Curated category
English fantasy writers
- J. R. R. TolkienJohn Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on the 3rd of January 1892 in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State. His father Arthur worked as a bank manager for the British…
- Lewis CarrollCharles Lutwidge Dodgson entered the world on the 27th of January 1832 at All Saints' Vicarage in Daresbury, Cheshire. He was the oldest boy and third of…
- Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift entered the world on the 30th of November 1667 in Dublin. His father was a native of Goodrich, Herefordshire who had fled to Ireland after his…
- Neil GaimanNeil Richard Gaiman was born on the 10th of November 1960 in Portchester, Hampshire. His family background traces to Polish-Jewish and other Ashkenazi…
- William MorrisWilliam Morris was born at Elm House in Walthamstow, Essex, on the 24th of March 1834. He entered a world of wealth and evangelical Protestantism as the…
- Graeme Davis (game designer)Graeme Davis began his professional life in banking before switching paths to study archaeology at the University of Durham.
- John Russell, 1st Earl RussellJohn Russell entered the world on the 18th of August 1792 as the third son of John Russell, who would become the sixth Duke of Bedford.
- John RuskinJohn Ruskin was born on the 8th of February 1819 at 54 Hunter Street in Brunswick Square, London. His father John James Ruskin worked as a sherry and wine…
- Michael MoorcockMichael John Moorcock arrived in Mitcham, Surrey on the 18th of December 1939. The landscape of London would later shape his fiction, particularly areas like…
- Diana Wynne JonesDiana Wynne Jones was born on the 16th of August 1934 in London. Her fifth birthday arrived just as World War II began. Shortly after that celebration, she…
- Pauline BaynesPauline Diana Baynes was born on the 9th of September 1922 at 67 Brunswick Place in Hove, East Sussex. Her family moved to India when she was still a baby.