Category
page 1English opera librettists
W. H. Auden
British-American poet (1907–1973)
E. M. Forster
English novelist (1879-1970)
Arnold Bennett
English writer (1867–1931)
William Congreve
British writer (1670-1729)

John Gay
English poet and playwright (1685–1732)
W. S. Gilbert
English dramatist, poet and illustrator (1836–1911)
J. B. Priestley
English writer (1894–1984)
Edward Bond
English writer best known as a dramatist (1934–2024)
Constance Collier
British actress (1878-1955)
Charles Jennens
English landowner and art patron (1700–1773)
Martin Crimp
British playwright and translator
Sidney Gilliat
British film director, producer and screenwriter (1908–1994)
Kevin Crossley-Holland
English writer and translator (born 1941)
Paul Dehn
English screenwriter (1912-1976)

Myfanwy Piper
librettist and art critic (1911-1997)
F. C. Burnand
British comic writer and dramatist (1836-1917)
Carey Harrison
British writer
Berlie Doherty
English children's writer
Ursula Vaughan Williams
English writer (1911–2007)
Andrew Porter
British music critic (1928–2015)
Alan Beverley Cross
British screenwriter (1931-1998)
Francis Hueffer
German-English writer on music, music critic, and librettist

Sydney Grundy
British dramatist (1848–1914)
Edward Fitzball
British writer

Montagu Slater
British writer (1902–1956)

William Barclay Squire
British musicologist, librarian and librettist (1855-1927)
Eric Crozier
British theatre director (1914–1994)
John Caird
English theatre director and writer

Ann Hatton
British writer (1764–1838)

Lisa Hilton
British writer and historian
Anne Ridler
English poet, editor
J. Comyns Carr
British critic, gallery and theatre manager and author. (1849–1916)