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1017602 - Portrait by John Hedgecoe - Elizabeth Jane Howard is an English novelist. She was born in London on 26 March 1923. She was an actress and a model before becoming a novelist. In 1951, she won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for her first novel, The Beautiful Visit. Six further novels followed, before she embarked on her best known work, a four novel family saga set in wartime England. The Light Years, Marking Time, Confusion, and Casting Off were serialised by BBC television as "The Cazalets". She has also written a book of short stories, Mr Wrong, and edited two anthologies. She married Sir Peter Scott in 1942; they had a daughter, Nicola, then divorced in 1951. A second marriage, to Jim Douglas-Henry in 1958, was brief. Her third marriage to novelist Kingsley Amis lasted from 1965 to 1983. Her autobiography, Slipstream, was published in 2002.
©2006 John Hedgecoe/TopFoto
©2006 John Hedgecoe/Topfoto
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![Portrait by John Hedgecoe - Elizabeth Jane Howard is an English novelist. She was born in London on 26 March 1923. She was an actress and a model before becoming a novelist. In 1951, she won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for her first novel, The Beautiful Visit. Six further novels followed, before she embarked on her best known work, a four novel family saga set in wartime England. The Light Years, Marking Time, Confusion, and Casting Off were serialised by BBC television as "The Cazalets". She has also written a book of short stories, Mr Wrong, and edited two anthologies. She married Sir Peter Scott in 1942; they had a daughter, Nicola, then divorced in 1951. A second marriage, to Jim Douglas-Henry in 1958, was brief. Her third marriage to novelist Kingsley Amis lasted from 1965 to 1983. Her autobiography, Slipstream, was published in 2002.<br>©2006 John Hedgecoe/TopFoto](../images/prevs/1017602.jpg "Portrait by John Hedgecoe - Elizabeth Jane Howard is an English novelist. She was born in London on 26 March 1923. She was an actress and a model before becoming a novelist. In 1951, she won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for her first novel, The Beautiful Visit. Six further novels followed, before she embarked on her best known work, a four novel family saga set in wartime England. The Light Years, Marking Time, Confusion, and Casting Off were serialised by BBC television as "The Cazalets\". She has also written a book of short stories, Mr Wrong, and edited two anthologies. She married Sir Peter Scott in 1942; they had a daughter, Nicola, then divorced in 1951. A second marriage, to Jim Douglas-Henry in 1958, was brief. Her third marriage to novelist Kingsley Amis lasted from 1965 to 1983. Her autobiography, Slipstream, was published in 2002.<br>©2006 John Hedgecoe/TopFoto")