The Borough of Ealing is that part of west London that borders Chiswick and includes Acton, Hanwell, Northolt, Perivale and Southall. With the help of The Pitshanger Bookshop and Ealing Borough Archivist and author Jonathan Oates we’ve compiled a list of published writers who have lived, worked or been educated in the borough or have written books set in the area.
To avoid double-counting, we’ve excluded writers who live in the Chiswick W4 part of the Borough of Ealing: these appear on the Chiswick Writers pages. Where there’s information online about an author you’ll see that you can click on their name. If there’s someone we’ve missed, please let us know by emailing admin@chiswickbookfestival.net. This page lists authors of non-fiction.
For adult and children’s fiction, poetry, stage plays, television and film click here.
Here’s our timeline of Ealing authors, Year by Year.
| Architecture, Gardens, Nature |
Ealing’s Art, Architecture & History |
| Dr Charles Mynors |
Aileen Reid |
| John R Gold |
Alan Vessey |
| Margaret Gold |
Ann Phimister |
| Sir John Soane |
Bob Salmons (Robert Hokum) |
| Sir Peter Hall |
Charles Hocking |
| Victor Osborne |
Charles Jones |
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Christopher Ager |
| Art & Design |
Cyril Neaves |
| David Holmes |
David & Amanda Knights |
| Eric Ravilious |
Dennis Upton |
| Robin Hamlyn |
Duncan Cameron |
| Torin Douglas |
Edith Jackson |
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Eva Farley |
| Business, Economics, Coaching |
Frances Hounsell |
| Caroline Black |
George Perry |
| Diane Coyle |
Gwenan Llwyd Evans |
| Frederic Festus Kelly |
Henry Mitchell |
| Jacqueline Shakespeare |
John Rogers |
| Jeff Chegwin |
Jonathan Oates |
| Kay Hutchison |
Kate McEwan |
| Pat Sucher |
Kathy Martin |
| Peter Osborn |
Maureen College |
| Sapna Pieroux |
Paul Howard Lang |
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Paul Kirwan |
| Diplomacy, Politics, Military, Law |
Percival Jolliffe |
| Christine Eborall |
Peter Hounsell |
| Gavin Esler |
Reg Eden |
| Hồ Chí Minh |
Richard Essex |
| Jack Gratus |
Richard Meads |
| John Quincy Adams |
RNG Rowland |
| Neil Kinnock |
Robert Sellers |
| Dick Leonard |
Samuel Short |
| Peter Jay |
Sir Montague Sharpe |
| Sherard Cowper-Coles |
Stephanie Muir |
| Simon Reeve |
Thomas Faulkner |
| Spencer Perceval |
Tom & Averil Harper Smith |
| Stephen Sackur |
William King Baker |
| Terence Burns, Baron Burns |
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| Victoria Williams |
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Music |
| Education, Science & Medicine |
Adam Faith |
| Ada, Countess Lovelace |
Alexis Korner |
| Christmas Humphreys |
Frederick Delius |
| Colin Emmins |
John McVie |
| Dietlinde & Glyn Hatherall |
Mitch Mitchell |
| Dr Ruth MacConville |
Pete Townshend |
| Edith Whetnall |
Phil Collins |
| Eric Scerri |
Phil Swern |
| Geoffrey Burnstock |
Ralph Brookfield |
| George McRobie |
Ralph Downes |
| John Alexander Barbour-James |
Richard Fawkes |
| P. F. Strawson |
Rick Wakeman |
| Professor Celia Roberts |
Simon Napier-Bell |
| Professor Heinz Wolff |
Stuart Grundy |
| Richard Titmuss |
Tasmin Little |
| Rory Cellan-Jones |
Tony Palmer |
| Rupa Huq |
William John Blew |
| Thomas Huxley |
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| Thomas Merton |
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Sport |
| Food & Drink |
Andrew Strauss |
| Hattie Ellis |
Dorothea Lambert Chambers |
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Fred Perry |
| History, Journalism, Memoirs |
Peter Crouch |
| Bettany Hughes |
Simon Wooldridge |
| Caroline Frost |
Ted Dexter |
| Catherine Pepinster |
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| Charles Compton |
Stage, Screen & Radio |
| Chris Patten |
Adrian Turner |
| Dorothy Kerin |
Charlotte Green |
| Dr Robert Wynn Jones |
Elizabeth Sladen |
| Edmund de Rothschild |
Honor Blackman |
| Fatima Ananda Spinola de Abreu |
Janet Street-Porter |
| George Szlachetko |
John Sergeant |
| Gregory Slysz |
Julian Clary |
| Harald J Copenhagen |
Margot Fonteyn |
| Hugh Mather |
Michael Green |
| Jennifer C. Kelsey |
Shappi Khorsandi |
| John Quicke |
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| Kamal Ahmed |
Travel |
| Kevin Clarke |
Derek Pratt |
| Michael Henderson |
Felix Lowe |
| Michele Monro |
Felix Lowe |
| Paul Fitzmaurice |
J J Topping |
| Paul Mathieu |
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| Philip Woods |
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| Piotr Stolarski |
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| Ronald Skirth |
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| Roy Bartlett |
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| Sean Magee |
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| St John Henry Newman |
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| Stanisław Sosabowski |
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| Sue Elliott |
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| Tim Lott |
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| Vanda Foster |
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More reading and sources:
Ealing on Wikipedia
Gunnersbury Park & Museum
English Heritage – Blue Plaques in Ealing
London Remembers/Memorials/W5
