer[32]
Authors, K-Z
- Judith Kerr,[33] children's writer
- Gerald Kersh,[34] novelist
- Matthew Kneale,[35] writer (Jewish mother)
- Arthur Koestler,[36] novelist and critic
- Bernard Kops,[37] poet
- Marghanita Laski,[38] writer
- Stephen Laughton, playwright
- Sir Sidney Lee (1859–1926),[39] biographer and literary scholar
- Joseph Leftwich,[40] writer, one of the Whitechapel Boys
- David Levi,[41] writer on Jewish subjects
- Amy Levy (1861–1889), poet, novelist, short story writer, essayist
- Paul Levy, food writer, biographer; long rabbinical pedigree[42]
- Emanuel Litvinoff,[43] novelist
- Leo Marks,[44] cryptographer and screenwriter
- Anna Maxted, writer, journalist
- George Mikes, Hungarian-born comic writer[45]
- Santa Montefiore,[46] author (convert)
- Simon Sebag Montefiore,[47] writer
- Joseph Pardo (c. 1624 – 1677), hazzan and writer
- Alexander Piatigorsky,[48] writer, philosopher, culture theorist; winner of the 2002 Russian Bely Prize for literature
- Harold Pinter,[49] writer, playwright
- Frederic Raphael,[50] screenwriter, novelist and critic
- Michael Rosen,[51] novelist, poet and broadcaster
- Bernice Rubens,[52] novelist
- Nina Salaman, poet and translator
- Will Self,[53] novelist (Jewish mother)
- J. David Simons, novelist
- Muriel Spark,[54] novelist (Jewish father, possible Jewish mother; converted to Catholicism later in life)[55]
- 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,[56] writer
- Leonard Woolf,[57] writer and activist
- Israel Zangwill, novelist[58]
- Theodore Zeldin, writer
Poets
- Dannie Abse,[59] poet and physician
- Al Alvarez,[60] poet
- Ivor Cutler,[61] poet, humorist, musician
- Elaine Feinstein,[62] poet, writer, biographer
- Rose Fyleman,[63] children's writer
- Karen Gershon,[64] German-born poet
- Philip Hobsbaum,[65] poet
- Jenny Joseph, poet[66]
- Amy Levy,[67] poet and novelist
- Michael Hamburger OBE [68] poet and translator
- Vivian de Sola Pinto,[69] poet
- John Rodker, poet and publisher[70]
- Isaac Rosenberg,[71] war poet
- Jon Silkin,[72] poet
- Arthur Waley, poet and prose writer
- Humbert Wolfe,[73] poet and civil servant
Playwrights
- Peter Barnes,[74] playwright
- Steven Berkoff,[75] playwright, actor, author, and theatre director
- Ronald Harwood,[76] playwright and screenwriter
- Tom Kempinski,[77] playwright and screenwriter
- Stephen Laughton,[78] playwright
- Patrick Marber,[79] playwright and comedian
- Harold Pinter,[49] playwright
- Jack Rosenthal,[80] TV playwright
- Peter and Anthony Shaffer,[81] playwrights
- Tom Stoppard.[82] playwright
- Alfred Sutro,[39] playwright
- Arnold Wesker,[83] playwright
Journalists
- David Aaronovitch
- Barbara Amiel[84]
- Lionel Blue, rabbi and journalist
- Alex Brummer, economic and financial journalist and biographer
- Ian Buruma,[85] Dutch-born author and journalist
- Nick Cohen
- Giles Coren
- John Diamond,[86] journalist
- Jonathan Freedland,[87] journalist
- Ernest Abraham Hart[88]
- Matthew Kalman, editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Report
- Dominic Lawson,[89] journalist
- Nigella Lawson,[90] cookery writer
- Norman Lebrecht,[91] journalist, writer and critic
- Bernard Levin,[92] journalist and broadcaster
- Emily Maitlis,[93] TV newscaster and reporter
- Robert Peston,[94] BBC Business Editor
- Melanie Phillips,[95] journalist
- Eve Pollard,[96] journalist and newspaper editor
- Marjorie Proops, agony aunt
- Richard Quest,[97] CNN International anchorman
- Kimberly Quinn,[98] publisher
- Claire Rayner,[99] agony aunt
- Jon Ronson,[100] journalist, author, documentary filmmaker and radio presenter
- L. J. K. Setright,[101] motoring journalist
- Jon Sopel,[102] journalist; presents The Politics Show on BBC One; one of the lead presenters on News 24
- Victor Weisz, Vicky,[103] cartoonist
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