- Tessa Hadley
- John Haffenden FBA
- William Hague MP
- John Halperin
- Georgina Hammick
- Christopher Hampton CBE
- Barbara Hardy FBA
- Sir David Hare
- Claire Harman
- Richard Harries (The Rt Rev Lord Harries of Pentregarth)
- Robert Harris
- Wilson Harris
- Tony Harrison
- David Harsent
- Sir Ronald Harwood CBE, Vice-President
- Sir Max Hastings
- Lady Selina Hastings
- Roy Hattersley (Lord Hattersley)
- Cameron Hazlehurst
- Shirley Hazzard
- Tim Heald
- Denis Healey (Lord Healey CH MBE)
- Philip Hensher
- Dominic Hibberd
- Sir Geoffrey Hill
- Reginald Hill
- Rosemary Hill
- Tobias Hill
- Bevis Hillier
- Tim Hilton
- Barry Hines
- Eric Hobsbawm CH FBA
- Mary Hocking
- Eva Hoffman
- Richard Hoggart
- Ursula Holden
- Alan Hollinghurst
- Richard Holmes OBE FBA
- Sir Michael Holroyd CBE C Lit FRHistS, President
- Park Honan
- Hugh Honour FBA
- Christopher Hope
- Nick Hornby
- Sir Alistair Horne CBE
- Elizabeth Jane Howard CBE
- Philip Howard
- Kathryn Hughes FRHistS
- Shirley Hughes OBE
- Lucy Hughes-Hallett
- Roland Huntford
- Aamer Hussein
- Angela Huth
- Samuel Hynes
Jennifer Johnston – Year of election 2009
Jennifer Johnston is an Irish writer – Ireland, she has said, is her
“main theme” – and the author of more than a dozen novels. The daughter
of a writer and an actress, she only started writing at the age of 35.
“I just woke up one morning,” she said, “and thought, ‘I must do
something with my life.’ ” Her first novel, The Captains and the Kings, published in 1972, won the Author's Club First Novel Award, and The Old Jest
(1979) took the Whitbread Novel Award. Five years ago Roddy Doyle
caused outrage at a Joyce gathering in New York when he said that Ulysses needed a good editor and that James Joyce was not the best Irish writer – that title was Jennifer Johnston's.
“She has created a world of her own,” Derek Mahon has written. “Of such material is the finest literature made.”