Alice Thomas Ellis

Who was Alice Thomas Ellis?

Alice Thomas Ellis was a British writer and essayist. She was the author of numerous novels, and also of some non-fiction, including cookery books. Although her married name was Alice Haycraft, she is best known by her nom-de-plume.

Ellis 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.