- 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
Sarah Waters – Year of election 2009
Sarah Waters’s first novel, Tipping the Velvet, published in 1998 when she was 32, was a Victorian “romp” of which The Independent on Sunday
asked, “Could this be a new genre? The bawdy lesbian picaresque novel?”
It won a Betty Trask Award and was serialised on BBC television in
2002. Her novels since have been Affinity, which won a Somerset Maugham Award and was also adapted for television, Fingersmith, again adapted, and winner of the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger and the South Bank Show Award for Literature, The Night Watch and The Little Stranger. In 2003 she was named one of Granta’s 20 Best of Young British Novelists.
Waters,
who lives in south London, finds city-living, she says, “a constant
source of inspiration. I love the fact that the layers of London's
history are still so visible on its streets. I love the crowdedness of
London. It’s a place full of stories; and stories – and how best to
tell them – are what really interest me as a writer.”