Society of Authors

On 28 September 1883 SWB chaired a meeting from which came the founding of the Society of Authors . From 1868 he served as secretary of the Palestine Exploration Fund . He also helped establish...

She was also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature , and a member of the Society of Authors .

BB set up this group with four other writers including her husband . She said she took this on because she feared that the Society of Authors was mishandling a project which was originally her...

PB is a member of the Society of Authors and of PEN .

She had begun the story in order to amuse her sick brother Boris. Her father encouraged her to prepare her work for publication, and she dedicated the book to him by his initials. She sent...

The commission for this book from Chatto had been spurred by an invitation from Frank Debenham on behalf of the Colonial Office for a book of 100,000 words, for which they would offer £400 and...

This, her most substantial publication, was published by Jonathan Cape . Her choice of this firm greatly bothered her existing publisher, Leonard Woolf , who constantly worried about larger commercial companies luring away successful authors...

She was helped and encouraged in this work by her friend the novelist Walter Lionel George . This and her next novel were written on the dining-room table of her parents' house, with all...

HD contributed to The Author (journal of the Society of Authors ) an article, Cheques for Authors, about being an assessor for the award of prizes.

By about now, says HB , a serial by Oliver Sandys could command two hundred pounds for its first printing, and the book publisher would offer an advance of another two hundred. While she enjoyed...

For this novel she changed her publisher to Collins , who had made her a generous offer a couple of years before. She set out not to hurt the feelings of Harold Raymond of Chatto and Windus

This big book, under its working title of The Keeper of the Gate, was to be the second of two contracted to Flamingo . But after the first book, Lost Children, the head...

FHB 's own dramatization, The Real Little Lord Fauntleroy, was a hit on the the same scale of her original novel, first in London, then for two years in the British provinces, and...

FW was awarded a Society of Authors travelling scholarship.

This same year MMG received an Eric Gregory award. These prizes, given annually by the Society of Authors to encourage young poets under thirty, go to published or unpublished volumes of poetry, drama-poems or belles-lettres...