Elizabeth Jane Howard CBE FRSL (26 March 1923 – 2 Jan 2014), was an English novelist, author of 15 novels including the best-selling series The Cazalet Chronicles. Howard worked briefly as an actress in provincial repertory and occasionally as a model before her writing career, which began in 1947. The Beautiful Visit (1950), Howard's first novel, was described as "distinctive, self-assured and remarkably sensual", won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1951 for best novel by a writer under 30. She next collaborated with Robert Aickman, writing three of the six short stories in the collection; We Are for the Dark (1951). In 2002 Macmillan published Elizabeth Jane Howard’s autobiography, Slipstream. In that same year she was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honors’ List. Less