Sybille Bedford (1911-2006) was encouraged by Aldous Huxley to write fiction at the age of sixteen and went on to publish four novels, all influenced by her itinerant childhood among the European aristocracy. She was a prolific travel writer, the author of a two-volume biography of her friend Huxley, and a legal journalist, covering nearly one hundred trials. In 1981 she was awarded the Order of the British Empire.
