List of English writers (D–J)

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List of English writers lists writers in English, born or raised in England (or who lived in England for a lengthy period), who already have Wikipedia pages. References for the information here appear on the linked Wikipedia pages. The list is incomplete – please help to expand it by adding Wikipedia page-owning writers who have written extensively in any genre or field, including science and scholarship. Please follow the entry format. A seminal work added to a writer's entry should also have a Wikipedia page. This is a subsidiary to the List of English people. There are or should be similar lists of Irish, Scots, Welsh, Manx, Jersey, and Guernsey writers.

Abbreviations: AV = Authorized King James Version of the Bible, also as = also wrote/writes as, c. = circa; century, cc. = centuries; cleric = Anglican priest, fl. = floruit, RC = Roman Catholic, SF = science fiction, YA = young adult fiction

D[]

  • David Dabydeen (born 1955), novelist and critic
  • Charlotte Dacre (wrote as Rosa Matilda, 1782–1841), novelist and poet
  • Roald Dahl (1916–1990), novelist, children's writer and poet
  • William Dakins (died 1607), scholar, AV translator and cleric
  • Andrew Dalby (born 1947), writer
  • Celia Dale (1912–2011), novelist and book reviewer
  • Penny Dale (born 1954), children's writer and illustrator
  • Thomas Dale (1797–1870), poet, theologian and cleric
  • Robert Charles Dallas (1756–1824), writer and poet
  • Anne Seymour Damer (1748–1828), novelist and sculptor
  • William Dampier (1651–1715), travel writer and buccaneer
  • William Danby (1752–1833), scholar and philosopher
  • Clemence Dane (real name Winifred Ashton, 1888–1965), novelist and playwright
  • Samuel Daniel (1562–1619), poet and historian
  • William Barker Daniel (1754–1833), field sports writer and cleric
  • Sarah Daniels (born 1957), playwright
  • Alicia D'Anvers (1688–1725), poet
  • Ella D'Arcy (c. 1856–1939), novelist and translator
  • Bill Dare (living), scriptwriter, novelist and playwright
  • F. J. Harvey Darton (1878–1936), children's literature historian and publisher
  • Bernard Darwin (1876–1961), golf writer
  • Charles Darwin (1809–1882), natural historian, On the Origin of Species
  • Emma Darwin (born 1964), novelist
  • Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802), natural historian and poet
  • Florence Henrietta Darwin (1863/1864–1920), playwright
  • Elizabeth Daryush (originally 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
  • Selina Davenport (1779–1859), novelist
  • C. A. F. Rhys Davids (1857–1942), Buddhist scholar and translator
  • Lionel Davidson (1922–2009), novelist
  • Donald Davie (1922–1995), poet and critic
  • Caitlin Davies (born 1964), novelist and journalist
  • Hunter Davies (born 1936), writer and biographer
  • 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
  • Paul B. Davies (living), writer and actor
  • Peter Ho Davies (born 1966), writer
  • 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 and inventor
  • Elizabeth Dawbarn (died 1839), writer on religion and child care
  • Richard Dawkins (born 1941), science writer
  • Coningsby Dawson (1883–1959), novelist, poet and soldier
  • Jennifer Dawson (1929–2000), novelist
  • Jill Dawson (living), poet, novelist and editor
  • William James Dawson (1854–1928), poet and religious writer
  • James Wentworth Day (1899–1983), countryside writer and broadcaster
  • Jeffery Day (1896–1918), poet
  • John Day (1574 – c. 1640), playwright, The Parliament of Bees
  • Martin Day (born 1969), novelist and screenwriter
  • Thomas Day (1748–1789), children's writer and educator
  • Cecil Day-Lewis (1904–1972), Poet Laureate, translator and novelist
  • Tamasin Day-Lewis (born 1953), food writer and broadcaster
  • April De Angelis (born 1960), playwright
  • Louis de Bernières (born 1954), novelist, Captain Corelli's Mandolin
  • Alain de Botton (born 1969), writer, novelist and essayist
  • Maria De Fleury (fl. 1773–1791), poet, hymnist and polemicist
  • Guy de la Bédoyère (born 1957), historian and broadcaster
  • Walter de la Mare (also as 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
  • Aubrey de Sélincourt (1894–1962), classicist, translator and children's writer
  • Lisa St Aubin de Terán (born 1953), novelist, poet and autobiographer
  • Edward de Vere, earl of Oxford (1550–1604), playwright and poet
  • William Frederick Deacon (1799–1844), writer and journalist
  • Roger Deakin (1943–2006), countryside writer
  • Louise Dean (living), novelist
  • Nick Dear (born 1955), playwright and screenwriter
  • Geoffrey Dearmer (1893–1996), poet
  • Percy Dearmer, (1867–1936), reformer and cleric
  • John Dee (1527–1608/1609), mathematician, occultist and political economist
  • Denise Deegan (born 1952), novelist, screenwriter and playwright
  • Warwick Deeping (1877–1950), novelist and story writer
  • Daniel Defoe (c. 1659–1731), novelist and pamphleteer, Robinson Crusoe
  • Paul Dehn (1912–1976), screenwriter and playwright
  • Len Deighton (born 1929), historian, cookery writer and novelist, The Ipcress File
  • Thomas Dekker (1572–1632), playwright
  • E. M. Delafield (1890–1943), novelist
  • Michael De-la-Noy (1934–2002), writer and journalist
  • Mary Delany (born Mary Granville), (1700–1788), 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 (1614/1615–1669), poet
  • Felix Dennis (1947–2014), 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
  • Mary Deverell (1731–1805), religious writer, essayist and poet
  • Colin Dexter (1930–2017), 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
  • Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776–1847), bibliographer
  • Thomas John Dibdin (1771–1841), playwright and songwriter
  • Charles Dickens (1812–1870), novelist, David Copperfield
  • Monica Dickens (1915–1992), novelist and children's writer
  • Anne Hepple Dickinson (wrote as Anne Hepple, 1877–1959), novelist
  • Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson (1862–1932), historian and political activist
  • John Dickinson (born 1962), YA novelist
  • Patric Dickinson (1914–1994), poet, translator and playwright
  • Peter Dickinson (1927–2015), novelist, children's writer and poet
  • Alice Diehl (1844–1912), novelist and musician
  • Kenelm Digby (1603–1665), philosopher
  • Leonard Digges (1588–1635), poet and translator
  • Francis Dillingham (died 1625), scholar, AV translator and cleric
  • Wentworth Dillon (1630–1685), poet, critic and translator
  • John Disney (1677–1729/1730), writer on moral reform and cleric
  • John Disney (1746–1816), writer, biographer and Unitarian minister
  • Jenny Diski (1947–2016), novelist and essayist
  • Isaac D'Israeli (1766–1848), essayist
  • Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881), novelist and statesman
  • Ella Hepworth Dixon (1857–1932), novelist, essayist and editor
  • Henry Hall Dixon (1822–1870), writer
  • Richard Watson Dixon (1833–1900), poet and church historian
  • Sarah Dixon (1671–1765), poet
  • 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
  • Susannah Dobson (died 1795), translator
  • Catherine Isabella Dodd (1860–1932), educational writer and novelist
  • William Dodd (1729–1777), writer, cleric and forger
  • John Doddridge (1555–1628), writer, antiquary and judge
  • Philip Doddridge (1702–1751), religious writer and hymnist
  • George Bubb Dodington (1691–1792), politician, poet and diarist
  • Robert Dodsley (1704–1764), poet, writer and bookseller
  • Christina Dodwell (born 1951), travel writer
  • Ann Doherty (c. 1786 – c. 1831–32), romantic novelist
  • Berlie Doherty (born 1943), children's writer, poet and dramatist
  • Paul C. Doherty (several pen names, b. 1946), novelist
  • Digby Mackworth Dolben (1848–1867), poet
  • Dorcas Dole (fl. later 17th century), Quaker pamphleteer
  • Alfred Domett (1811–1887), poet and statesman
  • Angus Donald (born 1965), novelist
  • Julia Donaldson (born 1948), children's writer and playwright
  • John Donne (1572–1631), poet and cleric
  • Desmond Donnelly (1920–1974), writer, journalist and politician
  • Eleanor Doorly (1880–1950), children's writer
  • Thomas Doubleday (1790–1870), writer, playwright and songwriter
  • Sarah Doudney (1841–1926), novelist, children's writer and hymnist
  • Charles Montagu Doughty (1843–1926), poet, writer and traveller
  • Louise Doughty (born 1963), novelist and playwright
  • Keith Douglas (1920–1944), poet
  • Lord Alfred Douglas (1870–1945), poet
  • Norman Douglas (1868–1952), novelist
  • Siobhan Dowd (1960–2007), novelist, anthologist and children's writer, Bog Child
  • Mary Frances Dowdall (1876–1939), novelist and non-fiction writer
  • 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 story writer, Sherlock Holmes
  • Richard Doyle (1948–2017), novelist
  • Francis Hastings Doyle (1810–1888), poet
  • Margaret Drabble (born 1939), novelist and critic
  • Phil Drabble (1914–2007), writer and broadcaster
  • Judith Drake (fl. 1696–1707), essayist
  • Nathan Drake (1766–1836), essayist
  • Nick Drake (born 1961), poet and novelist
  • Augusta Theodosia Drane (1823–1894), religious writer and biographer
  • Michael Drayton (1563–1631), poet
  • John Drinkwater (1882–1937), poet and playwright
  • Henry Drummond (1786–1860), religious writer, politician and banker
  • Anna Harriett Drury (also Harriet, 1824–1912), novelist, poet and children's writer
  • John Dryden, (1631–1700) poet and playwright, Absalom and Achitophel
  • Daphne du Maurier (1907–1989), novelist, Rebecca
  • George du Maurier (1834–1896), novelist and illustrator, Trilby
  • Edward Dubois (1774–1850), wit and man of letters
  • 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), writer, translator and satirist
  • Lucie, Lady Duff-Gordon (1821–1869), correspondent and translator
  • Maureen Duffy (born 1933), poet, screenwriter and novelist
  • Stella Duffy (born 1963), novelist and playwright
  • William Dugdale (1605–1686), antiquary
  • Alfred Duggan (1903–1964), historian and novelist
  • Ian Duhig (born 1954), poet
  • Richard Duke (1658–1711), poet and cleric
  • Ashley Dukes (1885–1959), playwright and critic
  • Cuthbert Dukes (1890–1977), medical writer and pathologist
  • Michael Dummett (1925–2011), philosopher
  • 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 (1952–2017), poet, novelist and children's writer,
  • Antony Dunn (born 1973), poet and playwright
  • Nell Dunn (born 1936), novelist and playwright
  • 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
  • C. V. Durell (1882–1968), mathematics writer
  • Thomas D'Urfey (1653–1723), playwright and poet
  • 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
  • Clifford Dyment (1914–1971), poet and critic


E[]

  • Rae Earl (born 1971), writer and broadcaster
  • John Earle (1601–1665), writer and bishop
  • Anthony Earnshaw (1924–2001), writer and illustrator
  • Joan Adeney Easdale (1913–1998), poet
  • Edward Backhouse Eastwick (1814–1883), scholar
  • Mary Emma Ebsworth (1794–1881), playwright and translator
  • Laurence Echard (1670–1730), historian and translator
  • Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882–1944), science writer
  • E. R. Eddison (1882–1945), novelist, poet and translator
  • Emily Eden (1797–1869), novelist
  • Frederick Morton Eden (1766–1809), social researcher
  • Richard Edes (1555–1604), writer, AV translator and cleric
  • David Edgar (born 1948), playwright
  • John George Edgar (1834–1864), miscellaneous writer for boys
  • Maria Edgeworth (1767–1849), novelist, Castle Rackrent
  • Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1744–1817), writer and politician
  • James Edmeston (1791–1867), hymnist and architect
  • Robert Edric (real name Gary Edric Armitage, b. 1956), novelist
  • J. T. Edson (1928–2014), novelist
  • Richard Edwardes (c. 1523–1566), poet and playwright
  • Amelia Edwards (1831–1892), novelist and travel writer
  • David Edwards (1929–2018), writer and cleric
  • Monica Edwards (1912–1998), children's writer
  • Thomas Edwards (died 1599), poet
  • Richard Eedes (died 1686), religious writer
  • Pierce Egan (1772–1849), sports writer
  • 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
  • Sarah Fyge Egerton (1670–1723), poet
  • Thomas Egerton (Lord Ellesmere, 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 (writes as Peter Tremayne and Peter MacAlan, born 1943), novelist
  • Charles Eliot (1862–1931), travel writer and diplomat
  • George Eliot (real name Mary Ann Evans, 1819–1880), novelist, Middlemarch
  • T. S. Eliot (1888–1965), poet, playwright and Nobel Prize winner, The Waste Land
  • Anne Elliot, novelist
  • Frances Minto Elliot (1820–1898), historian and novelist
  • Ebenezer Elliott (1781–1849), poet
  • Janice Elliott (1931–1995), novelist and children's writer
  • Edith Ellis (1861–1916), writer and anthologist
  • Alice Thomas Ellis (Anna Haycraft, 1932–2005), fiction and non-fiction writer
  • Edwin John Ellis (1848–1916), poet, editor and illustrator
  • H. F. Ellis (1907–2000), humorous writer and novelist
  • Havelock Ellis (1859–1939), sexologist, reformer and editor
  • Royston Ellis (born 1941), novelist and poet
  • Sarah Stickney Ellis (1799–1872), Quaker writer on women's education
  • Warren Ellis (born 1968), graphic novelist and comic book writer
  • Thomas Ellwood (1639–1713), poet and religious writer
  • Ernest Elmore (also as John Bude, 1901–1957), crime and fantasy 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
  • Thomas Erskine (1750–1823), lawyer and political writer
  • Susan Ertz (1894–1985), novelist
  • Edith Escombe (1866–1950), fiction writer and essayist
  • George Etherege (c. 1635 – c. 1692), playwright, The Man of Mode
  • Abel Evans (1679–1737), poet and cleric
  • Anne Evans (1820–1870), poet and composer
  • Arthur Evans (1851–1941), archaeologist
  • Arthur Benoni Evans (1781–1854), poet, scholar and cleric
  • John Evans (1823–1908), archaeologist
  • Katherine Evans and Sarah Cheevers (1618–1692 and 1608–1664), Quaker evangelists
  • Margiad Evans (real name Peggy Eileen Williams, 1909–1958), novelist, poet and illustrator
  • Nicholas Evans (born 1950), novelist
  • Paul Evans (1945–1991), poet
  • Sebastian Evans (1830–1909), poet, journalist and artist
  • John Evelyn (1620–1706), writer and diarist, Sylva, A Discourse of Forest Trees
  • H. D. Everett (1851–1923), novelist
  • 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
  • Leonora Eyles (1889–1960), feminist writer and novelist
  • Vincent Eyre (1811–1881), military writer and general


F[]

  • Frederick William Faber (1814–1863), hymnist and theologian
  • 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 officer
  • Margaret Fairley (1885–1968), scholar and activist
  • J. Meade Falkner (1858–1932), novelist
  • Hugh Falkus (1917–1996), fishing writer
  • Julian Fane (1927–2009), novelist and memoirist
  • Mildmay Fane, earl of Westmorland (1602–1666), poet and playwright
  • Violet Fane (real name Mary Montgomerie Lamb, 1843–1905), novelist and poet
  • Ann, Lady Fanshawe (1625–1680), memoirist
  • Catherine Maria Fanshawe (1765–1834), poet
  • Richard Fanshawe (1608–1666), poet and translator
  • U. A. Fanthorpe (1929–2009), poet
  • John Fardell (born 1967), children's writer and cartoonist
  • 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 writer and poet
  • Herbert Farjeon (1887–1945), playwright and critic
  • Joseph Jefferson Farjeon (1883–1955), novelist, playwright and screenwriter
  • Paul Farley (born 1965), poet
  • Nigel Farndale (born 1964), novelist and biographer
  • Jeffery Farnol (1878–1952), novelist
  • Florence Farr (1860–1917), religious writer and playwright
  • Frederic William Farrar (Dean Farrar, 1831–1903), novelist and cleric
  • Stewart Farrar (1916–2000), scriptwriter and novelist
  • J.G. Farrell (1935–1979), novelist
  • Kathleen Farrell (1912–1999), novelist
  • Gertrude Minnie Faulding (1875–1961), novelist and children's writer
  • Sebastian Faulks (born 1953), novelist
  • Joseph Fawcett (1758–1804), poet and cleric
  • Francis Fawkes (1721–1777), poet and translator
  • Eliza Fay (1755/1756–1816), correspondent and traveller
  • John Russell Fearn (1908–1960), novelist
  • Jane Fearon (1654 or 1656–1737), religious writer
  • Daniel Featley or Fairclough (1582–1645), polemicist, 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), writer and RC priest
  • John Fenn (1739–1794), antiquary and editor
  • Elijah Fenton (1683–1730), poet
  • Geoffrey Fenton (c. 1539–1608), writer, translator and politician
  • James Fenton (born 1949), poet and critic
  • Roger Fenton (1565–1615), 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), historian and general
  • Patrick Leigh Fermor (born 1915), travel writer and scholar
  • Elizabeth Ferrars (1907–1995), novelist
  • Maria Fetherstonhaugh (1847–1918), novelist
  • Jasper Fforde (born 1961), novelist
  • Michael Field, pseudonym of Katherine Harris Bradley (1846–1914) and Edith Emma Cooper (1862–1913), poets and diarists
  • Richard Field (1561–1616), theologian
  • Daphne Fielding (1904–1997), writer and biographer
  • Helen Fielding (born 1958), novelist and screenwriter
  • 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
  • Graeme Fife (living), writer, playwright and broadcaster
  • Eva Figes (born 1932), novelist and critic
  • Robert Filmer (1588–1653), political writer
  • Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661–1720), poet
  • Brian Finch (1936–2007), scriptwriter and playwright
  • William Coles Finch (1864–1944), historian and countryside writer
  • Anne Fine (born 1947), novelist and children's writer
  • Cordelia Fine (living), psychologist and writer
  • George Finlay (1799–1875), historian
  • Ronald Firbank (1886–1926), novelist and playwright
  • Charles Harding Firth (1857–1936), historian and biographer
  • John Rupert Firth (1890–1960), linguistics scholar
  • Tim Firth (born 1964), playwright, screenwriter and songwriter
  • Margery Fish (1892–1969), garden writer
  • Tibor Fischer (born 1959), novelist
  • Allen Fisher (born 1944), poet and editor
  • Ann Fisher (1719–1798), educational writer
  • 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
  • Penelope Fitzgerald (1916–2000), novelist, poet and biographer
  • Judith Flanders (born 1959), historian
  • Peter Flannery (born 1951), playwright and screenwriter
  • 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
  • Abraham Fleming (Flemyng, c. 1552 – 1607), writer, translator and cleric
  • Ian Fleming (1908–1964), novelist, James Bond
  • Peter Fleming (1907–1971), travel writer
  • Giles Fletcher (1586–1623), poet
  • Giles Fletcher (c. 1548–1611), poet
  • J. S. Fletcher (1863–1935) novelist
  • 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), theologian and Methodist minister
  • F. S. Flint (1885–1960), poet
  • John Florio (1553–1625), lexicographer and translator
  • Alice Flowerdew (1759–1830), poet and hymnist
  • Robert Fludd (1574–1637), physician and occultist
  • Giles Foden (born 1967), novelist
  • Winifred Foley (1914–2009), memoirist and novelist
  • Albany Fonblanque (1794–1872), journalist and editor
  • Samuel Foote (1720–1777), playwright
  • Tim Footman (born 1968), writer and editor
  • Colin Forbes (real name Raymond Sawkins, 1923–2006), novelist
  • Duncan Forbes (born 1947), poet
  • Anne Ford (1737–1824), writer and actress
  • Boris Ford (1917–1998), critic and editor
  • Ford Madox Ford (originally Ford Madox Hueffer, 1873–1939), novelist and poet
  • John Ford (1586–1640), playwright, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
  • Mark Ford (born 1962), poet and essayist
  • Richard Ford (1796–1858), travel writer
  • Thomas Ford or Forde (1580–1648), poet and composer
  • Michael Foreman (born 1938), children's writer and illustrator
  • C. S. Forester, (1899–1966) novelist, Horatio Hornblower
  • Simon Forman, (1552–1611) astrologer and occultist
  • David Forrest (real names R. Forrest-Webb and David Eliades, living), novelists
  • Alfred Henry Forrester (Alfred Crowquill, 1804–1872), writer and illustrator
  • Helen Forrester (born 1919), writer
  • Tony Forrester (born 1953), bridge writer and player
  • Jeff Forshaw (born 1968), professor of particle physics
  • E. M. Forster (1879–1970), novelist and essayist, A Passage to India
  • John Forster (1812–1876), biographer and critic
  • Margaret Forster (born 1938), novelist and biographer
  • Mary Forster (c. 1620–1687), Quaker polemicist
  • Frederick Forsyth (born 1938), novelist, The Day of the Jackal
  • Richard Fortey (born 1946), science writer
  • E. M. Foster, Mrs. (fl. late 18th and early 19th cc.), novelist
  • John Foster (1770–1843), essayist
  • Jon Foster (born 1981), scriptwriter
  • John Knight Fotheringham (1874–1936), historian and astronomer
  • Adam Foulds (born 1974), novelist and poet
  • Tim Fountain (born 1967), playwright
  • Margaret Fountaine (1862–1940), lepidopterist
  • Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler (also Edith Henrietta Fowler, 1860–1929), novelist
  • Henry Watson Fowler (1858–1933) and Francis George Fowler (1871–1918), grammarians, Fowler's Modern English Usage
  • John Fowles (1926–2005), novelist and essayist
  • Caroline Fox (1819–1871), diarist
  • Francis Fox (1675–1738), writer and cleric
  • George Fox (1624–1691), diarist and Quaker
  • Robin Lane Fox (born 1946), garden 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), racing novelist
  • Matthew Francis (born 1956), poet
  • Philip Francis (1740–1818), pamphleteer and translator
  • Suzanne Francis (born 1959), novelist
  • Gilbert Frankau (1884–1952), novelist and poet
  • Julia Frankau (wrote as Frank Danby, 1863–1916), novelist
  • John Franklin (1786–1847), explorer and novelist
  • Antonia Fraser (. 1932), biographer and novelist
  • Caro Fraser (born 1953), novelist
  • George MacDonald Fraser (1925–2008), novelist and screenwriter, The Flashman Papers
  • Michael Frayn (born 1933), playwright and novelist
  • Margaret Frazer (pseudonym, living), novelist
  • Jonathan Freedland (born 1967), writer
  • Edward Augustus Freeman (1823–1892), historian
  • John Freeman (1880–1929), poet
  • R. Austin Freeman (1862–1943), novelist
  • Nicholas Freeston (1907–1988), poet
  • 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), memoirist and painter
  • James Anthony Froude (1818–1894), historian
  • Richard Hurrell Froude (1803–1836), poet, writer and cleric
  • C. B. Fry, (1872–1956) cricket writer
  • Caroline Fry (1787–1846), religious writer and poet
  • Christopher Fry (1907–2005), dramatist
  • Plantagenet Somerset Fry (real name Peter George Robin Fry, 1931–1996), historian
  • Stephen Fry (born 1957), novelist and comedian
  • Alexandra Fuller (born 1969), writer
  • Andrew Fuller (1754–1815), theologian and Baptist minister
  • Claire Fuller (living), novelist
  • John Fuller (born 1937), poet and novelist
  • Peter Fuller (1947–1990), writer and art critic
  • Roy Fuller (1912–1991), poet and novelist
  • Thomas Fuller (1608–1661), writer, historian and cleric
  • Georgiana Fullerton (originally Leverson-Gower, 1812–1885), novelist and religious writer
  • Ulpian Fulwell (1545/1546 – c. 1585), playwright, satirist and cleric
  • Monica Furlong (1930–2003), religious writer and biographer
  • Frederick James Furnivall (1825–1910), philologist


G[]

  • Thomas Gage (c. 1597–1656), travel writer and cleric
  • Neil Gaiman (born 1960), novelist and screenwriter
  • Norman Gale (1862–1942), poet
  • Winifred Gales (1761–1839), novelist and memoirist
  • John Galsworthy (also as John Sinjohn, 1867–1933), novelist 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
  • Stephen Gardiner (1924–2007), writer and architect
  • 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
  • William Garner (1920–2005), novelist
  • Constance Garnett (1861–1946), translator
  • David Garnett (1892–1981), novelist and playwright
  • Edward Garnett (1868–1937), author and critic
  • Eve Garnett (1900–1991), children's writer and illustrator
  • Richard Garnett (1835–1906), scholar and poet
  • David Garrick (1717–1779), actor, playwright and poet
  • Samuel Garth (1661–1719), poet and physician
  • Charles Garvice (also as Caroline Hart, 1850–1920), novelist
  • George Gascoigne (1535–1577), poet and translator
  • David Gascoyne (1916–2001), poet
  • Norman Gash (1912–2009), historian
  • Elizabeth Gaskell (Mrs. Gaskell, 1810–1865), novelist, Cranford
  • Jane Gaskell (born 1941), fantasy novelist
  • Thomas Gaspey (1788–1871), novelist and journalist
  • Francis Aidan Gasquet (1846–1929), historian and cardinal
  • Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy (1933–2019), biographer and historian
  • Robert Gathorne-Hardy (1902–1973), garden writer
  • 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
  • William Gaunt (1900–1980), art historian
  • Jamila Gavin (born 1941), novelist and children's writer
  • John Gawsworth (1912–1970), poet and anthologist
  • John Gay (1685–1732), poet and playwright, The Beggar's Opera
  • John Gay (1699–1745), moral philosopher and cleric
  • Maggie Gee (born 1948), novelist
  • Pam Gems (1925–2011), playwright
  • Dorothea Gerard (1855–1915), novelist
  • Emily Gerard (1849–1905), novelist
  • John Gerard (1545–1611/1612), botanical writer and herbalist
  • William Gerhardie (originally Gerhardi, 1895–1977), novelist
  • Karen Gershon (1923–1993), poet, writer and novelist
  • Edward Gibbon (1737–1794), historian, 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
  • Edmund Gibson (1669–1748), antiquary, translator and bishop
  • Miles Gibson (born 1947), novelist and poet
  • Wilfred Wilson Gibson (1878–1962), poet
  • John Gifford (1758–1818), historical and political writer
  • William Gifford (1756–1826), poet and satirist
  • Harriett Gilbert (born 1948), novelist, critic and broadcaster
  • Joseph Gilbert (1779–1852), writer and Congregational minister
  • Michael Gilbert (1912–2006), novelist
  • W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911), playwright and poet, The Mikado
  • William Gilbert or Gilberd (1544–1603), scientist
  • 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
  • Penelope Gilliatt (1932–1993), novelist, screenwriter and film critic
  • William Gilpin (1724–1804), writer, artist and cleric
  • Morris Ginsberg (1879–1970), sociologist
  • Alfred Gissing (1896–1975), biographer and editor
  • Algernon Gissing (1860–1937), novelist and travel writer
  • George Gissing (1857–1903), novelist, New Grub Street
  • Mary Gladstone (1847–1927), diarist
  • William Gladstone (1809–1898), writer and statesman
  • Lesley Glaister (born 1956), novelist and playwright
  • Joseph Glanvill (1636–1680), writer, philosopher and cleric
  • Brian Glanville (born 1931), football writer and novelist
  • William Nugent Glascock (c. 1787–1847), novelist and naval officer
  • Katharine Glasier (also as Katharine Conway, 1867–1950), writer and socialist
  • Rodge Glass (born 1978), novelist and biographer
  • Hannah Glasse (1708–1770), writer on cookery and housekeeping
  • Victoria Glendinning (born 1937), biographer and novelist
  • Richard Glover (1712–1785), poet and playwright
  • Elinor Glyn (1864–1943), novelist
  • John Godber (born 1956), playwright
  • Robert Goddard (born 1954), novelist
  • Rumer Godden (1907–1998), novelist, children's writer and biographer
  • 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), Nobel Prize–winning novelist and poet, Lord of the Flies
  • Douglas Goldring (1887–1960), poet, travel writer and novelist
  • Israel Gollancz (1863–1930), scholar and editor
  • Laurence Gomme (1853–1916), folklore writer and public servant
  • Christopher Goodman (1520–1603), pamphleteer and Bible translator
  • 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
  • Geoffrey Gorer (1905–1985), writer and anthropologist
  • Arthur Gorges (c. 1569–1625), poet and sea captain
  • Ray Gosling (1939–2013), writer and journalist
  • Edmund Gosse (1849–1928), novelist, poet and critic
  • Philip Henry Gosse (1810–1888), natural historian
  • Stephen Gosson (1554–1624), satirist and playwright
  • Elizabeth Goudge (1900–1984), novelist and children's writer
  • William Gouge (1575–1653), writer and cleric
  • Thomas Gouge (1609–1681), writer and Presbyterian minister
  • Gerald Gould (1885–1936), poet and journalist
  • Nathaniel Gould (1857–1919), novelist
  • John Gower (c. 1330–1408), poet
  • Posie Graeme-Evans (living), 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
  • Virginia Graham (1910–1993), humorist, translator and poet
  • Kenneth Grahame (1859–1931), writer, The Wind in the Willows
  • Sarah Grand (real name Mrs. David C. M'Fall, originally Frances Elizabeth Clarke, 1854–1943), novelist and suffragist
  • Clive Granger (1934–2009), Nobel Prize–winning economist
  • Andrew Grant (born 1968), novelist
  • John Grant (also as Jonathan Gash, Graham Gaunt, b. 1933), novelist and physician
  • Linda Grant (born 1951), novelist and writer
  • Michael Grant (1914–2004), historian
  • George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne (1666–1735), playwright and poet
  • Harley Granville-Barker (1877–1946), playwright and actor
  • Richard Graves (1715–1804), novelist, poet and cleric
  • Robert Graves (1895–1985), poet and novelist, I, Claudius
  • John Gray (1866–1934), poet and translator
  • John N. Gray (born 1948), philosopher
  • Maxwell Gray (Mary Gleed Tuttiett, 1846–1926), novelist and poet
  • Patience Gray (1917–2005), cookery writer
  • Simon Gray (1936–2008) playwright, novelist and memoirist.
  • Thomas Gray (1716–1771), poet
  • Eliza S. Craven Green (1803–1866), poet
  • Candida Lycett Green (1942–2014), writer and journalist
  • Henry Green (real name Henry Vincent Yorke), (1905–1973), novelist
  • John Richard Green (1837–1883), historian
  • Mary Anne Everett Green (1818–1895), 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
  • Vivian H. H. Green (1915–2005), historian and cleric
  • Kate Greenaway (1846–1901), children's writer 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), man of letters
  • James Greenwood (c. 1830/1835–1929), children's writer and journalist
  • Walter Greenwood (1903–1974), novelist, Love on the Dole
  • Walter Wilson Greg (1875–1959), bibliographer
  • Richard Gregory (1864–1952), science writer and astronomer
  • Joyce Grenfell (1910–1979), writer 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
  • Paul Grice (also as H. P. Grice, 1913–1988), philosopher of language
  • Arthur Griffiths (1838–1908), crime novelist and military historian
  • 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 and anthropologist
  • Elizabeth Grimston (c. 1563 – c. 1603), poet
  • Leopold Hartley Grindon (1818–1904), educator and botanist
  • Francis Grose (1731–1791), antiquary and lexicographer
  • John Gross (1935–2011), critic, writer and anthologist
  • Philip Gross (born 1952), poet, novelist and playwright
  • George Grossmith (1847–1912), writer and entertainer, and Weedon Grossmith (1854–1919), writer, artist and actor, Diary of a Nobody
  • George Grote (1794–1871), classicist and reformer
  • Charlotte Grove (1773–1860), diarist
  • George Grove (1820–1900), editor and writer on music, Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians
  • Paul Groves (born 1947), poet
  • Edward Grubb (1854–1939), Quaker writer
  • Bertha Jane Grundy (1837–1912), novelist
  • Sydney Grundy (1848–1914), playwright and librettist
  • Philip Guedalla (1889–1944), historian and travel writer
  • Harry Guest (1932–2021), poet
  • Arthur Guirdham (1905–1992), non-fiction writer, novelist and physician
  • Thom Gunn (1929–2004), poet
  • Elizabeth Gunning (1769–1823), novelist and translator
  • Peter Gunning (1614–1684), writer and bishop
  • Edmund Gurney (1847–1888), writer and psychologist
  • Ivor Gurney (1890–1937), poet and composer
  • Thomas Anstey Guthrie (wrote as 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), poet, novelist and painter


H[]

  • William Habington (1605–1654), poet
  • Alan Hackney (1924–2009), novelist and screenwriter
  • Jen Hadfield (born 1978), poet
  • Mark Haddon (born 1962), novelist, children's writer and poet
  • Henry Rider Haggard (1856–1925), novelist and story writer, King Solomon's Mines
  • Richard Hakluyt (c. 1552/1553–1616), travel writer, translator and cleric
  • J. B. S. Haldane (1892–1964), scientist, philosopher and children's writer
  • 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 (wrote as S. G. Tallentyre, 1868–1956), 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
  • 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), writer and cleric
  • Arthur Hallam (1811–1833), poet
  • Henry Hallam (1777–1859), historian
  • Edward Halliwell (16th c.), playwright and author, Fellow of Cambridge's King's College
  • Leslie Halliwell (1929–1989), film critic and encyclopedist
  • James Halliwell-Phillipps (1820–1889), Shakespearean and biographer
  • Bruce Barrymore Halpenny (born early 20th c.), writer and military historian
  • Alan Halsey (born 1947), poet
  • Michael Hamburger (1924–2007), writer, poet and translator
  • Philip Gilbert Hamerton (wrote as Adolphus Segrave, 1834–1894), writer and artist
  • Mohsin Hamid (born 1971), novelist and brand consultant
  • Andy Hamilton (author) (born 1974), non-fiction writer and journalist
  • Ann Mary Hamilton (fl. 1806–13), novelist
  • Charles Hamilton (also as Frank Richards, etc., 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
  • Patrick Hamilton (1904–1962), playwright and novelist
  • Peter F. Hamilton (born 1960), SF novelist
  • James Hamilton-Paterson (born 1941), novelist, poet and writer
  • Edward Bruce Hamley (1824–1893), military theorist and novelist
  • Edward Hamley (1764–1834), poet and cleric
  • James Hammond (1710–1742), poet and politician
  • Stuart Hampshire (1914–2004), philosopher and literary critic
  • John Hampson (1901–1955), novelist
  • Robert Gavin Hampson (born 1948), poet
  • Christopher Hampton (born 1946), playwright, screenwriter and translator
  • 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
  • Jonas Hanway (1712–1786), travel writer and pamphleteer
  • Michael Hardcastle (1933–2019), children's writer
  • John Harding (died 1610), scholar, AV translator and cleric
  • Frances Hardinge (born 1973), children's writer
  • Mollie Hardwick (1916–2003), novelist and writer
  • 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
  • Julius Charles Hare (1795–1855), religious writer
  • R. M. Hare (1919–2002), philosopher
  • Roger Hargreaves (1935–1988), children's writer and illustrator, Mr. Men
  • James Harington (1611–1677), political writer
  • John Harington (1561–1612), poet and translator
  • 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
  • Thomas Harriot (1560–1621), astronomer, mathematician and translator
  • Frank Harris (1856–1931), writer, editor and autobiographer
  • James Harris (1709–1780), philosopher and grammarian
  • Joanne Harris (born 1964), novelist
  • Robert Harris (born 1957), novelist, writer and screenwriter
  • Rosemary Harris (born 1923), children's writer
  • Austin Harrison (1873–1928), editor and writer
  • Jane Ellen Harrison (1850–1928), classicist
  • 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 as T. H. Harrisson, 1911–1976), polymath
  • David Harsent (wrote as Jack Curtis, David Lawrence, b. 1942), novelist, poet and scriptwriter
  • B. H. Liddell Hart (1895–1970), historian and army officer
  • Christopher Hart (also as William Napier, b. 1965), novelist
  • Adam Hart-Davis (born 1943), writer 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), dialect poet and writer
  • 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
  • F. W. Harvey (1888–1957), poet
  • W. F. Harvey (1885–1937), story writer
  • Lee Harwood (1939–2015), poet
  • Alamgir Hashmi (born 1951), poet and scholar
  • Minnie Louise Haskins (1875–1957), poet and welfare worker
  • Christopher Hassall (1912–1963), playwright, actor and poet
  • Edward Hasted (1732–1812), historian
  • Michael Hastings (1938–2011), playwright, novelist and screenwriter
  • Richard Hathwaye, (fl. 1597–1603) playwright
  • Ann Hatton (wrote as Ann of Swansea, 1764–1838), novelist
  • Joseph Hatton (1841–1907), novelist and editor
  • William Haughton (died 1605), playwright
  • Frances Ridley Havergal (1836–1879), poet and hymnist
  • Stephen Hawes (c. 1474–1523), poet
  • Robert Stephen Hawker (1803–1875), poet and cleric
  • John Hawkesworth (1715–1773), writer, editor and playwright
  • 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
  • Ian Hay (real name John Hay Beith, 1876–1952), novelist and playwright
  • Roy Hay (1910–1989), garden writer and broadcaster
  • William Hayley (1745–1820), poet, playwright and biographer
  • Carole Hayman (living), novelist, screenwriter and actor
  • Robert Hayman (1575–1629), poet and colonist
  • Mary Hays (1759–1843), novelist
  • Alethea Hayter (1911–2006), biographer and historian
  • William Hayter (diplomat) (1906–1995), writer
  • Abraham Hayward (1801–1884), essayist
  • John Hayward (c. 1560–1627), historian
  • Eliza Haywood (1793–1756), novelist, playwright and poet
  • C. H. Hazlewood (1823–1875), playwright
  • William Hazlitt (1778–1830), essayist and critic
  • Mary Hearne (fl. 1718), novelist
  • Thomas Hearne or Hearn (1678–1735), antiquary and scholar
  • Ambrose Heath (originally Francis Geoffrey Miller, 1891–1969), cookery writer and translator
  • Thomas Little Heath (1861–1940), classicist and translator
  • John Heath-Stubbs (1918–2006), poet, translator and anthologist
  • Reginald Heber (1783–1826), poet, hymnist and bishop
  • Richard Heber (1773–1833), classicist and editor
  • Annie French Hector (Mrs Alexander, 1825–1902), novelist
  • Zoë Heller (born 1965), novelist and journalist
  • Elizabeth Helme (c. 1753 – c. 1812), novelist and translator
  • Arthur Helps (1813–1875), writer, novelist and biographer
  • Racey Helps (1913–1970), children's writer
  • Felicia Hemans (1793–1835), poet
  • Maggie Hemingway (1946–1993), novelist
  • John Henley (1692–1756), poet, writer and cleric
  • Samuel Henley (1740–1815), poet and writer
  • William Ernest Henley (1849–1903), poet
  • Charles Frederick Henningsen (1815–1877), writer and mercenary
  • Robert Henriques (1905–1967), novelist and biographer
  • Alan Henry (1947–2016), Grand Prix reporter and writer.
  • Matthew Henry (1662–1714), Bible commentator and cleric
  • Philip Henry (1631–1696), diarist and cleric
  • John Stevens Henslow (1796–1861), 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
  • John Abraham Heraud (1799–1887), poet, playwright and critic
  • A. P. Herbert (1890–1971), humorist, novelist and playwright
  • Edward Herbert, Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1583–1648), poet and soldier
  • George Herbert (1593–1633), poet
  • James Herbert (1943–2013), novelist
  • Mary Herbert, countess of Pembroke (1561–1621), poet and translator
  • William Herbert (1718–1795), bibliographer
  • William Herbert (1771–1851), antiquary and librarian
  • William Herbert (1778–1847), poet, cleric and botanist
  • Edward Heron-Allen (1861–1943), novelist, historian and translator
  • Robert Herrick (1591–1674), poet and cleric
  • James Herriot (pen name of James Alfred Wight, 1916–1995), writer
  • Elizabeth Hervey (1759–1824), novelist
  • John Hervey (1696–1743), political writer and memoirist
  • Thomas Kibble Hervey (1799–1859), poet and critic
  • D. G. Hessayon (born 1928), garden writer
  • Maurice Hewlett (1861–1923), historical novelist and poet
  • John Hey (1734–1815), theologian and poet
  • Richard Hey (1745–1835), essayist and academic
  • William Hey (1736–1819), surgeon
  • Christopher Heydon (1561–1623), astrologist
  • John Heydon (1629 – c. 1667), astrologer and Rosicrucian
  • Georgette Heyer (1902–1974), novelist
  • Peter Heylin or Heylyn (1600–1662), pamphleteer 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 (originally Eleanor Alice Burford, wrote as Jean Plaidy, etc., 1906–1993), novelist
  • Robert Smythe Hichens (1864–1950), novelist and playwright
  • William Hickey (1749–1830), memoirist
  • Jack Higgins (wrote as Harry Patterson, b. 1929), novelist
  • Philip E. High (1914–2006), science fiction novelist
  • Susanna Highmore (1690–1750), poet
  • Aaron Hill (1685–1750), playwright and writer
  • Christopher Hill (1912–2003), historian
  • Eric Hill (1927–2014), children's writer and illustrator
  • Geoffrey Hill (1932–2016), 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
  • Octavia Hill (1838–1912), social reformer
  • Reginald Hill (1936–2012), novelist
  • Rosemary Hill (living), cultural historian and biographer
  • Selima Hill (born 1945), poet
  • Susan Hill (born 1942), novelist and writer
  • Tobias Hill (born 1970), novelist and poet
  • Mischa Hiller (born 1962), novelist
  • Lawrence D. Hills (1911–1991), garden writer
  • Jeff Hilson (born 1966), poet
  • James Hilton (1900–1954), novelist
  • Lisa Hilton (living), novelist and biographer
  • Walter Hilton (1340–1396), mystic
  • Barry Hines (1939–2016), novelist
  • Nigel Hinton (born 1941), novelist and children's writer
  • Shakespeare Hirst (1841–1907), actor, author and Shakespearean
  • William Henry Hitchener (fl. 1813), travel writer
  • Henry Hitchings (born 1974), writer and scholar
  • Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980), screenwriter and director
  • Christopher Eric Hitchens (1949–2011), writer and journalist
  • Benjamin Hoadly (1676–1761), polemicist and bishop
  • Louisa Gurney Hoare (1784–1836), diarist and educator
  • Richard Colt Hoare (1758–1838), diarist, travel writer and antiquary
  • Thomas Hobbes, (1588–1679) political philosopher, Leviathan
  • Peter Hobbs (born 1973), novelist
  • John Hobhouse, 1st Baron Broughton (1786–1869), political writer and diarist
  • Eric Hobsbawm (1917–2012), historian
  • 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
  • C. Walter Hodges (1909–2004), children's writer and illustrator
  • Ralph Hodgson (1871–1962), poet and translator
  • Shadworth Hodgson (1832–1912), philosopher
  • W. N. Hodgson (wrote as Edward Melbourne, 1893–1916), poet
  • Barbara Hofland (1770–1844), children's writer
  • Thomas Jefferson Hogg (1792–1862), biographer
  • Simon Hoggart (born 1946), writer and broadcaster
  • Pete Hoida (born 1944), poet and painter
  • Fanny Holcroft (1780–1844), novelist and poet
  • 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
  • Margaret Holford (1757–1834), novelist, playwright and poet
  • Margaret Holford (1778–1852), poet and translator
  • Raphael Holinshed (1529–1580), chronicler, translator and cleric
  • Abraham Holland (died 1626), poet
  • Jane Holland (born 1966), poet and novelist
  • John Holland (1794–1872), poet and journalist
  • 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
  • Helen Hollick (born 1953), novelist
  • Alan Hollinghurst (born 1954), novelist and translator
  • John Holloway (1920–1999), poet and scholar
  • Constance Holme (1880–1955), novelist and playwright
  • John Holmes (1703–1760), educator
  • Richard Holmes (born 1945), biographer
  • Robert Holmes (1926–1986), scriptwriter
  • Emily Sarah Holt (1836–1893), novelist and children's writer
  • Hazel Holt (born 1928–2015), novelist
  • Winifred Holtby (1898–1935), novelist
  • Stewart Home (born 1962), novelist, writer and artist
  • Joseph Hone (1937–2016), 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 and prankster
  • 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
  • Cathy Hopkins (born 1953), children's novelist
  • Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889), poet, "The Wreck of the Deutschland"
  • Simon Hopkinson (born 1954), food writer and chef
  • Sydney Horler (1888–1954), novelist
  • Alfred Aloysius Horn (1861–1931), travel writer
  • Nick Hornby (born 1957), novelist
  • Alistair Horne (1925–2017), historian and biographer
  • Kenneth Horne (1900–1975), playwright
  • Richard Henry Horne (1802–1884), poet and critic
  • Roy Horniman (1874–1930), novelist and playwright
  • E. W. Hornung (1866–1921), author, A. J. Raffles
  • Frances Horovitz (1938–1983), poet and broadcaster
  • Michael Horovitz (1935–2021), poet and translator
  • Anthony Horowitz (born 1956), novelist, children's writer and screenwriter
  • William Horwood (born 1944), novelist and children's writer
  • John Hoskins or Hoskyns (1566–1638), poet and politician
  • Clare Hoskyns-Abrahall (1900–1990), biographer and children's writer
  • Charlotte Hough (1924–2008), detective novelist and children's writer
  • Richard Hough (also as Bruce Carter, 1922–1999), maritime historian and children's writer
  • Stanley Bennett Hough (1917–1998), SF and thriller writer
  • Stanley Houghton (1881–1913), playwright
  • Geoffrey Household (1900–1988), novelist
  • 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 (1923–2014), novelist
  • Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle, Earl of Carlisle (1748–1825), poet, playwright and pamphleteer
  • Hartley Howard (real name Leopold Horace Ognall, also as Harry Carmichael, 1908–1979), 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
  • Richard Howitt (1799–1869), poet
  • William Howitt (1792–1879), writer and traveller
  • Edmond Hoyle (1672–1769), writer on games
  • Fred Hoyle (1915–2001), astronomer and SF writer
  • Geoffrey Hoyle (born 1942), SF writer
  • Sisley Huddleston (1883–1952), writer and journalist
  • Stephen Hudson (real name Sydney Schiff, 1868–1944), novelist and translator
  • Pauline von Hügel (1858-1901), religious writer
  • David Hughes (1930–2005), novelist and biographer
  • Frieda Hughes (born 1960), children's writer, poet and painter
  • Molly Hughes (1866–1956), writer and educator
  • 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
  • Thomas Hughes (1822–1896), writer and novelist, Tom Brown's Schooldays
  • E. M. Hull (real name Edith Maude Winstanley, 1880–1947), novelist
  • 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
  • Norman Hunter (1899–1995), children's novelist, Professor Branestawm
  • Rachel Hunter (c. 1754–1813), novelist
  • Richard Hurd, (1720–1808), writer, translator and bishop
  • James Hurdis (1763–1801), poet and cleric
  • Hyman Hurwitz (1770–1844), writer and scholar
  • Dyneley Hussey (1893–1972), poet and music critic
  • Sheila Hutchins (living), cookery-book writer
  • 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 (1756–1846), novelist and correspondent
  • William Hutton (1723–1815), poet and historian
  • Richard Holt Hutton (1826–1897), writer and theologian
  • Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), novelist and essayist, Brave New World
  • Julian Huxley (1887–1975), zoologist, philosopher and science writer
  • Leonard Huxley (1860–1933), writer, biographer and editor
  • Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895), scientist and essayist
  • Edward Hyde, Lord Clarendon (1609–1674), historian and statesman
  • Timothy Hyman (born 1946), art writer
  • Henry Hyndman (1842–1921), writer and politician


I[]

  • Eva Ibbotson (1925–2010), novelist and children's writer
  • David Icke (born 1952), writer and public speaker
  • Conn Iggulden (born 1971), novelist and children's writer
  • Selwyn Image (1849–1930), poet, designer and cleric
  • Elijah Impey (1732–1809), memoirist and judge
  • 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
  • Julia, Lady Inglis (1833–1904), diarist
  • Simon Ings (born 1965), novelist and science writer
  • Mick Inkpen (born 1952), children's writer and illustrator
  • Hammond Innes (also as Ralph Hammond, 1919–1998), novelist and children's writer
  • Samuel Ireland (1744–1800), writer and engraver
  • William Henry Ireland (1775–1835), poet, novelist and forger
  • David Irving (born 1938), Holocaust denier
  • R. L. G. Irving (1877–1969), mountaineering writer
  • Margaret Irwin (1889–1969), novelist and biographer
  • Robert Irwin (born 1946), historian, novelist and Arabist
  • 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
  • Eric Ives (1931–2012), historian and biographer
  • George Cecil Ives (1867–1950), poet, diarist and reformer
  • Helen Ivory (born 1969), poet


J[]

  • Donald Jack (1924–2003), novelist, playwright and scriptwriter
  • Benedict Jacka (living), YA novelist
  • Catherine Jackson (1824–1891), historian and editor
  • Mick Jackson (born 1960), novelist
  • Alaric Jacob (1909–1995), novelist and journalist
  • Anna Jacobs (born 1941), novelist
  • Joseph Jacobs (1854–1916), folklorist and historian
  • W. W. Jacobs (1863–1943), novelist and story writer, The Monkey's Paw
  • Howard Jacobson (born 1942), novelist and journalist
  • Brian Jacques (1939–2011), 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
  • M. R. James (1862–1936), story writer and scholar, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
  • P. D. James (1920–2014), novelist
  • Robert Rhodes James (1933–1999), biographer, historian and politician
  • Thomas James (1573–1629), librarian and poet
  • William Milbourne James (1881–1973), writer, poet and admiral
  • Anna Brownell Jameson (1794–1860), travel writer and art critic
  • Storm Jameson (1891–1986), novelist and autobiographer
  • James Janeway (1636–1674), children's writer
  • Rosemary Hawley Jarman (1935–2015), novelist and story writer
  • Claude Scudamore Jarvis (1879–1953), writer and naturalist
  • Antony Jay (1930–2016), writer, broadcaster, and director
  • John Cordy Jeaffreson (1831–1901), novelist and non-fiction writer
  • Tim Jeal (born 1945), novelist and biographer
  • James Hopwood Jeans (1877–1946), writer and astronomer
  • Samuel Jebb (c. 1694–1772), scholar and physician
  • Richard Jefferies (1848–1887), nature writer and essayist
  • Agnes Jekyll (1861–1937), writer
  • Gertrude Jekyll (1843–1932), garden writer
  • Alan Jenkins (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
  • Soame Jenyns (1704–1787), poet and essayist
  • Edgar Jepson (also as R. Edison Page, 1863–1938), writer and novelist
  • Selwyn Jepson (1899–1989), crime writer
  • Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927), humorist and playwright, Three Men in a Boat
  • Douglas William Jerrold (1803–1857), playwright, novelist and essayist
  • John Heneage Jesse (1809–1874), historian and poet
  • William Stanley Jevons (1840–1882), economist and logician
  • Geraldine Jewsbury (1812–1880), novelist and critic
  • Maria Jane Jewsbury (1800–1833), poet and critic
  • C. E. M. Joad (1891–1953), philosopher and broadcaster
  • Elizabeth Jocelin (c. 1595–1622), writer on child-raising
  • Rowan Joffé (born 1973), screenwriter
  • W. E. Johns (1893–1968), novelist and pilot, Biggles
  • B. S. Johnson (1933–1973), novelist and editor
  • 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), pamphleteer and cleric
  • Samuel Johnson, (1709–1784) writer, poet and lexicographer
  • Kate Johnson (born c. 1980), writer
  • Brian Jones (1938–2009), poet
  • Charlotte Jones (living), playwright and actress
  • David Jones (1895–1974), poet, writer and artist
  • Daniel Jones (1881–1967), phonetician
  • Diana Wynne Jones (1934–2011), novelist
  • Ebenezer Jones (1820–1860), poet
  • Ernest Charles Jones (1819–1869), poet, novelist and Chartist
  • Henry Arthur Jones (1851–1929), playwright
  • Lara Jones (1975–2010), children's writer Poppy Cat series
  • Sadie Jones (born 1967), novelist
  • Tobias Jones (living), writer
  • William Jones (1726–1800), theologian and cleric
  • William Jones (1746–1794), polyglot and poet
  • Ben Jonson (1573–1637), poet and dramatist, Bartholomew Fair
  • Robert Furneaux Jordan (1905–1978), crime writer and critic
  • John Jortin (1698–1770), biographer and historian
  • Jenny Joseph (1932–2018), poet and novelist
  • Gabriel Josipovici (born 1940), novelist and critic
  • John Josselyn (fl. 1638–1675), writer and traveller
  • Benjamin Jowett (1817–1893), scholar and translator
  • Graham Joyce (born 1954), novelist and YA writer
  • Alan Judd (born 1946), novelist and biographer
  • Tony Judt (1948–2010), historian and political writer


See also[]

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