page_title: List of people from Hampstead
section_title: Literature
hierarchical_section_title: List of people from Hampstead / Literature
caption_attribution_description: George du Maurier
context_page_description: This is a list of notable people who have lived in Hampstead, an area of northwest London known for its intellectual, liberal, artistic, musical and literary associations. After 1917, and again in the 1930s, it became base to a community of avant garde artists and writers and was host to a number of émigrés and exiles from the Russian Revolution and Nazi Europe. Amongst the people on this list who were born in Hampstead are politician Nigel Lawson, racing driver Damon Hill, actors Stephen Fry and Dirk Bogarde, novelist Evelyn Waugh, and the English educator and administrator Robert Laurie Morant. Several of the people on this list, including John Constable, Eleanor Farjeon, and Hugh Gaitskell are buried in the churchyard of St John-at-Hampstead. The Hampstead post code district includes the neighbourhoods of Frognal, Chalk Farm, Swiss Cottage, Belsize Park, and parts of Primrose Hill.
  Note: * indicates people born in Hampstead.
context_section_description: Edwin Abbott Abbott (headmaster and theological writer)
  Eliza Acton (English poet and cook)
  Robert Aickman (English fiction writer)
  Lucy Aikin (English author and historian)
  Alfred Ainger (English biographer and critic)
  Martin Amis (British novelist)
  William Allingham (Irish poet)
  Christopher Andrewes (British academic and editor)
  John Armstrong (Scottish poet)
  Alan Ayckbourn * (British playwright)
  Joanna Baillie, (Scottish poet and dramatist)
  Robert Bakewell(English geologist)
  William Bayliss (English Physiologist)
  Enid Blyton (British author)
  Robert Dudley Baxter (English economist and statistician)
  Sybille Bedford (German-born English novelist, biographer, and travel writer)
  Walter Besant (English novelist and historian)
  John Betjeman (English poet)
  Basil Bunting (English poet) 
  Lord Byron (English poet)
  Gilbert Cannan (British novelist and dramatist)
  Elias Canetti (Bulgarian-born modernist novelist and playwright)
  Allan Chappelow photographer and writer of books on George Bernard Shaw
  Agatha Christie (British crime writer of novels, short stories and plays)
  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (English poet)
  Jean de Bosschère (after 1944: Jean de Boschère) (Belgian (French) poet, author, essayist, painter, illustrator, sculptor)
  Daphne du Maurier (English novelist and playwright; granddaughter of George du Maurier)
  George du Maurier (British novelist and cartoonist)
  Halide Edip (Turkish novelist) 
  T. S. Eliot (American-born British poet, playwright, and literary critic)
  Sir William Empson (English literary critic and poet)
  Eleanor Farjeon (English writer, particularly of children's literature)
  Ian Fleming (British journalist and novelist, creator of the James Bond novels)
  John Fowles (English novelist and essayist)
  Antonia Fraser (British biographer)
  Carlos Fuentes (Mexican novelist) 
  John Galsworthy (English novelist and playwright; recipient of the 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature)
  Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (English Georgian poet) 
  Geoffrey Grigson (English poet) 
  Thom Gunn (Anglo-American poet)
  Leigh Hunt (English critic, essayist, poet)
  Aldous Huxley (English novelist and essayist)
  John Keats (English poet)
  Marghanita Laski (English novelist, playwright and critic)
  Margaret Laurence (Canadian novelist) 
  D H Lawrence (English novelist, poet, and literary critic)
  Katherine Mansfield (New Zealand-born short story writer)
  John Mortimer * (English barrister and dramatist)
  John Middleton Murry (English essayist, novelist, and critic)
  George Orwell (British novelist and journalist)
  J. B. Priestley (English novelist, playwright, and broadcaster)
  Percy Bysshe Shelley (English poet)
  Edith Sitwell (English poet and critic.)
  Stephen Spender (English poet, novelist, and essayist)
  Robert Louis Stevenson (Scottish novelist, poet, and essayist)
  Rabindranath Tagore (Bengali poet, novelist, musician, painter and playwright)
  Alec Waugh (British novelist)
  Evelyn Waugh * (English novelist, travel writer, and biographer)
  Anna Wickham (British Poet)
caption: Novelist and cartoonist George du Maurier who lived at 28 Hampstead Grove from 1874 to 1895
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