Penelope Fitzgerald (1916–2000)

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1. Penelope Fitzgerald

   Author of The Beginning of Spring, Human Voices, The Means of Escape

2. A.S. Byatt

   Author of Possession, Angels and Insects, Babel Tower

3. Barbara Pym

   Author of A Glass of Blessings, An Unsuitable Attachment, A Few Green Leaves

4. Elizabeth Taylor

   Author of Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont, Angel, In a Summer Season

5. Muriel Spark

   Author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, A Far Cry from Kensington, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Girls of Slender Means, The Driver's Seat, The Only Problem

6. Elizabeth Bowen

   Author of The Death of the Heart, The Heat of the Day, The Little Girls

7. Penelope Lively

   Author of Moon Tiger, The Photograph, City of the Mind

8. Anita Brookner

   Author of A Friend from England, Fraud, A Closed Eye

9. William Trevor

   Author of The Story of Lucy Gault, Felicia's Journey, Two Lives

10. Beryl Bainbridge

    Author of Master Georgie, Every man for himself, An Awfully Big Adventure

11. Hilary Mantel

    Author of Beyond Black, Fludd, The Giant, O'Brien

12. Jane Gardam

    Author of God on the Rocks, Bilgewater, A Long Way from Verona

13. Shirley Hazzard

    Author of The Great Fire, The Transit of Venus

14. Iris Murdoch

    Author of The Sea, the Sea, The Book and the Brotherhood, The Good Apprentice

15. Barry Unsworth

    Author of Sacred Hunger, Morality Play

16. Rose Tremain

    Author of Music & Silence, Restoration, The Way I Found Her

17. Pat Barker

    Author of Regeneration, The Ghost Road, Another World

18. Christopher Morley

    Author of The Haunted Bookshop, Parnassus on Wheels

19. Colm Tóibín

    Author of The Master, The Blackwater Lightship, Mothers and Sons: Stories

20. Graham Swift

    Author of Last Orders, Waterland