List of English writers
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List of English writers is an incomplete alphabetical list of writers from England. It includes writers in all genres and in any language. This is a subsidiary list to the List of English people.
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[edit] A
- Douglas Adams, (1952-2001), comic novelist
- Cyril Alington, (1872-1955), crime novelist & non-fiction
- Kingsley Amis, (1922-1995), poet and novelist
- Martin Amis, (born 1949), novelist
- Matthew Arnold, (1822-1888), poet
- David Attenborough, (born 1926), naturalist and broadcaster
- W. H. Auden, (1907-1973), poet
- Jane Austen, (1775-1817), novelist
- Alan Ayckbourn, (born 1939) playwright
- Pam Ayres, (born 1947), poet
[edit] B
- Hilaire Belloc, (1870-1953), writer and poet
- Alan Bennett, (born 1934), playwright
- Sir James Matthew Barrie, (1860-1937), novelist and dramatist
- Arnold Bennett, (1867-1931), novelist
- John Betjeman, (1906-1984), poet laureate
- Enid Blyton, (1897-1968), author
- William Blake, (1757-1827), painter, poet
- Robert Bolt, (1924-1995), dramitist and screenwriter. Wrote A Man For All Seasons
- Anne Bronte, (1820-1849), author
- Charlotte Bronte, (1816-1855), author
- Emily Bronte, (1818-1848), author
- Rupert Brooke, (1887-1915), poet
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning, (1806-1861), poet
- Robert Browning, (1812-1889), poet
- Anthony Buckeridge, (1912-2004) children's author
- John Bunyan, (1628-1688), author
- Anthony Burgess, (1917-1993), novelist
- Samuel Butler (1612-1680), poet and satirist
- Samuel Butler (1835-1902), writer and satirist
- George Gordon, Lord Byron
[edit] C
- Sir Hall Caine, (1853-1931), romantic novelist and playwright
- Lewis Carroll, (1832-1898), author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- Angela Carter, (1940-1992), novelist
- Geoffrey Chaucer, (c. 1343-1400), poet, author of The Canterbury Tales.
- G. K. Chesterton, (1874-1936), author essayist
- Dame Agatha Christie, (1891-1976), mystery writer
- Winston Churchill, (1874-1965), British prime minister, author
- John Clare, (1793-1864), poet.
- Brian Cleeve, (1921-2003), novelist
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, (1772-1834), poet
- Wilkie Collins, (1824-1889), novelist
- William Congreve, (1670-1729), poet
- Joseph Connolly (born 1950), journalist and novelist
- Joseph Conrad, (1857-1924), novelist
[edit] D
- Walter de la Mare, (1873-1956),poet and novelist
- Daniel Defoe (or De Foe), (1660?–1731), writer
- Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859), writer
- Charles Dickens, (1812-1870), author
- John Donne, (1572-1631), poet.
- Lord Alfred Douglas, (1870-1944), poet
- John Dryden, (1631-1700), poet
- Carol Ann Duffy, (1955-), poet
- Daphne du Maurier, (1907–89), novelist
- Roald Dahl, (1916-90),poet and novelist
[edit] E
- George Eliot, (1819-1880), (Mary Ann Evans)
- T. S. Eliot, (1888-1965), poet, playwright and Nobel prizewinner
- Warren Ellis, (1968-), comic book/graphic novel writer
- George Etheridge, (1635?-1692), playwright
[edit] F
- Henry Fielding, (1707-1754), novelist
- Ian Fleming, (1908-1964), James Bond author
- C.S. Forester, (1899-1966), author
- E.M. Forster, (1879-1970), author
- Frederick Forsyth, (born 1938), author and political commentator
- Christopher Fry, (1907-2005), dramatist
- Stephen Fry, (1957-), novelist and comedian
[edit] G
- John Galsworthy, (1867-1933) author and dramatist
- Elizabeth Gaskell, novelist
- William Golding, writer, Nobel prizewinner
- Kenneth Grahame, (1859-1931), author
- Robert Graves, (1895-1985), author
- Thomas Gray, (1716-1771), poet
- Henry Green, (1905-1973), novelist (Henry Vincent Yorke)
- Graham Greene, (1904-1991), author, writer
[edit] H
- Thomas Hardy, (1840-1928), novelist, poet
- Eliza Haywood, (1793-1756), novelist, playwright, poet
- William Hazlitt, (1778-1830), essayist
- James Herriot, (1916-1995), (Alfred Wight), writer
- Gerard Manley Hopkins, (1844-1889), poet
- Nick Hornby, (born 1957), novelist
- A. E. Housman, (1859-1936),poet and scholar.
- Ted Hughes, 1930-1998), poet laureate.
- Leigh Hunt, (1784-1859), poet
- Aldous Huxley, (1884-1963), writer
- Thomas Henry Huxley, (1825-1895), coiner of the term agnosticism
[edit] I
- David Icke, (Born 1952), Conspiracy Theorist
- Christopher Isherwood, (1904-1986), novelist
[edit] J
- Jerome K. Jerome, (1859-1927), humorist and playwright
- Samuel Johnson, (1709-1784), poet
- Ben Jonson, (1573-1637), poet
[edit] K
- John Keats, (1795-1821), poet
- Charles Kingsley, (1819-1875), novelist
- Rudyard Kipling, (1865-1936), author
- Hanif Kureishi, (1954-), novelist
[edit] L
- Charles Lamb, (1775-1834), essayist
- Philip Larkin, (1922-1985), poet
- D.H. Lawrence, (1885-1930), poet
- Edward Lear, (1812-1888), artist, humorist and poet
- Archibald Low, (1888-1956), science writer
- C. S. Lewis, (1898-1963), children's writer and christian apologist
[edit] M
- Colin MacInnes, (1914-1976), novelist
- Thomas Malory, (c. 1430-c. 1471), author of Le Morte d'Arthur
- Andrew Mango, (born 1926), author
- Christopher Marlowe, (1564-1593), playwright
- Eric Maschwitz, (1901-1969), writer, lyricist and entertainer
- John Masefield, (1878-1967), poet laureate, and novelist
- William Somerset Maugham, (1874-1965), writer
- Ian McEwan, (born 1948), novelist
- Andy McNab, (born 1959), novelist & ex-solider
- A. A. Milne, (1882-1956), author and poet
- John Milton, (1608-1674), poet
- Nancy Mitford, (1904-1973), novelist
- William Morris, (1834-1896), architect, author
- Margaret Murphy, crime novelist
[edit] N
- Kim Richard Nossal, professor, author
- William Ralph Inge, clergyman, writer, mysticist
[edit] O
- Joe Orton, (1933-1967), dramatist
- George Orwell, (1903-1950), (Eric Blair), journalist and novelist
- John Osborne, (1929-1994), dramatist, wrote Look Back In Anger
- Wilfred Owen, (1893-1918), war poet
[edit] P
- Samuel Pepys, (1633-1703), diarist and public official in 17th century England
- Harold Pinter, (born 1930), playwright
- Alexander Pope, (1688-1744), poet
- Beatrix Potter, (1866-1943),author and illustrator
- J. B. Priestley, (1894-1984), dramatist and novelist
- Philip Pullman, (born 1946), author
Lior Peretz- Worst english writer ever
[edit] Q
[edit] R
- JK Rowling, (born 1965), author of the Harry Potter books
[edit] S
- Syed Khalid Yazdani, (b.1954), writer & Poet http://www.khalid.googlepages.com
- Siegfried Sassoon, (1886-1967), poet and novelist
- Dorothy L. Sayers, (1893-1957), mystery writer
- William Shakespeare, (c. 1564-1616), poet and playwright
- Mary Shelley, (1797-1851), author
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, (1792-1822), poet
- Philip Sidney, (1554-1586), poet and soldier
- Joe Simpson, (born 1960), mountaineer and author of many books including Touching the Void
- John Skelton,poet.
- Edmund Spenser,(c. 1552-1599), poet. Wrote The Faerie Queene
- Nevil Shute, (1899-1960), aeronautical engineer and author
- Stevie Smith, (1902-1971), poet and novelist
- Robert Southey, (1774-1843), Poet Laureate 1813
- Algernon Swinburne, (1837-1909), poet
[edit] T
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate
- William Makepeace Thackeray, (1811-193), novelist
- H. E. Todd, (? - 1988), children's writer
- J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 – 1973), author of The Lord of the Rings
- Anthony Trollope, (1815-1882), novelist
[edit] U,V,W,X,Y,Z
- Evelyn Waugh, (1903-1966), novelist
- John Webster, (died 1630), poet
- H. G. Wells, (1866-1946), science fiction writer
- Gilbert White, (1720-1795), naturalist
- P. G. Wodehouse, (1881-1975), humorous author
- Mary Wollstonecraft, (1759-1797), pioneer feminist known for her work A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
- Virginia Woolf, (1882-1941), author and feminist.
- William Wordsworth, (1770-1850), Romantic poet
