List of historical novelists
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- Peter Ackroyd (born 1949)
- Harold Adams
- Bruce Alexander
- Joseph Alexander Altsheler (1862-1919)
- Valerie Anand
- Anna Apostolou
- Mary Balogh
- Kathleen Baldwin
- Pat Barker
- Margaret Campbell Barnes
- Stephanie Barron
- Thea Beckman
- Pamela Bennetts
- Martin Bertram
- Laura Black
- Gillian Bradshaw
- Wallace Breem (1926–1990)
- Emily Brightwell
- Louisa Brontë
- John Buchan (1875-1940)
- Fiona Buckley
- Anthony Burgess (1917-1993)
- John Burke
- Caleb Carr
- John Dickson Carr (1906-1977)
- Philippa Carr (1906-1993)
- Jimmy Carter (former U.S. President).
- Winston Churchill (1871-1947)
- Alys Clare
- Susanna Clarke
- James Clavell (1924-1994)
- Michael Clynes
- Ioan Mihai Cochinescu (born 1951)
- Jonathan Coe
- Virginia Coffman
- Joseph Conrad
- Judith Cook
- Bernard Cornwell
- Thomas B. Costain (1885-1965)
- Lindsey Davis
- L. Sprague de Camp
- Len Deighton
- Lillian De La Torre
- Don DeLillo
- Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
- E.L. Doctorow (born 1931)
- P.C. Doherty
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- David Donachie
- Emma Donoghue
- Alfred Duggan
- Alexandre Dumas, père (1802-1870)
- Daphne du Maurier (1907-1989)
- Ann Dukthas
- Dorothy Dunnett (1923-2001)
- Juliet Dymoke
- Umberto Eco (born 1932)
- George Eliot (1819-1880)
- James Ellroy
- Kathy Emerson
- Elizabeth Eyre
- Sebastian Faulks
- Patricia Finney
- Richard Flanagan
- Ken Follett
- C.S. Forester
- Bruno Frank (1878-1945)
- Margaret Frazer
- Dale Furutani
- Diana Gabaldon
- Roberta Gellis
- Margaret George
- Posie_Graeme-Evans
- C. L. Grace
- Joan Grant (1907-1989)
- Philippa Gregory (born 1954)
- Susanna Gregory
- Robert Lee Hall
- Barbara Hambly
- Lauren Haney
- Paul Harding
- Mollie Hardwick
- Karen Harper
- Simon Hawke (born 1951)
- Keith Heller
- Georgette Heyer (1902-1974)
- Eleanor Hibbert (1906-1993)
- Susan Higginbotham
- Domini Highsmith
- Tom Holland
- Tom Holt (born 1961)
- Victoria Holt (1906-1993)
- Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
- S. L. Hunter (born 1951)
- Conn Iggulden (born 1971)
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- Christian Jacq
- Rosemary Hawley Jarman
- Michael Jecks
- Gary Jennings (1928-1999)
- Alois Jirásek (1851–1930)
- Erica Jong (born 1942)
- Amita Kanekar
- Debra Kemp (born 1957)
- Alexander Kent
- Kate Kingsbury
- Alanna Knight
- Bernard Knight
- Józef Ignacy Kraszewski
- Kalki Krishnamurthi
- Jaan Kross (1920-)
- Deryn Lake
- Jane Lane
- Janet Laurence
- Margaret Lawrence
- Stephen Lewis
- Luis López Nieves (born 1950)
- Paul L. Maier
- Thomas Mallon (1951-)
- Valerio Massimo Manfredi (1943-)
- Hannah March
- Stephen Marley
- A.E. Marston
- F. Van Wyck Mason (1901-1978)
- J. D. Masters (born 1951)
- George MacDonald Fraser
- John Masters (1914-1983)
- Maan Meyers
- James Michener
- Margaret Miles
- Vivian Moore
- Ian Morson
- Amy Myers
- Vladimír Neff (1909–1983)
- Sharan Newman
- Nerida Newton
- Robert Nye
- Patrick O'Brian
- Robin Paige
- William Palmer
- Edith Pargeter (1913-1995)
- Michael Pearce
- Elizabeth Peters
- Ellis Peters (1913-1995)
- Sharon Penman (born 1945)
- Anne Perry
- Maureen Peters
- Jean Plaidy
- Steven Pressfield
- Bolesław Prus (1847–1912)
- Thomas Pynchon
- Mary Reed and Eric Mayer
- Mary Renault (1905-1983)
- Karl Ristikivi (1907-1970)
- Kel Richards
- Candace Robb
- John M. Roberts
- Kenneth Roberts
- Lucia St. Clair Robson (born 1942)
- Lynda Robinson
- Caroline Roe
- Martha Rofheart
- Elliott Roosevelt
- Rosemary Rowe
- Laura Rowland
- Edward Rutherford
- Romain Sardou
- Steven Saylor
- Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
- Kate Sedley
- Francis Selwyn
- Anya Seton (died 1916)
- Tim Severin
- Jeffrey Shaara
- Michael Shaara
- Samuel Shellabarger (1888-1954)
- Henryk Sienkiewicz
- Wilbur Smith
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
- Mary Stewart (born 1916)
- Rosemary Sutcliff (1920-1992)
- A.C. Tassie
- Victoria Thompson
- Marilyn Todd
- Leonard Tourney
- Nigel Tranter (1909-2000)
- Geoffrey Trease (1909-1998)
- Henry Treece
- Peter Tremayne
- M.J. Trow
- Harry Turtledove (writing as H.N. Turteltaub)
- Leon Uris
- Robert Van Gulik
- Elena Maria Vidal
- Gore Vidal
- Jill Paton Walsh
- Sarah Waters
- Jay Williams
- Zikmund Winter (1846–1912)
- David Wishart
- Barbara Wood
- Richard Woodman
- Herman Wouk
- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
- Frank Yerby
- Nicholas Yermakov (born 1951)
- Robert Clark Young
See also: Lists of authors
