Mark Austin was a one time editor of the Bournemouth Echo and is now a television newsreader for ITN. As a reporter Mark has covered the handover of Hong Kong to China, the election of Nelson Mandela, and presented the first series of Survivor in the UK. More Information About […]
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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 Guy Payne Audain was born 8th July 1903 in Bournemouth. He was the son of Colonel Guy Mortimer Audain, originally from Ireland, who served in the Army in India in the Hyderabad Contingent of the Indian army. His mother, Sarah Byrd Dunsmuir, was daughter of former B.C. Premier and […]
Hands up anyone who has never heard of J.R.R. Tolkien? All hands down as I imagined, and of course practically everyone knows the author of The Hobbit and Lord Of The Rings, especially with the recent film adaptations of these amazing books about Middle Earth. Tolkien came to Bournemouth on […]
Flora Thompson who is best known for her trilogy Lark Rise To Candleford lived in the Bournemouth suburb of Winton from 1903 until a few months after her brother was killed in Belgium in 1916, when they moved to Liphook in Hampshire and where the Lark Rise books were later […]
Adrian Havill was born in Bournemouth in 1946. After being educated in Canada and the United States he served for four years as a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division, following which he gained his American Citizenship in 1961. In 1962 Adrian began writing for the U.S. News & World […]
Vera Chapman was born in Bournemouth in 1898 and went on to found the first Tolkein Society, within which she was often referred to as Belladonna Took. She was one of the first women to qualify as a full member of Oxford University, and persuaded Tolkein to make her the […]
Asia Booth Clarke was the sister of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth, and was born in Maryland in 1835. She married John Sleeper Clarke and had 8 children, 2 of whom became actors. Following the assasination of Abraham Lincoln, the family moved to England, and Asia died in Bournemouth […]