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
Rose Allatini, novelist. (Also wrote under the names A.T. Fitzroy, Lucian Wainwright and Eunice Buckley.)
Lisa Appignanesi,^[3] novelist
Gilad Atzmon, Holocaust denier, anti-Semite, author, writer and musician, ^[4]
Shmuley Boteach, American-born Orthodox rabbi, author of over 30 books, and tv and radio host^[5]
Alain de Botton,^[6] writer
Caryl Brahms,^[7] writer
David Bret, biographer, broadcaster and chansonnier (French-born; Jewish father)
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
Aviva Dautch, ^[13] poet
Lionel Davidson (Hull 1922-2009), thriller novelist, Golden Dagger winner, famous for "The night of Wenceslas", "Chelsea murders", "Kolinsky Heights". Lived briefly in Jaffa, Israel at the invitation of the government.^{[citation needed]}
Jenny Diski,^[14] writer
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881), novelist, poet, playwright, writer, and prime minister^[15]
Isaac D'Israeli,^[16] writer
Richard Ellmann,^[17] literary scholar and biographer
Moris Farhi, writer (Turkish-born)^[18]
Benjamin Farjeon^[19]
Eleanor Farjeon, daughter of Benjamin Farjeon
Gilbert Frankau,^[20] writer
Gillian Freeman,^[21] novelist and screenwriter
Stephen Fry,^[22] actor and writer
Neil Gaiman,^[23] fantasy writer
Ralph Glasser, wrote Growing up in the Gorbals
Louis Golding,^[24] novelist
Lewis Goldsmith, journalist and political writer^[25]
Linda Grant,^[26] novelist
Dominic Green, historian and journalist
Charlotte Haldane,^[27] feminist writer
Basil Henriques^[28]
Muriel Gray,^[29] author, The Tube presenter
Zoë Heller,^[30] author (Jewish father)
Noreena Hertz,^[31] 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,^[32] folklorist
Howard Jacobson,^[33] writer and broadcaster
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala,^[34] novelist and screenwriter
Gabriel Josipovici, novelist and short story writer^[35]

Authors, K-Z[]

Judith Kerr,^[36] children's writer
Gerald Kersh,^[37] novelist
Matthew Kneale,^[38] writer (Jewish mother)
Arthur Koestler,^[39] novelist and critic
Bernard Kops,^[40] poet
Marghanita Laski,^[41] writer
, playwright
Sir Sidney Lee (1859–1926),^[42] biographer and literary scholar
Joseph Leftwich,^[43] writer, one of the Whitechapel Boys
David Levi,^[44] writer on Jewish subjects
Amy Levy (1861–1889), poet, novelist, short story writer, essayist
Gertrude Rachel Levy, writer and cultural historian
Paul Levy, food writer, biographer; long rabbinical pedigree^[45]
Emanuel Litvinoff,^[46] novelist
Leo Marks,^[47] cryptographer and screenwriter
Anna Maxted, writer, journalist
George Mikes, Hungarian-born comic writer^[48]
Santa Montefiore,^[49] author (convert)
Simon Sebag Montefiore,^[50] writer
Joseph Pardo (c. 1624 – 1677), hazzan and writer
Alexander Piatigorsky,^[51] writer, philosopher, culture theorist; winner of the 2002 Russian Bely Prize for literature
Harold Pinter,^[52] writer, playwright
Frederic Raphael,^[53] screenwriter, novelist and critic
Adele Rose,^[54] television script writer
Michael Rosen,^[55] novelist, poet and broadcaster
Bernice Rubens,^[56] novelist
Nina Salaman, poet and translator
Will Self,^[57] novelist (Jewish mother)
J. David Simons, novelist
Muriel Spark,^[58] novelist (Jewish father, possible Jewish mother; converted to Catholicism later in life)^[59]
William Sutcliffe, novelist; New Boy (1986), Are You Experienced? (1997), Whatever Makes You Happy (2008), and The Wall (2013), set in an Israeli colony
Mitchell Symons, writer
Adam Thirlwell, novelist
Fredric Warburg, author and publisher
Stephen Winsten,^[60] writer
Leonard Woolf,^[61] writer and activist
Israel Zangwill, novelist^[62]
Theodore Zeldin, writer

Poets[]

Dannie Abse,^[63] poet and physician
Al Alvarez,^[64] poet
Ivor Cutler,^[65] poet, humorist, musician
Aviva Dautch, ^[66] poet
Elaine Feinstein,^[67] poet, writer, biographer
Rose Fyleman,^[68] children's writer
Karen Gershon,^[69] German-born poet
Philip Hobsbaum,^[70] poet
Jenny Joseph, poet^[71]
Amy Levy,^[72] poet and novelist
Michael Hamburger OBE ^[73] poet and translator
Vivian de Sola Pinto,^[74] poet

John Rodker, poet and publisher^[75]
Isaac Rosenberg,^[76] war poet
Jon Silkin,^[77] poet
Arthur Waley, poet and prose writer
Humbert Wolfe,^[78] poet and civil servant

Playwrights[]

Peter Barnes,^[79] playwright
Steven Berkoff,^[80] playwright, actor, author, and theatre director
Ronald Harwood,^[81] playwright and screenwriter
Tom Kempinski,^[82] playwright and screenwriter
,^[83] playwright
Patrick Marber,^[84] playwright and comedian
Harold Pinter,^[52] playwright
Jack Rosenthal,^[85] TV playwright
Peter and Anthony Shaffer,^[86] playwrights
Tom Stoppard.^[87] playwright
Alfred Sutro,^[42] playwright
Arnold Wesker,^[88] playwright

Journalists[]

David Aaronovitch
Barbara Amiel^[89]
Lionel Blue, rabbi and journalist
Alex Brummer, economic and financial journalist and biographer
Ian Buruma,^[90] Dutch-born author and journalist
Nick Cohen
Giles Coren
John Diamond,^[91] journalist
Jonathan Freedland,^[92] journalist
Ernest Abraham Hart^[93]
Matthew Kalman, editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Report
Dominic Lawson,^[94] journalist
Nigella Lawson,^[95] cookery writer
Norman Lebrecht,^[96] journalist, writer and critic
Bernard Levin,^[97] journalist and broadcaster
Emily Maitlis,^[98] TV newscaster and reporter
Robert Peston,^[99] BBC Business Editor
Melanie Phillips,^[100] journalist
Eve Pollard,^[101] journalist and newspaper editor
Marjorie Proops, agony aunt
Richard Quest,^[102] CNN International anchorman
Kimberly Quinn,^[103] publisher
Claire Rayner,^[104] agony aunt
Jon Ronson,^[105] journalist, author, documentary filmmaker and radio presenter
L. J. K. Setright,^[106] motoring journalist
Jon Sopel,^[107] journalist; presents The Politics Show on BBC One; one of the lead presenters on News 24
Victor Weisz, Vicky,^[108] cartoonist

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Sources[]

JYB = Jewish Year Book

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