Mark Austin
Mark Austin was a one time editor of the Bournemouth Echo and is now a television newsreader for […]
Authors
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Here you can find details of Authors, Journalists and other people known for their creative writing who have a connection to Bournemouth or the surrounding area.
The list includes well known figures like J.R.R Tolkein, Robert Louis Stephenson and more, all of which were either born in the Bournemouth area, lived there or died there.
James Audain
James Guy Payne Audain was born 8th July 1903 in Bournemouth. He was the son of Colonel Guy […]
J.R.R. Tolkein
Hands up anyone who has never heard of J.R.R. Tolkien? All hands down as I imagined, and of […]
Flora Thompson
Flora Thompson who is best known for her trilogy Lark Rise To Candleford lived in the Bournemouth suburb […]
Adrian Havill
Adrian Havill was born in Bournemouth in 1946. After being educated in Canada and the United States he […]
Vera Chapman
Vera Chapman was born in Bournemouth in 1898 and went on to found the first Tolkein Society, within […]
Asia Booth Clarke
Asia Booth Clarke was the sister of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth, and was born in Maryland […]