Elizabeth Jane Howard

Elizabeth Jane Howard, FRSL, CBE, was one of the most popular novelist from England, who used to write her books based on the fiction and nonfiction genres. Before taking up writing as a career, she had worked as an actor and a model. Author Howard was born on March 26, 1923 in London, England, The United Kingdom. At the age of 19, she married her first husband named Peter Scott in the year 1942. Their daughter named Nicola was born in the following year. In the next couple of years, things were not going well between author Howard and Peter Scott. Therefore, she left him and eventually got divorced in the year 1951. During this time, Howard had started working as a part time secretary for the canals conservation group call the Inland Waterways Association. While working there, she came across Robert Aickman, with whom she went on to collaborate in the future for writing the short story collection titled We Are for the Dark. In her autobiography called Slipstream, published in the year 2002, author Howard has described the short affair that she had with Robert Aickman. The second marriage of author Howard, with Jim Douglas Henry, was very brief. Following this, she met and married for the third time with the reputed novelist named Sir Kingsley Amis. They met with each other while helping in organizing the Cheltenham Literary Festival. This marriage lasted between the years 1965 and 1983. For most part of this marriage, author Howard and Kingsley Amis used to live at Lemmons, which is a Georgian house located in Barnet. While staying there, author Howard wrote one of her novels titled Something in Disguise, which was later published in the year 1969. The stepson of author Howard, named Martin Amis, has given her the credit to encourage him and enabling him to turn into a more serious writer and reader. During the last stages of her life, author Howard used to live in Bungay Suffolk, England. In the year 2000, she was appointed as the CBE.