Howard, Elizabeth Jane

Born March 26, 1923 in the county of Suffolk , East of England . In her youth she was an actress, and during the war years she worked for the BBC . She started writing in the 1950s.

In 1951 she received her first literary prize for the novel The Beautiful Visit , published in 1950. Elizabeth wrote six more novels before she began her most famous work, The Chronicle of the Casalet Family (a saga about the life of one family in wartime in England). The first four novels were published from 1990 to 1995. The fifth book of the series “Everything is Changing” was published in the fall of 2013 ^[2] . The novels were filmed and formed the basis of BBC radio performances.

In 1989, she wrote the script for the film “ Everything Is Worth It, ” directed by Randall Kleiser .

Howard also authored the storybook Mr. Wrong , a film and television script editor of three anthologies (The Lover's Companion (1978), Green Shades (1991) and Marriage: An Anthology (1997)). In 2002, she released her autobiography Slipstream. In 2000 she was awarded the Order of the British Empire . ^[3] Elizabeth Jane Howard's books have been translated into many languages ​​and have been distributed in millions of copies.

In recent years, Elizabeth Howard has lived in Bangui, Suffolk , and has not stopped working, claiming that this is the only thing that makes her "wake up and get out of bed every morning" ^[4] . She died, at the age of 90 after a short illness, at home on January 2, 2014 ^[5] .

Elizabeth Howard in her youth was famous for her beauty, was married three times. The first time was after Sir Peter Scott , the son of the famous polar explorer Robert Scott , they had a daughter, Nikola (born 1943), divorced in 1951 ^[6] . Peter Scott later co-founded the WWF .

After the divorce, she worked part-time as a secretary of an environmental organization, where she met with Robert Eyckman , with whom she collaborated on a storybook We Are for the Dark . Her second marriage to Jim Douglas-Henry, concluded in 1958, was short. The last time she married - for the writer Kingsley Amis , divorced in 1983. How, it is believed, it was Howard who pushed his stepson, Martin , to begin his career as a writer.

• The Beautiful Visit. 1950. (John Llewellyn Rhys Prize)
• We Are for the Dark: Six Ghost Stories. 1951. (co-authored by Robert Aikman )
• The Long View. 1956.
• The Sea Change. 1959.
• After julius 1965.
• Something in Disguise. 1969.
• Odd Girl Out. 1972.
• Mr. Wrong. 1975.
• Getting It Right. 1982.
• The Light Years. / Carefree years. 1990.
• Marking Time. / Frozen time. 1991.
• Confusion / Confusion. 1993.
• Casting Off. 1995.
• Falling 1999.
• Slipstream 2002.
• Three Miles Up and Other Strange Stories.
• Love all. 2008.
• All change. 2013.

• Elizabeth Jane Howard at the Internet Movie Database