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J.Elle

J.Elle is an African American author and active advocate for marginalized voices in both publishing and her community. She is a well-known support in the #WritingCommunity on Twitter with over 13k+ highly engaged followers.

J.Elle

Noni Jabavu

Noni Jabavu was a South African writer and journalist, and the first black South African woman to publish books of autobiography. At the age of fourteen she came to England in the care of English friends and was educated at the Mount School, York. She was studying music at the Royal Academy when the Second World War started. She then trained as a semi-skilled engineer and oxy-acetylene welder. Later, she became the first African woman to be the editor of a British literary magazine when in 1961 she took on the editorship of The New Strand.

Noni Jabavu

Mitch Jackson

Mitch Jackson was born and raised in Swindon. He is the bestselling author of twelve novels, as well as the 2015 memoir Boots on the Ground. He is a trustee of the National Literary Trust and a tireless campaigner for better access and diversity in the arts.

Mitch Jackson

Mark de Jager

Mark de Jager isn't sure if his love of writing led to his love of gaming or vice versa, but his earliest memories involve both. He now spends his time trying to find a balance between these and working a full time job in the City, a process made slightly easier by his coffee addiction. An ex-MP in the South African army, Mark now lives in Kent with his wife Liz (herself a published author) and their lazy dog in a house that is equal parts library and home.

Mark de Jager

Elis James

Elis James is a radio presenter, writer, actor and comedian. In 2020 his Radio 5Live show with John Robins won the Gold Award for Funniest Show at the Aria Awards. Their podcast How Do You Cope? won UK podcast of the year at 2021's Broadcasting Guild Awards.

Elis James

Lawrence James

Lawrence James writes history for the general reader. He is the author of The Savage Wars: British Campaigns in Africa, 1870-1920, The Golden Warrior: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia, and, most recently, Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India. He lives in St Andrews where he is a part-time tutor at the University.

Lawrence James

Gerald G. Jampolsky

Gerald Jampolsky and Diane Cirincione are married and live in Hawaii and Northern California. They are both on the Advisory Board of the International Center for Attitudinal Healing as well as serving on the faculty of the University of Hawaii's John A. Burns School of Medicine, Department of Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Singly or together they have written Love Is Letting Go of Fear; Change Your Mind, Change Your Life; Forgiveness: The Greatest Healer of All; Love Is the Answer; and a dozen other books, published in more than 30 languages.

Gerald G. Jampolsky

Nadine Jane

Nadine Jane is an expert astrologer with a background as a digital designer who makes astrology accessible, relatable and beautiful. She has long sought out the mysteries and magic tucked into every corner of our lives and uses her work to share the tools of self-discovery and self-knowledge that her astrology practice has given her. As one of the internet's leading astrologers, she has collaborated with popular brands such as Mejuri and Glossier and she has been featured in Elle and on MTV. She can be found online nadinejaneastrology.com and on Instagram @nadinejane_astrology.

Nadine Jane

Hanna Jansen

Hanna Jansen wrote this book based on the real life experiences of her adopted daughter, Jeanne, who survived the Rwandan genocide in 1994. Hanna and Jeanne live in Siegburg, Germany, with Hanna's husband and the couple's twelve other children, most of whom are war orphans. Elizabeth Crawford's translations have earned many honours, including the Mildred L. Batchelor Award for outstanding translation of a children's book.

Hanna Jansen

Cassandra Jardine

Cassandra Jardine is a very successful Daily Telegraph features journalist who has been writing about parenting for over ten years. She has 5 children, aged from 6 to 15, and lives with her family in Brixton, London.

Cassandra Jardine

Julia Jarman

Julia Jarman has written over 80 books for children. She lives near Bedford with her husband and has three grown-up children. She has been a school teacher and journalist but she now devotes a lot of time to school and library visits to talk to children about writing.

Julia Jarman

Robin Jarvis

Susan Cooper (Author) Susan Cooper is a world-renowned author of children's books. Born and brought up in England, she worked as a journalist before moving to America, where she now lives. Her classic The Dark Is Rising sequence has won the Newbery Medal and was twice shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. Her Boggart titles have won the Scottish Arts Council Children's Book Award and been shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and the Smarties Prize. King of Shadows was also shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. As well as writing novels, Susan Cooper has written for the theatre and for television. Her website is at www.thelostland.com and her Facebook is at www.facebook.com/SusanCooperFanPage. Joseph Delaney (Author) Joseph Delaney used to be an English teacher, before becoming the best-selling author of the Spook's series, which has been published in 24 countries. The first book, The Spook's Apprentice, was turned into a major motion picture in 2015. Berlie Doherty (Author) Berlie Doherty began writing for children in 1983, after teaching and working in radio. She has written more than 35 books for children, as well as for the theatre, radio and television. Berlie has won the Carnegie Medal twice: in 1987 for GRANNY WAS A BUFFER GIRL and in 1992 for DEAR NOBODY. She has also won the Writer's Guild Children's Fiction Award for DAUGHTER OF THE SEA. Her work is published all over the world, and many of her books have been televised. Jamila Gavin (Author) Jamila’s first book, The Magic Orange Tree, was published in 1979 and she has since been writing steadily, producing critically acclaimed novels and collections of short stories. She has been shortlisted for many of the major children’s book awards, including the Smarties Award and the Guardian Award. Coram Boy won the Children’s Whitbread Award and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, before being adapted for the stage. The Wheel of Surya, part one of the Surya trilogy, was runner up for the Guardian Children's Fiction Award, and the other two titles were also shortlisted. Matt Haig (Author) Matt Haig's first novel for young readers, Shadow Forest, won the Blue Peter Book of the Year Award and the Gold Smarties Award. He is also the author of various adult novels, including the bestsellers The Last Family in England, The Radleys and The Humans. Reviewers have called his writing 'totally engrossing', 'touching, quirky and macabre' and 'so surprising and strange that it vaults into a realm all of its own'. His books have been translated into 25 languages. He lives in York. Eleanor Updale (Author) Eleanor Updale has been writing books since the turn of the century. Before that she worked in radio and television: mainly on news programmes including The World at One and Newsnight. Eleanor's 'Montmorency' series has won awards on both sides of the Atlantic, and Johnny Swanson was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal, shortlisted for the UKLA Book Awards and won the Fantastic Book Award. You can find out more at www.eleanorupdale.com

Robin Jarvis

Henry Jeffreys

Henry Jeffreys was born in London in 1977. After graduating from the University of Leeds, where he studied English and Classical Literature, heworked in the wine trade for two years before moving into publishing. In 2010 he started a blog about wine called Henry’s World of Booze. Following its success, he was made wine columnist for The Lady, as well as a regular contributor to The Spectator, the Guardian and The Oldie on booze and other matters. He was shortlisted for Drink Writer of the Year at the 2014 Fortnum & Mason Awards, and in 2017 he won Best Debut Drink Book for Empire of Booze. He lives in Blackheath, south London with his wife and daughter.

Henry Jeffreys

Susie Jenkin-Pearce

Angela McAllister is an established picture book author of over 50 books. She was born in Windsor but has lived all over the south of England. She studied philosophy and worked as a nanny in Holland, Portugal, Windsor and London. It was her work with children that first inspired her to begin writing children's books. Angela lives with her husband in Hampshire.

Susie Jenkin-Pearce

Alex Jenkins

Alex Jenkins has worked in offices around London for the last ten years and has not yet overthrown top-level management. His weakness is taking on too much work. In five years time he sees himself sat where you are now. Stephen Morrison is a comedy scriptwriter for both television and radio. He has worked in a number of London offices where his main job was receptionist. His weaknesses are poor timekeeping and the hornpipe.

Alex Jenkins

Jedidiah Jenkins

Jedidiah Jenkins is a New York Times bestselling author, entrepreneur and Instagram personality. Jenkins began his professional career with the non-profit Invisible Children, where he helped orchestrate multinational campaigns to end the use of child soldiers in central Africa. He is the executive editor of Wilderness magazine; Jenkins's work has appeared in the Paris Review and Good magazine, and he has been covered by National Geographic.

Jedidiah Jenkins

Kerensa Jennings

Kerensa is Director, Office of HRH The Duke of York, KG. She runs The Duke of York Inspiring Digital Enterprise Award (iDEA) which is part of The Prince Andrew Charitable Trust. She is also very proud to be Visiting Professor of Media, Strategy and Communications at the award-winning University of Huddersfield.

Kerensa Jennings

Taige Jensen

Ryan Hunter and Taige Jensen write and direct comedy for MTV, College Humor, Freemantle Media, Slate, Current TV, EUE Screen Gemes, Next New Networks, MyDamnChannel and Huffington Post Comedy/AOL. Their online channel POYKPAC has had 60 million views on Youtube and their video 'Hipster Olympics' received nearly 3 million hits. On average more than 2 million people a month visit their channel.

Taige Jensen

Christian Jessen

Dr Christian Jessen is a 29-year-old GP. On top of his day job, he's also a regular contributor to FHM, Arena, the Daily Mail and the Daily Express and has appeared on numerous TV programmes including Doctor, Doctor and Embarrassing Illnesses.

Christian Jessen

Joanne Trautmann Banks

Virginia Woolf was born in London in 1882. In 1904 Virginia and her sister, the painter Vanessa Bell, moved to Bloomsbury and became the centre of 'The Bloomsbury Group'. This informal collective of artists and writers which included Lytton Strachey and Roger Fry, exerted a powerful influence over early twentieth-century British culture. In 1912 Virginia married Leonard Woolf. Her first novel The Voyage Out was published in 1915, followed by Night and Day (1919) and Jacob's Room (1922). It was during this time that she and Leonard Woolf founded The Hogarth Press. The majority of Virginia Woolf's work was first published by The Hogarth Press, and these original texts are now available, together with her selected letters and diaries, from Vintage Classics, which belongs to the publishing group that Hogarth became part of in 1987. Between 1925 and 1931 Virginia Woolf produced what are now regarded as her finest masterpieces, from Mrs Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927) to the poetic and highly experimental novel The Waves (1931). She also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, short fiction, journalism and biography, including the playfully subversive Orlando (1928) and A Room of One's Own (1929) a passionate feminist essay. On 28 March 1941, a few months before the publication of her final novel, Between the Acts, Virginia Woolf committed suicide.

Joanne Trautmann Banks

Harriet McBryde Johnson

Harriet McBryde Johnson went to schools for children with disabilities until age thirteen and to a cross-disability summer camp until age seventeen. She kept in contact with some of her friends from those times throughout her life. Having continued her education in regular schools, she became a lawyer in 1985. Ms. Johnson wrote for the New York Times Magazine and was a frequent contributor to the disability press. She was also the author of a memoir, Too Late to Die Young. Harriet died in June 2008.

Harriet McBryde Johnson

Tim Johnson

Alan Curtis was born in Rhondda, Wales, in 1954 and played for Swansea City, Leeds United, Southampton, Cardiff City and Wales during his 18-year playing career. He is currently a coach at Swansea City.

Tim Johnson

Norman Johnson

Norman Johnson was born in Merseyside in 1933 and now lives quietly in Stafford, close to his daughters and grandchildren. Michael O'Rourke was born in 1955. He has been a close friend of Norman Johnson's for over 20 years and lives in Yarnfield.

Norman Johnson

Ron Johnson

The author Ron Johnson is an independent management consultant specializing in corporate strategy and the management of change.

Ron Johnson

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