Name a forgotten writer you think should be revived

[Flaxbee]

8. Barbara Pym. Deserves much more attention than she's had.

Excellent Women
Some Tame Gazelle
Jane and Prudence
No Fond Return of Love

... and others. Fantastic writer, wry and humorous.

From wikipedia:
Barbara Mary Crampton Pym (2 June 1913 – 11 January 1980) was an English novelist. In the 1950s she wrote a series of social comedies, of which the best known are Excellent Women (1952) and A Glass of Blessings (1958). In 1977 her career was revived when the biographer David Cecil and the poet Philip Larkin both nominated her as the most underrated writer of the century. Her novel Quartet in Autumn (1977) was nominated for the Booker Prize that year, and she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Pym