List of English novelists

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See also: English novel and English literature

This is a list of novelists from England.

1 A
2 B
3 C
4 D
5 E
6 F
7 G
8 H
9 I-J
10 K-L
11 M
12 N
13 O
14 P
15 Q
16 R
17 S
18 T
19 U
20 V
21 W
22 Y-Z
23 See also

[edit] A

Kia Abdullah (born 1982)
Paul Ableman (1927-2006)
J. R. Ackerley (1896–1967)
Peter Ackroyd (born 1949)
Paul Adam (born 1958)
Douglas Adams (1952–2001), author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Richard Adams (born 1920), author of Watership Down
Arthur St. John Adcock (1864-1930)
Grace Aguilar (1816-1847)
Robert Aickman (1914–1981)
Joan Aiken (1924-2004)
Lucy Aikin (1781-1864)
William Harrison Ainsworth (1805-1882)
Richard Aldington (1892-1962)
Walter Allen (1911-1995)
Kingsley Amis (1922–1995), novelist and poet, young author of Lucky Jim and old author of The Old Devils.
Martin Amis (born 1949), son of Kingsley, author of Dead Babies, Money, and The Information

Valerie Anand (1937-2007)
Peter Anghelides
Lisa Appignanesi (born 1946)
Jeffrey Archer (born 1940)
Philip Ardagh (born 1961)
Reginald Arkell (1882-1959) known for a play based on 1066 and All That
Simon Armitage (born 1963)
Elizabeth von Arnim (1866–1941)
Edwin Lester Linden Arnold (1857-1935)
William Delafield Arnold (1828-1859)
Daisy Ashford (1881-1972)
Francis Leslie Ashton
Edwin Atherstone (1788-1872)
Kate Atkinson (born 1951)
Penelope Aubin (c. 1679-c. 1731)
Jane Austen (1775–1817), wrote Sense and Sensibility, and Pride and Prejudice.
Tash Aw (born 1973)

[edit] B

Robert Bage (1728–1801)
Beryl Bainbridge (born 1934)
J. G. Ballard (born 1930), author of Crash, Empire of the Sun and Concrete Island
Julian Barnes (born 1946), author of England, England
Nicola Barker (born 1966)
Ada Ellen Bayly (1857–1903)
Max Beerbohm (1872–1956)
Arnold Bennett (1867–1931)
Anthony Berkeley, mystery writer (The Poisoned Chocolates Case)
Walter Besant (1836–1901)
Robert Black (1829-1915)
Nicholas Blincoe (born 1965) author of Manchester Slingback
Enid Blyton (1897–1968), author of the children's books
Alain de Botton (born 1969)
Marjorie Boulton (born 1924) writes both in English and Esperanto
Malcolm Bradbury, author of The History Man
Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1837–1915)
Edward Bradley (1827–1889)

John Braine, author of Room at the Top and The Jealous God
Wallace Breem (1926–1990), author of Eagle in the Snow
Simon Brett (born 1945), (whodunnits)
Vincent Brome (1910–2004)
Anne Brontë (1820–1849)
Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855), wrote Jane Eyre.
Emily Brontë (1818–1848), wrote Wuthering Heights.
Anita Brookner (born 1928), wrote Hotel du Lac (Won the Booker Prize)
Anthony Buckeridge (1912-2004), known for his Jennings and Derbyshire novels.
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873), the annual bad writing contest is named after him.
John Bunyan (1628–1688)
Anthony Burgess (1917–1993), composer, essayist, author of A Clockwork Orange and Earthly Powers
Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890)
Charlotte Bury (1775–1861)
Samuel Butler (1835–1902), author of Erewhon

[edit] C

Hall Caine (1853–1931), romantic novelist.
Lewis Carroll (1832–1898), author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Angela Carter (1940–1992), post-feminist, wrote magical realism
Dame Barbara Cartland (1901–2000)
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936), mystery writer and Christian apologist
Mary Cholmondeley (1859–1925) author of Red Pottage (1899)
Agatha Christie (1890–1976), famous mystery writer.
Brian Cleeve (1921–2003)
Henry Cockton (1807–1852)
Jonathan Coe (born 1961)

Mortimer Collins (1827–1876)
Wilkie Collins (1824–1889), author of The Moonstone and The Woman in White
Ivy Compton-Burnett, author of novels about dysfunctional families
Joseph Conrad (1857–1924), Polish-born, but lived in England and wrote in English
William Cooper, (20th century)
Marie Corelli (1855–1924), best–selling novelist
Bernard Cornwell (born 1944), author of the Sharpe novels
Amanda Craig, author of A Vicious Circle and In a Dark Wood
Andrew Crofts, author of The Little Hero
J. A. Cuddon (1928–1996)

[edit] D

Portia Da Costa, author of erotic romance fiction for women
Charlotte Dacre (1782-1841)
Penny Dale (born 1954)
Clemence Dane (1888-1965)
Denise Danks
Lionel Davidson (born 1922)
Caitlin Davies (born 1964)
Hugh Sykes Davies (1909-1984)
Lindsey Davis (born 1949)
Coningsby Dawson (1883-1959)
Jennifer Dawson (1929-2000)
William James Dawson (1854-?)
Martin Day (born 1968)
Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859)
Walter de la Mare (1873-1956)
Daniel Defoe (1659 or 1661-1731), journalist, author of Robinson Crusoe (1719), Moll Flanders
Len Deighton (born 1929)
R. F. Delderfield (1912-1972)
Thomas Deloney (1543–1600)
Nigel Dennis (1912–1989)
Colin Dexter (born 1930)

Nirpal Singh Dhaliwal (born 1974)
Charles Dickens (17 February 1812–1870), author of David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, and A Christmas Carol.
Monica Dickens (1915-1992)
Peter Dickinson (born 1927)
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
Henry Hall Dixon (1822-1870)
William Dodd (1729-1777)
Berlie Doherty (born 1943)
P. C. Doherty (born 1946)
David Donachie (born 1944) nautical historical novelist.
Dorothy Koomson
Louise Doughty (born 1963), an English novelist, playwright and journalist.
Margaret Drabble (born 1939)
Daphne du Maurier (1907–1989), author of Rebecca and Jamaica Inn
George du Maurier (1834–1896), author of Trilby
Ernest Dudley (1908-2006)
Maureen Duffy (born 1933)
Alfred Duggan (1903-1964) historian, archaeologist and best-selling historical novelist
Sarah Dunant (born 1950)
Clive Dunn (born 1920)

[edit] E

Anthony Earnshaw (1924-2001)
Eric Rücker Eddison (1882-1945) civil servant and novelist
Robert Edric (born 1956)
J. T. Edson (born 1928)
Edward Eggleston (1837–1902)
Stephen Elboz
George Eliot (1819–1880) writer of Adam Bede,The Mill on the Floss & Middlemarch
Royston Ellis (born 1941)

Roger Jon Ellory (born 1965) thriller writer
Ben Elton (born 1959)
Sally Emerson (born 1954)
Barry England
Fergus Hume (1859-1932)
D. J. Enright (1920-2002) academic, poet, novelist and critic
Sam Enthoven (born 1975) children's novelist
Nicholas Evans (born 1950)
Rupert Everett (born 1959)

[edit] F

Susan Edmonstoune Ferrier (1782–1854)
Henry Fielding (1707–1754)
Ronald Firbank (1886–1926)
Ian Fleming, the author of the James Bond novels
Peter Fleming, author of travel books, brother of Ian
Ford Madox Ford, author of The Good Soldier (1914), promoter of many other writers.
C. S. Forester, author of the Horatio Hornblower series.
E. M. Forster (1879–1970)
Frederick Forsyth (born 1938), author of The Day of the Jackal
John Fowles, author of The French Lieutenant's Woman
Stephen Fry (born 1957)

[edit] G

Neil Gaiman (born 1960), author of The Sandman comics, American Gods and the BBC series Neverwhere
John Galsworthy (1867–1933)
Alex Garland, author of The Beach
Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865)
Stella Gibbons, author of Cold Comfort Farm
George Gissing (1857–1903)
William Golding (1911–1993), author of Lord of the Flies
Robert Graves (1895–1985), I, Claudius and other historical novels
Henry Green (1905–1973)
Graham Greene (1904–1991)

[edit] H

H. Rider Haggard (1856–1925), adventure novels set in exotic locations, such as King Solomon's Mines, She
Arthur Hailey (1920--2004)
Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
Joanne Harris (born 1964), author of Chocolat, Five Quarters of the Orange
Robert Harris (born 1957)
Josephine Hart, author of Damage
Carole Hayman
James Herbert (born 1943), Horror writer
Georgette Heyer (1902–1974)
Jack Higgins (born 1929)
Reginald Hill (born 1936)
Victoria Holmes

Stewart Home (born 1962), his 1999 novel
Anthony Hope (1863-1933)
Thomas Hope (1769-1831)
Nick Hornby (born 1957), author of About a Boy (1998)
Ernest William Hornung (1866-1921)
Anthony Horowitz (born 1956)
William Horwood (born 1944), author of the Duncton Wood series.
Elizabeth Jane Howard (born 1923)
Fergus Hume (1859–1932)
Arthur Stuart-Menteth Hutchinson (1880-1971)
Angela Huth (born 1938)
Aldous Huxley (1884–1963), author of Brave New World

[edit] I-J

Conn Iggulden (born 1971)
Hammond Innes (1914–1998)
Christopher Isherwood (1904–1986)
Brian Jacques (born 1939), author of the Redwall and Castaways of the Flying Dutchman series
P. D. James, author of crime fiction but also the dystopian novel The Children of Men (1992)
Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927), author of Three Men in a Boat

[edit] K-L

Lena Kennedy (1914–1986)
Alexander Kent (born 1924), historical fiction books on the Royal Navy.
Brian Killick, author of The Heralds
Charles Kingsley
Henry Kingsley (1830–1876)
Rudyard Kipling, author of Kim (1904)
C. H. B. Kitchin
D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930), author of Lady Chatterley's Lover
Marina Lewycka
C. S. Lewis (1898–1963), Christian, author of The Chronicles of Narnia, wrote a book called Surprised by Joy
Nell Leyshon
David Lodge, author of Thinks ... (2001)

[edit] M

Herman Cyril McNeile (1888-1937), writter of Bulldog Drummond.
Ian McEwan (born 1948)
Hilary Mantel (born 1952)
Derek Marlowe (1938–1996), A Dandy in Aspic
Frederick Marryat (1792–1848), Mr Midshipman Easy and other sea stories
A. E. W. Mason, author of The Four Feathers
William Somerset Maugham (1874–1965), author of Liza of Lambeth and The Razor's Edge and creator of Sadie Thompson in Rain
George Meredith (1828–1909)
A. A. Milne (1882–1956), The Red House Mystery and Mr. Pim Passes By (a novelization of his own play)
Nancy Mitford (1904–1973)
Iris Murdoch (1919–1999), author of A Severed Head
Margaret Murphy
John Murray (born 1950), Murphy's Favourite Channels

[edit] N

V. S. Naipaul (born 1932), author of A House for Mr Biswas

[edit] O

Patrick O'Brian (1914–2000), author of the Aubrey/Maturin naval historical novels.
Daniel O'Mahony
Emma Orczy (1865-1947)
Ann Oakley (born 1944)
Alfred Ollivant (1874-1927)
Tony O'Neill
Oliver Onions (1873–1961)

Amelia Opie (1769-1853)
E. Phillips Oppenheim (1866-1946)
George Orwell (1903-1950), pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, journalist, volunteer soldier in the Spanish Civil War, author of Animal Farm (1945), Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
Ouida (1839–1908)
Keith Ovenden

[edit] P

Stel Pavlou (born 1970)
Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866)
Mervyn Peake (1911–1968), author of the Gormenghast books
Harold Pinter (born 1930)
Dudley Pope (1925-1997) nautical historical novels (Lord Ramage series)

Anthony Powell (1905–2000), author of A Dance to the Music of Time
John Cowper Powys (1872–1963), author of A Glastonbury Romance
Terry Pratchett (born 1948)
J. B. Priestley (1894-1984), writer and broadcaster
Barbara Pym (1913-1980)

[edit] Q

Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863-1944)
Ann Quin (1936-1973)

[edit] R

Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823)
Julian Rathbone
Ruth Rendell (aka Barbara Vine), author of King Solomon's Carpet
Samuel Richardson, printer, contender for the title of "first English novelist", author of Pamela (1740) and Clarissa (1748)
Denise Robins (1897-1985)
Sax Rohmer (1883–1959), creator of Dr. Fu Manchu, "the yellow peril incarnate in one man".
J. K. Rowling (born 1965)

[edit] S

Salman Rushdie (born 1947), author of "Midnight's Children" and "The Satanic Verses"
Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957), mystery writer (creator of Lord Peter Wimsey), playwright, translator of Dante
Will Self
Diane Setterfield, author of The Thirteenth Tale
Tom Sharpe, author of Wilt
Mary Shelley (August 30, 1797 - February 1, 1851) Frankenstein
C. P. Snow (1905–1980)
Muriel Spark (born 1918)
Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
Bram Stoker (1847-1912) Dracula
Alexander Stuart (born 1955), author of The War Zone, for which the 1989 Whitbread Prize was controversially withdrawn.
Graham Swift won the Booker Prize in 1996 for Last Orders; also known for an earlier novel Waterland (1984).

[edit] T

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863), author of Vanity Fair
Colin Thubron (born 1939), author of A Cruel Madness and other novels as well as travel books
J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973), author of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit