M.R James was a Cambridge don and medieval scholar, but today is remembered mostly for his ghost stories, which reinvented the genre.
Tag: Writer
Poets of Cambridge
Thom Gunn and Siegfried Sassoon were both celebrated queer Cambridge-educated twentieth century poets: Sassoon writing on the horror of war, and Gunn on the horror of AIDS.
Ali Smith
Ali Smith (1962-) is a Scottish author, playwright, academic and journalist, who lives in a cottage in Cambridge with her partner. She has been described as “Scotland’s Nobel laureate in waiting”, with her novels and short stories (many of them dealing with queer themes) earning rave reviews.
A Queer History of Cambridgeshire 