List of English writers (R–Z)

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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, c. = circa; century; cc. = centuries; cleric = Anglican priest, fl. = floruit = flourished, RC = Roman Catholic, SF = science fiction, YA = young adult fiction

R[]

  • Jonathan Raban (born 1942), travel writer
  • Michael Rabbet (c. 1562–1630), AV translator and cleric
  • Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823), novelist, The Mysteries of Udolpho
  • Jeremiah Radcliffe (died 1612 or c. 1620), scholar, AV translator and cleric
  • Dollie Radford (real name Caroline Maitland, 1858–1920), poet and writer
  • Simon Rae (living), poet and cricket writer
  • Elizabeth Raffald (1833–1881), cookery writer
  • Shahida Rahman (born 1971), writer and publisher
  • Bali Rai (born 1971), YA novelist
  • Craig Raine (born 1944) poet and critic
  • Kathleen Raine (1908–2003), poet and translator
  • Nina Raine (living), playwright and director
  • John Rainolds (1549–1607), AV translator and cleric
  • Ross Raisin (born 1979), novelist
  • Arthur Raistrick (1896–1991), polymath
  • Walter Raleigh or Ralegh (1552–1618), poet and navigator
  • Walter Raleigh (1861–1922), scholar and poet
  • Lobsang Rampa (real name Cyril Henry Hoskin, 1910–1981), novelist
  • Leonard G. G. Ramsey (1913–1990), writer, editor and encyclopaedist
  • Thomas Randolph (1605–1635), poet
  • William Brighty Rands (wrote as Henry Holbeach and Matthew Browne, 1823–1882), children's writer and hymnist
  • Charles Rangeley-Wilson (living), novelist and poet
  • Nicholas Rankin (born 1950), biographer, historian and broadcaster
  • Arthur Ransome (1884–1967), children's writer, Swallows and Amazons
  • Ellen Henrietta Ranyard (1810–1879), religious writer
  • Hastings Rashdall (1858–1924), philosopher and cleric
  • John Rastell or Rastall (c. 1475–1536) chronicler and playwright
  • Julian Rathbone (1935–2008), novelist
  • Terence Rattigan (1911–1977), playwright and screenwriter The Winslow Boy
  • Simon Raven (1927–2001), novelist, screenwriter and playwright
  • Ralph Ravens (c. 1553–1615), scholar, AV translator and cleric
  • Edward Ravenscroft (c. 1654–1707), playwright
  • Gwen Raverat (1885–1957), memoirist and illustrator
  • Thomas Ravis (c. 1560–1609), scholar, AV translator and bishop
  • George Rawlinson (1812–1902), scholar, historian and cleric
  • Hardwicke Rawnsley (1851–1920), poet and hymnist
  • Tom Raworth (1938–2017), poet
  • John Ray (1627–1705), naturalist and lexicographer
  • Derek Raymond (real name R. W. A. Cook, 1931–1994), novelist
  • Claire Rayner (1931–2010), novelist and broadcaster
  • Jay Rayner (born 1966), novelist and food writer
  • Shoo Rayner (originally Hugh Rayner, 1956), children's writer and illustrator
  • Benedict Read (1945–2016), art critic
  • Herbert Read (1893–1968), poet, critic and novelist
  • Miss Read (real name Dora Jessie Saint, 1913–2012), novelist, autobiographer and children's writer
  • Piers Paul Read (born 1941), novelist and writer
  • Charles Reade (1814–1884), novelist, The Cloister and the Hearth
  • Hazel Alden Reason (1901–1976), writer on science for children
  • John Redford (died 1547), poet, playwright and composer
  • Peter Redgrove (1932–2003), poet, novelist and editor
  • Patrick Redmond (born 1966), thriller writer
  • Henry Reed (1914–1986), poet and translator
  • Isaac Reed (1742–1807), biographer and Shakespearean
  • Jeremy Reed (born 1951), poet, novelist and critic
  • Talbot Baines Reed (1852–1893), children's novelist
  • Douglas Reeman (wrote as Alexander Kent, b. 1924), novelist
  • David Rees (1936–1993), children's writer
  • Terence Reese (1913–1996), bridge writer
  • Clara Reeve (1729–1807), novelist, The Old English Baron
  • John Reeve (1608–1658), religious writer
  • Philip Reeve (born 1966), children's writer and illustrator
  • Amber Reeves (1887–1981), novelist and writer
  • James Reeves (originally John Morris Reeves, 1909–1978), poet and children's writer
  • Christopher Reid (born 1949), poet and essayist
  • Jonathan Rendall (born 1964), novelist
  • Ruth Rendell (also as Barbara Vine, 1930–2015), novelist
  • Louise Rennison (born 1951), children's writer and comic
  • John Reresby (1634–1689), politician and diarist
  • Frederic Reynolds (1764–1841), playwright
  • George W. M. Reynolds (1814–1879, novelist and journalist
  • Henry Reynolds (1564–1632), poet, translator and critic
  • John Hamilton Reynolds (1794–1852), poet
  • Dan Rhodes (born 1972), novelist and story writer
  • Pam Rhodes (born 1950), novelist and broadcaster
  • William Barnes Rhodes (1772–1826), playwright
  • Ernest Rhys (1859–1946), writer, poet and editor
  • David Ricardo (1772–1823), political economist
  • Ben Rice (born 1972), novelist
  • James Rice (1843–1882), novelist
  • Barnabe Rich (c. 1540–1617), writer and soldier
  • Alfred Bate Richards (1820–1876), playwright, poet and essayist
  • I. A. Richards (1893–1979), critic
  • Justin Richards (born 1961), novelist
  • Vernon Richards (originally Vero Recchioni, 1915–2001), anarchist writer
  • Dorothy Richardson (1873–1957), novelist and translator
  • Elizabeth Richardson (1576/1577–1651), religious writer
  • John Richardson (died 1625), scholar, AV translator and cleric
  • John Richardson (1657–1753), Quaker preacher and memoirist
  • Samuel Richardson (1689–1761), novelist, Pamela
  • Christopher Ricks (born 1933), critic and anthologist
  • Edgell Rickword (1898–1982), poet, critic and editor
  • Anne Ridler (1912–2001), poet and editor
  • James Ridley (wrote as Charles Morell, 1736–1765), novelist and story writer
  • Mark Ridley (1560 – c. 1624), lexicographer of Russian
  • Nicholas Ridley (1500–1555), theologian and bishop
  • Philip Ridley (born 1964), playwright and children's writer
  • D. C. H. Rieu (1916–2008), scholar and translator
  • E. V. Rieu (1887–1972), scholar, translator and poet
  • Denise Riley (born 1948), poet and scholar
  • Gwendoline Riley (born 1979), novelist
  • Peter Riley (born 1940), poet and essayist
  • Stella Rimington (born 1935), novelist and intelligence officer
  • James Riordan (1936–2012), children's writer and footballer
  • Jonathan Ripley, writer, director and producer
  • Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie (1837–1919), novelist and essayist
  • James Ewing Ritchie (1820–1898), travel writer and political biographer
  • Joseph Ritson (1752–1803), antiquary and editor
  • Graham Robb (born 1958), biographer and critic
  • Andrew Roberts (born 1963), historian and biographer
  • David Roberts (living), novelist and editor
  • Emma Roberts (1794–1840), travel writer and poet
  • Katherine Roberts (born 1962), children's writer
  • Keith Roberts (1935–2000), novelist and story writer
  • Lynette Roberts (born Evelyn Beatrice Roberts, 1909–1995), poet
  • Michael Roberts (1902–1948), poet and critic
  • Michael Symmons Roberts (born 1963), poet and librettist
  • Michèle Roberts (born 1949), novelist and poet
  • Morley Roberts (1857–1942), novelist
  • Joseph Clinton Robertson (wrote as Sholto Percy, 1788–1852), writer and editor
  • Thomas William Robertson (1829–1871), playwright
  • Denise Robins (several pen names, 1897–1985), novelist
  • Patricia Robins (also as Claire Lorrimer, 1921–2016), novelist
  • Austin Robinson (1897–1993), economist
  • Derek Robinson (born 1932), novelist
  • Henry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867), man of letters
  • Hilary Robinson (born 1962), children's writer
  • Joan Robinson (1903–1983), economist
  • John Robinson (1919–1983), writer and bishop Honest to God
  • Mary Robinson (1757–1800), poet and novelist
  • Nigel Robinson (living), writer and editor
  • Peter Robinson (born 1953), poet and translator
  • Rony Robinson (born 1940), novelist and playwright
  • John Roby (1793–1850), poet and writer
  • Paul Roche (1916–2007), poet, novelist and critic
  • Regina Maria Roche (1764–1845), Gothic novelist
  • Rennell Rodd (1858–1941), poet and politician
  • John Rodker (1894–1955), writer and poet
  • Jane Rogers (born 1952), novelist
  • Samuel Rogers (1763–1855), poet
  • Thorold Rogers (1823–1890), political economist
  • Woodes Rogers (died 1732), travel writer and mariner
  • Peter Mark Roget (1779–1869), philologist, Roget's Thesaurus
  • Sax Rohmer (real name A. H. S. Ward, 1883–1959), novelist
  • Frederick Rolfe (1860–1913), novelist and artist
  • Richard Rolle (1290–1349), writer and Bible translator
  • L. T. C. Rolt (1910–1974), transport writer
  • Isabella Frances Romer (1798–1852), travel writer
  • Stephen Romer (born 1957), poet and critic
  • William Roscoe (1753–1831), scholar and poet
  • Elizabeth and Gerald Rose (latter b. 1935), children's writers and illustrators
  • Paul Rose (1935–2015), writer and politician
  • Michael Rosen (born 1946), children's writer and poet
  • Isaac Rosenberg (1890–1918), poet and playwright
  • Jack Rosenthal (1931–2004), screenwriter
  • Alan Ross (1922–2001), poet, writer and editor
  • Christina Rossetti (1830–1894), poet
  • Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882), poet and painter
  • Maria Francesca Rossetti (1827–1876), writer and translator
  • William Michael Rossetti (1829–1919), writer and critic
  • John Horace Round (1854–1928), historian and genealogist
  • W. H. D. Rouse (1863–1950), classicist and editor
  • Martin Routh (1755–1854), classicist
  • Alick Rowe (1939–2009), scriptwriter and novelist
  • Elizabeth Singer Rowe (1674–1737), poet and novelist
  • Nicholas Rowe (1674–1718), Poet Laureate
  • Richard Rowlands (c. 1550–1640), historian and antiquary
  • Samuel Rowlands (c. 1573–1630), poet and pamphleteer
  • Samuel Rowley (died c. 1633), playwright and actor
  • William Rowley (c. 1585–1626), playwright and actor
  • J. K. Rowling (born 1965), children's writer, Harry Potter
  • Lucinda Roy (born 1955), novelist and poet
  • Gillian Rubinstein (also as Lian Hearn, born 1942), children's writer and playwright
  • Carol Rumens (born 1944), poet and scholar
  • Katherine Rundell (born 1987), children's writer, playwright and academic
  • Peter Rushforth (1945–2005), novelist
  • John Ruskin (1819–1900), essayist, poet and art critic
  • Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), philosopher What I Believe
  • Lord John Russell (1792–1878), biographer and prime minister
  • William Clark Russell (1844–1911), novelist
  • William Howard Russell (1820–1907), travel writer and war correspondent
  • John D. Rutherford (born 1941), scholar and translator
  • Cecil Bernard Rutley, (1888–1956), children's and science fiction
  • Chris Ryan (born 1961), novelist and soldier
  • Gilbert Ryle (1900–1976), philosopher
  • Thomas Rymer (c. 1643–1713), Historiographer Royal and poet
  • Royce Ryton (1924–2009), playwright


S[]

  • Suhayl Saadi (born 1961), novelist, playwright and physician
  • Oliver Sacks (1933–2015), writer and neurologist
  • Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset (1638–1706), poet
  • Lady Margaret Sackville (1881–1963), poet and children's writer
  • Thomas Sackville, Earl of Dorset (1536–1608), poet and statesman
  • Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962), poet and novelist All Passion Spent
  • Lorna Sage (1943–2001), critic and scholar
  • Lawrence Sail (born 1942), poet and editor
  • George Saintsbury (1845–1933), critic
  • Saki (real name Hector Hugh Munro) (1870–1916), story writer and satirist
  • Henry Stephens Salt (1851–1939), writer and campaigner
  • John Saltmarsh (died 1647), writer and cleric
  • Fiona Sampson (born 1968), poet and editor
  • Kevin Sampson (born 1961), novelist
  • Ignatius Sancho (c. 1729–1780), writer and domestic servant
  • Nicholas Sanders (c. 1530–1581), polemicist and RC priest
  • Robert Sanderson (1587–1663), theologian
  • Edwin Sandys (1519–1588), Bishops' Bible translator and bishop
  • George Sandys (1577–1644), poet and traveller
  • Peter Sanger (born 1943), poet and scholar
  • C. J. Sansom (born 1952), novelist
  • Clive Sansom (1910–1981), poet, playwright and educator
  • William Sansom (1912–1976), novelist and travel writer
  • Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967), poet and novelist Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man
  • Hilary Saint George Saunders (wrote as Francis Beeding, etc., 1898–1951), novelist
  • James Savage (1767–1845), writer and antiquary
  • Richard Savage (c. 1697–1743), poet and satirist
  • Henry Savile (1549–1622), scholar and AV translator
  • Michael Saward (1932–2015), hymnist
  • Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957), novelist, Lord Peter Wimsey
  • Frank Sayers (1763–1817), poet and metaphysician
  • Francis Scarfe (1911–1986), poet and novelist
  • Vernon Scannell (1922–2007), poet
  • Alex Scarrow (living), novelist and screenwriter
  • Simon Scarrow (born 1962), historical novelist
  • Simon Schama (born 1945), historian
  • Ann Schlee (born 1934), novelist
  • Caroline Lucy Scott (1784–1857), novelist and religious writer
  • Catherine Amy Dawson Scott (1865–1934), poet, playwright and novelist
  • Geoffrey Scott (1884–1929), writer and poet
  • Hardiman Scott (1920–1999), writer and poet
  • Hugh Stowell Scott (wrote as Henry Seton Merriman, c. 1863–1903), novelist
  • Jane Scott (1779–1839), playwright
  • John Scott (1783–1821), editor and writer
  • John Scott of Amwell (1731–1783), poet
  • John A. Scott (born 1948), poet and novelist
  • Mary Scott (1751/1752–1793), poet
  • Paul Mark Scott (1920–1978), novelist, playwright and poet
  • Sarah Scott (1720–1795), novelist and translator
  • William Bell Scott (1811–1890), poet and artist
  • Will Scott (1893−1964), crime writer and playwright
  • Anne Scott-James (1913–2009), novelist, editor and garden writer
  • E. J. Scovell (1907–1999), poet
  • James Scudamore (born 1976), novelist
  • George Bazeley Scurfield (1920–1991), poet, novelist and politician
  • Marcus Sedgwick (born 1968), children's writer
  • Charles Sedley (1639–1701), poet and rake
  • Kate Sedley (real name Brenda Clarke, b. 1926), novelist
  • Stephen Sedley (b. 1939), writer on law
  • Frederic Seebohm (1833–1912), economic historian
  • John Robert Seeley (1834–1895), historian and essayist
  • Rachel Seiffert (born 1971), novelist
  • David Selbourne (born 1937), philosopher and playwright
  • Catherine Selden (fl. 1797–1817), novelist
  • John Selden (1584–1654), polymath
  • Will Self (born 1961), novelist and columnist
  • Charles Seltman (1886–1957), art historian
  • George Selwyn (1719–1791), correspondent and wit
  • Nassau William Senior (1790–1864), economist
  • Sepharial (real name Walter Gorn Old, 1864–1929), astrologer and numerologist
  • Gitta Sereny (1921–2012), biographer and historian
  • Ian Serraillier (1912–1994), novelist and poet
  • Robert Service (born 1947), historian and scholar
  • Diane Setterfield (born 1964), novelist
  • Elkanah Settle (1648–1724), playwright and poet
  • Tim Severin (1940–2020), writer, historian and explorer
  • Anna Seward ("Swan of Lichfield", 1747–1809), poet and biographer
  • Thomas Seward (1708–1790), writer
  • William Seward (1747–1799), anecdotist
  • Anna Sewell (1820–1878), novelist, Black Beauty
  • Elizabeth Missing Sewell (1815–1906), novelist and religious writer
  • Mary Wright Sewell (1797–1884), children's writer
  • William Sewell (1804–1874), writer, translator and cleric
  • Miranda Seymour (born 1948), biographer, novelist and children's writer
  • Martin Seymour-Smith (1928–1998), poet and critic
  • Thomas Shadwell (c. 1642–1692), Poet Laureate, Historiographer Royal and playwright
  • Anthony Shaffer (1926–2001), playwright and novelist
  • Peter Shaffer (1926–2016), playwright Amadeus
  • Eddy Shah (born 1944), novelist and newspaper owner
  • Saira Shah (born 1964), writer and film-maker
  • Tahir Shah (born 1966), travel writer and critic
  • Olivia Shakespear (1863–1938), novelist and playwright
  • Nicholas Shakespeare (born 1957), novelist and biographer
  • William Shakespeare (c. 1564–1616), poet and playwright Hamlet
  • Edward Shanks (1892–1953), poet and critic
  • Jo Shapcott (born 1953), poet and scholar
  • Evelyn Sharp (1869–1955), journalist, children's writer and suffragist
  • Jane Sharp (born c. 1641), writer on midwifery
  • Margery Sharp (1905–1991), novelist, children's writer and playwright
  • Richard Sharp (1759–1835), polemicist and hatter
  • Thomas Wilfred Sharp (1901–1978), writer on planning
  • Kevin Sharpe (1949–2011), historian
  • Richard Sharpe (living), historian
  • Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1847–1909), ornithologist and editor
  • Tom Sharpe (1928–2013), novelist
  • George Shaw (1751–1813), botanist and zoologist
  • Pete Shaw (born 1966), writer and producer
  • Peter Shaw (1694–1763), physician, medical writer and translator
  • Robert Shaw (1927–1978), actor and novelist
  • Watkins Shaw (1911–1996), musicologist
  • John Shebbeare (1709–1788), novelist and satirist
  • Wilfrid Sheed (1930–2011), writer, novelist and essayist
  • John Sheffield (also as Mulgrave, then Buckingham, 1647–1721) poet and essayist
  • Edward Sheldon (1599–1687), religious translator
  • Mary Shelley (1797–1851), author, Frankenstein
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822), poet Ode to the West Wind
  • George Shelvocke (1675–1742), travel writer
  • William Shenstone (1714–1763), poet
  • Stav Sherez (born 1970), novelist
  • Clare Sheridan (1885–1970), writer and sculptor
  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816), playwright, The Rivals
  • William Sherlock (1641–1707), theologian and cleric
  • Philip Sherrard (1922–1995), classicist, translator and religious writer
  • R. C. Sherriff (1890–1975), playwright, novelist and screenwriter Journey's End
  • Charles Scott Sherrington (1857–1952), science writer and Nobel Prize winner
  • Norman Sherry (1935–2016), novelist and biographer
  • Mary Martha Sherwood (1775–1851), children's writer and tractarian
  • James Shirley (1596–1666), playwright
  • Joseph Henry Shorthouse (1834–1903), novelist
  • Fredegond Shove (1889–1949), poet
  • Nevil Shute (1899–1960), novelist and aviation engineer A Town Like Alice
  • Penelope Shuttle (born 1947), poet and novelist
  • Gareth Sibson (born 1977), novelist and broadcaster
  • Elizabeth Siddal (1829–1862), artist and poet
  • Mary Sidney (later Mary Herbert, countess of Pembroke, 1561–1621), poet and translator
  • Philip Sidney (1554–1586), poet and soldier
  • Robert Sidney, earl of Leicester (1563–1626) poet and statesman
  • Una Lucy Silberrad (1872–1955), novelist
  • Jon Silkin (1930–1997), poet, editor and critic
  • Alan Sillitoe (1928–2010), novelist, poet and translator Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
  • Elizabeth Simcoe (1762–1850), diarist
  • George Augustus Simcox (1841–1905), poet and scholar
  • Kathryn Simmonds (born 1972), poet and story writer
  • Jack Simmons (1915–2000), historian
  • Brian Simon (1915–2002), educator
  • David Simpson (1745–1799), writer and cleric
  • Dorothy Simpson (born 1933), novelist
  • Helen Simpson (born 1959), novelist and story writer
  • Joe Simpson (born 1960), writer and mountaineer
  • John Simpson (1746–1812), writer and Unitarian minister
  • John Simpson (born 1953), lexicographer
  • John Palgrave Simpson (1807–1887), playwright
  • N. F. Simpson (1919–2011), playwright
  • George Robert Sims (1847–1922), writer, poet and journalist
  • Andrew Sinclair (born 1945), novelist, historian and biographer
  • Clive Sinclair (born 1948), novelist
  • Ian Sinclair writer, poet and film-maker
  • May Sinclair (real name Mary Amelia St. Clair, 1863–1946), novelist, poet and critic
  • C. H. Sisson (1914–2003), poet, translator and writer
  • Edith Sitwell (1887–1964), poet
  • Osbert Sitwell (1892–1969), writer
  • Sacheverell Sitwell (1897–1988), poet and writer
  • Walter William Skeat (1835–1912), philologist
  • Barbara Skelton (1916–1996), novelist and memoirist
  • John Skelton (c. 1460–1529), poet and satirist
  • Robert Skidelsky (born 1939), economic historian and biographer
  • Joseph Skipsey (1832–1903), poet and editor
  • G. E. M. Skues (1858–1949), fishing writer
  • Eleanor Sleath (1770–1847), Gothic novelist
  • Barbara Sleigh (1906–1982), children's writer Carbonel series
  • Edward Slow (1841–1925), dialect poet
  • Carolyn Smart (born 1952), poet
  • Christopher Smart (1722–1771), poet
  • Francis Edward Smedley (1818–1864), novelist
  • Menella Bute Smedley (1819–1877), novelist, poet and translator
  • Albert Richard Smith (1816–1860), writer and mountaineer
  • C. Fox Smith (1882–1954), poet and nautical and children's writer
  • Charlotte Smith (1749–1806), poet and novelist
  • Charlotte Fell Smith (1851–1937) historian and biographer
  • David Smith (born 1963), historian
  • Dodie Smith (1896–1990), novelist and playwright, The Hundred and One Dalmatians
  • Edmund Smith (1672–1710), poet and translator
  • Eleanor Smith (1902–1945), novelist
  • Emma Smith (1923–2018), novelist and children's writer
  • Georgina Castle Smith (1845–1933), children's writer and novelist
  • Horace Smith (originally Horatio Smith, 1779–1849), novelist and poet
  • Joan Smith (born 1953), novelist and journalist
  • John Frederick Smith (1806–1890), novelist
  • Ken Smith (1938–2003), poet
  • Michael Marshall Smith (born 1965), novelist and screenwriter
  • Miles Smith (1554–1624), scholar, AV translator and cleric
  • Sid Smith (born 1949), novelist and journalist
  • Stevie Smith (1902–1971), poet and novelist
  • Sydney Smith (1771–1845), writer and cleric
  • Thomas Smith (fl. 1600–1627), writer and soldier
  • Tom Rob Smith (born 1979), novelist
  • Wentworth Smith (1571 – c. 1623), playwright
  • William Smith (fl. 1590s), poet
  • William Smith (1769–1839), geologist
  • William Smith (1813–1893), lexicographer
  • Zadie Smith (born 1975), novelist
  • Frank Smythe (1900–1949), writer and mountaineer
  • Percy Smythe (1826–1869), man of letters
  • C. P. Snow (1905–1980), novelist and physicist Strangers and Brothers
  • John Snow (born 1941), poet, autobiographer and first-class cricketer
  • William Somervile (1675–1742), poet
  • Charles Sorley (1895–1915), poet
  • William Sotheby (1757–1833), poet and translator
  • Ahdaf Soueif (born 1950), novelist and translator
  • Robert South (1634–1716), theologian and cleric
  • Joanna Southcott (1750–1814), religious writer
  • R. W. Southern (1912–2001), historian
  • Caroline Anne Southey (1786–1954), poet
  • Robert Southey (1774–1843), Poet Laureate
  • Robert Southwell (1561–1595), poet, tractarian and martyr
  • Stephen Southwold (1887–1964), novelist and children's writer
  • Nancy Spain (1917–1964), novelist, biographer and journalist
  • Robert Spaulding (fl. 1610s), scholar, AV translator and cleric
  • Rachel Speght (born 1596), poet and polemicist
  • Henry Spelman (c. 1562–1641), historian and antiquary
  • Bernard Spencer (1909–1963), poet
  • Colin Spencer (born 1933), writer, artist and broadcaster
  • Herbert Spencer (1820–1903), philosopher
  • John Spencer (1630–1693), scholar and cleric
  • William Robert Spencer (1769–1834), poet and wit
  • Emily Spender (1841–1922), novelist and suffragette
  • Lillian Spender (1835–1895), novelist and essayist
  • Stephen Spender (1909–1995), poet, novelist and travel writer
  • Edmund Spenser (c. 1552–1599), poet, The Faerie Queene
  • John Spenser (1559–1614), scholar, AV translator and cleric
  • Dennis Spooner (1932–1986), TV screenwriter
  • William Archibald Spooner (1844–1930), scholar, spoonerisms
  • Jean Sprackland (born 1962), poet
  • Francis Spufford (born 1964), writer
  • Charles Spurgeon (1834–1892), writer and Baptist minister
  • J. C. Squire (1884–1958), poet and historian
  • Edward St Aubyn (born 1960), novelist and journalist
  • Bayle St. John (1822–1859), travel writer and biographer
  • Henry St John, Lord Bolingbroke (1678–1751) politician and philosopher
  • James Augustus St. John (born James John, 1795–1875), journalist, writer and traveller
  • Spenser St. John (1825–1910), biographer, travel writer and diplomat
  • Brian Stableford (born 1948), SF writer
  • Tom Stacey (born 1930), novelist, writer and publisher
  • David A. T. Stafford (born 1942), historian
  • Julian Stallabrass (living), art historian
  • Jon Stallworthy (1935–2014), scholar and poet
  • John Stammers (born 1954), poet
  • Josiah Stamp (1880–1941), economist and banker
  • Derek Stanford (1918–2008), biographer and poet
  • Louisa Stanhope (fl. 1806–1827), novelist
  • Philip Stanhope, Lord Chesterfield, (1694–1773) politician and writer
  • Arthur Stanley (1815–1881), theologian and cleric
  • Thomas Stanley (1625–1678), poet and philosopher
  • Andy Stanton (living), children's writer,
  • Olaf Stapledon (1886–1950), philosopher and novelist
  • Robert Stapylton (died 1669), playwright, poet and translator
  • Freya Stark (1893–1993), travel writer
  • Mariana Starke (1761/1762–1838), travel writer, poet and playwright
  • David Starkey (b. 1945), historian
  • Boris Starling (living), novelist and screenwriter
  • William Thomas Stead (1849–1912), campaigner
  • Michael Steed (born 1940), political scientist and broadcaster
  • Wickham Steed (1871–1856), journalist and historian
  • Anne Steele (wrote as Theodosia, 1717–1778), hymnist
  • David Ramsay Steele (living), philosopher
  • Jonathan Steele (living), writer and journalist
  • Marguerite Steen (1894–1975), novelist and biographer
  • George Steevens (1736–1800), Shakespearean scholar
  • James Kenneth Stephen (1859–1892), poet
  • Leslie Stephen (1832–1904), writer and mountaineer
  • Frederic George Stephens (1828–1907), art critic
  • Henry Pottinger Stephens (1851–1903), playwright and novelist
  • James Francis Stephens (1792–1852), entomologist
  • Robert Stephens (1665–1732), Historiographer Royal
  • Simon Stephens (born 1971), playwright
  • G. B. Stern (1890–1973), novelist, playwright and biographer
  • Laurence Sterne (1713–1768), novelist and cleric, Tristram Shandy
  • George Alexander Stevens (1710–1780), playwright, poet and actor
  • Matthew Stevenson (died 1654), poet
  • William Stevenson (1530–1575), poet and playwright
  • Angus Stewart (1936–1998) novelist, diarist and poet
  • John "Walking" Stewart (1747–1822), philosopher and traveller
  • Mary Stewart (born 1916), novelist
  • William Stobbs (1914–2000), children's writer and illustrator
  • Julian Stockwin (born 1944), novelist
  • Sewell Stokes (1902–1979), novelist, biographer and playwright
  • Nick Stone (born 1966), novelist
  • Samuel John Stone (1839–1900), hymnist and cleric
  • David Lee Stone (born 1978), children's writer
  • David Storey (1933–2017), novelist and playwright
  • Catherine Storr (1913–2001), children's writer
  • Thomas Story (c. 1670–1742), writer and Quaker
  • John Stow (c. 1525–1605), historian and antiquary
  • Herbert Strang (pseudonym of George Herbert Ely, 1866–1958, and Charles James L'Estrange, 1867–1947), children's writers
  • Alix Strachey (1892–1973), psychoanalyst and translator
  • James Strachey (1887–1967), psychoanalyst and editor
  • Julia Strachey (1901–1979), novelist
  • Lytton Strachey (1880–1932), biographer and critic, Eminent Victorians
  • Ray Strachey (originally Rachel Costelloe, 1887–1940), biographer and campaigner
  • Paul Strathern (born 1940), novelist and scholar
  • Noel Streatfeild (1895–1986), children's writer Ballet Shoes
  • A. G. Street (1892–1966), writer and broadcaster
  • Cecil Street (also as John Rhode, Miles Burton etc., 1884–1965), novelist
  • Joe Stretch (born 1982), novelist
  • Hesba Stretton (real name Sarah Smith, 1832–1911), novelist and children's writer
  • Agnes Strickland (1796–1874), historian, poet and children's writer
  • William Strode (1600–1643), poet
  • Leonard Strong (wrote as L. A. G. Strong, 1896–1958), novelist, poet and children's writer
  • Jan Struther (real name Joyce Anstruther, (1901–1953), novelist and hymnist
  • John Strype (1643–1737), historian, biographer and cleric
  • Alexander Stuart (living), novelist and screenwriter
  • Muriel Stuart (1885–1967), poet and garden writer
  • John Stubbs or Stubbe (c. 1543–1591), pamphleteer
  • John Studley (c. 1545 – c. 1590), translator
  • Joseph Sturge (1793–1859) abolitionist writer and campaigner
  • Howard Sturgis (1855–1920), novelist
  • Julian Sturgis (1848–1904), novelist and poet
  • George Sturt (also as George Bourne, 1863–1927), country writer
  • John Strype (1643–1737), historian and biographer
  • Showell Styles (1908–2005), novelist and children's writer
  • John Suckling (1609–1642), poet
  • J. W. N. Sullivan (1886–1937), science writer
  • Montague Summers (1880–1948), writer and occultist
  • Kate Summerscale (born 1965), writer and journalist
  • Robert Smith Surtees (1805–1864), novelist
  • Alice Sutcliffe (fl. 1624–1634), religious writer
  • William Sutcliffe (born 1971), novelist
  • Alfred Sutro (1863–1933), playwright and translator
  • E. W. Swanton (1907–2000), cricket writer and broadcaster
  • Graham Swift (born 1949), novelist
  • Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909), poet
  • Robert Swindells (born 1939), children's writer
  • Randall Swingler (1909–1967), poet
  • Frank Swinnerton (1884–1982), novelist and editor
  • Christopher Sykes (1907–1986), travel writer and biographer
  • Percy Sykes (1867–1945), travel writer and historian
  • Joshua Sylvester (1563–1618), poet
  • John Addington Symonds (1840–1893), poet and critic
  • A. J. A. Symons (1900–1941), writer and bibliographer
  • Arthur Symons (1865–1945), poet and essayist
  • Julian Symons (1912–1994), crime writer and poet
  • Mitchell Symons (born 1957), writer and journalist
  • George Szirtes (born 1948), poet and translator


T[]

  • Thomas Noon Talfourd (1795–1854), writer, playwright and lawyer
  • Derek Tangye (1912–1996), writer
  • Nigel Tangye (1909–1988), writer and flying instructor
  • Heather Tanner (1903–1993), countryside writer
  • James T. Tanner (1858–1915), playwright and director
  • Thomas Tanner (1630–1682), writer and cleric
  • Thomas Tanner (1674–1735), antiquary and bishop
  • Theaurau John Tany (originally Thomas Totney, 1608–1659), religious writer
  • Emma Tatham (1829–1855), poet
  • John Tatham (fl. 1632–64), playwright and poet
  • Jemima von Tautphoeus (born Jemima Montgomery, 1807–1893), novelist
  • R. H. Tawney (1880–1962), economic historian
  • A. J. P. Taylor (1906–1990), historian
  • Andrew Taylor (born 1951), novelist
  • Ann Taylor (1782–1866), poet and children's writer
  • D. J. Taylor (born 1960), novelist and biographer
  • Edgar Taylor (1793–1839), writer and translator
  • Elizabeth Taylor (1912–1975), novelist
  • Emily Taylor (1795–1872), writer, poet and hymnist
  • G. P. Taylor (born 1958), novelist and cleric
  • Henry Taylor (1711–1785), polemicist and cleric
  • Henry Taylor (1800–1886), playwright
  • Isaac Taylor (1787–1865), scholar, cleric and inventor
  • Jane Taylor (1783–1824), children's poet and novelist
  • Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667), religious writer
  • John Taylor (1703–1772), autobiographer
  • John Taylor (the "Water Poet", 1578–1653), poet
  • John Taylor (1750–1826), poet and hymnist
  • Philip Meadows Taylor (1808–1876), novelist
  • Richard Taylor (1782–1858), naturalist and editor
  • Sean Taylor (living), children's writer
  • Thomas Taylor (1758–1835), translator
  • Tom Taylor (1817–1880), playwright and editor
  • William Taylor (died 1423), Lollard theologian
  • William Taylor (1765–1836), scholar and translator
  • Roma Tearne (born 1954), novelist
  • Barry Tebb (born 1942), poet and anthologist
  • Mrs. Bartle Teeling (1851-1906), non-fiction writer and novelist
  • William Temple (1555–1627), logician
  • William Temple (1628–1699), essayist and statesman
  • William Temple (1881–1944), writer and archbishop
  • William F. Temple (1914–1989), SF writer
  • Edward Wyndham Tennant (1897–1916), poet
  • Emma Tennant (1937–2017), novelist
  • Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892), Poet Laureate, The Charge of the Light Brigade
  • Frederick Tennyson (1807–1898), poet
  • Henry Teonge (c. 1620–1690), diarist and naval chaplain
  • Lisa St Aubin de Terán (born 1953), novelist and memoirist
  • J. E. Harold Terry (1885–1939), novelist, playwright and critic
  • A. S. J. Tessimond (1902–1962), poet
  • Anne Isabella Thackeray, Lady Ritchie (1837–1919), novelist and essayist
  • William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863), novelist, Vanity Fair
  • Algernon Sydney Thelwall (1795–1863), writer and cleric
  • John Thelwall (1764–1834), poet and writer
  • Sydney Thelwall (1834–1922), scholar, translator and cleric
  • Lewis Theobald (1688–1744), scholar, critic and translator
  • Marcel Theroux (born 1968), novelist and broadcaster
  • Philip Thicknesse (1719–1792), writer
  • Angela Thirkell (1890–1961), novelist
  • Connop Thirlwall (1797–1875), historian, translator and bishop
  • Adam Thirlwell (born 1978), novelist
  • William Turner Thiselton-Dyer (1843–1926), botanist
  • D. M. Thomas (born 1935), novelist, poet and translator
  • David St John Thomas (1929–2014), writer
  • Donald Serrell Thomas (also as Francis Selwyn, b. 1926), novelist, biographer and poet
  • Edward Thomas (1878–1917), poet
  • Edward J. Thomas (1869–1958), historian of Buddhism and librarian
  • Elizabeth Thomas (1675–1731), poet
  • Elizabeth Thomas (wrote as Mrs Bridget Bluemantle and Mrs Martha Homely, 1770/1771–1855), novelist and poet
  • Hugh Thomas (1931–2017), historian
  • Scarlett Thomas (born 1972), novelist
  • W. Ian Thomas (1914–2007), writer and missionary
  • John Thomlinson (1692–1761), diarist and cleric
  • Edward Healy Thompson (1813–1891), religious writer and editor
  • Flora Thompson (1876–1947), novelist and poet, Lark Rise to Candleford
  • Francis Thompson (1859–1907), poet
  • Harry Thompson (1960–2005), biographer, novelist and TV producer
  • James Thompson (1817–1877), journalist and historian
  • Kate Thompson (born 1956), novelist and children's writer
  • Thomas Thompson (1880–1951), fiction and non-fiction writer
  • William Thompson (c. 1712 – c. 1766), poet
  • William Thoms (1803–1885), antiquary and miscellanist
  • A. A. Thomson (1894–1968), cricket and travel writer
  • Giles Thomson (1553–1612), scholar, AV translator and cleric
  • Jamie Thomson (born 1958), novelist and children's writer
  • Katherine Thomson (also as Mrs Thomson and Grace Wharton, 1797–1862), novelist and historian
  • Richard Thomson (fl. 1600s), scholar, AV translator and cleric
  • Rupert Thomson (born 1955), novelist and memoirist
  • Wilfrid Thorley (1878–1963), poet and educator
  • George Walter Thornbury (1828–1876), poet, novelist and travel writer
  • Guy Thorne (real name C. Ranger Gull, 1876–1923), novelist
  • Matt Thorne (born 1974), novelist and children's writer
  • William Thorne (c. 1568–1630), orientalist, AV translator and cleric
  • Bonnell Thornton (1725–1768), poet, essayist and critic
  • Robert John Thornton (1768–1837), botanist and physician
  • Tim Thornton (born 1973), novelist and musician
  • Adam Thorpe (born 1956), poet and novelist
  • Kay Thorpe (living), romantic novelist
  • Ralph Thoresby (1658–1725), antiquary and diarist
  • Hester Thrale (also as Mrs. Piozzi, 1741–1821), diarist and biographer,
  • Colin Thubron (born 1939), travel writer and novelist
  • Edward Thurlow, Lord Thurlow (1731–1806), poet and lord chancellor
  • E. Temple Thurston (1879–1933), playwright, poet and novelist
  • Joseph Thurston (1704–1732), poet
  • Ann Thwaite (born 1932), biographer
  • Anthony Thwaite (1930–2021), poet and writer
  • Chidiock Tichborne (1558–1586), poet and conspirator
  • Thomas Tickell (1686–1740), poet
  • Robert Tighe (died 1620), AV translator and cleric
  • Terence Tiller (1916–1987), poet and radio producer
  • E. M. W. Tillyard (1889–1962), classicist and literary critic
  • Stella Tillyard (born 1957), historian and novelist
  • John Timbs (also as Horace Welby, 1801–1875), writer and antiquary
  • William M. Timlin (1892–1943), writer and illustrator
  • Gillian Tindall (living), historian and novelist
  • Peter Tinniswood (1936–2003), novelist and scriptwriter
  • John Tobin (1770–1804), playwright
  • Barbara Euphan Todd (1890–1976), novelist and children's writer
  • H. E. Todd (1908–1988), children's writer
  • Malcolm Todd (born 1939), historian
  • J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973), fantasy writer and scholar, The Lord of the Rings
  • Simon Tolkien (born 1959), novelist and barrister
  • Elizabeth Tollet (1694–1754), poet
  • Francis Tolson (died 1745), poet
  • Thomas Tomkis (c. 1580–1634), playwright
  • Claire Tomalin (born 1933), biographer
  • Charles Tomlinson (1927–2015), poet and translator
  • H. M. Tomlinson, (1873–1958), travel writer, novelist and journalist
  • Theresa Tomlinson (born 1946), children's writer
  • Rosemary Tonks (1932–2014), poet and novelist
  • Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna (pen name Charlotte Elizabeth, 1790–1846), tractarian and novelist
  • John Horne Tooke (1736–1812), philologist and politician
  • Rebecca Tope (living), crime writer and journalist
  • Augustus Montague Toplady (1740–1778), theologian and hymnist
  • Angela Topping (born 1954), poet and critic
  • Paul Torday (1946–2013), novelist
  • Chris Torrance (born 1941), poet and musician
  • Richard Tottel (died 1594), miscellanist
  • Cyril Tourneur (1575–1626), playwright
  • Nigel Tourneur (fl. 1898), writer
  • Doreen Tovey (1918–2008), writer
  • Peter Townend (1935–1999), writer and journalist
  • John Rowe Townsend (1922–2014), children's writer and scholar
  • Joseph Townsend (1739–1816), economist, physician and cleric
  • Peter Townsend (1928–2009), sociologist and economist
  • Sue Townsend (born 1946), novelist, Adrian Mole books
  • Tom Townsend (born 1971), writer and bridge player
  • Aurelian Townshend (1583–1643), poet and playwright
  • Charles Townshend (born 1945), historian
  • Chauncy Hare Townshend (1798–1868), poet and cleric
  • Thomas Townson (1715–1792), writer and cleric
  • Arnold Toynbee (1852–1883), economic historian
  • Arnold J. Toynbee (1889–1975), historian
  • Philip Toynbee (1916–1981), novelist, poet and journalist
  • Polly Toynbee (born 1946), journalist and writer
  • John Tradescant the Younger (1608–1662), botanist and antiquary
  • Thomas Traherne (1636/1637–1674), poet and religious writer
  • Henry Duff Traill (1842–1900), humorist, editor and biographer
  • Anna Trapnell (fl. 1650s), religious writer
  • Ben Travers (1886–1980), playwright and novelist
  • Karen Traviss (living), novelist
  • Mary Treadgold (1910–2005), children's writer
  • Geoffrey Trease (1909–1998), children's writer
  • Miles Tredinnick (born 1955), playwright, screenwriter and singer
  • Iris Tree (1897–1968), poet and actress
  • Viola Tree (1884–1938), writer and actress
  • Henry Treece (1911–1966), poet, novelist and children's writer
  • Edward John Trelawny (1792–1881), biographer and novelist
  • Rose Tremain (born 1943), novelist
  • Kate Tremayne (living), novelist
  • Rex Tremlett (1903–1986), writer and broadcaster
  • Francis Chenevix Trench (1805–1886), writer and cleric
  • Richard Chenevix Trench (1807–1886), philologist, poet and archbishop
  • Christopher Trent, author of Motoring Holidays in Britain
  • Robert Tressell or Tressall (originally Robert Croker, later Noonan, 1870–1911), novelist, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
  • G. M. Trevelyan (1876–1962), historian
  • George Trevelyan (1838–1928), writer and statesman
  • R. C. Trevelyan (1872–1951), poet and translator
  • Raleigh Trevelyan (1923–2014), historian
  • John Trevisa (1342–1402), translator
  • Elleston Trevor (originally Trevor Dudley-Smith, also as Adam Hall etc., 1920–1995), novelist
  • Rachel Trickett (1923–1999), novelist and scholar
  • Jonathan Trigell (born 1974), novelist
  • Sarah Trimmer (1741–1810), children's writer
  • Henry Baker Tristram (1822–1906), travel writer, naturalist and cleric
  • Anthony Trollope (1815–1882), novelist, Chronicles of Barsetshire
  • Frances Trollope (1780–1863), novelist and travel writer
  • Joanna Trollope (also as Caroline Harvey, b. 1943), novelist
  • Thomas Adolphus Trollope (1810–1892), travel writer and novelist
  • Thomas Trotter (1760–1832), physician and medical writer
  • Peter Trower (1930–2017), poet and novelist
  • Thomas Tryon (1634–1703), writer and vegetarian
  • Edwin Charles Tubb (several pen names, b. 1919), novelist
  • Abraham Tucker (wrote as Edward Search, 1705–1774), philosopher
  • Charlotte Maria Tucker (wrote as A.L.O.E, 1821–1893), children's writer
  • Cuthbert Tunstall or Tonstall (1474–1559), writer and bishop
  • Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810–1889), writer and poet
  • George Turberville (c. 1540 – pre–1597), poet
  • Charles Tennyson Turner (1808–1879), poet and translator
  • David Turner (1927–1990), playwright and scriptwriter
  • Ernest Sackville Turner (1909–2006), writer and journalist
  • Joe Turner (living), scriptwriter and playwright
  • John Frayn Turner (living), military historian
  • Matthew Turner (died 1788), philosopher and physician
  • Philip Turner (wrote as Stephen Chance, 1925–2006), children's writer and cleric
  • Reginald Turner (1869–1938), novelist and aesthete
  • Roger Turner (living), garden writer and designer
  • Sharon Turner (1768–1847), historian
  • Steve Turner (living), poet and biographer
  • Thomas Turner (1729–1793), diarist
  • Tom Turner (living), garden writer and designer
  • Thomas Tusser (1524–1580), poet and farmer
  • Ethel Brilliana Tweedie (also as Mrs Alec Tweedie 1862–1940), travel writer
  • Robert Twigger (born 1964), writer
  • Horace Twiss (c. 1787–1849), writer and politician
  • Kenneth Tynan (1927–1980), drama critic and producer
  • William Tyndale (1494–1536), scholar and Bible translator
  • George Tyrrell (1861–1909), theologian and scholar
  • Robert Yelverton Tyrrell (1844–1914), scholar and translator
  • Thomas Tyrwhitt (1730–1786), scholar, editor and critic

U[]

  • Nicholas Udall (1505–1556), playwright and translator, Ralph Roister Doister
  • Jenny Uglow (born 1947), biographer and critic
  • Evelyn Underhill (1875–1941), religious writer and novelist
  • Peter Underwood (1923–2014), writer and broadcaster
  • Barry Unsworth (1930–2012), novelist
  • Cathi Unsworth (living), novelist
  • Arthur Upfield (1890–1964), crime writer
  • John Upton (1707–1760), editor and critic
  • Lawrence Upton (born 1949), poet and artist
  • Edward Upward (1903–2009), novelist and story writer
  • Mark Urban (born 1961), military writer
  • J. O. Urmson (1915–2012), philosopher
  • Thomas Usk (died 1388), poet
  • Alison Uttley (1884–1976), children's writer, Little Grey Rabbit


V[]

  • Horace Annesley Vachell (1861–1955), novelist and playwright
  • John Van der Kiste (born 1954), writer and polymath
  • John Vanbrugh (1664–1726), playwright and architect
  • Bernard Vaughan (1847–1922), writer and RC priest
  • Keith Vaughan (1912–1977), diarist and artist
  • Robert Vaughan (1795–1868), historian, editor and Congregationalist minister
  • Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee (born 1953), writer and Sufi mystic
  • Thomas Vaux (1510–1556), poet
  • Kate Veale, author and illustrator of children's books.
  • Frances Vernon (1963–1991), novelist
  • Salley Vickers (born 1948), novelist and psychotherapist
  • Sherard Vines (1890–1974), poet, novelist and critic
  • Elfrida Vipont (real name Elfrida Vipont Foulds, 1902–1992), children's writer
  • E. H. Visiak (real name Edward Harold Physick, 1878–1972), poet and novelist
  • Ernest Alfred Vizetelly (1853–1922), translator
  • Frederick Augustus Voigt (1892–1957), foreign affairs writer


W[]

  • Thomas Wade (1805–1875), poet and playwright
  • Lucy Wadham (born 1964), novelist and journalist
  • Rekha Waheed (living), novelist
  • John Wain (1925–1994), poet and novelist
  • Alfred Wainwright (1907–1991), guidebook writer
  • Daniel Wakefield (1776–1846), political economist
  • Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1796–1862), writer and politician
  • Gilbert Wakefield (1756–1801), scholar and polemicist
  • H. Russell Wakefield (1890–1964), novelist and story writer
  • Priscilla Wakefield (1871–1832), educator and philanthropist
  • Robert Wakefield (died 1537), linguist and scholar
  • George Waldron (1690 – c. 1730), topographer and poet
  • Arthur Waley (1889–1966), orientalist and translator
  • Alan Walker (born 1930), biographer, musicologist and broadcaster
  • Charles Walker (fl. 1860s), religious writer
  • Charles Curwen Walker (1856–1940), Christadelphian writer and editor
  • George Walker (c. 1581–1651), writer and cleric
  • George Walker (c. 1734–1807), dissenting writer and mathematician
  • George Walker (1772–1847), novelist and political writer
  • George Walker (1803 – post–1851), chess writer
  • Obadiah Walker (1616–1699), scholar and educator
  • Ted Walker (1934–2004), poet, dramatist and broadcaster
  • Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913), naturalist and biologist
  • Doreen Wallace (1897–1989), novelist and agricultural writer
  • Edgar Wallace (1875–1932), novelist and playwright
  • Helen Wallace (born 1946), current affairs writer
  • Ian Wallace (living), ornithologist
  • John Graham Wallace (born 1966), children's writer and illustrator
  • Nick Wallace (born 1972), novelist
  • Robert Wallace (1791–1850), writer, biographer and Unitarian minister
  • William Wallace (born 1941), scholar and writer on government
  • J. M. Wallace-Hadrill (1916–1985), historian
  • Edmund Waller (1606–1687), poet
  • John Waller (1917–1995), poet and anthologist
  • David Walliams (born 1971), children's writer and comedian
  • John Wallis (1616–1703), mathematician and writer
  • Martin Walls (born 1970), poet and journalist
  • Leo Walmsley (1892–1966), novelist and autobiographer
  • Horace Walpole (1717–1797), novelist and man of letters, The Castle of Otranto
  • Horatio Walpole (1678–1757), writer and politician
  • Hugh Walpole (1884–1941), novelist
  • Helen Walsh (born 1977), novelist
  • Jill Paton Walsh (1937–2020), novelist and children's writer
  • John Henry Walsh (also as Stonehenge, 1810–1888), field sports writer
  • Sheila Walsh (1928–2009), novelist
  • William Walsh (1663–1708), poet and critic
  • Guy Walters (born 1971), novelist and journalist
  • Hugh Walters (1910–1993), novelist
  • Minette Walters (born 1949), novelist
  • Vanessa Walters (born 1978), novelist and playwright
  • Amy Catherine Walton (1849–1939), children's writer
  • Izaak Walton (1593–1683), writer, The Compleat Angler
  • William Walwyn (1600–1681), pamphleteer
  • Humfrey Wanley (1672–1726), scholar and palaeographer
  • Nathaniel Wanley (1634–1680), writer and cleric
  • Henry Wansbrough (living), writer, Bible translator and RC monk
  • William Warburton (1698–1779), critic and bishop
  • Barbara Ward (1914–1981), economist and environmentalist
  • Chris Ward (born 1958), playwright
  • Edward Ward (1660 or 1667–1731), satirist
  • Keith Ward (born 1938), philosopher and cleric
  • Mrs. Humphry Ward (born Mary Augusta Arnold, 1851–1920), novelist
  • Robert Ward (fl. 1611), AV translator and cleric
  • Robert Plumer Ward (1765–1846), lawyer and novelist
  • Samuel Ward (1572–1643), scholar, AV translator and cleric
  • Sarah Ward (living), novelist and critic
  • Seth Ward (1617–1689), polemicist, astronomer and bishop
  • Thomas Humphry Ward (1845–1926), writer and journalist
  • William George Ward (1812–1882), theologian and mathematician
  • Terry Wardle (born 1944), children’s author
  • Marina Warner (born 1946), novelist and biographer
  • Rex Warner (1905–1986), novelist and translator
  • Richard Warner (c. 1713–1775), botanist and scholar
  • Richard Warner (1763–1853), antiquary and cleric
  • Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893–1978), novelist and poet
  • William Warner (c. 1558–1609), poet and translator
  • Mary Warnock (1924–2019), philosopher
  • Blanche Warre-Cornish (1844–1922), novelist and biographer
  • John Warren, Lord de Tabley (1835–1895), poet and botanist
  • Samuel Warren (1807–1877), novelist and barrister
  • Thomas Herbert Warren (1853–1930), scholar and poet
  • Tony Warren (1936–2016), screenwriter and novelist
  • Joseph Warton (1722–1800), poet and critic
  • Thomas Warton (c. 1688–1745), poet
  • Thomas Warton (1728–1790), Poet Laureate and critic
  • Robin Waterfield (born 1952), translator and classicist
  • Andrew Waterhouse (1958–2001), poet and environmentalist
  • Ellis Waterhouse (1905–1985), art historian and editor
  • Gilbert Waterhouse (1883–1916), poet and architect
  • Keith Waterhouse (1929–2009), novelist and screenwriter
  • Rachel Waterhouse (1923–2020), historian and activist
  • Sarah Waters (born 1966), novelist
  • Charles Waterton (1782–1865), naturalist and explorer
  • Denys Watkins-Pitchford (wrote as BB, 1905–1990), naturalist and children's writer
  • David Watmough (1926–2017), playwright and novelist
  • Colin Watson (1920–1983), novelist
  • E. L. Grant Watson (1885–1970), writer and biologist
  • James Watson (1936–2015), children's writer and playwright
  • Richard Watson (1781–1833), Methodist theologian
  • Richard Watson (1737–1816), writer and bishop
  • Rosamund Marriott Watson (wrote as Graham R. Tomson, 1860–1911), poet and garden writer
  • Thomas Watson (1555–1592), poet and translator
  • Thomas Watson (c. 1620–1686), writer and preacher
  • Victor Watson (born 1936), children's author and academic
  • William Watson (1858–1935), poet
  • Winifred Watson (1906–2002), novelist
  • Alan Watts (1915–1973), philosopher
  • Alaric Alexander Watts (1797–1864), poet and editor
  • Isaac Watts (1674–1748), hymnist
  • Theodore Watts-Dunton (1832–1914), critic, novelist and poet
  • Alec Waugh (1898–1981), novelist
  • Auberon Waugh (1939–2001), novelist and journalist
  • Edwin Waugh (1817–1890), dialect poet
  • Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966), novelist, travel writer and diarist, Brideshead Revisited
  • Arthur Way (1847–1930), classicist and translator
  • Camilla Way (born 1973), novelist and editor
  • Adrian Weale (born 1964), military writer
  • Frederic Weatherly (1848–1929), lyricist
  • Willoughby Weaving (1885–1977), poet
  • Clifford Webb (1895–1972), children's writer and illustrator
  • Mary Webb (1881–1927), novelist and poet
  • Philip Barker Webb (1793–1854), botanist and traveller
  • Sidney Webb (1859–1947), and Beatrice Webb (1858–1943), political economists
  • Augusta Webster (1837–1894), poet and playwright
  • John Webster (c. 1580–1634), playwright, The Duchess of Malfi
  • Camilla Wedgwood (1901–1955), anthropologist
  • C. V. Wedgwood (1910–1997), historian
  • Ernest Weekley (1865–1964), philologist
  • Samantha Weinberg (born 1967), novelist and travel writer
  • Arabella Weir (born 1957), writer and actor
  • Denton Welch (1915–1948), novelist, diarist and artist
  • Ronald Welch (real name Ronald Oliver Felton, 1909–1982), novelist and children's writer
  • Fay Weldon (born 1931), novelist and screenwriter
  • Dorothy Wellesley (1889–1956), poet and editor
  • Charles Jeremiah Wells (c. 1798–1879), poet
  • H. G. Wells (1866–1946), novelist and critic, The War of the Worlds
  • John Wells (1936–1998), satirist
  • Leonard Welsted (1688–1747), poet
  • Louise Wener (born 1966), novelist and singer
  • Anne Wentworth (1629/1630 – post-1679), religious writer
  • Arnold Wesker (1932–2016), playwright
  • Charles Wesley (1707–1788), preacher and hymnist
  • John Wesley (1703–1791), theologian and cleric
  • Mary Wesley (1912–2002), novelist
  • Samuel Wesley (1662–1735), poet and polemicist
  • Samuel Wesley (1690 or 1691–1739), poet and cleric
  • Arthur Graeme West (1891–1917), diarist and poet
  • Gilbert West (1703–1756), poet and translator
  • Jane West (wrote as Prudentia Homespun, 1758–1852), novelist, writer and poet
  • Paul West (1930–2015), novelist and poet
  • Rebecca West (real name Cicely Isabel Fairfield, 1892–1983), novelist and travel writer
  • Robert Westall (1929–1993), children's writer
  • William Bury Westall (1834–1903), novelist
  • Charles Molloy Westmacott (also as Bernard Blackmantle, c. 1788–1868), writer and journalist
  • Joyce Wethered (1901–1997), golf and gardening writer
  • Robert Wever (fl. 1550), poet
  • Stanley J. Weyman (1855–1928), novelist
  • Anne Wharton (1659–1685), poet and playwright
  • George Wharton (1618–1681), pamphleteer and astrologer
  • Goodwin Wharton (1653–1704), autobiographer
  • Gordon Wharton (1929–2011), poet
  • Henry Wharton (1664–1695), writer, biographer and cleric
  • Michael Wharton (wrote as Peter Simple, 1913–2006), humorist
  • Mary Whateley (Mary Darwall, also as Harriet Airey, 1738–1835), poet and playwright
  • Richard Whateley (1787–1863), theologian, economist and archbishop
  • Dennis Wheatley (1897–1977), thriller writer
  • Ethel Rolt Wheeler (1869–1958), poet, journalist and essayist
  • Hugh Wheeler (1912–1987), novelist, playwright and screenwriter
  • Mortimer Wheeler (1890–1976), archaeologist
  • John Wheeler-Bennett (1902–1975), analyst and historian
  • Francis Wheen (born 1957), biographer and journalist
  • Eric Whelpton (1894–1981), travel writer
  • George Whetstone (c. 1544 – c. 1587), writer and playwright
  • Charles Whibley (1859–1930), critic and writer
  • Dorothy Whipple (1893–1966), novelist
  • Laurence Whistler (1912–2000), poet and engraver
  • Evelyn Whitaker (1844–1929), children's writer
  • Antonia White (real name Eirine Botting, 1899–1980), novelist, playwright and children's writer
  • Dorothy White (c. 1630–1686), Quaker pamphleteer and preacher
  • Fred M. White (1859–1935), science-fiction and disaster novelist
  • Gilbert White (1720–1795), naturalist and cleric, The Natural History of Selborne
  • Hale White (wrote as Mark Rutherford, 1831–1913), writer
  • Henry Kirke White (1785–1806), poet and hymnist
  • Michael White (writes as Sam Fisher, living), writer
  • T. H. White, (1906–1964), children's writer and poet, The Once and Future King
  • Thomas White (also as Blackloe, 1593–1676), theologian and RC priest
  • Tony White (born 1964), novelist and travel writer
  • George Whitefield (1714–1770), theologian and preacher
  • Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947), mathematician and philosopher
  • Charles Whitehead (1804–1862), poet and novelist
  • George Whitehead (1636–1723), Quaker preacher and writer
  • William Whitehead (1715–1785), Poet Laureate and playwright
  • Richard Whiteing (wrote as Whyte Thorne, 1840–1928), novelist and journalist
  • Dorothy Whitelock (1901–1982), historian
  • Bulstrode Whitelocke (1605–1675), chronicler
  • Hugh Whitemore (1936–2018), playwright and screenwriter
  • Charles Whiting (1926–2007), novelist and military historian
  • David Whitley (born 1985), YA novelist
  • Geoffrey Whitney (c. 1548 – c. 1601), poet
  • Isabella Whitney (fl. 1567–1573), poet
  • James Pounder Whitney (1857–1939), historian
  • Gerald James Whitrow (1912–2000), cosmologist
  • Crispin Whittell (born 1969), playwright
  • Ian Whybrow (born 1941), children's writer
  • Thomas Whythorne (1528–1595), poet, autobiographer and composer
  • Frederick Wicks (1840–1910), novelist and inventor
  • Susan Wicks (born 1947), poet and novelist
  • Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen (1792–1836), poet and scholar
  • Clare Wigfall (born 1976), story writer
  • William Wilberforce (1759–1833), religious writer and reformer
  • John Wilbye (1574–1638), madrigalist
  • Patrick Wilde (living), playwright and screenwriter
  • Peter Wildeblood (1923–1999), writer and journalist
  • John Wilkes (1725–1797), radical
  • Charles Wilkins (1749–1836), orientalist and translator
  • George Wilkins (fl. 1607), playwright and pamphleteer
  • Harold T. Wilkins (1891–1960), writer and historian
  • John Wilkins (1614–1672), natural philosopher, writer and bishop
  • Vaughan Wilkins (1890–1959), novelist and journalist
  • John Wilkinson (born 1953), poet
  • John Gardner Wilkinson (1797–1875), writer, traveller and scholar
  • Paul Wilkinson (1937–2011), political writer
  • Geoffrey Willans (1911–1958), writer and journalist, (with Ronald Searle) Nigel Molesworth
  • Barbara Willard (1909–1994), children's writer and novelist
  • Aeneas Francon Williams (1886–1971), writer, poet, missionary, chaplain
  • Alfred Williams (1877–1930), poet
  • Anna Williams (1706–1783), poet
  • Bernard Williams (1929–2003), philosopher
  • Charles Williams (1886–1945), novelist, poet and scholar
  • Charlie Williams (born 1971), novelist
  • Eric Williams (1911–1983) WW2 writer
  • Frederick Smeeton Williams (1829–1886), railway writer
  • Helen Maria Williams (1761/1762–1827), poet, translator and radical
  • Hugo Williams (born 1942), poet and travel writer
  • Isaac Williams (1802–1865), writer, poet and cleric
  • John Francon Williams (1854–1911), writer, geographer, historian, journalist, editor
  • John Williams (1761–1818), poet and satirist
  • John Hartley Williams (1942–2014), poet
  • Jules Williams writer, director and producer
  • Nicholas Williams (born 1942), philologist
  • Nigel Williams (born 1948), novelist, playwright and screenwriter
  • Paul Williams (born 1967), writer on subcultures
  • Paul Andrew Williams (born 1973), screenwriter and film director
  • Robina Williams (living), novelist
  • Rowan Williams (born 1950), writer and archbishop
  • Sarah Williams (1837–1868), poet
  • Timothy Williams (born 1946), crime novelist
  • William Mattieu Williams (1820–1892), writer on science, education and politics
  • Alice Muriel Williamson (1869–1933), novelist
  • Charles Norris Williamson (1859–1920), novelist and motoring writer
  • Henry Williamson (1895–1977), novelist, Tarka the Otter
  • Kenneth Williamson (1914–1977), ornithologist
  • Timothy Williamson (born 1955), philosopher
  • Browne Willis (1682–1760), writer and antiquary
  • Paul Willis (living), sociologist
  • Robert Willis (engineer) (1800–1875), architectural writer and cleric
  • Ted Willis (1914–1992), playwright and screenwriter
  • Tim Willocks (living), novelist, screenwriter and psychiatrist
  • Francis Willughby or Willoughby (1635–1672), ornithologist
  • Clive Wilmer (born 1945), poet
  • Val Wilmer (born 1941), music writer and photographer
  • John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647–1680), satirical poet
  • A. N. Wilson (born 1950), novelist and biographer
  • Andrew Wilson (born 1961), history and current affairs writer
  • Angus Wilson (1913–1991), novelist
  • Bryan R. Wilson (1926–2004), sociologist
  • Colin Wilson (1931–2013), novelist and philosopher
  • Harriette Wilson (1786–1845), courtesan and memoirist
  • Herbert Wrigley Wilson (1866–1940) naval historian
  • Horace Hayman Wilson (1786–1860), orientalist and translator
  • Ian Wilson (born 1941), religious and science writer
  • J. Dover Wilson (1881–1969), Shakespearean and critic
  • Jacqueline Wilson (born 1945), children's writer
  • John Wilson (1527–1596), playwright and translator
  • Leslie Wilson (living), novelist and children's writer
  • Richard Wilson (born 1950), Shakespearean scholar
  • Robert Wilson (fl. 1572–1600), playwright
  • Robert Wilson (born 1957), novelist
  • Sandy Wilson (1924–2014), lyricist and composer, The Boy Friend
  • T. P. Cameron Wilson (1888–1918), poet
  • Thomas Wilson (1524–1581), rhetorician and diplomat
  • Thomas Wilson (1773–1858), dialect poet
  • Jane Wilson-Howarth (aka Jane Wilson, b. 1954) travel and health writer
  • R. D. Wingfield (1928–2007), novelist and radio dramatist
  • Catherine Winkworth (1827–1878), translator and hymnist
  • Gerrard Winstanley (1609–1676), pamphleteer
  • Stephen Winsten (real name Samuel Weinstein, 1893–1991), writer
  • John Strange Winter (real name Henrietta Eliza Vaughan Stannard 1856–1911), novelist
  • Jeanette Winterson (born 1959), novelist
  • Jane Wiseman (c. 1682–1717), poet and playwright
  • George Wither (1588–1667), poet and satirist
  • P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975), novelist and playwright, Jeeves
  • John Wolcot (wrote as Peter Pindar, 1738–1819), poet and satirist
  • Lucien Wolf (1857–1930), historian
  • Humbert Wolfe (1885–1940), poet and translator
  • Ronald Wolfe (1922–2011), TV scriptwriter
  • Jonathan Wolff (born 1959), philosopher
  • Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797), polemicist and novelist, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
  • Philip Womack (living), novelist
  • Anthony Wood (1632–1695), antiquary
  • Christopher Wood (wrote as Timothy Lea, b. 1935), novelist and screenwriter
  • David Wood (born 1944), children's playwright, screenwriter and actor
  • Ellen Wood (Mrs. Henry Wood, 1814–1887), novelist
  • Robert Wood (c. 1622–1685), mathematician and translator
  • Sara Wood (living), novelist and story writer
  • Thomas Wood (1892–1950), writer and composer
  • George Woodcock (1912–1995), poet and thinker
  • James Woodforde (1740–1803), diarist and cleric
  • Walter Bradford Woodgate (wrote as Wat Bradwood, 1841–1920), writer on rowing, oarsman and barrister
  • Cecil Woodham-Smith (1896–1977), historian and biographer
  • Martin Woodhouse (1932–2011), novelist and screenwriter
  • Richard Woodman (born 1944), novelist and mariner
  • Charles Woodmason (c. 1720–1789), diarist, poet and cleric
  • Margaret Louisa Woods (1856–1945), novelist and poet
  • Anthony Woodville or Wydeville, Earl Rivers (c. 1440–1483) translator
  • Gerard Woodward (born 1961), novelist and poet
  • John Woodward (1665–1728), naturalist and antiquary
  • Emily Woof (born 1967), playwright, screenwriter and actress
  • Leonard Woolf (1880–1969), writer and editor
  • Virginia Woolf (1882–1941), novelist and biographer, To the Lighthouse
  • Thomas Woolner (1825–1892) poet and sculptor
  • Christopher Wordsworth (1807–1885), poet, classicist and bishop
  • Dorothy Wordsworth (1771–1855), diarist and poet,
  • William Wordsworth (1770–1850), poet, The Prelude
  • Frank Worrall (living), sports writer
  • Philip Stanhope Worsley (1835–1866), poet, translator and cleric
  • T.C. Worsley (1907–1977), writer and critic
  • Henry Wotton (1568–1639), poet and translator
  • Nathaniel Wraxall (1751–1831), memoirist and political writer
  • P. C. Wren (1875–1941), novelist
  • Chandos Wren-Hoskyns (1812–1876), agricultural writer and landowner
  • Crispin Wright (born 1942), philosopher
  • David Wright (1920–1994), poet, translator and biographer
  • Derrick Wright (born 1928), military historian
  • Edward Wright (1561–1615), mathematician
  • Fred Wright (born 1947), historian and theologian
  • Joseph Wright (1855–1930), philologist and lexicographer
  • Kit Wright (born 1944), poet, children's writer and anthologist
  • N. T. Wright (also as Tom Wright, b. 1948), writer and bishop
  • Patrick Wright (living), historian and broadcaster
  • Richard Wright (Unitarian) (1764–1836), writer and Unitarian minister
  • Thomas Wright (1810–1877), writer and antiquary
  • William Aldis Wright (1831–1914), writer and editor
  • Mary Wroth (1587–1651/1653), writer and poet
  • Andrea Wulf (born 1972), biographer and garden writer
  • Arthur Wyatt (living), writer and editor
  • George Wyatt (1550–1623), writer and biographer
  • Stephen Wyatt (born 1948), playwright and adapter
  • Thomas Wyatt (1503–1542), poet and translator
  • Woodrow Wyatt (1918–1997), diarist and politician
  • William Wycherley (c. 1640–1715), playwright, The Country Wife
  • Robert Wydow (c. 1446–1505), poet, musician and cleric
  • John Wycliffe (mid–1320s – 1384), theologian and Bible translator
  • John Wyndham (also as John Beynon, 1903–1969), novelist, The Day of the Triffids
  • D. B. Wyndham-Lewis (wrote as Timothy Shy, 1891–1969), humorist
  • Peter Wynne-Thomas (1934–2021), cricket writer


X[]


Y[]

  • Jane Yardley (living), novelist
  • William Yarrell (1784–1856), naturalist
  • Dornford Yates (real name Cecil William Mercer, 1885–1960), novelist
  • Edmund Yates (1831–1894), novelist and playwright
  • Ann Yearsley (1753–1806), poet, playwright and novelist
  • Victor Maslin Yeates (1897–1934), writer and pilot
  • R. J. Yeatman (1897–1968), humorist, 1066 and All That (with W. C. Sellar)
  • Tamar Yellin (living), novelist and story writer
  • Theresa Yelverton (originally Maria Theresa Longworth, 1833–1881), travel writer
  • Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823–1901), novelist
  • Walter Yonge of Colyton (1579–1649), diarist and lawyer
  • Edward of York (c. 1373–1415), translator and courtier
  • Barbara Yorke (born 1951), historian
  • Margaret Yorke (1924–2012), crime writer
  • Matthew Yorke (born 1958), novelist and editor
  • Arthur Young (1741–1820), writer and economist
  • E. H. Young (1880–1949), novelist and children's writer
  • Edward Young (1683–1765), poet
  • F. E. Mills Young (1875–1954), novelist
  • Francis Brett Young (1884–1954), novelist
  • G. M. Young (1882–1959), historian
  • Gary Young (living), screenwriter
  • Gavin Young (1928–2001), travel writer and journalist
  • Hilton Young, Lord Kennet (1879–1960), writer and politician
  • Robert J. C. Young (born 1950), thinker and historian
  • Thomas Young (1773–1829), polymath
  • Toby Young (born 1963), journalist and playwright


Z[]

  • Helen Zahavi (born 1966), novelist
  • Adam Zamoyski (born 1949), biographer and historian
  • Israel Zangwill (1864–1926), novelist and playwright
  • Louis Zangwill (1869–1938), novelist
  • Oliver Zangwill (1913–1987), psychologist
  • Benjamin Zephaniah (born 1958), dub poet
  • Philip Ziegler (born 1929), biographer and historian
  • Alfred Eckhard Zimmern (1879–1957), classicist and historian
  • Alice Zimmern (1855–1939), writer and translator
  • Helen Zimmern (1846–1934), writer and translator


See also[]

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