Elizabeth Jane Howard

Elizabeth Jane Howard, CBE, FRSL (26 March 1923 – 2 January 2014), was an English novelist. She had previously been an actress and a model.

Career

In 1951, she won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for her first novel, The Beautiful Visit (1950). Six further novels followed, before she embarked on her best known work, The Cazalet Chronicle, a family saga "about the ways in which English life changed during the war years, particularly for women." The first four volumes, The Light Years, Marking Time, Confusion, and Casting Off, were published from 1990-1995 and the fifth, All Change, in 2013.

The first two works were serialised by Cinema Verity for BBC Television as The Cazalets in 2001. A BBC Radio 4 version in 45 episodes was also broadcast from 2012.

Howard wrote the screenplay for the 1989 movie, Getting It Right, based on her 1982 novel of the same name and directed by Randal Kleiser.

She also wrote a book of short stories, Mr. Wrong (1975), and edited two anthologies.

Personal life