List of non-fiction writers
The term non-fiction author encompasses a vast number of fields and individuals. This list includes authors who primarily have written non-fiction books for publication and for whom there is an article in Wikipedia. Only add names here if the person has their own article on Wikipedia, please. Anything else will be removed.
A–C
- Susan Alcorn (born 1953)
- Nelson W. Aldrich (1841–1915)
- Stephen Ambrose (1936–2002)
- Gabriele Amorth (born 1925)
- Thomas Amory (c. 1691 – 1788)
- John Asgill (1659–1738)
- Russell Ash (1946–2010)
- Anastasia M. Ashman (born 1964)
- Isaac Asimov (1920–1992)
- John Austin (1790–1859)
- Richard Bannatyne (died 1605)
- Bill Barich (born 1943)
- Carol S. Batey (born 1955)
- Antony Beevor (born 1946)
- William J. Bernstein (born 1948)
- Betty Berzon (1928–2006)
- Dennison Berwick (born 1956) adventure travel writer
- T. J. Binyon (1936–2004)
- John Bodenham
- Jeff Bollow
- Henry Bond
- Eric Borgman (born 1957)
- James Boswell
- John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners (1467–1553)
- Gerald Warner Brace (1901–1978) was an American writer, educator, sailor and boat builder.
- William Bragge
- William Brandon (1914–2002)
- Ian Bremmer (born 1969)
- Leslie Brody (born 1952)
- Po Bronson
- James Bruce (1730–1794)
- Jacob Bryant (1715–1804)
- Francis Trevelyan Buckland (1826–1880)
- James Burke (born 1936)
- Michael Burke
- Anthony Burgess (1917–1993)
- Richard James Burgess
- Robert Forrest Burgess (born 1927)
- Michael Burleigh
- Butrus al-Bustani (1819–1883)
- Jane Butel, southwestern US cuisine writer
- Rhonda Byrne
- Sylvia Brown
- David Cairns
- Jack Canfield
- Richard Carew (1555–1620)
- Nicholas G. Carr (born 1959)
- Brian Carter
- Elizabeth Carter (1717–1806)
- Hester Chapone (1727–1801)
- Walter Charleton (1619–1707)
- Peter Chrisp (born 1958)
- Lars Lindberg Christensen
- Brian Cleeve (1921–2003)
- Frances Power Cobbe (1822–1904)
- Sneed B. Collard III (born 1959)
- George Combe (1788–1858)
- Ann Weiser Cornell (born 1949)
- Richard Cornuelle (1927–2011)
- George Lillie Craik (1798–1866)
- A. J. Cronin (1896–1981)
- Vincent Cronin (born 1924)
- Stephen R. Covey
- Sean Covey
- John Cutting (psychiatrist)
D–H
- David G. Dalin
- Chris Daly
- John Davies (c. 1565 – 1618)
- Paul Davies
- Richard Dawkins
- Ellen Dean
- Anita Diamant
- Graham Diamond (1947)
- Jared Diamond
- John Diamond
- Cedric Charles Dickens (1916-2006)
- William Hepworth Dixon (1821–1879)
- Daniel Dennett
- John Doran (1807–1878)
- Andrew Dornenburg
- Francis Douce (1757–1834)
- John E. Douglas
- Eamon Duffy
- John Gregory Dunne
- Gerina Dunwich (born 1959)
- Joan Didion
- Martin Ebon (born 1917)
- Filip Erceg
- John Edward
- Timothy Egan
- Anthony Faramus (1920–1990)
- Wayne Federman (born 1959)
- Orlando Figes
- Timothy Fish
- Richard Fortey
- Anne Frank (1929–1945)
- Ian Frazier (born 1951)
- Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)
- Malcolm Gladwell
- Daniel Goleman
- Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002)
- Alec Greven
- Aubrey de Grey
- Jeffrey Guterman
- Ian Halperin
- Jonathan Harr
- Sam Harris
- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
- Stephen Hawking
- Mark D. Herber
- Herodotus
- Christopher Hitchens
- John Cam Hobhouse (1786–1869)
- Eric Hobsbawm
- Susie Hodge
- Richard Holmes (biographer)
- Richard Holmes (military historian)
- Christine Howser (born 1965)
- Will Hobbs
J–P
- Mark Jacobson
- Ada Jafarey (born 1924) Pakistan
- Roy Jenkins (1920–2003)
- Saurav Jha
- Irving Johnson (1905–1991)
- Olivia Judson
- Elizabeth Keckley
- John Keegan (born 1934)
- Jim Keith (1949–1999)
- Richard Kemp
- Ian Kershaw
- David Kessler
- Tracy Kidder
- Alfie Kohn
- Charles H. Kraft
- Corby Kummer
- James Howard Kunstler
- Ray Kurzweil
- Arnold Kutzinski
- David Landes
- James Laxer
- Louisa Leaman (born 1976)
- James J. LeBar
- Robert Leckie (1920–2001)
- Daniel Levitin
- Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1836–1870)
- Johanan Luria
- Michael MacDonald (born 1956)
- Scott MacGillivray (born 1957)
- Margaret MacMillan (born 1943)
- Marc MacYoung
- Brenda Maddox
- Chalda Maloff (born 1946)
- Harvey Manning (born 1925)
- Steve Matchett (born 1962)
- Joyce Maynard
- DeBarra Mayo (born 1953)
- Fulvio Melia (born 1956)
- Jack Miles
- Joseph Mitchell (1908–1996)
- Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Julia Moulden (born 1956)
- Stephen L. Nelson (born 1959)
- Edward A. Nolfi (born 1958)
- Daniel Okrent
- Nick Ortner
- Gerard K. O'Neill (1927–1992)
- Tadeusz Pacholczyk (born 1965)
- Karen A. Page
- Robert Palmer (1945–1997)
- Caroline Paul
- Hugh Pearman (architecture critic)
- F. David Peat (born 1938)
- Neal Petersen
- Robert Georges Picard (born 1951)
- Charles P. Pierce
- Melissa Holbrook Pierson (born 1957)
- Steven Pinker
- Gary M Pomerantz
- Christopher Potter (born 1959)
- Dennis M. Powers
- James Van Praagh
- Annie Proulx
R–W
- Libby Rees (born 1995)
- Simon Reeve
- Richard Rhodes
- Mrs. Riazuddin (born 1928) Pakistani feminist activist and travelogue writeress
- Matt Ridley (born 1958)
- Graham Robb (born 1958)
- Jason Roberts
- Wayne Roberts
- Mark Roeder
- John K. Rollinson (1884–1948)
- Barun Roy
- Anneli Rufus
- Ann Rule
- Tim Russert (1950–2008)
- Carl Sagan (1934–1996)
- Curt Sampson (born 1952)
- Paul Schneider
- William Shawcross
- Suzanne Strempek Shea
- Brendan Simms
- James Sites (born 1924)
- Robert Skidelsky
- Eugene Sledge
- Jean Edward Smith (born 1932)
- Jerry E. Smith
- Jon Smith (born 1975)
- Walter Shaw Sparrow (1862–1940)
- Dr. E. Lee Spence (born 1947)
- Tom Stevenson
- Bill Stilwell
- Barbara Tate (1927-2009)
- Alvin Toffler (born 1928)
- Claire Tomalin (born 1933)
- Deborah Todd
- Richard Todd
- Felix Thijssen (born 1937)
- Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
- Neal Thompson
- Lisa Tolliver
- Thomas Toughill
- Ty Taylor (author)
- Neil DeGrasse Tyson
- Michael J. Varhola (born 1966)
- Lizzie Velásquez (born 1989)
- Ric Viers
- Edgar Vincent
- Voltaire (1694–1778)
- Xavier Waterkeyn (born 1965)
- Alan Whiticker (born 1958)
- Francis Wheen
- Carl Wickland (born 1861)
- Eric Williams (1911–1981)
- Richard T. Williamson (born 1958)
- Brandon Wilson (born 1953)
- Charles F. Winslow (1811–1877)
- Forbes Benignus Winslow (1810-1874)
- Neale Donald Walsch
- Douglas Whynott