List of English writers (A–D)

List of English writers is an alphabetical list of writers in English and born or brought up in England, who already have Wikipedia pages. References for information given in the list appear on the Wikipedia pages concerned. The list is far from exhaustive, so 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 or say on Talk how you think it can be improved. A seminal work added to a writer's entry should also have a Wikipedia entry behind it. This is a subsidiary list to the List of English people. There are or should be similar lists of Irish, Scots, Welsh, Manx, Jersey, and Guernsey writers. Naturally there is overlap between the lists, as writers may have multiple affiliations (e. g. born in Belfast, brought up in London).

Abbreviations: AV = Authorized King James Version of the Bible, c. = circa, cleric = Anglican priest, fl. = floruit, RC = Roman Catholic, SF = science fiction, YA = young adult fiction

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A. W. (fl. 1602), unidentified poet
Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838–1926), theologian, philologist and novelist, Flatland
Gilbert Abbott à Beckett (1811–1856), humourist
George Abbot (1562–1633), writer, AV translator and cleric
Kia Abdullah (born 1982), novelist
Lascelles Abercrombie (1881–1938), poet and critic
Paul Ableman (1927–2006), playwright and novelist
J. R. Ackerley (1896–1967), autobiographer, novelist and playwright
Rodney Ackland (1908–1991), playwright, actor and screenwriter
Peter Ackroyd (born 1949), novelist and biographer
Eliza Acton (1799–1859), poet and cookery writer
Harold Acton (1904–1994), writer and scholar
Paul Adam (born 1958), novelist
Charles Warren Adams (also wrote as Charles Felix, 1833–1903), novelist and lawyer
Douglas Adams (1952–2001), novelist and scriptwriter, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
John Adams, (pre-1670–1738), cartographer and gazetteer compiler
Richard Adams (born 1920), novelist, Watership Down
Sarah Flower Adams (1805–1848), poet and hymn writer, "Nearer, My God, to Thee"
Donald Adamson (born 1939), writer and historian
John Adamson (1787–1855), antiquary, poet and translator
Arthur St. John Adcock (1864–1930), novelist and editor
Fleur Adcock (born 1934), poet
Joseph Addison (1672–1719), essayist and poet, The Spectator
Percy Addleshaw (wrote as Percy Hemingway, 1866–1916), writer and poet
Diran Adebayo (born 1968), novelist and broadcaster
Mark Adlard (born 1932), novelist
James Agate (1877–1947), diarist and critic
Bola Agbaje (born c. 1981), playwright
John Aglionby (died 1609/10), scholar, AV translator and cleric
Grace Aguilar (1816–1847), novelist and writer
Allan Ahlberg (born 1939), children's writer, Burglar Bill
Robert Aickman (1914–1981), novelist and conservationist
Joan Aiken (1924–2004), novelist, The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
Arthur Aikin (1783–1854), science writer
Lucy Aikin (1781–1864), children's writer, biographer and history writer
John Aikin (1747–1822), writer and physician
Alfred Ainger (1837–1904), biographer and critic
William Harrison Ainsworth (1805–1882), novelist, Old St Paul's
Mark Akenside (1721–1770), poet
William Alabaster (1567–1640), poet, playwright and cleric
James Albery (1838–1889), playwright
Alice Albinia (born 1976), travel writer
Mary Alcock (c. 1742–1798), poet and essayist
Thomas Aldham or Aldam, (c. 1616–1660), writer and Quaker
Richard Aldington (1892–1962), novelist and poet
Brian Aldiss (born 1925), novelist
Henry Aldrich (1647–1710), poet and theologian
Horace Alexander (1889–1989), writer on India, ornithologist and Quaker
Monica Ali (born 1967), novelist, Brick Lane
Cyril Alington (1872–1955), novelist and non-fiction writer
Nicholas Allan (born c. 1955), children's writer
James Allen (1864–1912), self-help writer and poet
Walter Allen (1911–1995), novelist and critic
Margery Allingham (1904–1966), novelist, Albert Campion series
Drummond Allison (1921–1943), poet
Kenneth Allott (1912–1973), poet and anthologist
Kenneth Allsop (1920–1973), writer and broadcaster
E. M. Almedingen (1898–1971), novelist, biographer and children's writer
John Almon (1737–1804), journalist and anthologist
David Almond (born 1951), novelist and children's writer
Vincent Alsop (c. 1630–1703), nonconformist cleric and religious writer
Al Alvarez (born 1929), poet and writer
Moniza Alvi (born 1968), poet and writer
Eric Ambler (1909–1998), novelist and screenwriter, Passage of Arms
Isaac Ambrose (1604–1663/4), religious writer, diarist and cleric
Elizabeth Amherst (c. 1716–1779), poet and naturalist
Kingsley Amis (1922–1995), poet and novelist, Lucky Jim
Martin Amis (born 1949), novelist
Thomas Amory (c. 1691–1788), novelist and miscellanist
Thomas Amory (1701–1774), poet and dissenting cleric
Valerie Anand (also wrote as Flora Buckley, born 1937), novelist
Patrick Anderson (1915–1979), poet
Lancelot Andrewes (1555–1626), scholar, AV translator and cleric
Roger Andrewes (fl. 1610s), scholar, AV translator and cleric
Miles Peter Andrews (1742–1814), playwright and poet
Norman Angell (1872–1967), Nobel Prize winner, political writer and economist, The Great Illusion
Jane Anger (fl. 1589), pamphleteer
Peter Anghelides (fl. 1990s), writer, Doctor Who TV serial spinoffs
George Anson Lord Anson (1697–1762), writer, explorer and admiral
Christopher Anstey (1724–1805), writer and poet
Charles James Apperley (wrote as Nimrod, 1777–1843), writer on hunting and racing
Lisa Appignanesi (born 1946), writer and historian
Roy Apps (born 1951), screenwriter and children's writer
Arthur John Arberry (1905–1969), orientalist and translator, The Koran Interpreted
Harriet Arbuthnot (1793–1834), political diarist
John Arbuthnot (1667–1735), satirist and polymath
Fred Archer (1915–1999), writer and farmer
Jeffrey Archer (born 1940), novelist and politician
Philip Ardagh (born 1961), children's writer
John Arden (born 1930), playwright and novelist
Edward Ardizzone (1900–1979), children's writer and illustrator
Reginald Arkell (1882–1959), novelist, playwright and screenwriter
Michael Arlen (born Dikran Kouyoumdjian, 1895–1956), essayist, playwright and novelist
John Arlott (1914–1991), cricket writer and commentator
Robert Armin (c. 1563–1615), playwright and actor
Simon Armitage (born 1963), poet, playwright and novelist
Martin Armstrong (1882–1974), novelist and poet
Peter Armstrong (born 1957), poet and psychotherapist
Richard Armstrong (1903–1986), novelist, naval historian and children's writer, Sea Change
Elizabeth von Arnim (also wrote as Alice Cholmondeley, 1866–1941), novelist, Elizabeth and Her German Garden
Edwin Arnold (1832–1904), poet and journalist
Edwin Lester Arnold (1857–1935), writer and novelist, Lieut. Gullivar Jones: His Vacation
Elizabeth Arnold (born 1944), children's writer
Matthew Arnold (1822–1888), poet, Dover Beach
Richard Arnold (died c. 1521), chronicler and merchant
Thomas Arnold (1795–1842), educationalist and historian
Thomas Walker Arnold (1864–1930), Islamist scholar
William Delafield Arnold (1828–1859), novelist and colonial administrator, Oakfield; or, Fellowship in the East
Anthony Ascham (c. 1614–1650), scholar and politician
Roger Ascham (c. 1515–1568), writer and scholar
John Ash (1724–1779), lexicographer and Baptist minister
John Ash (born 1948), poet and travel writer
Russell Ash (1946–2010), writer
Timothy Garton Ash (born 1955), historian
Elizabeth Ashbridge (1713–1755), autobiographer and Quaker
Geoffrey Ashe (born 1923), cultural historian
Thomas Ashe or Ash (fl. 1600–1618), legal writer
Thomas Ashe (1770–1835), novelist and miscellanist
Thomas Ashe (1836–1889), poet
Daisy Ashford (1881–1972), child author, The Young Visiters
Elias Ashmole (1617–1692), antiquary and patron, the Ashmolean Museum
Will Ashon (born 1969), novelist and music journalist
Francis Leslie Ashton (1904–1994), novelist
Andrea Ashworth (born 1969), writer and scholar
Anne Askew (1521–1546), poet, writer and martyr
Nadeem Aslam (born 1966), novelist
Cynthia Asquith (1887–1960), novelist and diarist
Herbert Asquith (1881–1947), poet and novelist
Margot Asquith (1864–1935), memoirist
Nicholas Assheton (1590–1625), diarist
Mary Astell (1666–1731), poet and writer
Edwin Atherstone (1788–1872), poet and novelist
Diana Athill (born 1917), editor, novelist and memoirist
James Atkinson (1780–1852), scholar, artist and surgeon
Kate Atkinson (born 1952), novelist
William Atkinson (died 1509), translator
David Attenborough (born 1926), writer, naturalist and broadcaster
Francis Atterbury (1663–1732), writer and bishop
Mabel Lucie Attwell (1879–1964), children's writer and illustrator
Penelope Aubin (1679–1738), poet, novelist and translator
John Aubrey (1626–1697), writer and antiquary, Brief Lives
John Audelay or Awdelay, (died c. 1426), poet and cleric
W. H. Auden (1907–1973), poet
Stacy Aumonier (1877–1928), novelist, story writer and essayist
Jane Austen (1775–1817), novelist, Pride and Prejudice
Katherine Austen (1629 – c. 1683), diarist and poet
Alfred Austin (1835–1913), Poet Laureate
John Langshaw Austin (1911–1960), philosopher and translator, Sense and Sensibilia
Sarah Austin (1793–1867), translator
Edward Aveling (1849–1898), writer, pamphleteer and translator
Peter Avery (1923–2008), scholar and translator
Christopher Awdry (born 1940), children's writer
Wilbert Awdry (wrote as Rev. W. Awdry, 1911–1997), children's writer and cleric, Thomas the Tank Engine
Alan Ayckbourn (born 1939), playwright
A. J. Ayer (1910–1989), philosopher, Language, Truth and Logic
Pam Ayres (born 1947), poet and songwriter
Michael Ayrton (1921–1975), writer and artist
Shamim Azad, (living), writer and translator
Trezza Azzopardi, (born c. 1961), novelist

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Charles Babbage (1791–1871), polymath
Gervase Babington (1549/50–1610), theologian and bishop
Robert Baden-Powell (1857–1941), writer and army officer, Scouting for Boys
Edmund Backhouse (1873–1944), orientalist and autobiographer
Anne Bacon (c. 1528–1610), translator and letter-writer
Francis Bacon (1561–1626), essayist, New Atlantis
Phanuel Bacon (1699–1783), playwright and poet
John F. Baddeley (1854–1940), travel writer and journalist
Robert Bage (1730–1801), novelist and radical, Hermsprong: or, Man As He Is Not
Walter Bagehot (1826–1877), economist and essayist
Enid Bagnold (1889–1981), novelist and playwright, National Velvet
Richard Bagot (1860–1921), novelist and essayist
David Bailey (born c. 1970s), story writer and editor
H. C. Bailey (1878–1961), novelist
Hilary Bailey (born 1936), biographer and editor
Nathan Bailey (died 1742), philologist, An Universal Etymological English Dictionary
Paul Bailey (born 1937), novelist and dramatist
Philip James Bailey (1816–1902), poet
Samuel Bailey (1791–1870), philosopher and economist
Beryl Bainbridge (born 1932), novelist
Denys Val Baker (1917–1984), novelist and story writer
Henry Baker (1698–1774), naturalist and poet
Samuel Baker (1821–1893), writer and explorer
Rajeev Balasubramanyam (born 1974), novelist
Nigel Balchin (1908–1970), novelist and screenwriter
John Bale (1495–1563), playwright and bishop
J. G. Ballard (1930–2009), novelist
Samuel Bamford (1788–1872), writer and Lancashire dialect poet
John Codrington Bampfylde (1764–1796/7), poet
Richard Bancroft (1544–1610), controversialist, AV translator and archbishop
Isabella Banks (1821–1897), novelist and poet
Lynne Reid Banks (born 1929), novelist
Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743–1825), poet, essayist and children's writer
W. N. P. Barbellion (real name Bruce Frederick Cummings, 1889–1919), diarist
Richard Barber (born 1941), historian
Alexander Barclay (c. 1476–1552), poet and translator
Florence L. Barclay (1862–1921), novelist
James Barclay (born 1965), novelist
John Baret (died c. 1580), lexicographer
Richard Harris Barham (wrote as Thomas Ingoldsby, 1788–1845), novelist and poet, The Ingoldsby Legends
Maurice Baring (1874–1945), playwright, novelist and poet
Sabine Baring-Gould (1834–1924), novelist, cleric and hymn writer, Onward, Christian Soldiers
A. L. Barker (1918–2002), novelist
Cicely Mary Barker (1895–1973), children's and religious writer and illustrator
Elspeth Barker (born 1940), novelist
George Granville Barker (1913–1991), poet and novelist
Jane Barker (1652–1732), poet and novelist
Mary Anne Barker (1831–1911), writer, journalist and poet
Nicola Barker (born 1966), novelist
Pat Barker (born 1943), novelist, the Regeneration Trilogy
Raffaella Barker (born 1964), novelist and journalist
George Barlow (wrote as James Hinton, 1837–1913/14), poet
William Barlow (died 1613), scholar, AV translator and bishop
Mordaunt Roger Barnard (1828–1906), translator and cleric
Kitty Barne (1883–1961), children's writer, Visitors from London
Barnabe Barnes (c. 1568 or 1569–1609), poet and playwright
Jonathan Barnes (born 1942), philosopher
Julian Barnes (born 1946), novelist, Flaubert's Parrot
William Barnes (1801–1886), Dorset dialect poet and philologist
Correlli Barnett (born 1927), military and economic historian
Richard Barnfield (1574–1620), poet
Alexander Baron (1917–1999), novelist and screenwriter
Geoffrey Barraclough (1908–1984), historian
John Barret (1631–1713), Presbyterian minister and writer on religion
Leslie Barringer (1895–1968), editor and novelist
Isaac Barrow (1630–1677), scholar and cleric
John Barrow (fl. 1735–1774), lexicographer, mathematician and naval historian
William Barrow (1754–1836), religious writer and cleric
Stan Barstow (born 1928), novelist and radio dramatist, A Kind of Loving
William Bartholomew (1793–1867), librettist, translator and composer
Mike Bartlett (born 1980), playwright and director
Bernard Barton (1784–1849), poet and Quaker
Henry Howarth Bashford (1880–1961), novelist and physician, Augustus Carp, Esq.
William Basse (c. 1583–1653/4), poet
Jonathan Bate (born 1958), biographer and editor
James Bateman (1811–1897), horticulturist
H. E. Bates (1905–1974), novelist, The Darling Buds of May
Henry Walter Bates (1825–1892), naturalist and explorer
Ralph Bates (1899–2000), novelist
Elizabeth Bath (1772–1856), poet
Richard Baxter (1615–1691), poet, hymn writer and theologian
Stephen Baxter (born 1957), novelist
F. W. N. Bayley (1808–1853), miscellanist
John Bayley (born 1925), critic and novelist
Peter Bayley (c. 1778–1883), poet and playwright
Ada Ellen Bayly (pen name Edna Lyall, 1857–1903), novelist
Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797–1830), poet and playwright
John Beadle (died 1667), diarist and cleric
Richard Bean (born 1956), playwright
Francis Beaumont, (1584–1616), playwright
John Beaumont (1583–1627), poet
Joseph Beaumont (1616–1699), poet and cleric
Aubrey Beardsley (1872–1898), writer and illustrator
Laura Beatty (born c. 1970s), biographer and novelist
Samuel Beazley (1786–1851), novelist, playwright and architect
William Beckford (1760–1844), novelist and patron, Vathek
Lillian Beckwith (born Lillian Comber, 1916–2004), novelist and memoirist
Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849), poet
William Bedwell (1561–1632), scholar, AV translator and cleric
Henry Charles Beeching (1859–1919), poet and anthologist
Patricia Beer (1919–1999), poet and critic
Constance Beerbohm (1811–1892), writer
Julius Beerbohm (1854–1906), travel writer and explorer
Max Beerbohm (1872–1956), novelist, writer and caricaturist, Zuleika Dobson
Alfred Beesley (1800–1847), poet and topographer
Mrs Beeton (born Isabella Mary Mayson, 1836–1865), writer on cookery and housekeeping Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management
Antony Beevor (born 1946), historian and novelist, Stalingrad
Aphra Behn (1640–1689), novelist and playwright
Daubridgecourt Belchier (1580-1621), dramatist
Adrian Bell (1901–1980), countryside writer and journalist
Clive Bell (1881–1964), art critic
Florence Bell (1851–1930), playwright and editor
Gertrude Bell (1868–1926), writer and traveller
Josephine Bell (pen name also David Wintringham, 1897–1987), novelist
Julian Bell (1908–1937), poet
Mary Hayley Bell (1911–2005), novelist, playwright and actress
Thomas Bell (1792–1880), zoologist, surgeon and writer
Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953), writer and poet
Thomas Belt (1832–1878), naturalist and geologist
Elizabeth Benger (1775–1827), poet, novelist and biographer
Edward Benlowes (1603–1676), poet
Alan Bennett (born 1934), playwright and broadcaster, The Madness of George III
Anna Maria Bennett (c. 1760–1808), novelist
Arnold Bennett (1867–1931), novelist, The Clayhanger Family
Edwin Keppel Bennett (pen name Francis Bennett, 1887–1958), writer, poet and scholar
A. C. Benson (1862–1925), poet and diarist, "Land of Hope and Glory"
E. F. Benson (1867–1940), novelist and story writer, the Mapp and Lucia series.
Peter Benson (born 1956), novelist
Robert Hugh Benson (1871–1914), novelist, religious writer and cleric
Stella Benson (1892–1933), novelist, poet and travel writer
George Bentham (1800–1884), botanist
Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832), philosopher
Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875–1956), novelist, humourist and comic poet, the clerihew
Elizabeth Bentley (1767–1839), poet
Nicolas Bentley (1907–1978), writer and illustrator
Phyllis Bentley (1894–1977), novelist and biographer
Richard Bentley (1662–1742), theologian and poet
Edward Berdoe (1836–1916), critic, novelist and physician
Richard Berengarten (born 1943), poet
Elisabeth Beresford (born 1928), children's writer, the Wombles
J. D. Beresford (1873–1947), novelist, The Hampdenshire Wonder
James Beresford (1764–1840), satirist, translator and cleric
Leila Berg (1917–2012), children's writer
John Berger (born 1926), novelist, G.
Reginald Berkeley (1890–1935), playwright, screenwriter and politician
John Berkenhout (1726–1791), naturalist
Steven Berkoff (born 1937), playwright and actor
William Bayle Bernard (1807–1875), playwright, critic and novelist
John Bourchier Berners (1467–1533), translator and statesman
Juliana Berners or Bernes, (born c. 1388), writer on heraldry, hawking and hunting, The Boke of Saint Albans
Elizabeth Berridge (1919–2009), English novelist
Francis Berry (1915–2006), poet and critic
Mary Berry (1763–1852), writer and editor
Mary Berry (born 1935), cookery writer
Charles Bertram (1723–1765), literary forger
Annie Besant (1847–1933), writer and campaigner
Walter Besant (1836–1901), novelist and historian
Charles Best (1570–1627), poet
Alfred Bestall (1892–1986), children's writer and illustrator, Rupert Bear
Henry Digby Beste (1768–1836), religious writer
Matilda Betham-Edwards (1836–1919), novelist, poet and travel writer
John Betjeman (1906–1984), Poet Laureate and writer
Thomas Betterton (1635–1710), playwright and actor
Edwyn Bevan (1870–1943), philosopher and historian
Elizabeth Bibesco (1897–1945), novelist and poet
Tessa Biddington (born 1954), poet
John Stanyan Bigg (1828–1865), poet
Mark Billingham (born 1961), novelist
Thomas Bilson(1547–1616), theologian, AV translator and bishop
Andrew Bing (1574–1652), scholar, AV translator and cleric
Laurence Binyon (1869–1943), poet and art historian
T. J. Binyon (1936–2004), novelist, translator and biographer
Thomas Birch (1705–1766), historian
Caroline Bird (born 1986), poet and playwright
Isabella Bird (1831–1904), travel writer and naturalist
Dea Birkett (born 1958), writer
John Birtwhistle (born 1946), poet and librettist
Samuel Bishop (1731–1795), poet and essayist
Robert Black (1829–1915), fiction writer, translator and journalist
John Blackburn (born 1923), novelist
Thomas Blackburn (1916–1977), poet
Malorie Blackman (born 1962), children's writer and screenwriter, the Noughts and Crosses series
R. D. Blackmore (1825–1900), novelist, Lorna Doone
Richard Blackmore (1654–1729), poet and religious writer
William Blackstone (1723–1780), legal writer, jurist and judge, Commentaries on the Laws of England
Algernon Blackwood (1869–1951), novelist and short story writer
Caroline Blackwood (1931–1996), novelist and critic
Helen Blackwood, Lady Dufferin (1807–1867), poet and songwriter
Max Blagg (born c. 1949), poet, writer and performer
Quentin Blake (born 1932), children's writer and illustrator
William Blake (1757–1827), poet and artist, Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Helen Blakeman (born 1971), playwright and screenwriter
Susanna Blamire (1747–1794), poet
Edward Blanchard (1820–1899), playwright and songwriter
Samuel Laman Blanchard (1804–1845), writer, journalist and poet
Robert Blatchford (pen name Nunquam, 1851–1943), journalist, writer and campaigner
Nicholas Blincoe (born 1965), novelist and screenwriter
Mathilde Blind (1841–1896), poet and biographer
Edward Blishen (1920–1996), writer and broadcaster
Walter Blith (1605–1654), writer on husbandry
Robert Bloomfield (1766–1823), poet
Charles Blount (1654–1693), controversialist
Evelyn, Princess Blücher (1876–1960), diarist and memoirist
Nicholas Blundell (1669–1737), diarist
Edmund Blunden (1896–1974), poet, author and critic
Anthony Blunt (1907–1983), art historian and spy
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840–1922), poet and author
Ronald Blythe (born 1922), writer and editor,
Enid Blyton (1897–1968), children's writer, Noddy
James Boaden (1762–1839), biographer, playwright and journalist
Frederick S. Boas (1862–1957), literary historian
John Ernest Bode (1816–1874), poet, hymn writer and cleric
John Bodenham (1569–1610), anthologist
Barbara Bodichon (1827–1891), educationalist and feminist
John Bois (1560–1643), scholar, AV translator and cleric
Osbern Bokenam (c. 1393 – c. 1463), literary historian and cleric
Robert Bolt (1924–1995), dramatist and screenwriter, A Man For All Seasons
Michael Bond (born 1926), children's writer, Paddington Bear series
Elizabeth Bonhôte (1744–1818), novelist, Bungay Castle
Christopher Booker (born 1937), writer and journalist
George Boole (1815–1864), mathematician and logician, The Laws of Thought
Mary Everest Boole (1832–1916), educational writer on mathematics
Barton Booth (1681–1733), actor and poet
Charles Booth (1840–1916), social researcher, Life and Labour of the People in London
Martin Booth (1944–2004), novelist, poet and editor
Stephen Booth (born 1952), novelist
Brooke Boothby (1744–1824), scholar and poet
Frances Boothby (fl. 1669–70), playwright
Basil Boothroyd (1910–1988), writer and humourist
George Borrow (1803–1881), novelist and travel writer, Romany Rye
Lucy M. Boston (1892–1990), children's writer, Green Knowe series
Clifford Edmund Bosworth (born 1928), historian and Arabist
Joseph Bosworth (1789–1876), lexicographer and scholar of Anglo-Saxon
Phyllis Bottome (1884–1963), novelist and psychoanalyst
Gordon Bottomley (1874–1948), poet and dramatist
Ronald Bottrall (1906–1989), poet and academic
Marjorie Boulton (born 1924), writer and Esperantist
Francis William Bourdillon (1852–1921), poet
Thomas Edward Bowdich (1791–1824), traveller and writer
Henrietta Maria Bowdler ("Harriet", 1750–1830), religious writer, editor and expurgator
Jane Bowdler (1743–1784), poet and essayist
John Bowdler (1746–1823), religious writer and pamphleteer
John Bowdler (1783–1815), writer and poet
Thomas Bowdler (1754–1825), writer and expurgator
Thomas Bowdler 1782–1856), religious writer and cleric
Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973), novelist and story writer
John Griffith Bowen (born 1924), novelist and screenwriter, Hetty Wainthropp Investigates TV series, with David Cook
Marjorie Bowen (real name Gabrielle Margaret Vere Long, 1885–1952), novelist and writer
Emily Bowes (1806–1857), religious poet and artist
Mary Bowes (1749–1800), playwright and botanist
Tim Bowler (born c. 1967), children's writer
William Lisle Bowles (1762–1850), poet and critic
Maurice Bowra (1898–1971), scholar and wit
Frank Cottrell Boyce (born 1959), children's writer and screenwriter, Millions
William Binnington Boyce (1804–1889), philologist, theologian and Methodist cleric
Abel Boyer (c. 1667–1729), journalist, miscellanist and translator
Charles Boyle (1674–1731), writer and playwright
Charles Boyle (born 1951), poet
John Boyle (1707–1762), writer and translator
Roger Boyle (1621–1679), playwright and statesman
Ernest Franklin Bozman (1895–1968), writer and editor
Michael Bracewell (born 1958), novelist and writer on popular culture
Alison Brackenbury (born 1953), poet
Jason Bradbury (living), children's writer and TV presenter, Dot.Robot series.
Malcolm Bradbury (1932–2000), novelist
Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1837–1915), novelist, Lady Audley's Secret
Henry J. Bradfield (1805–1852), poet, writer and colonial officer
Barbara Taylor Bradford (born 1933), novelist, A Woman of Substance
Ernle Bradford (1922–1986), historian and writer
Charles Bradlaugh (1833–1891), writer and freethinker
A. C. Bradley (1851–1935), literary critic
Charles Bradley (1789–1871), preacher and religious writer
Edward Bradley (wrote as Cuthbert M. Bede, B. A., 1827–1889), novelist and cleric
F. H. Bradley (1846–1924), philosopher
Henry Bradley (1845–1923), philologist and lexicographer
Henry Bradshaw (c. 1450–1513), poet and monk
Hilary Bradt (born 1941), travel writer and publisher
John Brady (died 1814), miscellanist
Melvyn Bragg (born 1939), novelist, biographer and broadcaster
John Braine (1922–1986), novelist, Room at the Top
Richard Braithwaite or Brathwait, (1588–1673), poet
Ernest Bramah (born Ernest Bramah Smith, 1868–1942), novelist and humourist
James Bramston (1694–1744), poet and satirist
Barbarina Brand Lady Dacre, (1768–1854), poet, playwright and translator
Christianna Brand (real name Mary Christianna Milne, 1907–1988), novelist and children's writer
Hannah Brand (1754–1821), playwright, poet and actress
Jo Brand (born 1957), writer and comedian
William Branthwaite (died 1620), scholar, AV translator and cleric
Anna Brassey (1839–1887), travel writer
Anna Eliza Bray (1790–1883), novelist and topographer
Charles Bray (1811–1884), philosopher and phrenologist
Angela Brazil (1868–1947), novelist
Wallace Breem (1926–1990), novelist and librarian
John Brent (1808–1882), novelist and antiquary
Elinor Brent-Dyer (1894–1969), children's writer, the Chalet School series
Frederick Sadleir Brereton (1852–1957), writer for boys
John Brereton (1571 or 1572 – c. 1632), travel writer and explorer
Nicholas Breton (c. 1545 – c. 1626), poet and tractarian
Richard Brett (1567–1637), scholar, AV translator and cleric
Simon Brett (born 1945), novelist and playwright
E. Cobham Brewer (1810–1897), writer and cleric, Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
George Brewer (born 1766), miscellanist
James Norris Brewer (fl. 1799–1829), topographer and novelist
John Brewster (1753–1842), religious writer and cleric
Shane Briant (born 1946), novelist and actor
John Bridges (1536–1618), tractarian and bishop
Robert Bridges (1844–1930), Poet Laureate
Katharine Mary Briggs (1898–1980), writer on folklore
Raymond Briggs (born 1934), children's writer and illustrator, Father Christmas
John Bright (1811–1889), orator and politician
Joanna Briscoe (born 1963), novelist and journalist
Vera Brittain (1893–1970), writer and pacifist
Edwin Brock (1927–1997), poet
William Brock (1807–1875), biographer and Baptist minister
Alexander Brome (1620–1666), poet
Richard Brome (c. 1590 – c. 1653), playwright, The Sparagus Garden
Vincent Brome (1910–2004), biographer and novelist
Eliza Bromley (fl. 1784–1803), novelist and translator
Eleanor Bron (born 1938), writer and actress
Anne Brontë (1820–1849), novelist, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855), novelist, Jane Eyre
Emily Brontë (1818–1848), novelist and poet, Wuthering Heights
Patrick Brontë (born Brunty, 1777–1861), poet, writer and cleric
Rhidian Brook (born 1964), novelist and screenwriter
Arthur de Capell Brooke (1791–1858), travel writer
Christopher N. L. Brooke (living), medieval historian
Frances Brooke (1724–1789), novelist and playwright
Jocelyn Brooke (1908–1966), novelist, poet and biographer
Rupert Brooke (1887–1915), poet
Anita Brookner (1929–2016), novelist
Kevin Brooks (born 1959), children's writer
Shirley Brooks (1816–1874), novelist, playwright and poet
Ralph Broome (1742–1835), pamphleteer and poet
William Broome (1689–1745), poet and translator
Robert Barnabas Brough (1828–1864), writer and poet
George Brown (1835–1917), ethnographer, diarist and missionary
John Brown (1715–1766), essayist and divine
Pamela Brown (1924–1989), children's writer and TV producer
Pete Brown (born 1940), performance poet and songwriter
Pete Brown (born 1968), beer writer and columnist
Stewart Brown (born 1951), poet and scholar
Tom Brown (1663–1704), satirist and translator
Anthony Browne (born 1946), children's writer and illustrator
Edward Browne (1862–1926), orientalist and writer
Isaac Hawkins Browne (1705–1760), poet
Moses Browne (1704–1787), poet and cleric
Thomas Browne (1705–1782), polymath, Religio Medici
William Browne (c. 1590 – c. 1645), poet
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861), poet
Oscar Browning (1837–1923), writer and scholar
Robert Browning (1812–1889), poet
Alan Brownjohn (born 1931), poet and novelist
Dorita Fairlie Bruce (1885–1970), children's writer, Dimsie Goes to School
Francis Bryan (c. 1490–1550), poet and courtier
Samuel Egerton Brydges (1762–1836), bibliographer and editor
Bryher (real name Annie Winifred Ellerman, 1894–1983), novelist, poet and memoirist
Charles Bucke (1781–1846), writer and poet
Anthony Buckeridge (1912–2004), children's writer, the Jennings stories
James Silk Buckingham (1786–1855), journalist and travel writer
Leicester Silk Buckingham (1825–1867), playwright and writer on history
Francis Trevelyan Buckland (1826–1880), natural historian and surgeon
William Buckland (1784–1856), geologist, palaeontologist and cleric
Henry Thomas Buckle (1821–1862), historian
Maria Elizabeth Budden (c. 1780–1832), children's writer
Eustace Budgell (1686–1737), writer and politician
Frank Thomas Bullen (1857–1915), novelist and autobiographer
A. H. Bullen (1857–1920), Elizabethan scholar and publisher
J. B. Bullen (living), writer on literature and art
Gerald Bullett (1893–1958), novelist, critic and poet
Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873, novelist, poet and playwright, The Last of the Barons
Robert Bulwer-Lytton (wrote as Owen Meredith, 1831–1891), poet, Lucile
Basil Bunting (1900–1985), poet, "Briggflatts"
John Bunyan (1628–1688), writer, The Pilgrim's Progress
Josiah Burchett (c. 1666–1746), naval historian and secretary to the Admiralty
George Burges (1786–1864), Classical scholar
Anthony Burgess (born John Burgess Wilson, 1917–1993), novelist, A Clockwork Orange
Melvin Burgess (born 1954), children's writer, Junk
John William Burgon (1813–1888), poet and theologian
John Burgoyne (1722–1792), playwright and army officer
Thomas Burke (1886–1945), novelist and writer on London
William Burke (died 1798), pamphleteer and official
Francis Burleigh (fl. 1590–1610), AV translator and cleric
Michael Burleigh (born 1955), historian
Andrew Burnaby (1732–1812), travel writer and cleric
Francis Cowley Burnand (1836–1917), humourist and dramatist
Thomas Burnet (c. 1635–1715), theologian and cosmogonist
Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849–1924), children's writer, The Secret Garden
Charles Burney (1726–1814), music scholar and composer
Charles Burney (1757–1817), scholar, schoolmaster and cleric
Fanny Burney (also known as Frances, Mme d'Arblay, 1752–1840), novelist and diarist, Evelina
Frances Burney (1776–1828), dramatist
James Burney (1750–1821), travel writer and admiral
Sarah Burney (1772–1844), novelist
Myles Burnyeat, (born 1939), philosopher and classicist
James Burrow (1701–1782), scholar, scientist and lawyer
Montagu Burrows (1819–1905), naval historian and naval officer
Maurice Burton (1898–1992), popular science writer and zoologist
Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890), writer, translator and explorer, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
Robert Burton (1577–1640), polymath, The Anatomy of Melancholy
Charlotte Bury (1775–1861), novelist and poet
Elizabeth Bury (1644–1720), diarist and polymath
Alban Butler (1710–1773), writer and cleric
Gwendoline Butler (born 1922), novelist
Joseph Butler (1692–1752), theologian and bishop
Josephine Butler (1828–1906), writer and social campaigner
Samuel Butler (1612–1680), poet and satirist, Hudibras
Samuel Butler (1835–1902), writer and satirist, Erewhon
Herbert Butterfield (1900–1979), historian and philosopher of history
Jez Butterworth (born 1969), playwright, Jerusalem
Mary Butts (1890–1937), writer and poet
Bertha Henry Buxton (1844–1881), novelist and children's writer
Nigel Buxton (born 1924), travel writer and wine critic
Thomas Buxton (1786–1845), political writer, politician and social reformer
A. S. Byatt (born 1936), novelist, Possession: A Romance
John Byrom (1692–1763), poet
John Byron (1723–1786), memoirist and admiral
Lord Byron (1788–1824), poet, Don Juan
Robert Byron (1905–1941), travel writer, The Road to Oxiana
Ingram Bywater (1840–1914), scholar and editor
Michael Bywater (born 1953), writer and broadcaster

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Florence Caddy (1837–1923), writer
Hall Caine (1853–1931), romantic novelist and playwright
Mona Caird (1854–1932), essayist, reformer and feminist
Maria Callcott (1785–1842), children's writer, travel writer, and illustrator
Brian Callison (born 1932), novelist
Charles Stuart Calverley (1831–1884), poet and translator
Roland Camberton (real name Henry Cohen, 1921–1965), novelist
Ada Cambridge (1844–1926), novelist and poet
William Camden (1551–1623), historian and antiquarian
Richard Cameron (living), playwright
Thomas Campion (1567–1620), poet and composer
Bruce Campbell (1912–1993), ornithologist and writer on birds
W. H. Canaway (1925–1988), novelist
Denis Cannan (born 1919), playwright and screenwriter, Dear Daddy
Gilbert Cannan (1884–1955), novelist and translator
Joanna Cannan (1898–1961), novelist and children's writer
May Wedderburn Cannan (1893–1973), poet and autobiographer
Dorothy Cannell (born 1943), novelist
Victor Canning (1911–1986), novelist, essayist and children's writer
William Canton (1845–1926), poet and children's writer
Edward Capell (1713–1781), Shakespearean scholar
Edward Capern (1819–1894), poet and postman
John Capgrave (1393–1464), theologian and historian
Neville Cardus (1888–1975), cricket writer and music critic
Thomas Carew (1595–1640), poet
Henry Carey (1687–1743), poet, playwright and song-writer, Sally in Our Alley
Mary Carey, Lady Carey (c. 1609 – c. 1680), poet
Rosa Nouchette Carey (1840–1909), novelist and children's writer
Robert Carliell (died c. 1622), poet
John Carne (1789–1844), travel writer and biographer
Edward Carpenter (1844–1929), poet, social critic and philosopher
Humphrey Carpenter (1946–2005), biographer, broadcaster and children's writer
Barbara Comyns Carr (1907–1992), novelist and artist
J. L. Carr (1912–1994), novelist and school textbook writer
Lewis Carroll (real name Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, 1832–1898), children's writer and mathematician, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Angela Carter (1940–1992), novelist, The Magic Toyshop
Elizabeth Carter (17171806), poet, translator and bluestocking
Barbara Cartland (1901–2000), novelist
George Cartwright (1739–1819), diarist and explorer
Justin Cartwright (born 1945), novelist
William Cartwright (1611–1643), playwright
Elizabeth Cary (1585–1639), poet and playwright, The Tragedy of Marian, the Fair Queen of Jewry
Henry Francis Cary (1772–1844), translator and critic
Lucius Cary (Lord Falkland, 1610–1643), poet, writer and politician
Patrick Cary or Carey, (c. 1624–1658), poet
John Caryll (1625–1711), poet, playwright and diplomat
Cathy Cassidy (born 1962), children's writer, Gingersnaps
Egerton Castle (1858–1920), novelist (with his wife Agnes) and fencer
Helen Castor (living), historian and broadcaster
Sarah Caudwell (real name Sarah Cockburn, 1939–2000), novelist
Charles Causley (1917–2003), poet and editor
David Caute (born 1936), novelist and historian
Tiberius Cavallo (1749–1809), natural philosopher
George Cavendish (1494 – c. 1652), biographer and poet
Jane Cavendish (later Jane Cheyne, 1621–1669), poet and playwright
Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle, (1623–1673), poet, novelist and playwright
William Cavendish (1592–1676), polymath
William Caxton (c. 1415/22 – c. 1492), printer and translator
Lord David Cecil (1902–1986), scholar and biographer
Dorothea Celesia (born Mallet, 1738–1790), poet and translator
Susanna Centlivre (earlier pen name Carroll, 1667–1723), playwright, poet and actress
Laurence Chaderton (c. 1536–1640), theologian, AV translator and cleric
Henry Chadwick (1920–2008), theologian, church historian and cleric
John Chalkhill (fl. c. 1600), poet
Thomas Chaloner (1521–1565), poet, translator and statesman
Edward Chamberlayne (1616–1703), writer, historian and translator
William Chamberlayne (1619–1689), poet
Aidan Chambers (born 1934), children's writer, Postcards from No Man's Land
E. K. Chambers (1866–1954), literary historian
Ephraim Chambers (c. 1680–1740), writer and encyclopaedist, Cyclopaedia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences
Frederick Chamier (1796–1870), novelist and sea captain
Meira Chand (born c. 1943), novelist
Mary Chandler (1687–1745), poet
Raymond Chandler (1888–1959), crime writer
Henry Channon ("Chips", 1897–1958), writer, diarist and politician
George Chapman (1559–1634), poet, playwright and translator
Guy Chapman (1889–1972), writer and historian
Pat Chapman (born 1940), food writer and broadcaster
Hester Chapone (1727–1801), writer and bluestocking
Charlotte Charke (born Cibber, 1713–1760), writer and actress
Elizabeth Charles (1828–1896), novelist and religious writer
Gerda Charles (real name Edna Lipson, 1914–1996), novelist and anthologist
Maria Louisa Charlesworth (1819–1880), children's writer
Leslie Charteris (born Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin, 1907–1993), novelist, Simon Templar books
James Hadley Chase (born Rene Brabazon Raymond, other pen names James L. Docherty, Ambrose Grant, and Raymond Marshall, (1906–1985), novelist
Debjani Chatterjee (born 1952), poet, translator and children's writer
Georgiana Chatterton (1806–1876), travel writer, novelist and poet
Thomas Chatterton (pseudonym Thomas Rowley, 1752–1770), poet
Beth Chatto (born 1923), gardening writer
William Andrew Chatto (also wrote as Stephen Oliver, 1799–1864), travel and general writer
Bruce Chatwin (1940–1989), novelist and travel writer
Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343–1400), poet and courtier, The Canterbury Tales
Cris Cheek (born 1955), poet and performer
Mavis Cheek (born c. 1948), novelist
John Cheke (1514–1557), classical scholar and translator
George Tomkyns Chesney (1830–1895), novelist and army officer, The Battle of Dorking
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936), novelist, poet and essayist, Father Brown stories
Henry Chettle (c. 1564 – c. 1607), playwright
William Rufus Chetwood (died 1766), playwright, novelist and publisher
Peter Cheyney (1896–1951), novelist, Can Ladies Kill?
Josiah Child (1630–1699), political economist and merchant
Erskine Childers (1870–1922), novelist and politician, The Riddle of the Sands
William Chillingworth (1602–1644), religious controversialist
Mary Cholmondeley (1859–1925), novelist
Agatha Christie (1891–1976), mystery writer
Mary Chudleigh (1656–1710), poet and polemicist
Alfred John Church (1829–1912, scholar, poet and translator
Richard Church (1893–1972), poet
Richard William Church (1815–1890), biographer, church historian and cleric
Caryl Churchill (born 1938), playwright and translator, Serious Money
Charles Churchill (1731–1764), poet and satirist
Winston Churchill (1874–1965), British prime minister, author and Nobel prizewinner
Thomas Churchyard (c. 1520–1604), poet and soldier
Colley Cibber (1671–1757), Poet Laureate, playwright, and bowdlerizer
Horatio Clare (born 1973), writer
John Clare (1793–1864), poet
Emily Clark (fl. 1798–1819), novelist and poet
T. J. Clark (born 1943), art historian and scholar
Amy Clarke (1892–1980), mystical poet and school historian
Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008), novelist, 2001: A Space Odyssey
Bob Clarke (born 1964), archaeologist and writer on military and local history
Charles Cowden Clarke (1787–1877), writer and scholar
Lindsay Clarke (born 1939), novelist and poet, The Chymical Wedding
Mary Cowden Clarke ((née Novello, 1809–1898), writer and scholar
Pauline Clarke (born 1921), children's writer, The Twelve and the Genii
Richard Clarke (died 1634), scholar, AV translator and cleric
Roy Clarke (born 1930), screenwriter and playwright, Last of the Summer Wine TV series
Samuel Clarke (1675–1729), philosopher and cleric
Susanna Clarke (born 1959), novelist, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
T. E. B. Clarke (1907–1989), screenwriter and novelist, Passport to Pimlico
Laurence Clarkson or Claxton (1615–1667), religious writer and theologian
John Clavell (1601–1643), writer, playwright and highwayman
Chris Cleave (born 1973), novelist and journalist
Brian Cleeve (1921–2003), novelist
Lucas Cleeve (wrote also as Mrs Howard Kingscote, 1868–1908), novelist
John Cleland (1709–1789), novelist, Fanny Hill
Dick Clement (born 1937), TV scriptwriter, Porridge
Jack Clemo (1916–1994), poet and novelist
John Cleveland (1613–1658), poet
Anne Clifford (1590–1676), diarist
Lucy Clifford (wrote as Mrs. W. K. Clifford, 1846–1929), novelist, playwright and children's writer
William Kingdon Clifford (1846–1879), philosopher, mathematician and children's writer
Caroline Clive (wrote as "V", 1801–1872), novelist and poet
John Clive (1933–2012), novelist and actor
Kitty Clive (born Catherine Raftor, 1711–1785), playwright and actress
Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861), poet
William Cobbett (1763–1835), writer and pamphleteer, Rural Rides
Bob Cobbing (1920–2002), poet and visual artist
Richard Cobbold (1797–1877), novelist and writer
Richard Cobden (1804–1865), politician and pamphleteer
Aston Cockayne (1605–1684), poet and playwright
Catherine Trotter Cockburn (1679–1749), novelist and playwright
Edward Cocker (1631–1676), writer and engraver, Arithmetick
Richard Cocks (1566–1624), trader and diarist
Henry Cockton (1807–1853), novelist
Jonathan Coe (born 1961), novelist, What a Carve Up!
Lady Mary Coke (1727–1811), letter writer and diarist
Barry Cole (born 1936), poet and novelist
G. D. H. Cole (1889–1959), economist, historian and novelist
Margaret Cole (1893–1980), politician and novelist
Olivia Cole (born 1982), poet
John William Colenso (1814–1883), writer on religion and Africa, and bishop
Christabel Rose Coleridge (1843–1921), novelist and editor
Derwent Coleridge (1800–1883), writer, scholar and cleric
Ernest Hartley Coleridge (1846–1920), literary historian, editor and poet
Hartley Coleridge (1796–1849), poet and critic
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861–1907), novelist and poet
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834), poet, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Sara Coleridge (1802–1852), author and translator
Stephen Coleridge (1854–1936), writer, poet and campaigner
Jane Collier (1714–1755), satirist, An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting (with Sarah Fielding)
Jeremy Collier (1650–1726), pamphleteer and cleric
John Collier (pen name Tim Bobbin, 1708–1786), Lancashire dialect poet and caricaturist
John Collier (1901–1980), story writer and screenwriter
John Payne Collier (1789–1883), literary critic, editor and forger
Mary Collier (c. 1688–1762), poet
R. G. Collingwood (1889–1943), philosopher and historian
W. G. Collingwood (1854–1932), writer, artist and antiquary
An Collins (fl. 1653), poet
Jackie Collins (born 1937), novelist, The World Is Full of Married Men
John Collins (1625–1683), mathematician
John Collins (1742–1808), poet and song writer
John Churton Collins (1848–1908), literary critic
Mortimer Collins (1827–1876), novelist and poet
Norman Collins (1907–1982), novelist and broadcasting executive
Warwick Collins (born 1948), novelist and screenwriter
Wilkie Collins (1824–1889), novelist, The Moonstone
William Collins (1721–1759), poet
John Stewart Collis (1900–1984), biographer and countryside writer
Maurice Collis (1889–1973), writer and biographer
Mary Collyer (c. 1716–1762), translator and novelist.
George Colman (1732–1794), playwright, The Jealous Wife
George Colman (1762–1836), playwright and poet
Jock Colville (1915–1987), diarist and civil servant
Howard Colvin (1919–2007), architectural historian
William Combe (1741–1823), miscellanist and poet
Alex Comfort (1920–2000), novelist, poet and writer, The Joy of Sex
Jack Common (1903–1968), novelist
Ivy Compton-Burnett (1884–1969), novelist, Pastors and Masters
William Congreve (1670–1729), playwright and poet, The Way of the World
Thomas Coningsby (died 1625), diarist, soldier and politician
Paul Conneally (born 1959), poet, artist and musician
Cyril Connolly (1903–1974), writer and critic
Joseph Connolly (born 1950), journalist and novelist
Tony Connor (born 1930), poet and playwright
Robert Conquest (born 1917), historian and poet, The Great Terror
Henry Constable (1562–1613), poet
Hugh Conway (real name Frederick John Fargus, 1847–1885), novelist
Robert Seymour Conway (1864–1933), classicist and philologist
John Conybeare (1692–1755), theologian and bishop
John Josias Conybeare (1779–1824), scholar, translator and cleric
William Daniel Conybeare (1787–1857), writer, geologist and cleric
William John Conybeare (1815–1857), religious writer, novelist and cleric
David Cook (born 1940), novelist, screenplay writer and presenter
Eliza Cook (1818–1889), poet
James Cook (1728–1779), circumnavigator and travel writer
Judith Cook (1933–2004), novelist
Dorian Cooke (1916–2005), poet and intelligence officer
Catherine Cookson (1906–1998), novelist
William Henry Coombes (1767–1850), religious writer and RC priest
Artemis Cooper (born 1953), writer and editor
Duff Cooper (1890–1954), writer, diarist and politician
Jilly Cooper (born 1937), writer and novelist
Lettice Cooper (1897–1994), novelist and critic
Thomas Cooper (1805–1892), poet, novelist and Chartist
William Cooper (real name H. S. Hoff, 1910–2002), novelist
Isabel Cooper-Oakley (1853/54–1914), theosophist
Wendy Cope (born 1945), poet
Esther Copley (1786–1851) children's writer and writer on domestic economy
A. E. Coppard (1878–1957) poet and story writer
Abiezer Coppe (1619–1672) religious pamphleteer
Richard Corbet or Corbett (1582–1635), poet and bishop
Jim Corbett (1875–1955), writer, hunter and conservationist, Man-Eaters of Kumaon
Julian Corbett (1854–1922), naval historian
Marie Corelli (1855–1924), novelist
Alan Coren (1938–2007), writer, satirist and broadcaster
Hilary Corke (1921–2001), poet
Frances Cornford (1886–1960), poet
Francis M. Cornford (1874–1943), scholar and poet
John Cornford (1915–1936), poet
Caroline Cornwallis (1786–1858), writer and polyglot
Jane Cornwallis (1581–1659), letter writer
Bernard Cornwell (born 1944), novelist
William Cornysh or Cornish (1465–1523), dramatist, poet and composer
Felicitas Corrigan (1908–2003), writer and nun
Annie Sophie Cory (wrote as Victoria Cross, 1868–1952), novelist
William Johnson Cory (1823–1892), poet and educationalist
Thomas Coryat or Coryate (c. 1577–1617), travel writer and poet
Louisa Stuart Costello (1799–1870), travel writer, novelist and poet
Randle Cotgrave (died 1634 or 1652), lexicographer
Joseph Cottle (1770–1853), poet, essayist and bookseller
Charles Cotton (1630–1687), poet and writer
Robert Bruce Cotton (1570/71 – 1631), antiquarian and political writer, the Cotton Library
Oswald Couldrey (1882–1958), poet and artist
Stephen Coulter (also wrote as James Mayo, born 1914), novelist
William John Courthope (1842–1917), literary historian and poet
Polly Courtney (born late 1970s), novelist
Francis Coventry (1725–1754 or 1759), novelist
Miles Coverdale (c. 1488–1569), Bible translator
Noël Coward (1899–1973), playwright, Blithe Spirit
Abraham Cowley (1618–1667), poet
Hannah Cowley (1743–1809), playwright, The Belle's Stratagem
William Cowper (1731–1800), poet and hymn writer, John Gilpin
Anthony Berkeley Cox (pen names Anthony Berkeley, Francis Iles, A. Monmouth Platt, 1893–1971), novelist
Edward Coxere (1633–1694), autobiographer and merchant seaman
George Crabbe (1754–1832), poet and naturalist
Jim Crace (born 1946), novelist
Hubert Crackanthorpe (born Cookson, 1870–1896), essayist and story writer
Albert Craig (the "Surrey Poet", 1849–1909), verse chronicler of cricket and football
Amanda Craig (born 1959), novelist
Dinah Craik (also wrote as Miss Mulock, 1826–1887), novelist and poet, John Halifax, Gentleman
Edward Crankshaw (1909–1984), writer, historian and translator
Richard Crashaw (1613–1649), poet
Elizabeth Craven (1750–1828), travel writer and playwright
John Creasey (1908–1973), novelist
Edward Shepherd Creasy (1812–1878), historian, Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World
Thomas Creech (1659–1700), translator
Thomas Creevey (1768–1838), diarist and politician
Mandell Creighton (1843–1901), historian and bishop
Helen Cresswell (1934–2005), children's writer and screenwriter, Lizzie Dripping
Jasmine Cresswell (born 1941), novelist
Nicholas Cresswell (1750–1804), diarist and farmer
Bernard Crick (1929–2008), political scientist
Martin Crimp (born 1956), playwright
Arthur Shearly Cripps (1869–1952), story writer and poet
Quentin Crisp (born Denis Charles Pratt, 1908–1999), writer and raconteur
Herbert Croft (1751–1815), novelist
Rupert Croft-Cooke (wrote as Leo Bruce, 1903–1979), novelist
Andrew Crofts (born 1953), ghost writer
Thomas Francis Dillon Croker (wrote as T. F. Dillon Croker, 1831–1912), antiquary and poet
Richmal Crompton (real name Richmal Crompton Lamburn, 1890–1969), novelist, the William books
Vincent Cronin (1924–2011), historical writer and biographer
A. F. Cross (1863–1940), poet, playwright and journalist
Gillian Cross (born 1945), children's writer, The Demon Headmaster
Kevin Crossley-Holland (born 1941), children's writer, poet and editor
Catherine Crowe (1790–1872), novelist and playwright
William Crowe (1745–1829), poet
Aleister Crowley (1875–1947), writer, mystic and occultist
John Crowne (1641–1712), playwright
Andrew Crozier (1943–2008), poet and scholar
Andrew Crumey (born 1961), novelist
J. A. Cuddon (1928–1996), novelist, playwright and dictionary compiler
Annie Hall Cudlip (1838–1918), novelist
Pender Hodge Cudlip (1834–1911), religious writer and cleric
John Cullum (1733–1785), antiquary, local historian and cleric
Hannah Cullwick ((1833–1909), diarist and domestic servant
Nathanael Culverwel (1619–1651), philosopher and theologian
Richard Cumberland (1631–1718), philosopher and bishop
Richard Cumberland (1732–1811), playwright, poet and novelist
Nancy Cunard (1896–1965), poet, memoir writer and translator
Joseph Cundall (wrote as Stephen Percy, 1818–1895), children's writer and publisher
Roland Curram (born 1932), novelist and actor
William Curtis (1746–1799), botanist, The Botanical Magazine
Henry Cust (1861–1917), writer and editor
Catherine Cuthbertson (before 1780 – after 1830), novelist
Judith Cutler (born 1946), novelist
John Cutts (1661–1707), poet, writer and soldier

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David Dabydeen (born 1955), novelist and critic
Charlotte Dacre (wrote as Rosa Matilda, 1782–1841), novelist and poet
Roald Dahl (1916–1990), children's writer
William Dakins (died 1607), scholar, AV translator and cleric
Andrew Dalby (born 1947), writer on languages and food
Celia Dale (1912–2011), novelist
Penny Dale (born 1954), children's writer and illustrator
Thomas Dale (1797–1870), poet, theologian and cleric
Robert Charles Dallas (1756–1824), writer and poet
Anne Seymour Damer (1748–1828), novelist and sculptor
William Dampier (1651–1715), travel writer and buccaneer
William Danby (1752–1833), scholar and philosopher
Clemence Dane (real name Winifred Ashton, 1888–1965), novelist and playwright
Samuel Daniel (1562–1619), poet and historian
Sarah Daniels (born 1957), playwright
Alicia D'Anvers (1688–1725), poet
Ella D'Arcy (c. 1856–1939), novelist and translator
Charles Darwin (1809–1882), naturalist, On the Origin of Species
Emma Darwin (born 1964), novelist
Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802), natural historian and poet
Florence Henrietta Darwin (1863/4 – 1920), playwright
Elizabeth Daryush (born Bridges, 1887–1977), poet
George Webbe Dasent (1817–1896), writer and translator
Rana Dasgupta (born 1972), novelist
William Davenant (1606–1668), poet and playwright
Robert Davenport (fl. 1623–1639), playwright and poet
Selina Davenport (1779–1859), novelist
C. A. F. Rhys Davids (1857–1942), Buddhist scholar and translator
Lionel Davidson (1922–2009), novelist, The Night of Wenceslas
Donald Davie (1922–1995), poet and critic
Caitlin Davies (born 1964), novelist and journalist
Hunter Davies (born 1936), writer, biographer and ghost writer
Hugh Sykes Davies (1909–1984), poet and novelist
John Davies (c. 1565–1618), poet and satirist
John Davies (1569–1626), poet and lawyer
Linda Davies (born 1963), novelist
Peter Ho Davies (born 1966), novelist
John Davis or Davys (c. 1543–1605), writer and navigator
Lindsey Davis (born 1949), novelist
Ann Davison (1914–1992), travel writer
Humphry Davy (1778–1829), writer, chemist and inventor
Richard Dawkins (born 1941), ethologist and science writer, The God Delusion
Coningsby Dawson (1883–1959), novelist, poet and soldier
Jennifer Dawson (1929–2000), novelist
Jill Dawson (fl. 1984–present), poet, novelist and editor
William James Dawson (1854–1928), poet and religious writer
James Wentworth Day (1899–1983), countryside writer and broadcaster
Jeffery Day (1896–1918), poet
John Day (1574 – c. 1640), playwright The Parliament of Bees
Martin Day (born 1969), novelist and screenwriter, Doctor Who spinoffs
Thomas Day (1748–1789), children's writer and educationalist
Cecil Day-Lewis (1904–1972), Poet Laureate, translator and novelist
Tamasin Day-Lewis (born 1953), food writer and broadcaster
April De Angelis (born 1960), playwright
Louis de Bernières (born 1954), novelist, Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Alain de Botton (born 1969), writer, novelist and essayist
Walter de la Mare (early pen name Walter Ramal, 1873–1956), poet and novelist
Michael de Larrabeiti (1934–2008), novelist and travel writer, The Borrible Trilogy
William De Morgan (1839–1917), novelist and potter
Thomas de Quincey (1785–1859), essayist and critic, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Hugh de Selincourt (1878–1951), writer and journalist
Aubrey de Sélincourt (1894–1962), classical scholar, translator and children's writer
Lisa St Aubin de Terán (born 1953), novelist, poet and autobiographer
Edward de Vere, earl of Oxford (1550–1604), playwright, poet and courtier
William Frederick Deacon (1799–1844), writer and journalist
Roger Deakin (1943–2006), writer on the countryside
Ellen Dean (living), novelist and broadcaster
Nick Dear (born 1955), playwright and screenwriter
Geoffrey Dearmer (1893–1996), poet
Percy Dearmer, (1867–1936), reformer and cleric, The Parson's Handbook
John Dee (1527–1608/9), mathematician, occultist and political economist
Denise Deegan (born 1952), novelist, screenwriter and playwright, Daisy Pulls It Off
Warwick Deeping (1877–1950), novelist and story writer, Sorrell and Son
Daniel Defoe (c. 1659–1731), novelist and pamphleteer, Robinson Crusoe
Paul Dehn (1912–1976), screenwriter and playwright
Len Deighton (born 1929), military historian, cookery writer and novelist, The Ipcress File
Thomas Dekker (1572–1632), playwright
E. M. Delafield (1890–1943), novelist
Michael De-la-Noy (1934–2002), writer and journalist
Mary Delany (born Mary Granville), (1700–1788), letter writer, artist and bluestocking
R. F. Delderfield (1912–1972), novelist and playwright, A Horseman Riding By
Ethel M. Dell (1881–1939), novelist
Thomas Deloney (1553–1600), balladeer and novelist
John Denham (1614/15 – 1669), poet
Felix Dennis (born 1947), poet and publisher
George Dennis (1814–1898), writer and explorer
John Dennis (1657–1734), critic and playwright
Nigel Dennis (1912–1989), writer, novelist and playwright
Colin Dexter (born 1930), novelist, Inspector Morse novels
Nirpal Singh Dhaliwal (born 1974), novelist and journalist
William Diaper (1685–1717), poet and translator
Charles Dibdin (c. 1745–1814), playwright, poet and songwriter
Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776–1847), bibliographer
Thomas John Dibdin (1771–1841), playwright and songwriter
Charles Dickens (1812–1870), novelist, David Copperfield
Monica Dickens (1915–1992), novelist and children's writer
Anne Hepple Dickinson (pen name Anne Hepple, 1877–1959), novelist
Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson (1862–1932), historian and political activist
John Dickinson (born 1962), YA novelist
Patric Dickinson (1914–1994), poet, translator and playwright
Peter Dickinson (born 1927), novelist, children's writer and poet
Kenelm Digby (1603–1665), natural philosopher
Leonard Digges (1588–1635), poet and translator
Francis Dillingham (died 1625), scholar, AV translator and cleric
Wentworth Dillon, earl of Roscommon (1630–1685), poet, critic and translator
John Disney (1677–1729/30), writer on moral reform, and cleric
John Disney (1746–1816), religious writer, biographer and Unitarian minister
Jenny Diski (born 1947), novelist and essayist, Rainforest
Isaac D'Israeli (1766–1848), essayist
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881), novelist and statesman
Henry Hall Dixon (1822–1870), writer
Richard Watson Dixon (1833–1900), poet and church historian
William Hepworth Dixon (1821–1879), historian, biographer and travel writer
Sydney Thompson Dobell (1824–1874), poet and critic
Henry Austin Dobson (1840–1921), poet and essayist
William Dodd (1729–1777), writer, cleric and forger
John Doddridge (1555–1628), writer, antiquary and judge
Philip Doddridge (1702–1751), religious writer and hymn writer
George Bubb Dodington (1691–1792), politician, poet and diarist
Robert Dodsley (1704–1764), poet, writer and bookseller
Christina Dodwell (born 1951), travel writer
Berlie Doherty (born 1943), children's writer, poet and dramatist
Paul C. Doherty (several pen names, born 1946), novelist
Digby Mackworth Dolben (1848–1867), poet
Alfred Domett (1811–1887), poet and statesman
Angus Donald (born 1965), novelist
Julia Donaldson (born 1948), children's writer and playwright, The Gruffalo
John Donne (1572–1631), poet and cleric
Desmond Donnelly (1920–1974), writer, journalist and politician
Eleanor Doorly (1880–1950), children's writer
Thomas Doubleday (1790–1870), political writer, playwright and songwriter
Sarah Doudney (1841–1926), novelist, children's writer and hymn writer
Charles Montagu Doughty (1843–1926), poet, writer and traveller, Travels in Arabia Deserta
Louise Doughty (born 1963), novelist and playwright
Keith Douglas (1920–1944), poet
Lord Alfred Douglas (1870–1945), poet
Norman Douglas (1868–1952), novelist, South Wind
Siobhan Dowd (1960–2007), novelist, anthologist and children's writer, Bog Child
Andrew Downes (c. 1549–1628), scholar, AV translator and cleric
Jenny Downham (born 1964), novelist
Ernest Dowson (1867–1900), poet and story writer
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930), novelist and author of Sherlock Holmes
Richard Doyle (born 1948), novelist, Flood
Francis Hastings Doyle (1810–1888), poet
Margaret Drabble (born 1939), novelist and critic, The Millstone
Phil Drabble (1914–2007), writer and broadcaster
Judith Drake (fl. 1696–1707), essayist
Nathan Drake (1766–1836), essayist and physician
Nick Drake (born 1961), poet and novelist
Augusta Theodosia Drane (1823–1894), writer and nun
Michael Drayton (1563–1631), poet
John Drinkwater (1882–1937), poet and playwright
Henry Drummond (1786–1860), religious writer, politician and banker
John Dryden, (1631–1700) poet and playwright, Absalom and Achitophel
Daphne du Maurier (1907–1989), novelist, Rebecca
George du Maurier (1834–1896), cartoonist and novelist, Trilby
Edward Dubois (1774–1850), wit and man of letters
Stephen Duck (c. 1705–1756), poet and cleric
Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux (1857–1944), poet and author
Ernest Dudley (real name Vivian Ernest Coltman-Allen, 1908–2006), novelist, screenwriter and actor
Lord Dufferin (1826–1902), writer and explorer
Charles Duff (1894–1966), language-book writer, translator and satirist
Maureen Duffy (born 1933), poet, screenwriter and novelist
Stella Duffy (born 1963), novelist and playwright
William Dugdale (1605–1686), antiquary
Alfred Duggan (1903–1964), historical writer and novelist
Ian Duhig (born 1954), poet
Richard Duke (1658–1711), poet and cleric
Ashley Dukes (1885–1959), playwright and critic
Cuthbert Dukes (1890–1977), medical writer and pathologist
Sarah Dunant (born 1950), writer and novelist
John Duncombe (1729–1786), poet and cleric
William Duncombe (1690–1769), translator and playwright
Roderic Dunkerley (1884–1966), religious writer
Helen Dunmore (born 1952), poet, novelist and children's writer,
Antony Dunn (born 1973), poet and playwright
Nell Dunn (born 1936), novelist and playwright, Poor Cow
James Duport (1606–1679), scholar and cleric
John Duport (died 1617), scholar, AV translator and cleric
Mortimer Durand (1850–1924), novelist, travel writer and diplomat
Thomas D'Urfey (1653–1723), playwright and poet, Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy
Raymond Durgnat (1932–2002), film critic
Edith Durham (1863–1944), travel writer
Gerald Durrell (1925–1995), naturalist and author, My Family and Other Animals
Lawrence Durrell (1921–1990), novelist and poet, The Alexandria Quartet
John Dunton (1659–1733), writer, bookseller and pamphleteer
Edward Dyer (1543–1607), poet and courtier
Geoff Dyer (born 1958), writer
George Dyer (1755–1841), scholar and poet

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