Alice Thomas Ellis Quotes

Anna Haycraft was a British writer and essayist who wrote under the nom de plume Alice Thomas Ellis. She was the author of numerous novels, and also of some non-fiction, including cookery books. Born Anna Margaret Lindholm, she was half-Finnish, half-Welsh and spent part of her childhood as an evacuee in North Wales, a period she later wrote about in A Welsh Childhood. She later moved to North London. She was elected in 1999 a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Haycraft survived a bout of lung cancer but died a year later after secondary complications at age 72, in 2005.