List of authors of erotic works

This is a list of notable authors of erotic literature.

Sex manuals

• Vatsayana—famous for the Kama Sutra
• Yasodhara—author of the Jayamangala
• Kokkoka—author of the Ratirahasya
• Kalyanamalla—author of the Ananga Ranga
• Praudha Devaraya—author of the Ratiratna Pradipika
• Ovid—Roman author famous for the Ars Amatoria
• Ge Hong -- Jin dynasty author of Pao-Pu Zhi
• Abu Abdullah Muhammad ben Umar Nafzawi—author of The Perfumed Garden
• Hua Tuo—author of On Venereal Disease
• Sun Simiao—author of On the Loss and Gain of The Chamber Art
• Wan Quan—author of Essentials for Extending Posterity
• Gao Lian—author of On Abstinence in Sex

Fiction

A - F

• Aaron Travis—pen name of author Steven Saylor
• Agathina Vestia-author of The Horniest Elf
• Alexander Pushkin—author of the Gabriliad
• Alison Tyler—author of Masquerade Books
• Anaïs Nin—author of Delta of Venus
• Anne Rice, also writing as A. N. Roquelaure
• Barry N. Malzberg—author of Screen and writer/editor for Olympia Press
• Beverley Cooper - author of Bed of Roses
• Caitlín R. Kiernan—author of Frog Toes and Tentacles, Tales from the Woeful Platypus, and Sirenia Digest
• Candace Bushnell—author of Sex and the City
• Carol Queen—author of The Leather Daddy and the Femme
• Catherine Robbe-Grillet, writing as Jean de Berg and Jeanne de Berg
• Chevoque—author of "High Priestess of Pleasure" and "Acquiesce"
• Chrissie Bentley-author of The Bad Girls Sweet Kiss
• Cynnamon Foster, AKA Nina Foxx—author of Southern Comfort
• D. H. Lawrence—author of Lady Chatterley's Lover
• Dalia Daudelin—author of over 100 erotic works including Scandal: The Rise and Fall of the Birchmier Brothers ^[1][2]
• Dena Hankins—author of Blue Water Dreams
• Elaine Shuel—author of BDSM Trilogy and various other works
• D. L. Moss—author of "Erotic Submission - Short stories" and the trilogy "Adventures in Submission"
• Eloisa James—author of A Kiss At Midnight
• Embiricos Andreas -- author of O Megas Anatolikos - Ο Μέγας Ανατολικός 8 volumes
• Emmanuelle Arsan—author of the novel Emmanuelle and various other works
• Erica Jong—author of Seducing The Demon
• Erika Leonard, aka E. L. James—author of the Fifty Shades trilogy

G - N

• Georges Bataille—author of Story of the Eye
• Gena Showalter—author of The Darkest Night
• G.F. Vilella—author of Fierce Pornography
• Giovanni Boccaccio—Italian author contemporary and friend of Petrarch; wrote Decameron a collection of 100 short stories, some of which are erotic, considered masterpieces of the genre.
• Günter Grass—author of The Tin Drum and Cat and Mouse
• Henry Miller—author of Tropic of Cancer
• Jess C Scott—author of Wicked Lovely, 4:Play, and Primal Scream
• John Cleland—author of Fanny Hill
• John Preston—author of Mr.Benson
• John Updike—author of Licks Of Love
• Jun'ichirō Tanizaki—author of The Key, Naomi, and Quicksand
• Kate Noble—author of Follow My Lead
• Kathi S. Barton—author contemporary of Penny Jordan; writer of the bestselling "Force of Nature" series and "Brock Golden Streak"^[3]
• Kathy Acker -- postmodern pornographer, author of I Dreamt I Was A Nymphomaniac
• Kenzaburo Oe—author of Seventeen, J, and A Personal Matter
• Kresley Cole—author of A Hunger Like No Other
• Kris Cook—author of Three To Play
• Laura Antoniou—author of The Marketplace
• Leopold von Sacher-Masoch—author of Venus in Furs
• Marco Vassi—author of "The Erotic Comedies", "Devil's Sperm Is Cold", and "The Stoned Apocalypse"
• Marilyn Jaye Lewis—author of Neptune and Surf and Lust: Bisexual Erotica
• Mario Vargas Llosa—author of The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto
• Mark Twain—author of 1601
• the Marquis de Sade—author of Justine, or the Misfortunes of Virtue
• Maxim Jakubowski—editor of the Mammoth Erotica series and a major erotica writer in his own right
• Melissa P.—author of 100 Strokes of the Brush Before Bed
• Mitzi Szereto—author of Pride and Prejudice: Hidden Lusts and editor of many anthologies including Red Velvet and Absinthe and Thrones of Desire among others.
• Nicholson Baker—author of Vox, The Fermata, and House of Holes
• Nicolas Chorier—author of L'académie des dames

O - Z

• Opal Carew—author of His To Possess
• pimmara charoenpukdi
• Patrick (Pat) Califia—author of Macho Sluts
• Pauline Réage—author of Story of O
• Rachel Kramer Bussel—author of The Lesbian Sex Book: A Guide for Women Who Love Women
• Samuel R. Delany—author of Dark Reflections
• Shoshanna Evers—author of the Enslaved Trilogy
• Susie Bright—author of Chronicle Books
• Sylvain Reynard—author of Gabriel's Inferno
• Sylvia Day—author of Passion For The Game
• Tamara Thorne—author of the Sorority series
• Tia Adams—author of "In A Soldier's Arms" and "Backyard Fantasy"
• Tim Barrus, writing as Nasdijj
• Vladimir Nabokov—Russian-born English-language writer, author of Lolita
• Tom Covenent—author of Wives Awakened an anthology and Model Wife and The Meeting
• William Levy—magazine editor, short story writer and poet
• William Simpson Potter—author of Romance of Lust
• Yasunari Kawabata—author of Beauty and Sadness
• Yukio Mishima—author of the homoerotic novels Forbidden Colors and Confessions of a Mask
• Zane—author of Shattering The Myth

Chinese erotica

• Li Yu—author of The Carnal Prayer Mat
• Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng—author of Jin Ping Mei

Poetry

• Sappho—female Greek poet from the island of Lesbos who wrote love poetry to young women
• Ovid—Roman erotic poet
• Catullus—Roman erotic poet
• Cavafy Constantine P.—20th century Greek poet. His sensual poems are filled with the lyricism and emotion of same-sex love; inspired by recollection and remembrance.
• Sextus Propertius—Roman poet
• Petrarch—Italian poet, considered, together with Dante, the father of Renaissance. His love sonnets dedicated to Laura are masterpieces of erotic poetry.
• Bai Juyi—romantic poet of the Tang dynasty
• King Solomon—author, according to Judeo-Christian tradition, of the Song of Songs.
• John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester—British 17th century libertine
• Hồ Xuân Hương—18th-19th century Vietnamese poet

Autobiography

• Emmanuelle Arsan, author of Emmanuelle
• Toni Bentley, author of The Surrender
• Vanessa Duriès, author of Le lien
• Nancy Friday, author of My Secret Garden
• "Walter," author of My Secret Life
• Frank Harris, author of multiple-volume memoir My Life and Loves
• Shawna Kenney, author of I Was a Teenage Dominatrix
• Catherine Millet, author of The Sexual Life of Catherine M.
• Georges Simenon
• Xaviera Hollander, author of The Happy Hooker
• Elaine Shuel, author of How I Became A Phone Sex Operator - My True Story
• Zak Smith, author of We Did Porn: Memoir and Drawings
• Belle de Jour, author of The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl and The Further Adventures of a London Call Girl

References