List of English writers (D–J)

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

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

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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), novelist, children's writer and poet
William Dakins (died 1607), scholar, AV translator and cleric
Andrew Dalby (born 1947), writer
Celia Dale (1912–2011), novelist and book reviewer
Penny Dale (born 1954), children's writer and illustrator
Thomas Dale (1797–1870), poet, theologian and cleric
Robert Charles Dallas (1756–1824), writer and poet
Anne Seymour Damer (1748–1828), novelist and sculptor
William Dampier (1651–1715), travel writer and buccaneer
William Danby (1752–1833), scholar and philosopher
Clemence Dane (real name Winifred Ashton, 1888–1965), novelist and playwright
Samuel Daniel (1562–1619), poet and historian
William Barker Daniel (1754–1833), field sports writer and cleric
Sarah Daniels (born 1957), playwright
Alicia D'Anvers (1688–1725), poet
Ella D'Arcy (c. 1856–1939), novelist and translator
Bill Dare (living), scriptwriter, novelist and playwright
F. J. Harvey Darton (1878–1936), children's literature historian and publisher
Bernard Darwin (1876–1961), golf writer
Charles Darwin (1809–1882), natural historian, On the Origin of Species
Emma Darwin (born 1964), novelist
Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802), natural historian and poet
Florence Henrietta Darwin (1863/1864–1920), playwright
Elizabeth Daryush (originally Bridges, 1887–1977), poet
George Webbe Dasent (1817–1896), writer and translator
Rana Dasgupta (born 1972), novelist
William Davenant (1606–1668), poet and playwright
Robert Davenport (fl. 1623–1639), playwright and poet
Selina Davenport (1779–1859), novelist
C. A. F. Rhys Davids (1857–1942), Buddhist scholar and translator
Lionel Davidson (1922–2009), novelist
Donald Davie (1922–1995), poet and critic
Caitlin Davies (born 1964), novelist and journalist
Hunter Davies (born 1936), writer and biographer
Hugh Sykes Davies (1909–1984), poet and novelist
John Davies (c. 1565–1618), poet and satirist
John Davies (1569–1626), poet and lawyer
Linda Davies (born 1963), novelist
Paul B. Davies (living), writer and actor
Peter Ho Davies (born 1966), writer
John Davis or Davys (c. 1543–1605), writer and navigator
Lindsey Davis (born 1949), novelist
Ann Davison (1914–1992), travel writer
Humphry Davy (1778–1829), writer and inventor
Elizabeth Dawbarn (died 1839), writer on religion and child care
Richard Dawkins (born 1941), science writer
Coningsby Dawson (1883–1959), novelist, poet and soldier
Jennifer Dawson (1929–2000), novelist
Jill Dawson (living), poet, novelist and editor
William James Dawson (1854–1928), poet and religious writer
James Wentworth Day (1899–1983), countryside writer and broadcaster
Jeffery Day (1896–1918), poet
John Day (1574 – c. 1640), playwright, The Parliament of Bees
Martin Day (born 1969), novelist and screenwriter
Thomas Day (1748–1789), children's writer and educator
Cecil Day-Lewis (1904–1972), Poet Laureate, translator and novelist
Tamasin Day-Lewis (born 1953), food writer and broadcaster
April De Angelis (born 1960), playwright
Louis de Bernières (born 1954), novelist, Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Alain de Botton (born 1969), writer, novelist and essayist
Maria De Fleury (fl. 1773–1791), poet, hymnist and polemicist
Guy de la Bédoyère (born 1957), historian and broadcaster
Walter de la Mare (also as Walter Ramal, 1873–1956), poet and novelist
Michael de Larrabeiti (1934–2008), novelist and travel writer
William De Morgan (1839–1917), novelist and potter
Thomas de Quincey (1785–1859), essayist and critic, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Hugh de Selincourt (1878–1951), writer and journalist
Aubrey de Sélincourt (1894–1962), classicist, translator and children's writer
Lisa St Aubin de Terán (born 1953), novelist, poet and autobiographer
Edward de Vere, earl of Oxford (1550–1604), playwright and poet
William Frederick Deacon (1799–1844), writer and journalist
Roger Deakin (1943–2006), countryside writer
Louise Dean (living), novelist
Nick Dear (born 1955), playwright and screenwriter
Geoffrey Dearmer (1893–1996), poet
Percy Dearmer, (1867–1936), reformer and cleric
John Dee (1527–1608/1609), mathematician, occultist and political economist
Denise Deegan (born 1952), novelist, screenwriter and playwright
Warwick Deeping (1877–1950), novelist and story writer
Daniel Defoe (c. 1659–1731), novelist and pamphleteer, Robinson Crusoe
Paul Dehn (1912–1976), screenwriter and playwright
Len Deighton (born 1929), historian, cookery writer and novelist, The IPCRESS File
Thomas Dekker (1572–1632), playwright
E. M. Delafield (1890–1943), novelist
Michael De-la-Noy (1934–2002), writer and journalist
Mary Delany (born Mary Granville), (1700–1788), letter writer, artist and bluestocking
R. F. Delderfield (1912–1972), novelist and playwright, A Horseman Riding By
Ethel M. Dell (1881–1939), novelist
Thomas Deloney (1553–1600), balladeer and novelist
John Denham (1614/1615–1669), poet
Felix Dennis (1947–2014), poet and publisher
George Dennis (1814–1898), writer and explorer
John Dennis (1657–1734), critic and playwright
Nigel Dennis (1912–1989), writer, novelist and playwright
Mary Deverell (1731–1805), religious writer, essayist and poet
Colin Dexter (1930–2017), novelist, Inspector Morse novels
Nirpal Singh Dhaliwal (born 1974), novelist and journalist
William Diaper (1685–1717), poet and translator
Charles Dibdin (c. 1745–1814), playwright, poet and songwriter
Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776–1847), bibliographer
Thomas John Dibdin (1771–1841), playwright and songwriter
Charles Dickens (1812–1870), novelist, David Copperfield
Monica Dickens (1915–1992), novelist and children's writer
Anne Hepple Dickinson (wrote as Anne Hepple, 1877–1959), novelist
Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson (1862–1932), historian and political activist
John Dickinson (born 1962), YA novelist
Patric Dickinson (1914–1994), poet, translator and playwright
Peter Dickinson (1927–2015), novelist, children's writer and poet
Alice Diehl (1844–1912), novelist and musician
Kenelm Digby (1603–1665), philosopher
Leonard Digges (1588–1635), poet and translator
Francis Dillingham (died 1625), scholar, AV translator and cleric
Wentworth Dillon (1630–1685), poet, critic and translator
John Disney (1677–1729/1730), writer on moral reform and cleric
John Disney (1746–1816), writer, biographer and Unitarian minister
Jenny Diski (1947–2016), novelist and essayist
Isaac D'Israeli (1766–1848), essayist
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881), novelist and statesman
Ella Hepworth Dixon (1857–1932), novelist, essayist and editor
Henry Hall Dixon (1822–1870), writer
Richard Watson Dixon (1833–1900), poet and church historian
Sarah Dixon (1671–1765), poet
William Hepworth Dixon (1821–1879), historian, biographer and travel writer
Sydney Thompson Dobell (1824–1874), poet and critic
Henry Austin Dobson (1840–1921), poet and essayist
Susannah Dobson (died 1795), translator
Catherine Isabella Dodd (1860–1932), educational writer and novelist
William Dodd (1729–1777), writer, cleric and forger
John Doddridge (1555–1628), writer, antiquary and judge
Philip Doddridge (1702–1751), religious writer and hymnist
George Bubb Dodington (1691–1792), politician, poet and diarist
Robert Dodsley (1704–1764), poet, writer and bookseller
Christina Dodwell (born 1951), travel writer
Ann Doherty (c. 1786 – c. 1831–32), romantic novelist
Berlie Doherty (born 1943), children's writer, poet and dramatist
Paul C. Doherty (several pen names, b. 1946), novelist
Digby Mackworth Dolben (1848–1867), poet
Dorcas Dole (fl. later 17th century), Quaker pamphleteer
Alfred Domett (1811–1887), poet and statesman
Angus Donald (born 1965), novelist
Julia Donaldson (born 1948), children's writer and playwright
John Donne (1572–1631), poet and cleric
Desmond Donnelly (1920–1974), writer, journalist and politician
Eleanor Doorly (1880–1950), children's writer
Thomas Doubleday (1790–1870), writer, playwright and songwriter
Sarah Doudney (1841–1926), novelist, children's writer and hymnist
Charles Montagu Doughty (1843–1926), poet, writer and traveller
Louise Doughty (born 1963), novelist and playwright
Keith Douglas (1920–1944), poet
Lord Alfred Douglas (1870–1945), poet
Norman Douglas (1868–1952), novelist
Siobhan Dowd (1960–2007), novelist, anthologist and children's writer, Bog Child
Mary Frances Dowdall (1876–1939), novelist and non-fiction writer
Andrew Downes (c. 1549–1628), scholar, AV translator and cleric
Jenny Downham (born 1964), novelist
Ernest Dowson (1867–1900), poet and story writer
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930), novelist and story writer, Sherlock Holmes
Richard Doyle (1948–2017), novelist
Francis Hastings Doyle (1810–1888), poet
Margaret Drabble (born 1939), novelist and critic
Phil Drabble (1914–2007), writer and broadcaster
Judith Drake (fl. 1696–1707), essayist
Nathan Drake (1766–1836), essayist
Nick Drake (born 1961), poet and novelist
Augusta Theodosia Drane (1823–1894), religious writer and biographer
Michael Drayton (1563–1631), poet
John Drinkwater (1882–1937), poet and playwright
Henry Drummond (1786–1860), religious writer, politician and banker
Anna Harriett Drury (also Harriet, 1824–1912), novelist, poet and children's writer
John Dryden, (1631–1700) poet and playwright, Absalom and Achitophel
Daphne du Maurier (1907–1989), novelist, Rebecca
George du Maurier (1834–1896), novelist and illustrator, Trilby
Edward Dubois (1774–1850), wit and man of letters
Stephen Duck (c. 1705–1756), poet and cleric
Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux (1857–1944), poet and author
Ernest Dudley (real name Vivian Ernest Coltman-Allen, 1908–2006), novelist, screenwriter and actor
Lord Dufferin (1826–1902), writer and explorer
Charles Duff (1894–1966), writer, translator and satirist
Lucie, Lady Duff-Gordon (1821–1869), correspondent and translator
Maureen Duffy (born 1933), poet, screenwriter and novelist
Stella Duffy (born 1963), novelist and playwright
William Dugdale (1605–1686), antiquary
Alfred Duggan (1903–1964), historian and novelist
Ian Duhig (born 1954), poet
Richard Duke (1658–1711), poet and cleric
Ashley Dukes (1885–1959), playwright and critic
Cuthbert Dukes (1890–1977), medical writer and pathologist
Michael Dummett (1925–2011), philosopher
Sarah Dunant (born 1950), writer and novelist
John Duncombe (1729–1786), poet and cleric
William Duncombe (1690–1769), translator and playwright
Roderic Dunkerley (1884–1966), religious writer
Helen Dunmore (1952–2017), poet, novelist and children's writer,
Antony Dunn (born 1973), poet and playwright
Nell Dunn (born 1936), novelist and playwright
James Duport (1606–1679), scholar and cleric
John Duport (died 1617), scholar, AV translator and cleric
Mortimer Durand (1850–1924), novelist, travel writer and diplomat
C. V. Durell (1882–1968), mathematics writer
Thomas D'Urfey (1653–1723), playwright and poet
Raymond Durgnat (1932–2002), film critic
Edith Durham (1863–1944), travel writer
Gerald Durrell (1925–1995), naturalist and author, My Family and Other Animals
Lawrence Durrell (1921–1990), novelist and poet, The Alexandria Quartet
John Dunton (1659–1733), writer, bookseller and pamphleteer
Edward Dyer (1543–1607), poet and courtier
Geoff Dyer (born 1958), writer
George Dyer (1755–1841), scholar and poet
Clifford Dyment (1914–1971), poet and critic

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Rae Earl (born 1971), writer and broadcaster
John Earle (1601–1665), writer and bishop
Anthony Earnshaw (1924–2001), writer and illustrator
Joan Adeney Easdale (1913–1998), poet
Edward Backhouse Eastwick (1814–1883), scholar
Mary Emma Ebsworth (1794–1881), playwright and translator
Laurence Echard (1670–1730), historian and translator
Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882–1944), science writer
E. R. Eddison (1882–1945), novelist, poet and translator
Emily Eden (1797–1869), novelist
Frederick Morton Eden (1766–1809), social researcher
Richard Edes (1555–1604), writer, AV translator and cleric
David Edgar (born 1948), playwright
John George Edgar (1834–1864), miscellaneous writer for boys
Maria Edgeworth (1767–1849), novelist, Castle Rackrent
Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1744–1817), writer and politician
James Edmeston (1791–1867), hymnist and architect
Robert Edric (real name Gary Edric Armitage, b. 1956), novelist
J. T. Edson (1928–2014), novelist
Richard Edwardes (c. 1523–1566), poet and playwright
Amelia Edwards (1831–1892), novelist and travel writer
David Edwards (1929–2018), writer and cleric
Monica Edwards (1912–1998), children's writer
Thomas Edwards (died 1599), poet
Richard Eedes (died 1686), religious writer
Pierce Egan (1772–1849), sports writer
Pierce Egan the Younger (1814–1880), novelist
Elizabeth Egerton (born Cavendish, 1626–1663), poet and dramatist
George Egerton (real name Mary Chavelita Bright, 1859–1945), writer, translator and feminist
Rowland Egerton-Warburton (1804–1891), poet
Sarah Fyge Egerton (1670–1723), poet
Thomas Egerton (Lord Ellesmere, Lord Brackley, 1540–1617), statesman and patron
Stephen Elboz (born 1956), children's writer
Josephine Elder (real name Olive Gwendoline Potter, 1895–1988), children's writer
Peter Berresford Ellis (writes as Peter Tremayne and Peter MacAlan, born 1943), novelist
Charles Eliot (1862–1931), travel writer and diplomat
George Eliot (real name Mary Ann Evans, 1819–1880), novelist, Middlemarch
T. S. Eliot (1888–1965), poet, playwright and Nobel Prize winner, The Waste Land
Anne Elliot, novelist
Frances Minto Elliot (1820–1898), historian and novelist
Ebenezer Elliott (1781–1849), poet
Janice Elliott (1931–1995), novelist and children's writer
Julia Anne Elliott (1809-1841), poet and hymnwriter
Edith Ellis (1861–1916), writer and anthologist
Alice Thomas Ellis (Anna Haycraft, 1932–2005), fiction and non-fiction writer
Edwin John Ellis (1848–1916), poet, editor and illustrator
H. F. Ellis (1907–2000), humorous writer and novelist
Havelock Ellis (1859–1939), sexologist, reformer and editor
Royston Ellis (1941–2023), novelist and poet
Sarah Stickney Ellis (1799–1872), Quaker writer on women's education
Warren Ellis (born 1968), graphic novelist and comic book writer
Thomas Ellwood (1639–1713), poet and religious writer
Ernest Elmore (also as John Bude, 1901–1957), crime and fantasy writer
Elizabeth Elstob (1683–1756), scholar and translator
Ben Elton (born 1959), novelist, playwright and comedian
Oliver Elton (1861–1945), scholar and translator,
Alfred Elwes (1819–1888), children's writer and translator
Thomas Elyot (c. 1490–1536), scholar and diplomat
Sally Emerson (born 1954), novelist and anthologist
William Empson (1906–1984), critic and poet, Seven Types of Ambiguity
William Enfield (1741–1797), elocutionist and Unitarian minister
Barry England (1932–2009), novelist
Isobel English (real name June Guesdon Braybrooke, 1920–1994), novelist
D. J. Enright (1920–2002), poet and critic
Sam Enthoven (born 1975), children's writer
Ephelia (fl. 1679, real name probably Mary Stewart, Duchess of Richmond), poet
Anthony Errington (died 1719), divine
Barbara Erskine (born 1944), novelist
Thomas Erskine (1750–1823), lawyer and political writer
Susan Ertz (1894–1985), novelist
Edith Escombe (1866–1950), fiction writer and essayist
George Etherege (c. 1635 – c. 1692), playwright, The Man of Mode
Abel Evans (1679–1737), poet and cleric
Anne Evans (1820–1870), poet and composer
Arthur Evans (1851–1941), archaeologist
Arthur Benoni Evans (1781–1854), poet, scholar and cleric
John Evans (1823–1908), archaeologist
Katherine Evans and Sarah Cheevers (1618–1692 and 1608–1664), Quaker evangelists
Margiad Evans (real name Peggy Eileen Williams, 1909–1958), novelist, poet and illustrator
Nicholas Evans (1950–2022), novelist
Paul Evans (1945–1991), poet
Sebastian Evans (1830–1909), poet, journalist and artist
John Evelyn (1620–1706), writer and diarist, Sylva, A Discourse of Forest Trees
H. D. Everett (1851–1923), novelist
Peter Everett (1931–1999), novelist
Evelyn Everett-Green (1856–1932), novelist and children's writer
George Every (1909–2003), theologian and poet
Gavin Ewart (1916–1995), poet and anthologist
Barbara Ewing (born 1944), novelist and playwright
Juliana Horatia Ewing (1841–1885), children's writer
Catherine Exley (1779-1857), English diarist
Leonora Eyles (1889–1960), feminist writer and novelist
Vincent Eyre (1811–1881), military writer and general

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Frederick William Faber (1814–1863), hymnist and theologian
Geoffrey Faber (1889–1961), poet and publisher
George Stanley Faber (1773–1854), theologian and cleric
Robert Fabyan (died 1513), diarist and chronicler
Harry Fainlight (1935–1982), poet
Ruth Fainlight (born 1932), poet, writer and translator
Thomas Fairfax (1612–1671), poet and army officer
Margaret Fairley (1885–1968), scholar and activist
J. Meade Falkner (1858–1932), novelist
Hugh Falkus (1917–1996), fishing writer
Julian Fane (1927–2009), novelist and memoirist
Mildmay Fane, earl of Westmorland (1602–1666), poet and playwright
Violet Fane (real name Mary Montgomerie Lamb, 1843–1905), novelist and poet
Ann, Lady Fanshawe (1625–1680), memoirist
Catherine Maria Fanshawe (1765–1834), poet
Richard Fanshawe (1608–1666), poet and translator
U. A. Fanthorpe (1929–2009), poet
John Fardell (born 1967), children's writer and cartoonist
Joseph Farington (1747–1821), diarist and painter
Helen Farish (born 1962), poet
Benjamin Farjeon (1838–1903), novelist and playwright
Eleanor Farjeon (1881–1965), children's writer and poet
Herbert Farjeon (1887–1945), playwright and critic
Joseph Jefferson Farjeon (1883–1955), novelist, playwright and screenwriter
Paul Farley (born 1965), poet
Nigel Farndale (born 1964), novelist and biographer
Jeffery Farnol (1878–1952), novelist
Florence Farr (1860–1917), religious writer and playwright
Frederic William Farrar (Dean Farrar, 1831–1903), novelist and cleric
Stewart Farrar (1916–2000), scriptwriter and novelist
J.G. Farrell (1935–1979), novelist
Kathleen Farrell (1912–1999), novelist
Gertrude Minnie Faulding (1875–1961), novelist and children's writer
Sebastian Faulks (born 1953), novelist
Joseph Fawcett (1758–1804), poet and cleric
Francis Fawkes (1721–1777), poet and translator
Eliza Fay (1755/1756–1816), correspondent and traveller
John Russell Fearn (1908–1960), novelist
Jane Fearon (1654 or 1656–1737), religious writer
Daniel Featley or Fairclough (1582–1645), polemicist, AV translator and cleric
Vicki Feaver (born 1943), poet
Elaine Feinstein (1930–2019), poet, novelist and dramatist
John Fell (1625–1686), scholar and cleric
Owen Feltham or Felltham (c. 1602–1668), aphorist and essayist
George Manville Fenn (1831–1909), novelist and children's writer
John Fenn (died 1615), writer and RC priest
John Fenn (1739–1794), antiquary and editor
Elijah Fenton (1683–1730), poet
Geoffrey Fenton (c. 1539–1608), writer, translator and politician
Gertrude Fenton (1841-1884), novelist and editor
James Fenton (born 1949), poet and critic
Roger Fenton (1565–1615), writer, AV translator and cleric
Eliza Fenwick (1766–1840), novelist and children's writer
Ruby Ferguson (1899–1966), novelist and children's writer
Bernard Fergusson Lord Ballantrae, (1911–1980), historian and general
Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915–2011), travel writer and scholar
Elizabeth Ferrars (1907–1995), novelist
Maria Fetherstonhaugh (1847–1918), novelist
Jasper Fforde (born 1961), novelist
Michael Field, pseudonym of Katherine Harris Bradley (1846–1914) and Edith Emma Cooper (1862–1913), poets and diarists
Richard Field (1561–1616), theologian
Daphne Fielding (1904–1997), writer and biographer
Helen Fielding (born 1958), novelist and screenwriter
Henry Fielding (1707–1754), novelist and poet, Tom Jones
Sarah Fielding (1709–1768), novelist and children's writer
Xan Fielding (1918–1991), writer, translator and soldier
Celia Fiennes (1662–1741), diarist and travel writer
William Fiennes (born 1970), writer
Graeme Fife (living), writer, playwright and broadcaster
Eva Figes (1932–2012), novelist and critic
Robert Filmer (1588–1653), political writer
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661–1720), poet
Brian Finch (1936–2007), scriptwriter and playwright
William Coles Finch (1864–1944), historian and countryside writer
Anne Fine (born 1947), novelist and children's writer
Cordelia Fine (living), psychologist and writer
George Finlay (1799–1875), historian
Ronald Firbank (1886–1926), novelist and playwright
Charles Harding Firth (1857–1936), historian and biographer
John Rupert Firth (1890–1960), linguistics scholar
Tim Firth (born 1964), playwright, screenwriter and songwriter
Margery Fish (1892–1969), garden writer
Tibor Fischer (born 1959), novelist
Allen Fisher (born 1944), poet and editor
Ann Fisher (1719–1798), educational writer
John Fisher (1469–1535), theologian, cardinal and martyr
Roy Fisher (1930–2017), poet and jazz pianist
Edward Fitzgerald (1809–1883), poet and translator, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Penelope Fitzgerald (1916–2000), novelist, poet and biographer
Judith Flanders (born 1959), historian
Peter Flannery (born 1951), playwright and screenwriter
Thomas Flatman (1638–1688), poet and miniaturist
James Elroy Flecker (1884–1915), poet, novelist and playwright
Richard Flecknoe (c. 1600 – c. 1678), poet, playwright and writer
Abraham Fleming (Flemyng, c. 1552 – 1607), writer, translator and cleric
Ian Fleming (1908–1964), novelist, James Bond
Peter Fleming (1907–1971), travel writer
Giles Fletcher (1586–1623), poet
Giles Fletcher (c. 1548–1611), poet
J. S. Fletcher (1863–1935) novelist
John Fletcher (1579–1625), playwright
Phineas Fletcher (1582–1650), poet
Susan Fletcher (born 1979), novelist
Thomas Fletcher (1666–1713), poet, translator and cleric
Antony Flew (1923–2010), philosopher
Robert Newton Flew (1886–1962), theologian and Methodist minister
F. S. Flint (1885–1960), poet
John Florio (1553–1625), lexicographer and translator
Alice Flowerdew (1759–1830), poet and hymnist
Robert Fludd (1574–1637), physician and occultist
Giles Foden (born 1967), novelist
Winifred Foley (1914–2009), memoirist and novelist
Albany Fonblanque (1794–1872), journalist and editor
Samuel Foote (1720–1777), playwright
Tim Footman (born 1968), writer and editor
Colin Forbes (real name Raymond Sawkins, 1923–2006), novelist
Duncan Forbes (born 1947), poet
Anne Ford (1737–1824), writer and actress
Boris Ford (1917–1998), critic and editor
Ford Madox Ford (originally Ford Madox Hueffer, 1873–1939), novelist and poet
John Ford (1586–1640), playwright, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
Mark Ford (born 1962), poet and essayist
Richard Ford (1796–1858), travel writer
Thomas Ford or Forde (1580–1648), poet and composer
Michael Foreman (born 1938), children's writer and illustrator
C. S. Forester, (1899–1966) novelist, Horatio Hornblower
Simon Forman, (1552–1611) astrologer and occultist
David Forrest (real names R. Forrest-Webb and David Eliades, living), novelists
Alfred Henry Forrester (Alfred Crowquill, 1804–1872), writer and illustrator
Helen Forrester (1919–2011), writer
Tony Forrester (born 1953), bridge writer and player
Jeff Forshaw (born 1968), professor of particle physics
E. M. Forster (1879–1970), novelist and essayist, A Passage to India
John Forster (1812–1876), biographer and critic
Margaret Forster (1938–2016), novelist and biographer
Mary Forster (c. 1620–1687), Quaker polemicist
Frederick Forsyth (born 1938), novelist, The Day of the Jackal
Richard Fortey (born 1946), science writer
E. M. Foster, Mrs. (fl. late 18th and early 19th cc.), novelist
John Foster (1770–1843), essayist
John Knight Fotheringham (1874–1936), historian and astronomer
Adam Foulds (born 1974), novelist and poet
Tim Fountain (born 1967), playwright
Margaret Fountaine (1862–1940), lepidopterist
Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler (also Edith Henrietta Fowler, 1860–1929), novelist
Henry Watson Fowler (1858–1933) and Francis George Fowler (1871–1918), grammarians, Fowler's Modern English Usage
John Fowles (1926–2005), novelist and essayist
Caroline Fox (1819–1871), diarist
Francis Fox (1675–1738), writer and cleric
George Fox (1624–1691), diarist and Quaker
Robin Lane Fox (born 1946), garden writer
Edgar Foxall (1906–1990), poet
John Foxe (1517–1587), writer, Foxe's Book of Martyrs
Samuel Foxe (1560–1630), diarist
Dick Francis (1920–2010), racing novelist
Matthew Francis (born 1956), poet
Philip Francis (1740–1818), pamphleteer and translator
Suzanne Francis (born 1959), novelist
Gilbert Frankau (1884–1952), novelist and poet
Julia Frankau (wrote as Frank Danby, 1863–1916), novelist
John Franklin (1786–1847), explorer and novelist
Antonia Fraser (1932), biographer and novelist
Caro Fraser (1953–2020), novelist
George MacDonald Fraser (1925–2008), novelist and screenwriter, The Flashman Papers
Michael Frayn (born 1933), playwright and novelist
Margaret Frazer (pseudonym, living), novelist
Jonathan Freedland (born 1967), writer
Edward Augustus Freeman (1823–1892), historian
John Freeman (1880–1929), poet
R. Austin Freeman (1862–1943), novelist
Nicholas Freeston (1907–1988), poet
Elizabeth Wynne Fremantle (1779–1857), diarist
Celia Fremlin (1914–2009), novelist
Patrick French (born 1966), biographer and author
John Hookham Frere (1769–1846), poet and translator
William Powell Frith (1819–1909), memoirist and painter
James Anthony Froude (1818–1894), historian
Richard Hurrell Froude (1803–1836), poet, writer and cleric
C. B. Fry, (1872–1956) cricket writer
Caroline Fry (1787–1846), religious writer and poet
Christopher Fry (1907–2005), dramatist
Plantagenet Somerset Fry (real name Peter George Robin Fry, 1931–1996), historian
Stephen Fry (born 1957), novelist and comedian
Alexandra Fuller (born 1969), writer
Andrew Fuller (1754–1815), theologian and Baptist minister
Claire Fuller (living), novelist
John Fuller (born 1937), poet and novelist
Peter Fuller (1947–1990), writer and art critic
Roy Fuller (1912–1991), poet and novelist
Thomas Fuller (1608–1661), writer, historian and cleric
Lady Georgiana Fullerton (originally Leverson-Gower, 1812–1885), novelist and religious writer
Ulpian Fulwell (1545/1546 – c. 1585), playwright, satirist and cleric
Monica Furlong (1930–2003), religious writer and biographer
Frederick James Furnivall (1825–1910), philologist

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Thomas Gage (c. 1597–1656), travel writer and cleric
Neil Gaiman (born 1960), novelist and screenwriter
Norman Gale (1862–1942), poet
Winifred Gales (1761–1839), novelist and memoirist
John Galsworthy (also as John Sinjohn, 1867–1933), novelist and dramatist, The Forsyte Saga
Francis Galton (1822–1911), polymath
Jane Gardam (born 1928), novelist and children's writer
Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1829–1902), historian
Stephen Gardiner (1924–2007), writer and architect
Gerald Gardner (1884–1964), writer on witchcraft
Helen Gardner (1908–1986), critic and scholar
John Gardner (1926–2007), novelist, The Liquidator
Leon Garfield (1921–1996), novelist and children's writer
Simon Garfield (born 1960), writer
Alex Garland (born 1970), novelist and screenwriter
Alan Garner (born 1934), children's writer
William Garner (1920–2005), novelist
Constance Garnett (1861–1946), translator
David Garnett (1892–1981), novelist and playwright
Edward Garnett (1868–1937), author and critic
Eve Garnett (1900–1991), children's writer and illustrator
Richard Garnett (1835–1906), scholar and poet
David Garrick (1717–1779), actor, playwright and poet
Samuel Garth (1661–1719), poet and physician
Charles Garvice (also as Caroline Hart, 1850–1920), novelist
George Gascoigne (1535–1577), poet and translator
David Gascoyne (1916–2001), poet
Norman Gash (1912–2009), historian
Elizabeth Gaskell (Mrs. Gaskell, 1810–1865), novelist, Cranford
Jane Gaskell (born 1941), fantasy novelist
Thomas Gaspey (1788–1871), novelist and journalist
Francis Aidan Gasquet (1846–1929), historian and cardinal
Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy (1933–2019), biographer and historian
Robert Gathorne-Hardy (1902–1973), garden writer
Alfred Gatty, (1813–1903) writer and cleric
Margaret Gatty (wrote as Mrs. Alfred Gatty, 1809–1873), children's writer
John Gauden (1605–1662), writer and bishop
William Gaunt (1900–1980), art historian
Jamila Gavin (born 1941), novelist and children's writer
John Gawsworth (1912–1970), poet and anthologist
John Gay (1685–1732), poet and playwright, The Beggar's Opera
John Gay (1699–1745), moral philosopher and cleric
Maggie Gee (born 1948), novelist
Pam Gems (1925–2011), playwright
Dorothea Gerard (1855–1915), novelist
Emily Gerard (1849–1905), novelist
John Gerard (1545–1611/1612), botanical writer and herbalist
William Gerhardie (originally Gerhardi, 1895–1977), novelist
Karen Gershon (1923–1993), poet, writer and novelist
Edward Gibbon (1737–1794), historian, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Stella Gibbons (1902–1989), novelist and poet, Cold Comfort Farm
Philip Gibbs (1877–1962), writer and journalist
Edmund Gibson (1669–1748), antiquary, translator and bishop
Miles Gibson (born 1947), novelist and poet
Wilfred Wilson Gibson (1878–1962), poet
John Gifford (1758–1818), historical and political writer
William Gifford (1756–1826), poet and satirist
Harriett Gilbert (born 1948), novelist, critic and broadcaster
Joseph Gilbert (1779–1852), writer and Congregational minister
Michael Gilbert (1912–2006), novelist
W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911), playwright and poet, The Mikado
William Gilbert or Gilberd (1544–1603), scientist
William Gilbert (1804–1890), novelist and naval surgeon
Alexander Gilchrist (1828–1861), biographer and critic
Anne Gilchrist (born Burrows, 1828–1885), writer
Robert Murray Gilchrist (1867–1917), novelist and topographical writer
Penelope Gilliatt (1932–1993), novelist, screenwriter and film critic
William Gilpin (1724–1804), writer, artist and cleric
Morris Ginsberg (1879–1970), sociologist
Alfred Gissing (1896–1975), biographer and editor
Algernon Gissing (1860–1937), novelist and travel writer
George Gissing (1857–1903), novelist, New Grub Street
Mary Gladstone (1847–1927), diarist
William Gladstone (1809–1898), writer and statesman
Lesley Glaister (born 1956), novelist and playwright
Joseph Glanvill (1636–1680), writer, philosopher and cleric
Brian Glanville (born 1931), football writer and novelist
William Nugent Glascock (c. 1787–1847), novelist and naval officer
Katharine Glasier (also as Katharine Conway, 1867–1950), writer and socialist
Rodge Glass (born 1978), novelist and biographer
Hannah Glasse (1708–1770), writer on cookery and housekeeping
Victoria Glendinning (born 1937), biographer and novelist
Richard Glover (1712–1785), poet and playwright
Elinor Glyn (1864–1943), novelist
John Godber (born 1956), playwright
Robert Goddard (born 1954), novelist
Rumer Godden (1907–1998), novelist, children's writer and biographer
A. D. Godley (1856–1925), comic poet
Sidney Godolphin (1610–1643), poet
William Godwin (1756–1836), novelist and philosopher
Louis Golding (1895–1958), novelist and poet
William Golding (1911–1993), Nobel Prize–winning novelist and poet, Lord of the Flies
Douglas Goldring (1887–1960), poet, travel writer and novelist
Israel Gollancz (1863–1930), scholar and editor
Laurence Gomme (1853–1916), folklore writer and public servant
Christopher Goodman (1520–1603), pamphleteer and Bible translator
Jason Goodwin (born 1964), novelist and travel writer
Barnabe Googe or Gooche (1540–1594), poet and translator
Catherine Gore (1799–1861), novelist and playwright
Charles Gore (1853–1932), theologian and bishop
Geoffrey Gorer (1905–1985), writer and anthropologist
Arthur Gorges (c. 1569–1625), poet and sea captain
Ray Gosling (1939–2013), writer and journalist
Edmund Gosse (1849–1928), novelist, poet and critic
Philip Henry Gosse (1810–1888), natural historian
Stephen Gosson (1554–1624), satirist and playwright
Elizabeth Goudge (1900–1984), novelist and children's writer
William Gouge (1575–1653), writer and cleric
Thomas Gouge (1609–1681), writer and Presbyterian minister
Gerald Gould (1885–1936), poet and journalist
Nathaniel Gould (1857–1919), novelist
John Gower (c. 1330–1408), poet
Posie Graeme-Evans (living), novelist and TV director
Eleanor Graham (1896–1984), children's writer, editor and anthologist
Harry Graham (1874–1936), humorist and poet
Laurie Graham (born 1947), novelist and journalist
Stephen Graham (1884–1975), travel writer and novelist
Virginia Graham (1910–1993), humorist, translator and poet
Kenneth Grahame (1859–1931), writer, The Wind in the Willows
Sarah Grand (real name Mrs. David C. M'Fall, originally Frances Elizabeth Clarke, 1854–1943), novelist and suffragist
Clive Granger (1934–2009), Nobel Prize–winning economist
Andrew Grant (born 1968), novelist
John Grant (also as Jonathan Gash, Graham Gaunt, b. 1933), novelist and physician
Linda Grant (born 1951), novelist and writer
Michael Grant (1914–2004), historian
George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne (1666–1735), playwright and poet
Harley Granville-Barker (1877–1946), playwright and actor
Richard Graves (1715–1804), novelist, poet and cleric
Robert Graves (1895–1985), poet and novelist, I, Claudius
John Gray (1866–1934), poet and translator
John N. Gray (born 1948), philosopher
Maxwell Gray (Mary Gleed Tuttiett, 1846–1926), novelist and poet
Patience Gray (1917–2005), cookery writer
Simon Gray (1936–2008) playwright, novelist and memoirist.
Thomas Gray (1716–1771), poet
Eliza S. Craven Green (1803–1866), poet
Candida Lycett Green (1942–2014), writer and journalist
Henry Green (real name Henry Vincent Yorke), (1905–1973), novelist
John Richard Green (1837–1883), historian
Mary Anne Everett Green (1818–1895), historian
Matthew Green (1696–1737), poet
Roger Lancelyn Green (1918–1987), biographer and children's writer
Sarah Green (fl. 1790–1825), novelist
Thomas Hill Green (1836–1882), philosopher and radical
Vivian H. H. Green (1915–2005), historian and cleric
Kate Greenaway (1846–1901), children's writer and illustrator
Graham Greene (1904–1991), novelist and playwright, Our Man in Havana
Robert Greene (1558–1592), playwright and pamphleteer
Chris Greenhalgh (born 1963), novelist, screenwriter and poet
Lavinia Greenlaw (born 1962), poet and novelist
Frederick Greenwood (1830–1909), man of letters
James Greenwood (c. 1830/1835–1929), children's writer and journalist
Walter Greenwood (1903–1974), novelist, Love on the Dole
Walter Wilson Greg (1875–1959), bibliographer
Richard Gregory (1864–1952), science writer and astronomer
Joyce Grenfell (1910–1979), writer and comedian
Julian Grenfell (1888–1915), poet
Charles Greville (1794–1865), diarist and cricketer
Frances Greville (c. 1724–1789), poet
Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke (1554–1628), poet and playwright
Henry M. Grey (1867-1937), travel writer
Paul Grice (also as H. P. Grice, 1913–1988), philosopher of language
Arthur Griffiths (1838–1908), crime novelist and military historian
Bill Griffiths (1948–2007), poet, scholar and translator
Jane Griffiths (born 1970), poet and lecturer
Paul Griffiths (born 1947), novelist, librettist and music critic
John Grigg (1924–2001), biographer and journalist
Geoffrey Grigson (1905–1985), poet and editor
Arthur Grimble (1888–1956), writer and anthropologist
Elizabeth Grimston (c. 1563 – c. 1603), poet
Leopold Hartley Grindon (1818–1904), educator and botanist
Francis Grose (1731–1791), antiquary and lexicographer
John Gross (1935–2011), critic, writer and anthologist
Philip Gross (born 1952), poet, novelist and playwright
George Grossmith (1847–1912), writer and entertainer, and Weedon Grossmith (1854–1919), writer, artist and actor, Diary of a Nobody
George Grote (1794–1871), classicist and reformer
Charlotte Grove (1773–1860), diarist
George Grove (1820–1900), editor and writer on music, Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Paul Groves (born 1947), poet
Edward Grubb (1854–1939), Quaker writer
Bertha Jane Grundy (1837–1912), novelist
Sydney Grundy (1848–1914), playwright and librettist
Philip Guedalla (1889–1944), historian and travel writer
Harry Guest (1932–2021), poet
Arthur Guirdham (1905–1992), non-fiction writer, novelist and physician
Thom Gunn (1929–2004), poet
Elizabeth Gunning (1769–1823), novelist and translator
Peter Gunning (1614–1684), writer and bishop
Edmund Gurney (1847–1888), writer and psychologist
Ivor Gurney (1890–1937), poet and composer
Thomas Anstey Guthrie (wrote as F. Anstey, 1856–1934), novelist and journalist, Vice Versa
Bernard Gutteridge (1916–1985), poet
Emma Jane Guyton or Worboise (1825–1887), novelist
Brion Gysin (1916–1986), poet, novelist and painter

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William Habington (1605–1654), poet
Alan Hackney (1924–2009), novelist and screenwriter
Jen Hadfield (born 1978), poet
Mark Haddon (born 1962), novelist, children's writer and poet
Henry Rider Haggard (1856–1925), novelist and story writer, King Solomon's Mines
Matt Haig (born 1975), novelist and journalist
Richard Hakluyt (c. 1552/1553–1616), travel writer, translator and cleric
J. B. S. Haldane (1892–1964), scientist, philosopher and children's writer
Kathleen Hale (1898–2000), children's writer and illustrator, Orlando the Marmalade Cat
Anne Halkett (1623–1699), memoirist and religious writer
Edward Hall or Halle (c. 1498–1547), chronicler
Evelyn Beatrice Hall (wrote as S. G. Tallentyre, 1868–1956), biographer and translator
Henry Hall (c. 1656–1707), poet and composer
Joseph Hall (1574–1656), satirist, moralist and bishop
Radclyffe Hall (1880–1943), novelist and poet
Sarah Hall (born 1974), novelist and poet
Simon Hall (born 1969), novelist and broadcaster
Steven Hall (born 1975), novelist and playwright
Tarquin Hall (born 1969), writer and journalist
Thomas Hall (1610–1665), writer and cleric
Arthur Hallam (1811–1833), poet
Henry Hallam (1777–1859), historian
Edward Halliwell (16th c.), playwright and author, Fellow of Cambridge's King's College
Leslie Halliwell (1929–1989), film critic and encyclopedist
James Halliwell-Phillipps (1820–1889), Shakespearean and biographer
Bruce Barrymore Halpenny (born early 20th c.), writer and military historian
Alan Halsey (1949–2022), poet
Michael Hamburger (1924–2007), writer, poet and translator
Philip Gilbert Hamerton (wrote as Adolphus Segrave, 1834–1894), writer and artist
Mohsin Hamid (born 1971), novelist and brand consultant
Andy Hamilton (author) (born 1974), non-fiction writer and journalist
Ann Mary Hamilton (fl. 1806–13), novelist
Charles Hamilton (also as Frank Richards, etc., 1876–1961), children's writer, Billy Bunter
Cicely Mary Hamilton (1872–1952), writer, playwright and feminist
Cosmo Hamilton (1870–1942), playwright and novelist
Edward Walter Hamilton (1847–1908), political diarist and civil servant
Ian Hamilton (1938–2001), critic, biographer and poet
Patrick Hamilton (1904–1962), playwright and novelist
Peter F. Hamilton (born 1960), SF novelist
James Hamilton-Paterson (born 1941), novelist, poet and writer
Edward Bruce Hamley (1824–1893), military theorist and novelist
Edward Hamley (1764–1834), poet and cleric
James Hammond (1710–1742), poet and politician
Stuart Hampshire (1914–2004), philosopher and literary critic
John Hampson (1901–1955), novelist
Robert Gavin Hampson (born 1948), poet
Christopher Hampton (born 1946), playwright, screenwriter and translator
William Hampton (born 1959), poet
Marika Hanbury-Tenison (1938–1982), cookery and travel writer
Irene Handl (1901–1987), novelist and actress
St. John Hankin (1869–1909), playwright
James Hanley (1897–1985), novelist and screenwriter
Sophie Hannah (born 1971), poet and novelist
Derek Hansen (born 1944), novelist
Jonas Hanway (1712–1786), travel writer and pamphleteer
Caroline Hardaker (born 1986), poet and novelist
Michael Hardcastle (1933–2019), children's writer
John Harding (died 1610), scholar, AV translator and cleric
Frances Hardinge (born 1973), children's writer
Mollie Hardwick (1916–2003), novelist and writer
Ronald Hardy (1919–1991), novelist
Thomas Hardy (1840–1928), novelist and poet, The Mayor of Casterbridge
Augustus Hare (1834–1903), travel writer and raconteur
Augustus William Hare (1792–1834), essayist and cleric
Cyril Hare (real name A. A. G. Clark, 1900–1958), novelist
David Hare (born 1947), playwright
Julius Charles Hare (1795–1855), religious writer
R. M. Hare (1919–2002), philosopher
Roger Hargreaves (1935–1988), children's writer and illustrator, Mr. Men
James Harington (1611–1677), political writer
John Harington (1561–1612), poet and translator
John Harmar (c. 1555–1613), scholar, AV translator and cleric
Cynthia Harnett (1893–1981), children's writer
Charles George Harper (1863–1943), travel writer and illustrator
Beatrice Harraden (1864–1936), novelist, lexicographer and suffragist
Thomas Harriot (1560–1621), astronomer, mathematician and translator
Frank Harris (1856–1931), writer, editor and autobiographer
James Harris (1709–1780), philosopher and grammarian
Joanne Harris (born 1964), novelist
Robert Harris (born 1957), novelist, writer and screenwriter
Rosemary Harris (born 1927), children's writer
Austin Harrison (1873–1928), editor and writer
Jane Ellen Harrison (1850–1928), classicist
Sarah Harrison (born 1946), novelist and children's writer
Thomas Harrison (1555–1631), scholar, AV translator and cleric
Tony Harrison (born 1938), poet and playwright
William Harrison (1534–1593), writer and cleric
Tom Harrisson (also as T. H. Harrisson, 1911–1976), polymath
David Harsent (wrote as Jack Curtis, David Lawrence, b. 1942), novelist, poet and scriptwriter
B. H. Liddell Hart (1895–1970), historian and army officer
Christopher Hart (also as William Napier, b. 1965), novelist
Adam Hart-Davis (born 1943), writer and broadcaster
Duff Hart-Davis (born 1936), biographer and naturalist
Walter Harte (1709–1774), poet and historian
David Hartley (1705–1757), philosopher and psychologist
John Hartley (1839–1915), dialect poet and writer
L. P. Hartley (1895–1972), novelist, The Go-Between
Frederick William Harvey (1888–1957), poet
Gabriel Harvey (c. 1545–1630), poet and writer
John Harvey (born 1938), novelist
William Harvey (1578–1657), physician
F. W. Harvey (1888–1957), poet
W. F. Harvey (1885–1937), story writer
Lee Harwood (1939–2015), poet
Alamgir Hashmi (born 1951), poet and scholar
Minnie Louise Haskins (1875–1957), poet and welfare worker
Christopher Hassall (1912–1963), playwright, actor and poet
Edward Hasted (1732–1812), historian
Michael Hastings (1938–2011), playwright, novelist and screenwriter
Richard Hathwaye, (fl. 1597–1603) playwright
Ann Hatton (wrote as Ann of Swansea, 1764–1838), novelist
Joseph Hatton (1841–1907), novelist and editor
William Haughton (died 1605), playwright
Frances Ridley Havergal (1836–1879), poet and hymnist
Stephen Hawes (c. 1474–1523), poet
Robert Stephen Hawker (1803–1875), poet and cleric
John Hawkesworth (1715–1773), writer, editor and playwright
John Hawkins (1719–1789), writer and biographer
Laetitia Matilda Hawkins (1759–1835), novelist
Spike Hawkins (born 1943), poet and performer
Thomas Hawkins (1575 – c. 1640), poet and translator
Ian Hay (real name John Hay Beith, 1876–1952), novelist and playwright
Roy Hay (1910–1989), garden writer and broadcaster
William Hayley (1745–1820), poet, playwright and biographer
Carole Hayman (living), novelist, screenwriter and actor
Robert Hayman (1575–1629), poet and colonist
Mary Hays (1759–1843), novelist
Alethea Hayter (1911–2006), biographer and historian
William Hayter (diplomat) (1906–1995), writer
Abraham Hayward (1801–1884), essayist
John Hayward (c. 1560–1627), historian
Eliza Haywood (1793–1756), novelist, playwright and poet
C. H. Hazlewood (1823–1875), playwright
William Hazlitt (1778–1830), essayist and critic
Mary Hearne (fl. 1718), novelist
Thomas Hearne or Hearn (1678–1735), antiquary and scholar
Ambrose Heath (originally Francis Geoffrey Miller, 1891–1969), cookery writer and translator
Thomas Little Heath (1861–1940), classicist and translator
John Heath-Stubbs (1918–2006), poet, translator and anthologist
Reginald Heber (1783–1826), poet, hymnist and bishop
Richard Heber (1773–1833), classicist and editor
Annie French Hector (Mrs Alexander, 1825–1902), novelist
Zoë Heller (born 1965), novelist and journalist
Elizabeth Helme (c. 1753 – c. 1812), novelist and translator
Arthur Helps (1813–1875), writer, novelist and biographer
Racey Helps (1913–1970), children's writer
Felicia Hemans (1793–1835), poet
Maggie Hemingway (1946–1993), novelist
John Henley (1692–1756), poet, writer and cleric
Samuel Henley (1740–1815), poet and writer
William Ernest Henley (1849–1903), poet
Charles Frederick Henningsen (1815–1877), writer and mercenary
Robert Henriques (1905–1967), novelist and biographer
Alan Henry (1947–2016), Grand Prix reporter and writer.
Matthew Henry (1662–1714), Bible commentator and cleric
Philip Henry (1631–1696), diarist and cleric
John Stevens Henslow (1796–1861), botanist, geologist and cleric
Philip Henslowe, (c. 1550–1616), diarist and theatre manager
G. A. Henty, (1832–1902), novelist
Philip Hensher (born 1965), novelist and critic
Rayner Heppenstall (1911–1981), novelist and poet
John Abraham Heraud (1799–1887), poet, playwright and critic
A. P. Herbert (1890–1971), humorist, novelist and playwright
Edward Herbert, Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1583–1648), poet and soldier
George Herbert (1593–1633), poet
James Herbert (1943–2013), novelist
Mary Herbert, countess of Pembroke (1561–1621), poet and translator
William Herbert (1718–1795), bibliographer
William Herbert (1771–1851), antiquary and librarian
William Herbert (1778–1847), poet, cleric and botanist
Edward Heron-Allen (1861–1943), novelist, historian and translator
Robert Herrick (1591–1674), poet and cleric
James Herriot (pen name of James Alfred Wight, 1916–1995), writer
Elizabeth Hervey (1759–1824), novelist
John Hervey (1696–1743), political writer and memoirist
Thomas Kibble Hervey (1799–1859), poet and critic
D. G. Hessayon (born 1928), garden writer
Maurice Hewlett (1861–1923), historical novelist and poet
John Hey (1734–1815), theologian and poet
Richard Hey (1745–1835), essayist and academic
William Hey (1736–1819), surgeon
Christopher Heydon (1561–1623), astrologist
John Heydon (1629 – c. 1667), astrologer and Rosicrucian
Georgette Heyer (1902–1974), novelist
Peter Heylin or Heylyn (1600–1662), pamphleteer and cleric
Jasper Heywood (1535–1598), poet and translator
John Heywood (c. 1497 – c. 1580), playwright and poet
Thomas Heywood (early 1570s – 1641), playwright, A Woman Killed with Kindness
Eleanor Hibbert (originally Eleanor Alice Burford, wrote as Jean Plaidy, etc., 1906–1993), novelist
Robert Smythe Hichens (1864–1950), novelist and playwright
William Hickey (1749–1830), memoirist
Jack Higgins (wrote as Harry Patterson, 1929–2022), novelist
Philip E. High (1914–2006), science fiction novelist
Susanna Highmore (1690–1750), poet
Aaron Hill (1685–1750), playwright and writer
Christopher Hill (1912–2003), historian
Eric Hill (1927–2014), children's writer and illustrator
Geoffrey Hill (1932–2016), poet and academic
John Hill (c. 1716–1775), novelist, journalist and botanist
Justin Hill (born 1971), novelist, biographer and translator
Lorna Hill (1902–1991), children's writer and novelist
Octavia Hill (1838–1912), social reformer
Reginald Hill (1936–2012), novelist
Rosemary Hill (living), cultural historian and biographer
Selima Hill (born 1945), poet
Susan Hill (born 1942), novelist and writer
Tobias Hill (born 1970), novelist and poet
Mischa Hiller (born 1962), novelist
Lawrence D. Hills (1911–1991), garden writer
Jeff Hilson (born 1966), poet
James Hilton (1900–1954), novelist
Lisa Hilton (living), novelist and biographer
Walter Hilton (1340–1396), mystic
Barry Hines (1939–2016), novelist
Nigel Hinton (born 1941), novelist and children's writer
Shakespeare Hirst (1841–1907), actor, author and Shakespearean
William Henry Hitchener (fl. 1813), travel writer
Henry Hitchings (born 1974), writer and scholar
Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980), screenwriter and director
Christopher Eric Hitchens (1949–2011), writer and journalist
Benjamin Hoadly (1676–1761), polemicist and bishop
Louisa Gurney Hoare (1784–1836), diarist and educator
Richard Colt Hoare (1758–1838), diarist, travel writer and antiquary
Thomas Hobbes, (1588–1679) political philosopher, Leviathan
Peter Hobbs (born 1973), novelist
John Hobhouse, 1st Baron Broughton (1786–1869), political writer and diarist
Eric Hobsbawm (1917–2012), historian
Margaret Hoby (1571–1633), diarist
Joseph Hocking (1860–1937), novelist and cleric
Silas Hocking (1850–1935), novelist and cleric
Jane Aiken Hodge (1917–2009), novelist
C. Walter Hodges (1909–2004), children's writer and illustrator
Ralph Hodgson (1871–1962), poet and translator
Shadworth Hodgson (1832–1912), philosopher
W. N. Hodgson (wrote as Edward Melbourne, 1893–1916), poet
Barbara Hofland (1770–1844), children's writer
Thomas Jefferson Hogg (1792–1862), biographer
Simon Hoggart (1946–2014), writer and broadcaster
Pete Hoida (born 1944), poet and painter
Fanny Holcroft (1780–1844), novelist and poet
Thomas Holcroft (1745–1809), playwright and miscellanist
Molly Holden (1927–1981), poet
William Holder (1616–1698), music scholar and cleric
Robert Holdstock (1948–2009), novelist
Margaret Holford (1757–1834), novelist, playwright and poet
Margaret Holford (1778–1852), poet and translator
Raphael Holinshed (1529–1580), chronicler, translator and cleric
Abraham Holland (died 1626), poet
Jane Holland (born 1966), poet and novelist
John Holland (1794–1872), poet and journalist
Philemon Holland (1552–1637), translator
Sarah Holland (born 1961), writer and actress
Thomas Holland (1539–1612), scholar, AV translator and cleric
William Holland (1746–1819), diarist and cleric
Helen Hollick (born 1953), novelist
Alan Hollinghurst (born 1954), novelist and translator
John Holloway (1920–1999), poet and scholar
Constance Holme (1880–1955), novelist and playwright
John Holmes (1703–1760), educator
Richard Holmes (born 1945), biographer
Robert Holmes (1926–1986), scriptwriter
Emily Sarah Holt (1836–1893), novelist and children's writer
Hazel Holt (1928–2015), novelist
Winifred Holtby (1898–1935), novelist
Stewart Home (born 1962), novelist, writer and artist
Joseph Hone (1937–2016), novelist
William Hone (1780–1842), satirist and bookseller
Thomas Hood (1799–1845), poet and humorist
Tom Hood (1835–1874), humorist, playwright and poet
Theodore Hook (1788–1841), writer and prankster
Jeremy Hooker (born 1941), poet, critic and broadcaster
Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911), botanist and explorer
Richard Hooker (1554–1600), theologian
William Jackson Hooker (1785–1865), botanist
John Hoole (1727–1803), translator and poet
Alexander Beresford Hope (1820–1887), writer
Anthony Hope, (real name Anthony Hope Hawkins, 1863–1933) novelist, The Prisoner of Zenda
Thomas Hope (1769–1831), writer and novelist
Bill Hopkins (1928–2011), novelist
Cathy Hopkins (born 1953), children's novelist
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889), poet, "The Wreck of the Deutschland"
Simon Hopkinson (born 1954), food writer and chef
Sydney Horler (1888–1954), novelist
Alfred Aloysius Horn (1861–1931), travel writer
Nick Hornby (born 1957), novelist
Alistair Horne (1925–2017), historian and biographer
Kenneth Horne (1900–1975), playwright
Richard Henry Horne (1802–1884), poet and critic
Roy Horniman (1874–1930), novelist and playwright
E. W. Hornung (1866–1921), author, A. J. Raffles
Frances Horovitz (1938–1983), poet and broadcaster
Michael Horovitz (1935–2021), poet and translator
Anthony Horowitz (born 1956), novelist, children's writer and screenwriter
William Horwood (born 1944), novelist and children's writer
John Hoskins or Hoskyns (1566–1638), poet and politician
Clare Hoskyns-Abrahall (1900–1990), biographer and children's writer
Charlotte Hough (1924–2008), detective novelist and children's writer
Richard Hough (also as Bruce Carter, 1922–1999), maritime historian and children's writer
Stanley Bennett Hough (1917–1998), SF and thriller writer
Stanley Houghton (1881–1913), playwright
Geoffrey Household (1900–1988), novelist
A. E. Housman (1859–1936), poet and scholar, A Shropshire Lad
Laurence Housman (1865–1959), playwright
Anne Howard (c. 1696–1764), poet
Brian Howard (1905–1958), poet
Edward Howard (1624 – c. 1700), playwright and poet
Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923–2014), novelist
Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle, Earl of Carlisle (1748–1825), poet, playwright and pamphleteer
Hartley Howard (real name Leopold Horace Ognall, also as Harry Carmichael, 1908–1979), crime novelist
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517–1547), poet
Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton (1540–1614), writer and courtier
John Howard (1726–1790), philanthropist and reformer
Robert Howard (1626–1698), playwright
Sandra Howard (born 1940), novelist
David Armine Howarth (1912–1991), historian and writer
James Howell (1594–1666), Historiographer Royal and poet
Francis Howgill (1618–1668), Quaker writer and preacher
Anna Mary Howitt (1824–1884), poet, writer and painter
Mary Howitt (1799–1888), poet and translator
Richard Howitt (1799–1869), poet
William Howitt (1792–1879), writer and traveller
Edmond Hoyle (1672–1769), writer on games
Fred Hoyle (1915–2001), astronomer and SF writer
Geoffrey Hoyle (born 1942), SF writer
Sisley Huddleston (1883–1952), writer and journalist
Stephen Hudson (real name Sydney Schiff, 1868–1944), novelist and translator
Pauline von Hügel (1858-1901), religious writer
David Hughes (1930–2005), novelist and biographer
Frieda Hughes (born 1960), children's writer, poet and painter
Molly Hughes (1866–1956), writer and educator
Richard Hughes (1900–1976), poet, novelist and playwright, A High Wind in Jamaica
Shirley Hughes (1927–2022), children's writer and illustrator
Ted Hughes (1930–1998), Poet Laureate, translator and anthologist
Thomas Hughes (1822–1896), writer and novelist, Tom Brown's Schooldays
E. M. Hull (real name Edith Maude Winstanley, 1880–1947), novelist
Katharine Hull (1921–1977) and Pamela Whitlock (1920–1982), children's writers, The Far-Distant Oxus
T. E. Hulme (1883–1917), critic and poet
Michael Hulse (born 1955), translator, critic and poet
Fergus Hume (1859–1932), novelist
Tobias Hume (c. 1590–1645), musician and poet
Helen Humphreys (born 1961), poet and novelist
Neil Humphreys (born 1974), writer on Singapore
Leigh Hunt (1784–1859), poet and essayist
Violet Hunt (1862–1942), novelist and biographer
John Hunter (1737–1821), explorer, travel writer and naval officer
Norman Hunter (1899–1995), children's novelist, Professor Branestawm
Rachel Hunter (c. 1754–1813), novelist
Richard Hurd, (1720–1808), writer, translator and bishop
James Hurdis (1763–1801), poet and cleric
Hyman Hurwitz (1770–1844), writer and scholar
Dyneley Hussey (1893–1972), poet and music critic
Sheila Hutchins (living), cookery-book writer
A. S. M. Hutchinson (1880–1971), novelist
John Hutchinson (1674–1737), theologian
Lucy Hutchinson (1620–1681), biographer and translator
R. C. Hutchinson (1907–1975), novelist
Ralph Hutchinson (c. 1553–1606), scholar, AV translator and cleric
Angela Huth (born 1938), novelist and playwright
Leonard Hutten (c. 1557–1632), scholar, AV translator and cleric
Catherine Hutton (1756–1846), novelist and correspondent
William Hutton (1723–1815), poet and historian
Richard Holt Hutton (1826–1897), writer and theologian
Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), novelist and essayist, Brave New World
Julian Huxley (1887–1975), zoologist, philosopher and science writer
Leonard Huxley (1860–1933), writer, biographer and editor
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895), scientist and essayist
Edward Hyde, Lord Clarendon (1609–1674), historian and statesman
Liz Hyder (born 1976 or 1977), novelist
Timothy Hyman (born 1946), art writer
Henry Hyndman (1842–1921), writer and politician

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Eva Ibbotson (1925–2010), novelist and children's writer
David Icke (born 1952), writer and public speaker
Conn Iggulden (born 1971), novelist and children's writer
Selwyn Image (1849–1930), poet, designer and cleric
Elijah Impey (1732–1809), memoirist and judge
Elizabeth Inchbald (1753–1821), novelist and playwright
William Ralph Inge (known as Dean Inge, 1860–1954), writer, theologian and cleric
Thomas Ingelend (fl. 1560), The Disobedient Child
Jean Ingelow (1820–1897), poet and novelist
Julia, Lady Inglis (1833–1904), diarist
Simon Ings (born 1965), novelist and science writer
Mick Inkpen (born 1952), children's writer and illustrator
Hammond Innes (also as Ralph Hammond, 1919–1998), novelist and children's writer
Samuel Ireland (1744–1800), writer and engraver
William Henry Ireland (1775–1835), poet, novelist and forger
David Irving (born 1938), Holocaust denier
R. L. G. Irving (1877–1969), mountaineering writer
Margaret Irwin (1889–1969), novelist and biographer
Robert Irwin (born 1946), historian, novelist and Arabist
Nathaniel Isaacs (1808–1872), traveller and writer
Christopher Isherwood (1904–1986), novelist, Goodbye to Berlin
Kazuo Ishiguro (born 1954), novelist, An Artist of the Floating World
Eric Ives (1931–2012), historian and biographer
George Cecil Ives (1867–1950), poet, diarist and reformer
Helen Ivory (born 1969), poet

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Donald Jack (1924–2003), novelist, playwright and scriptwriter
Benedict Jacka (living), YA novelist
Catherine Jackson (1824–1891), historian and editor
Mick Jackson (born 1960), novelist
Alaric Jacob (1909–1995), novelist and journalist
Anna Jacobs (born 1941), novelist
Joseph Jacobs (1854–1916), folklorist and historian
W. W. Jacobs (1863–1943), novelist and story writer, The Monkey's Paw
Howard Jacobson (born 1942), novelist and journalist
Brian Jacques (1939–2011), novelist
Frances Jacson (1754–1842), novelist
Richard Jago (1715–1781), poet and cleric
Christopher James (born 1975), poet
Elinor James (1644–1719), polemicist and printer
G. P. R. James (1799–1860), novelist and Historiographer Royal
M. R. James (1862–1936), story writer and scholar, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
P. D. James (1920–2014), novelist
Robert Rhodes James (1933–1999), biographer, historian and politician
Thomas James (1573–1629), librarian and poet
William Milbourne James (1881–1973), writer, poet and admiral
Anna Brownell Jameson (1794–1860), travel writer and art critic
Storm Jameson (1891–1986), novelist and autobiographer
James Janeway (1636–1674), children's writer
Rosemary Hawley Jarman (1935–2015), novelist and story writer
Claude Scudamore Jarvis (1879–1953), writer and naturalist
Antony Jay (1930–2016), writer, broadcaster, and director
John Cordy Jeaffreson (1831–1901), novelist and non-fiction writer
Tim Jeal (born 1945), novelist and biographer
James Hopwood Jeans (1877–1946), writer and astronomer
Samuel Jebb (c. 1694–1772), scholar and physician
Richard Jefferies (1848–1887), nature writer and essayist
Agnes Jekyll (1861–1937), writer
Gertrude Jekyll (1843–1932), garden writer
Alan Jenkins (born 1955), poet
Amy Jenkins (born 1966), novelist and screenwriter
Peter Jenkins (1934–1992), journalist and screenwriter
Elizabeth Jennings (1926–2001), poet
Humphrey Jennings (1907–1950), writer and film maker
Soame Jenyns (1704–1787), poet and essayist
Edgar Jepson (also as R. Edison Page, 1863–1938), writer and novelist
Selwyn Jepson (1899–1989), crime writer
Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927), humorist and playwright, Three Men in a Boat
Douglas William Jerrold (1803–1857), playwright, novelist and essayist
John Heneage Jesse (1809–1874), historian and poet
William Stanley Jevons (1840–1882), economist and logician
Geraldine Jewsbury (1812–1880), novelist and critic
Maria Jane Jewsbury (1800–1833), poet and critic
C. E. M. Joad (1891–1953), philosopher and broadcaster
Elizabeth Jocelin (c. 1595–1622), writer on child-raising
Rowan Joffé (born 1973), screenwriter
W. E. Johns (1893–1968), novelist and pilot, Biggles
B. S. Johnson (1933–1973), novelist and editor
Lionel Johnson (1867–1902), poet and essayist
Pamela Hansford Johnson (1912–1981), novelist, playwright and critic
Richard Johnson (1573 – c. 1659), writer
Samuel Johnson (1649–1703), pamphleteer and cleric
Samuel Johnson, (1709–1784) writer, poet and lexicographer
Kate Johnson (born c. 1980), writer
Brian Jones (1938–2009), poet
Charlotte Jones (living), playwright and actress
David Jones (1895–1974), poet, writer and artist
Daniel Jones (1881–1967), phonetician
Diana Wynne Jones (1934–2011), novelist
Ebenezer Jones (1820–1860), poet
Ernest Charles Jones (1819–1869), poet, novelist and Chartist
Henry Arthur Jones (1851–1929), playwright
Lara Jones (1975–2010), children's writer Poppy Cat series
Sadie Jones (born 1967), novelist
Tobias Jones (living), writer
William Jones (1726–1800), theologian and cleric
William Jones (1746–1794), polyglot and poet
Ben Jonson (1573–1637), poet and dramatist, Bartholomew Fair
Robert Furneaux Jordan (1905–1978), crime writer and critic
John Jortin (1698–1770), biographer and historian
Jenny Joseph (1932–2018), poet and novelist
Gabriel Josipovici (born 1940), novelist and critic
John Josselyn (fl. 1638–1675), writer and traveller
Benjamin Jowett (1817–1893), scholar and translator
Graham Joyce (1954–2014), novelist and YA writer
Alan Judd (born 1946), novelist and biographer
Tony Judt (1948–2010), historian and political writer

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