Elizabeth Bowen

Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen (1899–1973) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer, best known for her novels depicting the "Big House" of Irish landed Protestants and life in wartime London, including The Last September, The House in Paris, The Death of the Heart, The Heat of the Day, and Eva Trout, or Changing Scenes. She was appointed CBE in 1948, nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1958, and her final novel Eva Trout won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1969.