E.M. Delafield (1890–1943) was an English novelist and diarist. She was born Edmée Elizabeth Monica de la Pasture in London, the daughter of a French father and an English mother. She was educated at home and at a convent school in France. Delafield wrote over twenty novels, including The Diary of a Provincial Lady (1930), which was adapted for television in the 1980s. She also wrote several volumes of diaries, including The War Workers (1941), which documented her experiences during World War II. Her other works include The Way Things Are (1935), The Heel of Achilles (1937), and The Way We Live Now (1939). Delafield was a member of the Bloomsbury Group and was friends with Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West. She was married to the writer and publisher Edward Delafield, with whom she had two sons. She died in 1943 at the age of 53.
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