Karen Blixen, Axel Munthe come to mind. Successful and admired, if not Nobel Laureates. Raymond Chandler, epitome of America, was English. P.G.Wodehouse lived mostly in America, I believe. Created an English world, but not as we know it, Jim. R.L.Stevenson.

 

Charles

 

 

( Nabokov’s private tragedy and a call for suggestions; July 6, 2010 by Alina Muller) "I have started to compile a themed reading list for my summer reading. The theme is ‘works by authors who have spent a relatively big part of their lives living in a different country’. This would include both authors who spent only part of their lives abroad, like Julio Cortázar, and those who spent most of their lives in a different country, like James Joyce. It would also include authors that lived abroad but wrote in their first language, again like Julio Cortázar, or that lived abroad and wrote in the language of their new home country, like Herta Muller, Vladimir Nabokov and Joseph Conrad. The theme of the books doesn’t have to be the immigrant experience. I am more curious about finding out if these authors have something in common that could potentially be attributed to their shared experience as migrants, or  if they don’t at all. I would appreciate your suggestions! "