Mar
3
2010
Modern English Writers
During the 1970’s and early 1980’s, such writers as Greene, Lessing and Le Carre continued to produce important novels. New writers also appeared D. M. Thomas blended fiction with actual events and famous people in The White Hotel (1981).
John Fowles combined adventure and mystery in such novels as The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1969), Muriel Spark’s novels, such as The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) and The Only Problem (1984), are often comic but with disturbing undertones.
Perhaps the three leading English writers are graham Greene, Iris Murdoch and Agatha Christie, that is read and loved not only in her native country.