page_title: List of King's College London alumni
section_title: Authors
hierarchical_section_title: List of King's College London alumni / Arts and media / Authors
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context_page_description: This list of King's College London alumni comprises notable graduates as well as non-graduate former, and current, students. It also includes those who may be considered alumni by extension, having studied at institutions later merged with King's College London. It does not include those whose only connection with the college is being a member of the staff or the conferral of an honorary degree or honorary fellowship.
context_section_description: Dannie Abse – writer and poet
  John Adair – author
  Alfred Ainger – biographer and critic
  Lyman Andrews - poet
  Sir Edwin Arnold – poet and journalist
  William Beal - religious writer
  Stephen Benatar - author
  Ronan Bennett – novelist and screenwriter
  Tamasin Berry-Hart – novelist
  Sir Walter Besant – novelist, historian and academic
  Shahbano Bilgrami – novelist and poet
  Alain de Botton – writer, philosopher and television producer
  Patrick Braybrooke - literary critic
  Paula Broadwell - biographer of David Petraeus
  Charles Brookfield – playwright and actor
  Anita Brookner – Booker Prize-winning novelist
  Sir Arthur C. Clarke – science fiction writer and inventor
  Helen Cresswell – children's author and screenwriter
  Quentin Crisp – writer
  Sir George Webbe Dasent – writer
  Mike Dash – writer and journalist
  Ebou Dibba – novelist
  Alison Dolling - writer
  Jane Draycott - poet
  Maureen Duffy – novelist, poet and screenwriter
  Andreas Embirikos – poet
  Charles Finger – author
  C. S. Forester – historical novelist
  John Fraser - novelist and poet
  Chris Genoa – comedic novelist
  Sir W. S. Gilbert – one half of Gilbert and Sullivan.
  Tariq Goddard – novelist
  Bea Gonzalez – novelist and lecturer
  Bill Griffiths – poet
  Radclyffe Hall – poet and author
  Thomas Hardy – novelist and poet.
  Constance Heaven – novelist and actress
  Susan Hill – novelist
  Eileen Hayes - author, columnist
  Molly Holden – poet
  Africanus Horton – writer
  Susan Howatch – author
  Simon Ings – novelist
  Christopher Isherwood – novelist
  Storm Jameson – novelist
  B. S. Johnson – novelist
  Nihan Kaya – novelist
  John Keats – Romantic poet.
  Garry Kilworth – novelist
  Charles Kingsley – novelist
  Henry Kingsley – novelist
  Hanif Kureishi – Whitbread Award-winning author and screenwriter
  Katherine Langrish - author
  Molly Lefebure – writer
  Marina Lewycka – novelist
  Thomas Macknight - biographer
  Sabrina Mahfouz - poet and playwright
  Menon Marath – novelist
  Alexander Masters – Whitbread Award-winning author and screenwriter
  W. Somerset Maugham – novelist and playwright
  Ronald Brunlees McKerrow - Shakespearean biographer
  James Miller - novelist
  Henry Morley – writer and academic
  Sir Michael Morpurgo – writer
  Desidério Murcho - writer
  Lawrence Norfolk – novelist
  Kathleen Nott - novelist and poet
  Ann Pilling - author and poet
  Barry Pilton – novelist and screenwriter
  Ross Raisin – novelist
  Vernon Richards – anarchist editor and author
  Anne Ridler – poet
  Michael Roberts – poet, writer and broadcaster
  John Ruskin – author, poet, artist, art critic and social critic
  John Ralston Saul - writer
  Frederick George Scott - poet
  Anne Sebba - writer
  Khushwant Singh - writer and Member of the Indian Rajya Sabha
  Elizabeth Smart – novelist and poet
  Jon Hunter Spence - Jane Austen scholar
  John Stammers - poet and writer
  Sir Leslie Stephen – author and mountaineer
  Robin Stevens - children's author
  Rosemary Timperley - novelist
  Frederick Augustus Voigt - writer
  David Watmough – novelist, playwright and academic
  Michael White - writer
  Virginia Woolf – novelist and essayist
caption: Novelist and poet Thomas Hardy (French, 1863)
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