Anna Haycraft is the pen name of author Alice Thomas Ellis (born 1932). She has written cookery books and two novels. She lives in North London and her husband is a publisher.
Her cookery books include All-natural Baby Food (published Fontana/Collins 1977) and Darling, you shouldn't have gone to so much trouble, co-written with Caroline Blackwood.
External links
List of her publications, University of South Carolina website (http://www.cla.sc.edu/engl/LitCheck/ellis.htm)
As AliceThomasEllis, her pen name, she was a critically acclaimed novelist, whose fiction combined a sense of tragedy with fl comedy; she was also columnist for several years of the popular Home Life series in the Spectator, a weekly dispatch featuring domesticity on the edge of chaos.
Thomas Ellis's roots were in Wales, and several of her novels had a Welsh background.
ThomasEllis sold the house in Gloucester Crescent and moved to their second home, a farmhouse in Powys, north Wales, with her cat Basil (named after her old theological adversary, Cardinal Basil Hume).
ThomasEllis - real name Anna Haycraft - wrote more than 20 books altogether, including The 27th Kingdom, which was shortlisted for the 1982 Booker Prize.
ThomasEllis converted to Roman Catholicism in her late teens, and her faith was a powerful influence in her work, which she once described as an attack on the permissiveness of the 1960s.
ThomasEllis is survived by four sons and a daughter.
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