Background
HOWARD, Elizabeth was born on March 26, 1923. Daughter of David Liddon and Katharine M. Howard.
novelist writer autobiographer
HOWARD, Elizabeth was born on March 26, 1923. Daughter of David Liddon and Katharine M. Howard.
London Mask Theatre School.
She had previously been an actress and a model. Six further novels followed, before she embarked on her best known work, The Cazalet Chronicle, a family saga "about the ways in which English life changed during the war years, particularly for women." The first four volumes, The Light Years, Marking Time, Confusion, and Casting Office, were published from 1990-1995 and the fifth, All Change, in 2013. The first two works were serialised by Cinema Verity for British Broadcasting Corporation Television as The Cazalets in 2001.
A British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4 version in 45 episodes was also broadcast from 2012.
Howard wrote the screenplay for the 1989 movie, Getting lieutenant Right, based on her 1982 novel of the same name and directed by Randal Kleiser. She also wrote a book of short stories, Mr.
Wrong (1975), and edited two anthologies. She lived in Bungay, Suffolk and was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2000.
Her autobiography, Slipstream, was published in 2002.
She died, aged 90, at home on 2 January 2014.
Married 1st Peter M. Scott in 1942. Married 2nd James Douglas-Henry in 1959. Married 3rd Kingsley Amis in 1965 (divorced.