V S Pritchett

The Blue Plaque simply calls V S Pritchett a "writer" because he excelled in so many genres of writing.

Arguably the finest English short story writer of his time, he also published novels, travel books, literary criticism, reviews and an absorbing autobiography, "A Cab at the Door". In this he tells of his father, lodging with his wife over the toyshop at the address when Victor was born on 16 December 1900.

Pritchett was knighted in 1975 and was made Companion of Honour in 1993.

He died in 1997. The plaque records him as "V S Pritchett", rather than "Sir Victor Pritchett, CH", because that is how he signed himself as a writer and is known to all his readers.

Among the first tranche of blue plaques, this was unveiled in 2001.