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Somerset MaughamBritish novelist and playwright W Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965) relaxes on a sofa. Original Publication: People Disc - HH0153 (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)
Kingsley Amis13th August 1975: British novelist and comic writer Kingsley Amis (1922 - 1995) looks unsure about his glass of wine. (Photo by Tim Graham/Evening Standard/Getty Images)
Amis And Howard6th July 1965: English novelist and poet Sir Kingsley Amis with his second wife, novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard, on a seafront. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)
Fleming Smoking1960: Ian Fleming, British author and creator of James Bond, smoking with a cigarette holder. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)
WS Maugham13th October 1960: English writer William Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965). (Photo by Aubrey Hart/Evening Standard/Getty Images)
Graham Greene2nd December 1975: English screenwriter, playwright, travel writer, essayist and best selling novelist Graham Greene (1904 - 1991). (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)
Barbara CartlandMrs A G McCorquodale (1901 - 2000) who is designing all the costumes for and also producing the Pageant of the Superstitions for a Halloween Ball at the Park Lane Hotel in aid of the Townswomens
Cartland And Dog1st May 1930: English romantic novelist (Mary) Barbara Hamilton Cartland (1901 - 2000) holding a pet dog. (Photo by Sasha/Getty Images)
Barbaras Glidercirca 1930: Romance novelist Barbara Cartland (1901 - 2000) poses beside the glider in which she made the first long distance towed journey in England, from Hanworth to Reading
Igor StravinskyRussian-born composer, conductor, pianist and writer Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (1882 - 1971) conducting. Works include the opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex (1927) the melodrama Pers+phone (1934)
Leonard BernsteinAmerican composer Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990), writer of symphonic music as well as Broadway shows. (Photo by Erich Auerbach/Getty Images)
Wells Lecture1944: English author H G Wells (Herbert George Wells, 1866 - 1946) lecturing at the Czechoslovakian Institute in London. (Photo by Erich Auerbach/Getty Images)
Stravinsky Conducts8th December 1958: Russian-born composer, conductor, pianist and writer Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (1882 - 1971) conducting
H G WellsEnglish novelist Herbert George Wells (1866 - 1946), whose most famous works include The Time Machine and The Invisible Man, 4th May 1940. Picture Post - 282 - Unite Or Perish - pub.1940
TS Eliot2nd June 1951: American-English poet and playwright, TS Eliot (1888 - 1965). He wrote amongst many other things, The Waste Land and the plays, The Cocktail Party and Murder in the Cathedral
Bernard Shaw20th July 1946: Irish dramatist, writer and social reformer, George Bernard Shaw in the garden of his home in Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire
Dylan Thomas10th August 1946: Dylan Marlais Thomas (1914 - 1953), Welsh poet and playwright. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4156 - A Nest Of Singing Birds - pub
William Morriss Homecirca 1871: The interior of the designer, writer and socialist William Morriss home at Kelmscott in Oxfordshire. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Four-Poster Bedcirca 1871: A four-poster bed in a bedroom of William Morris house at Kelmscott, Oxfordshire. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Balloon Rides4th October 1863: French caricaturist, writer, portrait photographer, balloonist and showman Gaspard Felix Tournachon Nadar (1820 - 1910) flies his giant balloon, Le Geant
Lamartine (1790-1869), French poet, steel engraving, published in 1868Alphonse Marie Louis Prat de Lamartine (1790 - 1869), French poet, writer and politician. Steel engraving, published in 1868
Lord ByronGeorge Byron (1786 - 1824), 6th Baron Byron, British poet. Original Artwork: Engraving by E Finden after Sanders. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Flauberts StudyThe study, at Croisset in Normandy, of French novelist, Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880). Original Artwork: Drawing by Lecomte (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Anne Brontecirca 1845: Anne (Annie) Bronte (1820-1849). Original Artwork: Drawing - Charlotte Bronte Womens Illustrated (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
William Wordsworthcirca 1819: William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850) English poet, made Poet Laureate in 1843. Original Artwork: Engraved from the painting by R Carruthers, published 1819
Lewis Carrollcirca 1875: English nonsense writer and versifier, author of Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll ( 1832 - 1998)
Goethes ArtA watercolour painted by German writer and poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832) from his Italienische Reise. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
William Blakecirca 1800: English painter, illustrator and poet William Blake (1757 - 1827), known for the mystical themes of his art and writings. Original Artwork: Painting by T Phillips
Shaw In The StrandMay 1927: Irish dramatist and social critic George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) walking along the Strand in London. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)
