Elizabeth Jane Howard

Elizabeth Jane Howard, CBE ( born March 26, 1923 in London, † January 2, 2014 in Bungay, Suffolk ) was a British writer.

Life

1951 won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize Howard for her first novel, The Beautiful Visit. Many of her 15 books have been well received by the critics, but her fame was based primarily on the Cazalet Chronicles, a saga about the life and suffering of an aristocratic extended family shortly before the Second World War.

She led three marriages, including with Peter Markham Scott and 1965-1983 with Kingsley Amis. In 2000, she was appointed Commander of the British Empire.