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
Christopher Ager
Art & Design
Cyril Neaves
David Holmes
David & Amanda Knights
Eric Ravilious
Dennis Upton
Robin Hamlyn
Duncan Cameron
Torin Douglas
Edith Jackson
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
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
Victoria Williams
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
Thomas Merton
Sport
Food & Drink
Andrew Strauss
Hattie Ellis
Dorothea Lambert Chambers
Fred Perry
History, Journalism, Memoirs
Peter Crouch
Bettany Hughes
Simon Wooldridge
Caroline Frost
Ted Dexter
Catherine Pepinster
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
Kamal Ahmed
Travel
Kevin Clarke
Derek Pratt
Michael Henderson
Felix Lowe
Michele Monro
Felix Lowe
Paul Fitzmaurice
J J Topping
Paul Mathieu
Philip Woods
Piotr Stolarski
Ronald Skirth
Roy Bartlett
Sean Magee
St John Henry Newman
Stanisław Sosabowski
Sue Elliott
Tim Lott
Vanda Foster
More reading and sources:
Ealing on Wikipedia
Gunnersbury Park & Museum
English Heritage – Blue Plaques in Ealing
London Remembers/Memorials/W5