* 1883 – Sir Compton Mackenzie, Scottish novelist ( d. 1972 )

British novelist Compton Mackenzie lived there from 1913 to 1920, with later visits, and set some of his work on the island, e. g. Vestal Fire ( 1927 ).

* Compton MacKenzie ( novelist, journalist )

In 1914, the novelist Henry James in an article in The Times named Cannan as one of four significant up-and-coming authors, alongside D. H. Lawrence, Compton Mackenzie and Hugh Walpole.

The National Gramophonic Society ( NGS ) was founded in England in 1923 by the novelist Compton Mackenzie to promote music which was ignored by major music companies.

* Henry Mackenzie, Scottish novelist

* January 14-Henry Mackenzie, Scottish novelist

* January 14-Henry Mackenzie, Scottish novelist ( born 1745 )

Henry Mackenzie ( August, 1745-14 January 1831 ) was a Scottish novelist and miscellaneous writer.

Costain left the magazine to become a novelist and was replaced by J. Vernon Mackenzie who remained at the helm until 1926.

In 1955 the Australian poet and novelist Seaforth Mackenzie drowned while attempting to swim across Tallong ( formerly Barber's ) Creek near the town.

* Kenneth ( Seaforth ) Mackenzie ( 1913 – 1955 ), Australian poet and novelist

Ferrier was educated privately, but came to know through her family many notable Edinburgh people, including Scott and the novelist Henry Mackenzie.

* Nevil Shute ( Nevil Shute Norway ), the Ealing-born aeronautical engineer and novelist lived at Pond Head on Hayling Island during World War II.

The name of " Elizabeth Gaskell " commemorates the novelist Elizabeth Gaskell who lived in Plymouth Grove nearby.

After the breakdown of his marriage with Clara, Malraux lived with journalist and novelist Josette Clotis, starting in 1933.

Since 2005, Depardieu has lived with a Harvard-educated novelist, Clémentine Igou.

* The novelist Jane Austen lived much of her life during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and two of her brothers served in the Royal Navy.

During the early 1960s, novelist Ken Kesey and The Merry Pranksters lived communally in California.

Another novelist who lived for a while in Taos was Alexander Trocchi.

Sarah Fielding, the 18th-century author and sister of the novelist Henry Fielding, lived in the town.

Late authors Shel Silverstein and William Styron also lived on the Vineyard, as did writer, journalist and teacher John Hersey, poet and novelist Dorothy West and artist Thomas Hart Benton Various writers have been inspired by the island — including the mystery writer Philip Craig who set several novels on the island.

* Frank Tuohy ( 1925 — 1999 ), novelist and short-story writer, lived in Shepton Mallet following his retirement, and died in the town's hospital on 11 April 1999.

In an 1884 book written by dime novelist and non-fiction author Edward S. Ellis, Crockett is recorded as giving a speech ( the " Not Yours to Give " speech ) critical of his Congressional colleagues who were willing to spend taxpayer dollars to help a widow of a US Navy man who had lived beyond his naval service, but would not contribute their own salary for a week to the cause.

However these things may be, he loves you as tenderly as ever ; nothing, to the end of time, will ever detach him from you, & he remembers those Eleventh St. matutinal intimes hours, those telephonic matinées, as the most romantic of his life ... His long friendship with American novelist Constance Fenimore Woolson, in whose house he lived for a number of weeks in Italy in 1887, and his shock and grief over her suicide in 1894, are discussed in detail in Leon Edel's biography and play a central role in a study by Lyndall Gordon.

* Charles Dickens ( 1812 – 1870 ), novelist lived at 14 Great Russell Street, Tavistock Square and 48 Doughty Street.

* JM Barrie ( 1860 – 1937 ), playwright and novelist, lived in Guilford Street and Grenville Street when he first moved to London ; it's where the Darling family in Peter Pan live.

* Penelope Mortimer – late novelist lived on the Mapesbury Estate in her latter years.

* David Baddiel, English comedian, novelist and television presenter, has lived in Hatch End.

Stevie Smith, the poet and novelist, lived in Palmers Green from 1905 until her death in 1971, also that year, Joe Strummer shared a flat at 18 Ash Grove with Tymon Dogg and several others.

Beryl Kingston, popular novelist, lived at Strathbrook Road from 1956 – 1980 and taught at what was then Rosa Bassett School in Welham Road, and also at Sunnyhill Primary School.

In the mid 1870s the novelist Thomas Hardy ( 1840 – 1928 ) lived in a house called ' St.

* Timothy Williams, bilingual novelist of crime fiction, lived at Whipps Cross

The novelist Sir H. Rider Haggard, author of King Solomon's Mines, lived in Ditchingham and was churchwarden there for several years.

* Robert Hillyer ( 1895 – 1961 ), poet, novelist, and critic, lived in the town.

Politician and novelist Jacob van Lennep visited Ommerschans during his walking tour with Dirk van Hogendorp across the newly independent United Kingdom of the Netherlands in the summer of 1823, and documented his appal at the conditions at the labour camp: " These hours are certainly among the saddest I have lived through.

The Dutch novelist Simon Vestdijk lived in Doorn for a great part of his life ( between 1939 and 1971, a few short intervals excepted ).

The best gifts of the novelist will be wasted on the reader who is insulated against any surprises the novelist may have in store for him.

But his rancor did not cease, and presently, on March 13, when he preached a sermon on the text, `` And Ben-hadad Was Drunk '', he told his congregation how disappointed he was in Mr. Lewis, how he regretted having had him in his house, and how he should have been warned by the fact that the novelist was drunk all the time that he was working on the book.

Angela Lansbury, who had played Miss Marple in the movie, The Mirror Crack'd, directed by Guy Hamilton, went on to star in the TV series Murder, She Wrote as Jessica Fletcher, a mystery novelist who also solves crimes.

Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence and 5 years after being filmed by a dive team funded by novelist Clive Cussler.

The film was based on the fourth novel in a pentalogy, known in China as the Crane Iron Pentalogy, by wuxia novelist Wang Dulu.

It was an important step for a leading female novelist to write a biography of another, and Gaskell's approach was unusual in that, rather than analysing her subject's achievements, she concentrated on private details of Charlotte's life, emphasising aspects which countered accusations of ' coarseness ' which had been levelled at her writing.

In the 12th century CE the Andalusian Muslim philosopher and novelist Abu Bakr Ibn Tufail ( known as " Abubacer " or " Ebn Tophail " in the West ) included the theory of tabula rasa as a thought experiment in his Arabic philosophical novel, Hayy ibn Yaqdhan in which he depicted the development of the mind of a feral child " from a tabula rasa to that of an adult, in complete isolation from society " on a desert island, through experience alone.

Prominent novelist and Harvard Medical School graduate Michael Crichton appeared before the U. S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works to address such concerns and recommended the employment of double-blind experimentation in environmental research.

Progressing rapidly to numerous collaborations on films at Cinecittà, his circle of professional acquaintances widened to include novelist Vitaliano Brancati and scriptwriter Piero Tellini.

For example, the Securing Your Home Forum was moderated by survival retreat expert Joel Skousen, and the Inventory and Barter Items Forum was moderated by the survivalist novelist James Wesley Rawles, who later went on to be a survivalist blogger and preparedness guru.

Lord Aberdeen died at Argyll House, St. James's, London, on 14 December 1860, and was buried in the family vault at Stanmore. In 1994 novelist, columnist and politician Ferdinand Mount used George Gordon's life as the basis for a historical novel – Umbrella.

This film first teamed him with the actor-director Maximilian Schell, who acted out a character named, and based on, " Butcher Of Riga " Eduard Roschmann, and for whom Voight would appear in 1976's End of the Game, a psychological thriller based on a story by Swiss novelist and playwright, Friedrich Dürrenmatt.

Named after the Greek goddess Gaia at the suggestion of novelist William Golding, the hypothesis postulates that the biosphere has a regulatory effect on the Earth's environment that acts to sustain life.

Coulton, an expert on Mediaeval monasteries, included her theories in his work, Five Centuries of Religion, Volume One ( 1923 ), as did the novelist John Buchan, who included it into his Witch Wood ( 1927 ).

'" Even his friend, the novelist Charles Kingsley, wrote that he had read " no other book which so staggered and puzzled " him, that he could not believe that God had " written on the rocks one enormous and superfluous lie for all mankind.

Postmodern novelist Thomas Pynchon, who was also influenced by Beat fiction, experimented since the 1960s with the surrealist idea of startling juxtapositions ; commenting on the " necessity of managing this procedure with some degree of care and skill ", he added that " any old combination of details will not do.

In March 2009, British family care activist and a best-selling novelist Erin Pizzey reportedly declined to comment on the temporary withdrawal by its publishers of the book Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain following her complaint it had falsely linked her to The Angry Brigade.

In the 12th century, the Andalusian-Islamic philosopher and novelist Ibn Tufail ( known as " Abubacer " or " Ebn Tophail " in the West ) demonstrated the theory of tabula rasa as a thought experiment through his Arabic philosophical novel, Hayy ibn Yaqzan, in which he depicted the development of the mind of a feral child " from a tabula rasa to that of an adult, in complete isolation from society " on a desert island, through experience alone.