Writers in a family.

[ravilobo]

I was just wondering about the Famous writers in a family. Nothing comes to my mind, except for – Bronte sisters.

Does any one know, father/son, siblings - famous writers. I know a mom/daughter pair writing Vampire stories. I am really not looking for that kind of examples.

[JBI]

Brownings through marriage. Henry Alice, and William James, The Wordsworths, The Tennysons, though Alfred was the only particularly good one.

[manolia]

Dumas (father and son)

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Also Stephen King, his wife Tabitha and lately i think their son has become an author.

[Tallon]

Kingsley and Martin Amis, both very successful father/son.

[JBI]

Nabokov and son; the the son only publishes translations under his own name, and pen-names the rest.

[stlukesguild]

Nadezhda and Osip Mandelstam (husband and wife)

[mayneverhave]

Percy and Mary Shelley through marriage.

Mary and Charles Lamb - sister and brother.

[Whifflingpin]

Theodora Kroeber, her son Karl Kroeber, her daughter Ursula Kroeber Le Guin.

Conrad Aiken & daughters Joan Aiken & Jane Aiken Hodge

[bazarov]

Leo Tolstoy and Nikolay Tolstoy - Nikolay is his grandson or something like that.

[Whifflingpin]

Benjamin Farjeon
daughter Eleanor Farjeon & sons Joseph Jefferson Farjeon & Herbert Farjeon

Between them, a vast output of novels, short stories, plays & poetry. Maybe, however, the family are more noted for at least six generations, covering more than 2 centuries, of prominence in all aspects of the theatre.

[Tallon]

Theodora Kroeber, her son Karl Kroeber, her daughter Ursula Kroeber Le Guin.

Conrad Aiken & daughters Joan Aiken & Jane Aiken Hodge

Interesting i didn't know Le Guin came from such an esteemed family. She was also in the same year at her highschool as Philip K. Dick.

[Pecksie]

Leo Tolstoy and Nikolay Tolstoy - Nikolay is his grandson or something like that.

And Tolstoy's granddaughter Tatiana Tolstaya as well.

[Pecksie]

The Shelley family - not just Mary and Percy, but Mary's parents William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft were writers.

Several other "literary families" come to mind. Spouses Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath were both poets. Virginia Woolf's father, Sir Leslie Stephen, was a philosopher whose first marriage had been to W. M. Thackeray's daughter.

[The Atheist]

The Huxley family. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huxley_family)

Jaws writer Peter Benchley's grandfather and brother were both authors.




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