And like the characters in her best-selling Harry Potter series, British writer Rowling possesses magical powers.
The British writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle dubbed this place "The Lost World".
An Education was brought to the big screen by celebrated British writer Nick Hornby, who has been named in the adapted screenplay category.
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The term itself was supposedly coined by a British writer in 1994 and copped by ad agency Euro RSCG Worldwide in a recent report on men.
The young British writer and director Christopher Nolan, who has every intention of putting us through the mill, doubles his fun by running the whole story backward.
Allen said he had admired the work of Gertrude Bell, the British writer and archeologist who was partly responsible for the creation of modern Iraq in the 1920s.
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Mr. Ahmadinejad was asked at the breakfast whether the Islamic Republic had formally lifted a 1980s religious decree that called for the death of the British writer Salman Rushdie, who wrote a novel that Muslim leaders considered anti-Islamic.
"Brutal and declamatory, these brooding and disquieting pictures have been created from the sorting and classification by subject of nearly 4, 000 newspaper headline posters, stolen by the artists over a number of years, " wrote Michael Bracewell, a British writer and novelist, in the show's catalogue.
The Los Angeles Times reports today on six memos provided by a British defense writer.
For best-selling British crime writer Peter James, it's not an academic question.
This history of Pomerol is entertainingly recorded in British wine writer Neal Martin's new book "Pomerol, " released in December by Wine Journal Publishing.
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Compared with America, where bail bondsmen, bounty hunters and licensed private dicks all make plausible heroes, the choices for a British crime writer are limited.
This, says Toby Lichtig, a British Jewish writer on the subject, was probably what caused the practice to spread to non-Jews in Britain and America.
But, suggests one British turf writer, the success of other higher-profile athletes may be one of the factors working against Camelot as a British sporting poster boy.
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For a comprehensive yet eminently comprehensible account of how cosmologists pieced together the history of the universe, turn to the latest book by Simon Singh, a British science writer best known for his bestselling account of the solution of Fermat's last theorem.
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Davies also received the backing of openly gay British actor, writer and television presenter Stephen Fry.
The UK's Christopher Nolan is also nominated in this category for Inception, as is David Seidler - the British-American writer of The King's Speech.
He is a regular writer for "British Journalism Review" on the relations between politics and the media.
Mr Ahsan, a British-born poet and writer, denies being involved in terrorist activity.
Irna Qureshi, a writer specialising in British-Asian arts and culture, explains why British-born Asians are taking a gamble on Bollywood.
As a British, Catholic, gay writer with HIV who has morphed from a conservative intellectual to an Obama-boosting intellectual, Sullivan crosses lots of lines and has an unusually passionate following.
As editor of a British publishing house Heinemann's African Writer Series, he edited, published and promoted early entrants into Africa's pantheon of writers: Kenya's Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Ghana's Ayi Kwei Armah, Cameroon's Mongo Beti.
Since he graduated from Oxford in 1977, he has been a painter, an arts editor for British Vogue, an architect, a writer, a curator for, among other institutions, the Metropolitan Museum, a creative right hand to the photographer Mario Testino and an award-winning scenographer, costumer and, now, director.
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This year, the festival will host internationally-renowned authors such as Booker Prize-winner Ben Okri, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Kumonyakaa, British Book Award-winner Hari Kunzru, Moroccan writer Abdelkader Benali, famed poet Beth Lisick and travel writer Peter Moore.
At the same time, the Dean of Westminster, Arthur Stanley, was searching for a famous writer to boost the standing of Westminster Abbey in British life, and Dickens was seen as the ideal candidate to be laid to rest in Poets' Corner.
The writer and philosopher said the cliffs were the first sight of the British mainland seen by his Italian immigrant father who came to the country in the 1960s.
One was with Testino, the other with photographer Tessa Traeger, who was regarded as British Vogue's Irving Penn for the still lifes she created for food writer Arabella Boxer's pages.
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The opposition can be found in a series of missives published in a blog affiliated with the British Medical Journal (a publication where I previously served as a medical staff writer).
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The white cliffs of Dover are to get their own writer-in-residence who has been commissioned to explore their impact on British identity.
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