(Murray Edwards), Booker Prize winner F. C. Burnand (Trinity) Samuel Butler (St John's) Jez Butterworth (St John's) A. S. Byatt (Newnham), Booker Prize winner John Byrom (Trinity) Robert Chartham (unknown) Erskine Childers (Trinity) Charles Churchill (St John's) Jonathan Coe (Trinity) William Cooper (Christ's) Michael Crichton (unknown) Martin Crimp (St Catharine's) Richard Cumberland (Trinity) Tsitsi Dangarembga (unknown) Seamus Deane (Pembroke) Warwick Deeping (Trinity) Anita Desai (Girton) Colin Dexter (Christ's) Terrance Dicks (Downing) Emma Donoghue (Girton) Dame Margaret Drabble (Newnham) Patricia Duncker (Newnham) Sebastian Faulks (Emmanuel) Julian Fellowes (Magdalene) Ronald Firbank (Trinity Hall) Tibor Fischer (Peterhouse) John Fletcher (Corpus Christi) Giles Foden (Fitzwilliam/St John's) E. M. Forster (King's) Michael Frayn (Emmanuel) William Gerhardie (unknown) David Gibbins (Corpus Christi) Simon Gray (Trinity) Robert Greene (St John's) Susanna Gregory (Wolfson) H–M Lee Hall (Fitzwilliam) Sir David Hare (Jesus) Joanne Harris (St Catharine's) Robert Harris (Selwyn) Philip Hensher (Jesus) G. A. Henty (Caius) Wendy Holden (Girton) Nick Hornby (Jesus) Christopher Isherwood (Corpus Christi) Howard Jacobson (Downing/Selwyn), Booker Prize winner M. R. James (King's) Elizabeth Jenkins (Newnham) Peter Jukes (Queens') Charles Kingsley (Magdalene) Nathaniel Lee (Trinity) Rosamond Lehmann (Girton) C. S. Lewis (Magdalene) Malcolm Lowry (St Catharine's) Gavin Lyall (Pembroke) Richard Maher (Queens') Christopher Marlowe (Corpus Christi) Hisham Matar (Girton) A. D. Miller (unknown) A. A. Milne (Trinity) Nicholas Monsarrat (Trinity) Richard K. Morgan (Queens') Dame Iris Murdoch (Newnham), Booker Prize winner Leo Myers (Trinity) N–Z Vladimir Nabokov (Trinity) Thomas Norton (unknown) Brian O'Doherty (unknown) Maggie O'Farrell (Emmanuel) Joseph O'Neill (Girton) Lawrence Osborne (Fitzwilliam) Helen Oyeyemi (Corpus Christi) Tim Parks (Downing) Philippa Pearce (Girton) Sir Max Pemberton (Caius) Samuel Pepys (Magdalene) Marie Phillips (Robinson) Stephen Poliakoff (King's) John Cowper Powys (Corpus Christi) J. B. Priestley (Trinity Hall) Frederic Raphael (St John's), Academy Award winner Julian Rathbone (Magdalene) Simon Raven (King's) Piers Paul Read (St John's) Amber Reeves (Newnham) Forrest Reid (Christ's) Sir Salman Rushdie (King's), Booker Prize winner Edward Rutherfurd (Caius) Thomas Shadwell (Caius) Anthony Shaffer (Trinity) Sir Peter Shaffer (Trinity), Academy Award winner Tom Sharpe (Pembroke) James Shirley (St Catharine's) Indra Sinha (Pembroke) Ali Smith (Newnham) Zadie Smith (King's) C. P. Snow (Christ's) Wole Soyinka (Churchill), Nobel Prize winner George Steiner (Churchill) Laurence Sterne (Jesus) Nick Stone (unknown) William Sutcliffe (Emmanuel) Graham Swift (Queens'), Booker Prize winner Netta Syrett (Hughes Hall) Tom Taylor (Trinity) William Makepeace Thackeray (Trinity) Marcel Theroux (Clare) Matt Thorne (Sidney Sussex) Frank Tuohy (King's) Alison Uttley (Hughes Hall) Leslie Valiant (king's),