- 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
Nicholas Rankin – Year of election 2009
Nicholas Rankin first learned to read in Kenya during Mau-Mau, and says he has been sheltering in books ever since. His first book, Dead Man’s Chest (1987), following Robert Louis Stevenson from Scotland to Samoa, told how he read Stevenson’s Fables aloud to Jorge Luis Borges; Graham Greene called it “a most enjoyable travel book”. Rankin worked for 20 years at BBC World Service, ending up as Chief Producer (Arts), and made radio features on writers from Honoré de Balzac and Miguel de Cervantes to Vladimir Nabokov and George Orwell. His second book, Telegram from Guernica, was a biography of the neglected war correspondent George Lowther Steer.
His most recent work, Churchill’s Wizards: the British genius for deception 1914-1945, published in 2008, is a study of writers and artists at war. Writing in The Daily Telegraph, Michael Bywater called it “a book of marvellous yarns”.