Elizabeth Jane Howard, CBE, is an English novelist having previously been an actress and a model. She wrote seven novels (starting with The Beautiful Visit which won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1951) before publishing the first of her best known work - a four-part family drama set in wartime England. The books (The Light Years, Marking Time, Confusion and Casting Off) have been dramatized for the BBC as The Cazalets.
Between 1959 and 1961, Elizabeth Jane Howard was the book reviewer for Queen magazine. This collection of her reviews from the magazine provides a fascinating snapshot of the literary scene during those years.
The final book in the Cazelet Chronicles is All Change, published in 2013. Howard has also written a book of short stories, and her acclaimed autobiography Slipstream was published in 2002.
Elizabeth Jane Howard lives in Bungay, Suffolk and was awarded a CBE in 2000.