Books and papers of writers associated with California and Los Angeles include those writers who helped to create as well as comment on the culture of twentieth-century Los Angeles: bookman and librarian Lawrence Clark Powell and journalists and writers Remi A. Nadeau, Paul Jordan Smith, Lee Shippey, and Matt Weinstock.
British novelist who wrote eight short novels, partly inspired by the London aesthetes of the 1890s, especially Oscar Wilde, that consist largely of dialogue, with references to religion, social-climbing, and sexuality.
British novelist, essayist, and social and literary critic. His fame rests largely on his novels Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924) and on a large body of criticism.
English novelist and playwright. Notable works include The Forsyte Saga (1906–1921) and its sequels, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932.