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
• Jillian Becker
• Alain de Botton,^[4] writer
• Caryl Brahms,^[5] writer
• David Bret, biographer, broadcaster and chansonnier (French-born; Jewish father)
• Anita Brookner,^[6] novelist
• Ian Buruma,^[7] Dutch-born journalist and writer
• Elias Canetti,^[8] novelist, man of letters, 1981 Nobel Prize (Bulgarian-born)
• Chapman Cohen,^[9] writer on secularism
• Jackie Collins,^[10] novelist
• Alan Coren,^[11] humorous writer; his children, Giles and Victoria, are also writers
• Charlotte Dacre,^[12] novelist and poet
• Jenny Diski,^[13] writer
• Isaac D'Israeli,^[14] writer
• Richard Ellmann,^[15] literary scholar and biographer
• Moris Farhi, writer (Turkish-born)^[16]
• Benjamin Farjeon ^[17]
• Eleanor Farjeon, daughter of Benjamin Farjeon
• Gilbert Frankau,^[18] writer
• Gillian Freeman,^[19] novelist and screenwriter
• Stephen Fry,^[20] actor and writer
• Neil Gaiman,^[21] fantasy writer
• Ralph Glasser, wrote Growing up in the Gorbals
• Louis Golding,^[22] novelist
• Lewis Goldsmith, journalist and political writer ^[23]
• Linda Grant,^[24] novelist
• Charlotte Haldane,^[25] feminist writer
• Basil Henriques^[26]
• Muriel Gray,^[27] author, The Tube presenter
• Zoë Heller,^[28] author (Jewish father)
• Noreena Hertz,^[29] 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,^[30] folklorist
• Howard Jacobson,^[31] writer and broadcaster
• Ruth Prawer Jhabvala,^[32] novelist and screenwriter
• Gabriel Josipovici, novelist and short story writer^[33]

Authors, K-Z

• Judith Kerr,^[34] children's writer
• Gerald Kersh,^[35] novelist
• Matthew Kneale,^[36] writer (Jewish mother)
• Arthur Koestler,^[37] novelist and critic
• Bernard Kops,^[38] poet
• Marghanita Laski,^[39] writer
• Stephen Laughton, playwright
• Sir Sidney Lee (1859–1926),^[40] biographer and literary scholar
• Joseph Leftwich,^[41] writer, one of the Whitechapel Boys
• David Levi,^[42] writer on Jewish subjects
• Amy Levy (1861–1889), poet, novelist, short story writer, essayist
• Paul Levy, food writer, biographer; long rabbinical pedigree^[43]
• Emanuel Litvinoff,^[44] novelist
• Leo Marks,^[45] cryptographer and screenwriter
• Anna Maxted, writer, journalist
• George Mikes, Hungarian-born comic writer^[46]
• Santa Montefiore,^[47] author (convert)
• Simon Sebag Montefiore,^[48] writer
• Joseph Pardo (c. 1624 – 1677), hazzan and writer
• Alexander Piatigorsky,^[49] writer, philosopher, culture theorist; winner of the 2002 Russian Bely Prize for literature
• Harold Pinter,^[50] writer, playwright
• Frederic Raphael,^[51] screenwriter, novelist and critic
• Michael Rosen,^[52] novelist, poet and broadcaster
• Bernice Rubens,^[53] novelist
• Will Self,^[54] novelist (Jewish mother)
• J. David Simons, novelist
• Muriel Spark,^[55] novelist (Jewish father, possible Jewish mother; converted to Catholicism later in life)^[56]
• William Sutcliffe, novelist; New Boy (1986), Are You Experienced? (1997), Whatever Makes You Happy (2008), and The Wall (2013), set in an Israeli colony
• Adam Thirlwell, novelist
• Fredric Warburg, author and publisher
• Stephen Winsten,^[57] writer
• Leonard Woolf,^[58] writer and activist
• Israel Zangwill, novelist^[59]
• Theodore Zeldin, writer

Poets

• Dannie Abse,^[60] poet, brother of Leo Abse and psychoanalyst Wilfred Abse
• Al Alvarez,^[61] poet
• Ivor Cutler,^[62] poet, humorist, musician
• Elaine Feinstein,^[63] poet, writer, biographer
• Rose Fyleman,^[64] children's writer
• Karen Gershon,^[65] German-born poet
• Philip Hobsbaum,^[66] poet
• Jenny Joseph, poet^[67]
• Amy Levy,^[68] poet and novelist
• 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,^[80] playwright
• Jack Rosenthal,^[81] TV playwright
• Peter and Anthony Shaffer,^[82] playwrights
• Tom Stoppard.^[83] playwright
• Alfred Sutro,^[84] playwright
• Arnold Wesker,^[85] playwright

Journalists

• Barbara Amiel ^[86]
• Lionel Blue, rabbi and journalist
• Alex Brummer, economic and financial journalist and biographer
• Ian Buruma,^[87] Dutch-born author and journalist
• Giles Coren
• John Diamond,^[88] journalist
• Jonathan Freedland,^[89] journalist
• Ernest Abraham Hart ^[90]
• Matthew Kalman, editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Report
• Dominic Lawson,^[91] journalist
• Nigella Lawson,^[92] cookery writer
• Norman Lebrecht,^[93] journalist, writer and critic
• Bernard Levin,^[94] journalist and broadcaster
• Emily Maitlis,^[95] TV newscaster and reporter
• Robert Peston,^[96] BBC Business Editor
• Melanie Phillips,^[97] journalist
• Eve Pollard,^[98] journalist and newspaper editor
• Marjorie Proops, agony aunt
• Richard Quest,^[99] CNN International anchorman
• Kimberly Quinn,^[100] publisher
• Claire Rayner,^[101] agony aunt
• Jon Ronson,^[102] journalist, author, documentary filmmaker and radio presenter
• Jon Sopel,^[103] journalist; presents The Politics Show on BBC One; one of the lead presenters on News 24
• Victor Weisz, Vicky,^[104] cartoonist

References

• JYB = Jewish Year Book

Footnotes

External links

• Jinfo

See also

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