Elizabeth Jane Howard CBE FRSL (26 March 1923 – 2 January 2014), was an English novelist.

[3] Howard worked briefly as an actress in provincial repertory and occasionally as a model before her writing career, which began in 1947.

As Artemis Cooper describes it: “Jane had two ideas, and could not decide which to embark on; so she invited her stepson Martin [Amis] round for a drink to ask his advice.

Millions of copies of the Cazalet Chronicle have been sold worldwide, and the novels remain in print ten years after her death.

[1] The Light Years and Marking Time were serialised by Cinema Verity for BBC Television as The Cazalets in 2001.

[1] She wrote a book of short stories, Mr. Wrong (1975), and edited two anthologies, including The Lover's Companion (1978).

[9] A biography, entitled Elizabeth Jane Howard: A Dangerous Innocence by Artemis Cooper, was published by John Murray in 2017.

[12] At the time of her divorce she was employed as part-time secretary to the pioneering canals conservation organisation the Inland Waterways Association.

For part of that time, 1968–1976, they lived at Lemmons, a Georgian house in Barnet, where Howard wrote Something in Disguise (1969).