Gotfryd, Bernard, photographer · Public domain

The only person to have won both a Booker Prize and an Academy Award, the Oscars coming from decades of screenwriting for Merchant Ivory Productions alongside director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant. Born in Germany and raised in England, she moved to New Delhi after marrying Indian architect Cyrus Jhabvala in 1951, and began writing novels and stories set in India before turning to screenwriting. She wrote a dozen novels, 23 screenplays and eight collections of short stories over her career.