List of English writers (K–Q)

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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

K[]

  • Carrie Kabak (born 1951), novelist and illustrator
  • Sarah Kane (1971–1999), playwright
  • Anna Kavan (also as 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 (1940–2018), 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
  • Maurice Keen (1933–2012), historian
  • Ann Kelley (born 1941), children's writer and poet
  • Herbert Kelly (1860–1950), religious writer and cleric
  • Sheelagh Kelly (born 1948), historical novelist
  • Fanny Kemble (1809–1893), playwright, diarist and actress
  • Gene Kemp (1926–2015), children's writer
  • Jonathan Kemp (born 1967), novelist
  • Margery Kempe (c. 1373 – post–1438), mystic
  • Thomas Ken (1637–1711), hymnist and cleric
  • May Kendall (real name Emma Goldworth Kendall, 1861 – c. 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
  • Ally Kennen (born 1975), children's writer and singer
  • White Kennett (1660–1728), antiquary, writer and bishop
  • Charles Lamb Kenney (1823–1881), librettist and miscellanist
  • James Kenney (1780–1849), playwright
  • William Kenrick (c. 1725–1779), satirist and playwright
  • Judith Kerr (1923–2019), children's writer and screenwriter
  • Lady Amabel Kerr (1846-1906), biographer, children's writer, novelist
  • David Kessler (also as Adam Palmer, born 1957), novelist
  • R. W. Ketton-Cremer (1906–1969), local historian and biographer
  • Sidney Keyes (1922–1943), poet
  • John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946), economist
  • Vaseem Khan (born 1973), novelist
  • 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
  • William Killigrew (1606–1695), playwright and courtier
  • Francis Kilvert (1840–1879), diarist and cleric
  • Clive King (1924–2018), children's writer
  • Daren King (born 1972), novelist and children's writer
  • Francis King (1923–2011), novelist and story writer
  • Geoffrey King (fl. 1600s), theologian, AV translator and cleric
  • Gregory King (1648–1712), statistician and genealogist
  • Henry King (1592–1669), poet and bishop
  • William King (1663–1712), poet and essayist
  • William King (born 1959), novelist
  • Desmond King-Hele (1927–2019), writer and physicist
  • Alexander William Kinglake (1809–1891), travel writer and historian
  • Charles Kingsley (1819–1875), novelist, The Water Babies
  • Henry Kingsley (1830–1876), novelist
  • Mary Kingsley (1862–1900), ethnographer and explorer
  • Peter Kingsley (born 1953), philosopher
  • Hugh Kingsmill (1889–1949), novelist, humorist and biographer
  • Dick King-Smith (1922–2011), children's writer
  • W. H. G. Kingston (1814–1880), children's writer
  • Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), novelist, essayist and poet, The Jungle Book
  • Andrew Kippis (1725–1795), writer and Presbyterian minister
  • William Kirby (1759–1850), entomologist
  • Geoffrey Kirk (1921–2003), classicist
  • Francis Kirkman (1632 – c. 1680), writer and bookseller
  • 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, English Passengers
  • Nigel Kneale (1922–2006), screenwriter and genre novelist
  • Anne Knight (1792–1860), children's writer and educator
  • Charles Knight (1791–1873), writer and publisher
  • Ellis Cornelia Knight (1757–1837), novelist and painter
  • Eric Knight (1897–1943), novelist and children's writer, Lassie Come-Home
  • G. Wilson Knight (1897–1985), critic and scholar
  • Henry Gally Knight (1786–1846), novelist and architecture writer
  • Richard Payne Knight (1750–1824), classicist and connoisseur
  • Samuel Knight (1675–1746), biographer, antiquary and cleric
  • Stephen Knight (1951–1985), writer
  • Stephen Thomas Knight (born 1940), literary historian
  • 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 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[]

  • Ian La Frenais (born 1936), scriptwriter
  • Robert Lacey (born 1944), biographer and historian
  • James Lackington (1746–1815), memoirist
  • Thomas Hailes Lacy (1809–1873), playwright and publisher
  • Olivia Laing (born 1977), fiction and non-fiction
  • Andrew Lamb (born 1942), writer on music
  • Caroline Lamb (1785–1828), novelist
  • Charles (1775–1834) and Mary Lamb (1764–1847), essayists
  • Charlotte Lamb (real name Sarah Coates, several pen names, 1937–2000), novelist
  • Lynton Lamb (1907–1977), crime writer and illustrator
  • Constant Lambert (1905–1951, England, Mu/D), music critic and librettist
  • Derek Lambert (also as Nigel Falkirk, 1929–2001), thriller writer
  • Joseph Lancaster (1778–1838), educator
  • Osbert Lancaster (1908–1986), writer and cartoonist
  • John Lanchester (born 1962), journalist and novelist
  • Letitia Elizabeth Landon (wrote as 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
  • Jane Lane (1905–1978), historical novelist and biographer
  • 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), chronicler
  • Bennet Langton (1736–1801), writer
  • Emilia Lanier or Lanyer, (1569–1645) poet
  • R. F. Langley (1938–2011), poet
  • Nathaniel Lardner (1684–1768), theologian
  • Philip Larkin (1922–1985), poet
  • Michael Laskey (born 1944), poet and editor
  • Harold Laski (1893–1950), political writer
  • Marghanita Laski (1915–1988), novelist and broadcaster
  • David Lassman (born 1963), writer and scriptwriter
  • Francis Lathom (1774–1832), novelist and playwright
  • Hugh Latimer (c. 1487–1555), preacher, bishop and martyr
  • William Laud (1573–1645), theologian, archbishop and martyr
  • Hugh Laurie (born 1959), novelist and actor
  • William Law (1686–1761), theologian.
  • D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930), novelist and poet, Sons and Lovers
  • George A. Lawrence (1827–1876), novelist
  • T. E. Lawrence (1888–1935), writer and soldier, Seven Pillars of Wisdom
  • William Lawrence (1783–1867), scientist
  • Benjamin Lay (1681–1760), pamphleteer
  • Cecil Howard Lay (1885–1956), poet and artist
  • Layamon or Laȝamon (early 13th c.), chronicler
  • John Layfield (died 1617), scholar, AV translator and cleric
  • John le Carré (real name D. J. M. Cornwell, 1931–2020), thriller writer, 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
  • Mary Leapor (1722–1746), poet
  • Edward Lear (1812–1888), poet and artist, The Owl and the Pussycat
  • James Leasor (1923–2007), novelist and historian
  • Stephen Leather (born 1956), novelist
  • F. R. Leavis (1895–1978), critic and editor
  • Norman Lebrecht (born 1948), music writer
  • Francis Nigel Lee (1934–2011), theologian
  • Harriet Lee (1757–1851), novelist and playwright
  • Laurie Lee (1914–1997), poet and memoirist, Cider with Rosie
  • Nathaniel Lee (1653–1692), playwright
  • Sidney Lee (1859–1926), biographer and critic
  • 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), 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
  • Chandos Leigh (1791–1850), writer and poet
  • Dorothy Leigh (died c. 1616), writer on child-raising
  • Richard Leigh (1649/1650–1728), poet
  • Clare Leighton (1898–1989), writer and illustrator
  • John Leland or Leyland (c. 1503/1506–1552), antiquary
  • John Leland (1691–1766), writer and Presbyterian minister
  • Mark Lemon (1809–1870), playwright, novelist and editor
  • John Lemprière (c. 1765–1824), scholar and lexicographer
  • Sue Lenier (born 1957) poet and playwright
  • Rebecca Lenkiewicz (born 1968), playwright
  • John Lennon (1940–1980), singer and songwriter
  • Charlotte Lennox (1730–1804), writer and poet
  • Alan Leo (real name William Frederick Allan, 1860–1917), astrologer
  • Roger L'Estrange (1615–1704), pamphleteer 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
  • Bernard Levin (1928–2004), writer and broadcaster
  • Amy Levy (1861–1889), poet and novelist
  • Andrea Levy (1956–2019), novelist
  • Juliette de Baïracli Levy (1912–2009), herbalist
  • Tim Lewens (born 1974), philosopher
  • George Henry Lewes (1817–1878), philosopher and critic
  • Alethea Lewis (wrote as Eugenia De Acton, 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 David Lewis (1828–1890), playwright and translator
  • Matthew Lewis (1775–1818), novelist and diarist
  • Roger Lewis (born 1960), biographer and scholar
  • Ted Lewis (1940–1982), novelist and screenwriter
  • Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957), writer and painter
  • Marina Lewycka (born 1946), novelist and medical writer
  • Anne Ley (c. 1599–1641), writer, teacher, and polemicist
  • Peter Leycester (1614–1678), antiquary and historian
  • Nell Leyshon (living), dramatist and novelist
  • Henry George Liddell (1811–1898), scholar, lexicographer and cleric
  • John Lilburne (c. 1614–1657), pamphleteer
  • George Lillo (1693–1739), playwright
  • Thomas Linacre or Lynaker (c. 1460–1524), physician and translator
  • David Lindsay (1876–1945), novelist
  • John Lingard (1771–1851), historian and hymnist
  • Martin Lings (1909–2005), scholar and poet
  • William Linley (1771–1835), writer and musician
  • Eliza Lynn Linton (1822–1898), novelist and essayist
  • Mary Linwood (1755–1845), novelist and needlewoman
  • Suzannah Lipscomb (born 1978), historian and broadcaster
  • Anne Lister (1791–1840), diarist and traveller
  • S. E. Lister (born 1988), historical novelist
  • Thomas Henry Lister (1800–1842), novelist
  • Toby Litt (born 1968), novelist and editor
  • Emanuel Litvinoff (1915–2011), novelist, poet and autobiographer
  • Edward Lively (1545–1605), scholar, AV translator and cleric
  • Penelope Lively (born 1933), novelist and children's writer
  • Richard Llewellyn (real name Richard Llewellyn Lloyd, 1906–1983), novelist and screenwriter
  • Charles Lloyd (1775–1839), poet and translator
  • Christopher Lloyd (1921–2006), garden 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
  • Oliver W. F. Lodge (1878–1955), poet and playwright
  • Thomas Lodge (c. 1558–1625), playwright and poet
  • Tom Lodge (1936–2012), writer and broadcaster
  • 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 (1926–2011), poet and screenwriter
  • Herbert Lomas (1924–2011), poet and translator
  • Charles Edward Long (1796–1861), antiquary
  • George Long (1800–1879), polymath and translator
  • Kate Long (born 1964), novelist, The Bad Mother's Handbook
  • Elizabeth Longford (1906–2002), biographer
  • Roger Longrigg (1939–2000), novelist
  • E. C. R. Lorac (real name Edith Caroline Rivett, also as Carol Carnac, 1884–1959), novelist
  • Jane C. Loudon (1807–1858), novelist
  • Nicholas Love (died c. 1424), translator and prior
  • Richard Lovelace (1618–1657), poet
  • Henry Lovelich (fl. 15th c.), poet and translator
  • Peter Lovesey (born 1936), crime writer
  • William Lovett (1800–1877), writer and Chartist
  • Archibald Low (1888–1956), science writer
  • Sidney James Mark Low (1857–1932), historian
  • 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
  • Robert Lowth (1710–1787), poet, bishop and grammarian
  • Mina Loy (originally Mina Gertrude Löwry, 1882–1966), poet, playwright and novelist
  • John Lubbock (1834–1913), scientist and politician
  • Percy Lubbock (1879–1965), essayist and biographer
  • E. V. Lucas (1868–1938), essayist
  • F. L. Lucas (1894–1967), classicist and poet
  • Edward Lucie-Smith (born 1933), writer and poet
  • Edmund Ludlow (c. 1617–1692), memoirist
  • Jane Lumley, Lady Lumley (1537–1538), translator
  • Arnold Lunn (1888–1874), writer and skier
  • Henry Luttrell (c. 1765–1851), poet
  • Narcissus Luttrell (1657–1732), historian
  • Alfred Comyn Lyall (1835–1911), historian and poet
  • Gavin Lyall (1932–2003), thriller writer
  • John Lydgate (c. 1370 – c. 1451), poet
  • Charles Lyell (1797–1875), geologist
  • John Lyly (1553/1554–1606), writer and dramatist
  • Jonathan Lynn (born 1943), screenwriter and novelist
  • Elinor Lyon (1921–2008), children's writer
  • P. H. B. Lyon (1893–1986), poet and school headmaster
  • George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton (1709–1773), politician and poet
  • George William Lyttelton (1883–1962), correspondent and educator
  • Rosina Bulwer Lytton (1802–1882), novelist and campaigner


M[]

  • James Mabbe (1572–1642), poet and translator
  • Richard Mabey (born 1941), nature writer
  • Catharine Macaulay (1731–1791), historian
  • Rose Macaulay (1881–1958), novelist and biographer
  • Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859), historian and poet
  • Desmond MacCarthy (1877–1952), critic
  • Fiona MacCarthy (1940–2020), biographer and cultural historian
  • Philip MacDonald (also as Oliver Fleming, etc., 1900–1980), novelist and screenwriter
  • A. G. Macdonell (1895–1941), essayist, England, Their England
  • Robert Macfarlane (born 1976), travel writer and critic
  • William McFee (1881–1966), novelist and essayist
  • Arthur Machen, (originally Arthur Llewelyn Jones, 1863–1947) novelist and mystic
  • Colin MacInnes (1914–1976), novelist
  • Ben Macintyre (born 1963), biographer
  • Denis Mackail (1892–1971), novelist
  • Compton Mackenzie (1883–1972), novelist, Whisky Galore
  • Serena Mackesy (living), novelist
  • Mary Mackie (living), novelist and non-fiction writer
  • Joseph Macleod (also as Adam Drinan, 1903–1984), poet, playwright and broadcaster
  • Barry MacSweeney (1948–2000), poet and journalist
  • Falconer Madan (1851–1935), writer and bibliographer
  • 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
  • Bryan Magee (1930–2019), writer and broadcaster
  • Magnus Magnusson (1929–2007), broadcaster, scholar and translator
  • Michelle Magorian (born 1947), children's writer, Goodnight Mister Tom
  • Henry James Sumner Maine (1822–1888), jurist and historian
  • Petre Mais (1885–1975), travel writer and educator
  • 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
  • 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
  • Richmal Mangnall (1769–1820), schoolbook writer
  • Andrew Mango (1926–2014), writer and broadcaster
  • H. A. Manhood (1904–1991), short story writer
  • Guy Mankowski (born 1983), writer
  • Delarivier Manley (1663 or 1670–1724), novelist, playwright and pamphleteer
  • Mary E. Mann (1848–1929), novelist and story writer
  • George Manners (1778–1853), writer and editor
  • Ethel Mannin (1900–1984), novelist, essayist and travel writer
  • Anne Manning (1807–1879), novelist
  • Olivia Manning (1908–1980), novelist and critic, Fortunes of War
  • Ruth Manning-Sanders (1886–1988), poet and children's writer
  • Robert Mannyng (c. 1275 – c. 1338), poet and chronicler, Handlyng Synne
  • 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
  • Thomas Manton (1620–1677), theologian and Puritan minister
  • Francis Marbury or Merbury (1555–1611), playwright and cleric
  • Jane Marcet (1769–1858), science writer for children
  • Bessie Marchant (1862–1941), children's writer
  • Jan Mark, (originally Janet Marjorie Brisland, 1943–2006) children's writer
  • Gervase Markham (c. 1568–1637), poet and writer
  • Mrs. Markham (real name Elizabeth Penrose, 1780–1837), children's writer
  • Stephen Marley (born 1946), novelist and screenwriter
  • Tim Marlow (born 1963), art historian and broadcaster
  • Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593), playwright, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
  • Derek Marlowe (1938–1996), novelist and playwright
  • Martin Marprelate (pseudonym, fl. 1588–1590), tractarian
  • Ellen Marriage (1865–1946), translator, La Comédie humaine
  • Anthony Marriott (1931–2014), playwright and actor
  • Florence Marryat (1833–1899), novelist
  • Frederick Marryat (wrote 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), children's writer
  • Sybil Marshall (1913–2005), writer, novelist and educator
  • 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
  • Andrew Martin (born 1962), novelist
  • J. P. Martin (1879–1966), children's writer
  • William Martin (1767–1810), naturalist and palaeontologist
  • Harriet Martineau (1802–1876), sociologist and translator
  • James Martineau (1805–1900), philosopher
  • Andrew Marvell (1621–1678), poet
  • Eleanor Marx (1855–1898), translator and writer
  • Theo Marzials (1850–1920), poet and composer
  • Eric Maschwitz (1901–1969), writer and lyricist
  • 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
  • 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 (1932–2011) poet
  • H. J. Massingham (1888–1952), nature writer and poet
  • John Masters (1914–1983), novelist, autobiographer and army officer
  • John Mastin (1747–1829), local historian and cleric
  • Steve Matchett (born 1962), writer and broadcaster
  • Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (1854–1918), occultist and translator
  • Ellen Buckingham Mathews (wrote as Helen Mathers, 1853–1920), novelist
  • Thomas James Mathias (c. 1754–1835), satirist and translator
  • Tobie Matthew (1577–1655), writer 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
  • William Fordyce Mavor (1758–1837), schoolbook writer
  • 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 playwright, London Labour and the London Poor
  • James Mayhew (born 1964), children's writer and illustrator
  • Peter Mayle (1939–2018), 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
  • Maria McCann (born 1956), novelist
  • Keith McCarthy (born 1960), crime writer and pathologist
  • Tom McCarthy (born 1969), novelist and screenwriter
  • Geraldine McCaughrean (born 1951), novelist and children's writer
  • Derek McCulloch ("Uncle Mac", 1897–1967), children's writer and broadcaster
  • Flora McDonnell (born 1963), children's writer
  • Ian McEwan (born 1948), novelist and screenwriter
  • William McFee (1881–1966), story writer
  • Roger McGough (born 1937), performance poet
  • John McGrath (1935–2002), playwright
  • Patrick McGrath (born 1950), novelist
  • Jon McGregor (born 1976), novelist
  • R. J. McGregor (1887–1961), children's novelist and playwright
  • Hilary McKay (born 1959), children's writer
  • Jamie McKendrick (born 1955), poet
  • Ronald Brunlees McKerrow (1872–1940), literary critic and bibliographer
  • Andy McNab (born 1959), novelist and soldier
  • H. C. McNeile (wrote as Sapper, 1888–1937), novelist, Bulldog Drummond
  • Cilla McQueen (born 1949), poet
  • J. M. E. McTaggart (1866–1925), philosopher
  • G. R. S. Mead (1863–1933), writer and theosopher
  • Henry Medwall (c. 1462–1502), playwright
  • Thomas Medwin (1788–1869), poet, translator and biographer
  • Arthur Mee (1875–1943), writer and educator
  • Thomas Meech (1868–1940), writer and journalist
  • James Meek (born 1962), novelist
  • Mary Meeke (died c. 1816), novelist and translator
  • George Melly (1926–2007), writer, critic and musician
  • 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
  • Charles Merivale (1808–1893), historian and cleric
  • Herman Charles Merivale (wrote as Felix Dale, 1839–1906), playwright and poet
  • Herman Merivale (1806–1874), historian
  • John Herman Merivale (1779–1844), man of letters
  • Leonard Merrick (1864–1939), novelist
  • Ian Merrill (born 1965), novelist
  • Robert Merry (1755–1798), poet
  • Charlotte Mew (1869–1928), poet
  • E. H. W. Meyerstein (1889–1952), man of letters
  • Alice Meynell (1847–1922), poet and essayist
  • Viola Meynell (1885–1956), poet and novelist
  • Nicholas Michell (1807–1880), poet and novelist
  • Christopher Middleton (1926–2015), poet, translator and scholar
  • Conyers Middleton (1683–1750), biographer and cleric
  • Nick Middleton (born 1960), geographer
  • Richard Barham Middleton (1882–1911), poet and story writer
  • 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
  • James Miller (1703–1744), playwright, poet and cleric
  • Jonathan Miller (1934–2019), writer and director
  • Russell Miller (born 1938), biographer
  • Thomas Miller (1807–1874), novelist and poet
  • Robert Millhouse (1788–1839), poet
  • Spike Milligan (1918–2002), humorist
  • Arthur F. H. Mills (1887–1955), novelist
  • Dorothy Mills (1896–1959), novelist and travel writer
  • George Mills (1896–1972), children's writer
  • Magnus Mills (born 1954), novelist
  • Mark Mills (living), novelist and screenwriter
  • Henry Hart Milman (1791–1868), playwright, poet and cleric
  • A. A. Milne (1882–1956), novelist and playwright, Winnie-the-Pooh
  • Drew Milne (born 1964), poet and scholar
  • John Milner (1628–1702), writer and cleric
  • John Milner (1752–1826), writer and RC bishop
  • Marion Milner (1900–1998), diarist and psychoanalyst
  • Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton (1809–1885), poet and politician
  • Giles Milton (born 1966), historian
  • John Milton (1608–1674), poet and theologian, Paradise Lost
  • Ted Milton (born 1943), poet and musician
  • Richard Milward (born 1984), novelist
  • Anthony Minghella (1954–2008), playwright and screenwriter
  • Laurence Minot (c. 1300 – c. 1352), poet
  • Hope Mirrlees (1887–1978), novelist, translator and poet
  • Adrian Mitchell (1932–2008), poet, playwright and novelist
  • Basil Mitchell (1917–2011), philosopher
  • David Mitchell (born 1969), novelist
  • Dreda Say Mitchell (born 1965), novelist, broadcaster and journalist
  • Gladys Mitchell (wrote as Stephen Hockaby and Malcolm Torrie, 1901–1983), novelist
  • Julian Mitchell (born 1935), playwright and screenwriter
  • Bertram Mitford, Lord Redesdale, (1837–1916), writer and diplomat
  • Bertram Mitford (1855–1914), novelist
  • John Mitford (1782–1831), poet and naval officer
  • Mary Russell Mitford (wrote 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
  • Ivan Moffat (1918–2002), screenwriter
  • Deborah Moggach (born 1948), novelist and screenwriter
  • Lottie Moggach, journalist and author
  • George Mogridge (1787–1854), poet, children's writer and tractarian
  • Caroline Moir (living, England, novelist and playwright)
  • John Mole (born 1941), poet
  • Mary Louisa Molesworth (also as Ennis Graham, 1839–1921), children's writer
  • Frances Molloy (1947–1991), novelist
  • Mary Mollineux (1651–1696), poet
  • Rowland Molony (born 1946), poet and writer
  • Nicola Monaghan (living), novelist
  • William Thomas Moncrieff (1794–1857), playwright
  • Francis Money-Coutts (wrote as Mountjoy, 1852–1923), poet
  • Geraldine Monk (born 1952), poet
  • William Cosmo Monkhouse (1840–1901), poet and critic
  • Harold Monro (1879–1932), poet
  • Nicholas Monsarrat (1910–1979), novelist
  • Basil Montagu (1770–1851), miscellanist
  • Charles Montagu, earl of Halifax (1661–1715), poet and statesman
  • Elizabeth Montagu (1718–1800), writer and bluestocking
  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762), correspondent and poet
  • Charles Edward Montague (1867–1928), novelist and essayist
  • Simon Sebag Montefiore (born 1965), writer and historian
  • Florence Montgomery (1843–1923), novelist and children's writer
  • James Montgomery (1771–1854), poet and editor
  • Robert Montgomery (1807–1855), poet and cleric
  • Colin Moon (born 1957), author and public speaker
  • Edward Moor (1771–1848), writer and soldier
  • Michael Moorcock (born 1939), novelist
  • Alan Moore (born 1953), graphic novelist
  • Edward Moore (1712–1757), playwright
  • Edward Moore (1835–1916), classicist
  • Francis Moore (1657–1715, astrologer and physician
  • G. E. Moore (1873–1958), philosopher
  • Jonas Moore (1617–1679), mathematician
  • Nicholas Moore (1918–1986), poet
  • Olive Moore (real name Constance Vaughan, 1905 – c. 1970), novelist and essayist
  • Thomas Sturge Moore (1870–1944), poet and playwright
  • Tim Moore (born 1964), travel writer
  • Geoffrey Moorhouse (1931–2009), writer
  • Roger Moorhouse (born 1968), historian
  • Henrietta Moraes (1931–1999), writer and model
  • Philip Morant (1700–1770), historian and cleric
  • Elinor Mordaunt (1872–1942), fiction and non-fiction writer
  • Thomas Osbert Mordaunt (1730–1809), poet and army officer
  • Gertrude More (1606–1633), religious writer and Benedictine nun
  • Hannah More (1745–1833), poet and religious writer
  • Henry More (1614–1687), philosopher and poet
  • Thomas More (1478–1535), scholar, Utopia
  • E. D. Morel (1873–1924), writer on colonialism
  • Thomas Morell (1703–1784), librettist
  • Charles Langbridge Morgan (1894–1958) novelist, playwright and poet
  • Peter Morgan (born 1963), screenwriter and playwright
  • William De Morgan (1839–1917), novelist and ceramicist
  • Thomas Charles Morgan (1783–1843), physician and philosopher
  • James Justinian Morier (1780–1849), novelist and travel writer
  • Stanley Morison (1889–1967), writer and typographer
  • Samuel Morland or Moreland (1625–1695), polymath
  • David Morley (born 1964), poet and critic
  • Henry Morley (1822–1894), critic and biographer
  • Iris Morley (1910–1953), novelist and journalist
  • John Morley (1838–1923), biographer, writer and politician
  • Sheridan Morley (1941–2007), biographer, 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 (originally James Morris, 1926–2020), 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 (living), poet and story writer
  • Chapman Mortimer (1907–1988), novelist and screenwriter
  • Ian Mortimer (born 1967), historian
  • John Mortimer (1923–2009), novelist, playwright and lawyer, Horace Rumpole
  • Penelope Mortimer (1918–1999), novelist, biographer and critic
  • J. B. Morton (wrote as Beachcomber, 1893–1979), columnist
  • John Maddison Morton (1811–1891), playwright
  • Thomas Morton (1764–1838), playwright
  • Joseph Moser (1748–1819), writer and artist
  • Brian Moses (born 1950), poet and children's writer
  • Nicholas Mosley (1923–2017), novelist
  • Geoffrey Moss (1885–1954), novelist and soldier
  • Thomas Moss (1740–1808), poet and cleric
  • W. Stanley Moss (1919–1965), novelist, writer and army officer
  • James Mossman (1926–1971), writer and broadcaster
  • Andrew Motion (born 1952), Poet Laureate
  • Peter Anthony Motteux (originally Pierre Antoine, 1663–1718), poet, playwright and translator
  • Eric Mottram (1924–1995), poet and editor
  • Ralph Hale Mottram (1883–1971), novelist and poet
  • Martha Moulsworth (1577–1646), autobiographical poet
  • John Moultrie (1799–1874), poet and cleric
  • Ferdinand Mount (born 1939), novelist
  • Edward Moxon (1801–1858), poet
  • Jojo Moyes (born 1969), romantic novelist
  • Fiona Mozley (born 1988), novelist
  • James Bowling Mozley (1813–1878), writer and cleric
  • Thomas Mozley (1806–1893), writer and cleric
  • Henry Muddiman (1628–1692), journalist and publisher
  • William Mudford (1782–1848), essayist, novelist and translator
  • Malcolm Muggeridge (1903–1990), writer and broadcaster
  • Lodowicke Muggleton (1609–1698), writer
  • Richard Mulcaster (c. 1531–1611), educator
  • Clara Mulholland (1849–1934), novelist, playwright, children's writer and translator
  • Clare Mulley (born 1969), biographer and activist
  • A. J. Munby (1828–1910), diarist and poet
  • A. N. L. Munby (1913–1974), ghost-story writer
  • Anthony Munday (c. 1560–1633), playwright, poet and translator
  • Talbot Mundy (also as Walter Galt, 1879–1940), novelist
  • Iris Murdoch (1919–1999), novelist
  • Jill Murphy (born 1949), children's writer
  • Margaret Murphy (born 1959), novelist
  • Gilbert Murray (1866–1957), scholar
  • John Murray (born 1950), novelist
  • John Middleton Murry (1889–1957), writer and critic
  • Valerie Grosvenor Myer (1935–2007), novelist, poet and critic
  • Ernest Myers (1844–1921), poet and translator
  • Frederic W. H. Myers (1843–1901), poet and essayist
  • Leo Myers (1881–1944), novelist
  • Julie Myerson (born 1960), novelist and journalist


N[]

  • Thomas Nabbes (1605–1641), playwright
  • Constance Naden (1858–1889), poet and philosopher
  • Daljit Nagra (born 1966), poet
  • V. S. Naipaul (1932–2018), novelist and Nobel Prize winner
  • Priscilla Napier (1908–1998), biographer, translator and poet
  • Edward Nares (1762–1841), theologian, novelist and cleric
  • Roger Nash (born 1942), philosopher and poet
  • Thomas Nashe (1567–1601), poet and pamphleteer
  • Bill Naughton (1910–1992), playwright
  • John Neal (1793–1876), novelist, essayist and poet
  • John Mason Neale (1818–1866), hymnist, cleric and translator
  • Patrick Neate (born 1970), novelist and screenwriter
  • Mary Anna Needell (1830–1922), novelist
  • Violet Needham (1876–1967), children's writer
  • Henry Neele (1798–1928), poet and critic
  • Graham Nelson (born 1968), poet and mathematician
  • Robert Nelson (1656–1715), religious writer
  • E. Nesbit (1858–1924), children's writer and poet, The Railway Children
  • Henry Nettleship (1839–1893), classicist
  • 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), writer and cardinal
  • Isaac Newton (1642–1727), polymath
  • John Newton (1725–1807), hymnist and pamphleteer
  • Thomas Newton (c. 1542–1607), poet and translator
  • William Newton (1750–1830), poet
  • Charles Nicholl (living), biographer
  • David Nicholls (born 1966), novelist and screenwriter
  • Sally Nicholls (born 1983), children's writer
  • Beverley Nichols (1898–1983), novelist, playwright and garden writer
  • John Nichols (1745–1826), antiquary
  • Bowyer Nichols (1859–1939), poet
  • Peter Nichols (1927–2019), playwright and screenwriter
  • Robert Nichols (1893–1944), poet and playwright
  • Geoff Nicholson (born 1953), novelist and editor
  • Joseph Shield Nicholson (1850–1927), economist and novelist
  • Norman Nicholson (1914–1987), poet
  • Renton Nicholson (1809–1861), writer
  • William Nicholson (artist) (1872–1949), children's writer and illustrator
  • William Nicholson (writer) (born 1948), novelist, screenwriter and playwright
  • Adam Nicolson (born 1957), historian and nature writer
  • Harold Nicolson (1886–1968), writer, diarist and politician
  • Nigel Nicolson (1917–2004), writer and publisher
  • O. S. Nock (1905–1994), railway writer
  • Roden Noel (1834–1894), poet
  • David Nokes (1948–2009), biographer and screenwriter
  • Malcolm Nokes (1897–1986), science and educator
  • Jeff Noon (born 1957), novelist and playwright
  • Denis Norden (1922–2018), scriptwriter and broadcaster
  • Lawrence Norfolk (born 1963), novelist
  • Barry Norman (1933–2017), novelist and broadcaster
  • Roger Norman (born 1948), children's and YA writer
  • 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
  • James Northcote (1746–1831), essayist and illustrator
  • Caroline Norton (1808–1877), novelist, pamphleteer and poet
  • Mary Norton (1903–1992), children's writer
  • Thomas Norton (1532–1584), poet and lawyer
  • Richard Norton-Taylor (born 1944), playwright and journalist
  • John Julius Norwich (originally John Julius Cooper, 1929–2018), historian and travel writer
  • Julian of Norwich (1342 – c. 1416), mystic
  • Alexander Nowell (1507–1602), writer and cleric
  • Alfred Noyes (1880–1958), poet
  • Anthony Nuttall (1937–2007), critic and scholar
  • Geoffrey Nuttall (1911–2007), church historian and Congregational minister
  • Jeff Nuttall (1933–2004), poet and performer
  • Robert Nye (1939–2016), poet, novelist and editor
  • John Nyren (1764–1837), cricket writer


O[]

  • Ann Oakley (born 1944), novelist and sociologist
  • Graham Oakley (born 1929), children's writer
  • John Oakman (c. 1748–1793), writer and engraver
  • Patrick O'Brian (originally Richard Patrick Russ, 1914–2000), novelist
  • 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), philosopher, Occam's Razor
  • Sarah Ockwell-Smith (born c. 1976), parent and child-care author
  • Philip O'Connor (1916–1998), writer and poet
  • John Oldham (1653–1683), poet
  • John Oldmixon (1673–1742), historian and pamphleteer
  • William Oldys (1696–1761), antiquary
  • Laurence Oliphant (1829–1888), writer and traveller
  • F. S. Oliver (1864–1934), political writer
  • Jamie Oliver (born 1975), cookery writer and chef
  • Martin Oliver (living), children's writer
  • Michael Oliver (1937–2002), writer and broadcaster
  • Paul Oliver (1927–2017), arts writer
  • Reggie Oliver (born 1952), story writer and playwright
  • Richard Ollard (1923–2007), historian and biographer
  • Alfred Ollivant (1874–1927), children's writer
  • Daniel O'Mahony (born 1973), novelist and writer
  • Carola Oman (1897–1978), biographer, novelist and children's writer
  • Charles Oman (1860–1946), historian
  • Michael O'Neill (born 1953), poet and scholar
  • Oliver Onions (1873–1961), novelist
  • Onyeka, (real name Onyeka Nubia, living), writer and playwright
  • Amelia Opie (1769–1853), novelist and poet
  • Iona Opie (1923–2017), and Peter Opie (1918–1982), ethnographers
  • E. Phillips Oppenheim (wrote as Anthony Partridge, 1866–1946), novelist
  • Emma Orczy (Baroness Orczy, 1865–1947), novelist and playwright, The Scarlet Pimpernel
  • Orderic Vitalis (1075 – c. 1142), chronicler
  • George Ormerod (1785–1873), antiquary and historian
  • Joe Orton (1933–1967), playwright
  • George Orwell (real name Eric Blair), (1903–1950), novelist and essayist, 1984
  • Martin Orwin (born 1963), poet and writer
  • Dorothy Osborne (1627–1695), correspondent
  • John Osborne (1929–1994), playwright, Look Back in Anger
  • Robin Osborne (born 1957), classicist and historian
  • Arthur O'Shaughnessy (1844–1881), poet
  • Maggie O'Sullivan (born 1951), poet and performer
  • Alice Oswald (born 1966), poet
  • Peter Oswald (born 1965), playwright
  • William Young Ottley (1771–1836), art historian
  • Thomas Otway (1652–1685), playwright
  • Ouida (real name Maria Louise Ramé, 1839–1908), novelist
  • William Oughtred (1574–1660), mathematician
  • Keith Ovenden (born 1943), novelist and biographer
  • John Overall (1559–1619), scholar, AV translator and bishop
  • Thomas Overbury (1581–1613), poet and essayist
  • Richard Overton (c. 1599–1664), pamphleteer
  • John Owen (1616–1683), theologian
  • Richard Owen (1804–1892), scientist
  • Wilfred Owen (1893–1918), poet
  • Elsie J. Oxenham (real name Elsie Jeanette Dunkerley, 1880–1960), children's writer
  • John Oxenham (real name William Arthur Dunkerley, 1852–1941), novelist and poet
  • Mary Oxlie (fl. 1616), poet
  • Helen Oyeyemi (born 1984), novelist and playwright


P[]

  • Ruth Padel (born 1946), poet and journalist
  • Lynda Page (born 1950), novelist
  • Russell Page (1906–1985), garden writer and designer
  • John Paget (died 1638), writer and Presbyterian minister
  • Barry Pain (1864–1928), novelist and humorist
  • Thomas Paine (1737–1809), political 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
  • William Gifford Palgrave (1826–1888), travel writer and orientalist
  • Alan Palmer (born 1926), historian and biographer
  • Charlotte Palmer (c. 1762 – 1834 or after), novelist
  • Edward Henry Palmer (1840–1882), translator and orientalist
  • Herbert Edward Palmer (1880–1961), poet and critic
  • John Palmer (c. 1729–1790) writer and Unitarian minister
  • John Palmer (1742–1786), writer and Unitarian minister
  • Samuel Palmer (1805–1881), poet and painter
  • Robert Paltock (1697–1767), novelist
  • Jane Ellen Panton (1847–1923), novelist and domestic science writer
  • Joseph Pardo (c. 1624 – 1677), writer and hazzan
  • Julia Pardoe (1806–1862), poet, novelist and travel writer
  • Bernard Pares (1867–1949), historian and Russian expert
  • Edith Pargeter (also as Ellis Peters, 1913–1995), novelist and historian
  • Emma Parker (fl. 1809–1817), novelist
  • Henry Parker (1604–1652), political writer
  • Martin Parker (c. 1600 – c. 1656), balladeer
  • Matthew Parker (1504–1575), Bible translator and archbishop, Bishops' Bible
  • Norman Parker (born 1954), memoirist
  • Samuel Parker (1640–1688), theologian and bishop
  • Samuel Parker (1681–1730), religious writer and translator
  • Una-Mary Parker (1930–2019), novelist and journalist
  • 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), games writer
  • Samuel Parr (1747–1825), political writer, scholar and educator
  • Cecil Parrott (1909–1984), translator and biographer
  • Eliza Parsons (1739–1811), novelist
  • Frances Partridge (1900–2004), diarist and translator
  • John Pass (born 1947), poet and scholar
  • Paston Family (14th – 16th cc.), Paston Letters
  • Mrs Henry de la Pasture (1866–1945), novelist, dramatist and children's writer
  • Walter Pater (1839–1894), essayist and novelist
  • Coventry Patmore (1823–1896), poet and critic
  • Simon Patrick (1626–1707), theologian and bishop
  • 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
  • Stel Pavlou (born 1970), novelist and screenwriter
  • James Payn (1830–1898), novelist and miscellanist
  • John Payne (1842–1917), poet and translator
  • Nick Payne (born 1984), playwright
  • David Peace (born 1967), novelist
  • Henry Peacham the Elder (1546–1634), rhetorician and cleric
  • Henry Peacham the Younger (c. 1573 – c. 1643), poet and critic
  • Lucy Peacock (fl. 1785–1816), children's writer, editor and translator
  • Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866), 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 (unnamed, fl. 14th c.), poet, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  • Hugh Pearman (born 1955), critic and architect.
  • Tim Pears (born 1956), novelist
  • Dan Pearson (born 1964), garden writer
  • 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
  • Arthur George Villiers Peel (also as George Peel, 1869–1956), economist and politician
  • Constance Peel (also as Mrs. C. S. Peel and Dorothy Peel, 1868–1934), novelist and writer on household economy
  • J. H. B. Peel (1913–1983), writer, poet and journalist
  • George Peele (1556–1596), playwright and poet, The Old Wives' Tale
  • Mal Peet (1947–2015), children's writer
  • Samuel Pegge (1704–1796), antiquary, translator and cleric
  • Isaac Penington (1616–1679), Quaker writer
  • William Penn (1644–1718), politician, writer and Quaker
  • Thomas Pennant (1726–1798), naturalist, antiquary and travel writer
  • Francis Penrose (1817–1903), architect and archaeologist
  • Roland Penrose (1900–1984), biographer and artist
  • Hilary Pepler (1878–1951), writer and poet
  • Michael Peppiatt (born 1941), art critic and biographer
  • Emily Pepys (1833–1877), child diarist
  • Samuel Pepys (1633–1703), diarist and administrator
  • Thomas Percy (1729–1811), bishop, poet and anthologist, Percy's Reliques
  • John Perrin (c. 1558–1615), scholar, AV translator and cleric
  • Anne Perry (born 1938), novelist
  • Chris Petit (born 1949), novelist and film director
  • William Petty (1623–1687), economist and philosopher
  • K.M. Peyton (originally Kathleen Herald, born 1929), children's writer
  • Gilbert Phelps (1915–1993), novelist, critic and educator
  • St. John Philby (1885–1960), writer and intelligence officer
  • 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
  • Richard Phillips (1767–1840), writer and publisher
  • 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 educator
  • Constantine Phipps (1797–1863), writer and politician
  • David Andrew Phoenix (born 1966), writer, scientist and educator
  • Barbara Leonie Picard (1917–2011), children's writer
  • 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, poet and children's writer
  • Arthur Wing Pinero (1855–1934), playwright
  • William Pinnock (1782–1843) educator
  • 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
  • William Pitt (died 1840), shipbuilder and poet
  • 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 (living), garden writer
  • Robert Plot (1640–1996), naturalist, chemist and antiquary
  • Max Plowman (1883–1941), writer and poet
  • J. H. Plumb (1911–2001), historian
  • Anne Plumptre (1760–1818), writer and translator
  • Isaac Pocock (1782–1835), playwright and painter
  • Tom Pocock (1925–2007), biographer and historian
  • Richard Pococke (1704–1765), travel writer, diarist and bishop
  • Frank Podmore (1856–1910), writer and politician
  • Michael Podro (1931–2008), art historian
  • Elizabeth Polack (fl. 1830–1838), playwright
  • John William Polidori (1795–1821), writer and poet
  • Alfred Oliver Pollard (1893–1960), novelist and army officer
  • Alfred W. Pollard (1859–1944), bibliographer and scholar
  • Margaret Steuart Pollard (1903–1996), poet and writer
  • William Pollard (1828–1893), Quaker writer
  • 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 (1667–1702), poet and cleric
  • George Ayliffe Poole (1809–1883), religious writer and cleric
  • John Poole (1786–1872), playwright
  • Alexander Pope (1688–1744), poet
  • Dudley Pope (1925–1997), novelist
  • 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
  • Eleanor Anne Porden (1795–1825), poet
  • Richard Porson (1759–1808), classicist
  • Anna Maria Porter (1780–1832), novelist and poet
  • Henry Porter (died 1599), playwright
  • Henry Porter (born 1953), novelist and journalist
  • Jane Porter (1776–1850), novelist
  • Linda Porter (born 1947), historian and biographer
  • Roy Porter (1946–2002), historian
  • Sheena Porter (born 1935), children's writer
  • Suzanne Portnoy (born 1961), writer and playwright
  • Jacob Post (1774–1855), Quaker writer
  • Raymond Postgate (1896–1971), novelist and social historian
  • Beatrix Potter (1866–1943), children's writer and illustrator, The Tale of Peter Rabbit
  • Dennis Potter (1935–1994), playwright and screenwriter
  • Robert Potter (1721–1804), translator, poet and cleric
  • Anthony Powell (1905–2000), novelist
  • Michael Powell (1905–1990), writer and film director
  • Eileen Power (1889–1940), historian
  • Marguerite Agnes Power (1815–1867), novelist and periodical writer and editoriginally
  • Rhoda Power (1890–1957), children's writer and broadcaster
  • John Cowper Powys (1872–1963), novelist
  • Llewelyn Powys (1884–1939), travel writer and biographer
  • T. F. Powys (1875–1953), novelist and story writer
  • Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802–1839), poet and politician
  • Terry Pratchett (1948–2015), novelist
  • Anne Pratt (1806–1893), botanical writer and illustrator
  • Samuel Jackson Pratt (1749–1814), poet, playwright and novelist
  • Lucy Prebble (born 1981), playwright
  • Thomas Preston (1537–1598), scholar and playwright
  • Thomas Preston (1563–1640), writer and monk
  • Diana Primrose (fl. 1630), poet
  • Matthew Prior (1664–1721), poet
  • Anthony Price (1928–2019), thriller writer
  • Bonamy Price (1807–1888), political economist
  • Nancy Price (1880–1970), playwright, novelist and poet
  • Nicholas A. Price, writer, poet, photographer and visual artist
  • Richard Price (1723–1791), economist, philosopher and Unitarian minister
  • Susan Price (born 1955), children's writer
  • Uvedale Price (1747–1829), art critic
  • Christopher Priest (born 1943), novelist
  • Chris Priestley (born 1958), children's writer and illustrator
  • J. B. Priestley (1894–1984), playwright and novelist
  • Joseph Priestley (1733–1804), theologian and philosopher
  • Alison Prince (1931–2019), children's writer, biographer and screenwriter
  • Peter Prince (born 1942), novelist and screenwriter
  • John Laurence Pritchard (1885–1968), mathematician, and novelist
  • V. S. Pritchett (1900–1997), writer
  • May Probyn (1856–1909), poet
  • Adelaide Anne Procter (1825–1864), poet
  • Bryan Procter (wrote as Barry Cornwall, 1787–1874), songwriter and playwright
  • Sophie Amelia Prosser, (1807–1882), children's writer
  • Sally Prue (living), children's writer
  • Paula Pryke (born 1960), writer and florist
  • J.H. Prynne (born 1936), poet
  • William Prynne (1600–1699), religious writer and historian
  • John Pudney (1909–1977), writer and poet
  • Sheenagh Pugh (born 1950), poet and novelist
  • Christine Pullein-Thompson, (1925–2005), children's writer
  • Diana Pullein-Thompson, (1925–2015), children's writer
  • Josephine Pullein-Thompson (1924–2014), children's writer
  • Charlotte Pullein-Thompson (wrote as Charlotte Popescu, born 1957), children's and garden writer
  • Philip Pullman (born 1946), children's writer, His Dark Materials
  • Samuel Purchas (c. 1575–1626), travel writer
  • C. B. Purdom (1883–1965), critic and biographer
  • Libby Purves (born 1950), novelist, broadcaster and columnist
  • 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
  • Thomas Pyle (1674–1756), writer and cleric
  • 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
  • Arthur Quiller-Couch (wrote as Q, 1863–1944), novelist and 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), novelist
  • Anthony Quiney (born 1935), architectural historian
  • Anthony Quinton (1925–2010), philosopher and broadcaster


See also[]

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