List of English writers

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List of English writers is an alphabetical list of writers writing in English and born or brought up in England, who already have Wikipedia pages. References for the information given in the list will be found on the Wikipedia pages concerned. It is far from exhaustive, so please help to expand it by adding writers who have written extensively in any genre or field, including science and scholarship. However, please refrain from adding writers that do not yet have Wikipedia pages. Please follow the entry format or say in discussion how you think it can be improved. Seminal works added at the end of an entry should also have a Wikipedia entry to back them. This is a subsidiary list to the List of English people. There are or should be similar lists of Irish, Scots, Welsh, Manx, Jersey, and Guernsey writers. Naturally there is overlap between the lists, as some writers have multiple affiliations (e. g. born in London, brought up in Edinburgh). Some alternative names such as pen names and titles appear after the name of the author's page, but they are not cross-referenced, as the page search function can be used.

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A

• A. W., (fl. 1602), unidentified poet
• Edwin Abbott Abbott, (1838–1926), theologian, philologist and novelist, Flatland
• Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, (1811–1856), humorist
• George Abbot, (1562–1633), writer, AV translator and cleric
• Kia Abdullah, (born 1982), novelist
• Lascelles Abercrombie, (1881–1938), poet and critic
• Paul Ableman, (1927–2006), playwright and novelist
• J. R. Ackerley, (1896–1967), autobiographer, novelist and playwright
• Rodney Ackland, (1908–1991), playwright, actor and screenwriter
• Peter Ackroyd, (born 1949), novelist and biographer
• Eliza Acton, (1799–1859), poet and cookery writer
• Harold Acton, (1904–1994), writer and scholar
• Paul Adam, (born 1958), novelist
• Douglas Adams, (1952–2001), novelist and scriptwriter, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• Richard Adams, (born 1920), novelist, Watership Down
• Sarah Flower Adams, (1805–1848), poet and hymn writer, Nearer, My God, to Thee
• Donald Adamson, (born 1939), author and historian
• Arthur St. John Adcock, (1864–1930), novelist and editor
• Fleur Adcock, (born 1934), poet
• Joseph Addison, (1672–1719), essayist and poet, The Spectator
• Percy Addleshaw, (pen name Percy Hemingway, 1866–1916), writer and poet
• Diran Adebayo, (born 1968), novelist and broadcaster
• Mark Adlard, (born 1932), novelist
• James Agate, (1877–1947), diarist and critic
• John Aglionby, (died 1609/10), scholar, AV translator and cleric
• Grace Aguilar, (1816–1847), novelist and writer
• Allan Ahlberg, (born 1939), children's writer, Burglar Bill
• Robert Aickman, (1914–1981), novelist and conservationist
• Joan Aiken, (1924–2004), novelist
• Arthur Aikin, (1783–1854), science writer
• Lucy Aikin, (1781–1864), children's writer, biographer and writer on history
• John Aikin, (1747–1822), writer and physician
• Alfred Ainger, (1837–1904), biographer and critic
• William Harrison Ainsworth, (1805–1882), novelist, Old St Paul's
• Mark Akenside, (1721–1770), poet
• William Alabaster, (1567–1640), poet, playwright and cleric
• James Albery, (1838–1889), playwright
• Alice Albinia, (born 1976), travel writer
• Mary Alcock, (c. 1742 – 1798), poet and essayist
• Thomas Aldham or Aldam, (c. 1616 – 1660), writer and early Quaker
• Richard Aldington, (1892–1962), novelist and poet
• Brian Aldiss, (born 1925), novelist
• Henry Aldrich, (1647–1710), poet and theologian
• Monica Ali, (born 1967), novelist, Brick Lane
• Cyril Alington, (1872–1955), crime novelist and non-fiction writer
• Nicholas Allan, (born c. 1955), children's writer
• James Allen, (1864–1912), self-help writer and poet
• Walter Allen, (1911–1995), novelist and critic
• Margery Allingham, (1904–1966), novelist, the Albert Campion series
• Drummond Allison, (1921–1943), poet
• Kenneth Allott, (1912–1973), poet and anthologist
• Kenneth Allsop, (1920–1973), writer and broadcaster
• E. M. Almedingen, (1898–1971), novelist, biographer and children's writer
• John Almon, (1737–1804), journalist and anthologist
• David Almond, (born 1951), novelist and children's writer
• Vincent Alsop, (c. 1630 – 1703), Nonconformist cleric and religious writer
• Al Alvarez, (born 1929), poet and writer
• Moniza Alvi, (born 1968), poet and writer
• Eric Ambler, (1909–1998), novelist and screenwriter, Passage of Arms
• Isaac Ambrose, (1604-1663/4), religious writer, diarist and cleric
• Elizabeth Amherst (c. 1716 – 1779), poet and naturalist
• Kingsley Amis, (1922–1995), poet and novelist, Lucky Jim
• Martin Amis, (born 1949), novelist
• Thomas Amory, (c. 1691 – 1788), novelist and miscellanist
• Thomas Amory, (1701–1774), poet and dissenting cleric
• Valerie Anand, (pen name also Flora Buckley, born 1937), novelist
• Patrick Anderson, (1915–1979), poet
• Lancelot Andrewes, (1555–1626), scholar, AV translator and cleric
• Roger Andrewes, (fl. 1610s), scholar, AV translator and cleric
• Miles Peter Andrews, (1742–1814), playwright and poet
• Norman Angell, (1872–1967), Nobel Prize winner, political writer and economist, The Great Illusion
• Jane Anger, (fl. 1589), pamphleteer
• Peter Anghelides (fl. 1990s), writer, Dr. Who TV serial spinoffs
• George Anson, Lord Anson (1697–1762), writer, explorer and admiral
• Christopher Anstey, (1724–1805), writer and poet
• Charles James Apperley, (pen name Nimrod, 1777–1843), writer on hunting and horse racing
• Lisa Appignanesi, (born 1946), writer and historian
• Roy Apps, (born 1951), screenwriter and children's writer
• Arthur John Arberry, (1905–1969), orientalist and translator, The Koran Interpreted
• Harriet Arbuthnot, (1793–1834), political diarist
• John Arbuthnot, (1667–1735), satirist and polymath
• Fred Archer, (1915–1999), writer and farmer
• Jeffrey Archer, (born 1940), novelist and politician
• Philip Ardagh, (born 1961), children's writer
• John Arden, (born 1930), playwright and novelist
• Edward Ardizzone, (1900–1979), children's author and illustrator
• Reginald Arkell, (1882–1959), novelist, playwright and screenwriter
• Michael Arlen, (original name Dikran Kouyoumdjian, 1895–1956), essayist, playwright and novelist
• John Arlott, (1914–1991), cricket writer and commentator
• Robert Armin, (c. 1563 – 1615), playwright and actor
• Simon Armitage, (born 1963), poet, playwright and novelist
• Martin Armstrong, (1882–1974), novelist and poet
• Peter Armstrong, (born 1957), poet and psychotherapist
• Richard Armstrong, (1903–1986), novelist, naval historian and children's writer, Sea Change
• Elizabeth von Arnim, (pen name also Alice Cholmondeley, 1866–1941), novelist, Elizabeth and Her German Garden
• Edwin Arnold, (1832–1904), poet and journalist
• Edwin Lester Arnold, (1857–1935), writer and novelist, Lieutenant Gullivar Jones: His Vacation
• Elizabeth Arnold, (born 1944), children's writer
• Matthew Arnold, (1822–1888), poet, Dover Beach
• Richard Arnold, (died c. 1521), chronicler and merchant
• Thomas Arnold, (1795–1842), educationalist and historian
• Thomas Walker Arnold, (1864–1930), Islamist scholar
• William Delafield Arnold, (1828–1859), novelist and colonial administrator, Oakfield; or, Fellowship in the East
• Anthony Ascham, (c. 1614 – 1650), scholar and politician
• Roger Ascham, (c. 1515 – 1568), writer and scholar
• John Ash, (1724–1779), lexicographer and Baptist minister
• John Ash, (born 1948), poet and travel writer
• Timothy Garton Ash, (born 1955), historian
• Elizabeth Ashbridge, (1713–1755), autobiographer and Quaker minister
• Thomas Ashe, (1836–1889), poet
• Daisy Ashford, (1881–1972), child author, The Young Visiters
• Elias Ashmole, (1617–1692), antiquary and patron, the Ashmolean Museum
• Will Ashon, (born 1969), novelist and music journalist
• Francis Leslie Ashton, (1904–1994), novelist
• Andrea Ashworth, (born 1969), writer and scholar
• Anne Askew, (1521–1546), poet, writer and martyr
• Nadeem Aslam, (born 1966), novelist
• Cynthia Asquith, (1887–1960), novelist and diarist
• Herbert Asquith, (1881–1947), poet and novelist
• Margot Asquith, (1864–1935), memoir writer
• Nicholas Assheton, (1590–1625), diarist
• Mary Astell, (1666–1731), poet and writer
• Edwin Atherstone, (1788–1872), poet and novelist
• Diana Athill, (born 1917), editor, novelist and memoir writer
• Kate Atkinson, (born 1952), novelist
• William Atkinson, (died 1509), translator
• David Attenborough, (born 1926), writer, naturalist and broadcaster
• Francis Atterbury, (1663–1732), writer and bishop
• Mabel Lucie Attwell, (1879–1964), children's writer and illustrator
• Penelope Aubin, (1679–1738), poet, novelist and translator
• John Aubrey, (1626–1697), writer and antiquary, Brief Lives
• John Audelay or Awdelay, (died c. 1426), poet and cleric
• W. H. Auden, (1907–1973), poet
• Jane Austen, (1775–1817), novelist, Pride and Prejudice
• Katherine Austen, (1629 – c. 1683), diarist and poet
• Alfred Austin, (1835–1913), Poet Laureate
• John Langshaw Austin, (1911–1960), philosopher and translator, Sense and Sensibilia
• Sarah Austin, (1793–1867), translator
• Edward Aveling, (1849–1898), writer, pamphleteer and translator
• Peter Avery, (1923–2008), scholar and translator
• Christopher Awdry, (born 1940), children's writer
• Wilbert Awdry, (styled Rev. W. Awdry, 1911–1997), children's writer and cleric, Thomas the Tank Engine
• Alan Ayckbourn, (born 1939), playwright
• A. J. Ayer, (1910–1989), philosopher, Language, Truth and Logic
• Michael Ayrton, (1921–1975), writer and artist
• Shamim Azad, (fl. 2002–present), writer and translator
• Trezza Azzopardi, (born c. 1961), novelist

B

• Charles Babbage, (1791–1871), polymath
• Gervase Babington, ((1549/50–1610), theologian and bishop
• Robert Baden-Powell, (1857–1941), writer and army officer, Scouting for Boys
• Edmund Backhouse, (1873–1944), orientalist and autobiographer
• Francis Bacon, (1561–1626), essayist, New Atlantis
• Phanuel Bacon, (1699–1783), playwright and poet
• John F. Baddeley, (1854–1940), travel writer and journalist
• Robert Bage, (1730–1801), novelist and radical
• Walter Bagehot, (1826–1877), economist and essayist
• Enid Bagnold, (1889–1981), novelist and playwright, National Velvet
• Richard Bagot, (1860–1921), novelist and essayist
• David Bailey, (born c. 1970s), story writer and editor
• Hilary Bailey, (born 1936), biographer and editor
• Nathan Bailey, (died 1742), philologist, An Universal Etymological English Dictionary
• Paul Bailey, (born 1937), novelist and dramatist
• Philip James Bailey, (1816–1902), poet
• Beryl Bainbridge, (born 1932), novelist
• Denys Val Baker, (1917–1984), novelist and story writer
• Henry Baker, (1698–1774), naturalist and poet
• Samuel Baker, (1821–1893), writer and explorer
• Rajeev Balasubramanyam, (born 1974), novelist
• Nigel Balchin, (1908–1970), novelist and screenwriter
• John Bale, (1495–1563), playwright and bishop
• J. G. Ballard, (1930–2009), novelist
• Samuel Bamford, (1788–1872), writer and Lancashire dialect poet
• John Codrington Bampfylde, (1764-1796/7), poet
• Richard Bancroft, (1544–1610), controversialist, AV translator and archbishop
• Isabella Banks, (1821–1897), novelist and poet
• Lynne Reid Banks, (born 1929), novelist
• Anna Laetitia Barbauld, (1743–1825), poet, essayist and children's writer
• W. N. P. Barbellion, (real name Bruce Frederick Cummings, 1889–1919), diarist
• Richard Barber, (born 1941), historian
• Alexander Barclay, (c. 1476 – 1552), poet and translator
• Florence L. Barclay, (1862–1921), novelist
• James Barclay, (born 1965), novelist
• John Baret, (died c. 1580), lexicographer
• Richard Harris Barham, (pen name Thomas Ingoldsby, 1788–1845), novelist and poet, The Ingoldsby Legends
• Maurice Baring, (1874–1945), playwright, novelist and poet
• Sabine Baring-Gould, (1834–1924), novelist, cleric and hymn writer, Onward, Christian Soldiers
• A. L. Barker, (1918–2002), novelist
• Cicely Mary Barker, (1895–1973), children's and religious writer and illustrator
• Elspeth Barker, (born 1940), novelist
• George Granville Barker, (1913–1991), poet and novelist
• Jane Barker, (1652–1732), poet and novelist
• Mary Anne Barker, (1831–1911), writer, journalist and poet
• Nicola Barker, (born 1966), novelist
• Pat Barker, (born 1943), novelist, the Regeneration Trilogy
• Raffaella Barker, (born 1964), novelist and journalist
• George Barlow, (pen name James Hinton, 1837-1913/14), poet
• William Barlow, (died 1613), scholar, AV translator and bishop
• Kitty Barne, (1883–1961), children's writer
• Barnabe Barnes, (c. 1568 or 1569–1609), poet and playwright
• Julian Barnes, (born 1946), novelist, Flaubert's Parrot
• William Barnes, (1801–1886), Dorset dialect poet and philologist
• Richard Barnfield, (15741620), poet
• Alexander Baron, (1917–1999), novelist and screenwriter
• John Barret, (1631–1713), Presbyterian minister and writer on religion
• Leslie Barringer, (1895–1968), editor and novelist
• Isaac Barrow, (1630–1677), scholar and cleric
• John Barrow, (fl. 1735-1774), lexicographer, mathematician and naval historian
• William Barrow, (1754–1836), religious writer and cleric
• Stan Barstow, (born 1928), novelist and radio dramatist, A Kind of Loving
• Mike Bartlett, (born 1980), playwright and director
• William Basse, (c. 1583-1653/4), poet
• Jonathan Bate, (born 1958), biographer and editor
• H. E. Bates, (1905–1974), novelist, The Darling Buds of May
• Henry Walter Bates, (1825–1892), naturalist and explorer
• Ralph Bates, (1899–2000), novelist
• Elizabeth Bath, (1772–1856), poet
• Richard Baxter, (1615–1691), poet, hymn writer and theologian
• Stephen Baxter, (born 1957), SF novelist
• John Bayley, (born 1925), critic and novelist
• Ada Ellen Bayly, (pen name Edna Lyall, 1857–1903), novelist
• Thomas Haynes Bayly, (1797–1830), poet and playwright
• John Beadle, (died 1667), diarist and cleric
• Francis Beaumont, (1584–1616), playwright
• John Beaumont, (1583–1627), poet
• Joseph Beaumont, (1616–1699), poet and cleric
• Aubrey Beardsley, (1872–1898), writer and illustrator
• Laura Beatty, (born c. 1970s), biographer and novelist
• William Beckford, (1760–1844), novelist and patron, Vathek
• Lillian Beckwith, (real name Lillian Comber, 1916–2004), novelist and memoirist
• Thomas Lovell Beddoes, (1803–1849), poet
• William Bedwell, (1561–1632), scholar, AV translator and cleric
• Henry Charles Beeching, (1859–1919), poet and anthologist
• Patricia Beer, (1919–1999), poet and critic
• Constance Beerbohm, (1811–1892), writer
• Julius Beerbohm, (1854–1906), travel writer and explorer
• Max Beerbohm, (1872–1956), comic writer and caricaturist, Zuleika Dobson
• Mrs Beeton, (born Isabella Mary Mayson, 1836–1865), writer on cookery and housekeeping Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management
• Antony Beevor, (born 1946), historian and novelist, Stalingrad
• Aphra Behn, (1640–1689), novelist and playwright
• Clive Bell, (1881–1964), art critic
• Florence Bell, (1851–1930), playwright and editor
• Gertrude Bell, (1868–1926), writer and traveller
• Josephine Bell, (pen name also David Wintringham, 1897–1987), novelist
• Julian Bell, (1908–1937), poet
• Mary Hayley Bell, (1911–2005), novelist, playwright and actress
• Thomas Bell, (1792–1880), zoologist, surgeon and writer
• Hilaire Belloc, (1870–1953), writer and poet
• Thomas Belt, (1832–1878), naturalist and geologist
• Elizabeth Benger, (1775–1827), poet, novelist and biographer
• Edward Benlowes, (1603–1676), poet
• Alan Bennett, (born 1934), playwright, The Madness of George III
• Anna Maria Bennett, (c. 1760 – 1808), novelist
• Arnold Bennett, (1867–1931), novelist, The Clayhanger Family
• Edwin Keppel Bennett, (pen name Francis Bennett, 1887–1958), writer, poet and scholar
• A. C. Benson, (1862–1925), poet and diarist, Land of Hope and Glory
• E. F. Benson, (1867–1940), novelist and story writer, the Mapp and Lucia series.
• Peter Benson, (born 1956), novelist
• Robert Hugh Benson, (1871–1914), novelist, religious writer and cleric
• Stella Benson, (1892–1933), novelist, poet and travel writer
• George Bentham, (1800–1884), botanist
• Jeremy Bentham, (1748–1832), philosopher
• Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875–1956), novelist, humorist and comic poet, the clerihew
• Elizabeth Bentley, (1767–1839), poet
• Nicolas Bentley, (1907–1978), writer and illustrator
• Phyllis Bentley, (1894–1977), novelist and biographer
• Richard Bentley, (1662–1742), theologian and poet
• Edward Berdoe, (1836–1916), critic, novelist and physician
• Elisabeth Beresford, (born 1928), children's writer, the Wombles
• J. D. Beresford, (1873–1947), novelist, The Hampdenshire Wonder
• James Beresford, (1764–1840), satirist, translator and cleric
• John Berger, (born 1926), novelist, G.
• John Berkenhout, (1726–1791), naturalist
• Steven Berkoff, (born 1937), playwright and actor
• John Bourchier Berners, (1467–1533), translator and statesman
• Juliana Berners or Bernes, (born c. 1388), writer on heraldry, hawking and hunting, The Boke of Saint Albans
• Mary Berry, (1763–1852), writer, editor and correspondent
• Mary Berry, (born 1935), cookery writer
• Charles Bertram (1723–1765), literary forger
• Annie Besant, (1847–1933), writer and campaigner
• Walter Besant, (1836–1901), novelist and historian
• Charles Best, (1570–1627), poet
• Alfred Bestall, (1892–1986), children's writer and illustrator, Rupert Bear
• Henry Digby Beste, (1768–1836), religious writer
• Matilda Betham-Edwards, (1836–1919), novelist, poet and travel writer
• John Betjeman, (1906–1984), Poet Laureate
• Thomas Betterton, (1635–1710), playwright and actor
• Edwyn Bevan, (1870–1943), philosopher and historian
• Elizabeth Bibesco, (1897–1945), novelist and poet
• Tessa Biddington, (born 1954), poet
• John Stanyan Bigg, (1828–1865), poet
• Mark Billingham, (born 1961), novelist
• Thomas Bilson, (1547–1616), theologian, AV translator and bishop
• Andrew Bing, (1574–1652), scholar, AV translator and cleric
• Laurence Binyon, (1869–1943), poet and art historian
• T. J. Binyon, (1936–2004), novelist, translator and biographer
• Thomas Birch, (1705–1766), historian
• Caroline Bird, (born 1986), poet and playwright
• Isabella Bird, (1831–1904), travel writer and naturalist
• Dea Birkett, (born 1958), writer
• John Birtwhistle, (born 1947), poet and librettist
• Samuel Bishop, (1731–1795), poet and essayist
• Robert Black, (1829–1915), fiction writer, translator and journalist
• John Blackburn, (born 1923), novelist
• Thomas Blackburn, (1916–1977), poet
• Malorie Blackman, (born 1962), children's writer and screenwriter, the Noughts and Crosses series
• R. D. Blackmore, (1825–1900), novelist, Lorna Doone
• Richard Blackmore, (1654–1729), poet and religious writer
• William Blackstone, (1723–1780), legal writer, jurist and judge, Commentaries on the Laws of England
• Algernon Blackwood, (1869–1951), novelist and short story writer
• Caroline Blackwood, (1931–1996), novelist and critic
• Helen Blackwood, Lady Dufferin, (1807–1867), poet and songwriter
• Max Blagg, (born c. 1949), poet, writer and performer
• Quentin Blake, (born 1932), children's writer and illustrator
• William Blake, (1757–1827), poet and artist, Songs of Innocence and of Experience
• Helen Blakeman, (born 1971), playwright and screenwriter
• Susanna Blamire, (1747–1794), poet
• Edward Blanchard, (1820–1899), playwright and songwriter
• Robert Blatchford, (pen name Nunquam, 1851–1943), journalist, writer and campaigner
• Nicholas Blincoe, (born 1965), novelist and screenwriter
• Mathilde Blind, (1841–1896), poet and biographer
• Edward Blishen, (1920–1996), writer and broadcaster
• Walter Blith, (1605–1654), writer on husbandry
• Robert Bloomfield, (1766–1823), poet
• Charles Blount, (1654–1693), controversialist
• Evelyn, Princess Blücher, (1876–1960), diarist and memoirist
• Nicholas Blundell, (1669–1737), diarist
• Edmund Blunden, (1896–1974), poet, author and critic
• Anthony Blunt, (1907–1983), art historian and spy
• Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, (1840–1922), poet and author
• Ronald Blythe, (born 1922), writer and editor,
• Enid Blyton, (1897–1968), children's author, Noddy
• Frederick S. Boas, (1862–1957), literary historian
• John Ernest Bode, (1816–1874), poet, hymn writer and cleric
• John Bodenham, (1569–1610), anthologist
• Barbara Bodichon, (1827–1891), educationalist and feminist
• John Bois, (1560–1643), scholar, AV translator and cleric
• Osbern Bokenam, (c. 1393 – c. 1463), literary historian and cleric
• Robert Bolt, (1924–1995), dramatist and screenwriter, A Man For All Seasons
• Michael Bond, (born 1926), children's writer, Paddington Bear series
• Elizabeth Bonhôte, (1744–1818), novelist, Bungay Castle
• Christopher Booker, (born 1937), writer and journalist
• Mary Everest Boole, (1832–1916), educational writer on mathematics
• Barton Booth, (1681–1733), actor and poet
• Charles Booth, (1840–1916), social researcher, Life and Labour of the People in London
• Martin Booth, (1944–2004), novelist, poet and editor
• Stephen Booth, (born 1952), novelist
• Brooke Boothby, (1744–1824), scholar and poet
• Frances Boothby, (fl. 1669-70), playwright
• Basil Boothroyd, (1910–1988), writer and humorist
• George Borrow, (1803–1881), novelist and travel writer, Romany Rye
• Lucy M. Boston, (1892–1990), children's writer, Green Knowe series
• Phyllis Bottome, (1884–1963), novelist and psychoanalyst
• Gordon Bottomley, (1874–1948), poet and dramatist
• Ronald Bottrall, (1906–1989), poet and academic
• Marjorie Boulton, (born 1924), writer and Esperantist
• Francis William Bourdillon, (1852–1921), poet
• Thomas Edward Bowdich, (1791–1824), traveler and writer
• Henrietta Maria Bowdler, ("Harriet", 1750–1830), religious writer, editor and expurgator
• Jane Bowdler, (1743–1784), poet and essayist
• John Bowdler, (1746–1823), religious writer and pamphleteer
• John Bowdler, (1783–1815), writer and poet
• Thomas Bowdler, (1754–1825), writer and expurgator
• Thomas Bowdler, 1782-1856), religious writer and cleric
• Elizabeth Bowen, (1899–1973), novelist and story writer
• John Griffith Bowen, (born 1924), novelist and screenwriter, Hetty Wainthropp Investigates TV series, with David Cook
• Marjorie Bowen, (real name Gabrielle Margaret Vere Long, 1885–1952), novelist and writer
• Emily Bowes, (1806–1857), religious poet and artist
• Mary Bowes, (1749–1800), playwright and botanist
• Tim Bowler, (born c. 1967), children's writer
• William Lisle Bowles, (1762–1850), poet and critic
• Maurice Bowra, (1898–1971), scholar and wit
• Frank Cottrell Boyce, (born 1959), children's writer and screenwriter, Millions
• Abel Boyer, (c. 1667 – 1729), journalist, miscellanist and translator
• Charles Boyle, (1674–1731), writer and playwright
• Charles Boyle, (born 1951), poet
• John Boyle, (1707–1762), writer and translator
• Roger Boyle, (1621–1679), playwright and statesman
• Ernest Franklin Bozman, (1895–1968), writer and editor
• Michael Bracewell, (born 1958), novelist and writer on popular culture
• Alison Brackenbury, (born 1953), poet
• Jason Bradbury, children's writer and TV presenter, Dot.Robot series.
• Malcolm Bradbury, (1932–2000), novelist
• Mary Elizabeth Braddon, (1837–1915), novelist, Lady Audley's Secret
• Barbara Taylor Bradford, (born 1933), novelist, A Woman of Substance
• Ernle Bradford, (1922–1986), historian and writer
• Charles Bradlaugh, (1833–1891), writer and freethinker
• A. C. Bradley, (1851–1935), literary critic
• Edward Bradley, (pen name Cuthbert M. Bede, B. A., 1827–1889), novelist and cleric
• F. H. Bradley, (1846–1924), philosopher
• Henry Bradley, (1845–1923), philologist and lexicographer
• Henry Bradshaw, (c. 1450 – 1513), poet and monk
• Hilary Bradt, (born 1941), travel writer and publisher
• Melvyn Bragg, (born 1939), novelist, biographer and broadcaster
• John Braine, (1922–1986), novelist, Room at the Top
• Richard Braithwaite or Brathwait, (1588–1673), poet
• Ernest Bramah, (real name Ernest Bramah Smith, 1868–1942), novelist and humorist
• James Bramston, (1694–1744), poet and satirist
• Barbarina Brand, Lady Dacre, (1768–1854), poet, playwright and translator
• Christianna Brand, (real name Mary Christianna Milne, 1907–1988), novelist
• Hannah Brand, (1754–1821), playwright, poet and actress
• Jo Brand, (born 1957), writer and comedian
• William Branthwaite, (died 1620), scholar, AV translator and cleric
• Anna Brassey, (1839–1887), travel writer
• Angela Brazil, (1868–1947), novelist
• Wallace Breem, (1926–1990), novelist and librarian
• Elinor Brent-Dyer, (1894–1969), children's writer, the Chalet School series
• John Brereton, (1571 or 1572-c. 1632), travel writer and explorer
• Nicholas Breton, (c. 1545 – c. 1626), poet and tractarian
• Richard Brett, (1567–1637), scholar, AV translator and cleric
• Simon Brett, (born 1945), novelist and playwright
• E. Cobham Brewer, (1810–1897), writer and cleric, Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
• Shane Briant, (born 1946), novelist and actor
• John Bridges, (1536–1618), tractarian and bishop
• Robert Bridges, (1844–1930), Poet Laureate
• Raymond Briggs, (born 1934), children's writer and illustrator, Father Christmas
• John Bright, (1811–1889), orator and politician
• Joanna Briscoe, (born 1963), novelist and journalist
• Vera Brittain, (1893–1970), writer and pacifist
• Edwin Brock, (1927–1997), poet
• William Brock, (1807–1875), biographer and Baptist minister
• Alexander Brome, (1620–1666), poet
• Richard Brome, (c. 1590 – c. 1653), playwright, The Sparagus Garden
• Vincent Brome, (1910–2004), biographer and novelist
• Eliza Bromley, (fl. 1784-1803), novelist and translator
• Eleanor Bron, (born 1938), writer and actress
• Anne Brontë, (1820–1849), novelist, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
• Charlotte Brontë, (1816–1855), novelist, Jane Eyre
• Emily Brontë, (1818–1848), novelist and poet, Wuthering Heights
• Patrick Brontë, (born Brunty, 1777–1861), poet, writer and cleric
• Frances Brooke, (1724–1789), novelist and playwright
• Jocelyn Brooke, (1908–1966), novelist, poet and biographer
• Rupert Brooke, (1887–1915), poet
• Anita Brookner, (born 1929), novelist
• Kevin Brooks, (born 1959), children's writer
• Shirley Brooks, (1816–1874), novelist, playwright and poet
• Ralph Broome, (1742–1835), pamphleteer and poet
• William Broome, (1689–1745), poet and translator
• Robert Barnabas Brough, (1828–1864), writer and poet
• George Brown, (1835–1917), ethnographer, diarist and missionary
• John Brown, (1715–1766), essayist and divine
• Pamela Brown, (1924–1989), children's writer and TV producer
• Pete Brown, (born 1940), performance poet and songwriter
• Pete Brown, (born 1968), beer writer and columnist
• Stewart Brown, (born 1951), poet and scholar
• Tom Brown, (1663–1704), satirist and translator
• Anthony Browne, (born 1946), children's writer and illustrator
• Edward Browne, (1862–1926), orientalist and writer
• Isaac Hawkins Browne, (1705–1760), poet
• Moses Browne, (1704–1787), poet and cleric
• Thomas Browne, (1705–1782), polymath, Religio Medici
• William Browne, (c. 1590 – c. 1645), poet
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning, (1806–1861), poet
• Oscar Browning, (1837–1923), writer and scholar
• Robert Browning, (1812–1889), poet
• Alan Brownjohn, (born 1931), poet and novelist
• Dorita Fairlie Bruce, (1885–1970), children's writer, Dimsie Goes to School
• Francis Bryan, (c. 1490 – 1550), poet and courtier
• Samuel Egerton Brydges, (1762–1836), bibliographer and editor
• Anthony Buckeridge, (1912–2004), children's writer, the Jennings stories
• James Silk Buckingham, (1786–1855), journalist and travel writer
• Leicester Silk Buckingham, (1825–1867), playwright and writer on history
• Francis Trevelyan Buckland, (1826–1880), natural historian and surgeon
• William Buckland, (1784–1856), geologist, palaeontologist and cleric
• Henry Thomas Buckle, (1821–1862), historian
• Maria Elizabeth Budden, (c. 1780 – 1832), children's writer
• Eustace Budgell, (1686–1737), writer and politician
• Frank Thomas Bullen, (1857–1915), novelist and autobiographer
• Gerald Bullett, (1893–1958), novelist, critic and poet
• Edward Bulwer-Lytton, (1803–1873, novelist, poet and playwright, The Last of the Barons
• Robert Bulwer-Lytton, (pen name Owen Meredith, 1831–1891), poet, Lucile
• Basil Bunting, (1900–1985), poet, Briggflatts
• John Bunyan, (1628–1688), writer, The Pilgrim's Progress
• Josiah Burchett, (c. 1666 – 1746), naval historian and secretary to the Admiralty
• Anthony Burgess, (real name John Burgess Wilson, 1917–1993), novelist, A Clockwork Orange
• Melvin Burgess, (born 1954), children's writer, Junk
• John William Burgon, (1813–1888), poet and theologian
• John Burgoyne, (1722–1792), playwright and army officer
• Thomas Burke, (1886–1945), novelist and writer on London
• Francis Burleigh, (fl. 1590-1610), AV translator and cleric
• Francis Cowley Burnand, (1836–1917), humorist and dramatist
• Thomas Burnet, (c. 1635 – 1715), theologian and cosmogonist
• Frances Hodgson Burnett, (1849–1924), children's writer, The Secret Garden
• Charles Burney, (1726–1814), music scholar and composer
• Charles Burney, (1757–1817), scholar, schoolmaster and cleric
• Fanny Burney, (also known as Frances, Mme d'Arblay, 1752–1840), novelist and diarist, Evelina
• Frances Burney, (1776–1828), dramatist
• James Burney, (1750–1821), travel writer and admiral
• Sarah Burney, (1772–1844), novelist
• Richard Burns (poet), (also writes as Richard Berengarten, born 1943), poet
• James Burrow, (1701–1782), scholar, scientist and lawyer
• Montagu Burrows, (1819–1905), naval historian and naval officer
• Richard Francis Burton, (1821–1890), writer, translator and explorer, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
• Robert Burton, (1577–1640), polymath, The Anatomy of Melancholy
• Charlotte Bury, (1775–1861), novelist and poet
• Elizabeth Bury, (1644–1720), diarist and polymath
• Alban Butler, (1710–1773), writer and cleric
• Gwendoline Butler, (born 1922), novelist
• Joseph Butler, (1692–1752), theologian and bishop
• Josephine Butler, (1828–1906), writer and social campaigner
• Samuel Butler, (1612–1680), poet and satirist, Hudibras
• Samuel Butler, (1835–1902), writer and satirist, Erewhon
• Herbert Butterfield, (1900–1979), historian and philosopher of history
• Jez Butterworth, (born 1969), playwright, Jerusalem
• Mary Butts, (1890–1937), writer and poet
• Bertha Henry Buxton, (1844–1881), novelist and children's writer
• Nigel Buxton, (born 1924), travel writer and wine critic
• A. S. Byatt, (born 1936), novelist, Possession: A Romance
• John Byrom, (1692–1763), poet
• John Byron, (1723–1786), memoirist and admiral
• Lord Byron, (1777–1824), poet, Don Juan
• Robert Byron, (1905–1941), travel writer, The Road to Oxiana
• Ingram Bywater, (1840–1914), scholar and editor

C

• Florence Caddy, (1837–1923), writer
• Hall Caine, (1853–1931), romantic novelist and playwright
• Mona Caird, (1854–1932), essayist, reformer and feminist
• Maria Callcott, (1785–1842), children's writer, travel writer, and illustrator
• Brian Callison, (born 1932), novelist
• Charles Stuart Calverley, (1831–1884), poet and translator
• Roland Camberton, (real name Henry Cohen, 1921–1965), novelist
• Ada Cambridge, (1844–1926), novelist and poet
• William Camden, (1551–1623), historian and antiquarian
• Thomas Campion, (1567–1620), poet and composer
• Denis Cannan, (born 1919), playwright and screenwriter, Dear Daddy
• Gilbert Cannan, (1884–1955), novelist and translator
• Joanna Cannan, (1898–1961), novelist and children's writer
• May Wedderburn Cannan, (1893–1973), poet and autobiographer
• Dorothy Cannell, (born 1943), novelist
• William Canton, (1845–1926), poet and children's writer
• Edward Capell, (1713–1781), Shakespearean scholar
• John Capgrave, (1393–1464), theologian and historian
• Thomas Carew, (1595–1640), poet
• Henry Carey, (1687–1743), poet, playwright and song-writer, Sally in Our Alley
• Mary Carey, Lady Carey, (c. 1609 – c. 1680), poet
• Rosa Nouchette Carey, (1840–1909), novelist and children's writer
• Robert Carliell, (died c. 1622), poet
• Edward Carpenter, (1844–1929), poet, social critic and philosopher
• Humphrey Carpenter, (1946–2005), biographer and broadcaster
• Barbara Comyns Carr, (1907–1992), novelist and artist
• J. L. Carr, (1912–1994), novelist and school textbook writer
• Lewis Carroll, (real name Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, 1832–1898), children's writer and mathematician, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• Angela Carter, (1940–1992), novelist, The Magic Toyshop
• Elizabeth Carter, (17171806), poet, translator and bluestocking
• Barbara Cartland, (1901–2000), novelist
• George Cartwright, (1739–1819), diarist and explorer
• Justin Cartwright, (born 1945), novelist
• William Cartwright, (1611–1643), playwright
• Elizabeth Cary, (1585–1639), poet and playwright, The Tragedy of Marian, the Fair Queen of Jewry
• Henry Francis Cary, (1772–1844), translator and critic
• Lucius Cary, (Lord Falkland, 1610–1643), poet, writer and politician
• Patrick Cary or Carey, (c. 1624 – 1658), poet
• John Caryll, (1625–1711), poet, playwright and diplomat
• Egerton Castle, (1858–1920), novelist (with his wife Agnes) and fencer
• Sarah Caudwell, (real name Sarah Cockburn, 1939–2000), novelist
• Charles Causley, (1917–2003), poet and editor
• David Caute, (born 1936), novelist and historian
• Tiberius Cavallo, (1749–1809), natural philosopher
• George Cavendish, (1494 – c. 1652), biographer and poet
• Jane Cavendish, (later Jane Cheyne, 1621–1669), poet and playwright
• Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, (1623–1673), poet, novelist and playwright
• William Cavendish, (1592–1676), polymath
• William Caxton, (c. 1415/22-c. 1492), printer and translator
• Lord David Cecil, (1902–1986), scholar and biographer
• Dorothea Celesia, (born Mallet, 1738–1790), poet and translator
• Susanna Centlivre, (earlier pen name Carroll, 1667–1723), playwright, poet and actress
• Laurence Chaderton, (c. 1536 – 1640), theologian, AV translator and cleric
• John Chalkhill, (fl. c. 1600), poet
• Thomas Chaloner, (1521–1565), poet, translator and statesman
• William Chamberlayne, (1619–1689), poet
• Aidan Chambers, (born 1934), children's writer, Postcards from No Man's Land
• E. K. Chambers, (1866–1954), literary historian
• Ephraim Chambers, (c. 1680 – 1740), writer and encyclopedist, Cyclopaedia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences
• Meira Chand, (born c. 1943), novelist
• Mary Chandler, (1687–1745), poet
• Raymond Chandler, (1888–1959), crime writer
• Henry Channon, ("Chips", 1897-1958), writer, diarist and politician
• George Chapman, (1559–1634), poet, playwright and translator
• Guy Chapman, (1889–1972), writer and historian
• Hester Chapone, (1727–1801), writer and bluestocking
• Charlotte Charke, (born Cibber, 1713–1760), writer and actress
• Elizabeth Charles, (1828–1896), novelist and religious writer
• Gerda Charles, (real name Edna Lipson, 1914–1996), novelist and anthologist
• Maria Louisa Charlesworth, (1819–1880), children's writer
• Leslie Charteris, (born Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin, 1907–1993), novelist, Simon Templar books
• James Hadley Chase, (born Rene Brabazon Raymond, other pen names James L. Docherty, Ambrose Grant, and Raymond Marshall, (1906–1985), novelist
• Debjani Chatterjee, (born 1952), poet, translator and children's writer
• Georgiana Chatterton, (1806–1876), travel writer, novelist and poet
• Thomas Chatterton, (pseudonym Thomas Rowley, 1752–1770), poet
• Beth Chatto, (born 1923), gardening writer
• Bruce Chatwin, (1940–1989), novelist and travel writer
• Geoffrey Chaucer, (c. 1343 – 1400), poet and courtier, The Canterbury Tales
• Cris Cheek, (born 1955), poet and performer
• John Cheke, (1514–1557), classical scholar and translator
• George Tomkyns Chesney, (1830–1895), novelist and army officer, The Battle of Dorking
• G. K. Chesterton, (1874–1936), novelist, poet and essayist, Father Brown stories
• Henry Chettle, (c. 1564 – c. 1607), playwright
• William Rufus Chetwood, (died 1766), playwright, novelist and publisher
• Peter Cheyney, (1896–1951), novelist, Can Ladies Kill?
• Josiah Child, (1630–1699), political economist and merchant
• Erskine Childers, (1870–1922), novelist and politician, The Riddle of the Sands
• William Chillingworth, (1602–1644), religious controversialist
• Mary Cholmondeley, (1859–1925), novelist
• Agatha Christie, (1891–1976), mystery writer
• Mary Chudleigh, (1656–1710), poet and polemicist
• Alfred John Church, (1829–1912, scholar, poet and translator
• Richard Church (poet), (1893–1972), poet
• Richard William Church, (1815–1890), biographer, church historian and cleric
• Caryl Churchill, (born 1938), playwright and translator, Serious Money
• Charles Churchill, (1731–1764), poet and satirist
• Winston Churchill, (1874–1965), British prime minister, author and Nobel prizewinner
• Thomas Churchyard, (c. 1520 – 1604), poet and soldier
• Colley Cibber, (1671–1757), Poet Laureate, playwright, and bowdlerizer
• Horatio Clare, (born 1973), writer
• John Clare, (1793–1864), poet
• Emily Clark, (fl. 1798-1819), novelist and poet
• Arthur C. Clarke, (1917–2008), novelist, 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Charles Cowden Clarke, (1787–1877), writer and scholar
• Lindsay Clarke, (born 1939), novelist and poet, The Chymical Wedding
• Mary Cowden Clarke, (1809–1898), writer and scholar
• Pauline Clarke, (born 1921), children's writer, The Twelve and the Genii
• Richard Clarke (vicar), (died 1634), scholar, AV translator and cleric
• Samuel Clarke, (1675–1729), philosopher and cleric
• Susanna Clarke, (born 1959), novelist, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
• Laurence Clarkson or Claxton, (1615–1667), religious writer and theologian
• John Clavell, (1601–1643), writer, playwright and highwayman
• Chris Cleave, (born 1973), novelist and journalist
• Brian Cleeve, (1921–2003), novelist
• Lucas Cleeve, (wrote also as Mrs Howard Kingscote, 1868-1908), novelist
• John Cleland, (1709–1789), novelist, Fanny Hill: or, the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
• Jack Clemo, (1916–1994), poet and novelist
• John Cleveland, (1613–1658), poet
• Anne Clifford, (1590–1676), diarist
• Lucy Clifford, (wrote as Mrs. W. K. Clifford, 1846–1929), novelist, playwright and children's writer
• William Kingdon Clifford, (1846–1879), philosopher, mathematician and children's writer
• Caroline Clive, (pen name "V", 1801–1872), novelist and poet
• Kitty Clive, (born Catherine Raftor, 1711–1785), playwright and actress
• Arthur Hugh Clough, (1819–1861), poet
• William Cobbett, (1763–1835), writer and pamphleteer, Rural Rides
• Bob Cobbing, (1920–2002), poet and visual artist
• Richard Cobbold, (1797–1877), novelist and writer
• Richard Cobden, (1804–1865), politician and pamphleteer
• Aston Cockayne, (1605–1684), poet and playwright
• Catherine Trotter Cockburn, (1679–1749), novelist and playwright
• Edward Cocker, (1631–1676), writer and engraver, Arithmetick
• Richard Cocks, (1566–1624), trader and diarist
• Henry Cockton, (1807–1853), novelist
• Jonathan Coe, (born 1961), novelist, What a Carve Up!
• Lady Mary Coke, (1727–1811), letter writer and diarist
• Barry Cole, (born 1936), poet and novelist
• G. D. H. Cole, (1889–1959), economist, historian and novelist
• Margaret Cole, (1893–1980), politician and novelist
• Olivia Cole, (born 1982), poet
• John William Colenso, (1814–1883), writer on religion and Africa, and bishop
• Christabel Rose Coleridge, (1843–1921), novelist and editor
• Derwent Coleridge, (1800–1883), writer, scholar and cleric
• Ernest Hartley Coleridge, (1846–1920), literary historian, editor and poet
• Hartley Coleridge, (1796–1849), poet and critic
• Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, (1861–1907), novelist and poet
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge, (1772–1834), poet, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
• Sara Coleridge, (1802–1852), author and translator
• Jane Collier, (1714–1755), satirist
• Jeremy Collier, (1650–1726), pamphleteer and cleric
• John Collier, (pen name Tim Bobbin, 1708–1786), poet and caricaturist
• John Collier, (1901–1980), story writer and screenwriter
• John Payne Collier, (1789–1883), literary critic, editor and forger
• Mary Collier, (c. 1688 – 1762), poet
• R. G. Collingwood, (1889–1943), philosopher and historian
• W. G. Collingwood, (1854–1932), writer, artist and antiquary
• An Collins, (fl. 1653), poet
• Jackie Collins, (born 1937), novelist, The World Is Full of Married Men
• John Collins, (1625–1683), mathematician
• John Collins, (1742–1808), poet and song writer
• John Churton Collins, (1848–1908), literary critic
• Mortimer Collins, (1827–1876), novelist and poet
• Norman Collins, (1907–1982), novelist and broadcasting executive
• Warwick Collins, (born 1948), novelist and screenwriter
• Wilkie Collins, (1824–1889), novelist, The Moonstone
• William Collins, (1721–1759), poet
• John Stewart Collis, (1900–1984), biographer and countryside writer
• Maurice Collis, (1889–1973), writer and biographer
• Mary Collyer, (c. 1716 – 1762), translator and novelist.
• George Colman, (1732–1794), playwright
• George Colman, (17621836), playwright and poet
• Jock Colville, (1915–1987), diarist and civil servant
• Howard Colvin, (1919–2007), architectural historian
• William Combe, (1741–1823), miscellanist and poet
• Alex Comfort, (1920–2000), novelist, poet and writer, The Joy of Sex
• Jack Common, (1903–1968), novelist
• Ivy Compton-Burnett, (1884–1969), novelist, Pastors and Masters
• William Congreve, (1670–1729), playwright and poet, The Way of the World
• Thomas Coningsby, (died 1625), diarist, soldier and politician
• Cyril Connolly, (1903–1974), writer and critic
• Joseph Connolly, (born 1950), journalist and novelist
• Tony Connor, (born 1930), poet and playwright
• Robert Conquest, (born 1917), historian and poet, The Great Terror
• Joseph Conrad, (1857–1924), novelist, Lord Jim
• Henry Constable, (1562–1613), poet
• Hugh Conway, (real name Frederick John Fargus, 1847–1885), novelist
• John Conybeare, (1692–1755), theologian and bishop
• John Josias Conybeare, (1779–1824), scholar, translator and cleric
• William Daniel Conybeare, (1787–1857), writer, geologist and cleric
• William John Conybeare, (1815–1857), religious writer, novelist and cleric
• David Cook, (born 1940), novelist, screenplay writer and presenter
• Eliza Cook, (1818–1889), poet
• James Cook, (1728–1779), circumnavigator and travel writer
• Judith Cook, (1933–2004), novelist
• Dorian Cooke, (1916–2005), poet and intelligence officer
• Catherine Cookson, (1906–1998), novelist
• Artemis Cooper, (born 1953), writer and editor
• Duff Cooper, (1890–1954), writer, diarist and politician
• Jilly Cooper, (born 1937), writer and novelist
• Lettice Cooper, (1897–1994), novelist and critic
• Thomas Cooper, (1805–1892), poet, novelist and Chartist
• William Cooper, (real name H. S. Hoff, 1910–2002), novelist
• Wendy Cope, (born 1945), poet
• Esther Copley, (1786–1851), children's writer and writer on domestic economy
• A. E. Coppard, (1878–1957), poet and story writer
• Abiezer Coppe, (1619–1672), religious pamphleteer
• Richard Corbet or Corbett, (1582–1635), poet and bishop
• Jim Corbett, (1875–1955), writer, hunter and conservationist, Man-Eaters of Kumaon
• Julian Corbett, (1854–1922), naval historian
• Marie Corelli, (1855–1924), novelist
• Alan Coren, (1938–2007), writer, satirist and broadcaster
• Hilary Corke, (1921–2001), poet
• Frances Cornford, (1886–1960), poet
• Francis M. Cornford, (1874–1943), scholar and poet
• John Cornford, (1915–1936), poet
• Caroline Cornwallis, (1786–1858), writer and polyglot
• Bernard Cornwell, (born 1944), novelist
• William Cornysh or Cornish, (1465–1523), dramatist, poet and composer
• Felicitas Corrigan, (1908–2003), writer and nun
• Annie Sophie Cory, (pen name Victoria Cross, 1868–1952), novelist
• William Johnson Cory, (1823–1892), poet and educationalist
• Thomas Coryat or Coryate, (c. 1577 – 1617), travel writer and poet
• Randle Cotgrave, (died 1634 or 1652), lexicographer
• Joseph Cottle, (1770–1853), poet, essayist and bookseller
• Charles Cotton, (1630–1687), poet and writer
• Robert Bruce Cotton, (1570/71-1631), antiquarian and political writer, the Cotton Library
• Stephen Coulter, (also wrote as James Mayo, born 1914), novelist
• William John Courthope, (1842–1917), literary historian and poet
• Polly Courtney, (born late 1970s), novelist
• Miles Coverdale, (c. 1488 – 1569), Bible translator
• Noël Coward, (1899–1973), playwright, Blithe Spirit
• Abraham Cowley, (1618–1667), poet
• Hannah Cowley, (1743–1809), playwright, The Belle's Stratagem
• William Cowper, (1731–1800), poet and hymn writer, John Gilpin
• Noël Coward, (18991973), playwright, Blithe Spirit
• Anthony Berkeley Cox, (pen names Anthony Berkeley, Francis Iles, A. Monmouth Platt, 1893–1971), novelist
• Edward Coxere, (1633–1694), autobiographer and merchant seaman
• George Crabbe, (1754–1832), poet and naturalist
• Jim Crace, (born 1946), novelist
• Hubert Crackanthorpe, (born Cookson, 1870–1896), essayist and story writer
• Albert Craig, (the "Surrey Poet", 1849-1909), verse chronicler of cricket and football
• Amanda Craig, (born 1959), novelist
• Dinah Craik, (also wrote as Miss Mulock, 1826–1887), novelist and poet, John Halifax, Gentleman
• Richard Crashaw, (1613–1649), poet
• Elizabeth Craven, (1750–1828), travel writer and playwright
• John Creasey, (1908–1973), novelist
• Edward Shepherd Creasy, (1812–1878), historian, Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World
• Thomas Creech, (1659–1700), translator
• Thomas Creevey, (1768–1838), diarist and politician
• Mandell Creighton, (1843–1901), historian and bishop
• Helen Cresswell, (1934–2005), children's writer and screenwriter, Lizzie Dripping
• Jasmine Cresswell, (born 1941), novelist
• Nicholas Cresswell, (1750–1804), diarist and farmer
• Arthur Shearly Cripps, (1869–1952), story writer and poet
• Quentin Crisp, (born Denis Charles Pratt, 1908–1999), writer and raconteur
• Rupert Croft-Cooke, (pen name Leo Bruce, 1903–1979), novelist
• Andrew Crofts, (born 1953), ghost writer
• Richmal Crompton, (real name Richmal Crompton Lamburn, 1890–1969), novelist, the William books
• Kevin Crossley-Holland, (born 1941), children's writer, poet and editor
• Catherine Crowe, (1790–1872), novelist and playwright
• William Crowe, (1745–1829), poet
• Aleister Crowley, (1875–1947), writer, mystic and occultist
• John Crowne, (1641–1712), playwright
• Andrew Crozier, (1943–2008), poet and scholar
• Andrew Crumey, (born 1961), novelist
• J. A. Cuddon, (1928–1996), novelist, playwright and dictionary compiler
• Annie Hall Cudlip, (1838–1918), novelist
• Pender Hodge Cudlip, (1834–1911), religious writer and cleric
• Hannah Cullwick, ((1833–1909), diarist and domestic servant
• Nathanael Culverwel, (1619–1651), philosopher and theologian
• Richard Cumberland, (1631–1718), philosopher and bishop
• Richard Cumberland, (1732–1811), playwright, poet and novelist
• Nancy Cunard, (1896–1965), poet, memoir writer and translator
• Joseph Cundall (pen name Stephen Percy, 1818–1895), children's writer and publisher
• William Curtis, (1746–1799), botanist, The Botanical Magazine
• Henry Cust, (1861–1917), author and editor
• Catherine Cuthbertson, (before 1780–after 1830), novelist
• Judith Cutler, (born 1946), novelist
• John Cutts, (1661–1707), poet, writer and soldier

D

• David Dabydeen, (born 1955), novelist and critic
• Charlotte Dacre, (pen name Rosa Matilda, 1782–1841), novelist and poet
• Roald Dahl, (1916–1990), children's writer
• William Dakins, (died 1607), scholar, AV translator and cleric
• Penny Dale, (born 1954), children's writer and illustrator
• William Dampier, (1651–1715) travel writer and buccaneer
• Clemence Dane, (real name Winifred Ashton, 1888–1965), novelist and playwright
• Samuel Daniel, (1562–1619), poet and historian
• Sarah Daniels, (born 1957), playwright
• Alicia D'Anvers, (1688–1725), poet
• Ella D'Arcy, (c. 1856 – 1939), novelist and translator
• Charles Darwin, (1809–1882), naturalist, On the Origin of Species
• Emma Darwin, (born 1964), novelist
• Erasmus Darwin, (1731–1802), natural historian and poet
• Florence Henrietta Darwin, (1863/4-1920), playwright
• Elizabeth Daryush, (born Bridges, 1887–1977), poet
• George Webbe Dasent, (1817–1896), writer and translator
• Rana Dasgupta, (born 1972), novelist
• William Davenant, (1606–1668), poet and playwright
• Robert Davenport, (fl. 1623-1639), playwright and poet
• C. A. F. Rhys Davids, (1857–1942), Buddhist scholar and translator
• Lionel Davidson, (1922–2009), novelist, The Night of Wenceslas
• Donald Davie, (1922–1995), poet and critic
• Caitlin Davies, (born 1964), novelist and journalist
• Hunter Davies, (born 1936), writer, biographer and ghost writer
• Hugh Sykes Davies, (1909–1984), poet and novelist
• John Davies, (c. 1565 – 1618), poet and satirist
• John Davies, (1569–1626), poet and lawyer
• Linda Davies, (born 1963), novelist
• Peter Ho Davies, (born 1966), novelist
• John Davis or Davys, (c. 1543 – 1605), writer and navigator
• Lindsey Davis, (born 1949), novelist
• Ann Davison, (1914–1992), travel writer
• Humphry Davy, (1778–1829), writer, chemist and inventor
• Richard Dawkins, (born 1941), ethologist and science writer, The God Delusion
• Coningsby Dawson, (1883–1959), novelist, poet and soldier
• Jennifer Dawson, (1929–2000), novelist
• Jill Dawson, (fl. 1984-present), poet, novelist and editor
• William James Dawson, (1854–1928), poet and religious writer
• Jeffery Day, (1896–1918), poet
• John Day, (1574 – c. 1640), playwright The Parliament of Bees
• Martin Day, (born 1969), novelist and screenwriter, Dr. Who spinoffs
• Thomas Day, (1748–1789), children's writer
• Cecil Day-Lewis, (1904–1972), Poet Laureate, translator and novelist
• Louis de Bernières, (born 1954), novelist, Captain Corelli's Mandolin
• Alain de Botton, (born 1969), writer, novelist and essayist
• Walter de la Mare, (early pen name Walter Ramal, 1873–1956), poet and novelist
• Michael de Larrabeiti, (1934–2008), novelist and travel writer
• William De Morgan, (1839–1917), novelist and potter
• Thomas de Quincey, (1785–1859), essayist and critic, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
• Hugh de Selincourt, (1878–1951), writer and journalist
• Lisa St Aubin de Terán, (born 1953), novelist, poet and autobiographer
• Edward de Vere, earl of Oxford, (1550–1604), playwright, poet and courtier
• Roger Deakin, (1943–2006), writer on the countryside
• Ellen Dean, (fl. 2009-present), novelist and broadcaster
• Geoffrey Dearmer, (1893–1996), poet
• Percy Dearmer, (1867–1936), reformer and cleric, The Parson's Handbook
• John Dee, (1527-1608/9), mathematician, occultist and political economist
• Denise Deegan, (born 1952), novelist, screenwriter and playwright, Daisy Pulls It Off
• Warwick Deeping, (1877–1950), novelist and story writer, Sorrell and Son
• Daniel Defoe, (c. 1659 – 1731), novelist and pamphleteer, Robinson Crusoe
• Paul Dehn, (1912–1976), screenwriter and playwright
• Len Deighton, (born 1929), military historian, cookery writer and novelist, The Ipcress File
• Thomas Dekker, (1572–1632), playwright
• E. M. Delafield, (1890–1943), novelist
• Mary Delany, (born Mary Granville), (1700-17880, letter writer, artist and bluestocking
• R. F. Delderfield, (1912–1972), novelist and playwright, A Horseman Riding By
• Ethel M. Dell (1881–1939), novelist
• Thomas Deloney, (1553–1600), balladeer and novelist
• John Denham, (1614/15-1669), poet
• Felix Dennis, (born 1947), poet and publisher
• George Dennis, (1814–1898), writer and explorer
• John Dennis, (1657–1734), critic and playwright
• Nigel Dennis, (1912–1989), writer, novelist and playwright
• Colin Dexter, (born 1930), novelist, Inspector Morse novels
• Nirpal Singh Dhaliwal, (born 1974), novelist and journalist
• William Diaper, (1685–1717), poet and translator
• Charles Dibdin, (c. 1745 – 1814), playwright, poet and songwriter
• Charles Dickens, (1812–1870), novelist, David Copperfield
• Monica Dickens, (1915–1992), novelist and children's writer
• Anne Hepple Dickinson, (pen name Anne Hepple, 1877–1959), novelist
• Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, (1862–1932), historian and political activist
• John Dickinson, (born 1962), novelist for young adults
• Patric Dickinson, (1914–1994), poet, translator and playwright
• Peter Dickinson, (born 1927), novelist, children's writer and poet
• Kenelm Digby, (1603–1665), natural philosopher
• Leonard Digges, (1588–1635), poet and translator
• Francis Dillingham, (died 1625), scholar, AV translator and cleric
• Wentworth Dillon, earl of Roscommon, (1630–1685), poet, critic and translator
• John Disney, (1677-1729/30), writer on moral reform, and cleric
• John Disney, (1746–1816), religious writer, biographer and Unitarian minister
• Jenny Diski, (born 1947), novelist and essayist, Rainforest
• Isaac D'Israeli, (1766–1848), essayist
• Benjamin Disraeli, (1804–1881), novelist and statesman
• Henry Hall Dixon, (1822–1870), writer
• Richard Watson Dixon, (1833–1900), poet and church historian
• William Hepworth Dixon, (1821–1879), historian, biographer and travel writer
• Sydney Thompson Dobell, (1824–1874), poet and critic
• Henry Austin Dobson, (1840–1921), poet and essayist
• William Dodd, (1729–1777), writer, cleric and forger
• John Doddridge, (1555–1628), writer, antiquary and judge
• Philip Doddridge, (1702–1751), religious writer and hymn writer
• George Bubb Dodington, (1691–1792), politician, poet and diarist
• Robert Dodsley, (1704–1764), poet, writer and bookseller
• Christina Dodwell, (born 1951), travel writer
• Berlie Doherty, (born 1943), children's writer, poet and dramatist
• Paul C. Doherty, (several pen names, born 1946), novelist
• Digby Mackworth Dolben, (1848–1867), poet
• Alfred Domett, (1811–1887), poet and statesman
• Angus Donald, (born 1965), novelist
• John Donne, (1572–1631), poet and divine
• Desmond Donnelly, (1920–1974), writer, journalist and politician
• Eleanor Doorly, (died 1950), children's writer
• Sarah Doudney, (1841–1926), novelist, children's writer and hymn writer
• Charles Montagu Doughty, (1843–1926), poet, writer and traveller, Travels in Arabia Deserta
• Louise Doughty, (born 1963), novelist and playwright
• Keith Douglas, (1920–1944), poet
• Lord Alfred Douglas, (1870–1945), poet
• Norman Douglas, (1868–1952), novelist, South Wind
• Louise Doughty, (born 1963), novelist and broadcaster
• Siobhan Dowd, (1960–2007), novelist, anthologist and children's writer, Bog Child
• Andrew Downes, (c. 1549 – 1628), scholar, AV translator and cleric
• Jenny Downham, (born 1964), novelist
• Ernest Dowson, (1867–1900), poet and story writer
• Arthur Conan Doyle, (1859–1930), novelist and author of Sherlock Holmes
• Richard Doyle, (born 1948), novelist, Flood
• Francis Hastings Doyle, (1810–1888), poet
• Margaret Drabble, (born 1939), novelist and critic, The Millstone
• Phil Drabble, (1914–2007), writer and broadcaster
• Judith Drake, (fl. 1696-1707), essayist
• Nick Drake, (born 1961), poet and novelist
• Augusta Theodosia Drane, (1823–1894), writer and nun
• Michael Drayton, (1563–1631), poet
• John Drinkwater, (1882–1937), poet and playwright
• Henry Drummond, (1786–1860), religious writer, politician and banker
• John Dryden, (1631–1700), poet and playwright, Absalom and Achitophel
• Daphne du Maurier, (1907–1989), novelist, Rebecca
• George du Maurier, (1834–1896), cartoonist and novelist, Trilby
• Stephen Duck, (c. 1705 – 1756), poet and cleric
• Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux, (1857–1944), poet and author
• Ernest Dudley, (real name Vivian Ernest Coltman-Allen, 1908–2006), novelist, screenwriter and actor
• Lord Dufferin, (1826–1902), writer and explorer
• Charles Duff, (1894–1966), language-book writer, translator and satirist
• Maureen Duffy, (born 1933), poet, screenwriter and novelist
• Stella Duffy, (born 1963), novelist and playwright
• William Dugdale, (1605–1686), antiquary
• Alfred Duggan, (1903–1964), historical writer and novelist
• Ian Duhig, (born 1954), poet
• Richard Duke, (1658–1711), poet and cleric
• Sarah Dunant, (born 1950), writer and novelist
• John Duncombe, (1729–1786), poet and cleric
• William Duncombe, (1690–1769), translator and playwright
• Roderic Dunkerley (1884–1966), religious writer
• Helen Dunmore, (born 1952), poet, novelist and children's writer,
• Antony Dunn, (born 1973), poet and playwright
• Nell Dunn, (born 1936), novelist and playwright, Poor Cow
• James Duport, (1606–1679), scholar and cleric
• John Duport, (died 1617), scholar, AV translator and cleric
• Mortimer Durand, (1850–1924), novelist, travel writer and diplomat
• Thomas D'Urfey, (1653–1723), playwright and poet, Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy
• Raymond Durgnat, (1932–2002), film critic
• Edith Durham, (1863–1944), travel writer
• Gerald Durrell, (1925–1995), naturalist and author, My Family and Other Animals
• Lawrence Durrell, (1921–1990), novelist and poet, The Alexandria Quartet
• John Dunton, (1659–1733), writer, bookseller and pamphleteer
• Edward Dyer, (1543–1607), poet and courtier
• Geoff Dyer, (born 1958), writer
• George Dyer, (1755–1841), scholar and poet

E

• Rae Earl (born 1971), writer and broadcaster
• John Earle, (1601–1665), writer and bishop
• Anthony Earnshaw, (1924–2001), writer and illustrator
• Edward Backhouse Eastwick, (1814–1883), orientalist and diplomat
• Mary Emma Ebsworth, (1794–1881), playwright and translator
• Laurence Echard, (1670–1730), historian and translator
• Arthur Stanley Eddington, (1882–1944), astrophysicist and science writer
• E. R. Eddison, (1882–1945), novelist, poet and translator, the Zimiamvian Trilogy
• Emily Eden, (1797–1869), novelist
• Frederick Morton Eden, (1766–1809), social researcher
• Richard Edes, (1555–1604), religious writer, AV translator and cleric
• David Edgar, (born 1948), playwright
• Maria Edgeworth, (1767–1849), novelist, Castle Rackrent
• Richard Lovell Edgeworth, (1744–1817), writer and politician
• Robert Edric, (real name Gary Edric Armitage, born 1956), novelist
• J. T. Edson, (born 1928), novelist
• Richard Edwardes, (c. 1523 – 1566), poet and playwright, Damon and Pythias
• Amelia Edwards, (1831–1892), novelist and travel writer
• Thomas Edwards, (died 1599), poet
• Pierce Egan, (1772–1849), journalist and sports writer, Boxiana
• Pierce Egan the younger (1814–1880), novelist
• Elizabeth Egerton, (born Cavendish, 1626–1663), poet and dramatist
• George Egerton, (real name Mary Chavelita Bright, 1859–1945), writer, translator and feminist
• Rowland Egerton-Warburton, (1804–1891), poet and landowner
• Sarah Fyge Egerton, (1670–1723), poet
• Thomas Egerton, Lord Ellesmere, later Lord Brackley (1540–1617), statesman and patron
• Stephen Elboz, (born 1956), children's writer
• Josephine Elder, (real name Olive Gwendoline Potter, 1895–1988), children's writer
• Peter Berresford Ellis, (pen names Peter Tremayne and Peter MacAlan, born 1943), novelist
• Charles Eliot, (1862–1931), travel writer, malacologist and diplomat
• George Eliot, (real name Mary Ann Evans, 1819–1880), novelist, Middlemarch
• T. S. Eliot, (1888–1965), poet, playwright and critic, Nobel prizewinner, The Waste Land
• Frances Minto Elliot, (1820–1898), historical writer and novelist
• Ebenezer Elliott, (the "Corn Law Rhymer", 1781–1849), poet
• Edith Ellis, (1861–1916), writer and anthologist
• Edwin John Ellis, (1848–1916), poet, editor and illustrator
• Havelock Ellis, (1859–1939), sexologist, social reformer and literary editor
• Royston Ellis, (born 1941), novelist and poet
• Warren Ellis, (born 1968), graphic novelist and comic book writer
• R. J. Ellory, (born 1965), novelist
• Thomas Ellwood, (1639–1713), poet and religious writer
• Elizabeth Elstob, (1683–1756), scholar and translator
• Ben Elton, (born 1959), novelist, playwright and comedian
• Oliver Elton, (1861–1945), scholar and translator,
• Alfred Elwes, (1819–1888), children's writer and translator
• Thomas Elyot, (c. 1490 – 1536), scholar and diplomat
• Sally Emerson, (born 1954), novelist and anthologist
• William Empson, (1906–1984), critic and poet, Seven Types of Ambiguity
• William Enfield, (1741–1797), elocutionist and Unitarian minister
• Barry England, (1932–2009), novelist
• Isobel English, (real name June Guesdon Braybrooke, 1920–1994), novelist
• D. J. Enright, (1920–2002), poet and critic
• Sam Enthoven, (born 1975), children's writer
• Ephelia, (fl. 1679, real name probably Mary Stewart, Duchess of Richmond), poet
• Barbara Erskine, (born 1944), novelist
• Susan Ertz, (1894–1985), novelist
• George Etherege, (c. 1635 – c. 1692), playwright, The Man of Mode
• Abel Evans, (1679–1737), poet and cleric
• Arthur Evans, (1851–1941), archaeologist
• Arthur Benoni Evans, (1781–1854), poet, scholar and cleric
• John Evans, (1823–1908), archaeologist
• Margiad Evans, (real name Peggy Eileen Williams, 1909–1958), novelist, poet and illustrator
• Nicholas Evans, (born 1950), novelist, The Horse Whisperer
• Paul Evans, (1945–1991), poet
• John Evelyn, (1620–1706), writer and diarist, Sylva, A Discourse of Forest Trees
• Peter Everett, (1931–1999), novelist
• Evelyn Everett-Green, (1856–1932), novelist and children's writer
• George Every, (1909–2003), theologian and poet
• Gavin Ewart, (1916–1995), poet and anthologist
• Barbara Ewing, (born 1944), novelist and playwright
• Juliana Horatia Ewing, (1841–1885), children's writer, Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances
• Vincent Eyre, (1811–1881), military writer and general

F

• Frederick William Faber, (1814–1863), hymn writer and theologian, Faith of Our Fathers
• Geoffrey Faber, (1889–1961), poet and publisher
• George Stanley Faber, (1773–1854), theologian and cleric
• Robert Fabyan, (died 1513), diarist and chronicler
• Harry Fainlight, (1935–1982), poet
• Ruth Fainlight, (born 1932), poet, writer and translator
• Thomas Fairfax, (1612–1671), poet and army commander-in-chief
• Margaret Fairley, (1885–1968), scholar, editor and political activist
• J. Meade Falkner, (1858–1932), novelist, Moonfleet
• Mildmay Fane, earl of Westmorland (1602–1666), poet and playwright
• Violet Fane, (real name Mary Montgomerie Lamb, 1843–1905), novelist and poet
• Catherine Maria Fanshawe, (1765–1834), poet
• Richard Fanshawe, (1608–1666), poet and translator
• U. A. Fanthorpe, (1929–2009), poet
• Joseph Farington, (1747–1821), diarist and painter
• Helen Farish, (born 1962), poet
• Benjamin Farjeon, (1838–1903), novelist and playwright
• Eleanor Farjeon, (1881–1965), children's author and poet
• Herbert Farjeon, (1887–1945), dramatist and critic
• Paul Farley, (born 1965), poet
• Jeffery Farnol, (1878–1952), novelist
• Frederic William Farrar, (known as Dean Farrar, 1831–1903), novelist, religious writer and cleric, Eric, or, Little by Little
• J. G. Farrell, (1935–1979), novelist, The Siege of Krishnapur
• Sebastian Faulks, (born 1953), novelist
• Joseph Fawcett, (1758–1804), poet and cleric
• Francis Fawkes, (1721–1777), poet and translator
• Eliza Fay, (1755/6-1816), correspondent and traveller
• John Russell Fearn, (1908–1960), novelist
• Daniel Featley, (also known as Fairclough, 1582–1645), controversialist, AV translator and cleric
• Vicki Feaver, (born 1943), poet
• Elaine Feinstein, (born 1930), poet, novelist and dramatist
• John Fell, (1625–1686), scholar and cleric
• Owen Feltham or Felltham (c. 1602 – 1668), aphorist and essayist
• George Manville Fenn, (1831–1909), novelist and children's writer
• John Fenn (died 1615), religious writer and RC priest
• John Fenn, (1739–1794), antiquary and editor
• Elijah Fenton, (1683–1730), poet
• James Fenton, (born 1949), poet and critic
• Roger Fenton, (1565–1615), religious writer, AV translator and cleric
• Eliza Fenwick, (1766–1840), novelist and children's writer
• Ruby Ferguson, (1899–1966), novelist and children's writer
• Bernard Fergusson, Lord Ballantrae, (1911–1980), military historian and army general
• Patrick Leigh Fermor, (born 1915), travel writer and scholar
• Elizabeth Ferrars, (1907–1995), novelist
• Jasper Fforde, (born 1961), novelist
• Michael Field, pen name of Katherine Harris Bradley (1846–1914) and Edith Emma Cooper (1862–1913), poets and diarists
• Daphne Fielding, (1904–1997), writer and biographer
• Helen Fielding, (born 1958), novelist, screenwriter and journalist, Bridget Jones's Diary
• Henry Fielding, (1707–1754), novelist and poet, Tom Jones
• Sarah Fielding, (1709–1768), novelist and children's writer
• Xan Fielding, (1918–1991), writer, translator and soldier
• Celia Fiennes, (1662–1741), diarist and travel writer
• William Fiennes, (born 1970), writer
• Eva Figes, (born 1932), novelist and critic
• Robert Filmer, (1588–1653), political writer
• Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, (1661–1720), poet
• Anne Fine, (born 1947), novelist and children's writer
• Cordelia Fine, (born c. 1940s), academic psychologist and writer
• George Finlay, (1799–1875), historian
• Ronald Firbank, (1886–1926), novelist and playwright, Valmouth
• Charles Harding Firth, (1857–1936), historian and biographer
• Tibor Fischer, (born 1959), novelist
• Allen Fisher, (born 1944), poet and editor
• John Fisher, (1469–1535), theologian, cardinal and martyr
• Roy Fisher, (born 1930), poet and jazz pianist
• Edward Fitzgerald, (1809–1883), poet and translator, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
• Judith Flanders, (born 1959), writer on history
• Thomas Flatman, (1638–1688), poet and miniaturist
• James Elroy Flecker, (1884–1915), poet, novelist and playwright
• Richard Flecknoe, (c. 1600 – c. 1678), poet, playwright and writer
• Ian Fleming, (1908–1964), author, creator of James Bond
• Peter Fleming, (1907–1971), travel writer and traveller
• Giles Fletcher, (1586–1623), poet
• Giles Fletcher, (c. 1548 – 1611), poet
• J. S. Fletcher, (1863–1935), novelist and journalist
• John Fletcher, (1579–1625), playwright
• Phineas Fletcher, (1582–1650), poet
• Susan Fletcher, (born 1979), novelist
• Thomas Fletcher, (1666–1713), poet, translator and cleric
• Antony Flew, (1923–2010), philosopher
• Robert Newton Flew, (1886–1962), Methodist minister, theologian and religious writer
• F. S. Flint, (1885–1960), poet
• John Florio, (1553–1625), lexicographer and translator
• Robert Fludd, (1574–1637), physician and occultist
• Giles Foden, (born 1967), novelist
• Winifred Foley, (1914–2009), autobiographer and novelist
• Albany Fonblanque, (1794–1872), journalist and editor
• Samuel Foote, (1720–1777), playwright and theater manager
• Duncan Forbes, (born 1947), poet
• Anne Ford, (1737–1824), writer, musician and actress
• Ford Madox Ford, (original name Ford Madox Hueffer, 1873–1939), novelist and poet
• John Ford, (1586–1640), playwright, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
• Richard Ford, (1796–1858), travel writer, A Handbook for Travellers in Spain
• Thomas Ford or Forde, (1580–1648), poet and composer
• Michael Foreman, (born 1938), children's writer and illustrator
• C. S. Forester, (1899–1966), author, the Horatio Hornblower series
• Simon Forman, (1552–1611), astrologer, occultist and herbalist
• David Forrest, novelist, a pseudonym of R. Forrest-Webb and David Eliades
• Helen Forrester, (born 1919), writer
• E. M. Forster, (1879–1970), author, A Passage to India
• John Forster, (1812–1876), biographer and critic
• Margaret Forster, (born 1938), novelist and biographer
• Frederick Forsyth, (born 1938), novelist, The Day of the Jackal
• Richard Fortey, (born 1946), palaeontologist and science writer, Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth
• Adam Foulds, (born 1974), novelist and poet
• Edith Henrietta Fowler, (1865–1944), novelist
• Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler, (1860–1929), novelist
• Henry Watson Fowler, (1858–1933), and Francis George Fowler, (1871–1918), lexicographers and grammarians, Fowler's Modern English Usage
• John Fowles, (1926–2005), novelist and essayist, The French Lieutenant's Woman
• Barclay Fox, (181755), diarist and gardener
• Caroline Fox, (1819–1871), diarist
• George Fox, (16241691), diarist and Quaker
• Robin Lane Fox, (born 1946), historian and gardening writer
• Edgar Foxall, (1906–1990), poet
• John Foxe, (1517–1587, writer, Foxe's Book of Martyrs
• Samuel Foxe, (1560–1630), diarist
• Dick Francis, (1920–2010), novelist and jockey, Dead Cert
• Philip Francis, (1740–1818), pamphleteer and translator
• Suzanne Francis, (born 1959), novelist
• Gilbert Frankau, (1884–1952), novelist and poet
• Julia Frankau, (pen name Frank Danby, 1863–1916), novelist
• John Franklin, (1786–1847), explorer and novelist
• Antonia Fraser, (born 1932), biographer and novelist
• Caro Fraser, (born 1953), novelist
• Michael Frayn, (born 1933), playwright and novelist, Copenhagen
• Margaret Frazer, (pseudonym, fl. 1990s onwards), novelist
• Jonathan Freedland, (born 1967), writer
• Edward Augustus Freeman, (1823–1892), historian
• John Freeman, (1880–1929), poet
• R. Austin Freeman, (1862–1943), novelist
• Elizabeth Wynne Fremantle, (1779–1857), diarist
• Celia Fremlin, (1914–2009), novelist
• Patrick French, (born 1966), biographer and author
• John Hookham Frere, (1769–1846), poet and translator
• William Powell Frith, (1819–1909), autobiographer and painter
• James Anthony Froude, (1818–1894), historian
• Richard Hurrell Froude, (1803–1836), poet, religious writer and cleric
• C. B. Fry, (1872–1956), cricket writer and cricketer
• Caroline Fry, (1787–1846), religious writer and poet
• Christopher Fry, (1907–2005), dramatist
• Stephen Fry, (born 1957), novelist and comedian
• John Fuller, (born 1937), poet, novelist and anthologist
• Roy Fuller, (1912–1991), poet and novelist
• Thomas Fuller, (1608–1661), author and cleric
• Georgiana Fullerton, (born Leverson-Gower, 1812–1885), novelist
• Ulpian Fulwell, (1545/6-c. 1585), playwright, satirist and cleric
• Monica Furlong, (1930–2003), religious writer, biographer and journalist
• Frederick James Furnivall, (1825–1910), philologist and lexicographer

G

• Neil Gaiman, (born 1960), novelist, graphic novelist and screenwriter
• Winifred Gales, (1761–1839), novelist and memoirist
• Norman Gale, (1862–1942), poet
• John Galsworthy, (1867–1933), author and dramatist, The Forsyte Saga
• Francis Galton, (1822–1911), polymath
• Jane Gardam, (born 1928), novelist and children's writer
• Samuel Rawson Gardiner, (1829–1902), historian
• Gerald Gardner, (1884–1964), writer on witchcraft
• Helen Gardner, (1908–1986), critic and scholar
• John Gardner, (1926–2007), novelist, The Liquidator
• Leon Garfield (1921–1996), novelist and children's writer
• Simon Garfield, (born 1960), writer
• Alex Garland, (born 1970), novelist and screenwriter
• Alan Garner, (born 1934), children's writer, The Owl Service
• William Garner, (born 1920), novelist
• Constance Garnett, (1861–1946), translator
• David Garnett, (1892–1981), novelist, editor and playwright, Lady into Fox
• Edward Garnett, (1868–1937), author and critic
• Eve Garnett, (1900–1991), children's writer and illustrator, The Family from One End Street
• Richard Garnett, (1835–1906), scholar and poet
• David Garrick, (1717–1779), actor, playwright and poet
• Samuel Garth, (1661–1719), poet and physician
• Charles Garvice, (other pen name Caroline Hart, 1850-1920), novelist
• George Gascoigne, (1535–1577), poet and translator
• David Gascoyne, (1916–2001), poet
• Elizabeth Gaskell, (1810–1865), novelist, Cranford
• Jane Gaskell, (born 1941), fantasy novelist
• Francis Aidan Gasquet, (1846–1929), historian and cardinal
• Alfred Gatty, (1813–1903), writer and cleric
• Margaret Gatty, (wrote as Mrs. Alfred Gatty, 1809–1873), children's writer
• John Gauden, (1605–1662), writer and bishop, Eikon Basilike (attributed)
• William Gaunt, (1900–1980), art historian
• Jamila Gavin, (born 1941), novelist
• John Gay, (1685–1732), poet and playwright, The Beggar's Opera
• Maggie Gee, (born 1948), novelist, The Ice People
• Pam Gems, (born 1925), playwright
• Emily Gerard, (1849–1905), novelist
• John Gerard, (1545-1611/12), herbalist
• William Gerhardie, (born Gerhardi, 1895–1977), novelist
• Karen Gershon, (1923–1993), poet, writer and novelist
• Edward Gibbon, (1737–1794), history, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• Stella Gibbons, (1902–1989), novelist and poet, Cold Comfort Farm
• Philip Gibbs, (1877–1962), writer and journalist
• Miles Gibson, (born 1947), novelist and poet
• Wilfred Wilson Gibson, (1878–1962), poet
• John Gifford, (1758–1818), historical and political writer, Anti-Jacobin Review
• William Gifford, (1756–1826), poet and satirist
• W. S. Gilbert, (1836–1911), playwright, librettist and poet, The Mikado
• William Gilbert or Gilberd, (1544–1603), scientist, De Magnete...
• William Gilbert, (1804–1890), novelist and naval surgeon
• Alexander Gilchrist, (1828–1861), biographer and critic
• Anne Gilchrist, (born Burrows, 1828–1885), writer
• Robert Murray Gilchrist, (1867–1917), novelist and topographical writer
• Morris Ginsberg, (1879–1970), sociologist
• George Gissing, (1857–1903), novelist, New Grub Street
• Mary Gladstone, (1847–1927), diarist and political secretary
• William Gladstone, (1809–1898), statesman and writer
• Lesley Glaister, (born 1956), novelist and playwright
• Joseph Glanvill, (1636–1680), writer, philosopher and cleric
• Hannah Glasse, (1708–1770), writer on cookery and housekeeping, The Art of Cookery
• Victoria Glendinning, (born 1937), biographer and novelist
• Richard Glover, (1712–1785), poet and playwright
• Elinor Glyn, (1864–1943), novelist
• Robert Goddard, (born 1954), novelist
• Rumer Godden, (1907–1998), novelist, children's writer and biographer, The Diddakoi
• A. D. Godley, (1856–1925), comic poet
• Sidney Godolphin, (1610–1643), poet
• William Godwin, (1756–1836), novelist and philosopher
• Louis Golding, (1895–1958), novelist and poet
• William Golding, (1911–1993), novelist, poet and Nobel prizewinner, The Lord of the Flies
• Douglas Goldring, (1887–1960), poet, travel writer and novelist
• Laurence Gomme, (1853–1916), writer on folklore and public servant
• Jason Goodwin, (born 1964), novelist and travel writer
• Barnabe Googe or Gooche, (1540–1594), poet and translator
• Catherine Gore, (1799–1861), novelist and playwright
• Charles Gore, (1853–1932), theologian and bishop
• Edmund Gosse, (1849–1928), poet, critic and author, Father and Son
• Philip Henry Gosse, (1810–1888), writer on science and natural history
• Stephen Gosson, (1554–1624), satirist and playwright
• Elizabeth Goudge, (1900–1984), novelist and children's writer
• Gerald Gould, (1885–1936), poet and journalist
• Nathaniel Gould, (1857–1919), novelist
• John Gower, (c. 1330 – 1408), poet
• Posie Graeme-Evans, (born c. 1950), novelist and TV director
• Eleanor Graham, (1896–1984), children's writer, editor and anthologist
• Harry Graham, (1874–1936), humorist and poet
• Laurie Graham, (born 1947), novelist and journalist
• Stephen Graham, (1884–1975), travel writer and novelist
• Kenneth Grahame, (1859–1931), writer, The Wind in the Willows
• Sarah Grand, (real name Mrs. David C. M'Fall, born Frances Elizabeth Clarke, 1854–1943), novelist and suffragist
• Andrew Grant, (born 1968), novelist
• John Grant, (pen names Jonathan Gash and Graham Gaunt, born 1933), novelist and physician
• Linda Grant, (born 1951), novelist and writer
• George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne, (1666–1735), playwright and poet
• Harley Granville-Barker, (1877–1946), playwright and actor
• Richard Graves, (1715–1804), poet and novelist
• Robert Graves, (1895–1985), poet, scholar and novelist, I, Claudius
• John Gray, (1866–1934), poet and translator
• Patience Gray, (1917–2005), cookery writer
• Thomas Gray, (1716–1771), poet, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
• Eliza S. Craven Green, (1803–1866), poet
• Candida Lycett Green, (born 1942), writer and journalist
• Henry Green, (pen name of Henry Vincent Yorke), (1905–1973), novelist
• John Richard Green, (1837–1883), historian
• Matthew Green, (1696–1737), poet
• Roger Lancelyn Green, (1918–1987), biographer and children's writer
• Sarah Green, (fl. 1790-1825), novelist
• Thomas Hill Green, (1836–1882), philosopher and radical
• Kate Greenaway, (1846–1901), children's author and illustrator
• Graham Greene, (1904–1991), novelist and playwright, Our Man in Havana
• Robert Greene, (1558–1592), playwright and pamphleteer
• Chris Greenhalgh, (born 1963), novelist, screenwriter and poet
• Lavinia Greenlaw, (born 1962), poet and novelist
• Frederick Greenwood, (1830–1909), journalist and man of letters
• James Greenwood, (c. 1830/35-1929), children's writer and investigative journalist
• Walter Wilson Greg, (1875–1959), bibliographer and editor
• Joyce Grenfell, (1910–1979), writer, actress and comedian
• Julian Grenfell, (1888–1915), poet
• Charles Greville, (1794–1865), diarist and cricketer
• Frances Greville, (c. 1724 – 1789), poet
• Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke, (1554–1628), poet and playwright
• Bill Griffiths, (1948–2007), poet, scholar and translator
• Jane Griffiths, (born 1970), poet and lecturer
• Paul Griffiths, (born 1947), novelist, librettist and music critic
• John Grigg, (1924–2001), biographer and journalist
• Geoffrey Grigson, (1905–1985), poet and editor
• Arthur Grimble, (1888–1956), writer, anthropologist and colonial governor
• Francis Grose, (1731–1791), antiquary and lexicographer
• John Gross, (born 1935), critic, writer and anthologist
• Philip Gross, (born 1952), poet, novelist and playwright
• George Grossmith, (1847–1912), writer and entertainer, co-author of Diary of a Nobody
• Weedon Grossmith, (1854–1919), writer, artist and actor, co-author of Diary of a Nobody
• George Grote, (1794–1871), classical historian and reformer
• Charlotte Grove, (1773–1860), diarist
• George Grove, (1820–1900), editor and writer on music, Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians
• Sydney Grundy, (1848–1914), playwright and librettist
• Philip Guedalla, (1889–1944), historian, biographer and travel writer
• Harry Guest, (born 1932), poet
• Thom Gunn, (1929–2004), poet
• Edmund Gurney, (1847–1888), writer and psychologist
• Ivor Gurney, (1890–1937), poet and composer
• Thomas Anstey Guthrie, (pen name F. Anstey, 1856–1934), novelist and journalist, Vice Versa
• Bernard Gutteridge, (1916–1985), poet
• Emma Jane Guyton or Worboise, (1825–1887), novelist
• Brion Gysin, (1916–1986), sound poet, novelist and painter

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• Jen Hadfield, (born 1978), poet
• William Habington, (1605–1654), poet
• Mark Haddon, (born 1962), novelist, children's writer and poet, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
• Henry Rider Haggard, (1856–1925), novelist and story writer, King Solomon's Mines
• Richard Hakluyt, (c. 1552/3-1616), travel writer, translator and cleric, Discourse Concerning Western Planting
• J. B. S. Haldane, (1892–1964), scientist and communist, On Being the Right Size
• Kathleen Hale, (1898–2000), children's writer and illustrator, Orlando the Marmalade Cat
• Anne Halkett, (1623–1699), memoirist and religious writer
• Edward Hall or Halle, (c. 1498 – 1547), chronicler
• Evelyn Beatrice Hall, (pen name S. G. Tallentyre, 1868-1919), biographer and translator
• Henry Hall, (c. 1656 – 1707), poet and composer
• Joseph Hall, (1574–1656), satirist, moralist and bishop
• Radclyffe Hall, (1880–1943), novelist and poet, The Well of Loneliness
• Sarah Hall, (born 1974), novelist and poet
• Simon Hall, (born 1969), novelist and broadcaster
• Steven Hall, (born 1975), novelist and playwright
• Tarquin Hall, (born 1969), writer and journalist
• Thomas Hall, (1610–1665), religious writer and cleric
• Arthur Hallam, (1811–1833), poet
• Henry Hallam, (1777–1859), historian
• James Halliwell-Phillipps, (1820–1889), Shakespearean scholar and biographer
• Bruce Barrymore Halpenny (born early 20th c.), writer and military historian
• A. H. Halsey, (born 1923), sociologist
• Alan Halsey, (born 1947), poet
• Michael Hamburger, (1924–2007), writer, poet and translator
• Philip Gilbert Hamerton, (pen name Adolphus Segrave, 1834-1894), writer and artist
• Charles Hamilton, (25 pen names including Frank Richards, 1876–1961), children's writer, Billy Bunter
• Cicely Mary Hamilton, (1872–1952), writer, playwright and feminist
• Cosmo Hamilton, (1870–1942), playwright and novelist
• Edward Walter Hamilton, (1847–1908), political diarist and civil servant
• Ian Hamilton, (1938–2001), critic, biographer and poet
• Peter F. Hamilton, (born 1960), SF novelist
• Edward Bruce Hamley, (1824–1893), military theorist and novelist
• Edward Hamley, (1764–1834), poet and cleric
• James Hammond, (1710–1742), poet and politician
• William Hampton, (born 1959), poet
• Marika Hanbury-Tenison, (1938–1982), cookery and travel writer
• Irene Handl, (1901–1987), novelist and actress
• St. John Hankin, (1869–1909), playwright
• James Hanley, (1897–1985), novelist and screenwriter
• Sophie Hannah, (born 1971), poet and novelist
• Derek Hansen, (born 1944), novelist
• John Harding (died 1610), scholar, AV translator and cleric
• Frances Hardinge, (born 1973), children's writer
• Mollie Hardwick, (1916–2003), novelist and writer of TV spinoffs
• Ronald Hardy, (born 1919), novelist
• Thomas Hardy, (1840–1928), novelist and poet, The Mayor of Casterbridge
• Augustus Hare, (1834–1903), travel writer and raconteur
• Augustus William Hare, (1792–1834), essayist and cleric
• Cyril Hare, (real name A. A. G. Clark, 1900–1958), novelist
• David Hare, (born 1947), playwright, Racing Demon
• Julius Charles Hare, (1795–1855), religious writer
• Roger Hargreaves, (1935–1988), children's writer and illustrator, Mr. Men series
• John Harington, (1561–1612), poet, translator and courtier
• John Harmar, (c. 1555 – 1613), scholar, AV translator and cleric
• Cynthia Harnett, (1893–1981), children's writer
• Charles George Harper, (1863–1943), travel writer and illustrator
• Beatrice Harraden, (1864–1936), novelist, lexicographer and suffragist
• James Harington, (1611–1677), political writer
• Frank Harris, (1856–1931), writer, editor and autobiographer
• James Harris, (1709–1780), philosopher and grammarian
• Joanne Harris, (born 1964), novelist, Chocolat
• Robert Harris, (born 1957), novelist, writer and screenplay writer
• Rosemary Harris, (born 1923), children's writer, The Moon in the Cloud
• Austin Harrison, (1873–1928), editor and writer
• Jane Ellen Harrison, (1850–1928), classical scholar
• Sarah Harrison, (born 1946), novelist and children's writer
• Thomas Harrison, (1555–1631), scholar, AV translator and cleric
• Tony Harrison, (born 1938), poet and playwright
• William Harrison, (1534–1593), writer and cleric
• Tom Harrisson, (also wrote as T. H. Harrisson, 1911–1976), conservationist and polymath, Mass-Observation with Humphrey Jennings and Charles Madge.
• David Harsent, (pen names Jack Curtis and David Lawrence, born 1942), novelist, poet and scriptwriter
• B. H. Liddell Hart, (1895–1970), military historian and army officer
• Adam Hart-Davis, (born 1943), writer, scientist and broadcaster
• Duff Hart-Davis, (born 1936), biographer and naturalist
• Walter Harte, (1709–1774), poet and historian
• David Hartley, (1705–1757), philosopher and psychologist
• John Hartley, (1839–1915), poet and writer in Yorkshire dialect
• L. P. Hartley, (1895–1972), novelist, The Go-Between
• Frederick William Harvey, (1888–1957), poet
• Gabriel Harvey, (c. 1545 – 1630), poet and writer
• John Harvey, (born 1938), novelist
• William Harvey, (1578–1657), physician
• W. F. Harvey, ((1885–1937), short-story writer
• Lee Harwood, (born 1939), poet
• Christopher Hassall, (1912–1963), playwright, actor and poet
• Edward Hasted, (1732–1812), historian of Kent
• Michael Hastings, (born 1938), playwright, novelist and screenwriter
• Richard Hathwaye, (fl. 1597–1603), playwright
• Joseph Hatton, (1841–1907), novelist and editor
• William Haughton, (died 1605), playwright
• Frances Ridley Havergal, (1836–1879), poet and hymn writer
• Stephen Hawes, (c. 1474 – 1523), poet
• Robert Stephen Hawker, (1803–1875), poet and cleric, "The Song of the Western Men"
• John Hawkesworth, (1715–1773), writer, editor and dramatist
• John Hawkins, (1719–1789), writer and biographer
• Laetitia Matilda Hawkins, (1759–1835), novelist
• Spike Hawkins, (born 1943), poet and performer
• Thomas Hawkins, (1575 – c. 1640), poet and translator
• Roy Hay, (1910–1989), gardening writer, journalist and broadcaster
• Anna Haycraft, (pen name Alice Thomas Ellis, 1932–2005), novelist
• William Hayley, (1745–1820), poet, playwright and biographer
• Carole Hayman, (born 1950s?), novelist, screenwriter and actor
• Robert Hayman, (1575–1629), poet and colonist
• Mary Hays, (1759–1843), novelist
• Alethea Hayter, (1911–2006), biographer and historical writer
• William Hayter (diplomat), (1906–1995), political writer and diplomat
• Abraham Hayward, (1801–1884), essayist
• John Hayward, (c. 1560 – 1627), historian
• Eliza Haywood, (1793–1756), novelist, playwright and poet
• C. H. Hazlewood, (1823–1875),
• William Hazlitt, (1778–1830), essayist and literary critic
• Mary Hearne (fl. 1718), novelist
• Thomas Hearne or Hearn (1678–1735), antiquary and scholar
• Ambrose Heath, (born Francis Geoffrey Miller, 1891–1969), cookery writer and translator
• John Heath-Stubbs, (1918–2006), poet, translator and anthologist
• Reginald Heber, (1783–1826), hymn writer and bishop, The Son of God Goes Forth to War
• Richard Heber, (1773–1833), classical scholar and editor
• Zoë Heller, (born 1965), novelist and journalist
• Elizabeth Helme, (c. 1753 – c. 1812), novelist and translator
• Arthur Helps, (1813–1875), writer and biographer
• Racey Helps, (1913–1970), children's writer
• Felicia Hemans, (1793–1835), poet
• John Henley, (1692–1756), poet, writer and cleric
• Samuel Henley, (1740–1815), poet and writer
• William Ernest Henley, (1849–1903), poet
• Robert Henriques, (1905–1967), novelist and biographer
• Matthew Henry, (1662–1714), biblical commentator and cleric
• Philip Henry, (1631–1696), diarist and cleric
• John Stevens Henslow, (17961861), botanist, geologist and cleric
• Philip Henslowe, (c. 1550 – 1616), diarist and theatre manager
• G. A. Henty, (1832–1902), novelist
• Philip Hensher, (born 1965), novelist and critic
• Rayner Heppenstall, (1911–1981), novelist and poet
• A. P. Herbert, (1890–1971), humorist, novelist and playwright, Holy Deadlock
• Edward Herbert, Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1583–1648), poet and soldier
• George Herbert, (1593–1633), poet
• James Herbert, (born 1943), novelist, The Rats
• Mary Herbert, countess of Pembroke, (1561–1621), poet and translator, The Countesse of Pembroke's Arcadia
• Edward Heron-Allen, (1861–1943), novelist, historian and translator
• Robert Herrick, (1591–1674), poet
• James Herriot, (pen name of James Alfred Wight), (1916–1995), writer
• Elizabeth Hervey, (1759–1824), novelist
• John Hervey, (1696–1743), political writer, memoirist and courtier
• D. G. Hessayon, (born 1928), gardening writer
• Maurice Hewlett, (1861–1923), historical novelist and poet
• Christopher Heydon, (1561–1623), writer on astrology
• John Heydon, (1629 – c. 1667), astrologer and occult philosopher
• Georgette Heyer, (1902–1974), novelist a
• Peter Heylin or Heylyn, (1600–1662), controversialist and cleric
• Jasper Heywood, (1535–1598), poet and translator
• John Heywood, (c. 1497 – c. 1580), playwright and poet
• Thomas Heywood, (early 1570s–1641), playwright, A Woman Killed with Kindness
• Eleanor Hibbert, (born Eleanor Alice Burford, pen names Jean Plaidy, Victoria Holt, Philippa Carr, etc., 1906–1993), novelist
• Robert Smythe Hichens, (1864–1950), novelist and journalist, The Green Carnation
• William Hickey, (1749–1830), memoirist
• Jack Higgins, (pen name of Harry Patterson, born 1929), novelist
• Susanna Highmore, (1690–1750), poet
• Aaron Hill, (1685–1750), playwright and writer
• Christopher Hill, (1912–2003), historian
• Geoffrey Hill, (born 1932), poet and academic
• John Hill, (c. 1716 – 1775), novelist, journalist and botanist
• Justin Hill, (born 1971), novelist, biographer and translator
• Lorna Hill, (1902–1991), children's writer and novelist
• Reginald Hill, (born 1936), novelist, the Dalziel and Pascoe stories
• Selima Hill, (born 1945), poet
• Susan Hill, (born 1942), novelist and author, The Woman in Black
• Tobias Hill, (born 1970), novelist and poet
• Mischa Hiller, (born 1962), novelist
• James Hilton, (1900–1954), novelist, Lost Horizon
• Walter Hilton, (1340–1396), mystic
• Barry Hines, (born 1939), novelist
• Nigel Hinton, (born 1941), novelist and children's and young adults' writer
• Henry Hitchings, (born 1974), writer and scholar
• Alfred Hitchcock, (1899–1980), screen writer and director
• Christopher Eric Hitchens, (1949–2011), author and journalist
• Benjamin Hoadly, (1676–1761), religious controversialist and absentee bishop
• Louisa Gurney Hoare, (1784–1836), diarist and writer on education
• Richard Colt Hoare, (1758–1838), diarist, travel writer and antiquary
• Thomas Hobbes, (1588–1679), political philosopher, Leviathan
• Peter Hobbs, (born 1973), novelist
• Margaret Hoby, (1571–1633), diarist
• Joseph Hocking, (1860–1937), novelist and cleric
• Silas Hocking, (1850–1935), novelist and cleric
• Jane Aiken Hodge, (1917–2009), novelist
• Ralph Hodgson, (1871–1962), poet and translator
• Shadworth Hodgson, (1832–1912), philosopher
• W. N. Hodgson, (pen name Edward Melbourne, 1893–1916), poet
• Barbara Hofland, (1770–1844), children's writer
• Thomas Jefferson Hogg, (1792–1862), biographer
• Pete Hoida, (born 1944), poet and painter
• Thomas Holcroft, (1745–1809), playwright and miscellanist
• Molly Holden, (1927–1981), poet
• William Holder, (1616–1698), music scholar and cleric
• Robert Holdstock, (1948–2009), novelist
• Raphael Holinshed, (1529–1580), chronicler, translator and cleric
• Jane Holland, (born 1966), poet, performance poet and novelist
• Philemon Holland, (1552–1637), translator
• Sarah Holland, (born 1961), writer and actress
• Thomas Holland, (1539–1612), scholar, AV translator and cleric
• William Holland, (1746–1819), diarist and cleric
• Alan Hollinghurst, (born 1954), novelist and translator
• John Holloway, (1920–1999), poet and scholar
• Constance Holme, (1880–1955), novelist and playwright
• Richard Holmes, (born 1945), biographer
• Robert Holmes, (1926–1986), TV scriptwriter, Doctor Who
• Emily Sarah Holt, (1836–1893), novelist and children's writer
• Hazel Holt, (born 1928), novelist
• Winifred Holtby, (1898–1935), novelist
• Stewart Home, (born 1962), novelist, writer and artist
• Joseph Hone, (born 1937), novelist
• William Hone, (1780–1842), satirist and bookseller
• Thomas Hood, (1799–1845), poet and humorist
• Tom Hood, (1835–1874), humorist, playwright and poet
• Theodore Hook, (1788–1841), writer
• Jeremy Hooker, (born 1941), poet, critic and broadcaster
• Joseph Dalton Hooker, (1817–1911), botanist and explorer
• Richard Hooker, (1554–1600), theologian
• William Jackson Hooker, (1785–1865), botanist
• John Hoole, (1727–1803), translator and poet
• Alexander Beresford Hope, (1820–1887), writer
• Anthony Hope, (real name Anthony Hope Hawkins, 1863–1933), novelist, The Prisoner of Zenda
• Thomas Hope, (1769–1831), writer and novelist
• Bill Hopkins, (1928–2011), novelist
• Gerard Manley Hopkins, (1844–1889), poet, The Windhover: To Christ our Lord
• Sydney Horler, (1888–1954), novelist, Checkmate
• Nick Hornby, (born 1957), novelist
• Alistair Horne, (born 1925), historian and biographer
• Richard Henry Horne, (1802–1884), poet and critic
• Roy Horniman, (1874–1930), novelist and playwright
• E. W. Hornung, (1866–1921), author, the Raffles stories
• Frances Horovitz, (1938–1983), poet and broadcaster
• Michael Horovitz, (born 1935), poet and translator
• Anthony Horowitz, (born 1956), novelist, children's writer and screenwriter
• William Horwood, (born 1944), novelist and children's writer, Duncton Wood
• John Hoskins or Hoskyns, (1566–1638), poet and politician
• Stanley Houghton, (1881–1913), playwright
• Geoffrey Household, (1900–1988), novelist, Rogue Male
• A. E. Housman, (1859–1936), poet and scholar, A Shropshire Lad
• Laurence Housman, (1865–1959), playwright
• Anne Howard, (c. 1696 – 1764), poet
• Brian Howard, (1905–1958), poet
• Edward Howard, (1624 – c. 1700), playwright and poet
• Elizabeth Jane Howard, (born 1923), novelist
• Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle, Earl of Carlisle (1748–1825), poet, playwright and pamphleteer
• Hartley Howard, (1908–1979), (pen name of Leopold Horace Ognall), crime novelist
• Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, (1517–1547), poet
• Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, (1540–1614), writer and courtier
• John Howard, (1726–1790), philanthropist and reformer
• Robert Howard, (1626–1698), playwright
• Sandra Howard, (born 1940), novelist
• David Armine Howarth, (1912–1991), historian and writer
• James Howell, (1594–1666), Historiographer Royal and poet
• Francis Howgill, (1618–1668), Quaker writer and preacher
• Anna Mary Howitt, (1824–1884), poet, writer and painter
• Mary Howitt, (1799–1888), poet and translator, The Spider and the Fly
• Richard Howitt, (1799–1869), poet
• William Howitt, (1792–1879), writer and traveller
• Edmond Hoyle, (1672–1769), writer on games and gaming
• Sisley Huddleston, (1883–1952), writer and journalist
• Stephen Hudson, (real name Sydney Schiff, 1868–1944), novelist and translator
• David Hughes, (1930–2005), novelist and biographer, The Pork Butcher
• Molly Hughes, (1866–1956), writer and educationalist
• Richard Hughes, (1900–1976), poet, novelist and playwright, A High Wind in Jamaica
• Shirley Hughes, (born 1927), children's writer and illustrator
• Ted Hughes, (1930–1998), Poet Laureate, translator and anthologist, Birthday Letters
• Thomas Hughes, (1822–1896), writer and novelist, Tom Brown's Schooldays
• E. M. Hull, (real name Edith Maude Winstanley, 1880–1947), novelist, The Sheik
• Katharine Hull, (1921–1977) and Pamela Whitlock (1920–1982), children's writers, The Far-Distant Oxus
• T. E. Hulme, (1883–1917), critic and poet
• Michael Hulse (born 1955), translator, critic and poet
• Fergus Hume, (1859–1932), novelist
• Tobias Hume, (c. 1590 – 1645), musician and poet
• Helen Humphreys, (born 1961), poet and novelist
• Neil Humphreys, (born 1974), writer on Singapore
• Leigh Hunt, (1784–1859), poet and essayist
• Violet Hunt, (1862–1942), novelist and biographer
• John Hunter, (1737–1821), explorer, travel writer and naval officer
• Rachel Hunter, (c. 1754 – 1813), novelist
• Richard Hurd, (1720–1808), writer, translator and bishop
• James Hurdis, (1763–1801), poet and cleric
• Dyneley Hussey, (1893–1972), poet and music critic
• A. S. M. Hutchinson, (1880–1971), novelist
• John Hutchinson, (1674–1737), theologian
• Lucy Hutchinson, (1620–1681), biographer and translator
• R. C. Hutchinson, (1907–1975), novelist
• Ralph Hutchinson, (c. 1553 – 1606), scholar, AV translator and cleric
• Angela Huth, (born 1938), novelist and playwright
• Leonard Hutten, (c. 1557 – 1632), scholar, AV translator and cleric
• Catherine Hutton, (1856–1946), novelist and letter writer
• William Hutton, (1723–1815), poet and historian
• Richard Holt Hutton, (1826–1897), writer and theologian
• Aldous Huxley, (1884–1963), novelist and essayist, Brave New World
• Julian Huxley, (1887–1975), biologist and science writer
• Leonard Huxley, (1860–1933), writer, biographer and editor
• Thomas Henry Huxley, (1825–1895), scientist and essayist, "Darwin's bulldog"
• Edward Hyde, Lord Clarendon, (1609–1774), historian and statesman
• Henry Hyndman, (1842–1921), writer and politician
• Timothy Hyman, (born 1946), art writer
• C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne, (pen name Weatherby Chesney, 1866–1944), novelist, The Lost Continent: The Story of Atlantis

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• Eva Ibbotson, (born 1925), novelist and children's writer, The Secret of Platform 13
• David Icke, (born 1952), conspiracy theorist
• Conn Iggulden, (born 1971), novelist and children's writer, The Dangerous Book for Boys
• Elizabeth Inchbald, (1753–1821), novelist and playwright
• William Ralph Inge, (known as Dean Inge, 1860–1954), writer, theologian and cleric
• Thomas Ingelend, (fl. 1560), The Disobedient Child
• Jean Ingelow, (1820–1897), poet and novelist
• Simon Ings, (born 1965), novelist
• Mick Inkpen, (born 1952), children's writer and illustrator
• Hammond Innes, (pen name also Ralph Hammond, 1919–1998), novelist and children's writer
• David Irving, (born 1938), writer on history and Holocaust denier
• Margaret Irwin, (1889–1969), novelist and biographer
• Nathaniel Isaacs, (1808–1872), traveller and writer
• Christopher Isherwood, (1904–1986), novelist, Goodbye to Berlin
• Kazuo Ishiguro, (born 1954), novelist, An Artist of the Floating World
• George Cecil Ives, (1867–1950), poet and diarist
• Helen Ivory, (born 1969), poet

J

• Catherine Jackson, (1824–1891), history writer and editor
• Mick Jackson, (born 1960), novelist
• Anna Jacobs, (born 1941), novelist
• W. W. Jacobs, (1863–1943), novelist and story writer, The Monkey's Paw
• Howard Jacobson, (born 1942), novelist and journalist,
• Brian Jacques, (born 1939), novelist
• Frances Jacson, (1754–1842), novelist
• Richard Jago, (1715–1781), poet and cleric
• Christopher James, (born 1975), poet
• Elinor James, (1644–1719), polemicist and printer
• G. P. R. James, (1799–1860), novelist and Historiographer Royal, The King's Highway
• M. R. James, (1862–1936), ghost-story writer and medievalist, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
• P. D. James, (born 1920), novelist
• Robert Rhodes James, (1933–1999), biographer, historian and politician
• Thomas James, (1573–1629), librarian and poet
• William Milbourne James, (1881–1973), naval writer, poet and admiral
• Anna Brownell Jameson, (1794–1860), writer
• Storm Jameson, (1891–1986), novelist and autobiographer
• James Janeway, (1636–1674), Puritan children's writer
• Rosemary Hawley Jarman, (born 1935), novelist and story writer
• Claude Scudamore Jarvis, (1879–1953), writer, colonial administrator and naturalist
• Tim Jeal, (born 1945), novelist and biographer, Baden-Powell
• James Hopwood Jeans, (1877–1946), writer, astronomer and physicist, The Mysterious Universe
• Richard Jefferies, (1848–1887), nature writer and essayist
• Agnes Jekyll, (1861–1937), writer
• Gertrude Jekyll, (1843–1932), gardening writer
• Alan Jenkins (poet), (born 1955), poet
• Amy Jenkins, (born 1966), novelist and screenwriter
• Peter Jenkins, (1934–1992), journalist and screenwriter
• Elizabeth Jennings, (1926–2001), poet
• Humphrey Jennings, (1907–1950), writer and film maker, Mass-Observation project
• Soame Jenyns, (1704–1787), poet and essayist
• Edgar Jepson, (pen name R. Edison Page, 1863–1938), writer and genre novelist
• Selwyn Jepson, (1899–1989), crime writer
• Douglas William Jerrold, (1803–1857), playwright, humorist and novelist
• Jerome K. Jerome, (1859–1927), humorist and playwright, Three Men in a Boat
• Douglas William Jerrold, (1803–1857), playwright, Black-Ey'd Susan
• William Stanley Jevons, (1840–1882), economist and logician
• Geraldine Jewsbury, (1812–1880), novelist and critic
• Rowan Joffé, (born 1973), screenwriter
• W. E. Johns, (1893–1968), novelist and pilot, Biggles
• B. S. Johnson, (1933–1973), novelist and editor, Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry
• Lionel Johnson, (1867–1902), poet and essayist
• Pamela Hansford Johnson, (1912–1981), novelist, playwright and critic
• Richard Johnson, (1573 – c. 1659), writer
• Samuel Johnson, (1649–1703), religious pamphleteer and cleric
• Samuel Johnson, (1709–1784), writer, poet and lexicographer, Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets
• Brian Jones, (1938–2009), poet
• David Jones, (1895–1974), poet, writer and artist
• Daniel Jones, (1881–1967), phonetician
• Diana Wynne Jones, (born 1934), novelist
• Ebenezer Jones, (1820–1860), poet
• Ernest Charles Jones, (1819–1869), poet, novelist and Chartist
• Henry Arthur Jones, (1851–1929), playwright
• Sadie Jones, (born 1967), novelist
• William Jones, (1726–1800), theologian and cleric
• William Jones, (1746–1794), philologist, polyglot and poet
• Ben Jonson, (1573–1637), poet and dramatist, Bartholomew Fair
• Jenny Joseph, (born 1932), poet and novelist
• Gabriel Josipovici, (born 1940), novelist and critic
• John Josselyn, (fl. 1638–1675), writer and traveler
• Benjamin Jowett, (1817–1893), scholar, theologian and translator

K

• Carrie Kabak, (born 1951), novelist and illustrator
• Sarah Kane, (1971–1999), playwright, Blasted
• Anna Kavan, (, other pseudonym Helen Ferguson, real name Helen Emily Woods, 1901–1968), novelist and painter
• Joanna Kavenna, (born 1974), novelist and travel writer
• Sheila Kaye-Smith, (1887–1956), novelist
• Judith Kazantzis, (born 1940), poet and anthologist
• Annie Keary, (1825–1879), novelist, poet and children's writer
• Jonathan Keates, (born 1946), writer and novelist
• John Keats, (1795–1821), poet, Ode to a Nightingale
• John Keble, (1792–1866), poet and cleric, The Christian Year
• Ann Kelley, (born 1941), children's writer and poet
• Fanny Kemble, (1809–1893), actress, playwright and diarist
• Gene Kemp, (born 1926), children's writer, The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler
• Margery Kempe, (c. 1373-after 1438), mystic
• Thomas Ken, (1637–1711), cleric and hymn writer
• May Kendall, (born Emma Goldworth Kendall, 1861–?1943), poet, novelist and satirist.
• Tim Kendall, (born 1970), poet, editor and critic
• Luke Kennard, (born 1982), poet and lecturer
• Lena Kennedy, (1914–1986), novelist
• Margaret Kennedy, (1896–1967), novelist and playwright, The Constant Nymph
• Ally Kennen, (born 1975), children's writer and singer, Beast
• William Kenrick, (c. 1725 – 1779), satirist and playwright
• Judith Kerr, (born 1923), children's writer and screenwriter
• David Kessler, (also writes as Adam Palmer, born 1957), novelist
• Sidney Keyes, (1922–1943), poet
• John Maynard Keynes, (1883–1946), economist, General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
• Richard Kilby, (1560–1620), scholar, AV translator and cleric
• Anne Killigrew, (1660–1685), poet
• Henry Killigrew, (1613–1700), playwright and cleric
• Thomas Killigrew, (1612–1683), playwright, The Parson's Wedding
• William Killigrew, (1606–1695), playwright and courtier
• Francis Kilvert, (1840–1879), diarist and cleric
• Francis King, (born 1923), novelist and story writer
• Geoffrey King, (fl. 1600s), theologian, AV translator and cleric
• Henry King, (1592–1669), poet and bishop
• William King, (1663–1712), poet and essayist
• William King, (born 1959), novelist, Trollslayer
• Alexander William Kinglake, (1809–1891), travel writer and historian
• Charles Kingsley, (1819–1875), novelist, The Water Babies
• Henry Kingsley, (1830–1876), novelist
• Dick King-Smith, (born 1922), children's writer
• W. H. G. Kingston, (1814–1880), children's writer
• Rudyard Kipling, (1865–1936), author and poet, The Jungle Book
• Andrew Kippis, (1725–1795), writer and Presbyterian minister, Biographia Britannica
• Francis Kirkman, (1632 – c. 1680), writer, bookseller and publisher
• James Kirkup, (1918–2009), poet, translator and travel writer
• C. H. B. Kitchin, (1895–1967), novelist
• Flora Klickmann, (1867–1958), journalist, editor and children's writer
• Matthew Kneale, (born 1960), novelist
• Nigel Kneale, (1922–2006), screenwriter and genre novelist
• Anne Knight, (1792–1860), children's writer and educationalist
• Charles Knight, (1791–1873), writer, encyclopaedist and publisher
• Cornelia Knight, (1757–1837), novelist and painter
• G. Wilson Knight, (1897–1985), critic and scholar
• Richard Knolles, (c. 1545 – 1610), historian and translator
• Hanserd Knollys, (1599–1691), translator and Baptist minister
• Frederick Knott, (1916–2002), playwright and screenwriter
• Ronald Knox, (1888–1957), writer, translator and theologian
• Vicesimus Knox, (1752–1821), essayist and proto-pacifist cleric
• Dorothy Koomson, (born 1971), novelist,
• Bernard Kops, (born 1926), playwright and novelist
• Michael Korda, (born 1933), writer and editor
• Hari Kunzru, (born 1969), novelist
• Hanif Kureishi, (born 1954), novelist and playwright
• Thomas Kyd, (1558–1595), playwright, The Spanish Tragedy
• Francis Kynaston, (1587–1642), poet and translator

L

• Robert Lacey, (born 1944), biographer and historian
• James Lackington, (1746–1815), memoir writer and bookseller
• Caroline Lamb, (1785–1828), novelist
• Charles Lamb, (1775–1834), essayist
• Charlotte Lamb, (real name Sarah Coates, several pen names, 1937–2000), novelist
• Mary Lamb, (1764–1847), essayist
• Joseph Lancaster, (1778–1838), educational reformer
• Osbert Lancaster, (1908–1986), writer and cartoonist
• John Lanchester, (born 1962), novelist
• Letitia Elizabeth Landon, (pen name L. E. L., 1802–1838), poet and novelist
• Robert Eyres Landor, (1781–1869), playwright, poet and cleric
• Walter Savage Landor, (1775–1864), writer and poet
• Edward William Lane, (1801–1876), scholar and translator, One Thousand and One Nights
• Joel Lane, (born 1963), novelist, story writer and poet
• John Langhorne, (1735–1779), poet and translator
• William Langland, (c. 1332 – c. 1386), poet, Piers Plowman
• Peter Langtoft, (died c. 1305), historian and chronicler
• Bennet Langton, (1736–1801), writer
• Emilia Lanier or Lanyer, (1569–1645), poet
• R. F. Langley, (born 1938), poet
• Nathaniel Lardner, (1684–1768), theologian
• Philip Larkin, (1922–1985), poet and anthologist, The Whitsun Weddings
• Harold Laski, (1893–1950), political theorist, economist and writer
• Marghanita Laski, (1915–1988), novelist and broadcaster, Little Boy Lost
• David Lassman (born 1963), author, arts journalist and scriptwriter
• Hugh Latimer, (c. 1487 – 1555), preacher, bishop and martyr
• William Laud, (1573–1645), theologian, archbishop and martyr
• Hugh Laurie, (born 1959), actor, comedian and novelist
• William Law, (1686–1761), theologian.
• D. H. Lawrence, (1885–1930), novelist, poet and playwright, Lady Chatterley's Lover
• George A. Lawrence, (1827–1876), novelist
• T. E. Lawrence, (1888–1935), writer and soldier, Seven Pillars of Wisdom
• Benjamin Lay, (1681–1760), pamphleteer and philanthopist
• Layamon or Laȝamon, (early 13th c.), verse chronicler, Brut
• John Layfield, (died 1617), scholar, AV translator and cleric
• John le Carré, (real name D. J. M. Cornwell, born 1931), novelist, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
• Richard Le Gallienne, (1866–1947), writer and poet
• William Le Queux, (1866–1947), novelist, poet and essayist
• Jane Leade, (1624–1704), religious writer and mystic
• Mary Leapor, (1722–1746), poet
• Edward Lear, (1812–1888), artist, humorist and poet, The Owl and the Pussycat
• F. R. Leavis, (1895–1978), literary critic and editor
• Norman Lebrecht, (born 1948), writer on music and novelist
• Harriet Lee, (1757–1851), novelist and playwright
• Laurie Lee, (1914–1997), poet and autobiographer, Cider with Rosie
• Nathaniel Lee, (1653–1692), playwright
• Sidney Lee, (1859–1926), biographer, editor and critic, Dictionary of National Biography
• Sophia Lee, (1750–1824), novelist and playwright
• Vernon Lee, (real name Violet Paget, 1856–1935), novelist and essayist
• Eugene Lee-Hamilton, (1845–1907), poet
• James Lees-Milne, (1908–1997), architectural writer and diarist
• Joseph Leftwich, (real name Lefkovicz, 1892–1984), poet, translator and anthologist
• John Lehmann, (1907–1987), poet and editor
• R. C. Lehmann, (1856–1929), writer and lyricist
• Rosamond Lehmann, (1901–1990), novelist, autobiographer and translator
• Richard Leigh, (1649/50-1728), poet
• Clare Leighton, (1898–1989), writer and illustrator
• John Leland or Leyland, (c. 1503/6-1552), antiquary
• John Leland (1691–1766), Presbyterian minister and author
• Mark Lemon, (1809–1870), playwright, novelist and editor
• John Lemprière, (c. 1765 – 1824), scholar and lexicographer, Bibliotheca Classica
• Sue Lenier, (born 1957) poet and playwright
• John Lennon, (1940–1980), singer, songwriter and humorist
• Charlotte Lennox, (1730–1804), writer and poet
• Alan Leo, (born William Frederick Allan, 1860–1917), astrologer and publisher
• Roger L'Estrange, (1615–1704), pamphleteer, polemicist and translator
• Ada Leverson, (1862–1933), novelist
• Denise Levertov, (1923–1997), poet
• Michael Levey, (1927–2008), art historian
• Peter Levi, (1931–2000), poet, critic and travel writer
• Amy Levy, (1861–1889), poet and novelist
• Andrea Levy, (born 1956), novelist, Small Island
• George Henry Lewes, (1817–1878), philosopher and critic
• Alethea Lewis, (1749–1827), novelist
• C. S. Lewis, (1898–1963), novelist, children's writer and critic, The Chronicles of Narnia
• David Lewis, (1682–1760), poet and playwright
• George Cornewall Lewis, (1806–1863), writer, philologist and politician
• Hilda Lewis, (1896–1974), novelist and children's writer
• Leopold Davis Lewis, (1828–1890), playwright and translator
• Matthew Lewis, (1775–1818), novelist and diarist, The Monk
• Roger Lewis, (born 1960), biographer and scholar
• Ted Lewis (writer), (1940–1982), novelist and screenwriter, Z Cars
• Wyndham Lewis, (1882–1957), writer and painter, The Apes of God
• Marina Lewycka, (born 1946), novelist and medical writer, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
• Nell Leyshon, (fl. 2000s), dramatist and novelist
• Henry George Liddell, (1811–1898), scholar and lexicographer
• John Lilburne, (c. 1614 – 1657), political activist and pamphleteer
• George Lillo, (1693–1739), playwright
• Thomas Linacre or Lynaker (c. 1460 – 1524), humanist, physician and translator
• David Lindsay, (1876–1945), novelist, A Voyage to Arcturus
• John Lingard, (1771–1851), historian and hymn writer
• Anne Lister, (1791–1840), diarist and traveler
• Thomas Henry Lister, (1800–1842), novelist and registrar general
• Emanuel Litvinoff, (born 1915), novelist, poet and autobiographer
• Edward Lively, (1545–1605), scholar, AV translator and cleric
• Penelope Lively, (born 1933), novelist and children's writer, The Ghost of Thomas Kempe
• Richard Llewellyn, (real name Richard Llewellyn Lloyd, 1906–1983), novelist and screenwriter, How Green Was My Valley
• Charles Lloyd, (1775–1839), poet and translator
• Christopher Lloyd, (1921–2006), gardening writer
• Robert Lloyd, (1733–1764), poet and satirist
• John Locke, (1632–1704), philosopher, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
• William John Locke, (1863–1930), novelist and playwright
• Frederick Locker-Lampson, (1821–1895), poet
• David Lodge (author), (born 1935), novelist and critic
• Edmund Lodge, (1756–1839), herald and biographer
• Oliver Lodge, (1851–1940), physicist and science writer
• Thomas Lodge, (c. 1558 – 1625), playwright and poet
• John Lodwick, (1916–1959), novelist
• Hugh Lofting, (1886–1947), children's writer and poet, Dr. Dolittle
• Norah Lofts, (1904–1983), novelist and biographer
• Christopher Logue, (born 1926), poet and screenwriter
• Herbert Lomas, (born 1924), poet and translator
• Elizabeth Longford, (1906–2002), biographer
• E. C. R. Lorac, (real name Edith Caroline Rivett, other pen name Carol Carnac, 1884–1959), novelist
• F. G. Loring, ((1869–1951), short-story writer and naval wireless engineer
• Jane C. Loudon, (1807–1858), novelist
• Richard Lovelace, (1618–1657), poet, To Althea, from Prison
• William Lovett, (1800–1877), political writer and Chartist
• Archibald Low, (1888–1956), science writer
• Edward Lowbury, (1913–2007), poet and bacteriologist
• Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes, (1868–1947), novelist
• William Thomas Lowndes, (c. 1798 – 1843), bibliographer
• Malcolm Lowry, (1909–1957), poet and novelist, Under the Volcano
• Mina Loy, (born Mina Gertrude Löwry, 1882–1966), poet, playwright and novelist
• John Lubbock, (1834–1913), archaeologist, zoologist and politician
• Percy Lubbock, (1879–1965), essayist, critic and biographer
• E. V. Lucas, (1868–1938), essayist
• Edward Lucie-Smith, (born 1933), writer, poet and anthologist
• Edmund Ludlow, (c. 1617 – 1692), memoirist and regicide
• Jane Lumley, Lady Lumley (1537–1538), translator
• Henry Luttrell, (c. 1765 – 1851), poet
• Narcissus Luttrell, (1657–1732), historian, diarist and bibliographer
• Alfred Comyn Lyall, (1835–1911), historian and poet
• John Lydgate, (c. 1370 – c. 1451), poet, Siege of Thebes
• Charles Lyell, (1797–1875), geologist, Principles of Geology
• John Lyly (1553/4-1606), writer and dramatist
• George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton, (1709–1773), politician, patron and poet
• Rosina Bulwer Lytton, (1802–1882), novelist and campaigner, A Blighted Life

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• James Mabbe, (1572–1642), poet and translator
• Rose Macaulay, (1881–1958), novelist and biographer
• Thomas Babington Macaulay, (1800–1859), historian and poet, Lays of Ancient Rome
• Desmond MacCarthy, (1877–1952), critic
• Philip MacDonald, (also wrote as Oliver Fleming, Anthony Lawless, etc., 1900–1980), novelist and screenwriter
• A. G. Macdonell, (1895–1941), England, Their England
• Robert Macfarlane, (born 1976), travel writer and critic
• Arthur Machen, (born Arthur Llewelyn Jones, 1863–1947), novelist and mystic, The Great God Pan
• Colin MacInnes, (1914–1976), novelist
• Denis Mackail, (1892–1971), novelist
• Compton Mackenzie, (1883–1972), novelist, Whisky Galore
• Serena Mackesy, (born c. 1960s), novelist
• Joseph Macleod, (also wrote as Adam Drinan, 1903–1984), poet, playwright and broadcaster
• Barry MacSweeney, (1948–2000), poet and journalist
• Falconer Madan, (1851–1935), writer, bibliographer and librarian
• Judith Madan, (born Judith Cowper, 1702–1781), poet
• Martin Madan, (1726–1790), writer, translator and cleric
• Charles Madge, (1912–1996), poet and sociologist
• Thomas Madox, (1666–1727), Historiographer Royal and antiquary
• Magnus Magnusson, (1929–2007), broadcaster, scholar and translator, Mastermind quiz host
• Michelle Magorian, (born 1947), children's writer, Goodnight Mister Tom
• Henry James Sumner Maine, (1822–1888), jurist and historian
• Frederic William Maitland, (1850–1906), jurist and historian
• Julia Maitland, (1808–1864), writer and traveller
• Sara Maitland, (born 1950), novelist and religious writer
• Bathsua Makin, (real name Bathsua Reginald, c. 1600 – c. 1675), writer and scholar
• Lucas Malet, (real name Mary St. Leger Kingsley, 1852–1931), novelist
• William Hurrell Mallock, (1849–1923), novelist, satirist and poet, The New Republic
• Thomas Malory, (c. 1430 – c. 1471), author, Le Morte d'Arthur
• Eric Malpass, (1910–1996), novelist
• Thomas Robert Malthus, (1766–1834), political economist
• Bernard Mandeville, (1670–1733), philosopher and satirist
• Andrew Mango, (born 1926), author
• Delarivier Manley, (1663 or 1670–1724), novelist, playwright and pamphleteer
• Mary E. Mann, (1848–1929), novelist and story writer
• Ethel Mannin, (1900–1984), novelist, essayist and travel writer
• Anne Manning, (1807–1879), novelist
• Olivia Manning, (1908–1980), novelist and critic
• Robert Mannyng, (c. 1275 – c. 1338), poet
• Henry Longueville Mansel, (1820–1871), philosopher
• Katherine Mansfield, (1888–1923), story writer and poet, The Garden Party
• Keith Mansfield, (born 1965), novelist and screenwriter
• Richard Mant, (1776–1848), writer, translator and cleric
• Hilary Mantel, (born 1952), novelist and critic, Wolf Hall
• Francis Marbury or Merbury, (1555–1611), playwright and cleric
• Jane Marcet, (1769–1858), science writer
• Bessie Marchant (1862–1941), children's writer
• Jan Mark, (born Janet Marjorie Brisland, 1943–2006), children's writer, Thunder and Lightnings
• Gervase Markham, (c. 1568 – 1637), poet and writer
• Mrs. Markham, (real name Elizabeth Penrose, 1780–1837), children's writer
• Jane Marcet, (1769–1858), science writer for children
• Stephen Marley, (born 1946), novelist and screenwriter
• Christopher Marlowe, (1564–1593), playwright, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
• Derek Marlowe, (1938–1996), novelist and playwright, A Dandy in Aspic
• Martin Marprelate, (pseudonym, fl. 1588–1590), tractarian
• Ellen Marriage, (1865–1946), translator, La Comédie humaine
• Florence Marryat, (1833–1899), novelist and actress
• Frederick Marryat, (known as Captain Marryat, 1792–1848), novelist and children's writer, Mr Midshipman Easy
• Philip Marsden, (born 1961), travel writer and novelist
• Edward Marsh, (1872–1953), polymath and translator
• Edward Garrard Marsh, (1783–1862), poet and cleric
• Richard Marsh, (real name Richard Bernard Heldemann, 1857–1915), novelist
• Alfred Marshall, (1842–1924), economist
• Archibald Marshall, (1866–1934), novelist and journalist
• Arthur Marshall, (1910–1989), writer and broadcaster
• Christabel Marshall (1871–1960), writer, playwright and suffragist
• Emma Marshall (1830–1899), childrens writer
• Sybil Marshall, (1913–2005), writer, novelist and educationalist
• Adam Mars-Jones, (born 1954), novelist and critic
• John Marston, (1576–1634), poet, playwright and satirist
• John Westland Marston, (1819–1890), playwright
• Philip Bourke Marston, (1850–1887), poet
• J. P. Martin, (1879–1966), children's writer, the Uncle books
• Harriet Martineau, (1802–1876), sociologist and translator
• James Martineau, (1805–1900), philosopher
• Andrew Marvell, (1621–1678), poet, To His Coy Mistress
• Eleanor Marx, (1855–1898), translator and writer
• Theo Marzials, (1850–1920), poet, composer and singer
• Eric Maschwitz, (1901–1969), writer, lyricist and entertainer
• John Masefield, (1878–1967), Poet Laureate and novelist
• A. E. W. Mason, (1865–1948), novelist
• Anita Mason, (born 1942), novelist
• Paul Nicholas Mason, (born 1958), novelist and playwright
• Richard Mason, (1919–1997), novelist,The World of Suzie Wong
• William Mason, (1724–1797), poet
• Gerald Massey, (1828–1907), poet and Egyptologist
• William Nathaniel Massey, (1809–1881), writer and politician
• Philip Massinger, (1584–1640), playwright
• Harold Massingham, (born 1932) poet
• H. J. Massingham, (1888–1952), nature writer and poet
• John Masters, (1914–1983), novelist, autobiographer and army officer
• Steve Matchett, (born 1962), broadcaster & writer
• Ellen Buckingham Mathews, (pen name Helen Mathers, 1853-1920), novelist
• Thomas James Mathias, (c. 1754 – 1835), satirist and translator
• Aylmer and Louise Maude, (1858–1938 and 1855–1939), translators and writers
• Robin Maugham, (1916–1981), novelist, playwright and travel writer
• William Somerset Maugham, (1874–1965), novelist and writer, The Moon and Sixpence
• Henry Maundrell, (1665–1701), travel writer and cleric
• Frederick Denison Maurice, (1805–1872), religious writer and socialist
• Thomas Maurice, (1754–1824), poet and historian
• Simon Mawer, (born 1948), novelist
• Donald Maxwell, (1877–1936), travel writer and illustrator
• W. B. Maxwell, (1866–1938), novelist
• Thomas May, (1595–1650), poet, playwright and translator
• Henry Mayhew, (1812–1887), social researcher and reformer, London Labour and the London Poor
• Peter Mayle, (born 1939), writer and novelist
• Jasper Mayne, (1604–1672), poet and playwright
• William Mayne, (1928–2010), children's writer, A Grass Rope
• Margaret Mayo, (born 1936), novelist
• Steve McCaffery, (born 1947), poet and scholar
• Keith McCarthy, (born 1960), crime writer and pathologist
• Tom McCarthy, (born 1969), novelist, artist and screenwriter
• Geraldine McCaughrean, (born 1951), novelist and children's writer
• Flora McDonnell, (born 1963), children's writer
• Ian McEwan, (born 1948), novelist and screenwriter
• William McFee, (1881–1966), writer of sea stories
• John McGrath, (1935–2002), playwright
• Patrick McGrath, (born 1950), novelist, The Grotesque
• Jon McGregor, (born 1976), novelist
• Hilary McKay, (born 1960s?), children's writer
• Jamie McKendrick, (born 1955), poet
• Ronald Brunlees McKerrow, (1872–1940), literary historian and bibliographer
• Andy McNab, (born 1959), novelist and ex-soldier
• H. C. McNeile, (pen name Sapper, 1888–1937), novelist, Bulldog Drummond
• Cilla McQueen, (born 1949), poet
• J. M. E. McTaggart, (1866–1925), philosopher, The Unreality of Time
• Henry Medwall, (c. 1462 – 1502), playwright, Fulgens and Lucrece
• Arthur Mee, (1875–1943), writer and educator, The Children's Encyclopaedia
• Charlotte Mendelson, (born 1972), novelist
• George Meredith, (1828–1909), novelist and poet, The Egoist
• Louisa Anne Meredith, (1812–1895), poet and novelist
• Francis Meres, (1565–1672), anthologist and cleric, Palladis Tamia, Wit's Treasury
• Charles Merivale, (1808–1893), historian and cleric
• Herman Charles Merivale, (pen name Felix Dale, 1839–1906), playwright and poet
• Herman Merivale, (1806–1874), historian
• John Herman Merivale, (1779–1844), translator and man of letters
• Leonard Merrick, (1864–1939), novelist
• Robert Merry, (1755–1798), poet
• Charlotte Mew, (1869–1928), poet
• Alice Meynell, (1847–1922), poet and essayist
• Viola Meynell, (1885–1956), poet and novelist
• Nicholas Michell, (1807–1880), poet and novelist
• Peter Middlebrook, (born 1965), author
• Christopher Middleton, (born 1926), poet, translator and scholar
• Conyers Middleton, (1683–1750), biographer, controversialist and cleric
• Richard Barham Middleton, (1882–1911), poet and writer of ghost stories
• Stanley Middleton, (1919–2009), novelist
• Thomas Middleton, (1580–1627), playwright and poet, The Revenger's Tragedy
• China Miéville, (born 1972), novelist and political writer
• Grace Mildmay (c. 1552 – 1620), diarist
• Susan Miles, (real name Ursula Wyllie Roberts, 1887–1975), novelist and poet
• John Stuart Mill, (1806–1873), philosopher
• John Guille Millais, (1865–1931), naturalist and travel writer
• Andrew Miller, (born 1960), novelist
• Thomas Miller, (1807–1874), novelist and poet
• Spike Milligan, (1918–2002), comedian and humorous writer
• Arthur F. H. Mills, (died 1955), novelist
• Dorothy Mills, (1896–1959), novelist and travel writer
• George Mills, (1896–1972), children's writer, Meredith and Co.
• Magnus Mills, (born 1954), novelist
• Henry Hart Milman, (1791–1868), playwright, poet and cleric
• A. A. Milne, (1882–1956), novelist, journalist and playwright, Winnie-the-Pooh
• Drew Milne, (born 1964), poet and scholar
• John Milner, (1752–1826), religious controversialist and RC bishop
• Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton, (1809–1885), poet and politician
• John Milton, (1608–1674), poet and writer on philosophy and theology, Paradise Lost
• Ted Milton, (born 1943), poet and musician
• Laurence Minot, (c. 1300 – c. 1352), poet
• Hope Mirrlees, (1887–1978), novelist, translator and poet, Lud-in-the-Mist
• Adrian Mitchell, (1932–2008), poet, playwright and novelist,
• David Mitchell), (born 1969), novelist
• Gladys Mitchell, (pen names Stephen Hockaby and Malcom Torrie, 1901–1983), novelist
• Julian Mitchell, (born 1935), playwright and screenwriter
• Bertram Mitford, Lord Redesdale, (1837–1916), writer and diplomat
• John Mitford, (1782–1831), poet and naval officer
• Mary Russell Mitford, (known as Miss Mitford, 1787–1855), essayist, novelist and playwright, Our Village
• Nancy Mitford, (1904–1973), novelist and writer, Noblesse Oblige
• William Mitford, (1744–1827), historian
• Timothy Mo, (born 1950), novelist, Sour Sweet
• Ivan Moffat, (1918–2002), screenwriter
• John Mole, (born 1941), poet
• Mary Louisa Molesworth, known as Mrs Molesworth, (pen name Ennis Graham, 1839–1921), children's writer
• Mary Mollineux, (1651–1696), poet
• Rowland Molony, (born 1946), poet and writer
• Nicola Monaghan, (born c. 1970s), novelist
• William Thomas Moncrieff, (1794–1857), playwright
• Francis Money-Coutts (pen name Mountjoy, 1852–1923), poet
• Geraldine Monk, (born 1952), poet
• William Cosmo Monkhouse, (1840–1901), poet and critic
• Harold Monro, (1879–1932), poet and bookseller
• Basil Montagu, (1770–1851), jurist and miscellanist
• Charles Montagu, earl of Halifax (1661–1715), poet and statesman
• Elizabeth Montagu, (1718–1800), reformer, writer and bluestocking
• Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, (1689–1762), letter writer and poet
• Charles Edward Montague, (1867–1928), novelist, essayist and journalist
• Florence Montgomery, (1843–1923), novelist and children's writer
• Robert Montgomery, (1807–1855), poet and cleric
• Agustus Montrose, (1830–1899), playwright and novelist, Lilies In December
• Michael Moorcock, (born 1939), novelist
• Alan Moore, (born 1953), comic book/graphic novel writer
• Edward Moore, (1712–1757), playwright
• Francis Moore, (1657–1715, astrologer and physician, the original Old Moore's Almanack
• G. E. Moore, (1873–1958), philosopher
• Jonas Moore, (1617–1679), mathematician and surveyor
• Nicholas Moore, (1918–1986), poet
• Thomas Sturge Moore, (1870–1944), poet and playwright
• Henrietta Moraes, (1931–1999), writer, model and cat burglar
• Philip Morant, (1700–1770), antiquarian
• Thomas Osbert Mordaunt (1730–1809), poet and army officer
• Hannah More, (1745–1833), poet and religious writer
• Henry More, (1614–1687), philosopher and poet
• Thomas More, (1478–1535), author and scholar
• E. D. Morel, (1873–1924), author and human rights campaigner
• Charles Langbridge Morgan, (1894–1958), novelist, playwright and poet
• James Justinian Morier, (1780–1849), novelist, travel writer and diplomat
• Stanley Morison, (1889–1967), typographer and writer on printing
• Samuel Morland or Moreland, (1625–1695), polymath and inventor
• David Morley, (born 1964), poet, critic and anthologist
• Henry Morley, (1822–1894), critic and biographer
• John Morley, (1838–1923), statesman, biographer and political writer
• Sheridan Morley, (1941–2007), biographer, theatre critic and broadcaster
• Michael Morpurgo, (born 1943), children's writer, poet and playwright
• Clare Morrall, (born 1952), novelist
• Ivan Morris, (1925–1976), writer, scholar and translator
• Jan Morris, (born James Morris 1926), historian and travel writer
• William Morris, (1834–1896), writer, artist and poet
• Arthur Morrison, (1863–1945), novelist and journalist
• Blake Morrison, (born 1950), poet, novelist and critic
• Graham Mort, (1940s?), poet and story writer
• Chapman Mortimer, (born 1922), novelist and screenwriter
• John Mortimer, (1923–2009), novelist, playwright and barrister, the Horace Rumpole books
• Penelope Mortimer, (1918–1999), novelist, biographer and critic
• J. B. Morton, (pen name Beachcomber, 1893–1979), humorist
• John Maddison Morton, (1811–1891), playwright
• Thomas Morton, (1764–1838), playwright
• Brian Moses, (born 1950), poet and children's writer
• Nicholas Mosley, (born 1923), novelist
• Geoffrey Moss, (1885–1954), novelist and soldier
• Thomas Moss, (1740–1808), poet and cleric
• James Mossman, (1926–1971), broadcaster and writer
• Andrew Motion, (born 1952), Poet Laureate and editor
• Peter Anthony Motteux, (born Pierre Antoine, 1663–1718), poet, playwright and translator
• Eric Mottram, (1924–1995), poet and editor
• Ralph Hale Mottram, (1883–1971), novelist and poet
• John Moultrie, (1799–1874), poet and cleric
• Ferdinand Mount, (born 1939), novelist
• Edward Moxon, (1801–1858), poet and publisher
• Jojo Moyes, (born 1969), romantic novelist
• Henry Muddiman, (1628–1692), journalist and publisher, London Gazette
• Malcolm Muggeridge, (1903–1990), writer and broadcaster
• Lodowicke Muggleton, (1609–1698), religious writer
• Richard Mulcaster, (c. 1531 – 1611), writer on education
• Clare Mulley, (born 1969), biographer and social activist
• A. J. Munby, (1828–1910), diarist and poet
• Anthony Munday, (c. 1560 – 1633), playwright, poet and translator
• Iris Murdoch, (1919–1999], novelist, The Bell
• Margaret Murphy, (born 1959), novelist
• Gilbert Murray, (1866–1957), scholar
• John Murray, (born 1950), novelist
• John Middleton Murry, (1889–1957), writer and critic
• Ernest Myers, (1844–1921), poet and translator
• Frederic William Henry Myers, (1843–1901), poet and essayist
• Leo Myers, (1881–1944), novelist
• Julie Myerson, (born 1960), novelist and journalist

N

• Thomas Nabbes, (1605–1641), playwright
• Daljit Nagra, (born 1966), poet
• V. S. Naipaul, (born 1932), novelist and Nobel Prize winner, A House for Mr. Biswas
• Priscilla Napier, (1908–1998), biographer, translator and poet
• Edward Nares, (1762–1841), theologian, comic novelist and cleric
• Roger Nash, (born 1942), philosopher and poet
• Thomas Nashe or Nash, (1567–1601), poet and pamphleteer
• Bill Naughton, (1910–1992), playwright
• John Mason Neale, (1818–1866), cleric, hymn writer and translator, O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
• Patrick Neate, (born 1970), novelist and playwright
• Graham Nelson, (born 1968), poet and mathematician
• E. Nesbit, (1858–1924), children's writer, poet and political writer, The Railway Children
• Alexander Neville, (1544–1614), historian and translator
• Linda Newbery, (born 1952), novelist and children's writer
• Henry Newbolt, (1862–1938), poet
• P. H. Newby, (1918–1997), novelist
• Bernard Newman, (1897–1968), novelist and propagandist
• John Henry Newman, (1801–1890), cleric, religious writer and autobiographer, Apologia Pro Vita Sua
• Isaac Newton, (1642–1727), polymath, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
• John Newton, (1725–1807), hymn writer and pamphleteer, Amazing Grace
• Thomas Newton, (c. 1542 – 1607), poet and translator
• William Newton, (1750–1830), poet
• Charles Nicholl, (born 1950s?), biographer
• David Nicholls, (born 1966), novelist and screenwriter
• Sally Nicholls, (born 1983), children's writer, Ways to Live Forever
• Beverley Nichols, (1898–1983), novelist, playwright and gardening writer
• John Nichols, (1745–1826), antiquary, editor and anthologist
• Bowyer Nichols, (1859–1939), poet
• Peter Nichols, (born 1927), playwright and screenwriter, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
• Robert Nichols, (1893–1944), poet and playwright
• Joseph Shield Nicholson, (1850–1927), economist and novelist
• Norman Nicholson, (1914–1987), poet
• Renton Nicholson, (1809–1861), writer and impresario
• William Nicholson (artist), (1872–1949), children's writer, illustrator and painter
• William Nicholson (writer), (born 1948), novelist, screenwriter and playwright, Wind on Fire trilogy
• Adam Nicolson, (born 1957), historian and nature writer
• Harold Nicolson, (1886–1968), writer, diarist and politician
• Roden Noel, (1834–1894), poet
• Jeff Noon, (born 1957), novelist and playwright
• Lawrence Norfolk, (born 1963), novelist
• Barry Norman, (born 1933), novelist and broadcaster
• Roger Norman, (born 1948), writer for children and young adults
• John Norris, (1657–1711), philosopher and poet
• William Edward Norris, (1847–1925), novelist
• Dudley North, Lord North (1602–1677), writer and poet
• Roger North, (1653–1734), lawyer and biographer
• Thomas North, (1535–1604), translator, Plutarch's Lives
• Caroline Norton, (1808–1877), novelist, pamphleteer and poet
• Mary Norton, (1903–1992), children's writer, The Borrowers
• Thomas Norton, (1532–1584), poet and lawyer
• Richard Norton-Taylor, (born 1944), playwright and journalist
• John Julius Norwich, (born John Julius Cooper, 1929), historian and travel writer
• Julian of Norwich, (1342 – c. 1416), mystic
• Alexander Nowell, (1507–1602), religious writer and cleric
• Alfred Noyes, (1880–1958), poet
• Robert Nye, (born 1939), poet, novelist and editor
• John Nyren, (1764–1837), writer on cricket

O

• Ann Oakley, (born 1944), novelist and sociologist
• Graham Oakley, (born 1929), children's writer
• Patrick O'Brian, (born Richard Patrick Russ, 1914–2000), novelist, the Aubrey–Maturin series
• Sean O'Brien, (born 1952), poet, playwright and editor
• Thomas Occleve or Hoccleve, (c. 1368 – 1426), poet
• William Ockham or Occam, (c. 1288 – c. 1348), scholastic philosopher, Occam's Razor
• Philip O'Connor, (1916–1998), writer and poet
• John Oldham, (1653–1683), poet
• John Oldmixon, (1673–1742), historian and pamphleteer
• William Oldys, (1696–1761), antiquarian and bibliographer
• Laurence Oliphant, (1829–1888), writer and traveler
• F. S. Oliver, (1864–1934), political writer
• Alfred Ollivant, (1874–1927), children's writer
• Daniel O'Mahony, (born 1973), novelist and writer, Dr. Who spinoffs
• Michael O'Neill, (born 1953), poet and scholar
• Oliver Onions, (1873–1961), novelist
• Onyeka, (real name Onyeka Nubia, fl. 2000s), writer and playwright
• Amelia Opie, (1769–1853), novelist and poet
• Iona Opie, (born 1923), and Peter Opie (1918–1982), ethnographers
• E. Phillips Oppenheim, (pen name Anthony Partridge, 1866–1946), novelist
• Emma Orczy, (Baroness Orczy, 1865–1947), novelist, playwright and translator, The Scarlet Pimpernel
• Joe Orton, (1933–1967), dramatist
• George Orwell, (pen name of Eric Blair), (1903–1950), novelist and journalist, 1984
• Martin Orwin, (born 1963), poet, educator, writer
• Dorothy Osborne, (1627–1695), letter writer
• John Osborne, (1929–1994), dramatist, Look Back in Anger
• Arthur O'Shaughnessy, (1844–1881), poet
• Maggie O'Sullivan, (born 1951), poet and performer
• Alice Oswald, (born 1966), poet
• Thomas Otway, (1652–1685), playwright
• Ouida, (real name Maria Louise Ramé, 1839–1908), novelist, Under Two Flags
• William Oughtred, (1574–1660), mathematician
• Keith Ovenden, (born 1943), novelist and biographer
• John Overall (bishop), (1559–1619), scholar, AV translator and bishop
• Thomas Overbury, (1581–1613), poet and essayist
• Richard Overton, (c. 1599 – 1664), pamphleteer
• Richard Owen, (1804–1892), anatomist, palaeontologist and zoologist
• Wilfred Owen, (1893–1918), war poet
• Elsie J. Oxenham, (real name Elsie Jeanette Dunkerley, 1880–1960), children's writer, the Abbey Series
• John Oxenham, (real name William Arthur Dunkerley, 1852–1941), novelist, journalist and poet
• Mary Oxlie, (fl. 1616), poet

P

• Ruth Padel, (born 1946), poet and journalist
• Lynda Page, (born 1950), novelist
• Russell Page, (1906–1985), gardening writer and landscape architect
• John Paget, (died 1638), religious writer and Presbyterian minister
• Barry Pain, (1864–1928), novelist and humorist
• Thomas Paine, (1737–1809), political writer and pamphleteer, Rights of Man
• William Painter, (c. 1540 – 1594), writer
• William Paley, (1743–1805), philosopher, theologian and cleric
• Francis Palgrave, (1788–1861), historian
• Francis Turner Palgrave, (1824–1897), poet and anthologist, Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics
• William Gifford Palgrave, (1826–1888), travel writer and orientalist
• Edward Henry Palmer, (1840–1882), translator and orientalist
• Herbert Edward Palmer, (1880–1961), poet and critic
• Samuel Palmer, (1805–1881), poet and painter
• Robert Paltock, (1697–1767), novelist
• Bernard Pares, (1867–1949), historian and Russian expert
• Edith Pargeter, (also wrote as Ellis Peters, 1913–1995), novelist and history writer
• Henry Parker, (1604–1652), political writer
• Martin Parker, (c. 1600 – c. 1656), balladeer
• Matthew Parker, (1504–1575), Bible translator and archbishop, the Bishops' Bible (instigator and contributor)
• Norman Parker, (born 1954), memoirist
• Samuel Parker, (1640–1688), theologian, religious writer and bishop
• Samuel Parker, (1681–1730), religious writer and translator
• Bessie Rayner Parkes, (1829–1925), writer and poet
• C. Northcote Parkinson, (1909–1993), naval historian and writer on administration, Parkinson's Law
• John Parkinson (botanist), (1567–1650), herbalist
• Adele Parks, (born 1969), novelist
• Tim Parks, (born 1954), novelist and translator
• David Parlett, (born 1939), writer on card and other games
• Samuel Parr, (1747–1825), political writer, scholar and schoolmaster
• Frances Partridge, (1900–2004), diarist and translator
• John Pass, (born 1947), poet and scholar
• Paston Family, (14th–16th cc.), Paston Letters
• Walter Pater, (1839–1894), essayist and novelist, Marius the Epicurean
• Coventry Patmore, (1823–1896), poet and critic
• Brian Patten, (born 1946), poet and children's writer
• Mark Pattison, (1813–1884), writer and cleric
• Tom Paulin, (born 1949), poet, academic and broadcaster
• Michelle Paver, (born 1960), children's writer, Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series
• Stel Pavlou, (born 1970), novelist and screenwriter
• James Payn, (1830–1898), novelist and miscellanist
• John Payne, (1842–1917), poet and translator
• Henry Peacham the Elder, (1546–1634), writer on rhetoric and cleric
• Henry Peacham the Younger, (c. 1573 – c. 1643), poet and writer on art and literature
• Thomas Love Peacock, (1785–1866), satirical novelist and poet, Nightmare Abbey
• Mervyn Peake, (1911–1968), novelist and poet, Gormenghast
• Philippa Pearce, (1920–2006), children's writer, Tom's Midnight Garden
• Pearl Poet, (designation for unnamed poet, fl. 14th c.), poet, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• Hugh Pearman, (born 1955), critic and architect.
• Tim Pears, (born 1956), novelist
• Hesketh Pearson, (1887–1964), biographer
• John Pearson, (born 1930), biographer
• John Pearson, (1612–1686), theologian and bishop
• Edward R. Pease, (1857–1955), writer and politician
• Reginald Pecock, (c. 1395 – 1460), theologian and bishop
• Margaret Pedler, (died 1948), novelist
• J. H. B. Peel, (1913–1983), writer, poet and journalist
• George Peele, (1556–1596), playwright and poet
• Mal Peet, (born 1960s?), children's writer
• Samuel Pegge, (1704–1796), antiquary, translator and cleric
• Isaac Penington, (1616–1679), Quaker writer on religion
• William Penn, (1644–1718), politician and political and religious writer
• Thomas Pennant, (1726–1798), naturalist, antiquary and travel writer
• Hilary Pepler, (1878–1951), writer and poet
• Emily Pepys, (1833–1877), child diarist
• Samuel Pepys, (1633–1703), diarist
• Thomas Percy, (1729–1811), bishop, poet and anthologist, Percy's Reliques
• John Perrin, (c. 1558 – 1615), scholar, AV translator and cleric
• Chris Petit, (born 1949), novelist and film director
• William Petty, (1623–1687), economist and philosopher
• K. M. Peyton, (born Kathleen Herald, 1929), children's writer, The Edge of the Cloud
• St. John Philby, (1885–1960), writer, intelligence officer and Arabist
• Ambrose Philips, (1674–1739), poet
• John Philips, (1676–1709), poet
• Katherine Philips, (1632–1644), poet
• Caryl Phillips, (born 1958), novelist
• Edward Phillips, (1630 – c. 1696), writer and philologist
• John Phillips, (1631–1706), writer
• J. B. Phillips, (1906–1982), Bible translator and cleric
• Stephen Phillips, (1864–1915), poet and playwright
• Eden Phillpotts, (1862–1960), novelist, poet and playwright
• Henry Phillpotts, (1778–1869), pamphleteer and bishop
• Gervase Phinn, (born 1946), novelist, poet and writer on education
• David Andrew Phoenix, (born 1966), author, scientist and educationalist
• Tom Pickard, (born 1946), poet and scriptwriter
• David Pickering, (born 1958), compiler of reference books
• Marmaduke Pickthall, (1875–1936), scholar, Qur'an translator and novelist
• Sarah Piers, (died 1719), poet
• Arthur Cecil Pigou, (1877–1959), economist
• Mary Pilkington, (1766–1839), novelist and children's writer
• Arthur Wing Pinero, (1855–1934), playwright
• William Pinnock, (1782–1843) educational writer and publisher
• Harold Pinter, (1930–2008), Nobel prize winner, playwright and screenwriter, The Caretaker
• Isaac Pitman, (1813–1897), writer on shorthand
• Christopher Pitt, (1699–1748), poet and translator
• Ruth Pitter, (1897–1992), poet
• Mary Pix, (1666–1709), playwright and novelist
• James Planché, (1796–1880), playwright
• Victor Plarr, (1863–1929), poet and biographer
• Alan Plater, (1935–2010), playwright, screenwriter and novelist
• Karen Platt (fl. 2004-present), gardening writer.
• Max Plowman, (1883–1941), writer and poet
• J. H. Plumb, (1911–2001), historian
• Anne Plumptre, (1760–1818), writer and translator
• Tom Pocock, (1925–2007), biographer and historian
• Richard Pococke, (1704–1765), travel writer, diarist and bishop
• Frank Podmore, (1856–1910), writer and politician
• Elizabeth Polack, (fl. 1830-38), playwright
• John William Polidori, (1795–1821), writer and physician, The Vampyre
• Alfred Oliver Pollard, (1893–1960), novelist, autobiographer and army officer
• Alfred W. Pollard, (1859–1944), bibliographer and scholar
• Margaret Steuart Pollard, (1903–1996), poet and writer on Cornwall
• William Pollard, (1828–1893), Quaker writer on religion
• Jacob Polley, (born 1975), poet and novelist
• Elizabeth Polwheele or Polewhele, (c. 1651 – c. 1691), playwright
• Richard Polwhele, (1760–1838), poet, writer and cleric
• John Pomfret, (1667–1703), poet and cleric
• John Poole, (1786–1872), playwright
• Alexander Pope, (1688–1744), poet
• Dudley Pope, (1925–1997), novelist, the Lord Ramage series
• Jessie Pope, (1868–1941), poet and writer
• Walter Pope, (1627–1714), astronomer and poet
• James Pope-Hennessy, (1916–1974), biographer and travel writer
• Samuel Pordage, (1633–1691), poet
• Richard Porson, (1759–1808), scholar, editor and translator
• Anna Maria Porter, (1780–1832), novelist
• Henry Porter, (died 1599), playwright
• Henry Porter, (born 1953), writer on liberty and novelist
• Jane Porter, (1776–1850), novelist
• Roy Porter, (1946–2002), historian
• Sheena Porter, (born 1935), children's writer, Nordy Bank
• Raymond Postgate, (1896–1971), novelist and social historian
• Beatrix Potter, (1866–1943), children's writer and illustrator, The Tale of Peter Rabbit
• Robert Potter, (1721–1804), translator, poet and cleric
• Anthony Powell, (1905–2000), novelist, A Dance to the Music of Time
• Michael Powell, (1905–1990), writer and film director
• Eileen Power, (1889–1940), historian
• Rhoda Power, (1890–1957), children's writer and broadcaster, Redcap Runs Away
• John Cowper Powys, (1872–1963), novelist
• Llewelyn Powys, (1884–1939), travel writer, biographer
• T. F. Powys, (1875–1953), novelist and story writer
• Winthrop Mackworth Praed, (1802–1839), poet and politician
• Terry Pratchett, (born 1948), novelist, Discworld series
• Anne Pratt, (1806–1893), botanical writer and illustrator
• Thomas Preston, (1537–1598), scholar and playwright
• Thomas Preston, (1563–1640), religious writer and RC monk
• Diana Primrose, (fl. 1630), poet
• Matthew Prior, (1664–1721), poet
• Bonamy Price, (1807–1888), political economist
• Nancy Price, (1880–1970), dramatist, novelist, poet and diarist
• Richard Price, (1723–1791), economist, moral philosopher and Unitarian minister
• Susan Price, (born 1955), children's writer, The Ghost Drum
• Christopher Priest, (born 1943), novelist
• J. B. Priestley, (1894–1984), dramatist and novelist, The Good Companions
• Joseph Priestley, (1733–1804), theologian, natural philosopher and political theorist
• Peter Prince, (fl. 1973-present), novelist and screenwriter
• V. S. Pritchett, (1900–1997), writer
• May Probyn, (1856–1909), poet
• Adelaide Anne Procter, (1825–1864), poet and philanthropist
• Bryan Waller Procter, (pen name Barry Cornwall, 1787–1874), songwriter and playwright
• Sally Prue, (born 1970s?), children's writer
• Adelaide Anne Procter, (1825–1864), poet and philanthropist
• Bryan Procter, (pen name Barry Cornwall, 1787–1874), poet
• Sophie Amelia Prosser, (1807–1882), children's writer
• J. H. Prynne, (born 1936), poet
• William Prynne, (1600–1699), religious pamphleteer and writer on history
• John Pudney, (1909–1977), writer and poet
• Sheenagh Pugh, (born 1950), poet and novelist
• Pullein-Thompson sisters, Josephine, (born 1924), Diana, (born 1925) and Christine, (1925–2005), children's writers
• Charlotte Pullein-Thompson, (pen name Charlotte Popescu, born 1957), writer on ponies and gardening
• Philip Pullman, (born 1946), children's writer, His Dark Materials
• Samuel Purchas, (c. 1575 – 1626), travel writer
• C. B. Purdom, (1883–1965), critic, author and biographer
• Edward Bouverie Pusey, (1800–1882), theologian, scholar and cleric
• George Puttenham, (1529–1590), and Richard Puttenham (c. 1520 – c. 1601), critics and courtiers
• Henry James Pye (1745–1813), Poet Laureate and writer
• Barbara Pym, (1913–1980), novelist

Q

• Bernard Quaritch, (1819–1899), bookseller and bibliographer
• Francis Quarles, (1592–1644), poet
• C. H. B. Quennell, (1872–1935), writer and architect
• Marjorie Quennell, (1884–1972), historian
• Peter Quennell, (1905–1993), biographer, poet and essayist
• William Le Queux, (1864–1927), novelist and journalist
• Arthur Quiller-Couch (pen name Q, 1863–1944), novelist and literary critic, Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250–1900
• Mabel Quiller-Couch, (c. 1866 – 1924), children's writer and editor
• Edward Quillinan, (1791–1851), poet and translator
• Ann Quin, (1936–1973), experimental novelist
• Anthony Quiney, (living), architectural historian and academic

R

• Michael Rabbet, (c. 1562 – 1630), AV translator and cleric
• Ann Radcliffe, (1764–1823), novelist, The Mysteries of Udolpho
• Jeremiah Radcliffe, (died 1612 or c. 1620), scholar, AV translator and cleric
• Dollie Radford, (real name Caroline Maitland, 1858–1920), poet and writer
• Simon Rae, (born c. 1960), poet and cricket writer
• Elizabeth Raffald, (1833–1881), cookery writer
• Bali Rai, (born 1971), young-adult novelist
• Craig Raine, (born 1944) poet and critic
• Kathleen Raine, (1908–2003), poet and translator
• Nina Raine, (born c. 1978), playwright and director
• John Rainolds, (1549–1607), scholar, AV translator and cleric
• Ross Raisin, (born 1979), novelist
• Arthur Raistrick, (1896–1991), polymath
• Walter Raleigh or Ralegh, (1552–1618), poet, mariner and courtier
• Walter Raleigh, (1861–1922), scholar and poet
• Thomas Randolph, (1605–1635), poet
• William Brighty Rands, (pen names Henry Holbeach and Matthew Browne, 1823–1882), children's writer, hymn writer and journalist
• Arthur Ransome, (1884–1967), author and journalist, Swallows and Amazons
• Hastings Rashdall, (1858–1924), philosopher and cleric
• John Rastell or Rastall (c. 1475 – 1536), chronicler, playwright and printer
• Julian Rathbone, (1935–2008), novelist
• Simon Raven, (1927–2001), novelist, screenwriter and playwright
• Ralph Ravens, (c. 1553 – 1615), scholar, AV translator and cleric
• Edward Ravenscroft, (c. 1654 – 1707), playwright
• Thomas Ravis, (c. 1560 – 1609), scholar, AV translator and bishop
• George Rawlinson, (1812–1902), scholar, historian and cleric
• Hardwicke Rawnsley, (1851–1920), poet and hymn writer
• Tom Raworth, (born 1938), poet
• John Ray, (1627–1705), naturalist and lexicographer
• Derek Raymond, (real name Robert William Arthur Cook, 1931–1994), novelist
• Claire Rayner, (1931–2010), novelist, agony aunt and broadcaster
• Jay Rayner, (born 1966), novelist and food writer
• JS Raynor, (born 1944), novelist
• Herbert Read, (1893–1968), poet and novelist
• Piers Paul Read, (born 1941), novelist and writer, Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
• Charles Reade, (1814–1884), historical novelist, The Cricket on the Hearth
• John Redford, (died 1547), poet, dramatist and composer
• Peter Redgrove, (1932–2003), poet, novelist and editor
• Henry Reed, (1914–1986), poet and translator
• Jeremy Reed, (born 1951), poet, novelist and critic
• Talbot Baines Reed, (1852–1893), children's novelist, The Fifth Form at St. Dominic's
• Douglas Reeman, (pen name Alexander Kent, born 1924), novelist
• David Rees, (1936–1993), children's writer, The Exeter Blitz
• Clara Reeve, (1729–1807), novelist, The Old English Baron
• John Reeve, (1608–1658), religious writer
• Philip Reeve, (born 1966), children's writer and illustrator, Here Lies Arthur
• James Reeves, (real name John Morris Reeves, 1909–1978), poet and children's writer
• Christopher Reid, (born 1949), poet and essayist
• Jonathan Rendall, (born 1964), novelist
• Ruth Rendell, (pen name also Barbara Vine, born 1930), novelist
• John Reresby, (1634–1689), politician and diarist
• Frederic Reynolds, (1764–1841), playwright
• George W. M. Reynolds, (1814–1879, novelist and journalist, The Mysteries of London
• Henry Reynolds, (1564–1632), poet, translator and critic
• John Hamilton Reynolds, (1794–1852), poet
• Dan Rhodes, (born 1972), novelist and story writer
• William Barnes Rhodes, (1772–1826), playwright, Bombastes Furioso
• Ernest Rhys, (1859–1946), writer, poet and editor
• David Ricardo, (1772–1823), political economist
• Ben Rice, (born 1972), novelist
• James Rice (1843–1882), novelist
• Barnabe Rich, (c. 1540 – 1617), writer and soldier
• Alfred Bate Richards, (1820–1876), playwright, poet and essayist
• I. A. Richards, (1893–1979), literary critic, The Meaning of Meaning (with C. K. Ogden)
• Dorothy Richardson, (1873–1957), novelist and translator
• John Richardson, (died 1625), scholar, AV translator and cleric
• John Richardson, (1657–1753), Quaker minister and autobiographer
• Samuel Richardson, (1689–1761), novelist, Pamela
• Christopher Ricks, (born 1933), critic and anthologist,
• Edgell Rickword, (1898–1982), poet, critic and editor
• Anne Ridler, (1912–2001), poet and editor
• Nicholas Ridley, (1500–1555), theologian, bishop and martyr
• D. C. H. Rieu, (1916–2008), scholar and translator
• E. V. Rieu, (1887–1972), scholar, translator and poet
• Denise Riley, (born 1948), poet and scholar
• Gwendoline Riley, (born 1979), novelist
• Peter Riley, (born 1940), poet and essayist
• Stella Rimington, (born 1935), novelist and intelligence officer
• James Riordan, (born 1936), children's writer and football player
• Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie, (1837–1919), novelist and essayist
• Joseph Ritson, (born Richardson, 1752–1803), antiquary, editor and spelling reformer
• David Roberts, (born ?), novelist and editor
• Katherine Roberts, (born 1962), children's writer
• Keith Roberts, (1935–2000), novelist and story writer
• Lynette Roberts, (born Evelyn Beatrice Roberts, 1909–1995), poet
• Michael Roberts, (1902–1948), poet and critic
• Michael Symmons Roberts, (born 1963), poet and librettist
• Michèle Roberts, (born 1949), novelist and poet
• Morley Roberts, (1857–1942), novelist
• Thomas William Robertson, (1829–1871), playwright
• Denise Robins, (several pen names, 1897–1985), novelist
• Patricia Robins, (pen name also Claire Lorrimer, born 1921), novelist
• Austin Robinson, (1897–1993), economist
• Derek Robinson, (born 1932), novelist
• Henry Crabb Robinson, (1775–1867), diarist and journalist
• Hilary Robinson, (born 1962), children's writer
• Joan Robinson, (1903–1983), economist
• Mary Robinson, (1757–1800), poet and novelist
• Nigel Robinson, (fl. 1980s), writer and editor, Dr. Who tie-ins
• Peter Robinson, (born 1953), poet and translator
• Rony Robinson, (born 1940), novelist, playwright and broadcaster
• Paul Roche, (1916–2007), poet, novelist and critic
• Rennell Rodd, (1858–1941), poet and politician
• John Rodker, (1894–1955), writer and poet
• Jane Rogers, (born 1952), novelist
• Samuel Rogers, (1763–1855), poet
• Thorold Rogers, (1823–1890), political economist and radical
• Woodes Rogers, (died 1732), mariner and travel writer
• Sax Rohmer, (real name A. H. S. Ward, 1883–1959), novelist, Fu Manchu
• Frederick Rolfe, (1860–1913), novelist, artist and photographer, Hadrian the Seventh
• Richard Rolle, (1290–1349), religious writer, Bible translator and hermit
• L. T. C. Rolt, (1910–1974), transport writer and biographer
• William Roscoe, (1753–1831), scholar and poet
• Michael Rosen, (born 1946), children's writer and poet
• Isaac Rosenberg, (1890–1918), poet and playwright
• Alan Ross, (1922–2001), poet, writer and editor
• Christina Rossetti, (1830–1894), poet, In the Bleak Midwinter
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti, (1828–1882), poet and Pre-Raphaelite painter
• Maria Francesca Rossetti, (1827–1876), writer and translator
• William Michael Rossetti, (1829–1919), writer and critic
• John Horace Round, (1854–1928), historian and genealogist
• Martin Routh, (1755–1854), Classical scholar
• Alick Rowe, (1939–2009), writer for radio and TV, novelist
• Elizabeth Rowe, (1674–1737), poet and novelist
• Nicholas Rowe, (1674–1718), Poet Laureate
• Richard Rowlands (c. 1550 – 1640), historian and antiquary
• Samuel Rowlands, (c. 1573 – 1630), poet and pamphleteer
• Samuel Rowley, (died c. 1633), playwright and actor
• William Rowley, (c. 1585 – 1626), playwright and actor
• J. K. Rowling, (born 1965), children's writer, Harry Potter books
• Lucinda Roy, (born 1955), novelist and poet
• Carol Rumens, (born 1944), poet and scholar
• Peter Rushforth, (1945–2005), novelist, Kindergarten
• John Ruskin, (1819–1900), essayist, poet and art critic
• Bertrand Russell, (1872–1970), philosopher
• Lord John Russell, (1792–1878), prime minister and biographer
• William Clark Russell, (1844–1911), novelist, The Wreck of the Grosvenor
• William Howard Russell, (1820–1907), travel writer and war correspondent
• Chris Ryan, (born 1961), novelist and ex-soldier
• Gilbert Ryle, (1900–1976), philosopher
• Thomas Rymer, (c. 1643 – 1713), Historiographer Royal and poet

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• Oliver Sacks, (born 1933), neurologist and writer, Awakenings
• Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset, (1638–1706), poet and rake
• Lady Margaret Sackville, (1881–1963), poet and children's writer
• Thomas Sackville, Earl of Dorset, (1536–1608), poet and statesman
• Vita Sackville-West, (1892–1962), poet and novelist
• George Saintsbury, (1845–1933), critic
• Saki (real name Hector Hugh Munro), (1870–1916), short story writer and satirist
• Ignatius Sancho, (c. 1729 – 1780), writer and domestic servant
• Nicholas Sanders, (c. 1530 – 1581), polemicist and RC priest
• Robert Sanderson, (1587–1663), theologian and logician
• George Sandys, (1577–1644), poet and traveler
• Peter Sanger, (born 1943), poet and scholar
• C. J. Sansom, (born 1952), novelist
• Clive Sansom, (1910–1981), poet, playwright and writer on education
• William Sansom, (1912–1976), novelist and travel writer
• Siegfried Sassoon, (1886–1967), poet and novelist, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man
• Hilary Saint George Saunders, (pen names Francis Beeding, etc., 1898–1951), novelist
• Richard Savage, (c. 1697 – 1743), poet and satirist
• Henry Savile, (1549–1622), scholar and AV translator
• Dorothy L. Sayers, (1893–1957), author, Lord Peter Wimsey series
• Francis Scarfe, (1911–1986), poet and novelist
• Vernon Scannell, (1922–2007), poet
• Ann Schlee, (born 1934), novelist
• Catherine Amy Dawson Scott, (1865–1934), poet, playwright and novelist
• Geoffrey Scott, (1884–1929), writer and poet
• Hugh Stowell Scott, (pen name Henry Seton Merriman, c. 1863–1903), novelist
• Jane Scott, (1779–1839), playwright and theatre manager
• John Scott, (1783–1821), editor and writer
• John Scott of Amwell, (1731–1783), poet and patron
• John A. Scott, (born 1948), poet and novelist
• Mary Scott, (1751/2-1793), poet
• Paul Mark Scott, (1920–1978), novelist, playwright and poet, The Jewel in the Crown
• Sarah Scott, (1720–1795), novelist and translator, Millenium Hall (sic)
• William Bell Scott, (1811–1890), poet and artist
• Will Scott, (1893−1964), short story writer, crime writer, playwright, children's fiction writer
• E. J. Scovell, (1907–1999), poet
• James Scudamore, (born 1976), novelist
• George Bazeley Scurfield, (1920–1991), poet, novelist, author, and politician
• Marcus Sedgwick, (born 1968), children's writer
• Charles Sedley, poet and rake
• Kate Sedley, (real name Brenda Clarke, born 1926), novelist
• John Robert Seeley, (1834–1895), historian and essayist
• Rachel Seiffert, (born 1971), novelist
• Catherine Selden, (fl. 1797-1817), novelist
• John Selden, (1584–1654), polymath
• Will Self, (born 1961), novelist, reviewer and columnist
• George Selwyn, (1719–1791), letter writer and wit
• Nassau William Senior, (1790–1864), economist
• Sepharial, (real name Walter Gorn Old, 1864–1929), astrologer and numerologist
• Gitta Sereny, (born 1921), biographer and historian
• Ian Serraillier, (1912–1994), novelist and poet
• Robert Service, (born 1947), historian and Russian specialist
• Diane Setterfield, (born 1964), novelist
• Elkanah Settle, (1648–1724), playwright and poet
• Anna Seward, (the "Swan of Lichfield," 1747-1809), poet and biographer
• Thomas Seward, (1708–1790), writer
• William Seward, (1747–1799), anecdotist
• Anna Sewell, (1820–1878), novelist, Black Beauty
• Elizabeth Missing Sewell, (1815–1906), novelist and religious writer
• Mary Wright Sewell, (1797–1884), children's writer
• William Sewell, (1804–1874), writer, translator and cleric
• Thomas Shadwell, (c. 1642 – 1692), Poet Laureate, Historiographer Royal and playwright
• Anthony Shaffer, (born 1926), playwright and novelist, Sleuth
• Peter Shaffer, (born 1926), playwright, Equus
• Nicholas Shakespeare, (born 1957), novelist and biographer
• William Shakespeare, (c. 1564 – 1616), poet and playwright
• Edward Shanks, (1892–1953), poet and critic
• Jo Shapcott, (born 1953), poet and scholar
• Margery Sharp, (1905–1991), novelist, children's writer and playwright
• Tom Sharpe, (born 1928), novelist
• Robert Shaw, (1927–1978), actor and novelist
• John Shebbeare, (1709–1788), novelist and satirist
• John Sheffield (known as Mulgrave, later Buckingham, 1647–1721), poet, essayist and politician
• Mary Shelley, (1797–1851), author, Frankenstein
• Percy Bysshe Shelley, (1792–1822), poet
• William Shenstone, (1714–1763), poet
• Richard Brinsley Sheridan, (1751–1816), playwright, The Rivals
• William Sherlock, (1641–1707), theologian, controversialist and cleric
• R. C. Sherriff, (1890–1975), playwright, novelist and screenwriter, Journey's End
• Charles Scott Sherrington, (1857–1952), scientific writer, physiologist and Nobel Prize winner
• Norman Sherry, (born 1935), novelist and biographer
• Mary Martha Sherwood, (1775–1851), children's writer and tractarian
• James Shirley, (1596–1666), playwright
• Joseph Henry Shorthouse, (1834–1903), novelist
• Fredegond Shove, (1889–1949), poet
• Nevil Shute, (1899–1960), novelist and aeronautical engineer, A Town Like Alice
• Penelope Shuttle, (born 1947), poet and novelist
• Elizabeth Siddal, (1829–1862), artist and poet
• Mary Sidney, later Mary Herbert, countess of Pembroke, (1561–1621), poet and translator
• Philip Sidney, (1554–1586), poet and soldier
• Robert Sidney, earl of Leicester (1563–1626), poet and statesman
• Una Lucy Silberrad, (1872–1955), novelist
• Jon Silkin, (1930–1997), poet, editor and critic
• Alan Sillitoe, (1928–2010), novelist, poet and translator, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
• Elizabeth Simcoe, (1762–1850), diarist
• George Augustus Simcox, (1841–1905), poet and scholar
• Kathryn Simmonds, (born 1972), poet and story writer
• Helen Simpson, (born 1959), novelist and story writer
• Joe Simpson, (born 1960), mountaineer and writer, Touching the Void
• John Palgrave Simpson, (1807–1887), playwright
• George Robert Sims, (1847–1922), writer, poet and journalist
• Andrew Sinclair, (born 1945), novelist, historian and biographer
• Clive Sinclair, (born 1948), novelist
• Ian Sinclair, writer, poet and film-maker
• May Sinclair, (real name Mary Amelia St. Clair, 1863-1946), novelist and poet
• C. H. Sisson, (1914–2003), poet, translator and writer
• Edith Sitwell, (1887–1964), poet
• Osbert Sitwell, (1892–1969), writer
• Sacheverell Sitwell, (1897–1988), poet and writer
• Barbara Skelton, (1916–1996), novelist and memoir writer
• John Skelton, (c. 1460 – 1529), poet and satirist
• Robert Skidelsky, (born 1939), economic historian and biographer
• Joseph Skipsey, (1832–1903), poet and editor
• George Edward MacKenzie Skues, (1858–1949), writer on fishing
• Barbara Sleigh, (1906–1982), children's writer, Jessamy
• Edward Slow, (1841–1925), Wiltshire dialect poet and carriage maker
• Carolyn Smart, (born 1952), poet
• Christopher Smart, (1722–1771), poet
• Francis Edward Smedley, (1818–1864), novelist
• Menella Bute Smedley, (1819–1877), novelist, poet and translator
• Albert Richard Smith, (1816–1860), writer, entertainer and mountaineer
• Charlotte Smith, (1749–1806), poet and novelist
• Dodie Smith, (1896–1990), novelist and playwright, The Hundred and One Dalmatians
• Edmund Smith, (1672–1710), poet and translator
• Eleanor Smith, (1902–1945), novelist
• Emma Smith, (born 1923), novelist and children's writer
• Horace Smith, (born Horatio Smith, 1779–1849), novelist and poet
• Joan Smith, (born 1953), novelist and journalist
• John Frederick Smith, (1806–1890), novelist
• Ken Smith, (1938–2003), poet
• Michael Marshall Smith, (born 1965), novelist and screenwriter
• Miles Smith, (1554–1624), scholar, AV translator and cleric
• Sid Smith, (born 1949), novelist and journalist
• Stevie Smith, (1902–1971), poet and novelist
• Sydney Smith, (1771–1845), writer and cleric
• Tom Rob Smith, (born 1979), novelist
• Wentworth Smith, (1571 – c. 1623), playwright
• William Smith, (fl. 1590s), poet
• William Smith, (1769–1839), geologist
• William Smith, (1813–1893), lexicographer
• Zadie Smith, (born 1975), novelist
• C. P. Snow, (1905–1980), novelist and physicist, Strangers and Brothers series
• William Somervile, (1675–1742), poet
• Charles Sorley, (1895–1915), poet
• William Sotheby, (1757–1833), poet and translator
• Ahdaf Soueif, (born 1950), novelist and translator
• Robert South, (1634–1716), theologian, controversialist and cleric
• R. W. Southern, (1912–2001), historian
• Robert Southey, (1774–1843), Poet Laureate
• Robert Southwell, (1561–1595), poet, tractarian and Jesuit martyr
• Robert Spaulding, (fl. 1610s), scholar, AV translator and cleric
• Rachel Speght, (born 1596), poet and polemicist
• Henry Spelman, (c. 1562 – 1641), historian and antiquary
• Bernard Spencer, (1909–1963), poet
• Herbert Spencer, (1820–1903), philosopher
• Stephen Spender, (1909–1995), poet, novelist and travel writer
• Edmund Spenser, (c. 1552 – 1599), poet, The Faerie Queene
• John Spenser, (1559–1614), scholar, AV translator and cleric
• Dennis Spooner, (1932–1986), TV screenwriter, Doctor Who
• Jean Sprackland, (born 1962), poet
• Francis Spufford, (born 1964), writer
• Charles Spurgeon, (1834–1892), religious writer and Baptist minister, the Wordless Book
• J. C. Squire, (1884–1958), poet and historian
• Edward St Aubyn, (born 1960), novelist and journalist
• Bayle St. John, (1822–1859), travel writer and biographer
• Henry St John, Lord Bolingbroke (1678–1751), politician and philosopher
• James Augustus St. John, (born James John, 1795–1875), journalist, writer and traveler
• Spenser St. John, (1825–1910), biographer, travel writer and diplomat
• Brian Stableford, (born 1948), science fiction writer
• Tom Stacey, (born 1930), novelist, writer and publisher
• John Stallworthy, (born 1935), scholar and poet
• John Stammers, (born 1954), poet
• Josiah Stamp, (1880–1941), economist and banker
• Derek Stanford, (1918–2008), biographer and poet
• Louisa Stanhope, (fl. 1806-1827), novelist
• Philip Stanhope, Lord Chesterfield, (1694–1773), politician and writer
• Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, (1815–1881), church historian
• Thomas Stanley, (1625–1678), poet and philosopher
• Olaf Stapledon, (1886–1950), philosopher and novelist, Star Maker
• Freya Stark, (1893–1993), travel writer
• Mariana Starke, (1761/2-1838), travel writer, poet and playwright
• Boris Starling, (born c. 1969), novelist and screenwriter
• William Thomas Stead, (1849–1912), journalist and social campaigner, The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon
• Anne Steele, (pen name Theodosia, 1717–1778), hymn writer
• Marguerite Steen, (1894–1975), novelist and biographer
• George Steevens, (1736–1800), Shakespearean scholar and editor
• James Kenneth Stephen, (1859–1892), poet
• Leslie Stephen, (1832–1904), writer and mountaineer
• James Francis Stephens, (1792–1852), entomologist
• Robert Stephens, (1665–1732), Historiographer Royal and historian
• G. B. Stern, (1890–1973), novelist, playwright and biographer
• Laurence Sterne, (1713–1768), novelist, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
• George Alexander Stevens, (1710–1780), playwright, poet and actor
• Matthew Stevenson, (died 1654), poet
• William Stevenson, poet and playwright, presumed author of Gammer Gurton's Needle
• Mary Stewart, (born 1916), novelist
• William Stobbs, (1914–2000), children's writer and illustrator
• Julian Stockwin, (born 1944), novelist
• Sewell Stokes, (1902–1979), novelist, playwright and screenwriter
• Nick Stone, (born 1966), novelist
• Samuel John Stone, (1839–1900), hymn writer and cleric, The Church's One Foundation
• David Storey, (born 1933), novelist and playwright
• Catherine Storr, (1913–2001), children's writer
• Thomas Story,(c. 1670 – 1742), religious writer and Quaker preacher
• John Stow, (c. 1525 – 1605), historian and antiquarian
• Herbert Strang, (pen name of George Herbert Ely, 1866–1958, and Charles James L'Estrange, 1867–1947), children's writers
• James Strachey, (1887–1967), psychoanalyst, translator and editor
• Julia Strachey, (1901–1979), novelist, Cheerful Weather for the Wedding
• Lytton Strachey, (1880–1932), biographer and critic, Eminent Victorians
• Ray Strachey, (born Rachel Costelloe, 1887-1940), biographer and writer on women's suffrage
• Paul Strathern, (born 1940), novelist and scholar
• Noel Streatfeild, (1895–1986), children's writer, Ballet Shoes
• A. G. Street, (1892–1966), writer and broadcaster
• Cecil Street, (pen names John Rhode, Miles Burton and Cecil Waye, 1884–1965), novelist
• Joe Stretch (born 1982), novelist
• Hesba Stretton, (real name Sarah Smith, 1832–1911), novelist, short-story writer and children's writer
• Agnes Strickland, (1796–1874), history writer, poet and children's writer
• William Strode, (1600–1643), poet
• Leonard Strong, (1896–1958), novelist, poet and critic
• Jan Struther, (real name Joyce Anstruther, (1901–1953), novelist and hymn writer
• Alexander Stuart, (fl. 1970s-), novelist and screenwriter
• Muriel Stuart, (1885–1967), poet and gardening writer
• John Stubbs, (or Stubbe, c. 1543–1591), pamphleteer
• John Studley, (c. 1545 – c. 1590), translator
• Joseph Sturge, (1793–1859) abolitionist writer and campaigner
• Howard Sturgis, (1855–1920), novelist
• Julian Sturgis, (1848–1904), novelist and poet
• George Sturt, (pen name George Bourne, 1863–1927), country writer
• John Strype, (1643–1737), historian and biographer
• Showell Styles, (1908–2005), novelist, children's writer and mountaineer
• John Suckling, (1609–1642), poet
• J. W. N. Sullivan, (1886–1937), science writer and journalist
• Montague Summers, (1880–1948), author, translator and critic
• Kate Summerscale, (born 1965), writer and journalist
• Alfred Sutro, (1863–1933), playwright and translator
• Robert Smith Surtees, (1805–1864), novelist
• E. W. Swanton, (1907–2000), cricket writer and broadcaster
• Graham Swift, (born 1949), novelist, Waterland
• Algernon Charles Swinburne, (1837–1909), poet
• Robert Swindells, (born 1939), children's writer, '
• Randall Swingler, (1909–1967), poet
• Frank Swinnerton, (1884–1982), novelist and editor
• Christopher Sykes, (1907–1986), travel writer and biographer
• Percy Sykes, (1867–1945), travel writer, historian and general
• Joshua Sylvester, (1563–1618), poet
• John Addington Symonds, (1840–1893), poet and critic
• A. J. A. Symons, (1900–1941), writer and bibliographer
• Arthur Symons, (1865–1945), poet and essayist
• Julian Symons, (1912–1994), crime writer and poet
• Mitchell Symons, (born 1957), writer and journalist, That Book ...of Perfectly Useless Information
• George Szirtes, (born 1948), poet and translator

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• Thomas Noon Talfourd, (1795–1854), writer, playwright and lawyer
• Derek Tangye, (1912–1996), writer
• Nigel Tangye, (1909–1988), writer and flying instructor
• Heather Tanner, (1903–1993), countryside writer and peace campaigner
• James T. Tanner, (1858–1915), dramatist and director
• Thomas Tanner, (1630–1682), writer and cleric
• Thomas Tanner, (1674–1735), antiquary and bishop
• TheaurauJohn Tany, (born Thomas Totney, 1608-1659), religious writer
• John Tatham, (fl. 1632-64), playwright and poet
• Baroness Tautphoeus, (born Jemima Montgomery, 1807-1893), novelist
• R. H. Tawney, (1880–1962), economic historian,
• A. J. P. Taylor, (1906–1990), historian
• Andrew Taylor, (born 1951), novelist
• Ann Taylor, (1782–1866, poet, children's writer and critic
• D. J. Taylor, (born 1960), novelist and biographer
• Elizabeth Taylor, (1912–1975), novelist, Angel
• Graham Taylor, (born 1958), novelist and cleric
• Henry Taylor, (1711–1785), controversialist and cleric
• Henry Taylor, (1800–1886), playwright
• Isaac Taylor, (1787–1865), scholar, cleric and inventor
• Jane Taylor, (1783–1824), children's poet and novelist, Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
• Jeremy Taylor, (1613–1667), religious writer
• John Taylor, (1703–1772), oculist and autobiographer
• John Taylor, (the "Water Poet," 1578-1653), poet
• John Taylor, (1750–1826), poet and hymn writer
• Philip Meadows Taylor, (1808–1876), novelist and Indian administrator
• Richard Taylor (1782–1858), naturalist and editor
• Sean Taylor, (born c. 1970s), children's writer, When a Monster is Born
• Thomas Taylor, (1758–1835), translator
• Tom Taylor, (1817–1880), playwright and editor
• William Taylor, (died 1423), Lollard theologian
• William Taylor, (1765–1836), scholar and translator
• Barry Tebb, (born 1942), poet, publisher and anthologist
• William Temple, (1555–1627), logician
• William Temple, (1628–1699), essayist and statesman
• William Temple, (1881–1944), religious writer and archbishop
• William F. Temple, (1914–1989), science fiction writer
• Edward Wyndham Tennant, (1897–1916), poet
• Emma Tennant, (born 1937), novelist
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson, (1809–1892), Poet Laureate, The Charge of the Light Brigade
• Frederick Tennyson, (1807–1898), poet
• Henry Teonge, (c. 1620 – 1690), diarist and naval chaplain
• Lisa St Aubin de Terán, (born 1953), novelist and memoirist
• A. S. J. Tessimond, (1902–1962), poet
• Anne Isabella Thackeray, Lady Ritchie (1837–1919), novelist and essayist
• William Makepeace Thackeray, (1811–1863), novelist, Vanity Fair
• Algernon Sydney Thelwall, (1795–1863), writer and cleric
• John Thelwall, (1764–1834), poet and writer
• Sydney Thelwall, (1834–1922), scholar, translator and cleric
• Lewis Theobald, (1688–1744), scholar, critic and translator
• Marcel Theroux, (born 1968), novelist and broadcaster
• Philip Thicknesse, (1719–1792), writer
• Angela Thirkell, (1890–1961), novelist
• Adam Thirlwell, (born 1978), novelist
• William Turner Thiselton-Dyer, (1843–1926), botanist
• D. M. Thomas (born 1935), novelist, poet and translator
• Donald Thomas, (born 1926), novelist
• Edward Thomas, (1878–1917), poet
• Elizabeth Thomas, (1675–1731), poet
• Elizabeth Thomas, (used pen names Mrs Bridget Bluemantle and Mrs Martha Homely, 1770/71-1855), novelists and poets
• Hugh Thomas, (born 1931), historian
• Scarlett Thomas, (born 1972), novelist
• Flora Thompson, (1876–1947), novelist and poet, Lark Rise to Candleford
• Francis Thompson, (1859–1907), poet
• Harry Thompson, (1960–2005), television producer, biographer and novelist
• Kate Thompson, (born 1956), novelist and children's writer
• William Thoms, (1803–1885), antiquarian and miscellanist
• Giles Thomson, (1553–1612), scholar, AV translator and cleric
• Richard Thomson, (fl. 1600s), scholar, AV translator and cleric
• Wilfrid Thorley, (1878–1963), poet and educationalist
• George Walter Thornbury, (1828–1876), poet, novelist and travel writer
• Matt Thorne, (born 1974), novelist
• William Thorne, (c. 1568 – 1630), orientalist, AV translator and cleric
• Robert John Thornton, (1768–1837), botanist and physician
• Tim Thornton, (born 1973), novelist and drummer
• Adam Thorpe, (born 1956), poet and novelist
• Kay Thorpe, (born 1940s), author of Harlequin romances
• Hester Thrale, (later Piozzi, 1741–1821), diarist and biographer,
• Colin Thubron, (born 1939), travel writer and novelist
• Edward Thurlow, Lord Thurlow, (1731–1806), poet and lord chancellor
• E. Temple Thurston, (1879–1933), playwright, poet and novelist
• Anthony Thwaite, (born 1930), poet and writer
• Chidiock Tichborne, (1558–1586), poet and conspirator
• Thomas Tickell, (1686–1740), poet
• Robert Tighe, (died 1620), AV translator and cleric
• Terence Tiller, (1916–1987), poet and radio producer
• E. M. W. Tillyard, (1889–1962), classical scholar and literary critic
• Stella Tillyard, (born 1957), historian and novelist
• William M. Timlin, (1892–1943), writer and illustrator
• Peter Tinniswood, (1936–2003), novelist and comedy scriptwriter
• John Tobin, (1770–1804), playwright
• Barbara Euphan Todd, (1890–1976), novelist and children's writer, Worzel Gummidge
• H. E. Todd, (died 1988), children's writer
• J. R. R. Tolkien, (1892–1973), fantasy writer and scholar, The Lord of the Rings
• Elizabeth Tollet, (1694–1754), poet
• Thomas Tomkis, (c. 1580 – 1634), playwright
• Claire Tomalin, (born 1933), literary biographer
• Charles Tomlinson, (born 1927), poet and translator
• H. M. Tomlinson, (1873–1958), travel writer, novelist and journalist
• Rosemary Tonks, (born 1932), poet and novelist
• Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, (pen name Charlotte Elizabeth, 1790–1846), tractarian and novelist
• John Horne Tooke, (1736–1812), philologist and politician
• Augustus Montague Toplady, (1740–1778), theologian and hymn writer, Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me
• Paul Torday, (born 1946), novelist
• Chris Torrance, (born 1941), poet and musician
• Richard Tottel, (died 1594), publisher and anthologist, Tottel's Miscellany
• Cyril Tourneur, (1575–1626), playwright
• Nigel Tourneur, (fl. 1898), writer
• Doreen Tovey, (1918–2008), cat writer
• Sue Townsend, (born 1946), novelist, the Adrian Mole books
• Aurelian Townshend, (1583–1643), poet and playwright
• Arnold Toynbee, (1852–1883), economic historian
• Arnold J. Toynbee, (1889–1975), historian
• Philip Toynbee, (1916–1981), novelist, poet and journalist
• Polly Toynbee, (born 1946), journalist and writer
• John Tradescant, (1608–1662), botanist and antiquary
• Thomas Traherne, (1636/7-1674), poet and religious writer
• Henry Duff Traill, (1842–1900), humorist, editor and biographer
• Anna Trapnell, (fl. 1650s), religious writer
• Ben Travers, (1886–1980), playwright and novelist
• Karen Traviss, (fl. 2004-present), novelist
• Mary Treadgold, (1910–2005), children's writer
• Geoffrey Trease, (1909–1998), children's writer, Bows Against the Barons
• Miles Tredinnick, (born 1955), playwright, screenwriter and singer
• Iris Tree, (1897–1968), poet and actress
• Viola Tree, (1884–1938), writer, singer and actress
• Henry Treece, (1911–1966), poet, novelist and children's writer, the Viking Trilogy
• Edward John Trelawney, (1792–1881), biographer and novelist
• Rose Tremain, (born 1943), novelist
• Richard Chevenix Trench, (1807–1886), philologist, poet and archbishop
• Robert Tressell or Tressall (real name Robert Croker, later Noonan, 1870–1911), novelist, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
• G. M. Trevelyan, (1876–1962), historian
• George Trevelyan, (1838–1928), writer and statesman
• R. C. Trevelyan, (1872–1951), poet and translator
• John Trevisa, (1342–1402), translator
• Elleston Trevor, (born Trevor Dudley-Smith, other pen names Adam Hall, Simon Rattray, Howard North, Roger Fitzalan, Mansell Black, Trevor Burgess, Warwick Scott, Caesar Smith, Lesley Stone, 1920–1995), novelist
• Rachel Trickett, (1923–1999), novelist and scholar
• Jonathan Trigell, (born 1974), novelist
• Sarah Trimmer, (1741–1810), children's writer, Fabulous Histories
• Anthony Trollope, (1815–1882), novelist, Chronicles of Barsetshire
• Frances Trollope, (1780–1863), novelist and writer
• Joanna Trollope, (pen name Caroline Harvey, born 1943), novelist
• Thomas Adolphus Trollope, (1810–1892), travel writer and novelist
• Peter Trower, (born 1930), poet and novelist
• Edwin Charles Tubb, (countless pen names, born 1919), novelist
• Abraham Tucker, (pen name Edward Search, 1705–1774), philosopher
• Cuthbert Tunstall, (or Tonstall, 1474–1559), religious writer and bishop
• Martin Farquhar Tupper, (1810–1889), writer and poet
• George Turberville, (c. 1540-before 1597), poet
• Charles Tennyson Turner, (1808–1879), poet and translator
• Philip Turner, (pen name Stephen Chance, 1925–2006), children's writer and cleric, The Grange at High Force
• Reginald Turner, (1869–1938), novelist and aesthete
• Sharon Turner, (1768–1847), historian, History of the Anglo-Saxons
• Thomas Turner, (1729–1793), diarist and shopkeeper
• Thomas Tusser, (1524–1580), poet and farmer
• Robert Twigger, (born 1964), writer
• Kenneth Tynan, (1927–1980), drama critic and producer
• William Tyndale, (1494–1536), scholar and Bible translator
• George Tyrrell, (1861–1909), theologian and scholar
• Robert Yelverton Tyrrell, (1844–1914), writer, scholar and translator
• Thomas Tyrwhitt, (1730–1786), scholar, editor and critic

U

• Nicholas Udall, Uvedale or Woodall, (1505–1556), playwright and translator, Ralph Roister Doister
• Jenny Uglow, (born c. 1945), biographer and critic
• Evelyn Underhill, (1875–1941), religious writer and novelist
• Barry Unsworth, (born 1930), historical novelist
• Cathi Unsworth, (born c. 1970s), novelist and journalist
• Edward Upward, (1903–2009), novelist and story writer
• Thomas Usk, (died 1388), poet
• Alison Uttley, (1884–1976), children's writer, Little Grey Rabbit books

V

• Horace Annesley Vachell, (1861–1955), novelist and playwright
• John Van der Kiste, (born 1954), writer and polymath
• John Vanbrugh, (1664–1726), playwright and architect
• Thomas Vaux, (1510–1556), poet
• R. V. Vernède, (1905–2003), writer and colonial administrator
• Frances Vernon, (1963–1991), novelist, The Fall of Doctor Onslow
• F. B. Vickers, (1903–1985), novelist and playwright
• Salley Vickers, (born 1948), novelist and psychotherapist
• Sherard Vines, (1890–1974), poet, novelist and critic
• Elfrida Vipont, (real name Elfrida Vipont Foulds, 1902–1992), children's writer
• E. H. Visiak, (real name Edward Harold Physick, 1878–1972), poet and novelist
• E. C. Vivian, (real name Charles Henry Cannell, 1882–1947), novelist and military history writer
• Ernest Alfred Vizetelly, (1853–1922), autobiographer and bowdlerizer of Zola

W

• Thomas Wade, (1805–1875), poet and playwright
• Rekha Waheed, (born c. 1980s), novelist
• John Wain, (1925–1994), poet and novelist
• Edward Gibbon Wakefield, (1796–1862), writer, colonist and politician
• Gilbert Wakefield, (1756–1801), scholar and controversialist
• H. Russell Wakefield, (1890–1964), novelist and story writer
• George Waldron, (1690 – c. 1730), topographer and poet
• Arthur Waley, (1889–1966), orientalist and translator
• George Walker, (c. 1581 – 1651), religious writer and cleric
• George Walker, (c. 1734 – 1807), dissenting writer and mathematician
• George Walker, (1772–1847), novelist and political writer
• George Walker, (1803-after 1851), chess writer, player and promoter
• Obadiah Walker, (1616–1699), scholar and writer on education
• Ted Walker, (1934–2004), poet, dramatist and broadcaster
• Alfred Russel Wallace, (1823–1913), naturalist and biologist
• Edgar Wallace, (1875–1932), novelist and playwright
• Nick Wallace, (born 1972), novelist
• Edmund Waller, (1606–1687), poet
• John Waller, (1917–1995), poet and anthologist
• John Wallis, (1616–1703), mathematician and writer
• Martin Walls, (born 1970), poet and journalist
• Leo Walmsley, (1892–1966), novelist and autobiographer
• Horace Walpole, (1717–1797), novelist and man of letters, The Castle of Otranto
• Hugh Walpole, (1884–1941), novelist
• Helen Walsh, (born 1977), novelist
• Jill Paton Walsh (born 1937), novelist and children's writer
• Sheila Walsh, (1928–2009), novelist
• William Walsh, (1663–1708), poet and critic
• Guy Walters, (born 1971), novelist and journalist
• Hugh Walters, (1910–1993), novelist
• Minette Walters, (born 1949), novelist
• Vanessa Walters, (born 1978), novelist and playwright
• Izaak Walton, (1593–1683), writer, The Compleat Angler
• William Walwyn, (1600–1681), pamphleteer
• Humfrey Wanley, (1672–1726), scholar and palaeographer
• William Warburton, (1698–1779), critic and bishop
• Chris Ward, (born 1958), playwright
• Edward Ward, (1660 or 1667–1731), satirist and tavern keeper
• Keith Ward, (born 1938), philosopher and cleric
• Mrs. Humphry Ward, (born Mary Augusta Arnold, 1851–1920), novelist
• Robert Ward, (fl. 1611), AV translator and cleric
• Samuel Ward, (1572–1643), scholar, AV translator and cleric
• Seth Ward, (1617–1689), controversialist, astronomer and bishop
• Thomas Humphry Ward, (1845–1926), writer and journalist
• William George Ward, (1812–1882), theologian and mathematician
• Marina Warner, (born 1946), novelist
• Rex Warner, (1905–1986), novelist and translator
• Sylvia Townsend Warner, (1893–1978), novelist and poet
• John Warren, Lord de Tabley (1835–1895), poet and botanist
• Samuel Warren, (1807–1877), novelist and barrister
• Thomas Herbert Warren, (1853–1930), scholar and poet
• Joseph Warton, (1722–1800), poet and critic
• Thomas Warton, (c. 1688 – 1745), poet and professor of poetry
• Thomas Warton, (1728–1790), Poet Laureate and critic
• Andrew Waterhouse, (1958–2001), poet and environmentalist
• Keith Waterhouse, (1929–2009), novelist and screenwriter, Billy Liar
• Sarah Waters, (born 1966), novelist
• Charles Waterton, (1782–1865), naturalist and explorer
• Denys Watkins-Pitchford, (pen name BB, 1905–1990), naturalist and children's writer
• David Watmough, (born 1926), playwright and novelist
• Colin Watson, (1920–1983), novelist
• Richard Watson, (1781–1833), Methodist theologian
• Richard Watson, (1737–1816), religious and economic writer and bishop
• Rosamund Marriott Watson, (pen name Graham R. Tomson, 1860–1911), poet and gardening writer
• Thomas Watson, (1555–1592), poet and translator
• Thomas Watson, (c. 1620 – 1686), religious writer and preacher
• William Watson, (1858–1935), poet
• Winifred Watson (1906–2002), novelist
• Isaac Watts, (1674–1748), hymn writer, O God, Our Help in Ages Past
• Theodore Watts-Dunton, (1832–1914), critic, novelist and poet
• Alec Waugh, (1898–1981), novelist
• Auberon Waugh, (1939–2001), novelist and journalist
• Edwin Waugh, (1817–1890), Lancashire dialect poet
• Evelyn Waugh, (1903–1966), novelist, travel writer and diarist, Brideshead Revisited
• Camilla Way, (born 1973), novelist and editor
• Willoughby Weaving, (1885–1977), poet
• Clifford Webb, (1895–1972), children's writer and illustrator
• Mary Webb, (1881–1927), novelist and poet, Precious Bane
• Philip Barker Webb, (1793–1854), botanist and traveler
• Sidney Webb, (1859–1947), and Beatrice Webb, (1858–1943), economists and political writers, Industrial Democracy
• Augusta Webster, (1837–1894), poet and playwright
• John Webster, (c. 1580 – 1634), playwright, The Duchess of Malfi
• C. V. Wedgwood, (1910–1997), historian
• Ernest Weekley, (1865–1964), philologist
• Samantha Weinberg, (born 1967), novelist, travel writer and politician
• Denton Welch, (1915–1948), novelist, diarist and artist
• Ronald Welch, (real name Ronald Oliver Felton, 1909–1982), novelist, children's writer and teacher
• Fay Weldon, (born 1931), novelist and screenwriter
• Dorothy Wellesley, (1889–1956), poet and editor
• Charles Jeremiah Wells, (c. 1798 – 1879), poet
• H. G. Wells, (1866–1946), novelist and social critic, The War of the Worlds
• Leonard Welsted, (1688–1747), poet
• Louise Wener, (born 1966), novelist and singer
• Arnold Wesker, (born 1932), playwright, Chicken Soup with Barley
• Charles Wesley, (1707–1788), preacher and hymn writer, Hark! the Herald Angels Sing
• John Wesley, (1703–1791), preacher, theologian and diarist
• Mary Wesley, (1912–2002), novelist
• Samuel Wesley, (1662–1735), poet and polemicist
• Gilbert West, (1703–1756), poet and translator
• Jane West (pen name Prudentia Homespun, 1758–1852), novelist, writer and poet
• Paul West, (born 1930), novelist and poet
• Rebecca West, (real name Cicely Isabel Fairfield, (1892–1983), novelist, political commentator and travel writer, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
• Robert Westall, (1929–1993), children's writer
• William Bury Westall, (1834–1903), novelist
• Joyce Wethered, (1901–1997), golf writer, golfer and gardener
• Robert Wever, (fl. 1550), poet
• Stanley J. Weyman, (1855–1928), novelist
• Anne Wharton, (1659–1685), poet and playwright
• George Wharton, (1618–1681), pamphleteer and astrologer
• Gordon Wharton, (born 1929), poet
• Richard Whateley, (1787–1863), theologian, economist and archbishop
• Dennis Wheatley, (1897–1977), thriller writer
• Eric Whelpton, (1894–1981), travel writer
• George Whetstone, (c. 1544 – c. 1587), writer and playwright
• Charles Whibley, (1859–1930), journalist, critic and writer
• Dorothy Whipple, (1893–1966), novelist
• Laurence Whistler, (1912–2000), poetry and engraver
• Antonia White, (real name Eirine Botting, 1899–1980), novelist, playwright and children's writer
• Gilbert White, (1720–1795), naturalist and cleric, The Natural History of Selborne
• Hale White, (pen name Mark Rutherford, (1831–1913), writer
• Henry Kirke White, (1785–1806), poet and hymn writer
• Michael White, (pen name Sam Fisher, born c. 1970s), writer
• T. H. White, (1906–1964), children's writer and poet, The Once and Future King
• Tony White, (born c. 1960s), novelist and travel writer
• George Whitefield, (1714–1770), religious writer, diarist and preacher
• Alfred North Whitehead, (1861–1947), mathematician and philosopher
• Charles Whitehead (1804–1862), poet and novelist
• William Whitehead, (1715–1785), Poet Laureate and playwright
• Richard Whiteing, (pen name Whyte Thorne, 1840–1928), novelist and journalist
• Dorothy Whitelock, (1901–1982), historian
• Bulstrode Whitelocke, (1605–1675), chronicler, lawyer and politician
• Crispin Whittell, (born 1969), playwright, Darwin in Malibu
• Geoffrey Whitney, (c. 1548 – c. 1601), poet
• Isabella Whitney, (fl. 1567-1573), poet
• Thomas Whythorne, (1528–1595), poet, autobiographer and composer
• Frederick Wicks, (1840–1910), novelist and inventor
• Susan Wicks, (born 1947), poet and novelist
• William Wilberforce, (1759–1833), religious writer, philanthropist and social reformer
• John Wilbye, (1574–1638), madrigal writer
• Peter Wildeblood, (1923–1999), writer and journalist
• John Wilkes, (1725–1797), journalist and radical
• George Wilkins, (fl. 1607), playwright and pamphleteer
• Vaughan Wilkins, (1890–1959), novelist and journalist
• John Wilkinson, (born 1953), poet
• John Gardner Wilkinson, (1797–1875), writer, traveller and Egyptologist
• Barbara Willard, (1909–1994), children's writer
• Anna Williams, (1706–1783), poet
• Charles Williams, (1886–1945), novelist, poet and scholar
• Charlie Williams, (born 1971), novelist
• Frederick Smeeton Williams, (1829–1886), writer on railways
• Helen Maria Williams, (1761/2-1827), poet, translator and radical
• Hugo Williams, (born 1942), poet and travel writer
• Isaac Williams, (1802–1865), religious writer, poet and cleric
• Jules Williams, writer, director and producer
• Nigel Williams, (born 1948), novelist, playwright and screenwriter
• Robina Williams, (born c. 1970s), novelist
• Sarah Williams, (1837–1868), poet
• Alice Muriel Williamson, (1869–1933), novelist
• Charles Norris Williamson, (1859–1920), novelist and motoring journalist
• Henry Williamson, (1895–1977), novelist, Tarka the Otter
• Ted Willis, (1914–1992), playwright and screenwriter
• Tim Willocks, (fl. 1991-present), novelist, screenwriter and psychiatrist
• Francis Willughby or Willoughby, (1635–1672), ornithologist
• John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, (1647–1680), satirical poet and libertine
• A. N. Wilson, (born 1950), novelist and biographer, Betjeman
• Angus Wilson, (1913–1991), novelist, Anglo-Saxon Attitudes
• Colin Wilson, (born 1931), novelist and philosopher
• Harriette Wilson, (1786–1845), courtesan and memoir writer
• J. Dover Wilson, (1881–1969), scholar and critic
• Jacqueline Wilson, (born 1945), children's writer, The Story of Tracy Beaker
• John Wilson, (1527–1596), playwright and translator
• Robert Wilson, (fl. 1572-1600), playwright
• Sandy Wilson, (born 1924), lyricist and composer, The Boy Friend
• T. P. Cameron Wilson, (1888–1918), poet
• Thomas Wilson, (1524–1581), rhetorician and diplomat
• Thomas Wilson, (1773–1858), Tyneside dialect poet
• Jane Wilson-Howarth, (also writes as Jane Wilson, born 1954) writer on travel and health, and physician
• R. D. Wingfield, (1928–2007), novelist and radio dramatist, A Touch of Frost
• Catherine Winkworth, (1827–1878), translator and hymn writer
• Gerrard Winstanley, (1609–1676), pamphleteer
• Stephen Winsten, (real name Samuel Weinstein, 1893–1991), writer
• John Strange Winter, (real name Henrietta Eliza Vaughan Stannard 1856–1911), novelist
• Jeanette Winterson, (born 1959), novelist
• Jane Wiseman, (c. 1682 – 1717), poet and playwright
• George Wither, (1588–1667), poet and satirist
• P. G. Wodehouse, (1881–1975), novelist, playwright and lyricist, Jeeves
• John Wolcot, (pen name Peter Pindar, 1738–1819), poet and satirist
• Humbert Wolfe, (1885–1940), poet and translator
• Mary Wollstonecraft, (1759–1797), polemicist, philosopher and novelist, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
• Anthony Wood, (1632–1695), antiquary
• Christopher Wood, (pen name Timothy Lea, born 1935), novelist and screenwriter
• Ellen Wood, (Mrs. Henry Wood, 1814–1887), novelist, East Lynne
• Sara Wood, (fl. 1986-present), novelist and story writer
• James Woodforde, (1740–1803), diarist and cleric
• Walter Bradford Woodgate, (pen name Wat Bradwood, 1841–1920), writer and barrister
• Cecil Woodham-Smith, (1896–1977), historian and biographer, The Great Hunger
• Martin Woodhouse, (born 1932), novelist and screenwriter
• Richard Woodman, (born 1944), novelist and mariner
• Margaret Louisa Woods, (1856–1945), novelist and poet
• Anthony Woodville or Wydeville, Earl Rivers (c. 1440 – 1483), translator and magnate
• Gerard Woodward, (born 1961), novelist and poet
• John Woodward, (1665–1728), naturalist and antiquarian
• Leonard Woolf, (1880–1969), writer, editor and publisher
• Virginia Woolf, (1882–1941), author, biographer and diarist, To the Lighthouse
• Thomas Woolner (1825–1892) poet and sculptor
• Christopher Wordsworth, (1807–1885), poet, classicist and bishop
• Dorothy Wordsworth, (1771–1855), diarist and poet,
• William Wordsworth, (1770–1850), poet, The Prelude
• T. C. Worsley, (1907–1977), writer and critic
• Henry Wotton, (1568–1639), poet and translator
• Nathaniel Wraxall, (1751–1831), memoirist and political writer
• P. C. Wren, (1875–1941), novelist, Beau Geste
• David Wright, (1920–1994), poet, translator and biographer
• Derrick Wright, (born 1928), military historian
• Kit Wright, (born 1944), poet and children's writer
• Thomas Wright, (1810–1877), writer and antiquary
• Mary Wroth, (1587–1651/3), writer and poet
• Thomas Wyatt, (1503–1542), poet and translator
• William Wycherley, (c. 1640 – 1715), playwright
• Robert Wydow, (c. 1446 – 1505), poet, musician and cleric
• John Wycliffe, (mid-1320s–1384), theologian and translator
• William Wycherley, (1640–1715), playwright, The Country Wife
• John Wyndham, (also wrote as John Beynon, 1903–1969), novelist, The Day of the Triffids
• D. B. Wyndham-Lewis, (pen name Timothy Shy, 1891–1969), humorist

Y

• Jane Yardley, (born c. 1950s), novelist
• William Yarrell, (1784–1856), naturalist
• Dornford Yates, (real name Cecil William Mercer, 1885–1960), novelist
• Edmund Yates, (1831–1894), novelist and playwright
• Ann Yearsley, (1753–1806), poet
• Victor Maslin Yeates, (1897–1934), writer and fighter pilot, Winged Victory
• R. J. Yeatman, (1897–1968), humorist, 1066 and All That (with W. C. Sellar)
• Tamar Yellin, (born c. 1950s), novelist and story writer
• Theresa Yelverton, (born Maria Theresa Longworth, 1833-1881), travel writer
• Charlotte Mary Yonge, (1823–1901), novelist
• Walter Yonge of Colyton, (1579–1649), diarist and lawyer
• Barbara Yorke, (born 1951), historian
• Margaret Yorke, (born 1924), novelist
• Matthew Yorke, (born 1958), novelist and editor
• Arthur Young, (1741–1820), writer and economist
• E. H. Young, (1880–1949), novelist
• Edward Young, (1683–1765), poet
• Francis Brett Young, (1884–1954), novelist
• Hilton Young, Lord Kennet, (1879–1960), writer and politician
• Thomas Young, (1773–1829), polymath

Z

• Helen Zahavi, (born 1966), novelist
• Israel Zangwill, (1864–1926), novelist and playwright
• Louis Zangwill, (1869–1938), novelist
• Oliver Zangwill, (1913–1987), psychologist
• Benjamin Zephaniah, (born 1958), poet and dub poet
• Alice Zimmern, (1855–1939), writer, translator and suffragist
• Helen Zimmern, (1846–1934), writer and translator

See also

• List of English novelists
• List of children's literature authors
• English novel
• English literature

References