List of non-fiction writers
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The term non-fiction author encompasses a vast number of fields and individuals. This list includes authors who primarily have written non-fiction books for publication.
For more specific lists see:
- Category:Writers by non-fiction subject area
- List of biographers
- List of critics
- List of essayists
- List of historians
- List of philosophers
- List of political authors
[edit] Non-Fiction Authors
- Susan Alcorn
- Stephen Ambrose, (1936-2002)
- Gabriele Amorth
- Thomas Amory, (c. 1691-1788)
- John Asgill, (1659-1738)
- Anastasia Ashman
- Isaac Asimov, (1920-1992)
- John Austin, (1790-1859)
- Richard Bannatyne, (died 1605)
- Antony Beevor
- Betty Berzon
- T.J. Binyon
- John Bodenham
- Eric Borgman (b. 1957)
- George A. Borgman, (b. 1928)
- James Boswell
- John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, (1467-1553)
- William Brandon (1914–2002)
- Po Bronson
- James Bruce, (1730-1794)
- Jacob Bryant, (1715-1804)
- Francis Trevelyan Buckland, (1826-1880)
- James Burke, (born 1936)
- Anthony Burgess (1917-1993)
- Richard James Burgess
- Michael Burleigh
- Butrus al-Bustani (1819-1883)
- David Cairns
- Richard Carew, (1555-1620)
- Elizabeth Carter, (1717-1806)
- Hester Chapone, (1727-1801)
- Walter Charleton, (1619-1707)
- Frances Power Cobbe, (1822-1904)
- George Combe (1788-1858)
- George Lillie Craik (1798-1866)
- Francis Douce, (1757-1834)
- David G. Dalin
- John Davies (c. 1565-1618)
- William Arthur Deacon
- Jared Diamond
- John Diamond
- William Hepworth Dixon, (1821-1879)
- John Doran, (1807-1878)
- Andrew Dornenburg
- John E. Douglas
- Eamon Duffy
- Gerina Dunwich, (born 1959)
- Martin Ebon, (born 1917)
- Filip Erceg
- Wayne Federman, (born 1959)
- William Fiennes
- Orlando Figes
- Aminatta Forna
- Richard Fortey
- Ian Frazier (born 1951)
- Edward Gibbon, (1737-1794)
- Stephen Jay Gould, (1941-2002)
- Jeffrey Guterman
- Richard Hamblyn
- Herodotus
- John Cam Hobhouse, (1786-1869)
- Eric Hobsbawm
- Susie Hodge
- Richard Holmes (biographer)
- Richard Holmes (military historian)
- Roy Jenkins, (1920-2003)
- Irving Johnson, (1905-1991)
- Olivia Judson
- Pål Johan Karlsen, (b. 1975)
- Elizabeth Keckley
- John Keegan, (born 1934)
- Jim Keith (1949-1999)
- Ian Kershaw
- Charles H. Kraft
- James Howard Kunstler
- David Landes
- James J. LeBar
- Neal Lozano
- Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1836-1870)
- Scott MacGillivray, (b.1957)
- Margaret MacMillan, (born 1943)
- Brenda Maddox
- Harvey Manning, (b. 1925)
- Joyce Maynard
- DeBarra Mayo (b.1953)
- Vladimir Megre
- Catherine Merridale
- Jack Miles
- Joseph Mitchell (1908-1996)
- Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Stephen L. Nelson, (b. 1959)
- Tadeusz Pacholczyk, (b. 1965)
- Karen A. Page
- Robert Palmer (1945-1997)
- Caroline Paul
- Susan Lynn Peterson, (b. 1957)
- George Piccard
- Melissa Holbrook Pierson, (born 1957)
- Libby Rees (born 1995)
- Simon Reeve
- Richard Rhodes
- Matt Ridley, (born 1958)
- Graham Robb, (born 1958)
- Jason Roberts
- Don Rossignol, (born 1962)
- Ann Rule
- Carl Sagan, (1934-1996)
- Michael Scanlan
- Sven Seljom
- William Shawcross
- Brendan Simms
- James Sites, (born 1924)
- Robert Skidelsky
- Jean Edward Smith, (born 1932)
- Jerry E. Smith
- Stefan Thiesen, (born 1967)
- Felix Thijssen, (born 1937)
- Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
- Alvin Toffler, (born 1928)
- Claire Tomalin, (born 1933)
- Michael J. Varhola, (born 1966)
- Edgar Vincent
- Voltaire, (1694-1778)
- Francis Wheen
- Carl Wickland, (born 1861)
- Eric Williams, (1911-1981)
- Ann Wroe
- John Zaffis, (born 1955)
- Phillip O'Donnell, (born 1991)
See also: List of authors
