A chosen 24 from our endless authors, who I have listed who have had their books adapted into TV or Films. And not all their works are included, as my aim with this website is to put their Names out there to be read by everyone. No pun intended ;)
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein. Inventor of the famous fictional creature, although Victor Frankenstein is actually the name of the man who created the Monster, the Monster doesn’t have a name
Charles Dickens
Considered the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works include The Pickwick Papers, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, and A Christmas Carol, the famous fictional Christmas story that gave the world the name synonymous with somebody unpleasant and ungenerous; the miser character "Scrooge" - Ebenezer Scrooge
Nick Hornby
High Fidelity, About a Boy
Beatrix Potter
Peter Rabbit
A.A. Milne
Winnie-the-Pooh
Lewis Carroll
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (adapted in films as Alice in Wonderland)
Rudyard Kipling
The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King
Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe
H.G. Wells
The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man
J.R.R Tolkien
The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings
Richard Adams
Watership Down
Mary Norton
Bonfires and Broomsticks (which became Walt Disney's Bedknobs and Broomsticks)
Enid Blyton
Noddy, The Famous Five
Anna Sewell
Black Beauty
Agatha Christie
And Then There Were None, Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile (the fictional characters Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple from her books also became signature titles in TV dramas and films)
Raymond Briggs
The Snowman. An animated short film shown every Christmas on TV. The theme song was actually sung by Peter Auty and not by Welsh boy Aled Jones, it was only sung by Jones when it was recorded for music chart release
J.G Ballard
Empire of the Sun
Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park
D.H.Lawrence
Women in Love, Lady Chatterley's Lover
Angela Carter
The Company of Wolves
Nina Bawden
The Witch's Daughter, Carrie's War
John Boland
The League of Gentlemen
Michael Bond
Paddington Bear
Terry Pratchett
Discworld novels, a series of fantasy books adapted for TV, such as Hogworld, The Colour of Magic, and Wyrd Sisters
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