Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and philosopher. His bibliography spans nearly 50 books, including novels and non-fiction works, as well as essays, narratives, and poems.
Alec John Dawson, generally known as A. J. Dawson was an English author, traveller and novelist. During World War I he attained the rank of Major, and was awarded the MBE and Croix de Guerre in recognition of his work as a military propagandist. Dawson published over thirty books, the one best remembered today probably being the animal adventure story Finn the Wolfhound (1908).
Alexander Gray Ryrie, is a British historian of Protestant Christianity, specializing in the history of England and Scotland in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He was appointed Professor of Divinity at Gresham College in 2018. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2019.
Alexander Raban Waugh was a British novelist, the elder brother of the better-known Evelyn Waugh, uncle of Auberon Waugh and son of Arthur Waugh, author, literary critic and publisher. His first wife was Barbara Jacobs, his second wife was Joan Chirnside and his third wife was Virginia Sorenson, author of the Newbery Medal-winning Miracles on Maple Hill.
Alec Wilkinson is an American writer who has been on the staff of The New Yorker since 1980. According to The Philadelphia Inquirer he is among the "first rank of" contemporary American "literary journalists...(reminiscent) of Naipaul, Norman Mailer and Agee".
Alecu Văcărescu (1769–1798) was a Romanian Wallachian boyar and poet, a member of the Văcărescu family that gave Romanian literature its first poets. In 1796 a collection of his poems appeared in Romania.
