List of English writers (K–Q)

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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Carrie Kabak (born 1951), novelist and illustrator
Sarah Kane (1971–1999), playwright
Anna Kavan (also as Helen Ferguson, real name Helen Emily Woods, 1901–1968), novelist and painter
Joanna Kavenna (born 1974), novelist and travel writer
Sheila Kaye-Smith (1887–1956), novelist
Judith Kazantzis (1940–2018), poet and anthologist
Annie Keary (1825–1879), novelist, poet and children's writer
Jonathan Keates (born 1946), writer and novelist
John Keats (1795–1821), poet, "Ode to a Nightingale"
John Keble (1792–1866), poet and cleric
Maurice Keen (1933–2012), historian
Ann Kelley (born 1941), children's writer and poet
Herbert Kelly (1860–1950), religious writer and cleric
Sheelagh Kelly (born 1948), historical novelist
Fanny Kemble (1809–1893), playwright, diarist and actress
Gene Kemp (1926–2015), children's writer
Jonathan Kemp (born 1967), novelist
Margery Kempe (c. 1373 – post–1438), mystic
Thomas Ken (1637–1711), hymnist and cleric
May Kendall (real name Emma Goldworth Kendall, 1861 – c. 1943), poet, novelist and satirist
Tim Kendall (born 1970), poet, editor and critic
Luke Kennard (born 1982), poet and lecturer
Lena Kennedy (1914–1986), novelist
Margaret Kennedy (1896–1967), novelist and playwright
Ally Kennen (born 1975), children's writer and singer
White Kennett (1660–1728), antiquary, writer and bishop
Charles Lamb Kenney (1823–1881), librettist and miscellanist
James Kenney (1780–1849), playwright
William Kenrick (c. 1725–1779), satirist and playwright
Judith Kerr (1923–2019), children's writer and screenwriter
Lady Amabel Kerr (1846-1906), biographer, children's writer, novelist
David Kessler (also as Adam Palmer, born 1957), novelist
R. W. Ketton-Cremer (1906–1969), local historian and biographer
Sidney Keyes (1922–1943), poet
John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946), economist
Vaseem Khan (born 1973), novelist
Richard Kilby (1560–1620), scholar, AV translator and cleric
Anne Killigrew (1660–1685), poet
Henry Killigrew (1613–1700), playwright and cleric
Thomas Killigrew (1612–1683), playwright
William Killigrew (1606–1695), playwright and courtier
Francis Kilvert (1840–1879), diarist and cleric
Clive King (1924–2018), children's writer
Daren King (born 1972), novelist and children's writer
Francis King (1923–2011), novelist and story writer
Geoffrey King (fl. 1600s), theologian, AV translator and cleric
Gregory King (1648–1712), statistician and genealogist
Henry King (1592–1669), poet and bishop
William King (1663–1712), poet and essayist
William King (born 1959), novelist
Desmond King-Hele (1927–2019), writer and physicist
Alexander William Kinglake (1809–1891), travel writer and historian
Charles Kingsley (1819–1875), novelist, The Water Babies
Henry Kingsley (1830–1876), novelist
Mary Kingsley (1862–1900), ethnographer and explorer
Peter Kingsley (born 1953), philosopher
Hugh Kingsmill (1889–1949), novelist, humorist and biographer
Dick King-Smith (1922–2011), children's writer
W. H. G. Kingston (1814–1880), children's writer
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), novelist, essayist and poet, The Jungle Book
Andrew Kippis (1725–1795), writer and Presbyterian minister
William Kirby (1759–1850), entomologist
Geoffrey Kirk (1921–2003), classicist
Francis Kirkman (1632 – c. 1680), writer and bookseller
James Kirkup (1918–2009), poet, translator and travel writer
C. H. B. Kitchin (1895–1967), novelist
Flora Klickmann (1867–1958), journalist, editor and children's writer
Matthew Kneale (born 1960), novelist, English Passengers
Nigel Kneale (1922–2006), screenwriter and genre novelist
Anne Knight (1792–1860), children's writer and educator
Charles Knight (1791–1873), writer and publisher
Ellis Cornelia Knight (1757–1837), novelist and painter
Eric Knight (1897–1943), novelist and children's writer, Lassie Come-Home
G. Wilson Knight (1897–1985), critic and scholar
Henry Gally Knight (1786–1846), novelist and architecture writer
Richard Payne Knight (1750–1824), classicist and connoisseur
Samuel Knight (1675–1746), biographer, antiquary and cleric
Stephen Knight (1951–1985), writer
Stephen Thomas Knight (born 1940), literary historian
Richard Knolles (c. 1545–1610), historian and translator
Hanserd Knollys (1599–1691), translator and Baptist minister
Frederick Knott (1916–2002), playwright and screenwriter
Ronald Knox (1888–1957), writer, translator and theologian
Vicesimus Knox (1752–1821), essayist and cleric
Dorothy Koomson (born 1971), novelist,
Bernard Kops (1926–2024), playwright and novelist
Michael Korda (born 1933), writer and editor
Hari Kunzru (born 1969), novelist
Hanif Kureishi (born 1954), novelist and playwright
Thomas Kyd (1558–1595), playwright, The Spanish Tragedy
Francis Kynaston (1587–1642), poet and translator

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Ian La Frenais (born 1936), scriptwriter
Robert Lacey (born 1944), biographer and historian
James Lackington (1746–1815), memoirist
Thomas Hailes Lacy (1809–1873), playwright and publisher
Olivia Laing (born 1977), fiction and non-fiction
Andrew Lamb (born 1942), writer on music
Caroline Lamb (1785–1828), novelist
Charles (1775–1834) and Mary Lamb (1764–1847), essayists
Charlotte Lamb (real name Sarah Coates, several pen names, 1937–2000), novelist
Lynton Lamb (1907–1977), crime writer and illustrator
Constant Lambert (1905–1951, England, Mu/D), music critic and librettist
Derek Lambert (also as Nigel Falkirk, 1929–2001), thriller writer
Joseph Lancaster (1778–1838), educator
Osbert Lancaster (1908–1986), writer and cartoonist
John Lanchester (born 1962), journalist and novelist
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (wrote as L. E. L., 1802–1838), poet and novelist
Robert Eyres Landor (1781–1869), playwright, poet and cleric
Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864), writer and poet
Edward William Lane (1801–1876), scholar and translator
Jane Lane (1905–1978), historical novelist and biographer
Joel Lane (born 1963), novelist, story writer and poet
John Langhorne (1735–1779), poet and translator
William Langland (c. 1332 – c. 1386), poet, Piers Plowman
Peter Langtoft (died c. 1305), chronicler
Bennet Langton (1736–1801), writer
Emilia Lanier or Lanyer, (1569–1645) poet
R. F. Langley (1938–2011), poet
Nathaniel Lardner (1684–1768), theologian
Philip Larkin (1922–1985), poet
Michael Laskey (born 1944), poet and editor
Harold Laski (1893–1950), political writer
Marghanita Laski (1915–1988), novelist and broadcaster
David Lassman (born 1963), writer and scriptwriter
Francis Lathom (1774–1832), novelist and playwright
Hugh Latimer (c. 1487–1555), preacher, bishop and martyr
William Laud (1573–1645), theologian, archbishop and martyr
Hugh Laurie (born 1959), novelist and actor
William Law (1686–1761), theologian.
D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930), novelist and poet, Sons and Lovers
George A. Lawrence (1827–1876), novelist
T. E. Lawrence (1888–1935), writer and soldier, Seven Pillars of Wisdom
William Lawrence (1783–1867), scientist
Benjamin Lay (1681–1760), pamphleteer
Cecil Howard Lay (1885–1956), poet and artist
Layamon or Laȝamon (early 13th c.), chronicler
John Layfield (died 1617), scholar, AV translator and cleric
John le Carré (real name D. J. M. Cornwell, 1931–2020), thriller writer, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Richard Le Gallienne (1866–1947), writer and poet
William Le Queux (1866–1947), novelist, poet and essayist
Jane Leade (1624–1704), religious writer
Mary Leapor (1722–1746), poet
Edward Lear (1812–1888), poet and artist, The Owl and the Pussycat
James Leasor (1923–2007), novelist and historian
Stephen Leather (born 1956), novelist
F. R. Leavis (1895–1978), critic and editor
Norman Lebrecht (born 1948), music writer
Francis Nigel Lee (1934–2011), theologian
Harriet Lee (1757–1851), novelist and playwright
Laurie Lee (1914–1997), poet and memoirist, Cider with Rosie
Nathaniel Lee (1653–1692), playwright
Sidney Lee (1859–1926), biographer and critic
Sophia Lee (1750–1824), novelist and playwright
Vernon Lee (real name Violet Paget, 1856–1935), novelist and essayist
Eugene Lee-Hamilton (1845–1907), poet
James Lees-Milne (1908–1997), writer and diarist
Joseph Leftwich (real name Lefkovicz, 1892–1984), poet, translator and anthologist
John Lehmann (1907–1987), poet and editor
R. C. Lehmann (1856–1929), writer and lyricist
Rosamond Lehmann (1901–1990), novelist, autobiographer and translator
Chandos Leigh (1791–1850), writer and poet
Dorothy Leigh (died c. 1616), writer on child-raising
Richard Leigh (1649/1650–1728), poet
Clare Leighton (1898–1989), writer and illustrator
John Leland or Leyland (c. 1503/1506–1552), antiquary
John Leland (1691–1766), writer and Presbyterian minister
Mark Lemon (1809–1870), playwright, novelist and editor
John Lemprière (c. 1765–1824), scholar and lexicographer
Sue Lenier (born 1957) poet and playwright
Rebecca Lenkiewicz (born 1968), playwright
John Lennon (1940–1980), singer and songwriter
Charlotte Lennox (1730–1804), writer and poet
Alan Leo (real name William Frederick Allan, 1860–1917), astrologer
Roger L'Estrange (1615–1704), pamphleteer and translator
Ada Leverson (1862–1933), novelist
Denise Levertov (1923–1997), poet
Michael Levey (1927–2008), art historian
Peter Levi (1931–2000), poet, critic and travel writer
Bernard Levin (1928–2004), writer and broadcaster
Amy Levy (1861–1889), poet and novelist
Andrea Levy (1956–2019), novelist
Juliette de Baïracli Levy (1912–2009), herbalist
Tim Lewens (born 1974), philosopher
George Henry Lewes (1817–1878), philosopher and critic
Alethea Lewis (wrote as Eugenia De Acton, 1749–1827), novelist
C. S. Lewis (1898–1963), novelist, children's writer and critic, The Chronicles of Narnia
David Lewis (1682–1760), poet and playwright
George Cornewall Lewis (1806–1863), writer, philologist and politician
Hilda Lewis (1896–1974), novelist and children's writer
Leopold David Lewis (1828–1890), playwright and translator
Matthew Lewis (1775–1818), novelist and diarist
Roger Lewis (born 1960), biographer and scholar
Ted Lewis (1940–1982), novelist and screenwriter
Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957), writer and painter
Marina Lewycka (born 1946), novelist and medical writer
Anne Ley (c. 1599–1641), writer, teacher, and polemicist
Peter Leycester (1614–1678), antiquary and historian
Nell Leyshon (living), dramatist and novelist
Henry George Liddell (1811–1898), scholar, lexicographer and cleric
John Lilburne (c. 1614–1657), pamphleteer
George Lillo (1693–1739), playwright
Thomas Linacre or Lynaker (c. 1460–1524), physician and translator
David Lindsay (1876–1945), novelist
John Lingard (1771–1851), historian and hymnist
Martin Lings (1909–2005), scholar and poet
William Linley (1771–1835), writer and musician
Eliza Lynn Linton (1822–1898), novelist and essayist
Mary Linwood (1755–1845), novelist and needlewoman
Suzannah Lipscomb (born 1978), historian and broadcaster
Anne Lister (1791–1840), diarist and traveller
S. E. Lister (born 1988), historical novelist
Thomas Henry Lister (1800–1842), novelist
Toby Litt (born 1968), novelist and editor
Emanuel Litvinoff (1915–2011), novelist, poet and autobiographer
Edward Lively (1545–1605), scholar, AV translator and cleric
Penelope Lively (born 1933), novelist and children's writer
Richard Llewellyn (real name Richard Llewellyn Lloyd, 1906–1983), novelist and screenwriter
Charles Lloyd (1775–1839), poet and translator
Christopher Lloyd (1921–2006), garden writer
Robert Lloyd (1733–1764), poet and satirist
John Locke (1632–1704), philosopher, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
William John Locke (1863–1930), novelist and playwright
Frederick Locker-Lampson (1821–1895), poet
David Lodge (author) (1935–2025), novelist and critic
Edmund Lodge (1756–1839), herald and biographer
Oliver Lodge (1851–1940), physicist and science writer
Oliver W. F. Lodge (1878–1955), poet and playwright
Thomas Lodge (c. 1558–1625), playwright and poet
Tom Lodge (1936–2012), writer and broadcaster
John Lodwick (1916–1959), novelist
Hugh Lofting (1886–1947), children's writer and poet, Dr. Dolittle
Norah Lofts (1904–1983), novelist and biographer
Christopher Logue (1926–2011), poet and screenwriter
Herbert Lomas (1924–2011), poet and translator
Charles Edward Long (1796–1861), antiquary
George Long (1800–1879), polymath and translator
Kate Long (born 1964), novelist, The Bad Mother's Handbook
Elizabeth Longford (1906–2002), biographer
Roger Longrigg (1939–2000), novelist
E. C. R. Lorac (real name Edith Caroline Rivett, also as Carol Carnac, 1884–1959), novelist
Jane C. Loudon (1807–1858), novelist
Nicholas Love (died c. 1424), translator and prior
Richard Lovelace (1618–1657), poet
Henry Lovelich (fl. 15th c.), poet and translator
Peter Lovesey (1936–2025), crime writer
William Lovett (1800–1877), writer and Chartist
Archibald Low (1888–1956), science writer
Sidney James Mark Low (1857–1932), historian
Edward Lowbury (1913–2007), poet and bacteriologist
Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes (1868–1947), novelist
William Thomas Lowndes (c. 1798–1843), bibliographer
Malcolm Lowry (1909–1957), poet and novelist
Robert Lowth (1710–1787), poet, bishop and grammarian
Mina Loy (originally Mina Gertrude Löwry, 1882–1966), poet, playwright and novelist
John Lubbock (1834–1913), scientist and politician
Percy Lubbock (1879–1965), essayist and biographer
E. V. Lucas (1868–1938), essayist
F. L. Lucas (1894–1967), classicist and poet
Edward Lucie-Smith (born 1933), writer and poet
Edmund Ludlow (c. 1617–1692), memoirist
Jane Lumley, Lady Lumley (1537–1538), translator
Arnold Lunn (1888–1874), writer and skier
Henry Luttrell (c. 1765–1851), poet
Narcissus Luttrell (1657–1732), historian
Alfred Comyn Lyall (1835–1911), historian and poet
Gavin Lyall (1932–2003), thriller writer
John Lydgate (c. 1370 – c. 1451), poet
Charles Lyell (1797–1875), geologist
John Lyly (1553/1554–1606), writer and dramatist
Jonathan Lynn (born 1943), screenwriter and novelist
Elinor Lyon (1921–2008), children's writer
P. H. B. Lyon (1893–1986), poet and school headmaster
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton (1709–1773), politician and poet
George William Lyttelton (1883–1962), correspondent and educator
Rosina Bulwer Lytton (1802–1882), novelist and campaigner

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James Mabbe (1572–1642), poet and translator
Richard Mabey (born 1941), nature writer
Catharine Macaulay (1731–1791), historian
Rose Macaulay (1881–1958), novelist and biographer
Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859), historian and poet
Desmond MacCarthy (1877–1952), critic
Fiona MacCarthy (1940–2020), biographer and cultural historian
Philip MacDonald (also as Oliver Fleming, etc., 1900–1980), novelist and screenwriter
A. G. Macdonell (1895–1941), essayist, England, Their England
Robert Macfarlane (born 1976), travel writer and critic
William McFee (1881–1966), novelist and essayist
Arthur Machen, (originally Arthur Llewelyn Jones, 1863–1947) novelist and mystic
Colin MacInnes (1914–1976), novelist
Ben Macintyre (born 1963), biographer
Denis Mackail (1892–1971), novelist
Compton Mackenzie (1883–1972), novelist, Whisky Galore
Serena Mackesy (living), novelist
Mary Mackie (living), novelist and non-fiction writer
Joseph Macleod (also as Adam Drinan, 1903–1984), poet, playwright and broadcaster
Barry MacSweeney (1948–2000), poet and journalist
Falconer Madan (1851–1935), writer and bibliographer
Judith Madan (born Judith Cowper, 1702–1781), poet
Martin Madan (1726–1790), writer, translator and cleric
Charles Madge (1912–1996), poet and sociologist
Thomas Madox (1666–1727), Historiographer Royal and antiquary
Bryan Magee (1930–2019), writer and broadcaster
Magnus Magnusson (1929–2007), broadcaster, scholar and translator
Michelle Magorian (born 1947), children's writer, Goodnight Mister Tom
Henry James Sumner Maine (1822–1888), jurist and historian
Petre Mais (1885–1975), travel writer and educator
Frederic William Maitland (1850–1906), jurist and historian
Julia Maitland (1808–1864), writer and traveller
Sara Maitland (born 1950), novelist and religious writer
Bathsua Makin (real name Bathsua Reginald, c. 1600 – c. 1675), writer and scholar
Lucas Malet (real name Mary St. Leger Kingsley, 1852–1931), novelist
William Hurrell Mallock (1849–1923), novelist, satirist and poet
Thomas Malory (c. 1430 – c. 1471), author, Le Morte d'Arthur
Eric Malpass (1910–1996), novelist
Thomas Robert Malthus (1766–1834), political economist
Bernard Mandeville (1670–1733), philosopher and satirist
Richmal Mangnall (1769–1820), schoolbook writer
Andrew Mango (1926–2014), writer and broadcaster
H. A. Manhood (1904–1991), short story writer
Guy Mankowski (born 1983), writer
Delarivier Manley (1663 or 1670–1724), novelist, playwright and pamphleteer
Mary E. Mann (1848–1929), novelist and story writer
George Manners (1778–1853), writer and editor
Ethel Mannin (1900–1984), novelist, essayist and travel writer
Anne Manning (1807–1879), novelist
Olivia Manning (1908–1980), novelist and critic, Fortunes of War
Ruth Manning-Sanders (1886–1988), poet and children's writer
Sarra Manning, writer and journalist
Robert Mannyng (c. 1275 – c. 1338), poet and chronicler, Handlyng Synne
Henry Longueville Mansel (1820–1871), philosopher
Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923), story writer and poet, The Garden Party
Keith Mansfield (born 1965), novelist and screenwriter
Richard Mant (1776–1848), writer, translator and cleric
Hilary Mantel (1952–2022), novelist and critic, Wolf Hall
Thomas Manton (1620–1677), theologian and Puritan minister
Francis Marbury or Merbury (1555–1611), playwright and cleric
Jane Marcet (1769–1858), science writer for children
Bessie Marchant (1862–1941), children's writer
Jan Mark, (originally Janet Marjorie Brisland, 1943–2006) children's writer
Gervase Markham (c. 1568–1637), poet and writer
Mrs. Markham (real name Elizabeth Penrose, 1780–1837), children's writer
Stephen Marley (born 1946), novelist and screenwriter
Tim Marlow (born 1963), art historian and broadcaster
Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593), playwright, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
Derek Marlowe (1938–1996), novelist and playwright
Martin Marprelate (pseudonym, fl. 1588–1590), tractarian
Ellen Marriage (1865–1946), translator, La Comédie humaine
Anthony Marriott (1931–2014), playwright and actor
Florence Marryat (1833–1899), novelist
Frederick Marryat (wrote as Captain Marryat, 1792–1848), novelist and children's writer, Mr Midshipman Easy
Philip Marsden (born 1961), travel writer and novelist
Edward Marsh (1872–1953), polymath and translator
Edward Garrard Marsh (1783–1862), poet and cleric
Richard Marsh (real name Richard Bernard Heldemann, 1857–1915), novelist
Alfred Marshall (1842–1924), economist
Archibald Marshall (1866–1934), novelist and journalist
Arthur Marshall (1910–1989), writer and broadcaster
Christabel Marshall (1871–1960), writer, playwright and suffragist
Emma Marshall (1830–1899), children's writer
Sybil Marshall (1913–2005), writer, novelist and educator
Adam Mars-Jones (born 1954), novelist and critic
John Marston (1576–1634), poet, playwright and satirist
John Westland Marston (1819–1890), playwright
Philip Bourke Marston (1850–1887), poet
Andrew Martin (born 1962), novelist
J. P. Martin (1879–1966), children's writer
William Martin (1767–1810), naturalist and palaeontologist
Harriet Martineau (1802–1876), sociologist and translator
James Martineau (1805–1900), philosopher
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678), poet
Eleanor Marx (1855–1898), translator and writer
Theo Marzials (1850–1920), poet and composer
Eric Maschwitz (1901–1969), writer and lyricist
John Masefield (1878–1967), Poet Laureate and novelist
A. E. W. Mason (1865–1948), novelist
Anita Mason (1942–2020), novelist
Paul Nicholas Mason (born 1958), novelist and playwright
Richard Mason (1919–1997), novelist
William Mason (1724–1797), poet
Gerald Massey (1828–1907), poet and Egyptologist
William Nathaniel Massey (1809–1881), writer and politician
Philip Massinger (1584–1640), playwright
Harold Massingham (1932–2011) poet
H. J. Massingham (1888–1952), nature writer and poet
John Masters (1914–1983), novelist, autobiographer and army officer
John Mastin (1747–1829), local historian and cleric
Steve Matchett (born 1962), writer and broadcaster
Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (1854–1918), occultist and translator
Ellen Buckingham Mathews (wrote as Helen Mathers, 1853–1920), novelist
Thomas James Mathias (c. 1754–1835), satirist and translator
Tobie Matthew (1577–1655), writer and translator
Aylmer and Louise Maude (1858–1938 and 1855–1939), translators and writers
Robin Maugham (1916–1981), novelist, playwright and travel writer
William Somerset Maugham (1874–1965), novelist and writer, The Moon and Sixpence
Henry Maundrell (1665–1701), travel writer and cleric
Frederick Denison Maurice (1805–1872), religious writer and socialist
Thomas Maurice (1754–1824), poet and historian
William Fordyce Mavor (1758–1837), schoolbook writer
Simon Mawer (1948–2025), novelist
Donald Maxwell (1877–1936), travel writer and illustrator
W. B. Maxwell (1866–1938), novelist
Thomas May (1595–1650), poet, playwright and translator
Henry Mayhew (1812–1887), social researcher and playwright, London Labour and the London Poor
James Mayhew (born 1964), children's writer and illustrator
Peter Mayle (1939–2018), writer and novelist
Jasper Mayne (1604–1672), poet and playwright
William Mayne (1928–2010), children's writer, A Grass Rope
Margaret Mayo (born 1936), novelist
F. M. Mayor (1872-1932), novelist and short story writer
Steve McCaffery (born 1947), poet and scholar
Maria McCann (born 1956), novelist
Keith McCarthy (born 1960), crime writer and pathologist
Tom McCarthy (born 1969), novelist and screenwriter
Geraldine McCaughrean (born 1951), novelist and children's writer
Derek McCulloch ("Uncle Mac", 1897–1967), children's writer and broadcaster
Flora McDonnell (born 1963), children's writer
Ian McEwan (born 1948), novelist and screenwriter
William McFee (1881–1966), story writer
James McGee, novelist
Roger McGough (born 1937), performance poet
John McGrath (1935–2002), playwright
Patrick McGrath (born 1950), novelist
Jon McGregor (born 1976), novelist
R. J. McGregor (1887–1961), children's novelist and playwright
Hilary McKay (born 1959), children's writer
Jamie McKendrick (born 1955), poet
Ronald Brunlees McKerrow (1872–1940), literary critic and bibliographer
Andy McNab (born 1959), novelist and soldier
H. C. McNeile (wrote as Sapper, 1888–1937), novelist, Bulldog Drummond
Cilla McQueen (born 1949), poet
J. M. E. McTaggart (1866–1925), philosopher
G. R. S. Mead (1863–1933), writer and theosopher
Henry Medwall (c. 1462–1502), playwright
Thomas Medwin (1788–1869), poet, translator and biographer
Arthur Mee (1875–1943), writer and educator
Thomas Meech (1868–1940), writer and journalist
James Meek (born 1962), novelist
Mary Meeke (died c. 1816), novelist and translator
George Melly (1926–2007), writer, critic and musician
Charlotte Mendelson (born 1972), novelist
George Meredith (1828–1909), novelist and poet, The Egoist
Louisa Anne Meredith (1812–1895), poet and novelist
Francis Meres (1565–1672), anthologist and cleric
Charles Merivale (1808–1893), historian and cleric
Herman Charles Merivale (wrote as Felix Dale, 1839–1906), playwright and poet
Herman Merivale (1806–1874), historian
John Herman Merivale (1779–1844), man of letters
Leonard Merrick (1864–1939), novelist
Robert Merry (1755–1798), poet
Charlotte Mew (1869–1928), poet
E. H. W. Meyerstein (1889–1952), man of letters
Alice Meynell (1847–1922), poet and essayist
Viola Meynell (1885–1956), poet and novelist
Nicholas Michell (1807–1880), poet and novelist
Christopher Middleton (1926–2015), poet, translator and scholar
Conyers Middleton (1683–1750), biographer and cleric
Nick Middleton (born 1960), geographer
Richard Barham Middleton (1882–1911), poet and story writer
Stanley Middleton (1919–2009), novelist
Thomas Middleton (1580–1627), playwright and poet, The Revenger's Tragedy
China Miéville (born 1972), novelist and political writer
Grace Mildmay (c. 1552–1620), diarist
Susan Miles (real name Ursula Wyllie Roberts, 1887–1975), novelist and poet
John Stuart Mill (1806–1873), philosopher
John Guille Millais (1865–1931), naturalist and travel writer
Andrew Miller (born 1960), novelist
James Miller (1703–1744), playwright, poet and cleric
Jonathan Miller (1934–2019), writer and director
Russell Miller (born 1938), biographer
Thomas Miller (1807–1874), novelist and poet
Robert Millhouse (1788–1839), poet
Spike Milligan (1918–2002), humorist
Arthur F. H. Mills (1887–1955), novelist
Dorothy Mills (1896–1959), novelist and travel writer
George Mills (1896–1972), children's writer
Magnus Mills (born 1954), novelist
Mark Mills (living), novelist and screenwriter
Henry Hart Milman (1791–1868), playwright, poet and cleric
A. A. Milne (1882–1956), novelist and playwright, Winnie-the-Pooh
Drew Milne (born 1964), poet and scholar
John Milner (1628–1702), writer and cleric
John Milner (1752–1826), writer and RC bishop
Marion Milner (1900–1998), diarist and psychoanalyst
Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton (1809–1885), poet and politician
Giles Milton (born 1966), historian
John Milton (1608–1674), poet and theologian, Paradise Lost
Ted Milton (born 1943), poet and musician
Richard Milward (born 1984), novelist
Anthony Minghella (1954–2008), playwright and screenwriter
Laurence Minot (c. 1300 – c. 1352), poet
Hope Mirrlees (1887–1978), novelist, translator and poet
Adrian Mitchell (1932–2008), poet, playwright and novelist
Basil Mitchell (1917–2011), philosopher
David Mitchell (born 1969), novelist
Dreda Say Mitchell (born 1965), novelist, broadcaster and journalist
Gladys Mitchell (wrote as Stephen Hockaby and Malcolm Torrie, 1901–1983), novelist
Julian Mitchell (born 1935), playwright and screenwriter
Bertram Mitford, Lord Redesdale, (1837–1916), writer and diplomat
Bertram Mitford (1855–1914), novelist
John Mitford (1782–1831), poet and naval officer
Mary Russell Mitford (wrote as Miss Mitford, 1787–1855), essayist, novelist and playwright, Our Village
Nancy Mitford (1904–1973), novelist and writer, Noblesse Oblige
William Mitford (1744–1827), historian
Timothy Mo (born 1950), novelist
Ivan Moffat (1918–2002), screenwriter
Deborah Moggach (born 1948), novelist and screenwriter
Lottie Moggach, journalist and author
George Mogridge (1787–1854), poet, children's writer and tractarian
Caroline Moir (living, England, novelist and playwright)
John Mole (born 1941), poet
Mary Louisa Molesworth (also as Ennis Graham, 1839–1921), children's writer
Frances Molloy (1947–1991), novelist
Mary Mollineux (1651–1696), poet
Rowland Molony (born 1946), poet and writer
Nicola Monaghan (living), novelist
William Thomas Moncrieff (1794–1857), playwright
Francis Money-Coutts (wrote as Mountjoy, 1852–1923), poet
Geraldine Monk (born 1952), poet
William Cosmo Monkhouse (1840–1901), poet and critic
Harold Monro (1879–1932), poet
Nicholas Monsarrat (1910–1979), novelist
Basil Montagu (1770–1851), miscellanist
Charles Montagu, earl of Halifax (1661–1715), poet and statesman
Elizabeth Montagu (1718–1800), writer and bluestocking
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762), correspondent and poet
Charles Edward Montague (1867–1928), novelist and essayist
Simon Sebag Montefiore (born 1965), writer and historian
Florence Montgomery (1843–1923), novelist and children's writer
James Montgomery (1771–1854), poet and editor
Robert Montgomery (1807–1855), poet and cleric
Colin Moon (born 1957), author and public speaker
Edward Moor (1771–1848), writer and soldier
Michael Moorcock (born 1939), novelist
Alan Moore (born 1953), graphic novelist
Edward Moore (1712–1757), playwright
Edward Moore (1835–1916), classicist
Francis Moore (1657–1715, astrologer and physician
G. E. Moore (1873–1958), philosopher
Jonas Moore (1617–1679), mathematician
Nicholas Moore (1918–1986), poet
Olive Moore (real name Constance Vaughan, 1905 – c. 1970), novelist and essayist
Thomas Sturge Moore (1870–1944), poet and playwright
Tim Moore (born 1964), travel writer
Geoffrey Moorhouse (1931–2009), writer
Roger Moorhouse (born 1968), historian
Henrietta Moraes (1931–1999), writer and model
Philip Morant (1700–1770), historian and cleric
Elinor Mordaunt (1872–1942), fiction and non-fiction writer
Thomas Osbert Mordaunt (1730–1809), poet and army officer
Gertrude More (1606–1633), religious writer and Benedictine nun
Hannah More (1745–1833), poet and religious writer
Henry More (1614–1687), philosopher and poet
Thomas More (1478–1535), scholar, Utopia
E. D. Morel (1873–1924), writer on colonialism
Thomas Morell (1703–1784), librettist
Charles Langbridge Morgan (1894–1958) novelist, playwright and poet
Peter Morgan (born 1963), screenwriter and playwright
William De Morgan (1839–1917), novelist and ceramicist
Thomas Charles Morgan (1783–1843), physician and philosopher
Richard K. Morgan (born 1965), novelists and short story writer
James Justinian Morier (1780–1849), novelist and travel writer
Stanley Morison (1889–1967), writer and typographer
Samuel Morland or Moreland (1625–1695), polymath
David Morley (born 1964), poet and critic
Henry Morley (1822–1894), critic and biographer
Iris Morley (1910–1953), novelist and journalist
John Morley (1838–1923), biographer, writer and politician
Sheridan Morley (1941–2007), biographer, critic and broadcaster
Michael Morpurgo (born 1943), children's writer, poet and playwright
Clare Morrall (born 1952), novelist
Ivan Morris (1925–1976), writer, scholar and translator
Jan Morris (originally James Morris, 1926–2020), travel writer
William Morris (1834–1896), writer, artist and poet
Arthur Morrison (1863–1945), novelist and journalist
Blake Morrison (born 1950), poet, novelist and critic
Graham Mort (living), poet and story writer
Chapman Mortimer (1907–1988), novelist and screenwriter
Ian Mortimer (born 1967), historian
John Mortimer (1923–2009), novelist, playwright and lawyer, Horace Rumpole
Penelope Mortimer (1918–1999), novelist, biographer and critic
J. B. Morton (wrote as Beachcomber, 1893–1979), columnist
John Maddison Morton (1811–1891), playwright
Thomas Morton (1764–1838), playwright
Joseph Moser (1748–1819), writer and artist
Brian Moses (born 1950), poet and children's writer
Nicholas Mosley (1923–2017), novelist
Geoffrey Moss (1885–1954), novelist and soldier
Thomas Moss (1740–1808), poet and cleric
W. Stanley Moss (1919–1965), novelist, writer and army officer
James Mossman (1926–1971), writer and broadcaster
Andrew Motion (born 1952), Poet Laureate
Peter Anthony Motteux (originally Pierre Antoine, 1663–1718), poet, playwright and translator
Eric Mottram (1924–1995), poet and editor
Ralph Hale Mottram (1883–1971), novelist and poet
Martha Moulsworth (1577–1646), autobiographical poet
John Moultrie (1799–1874), poet and cleric
Ferdinand Mount (born 1939), novelist
Edward Moxon (1801–1858), poet
Jojo Moyes (born 1969), romantic novelist
Fiona Mozley (born 1988), novelist
James Bowling Mozley (1813–1878), writer and cleric
Thomas Mozley (1806–1893), writer and cleric
Henry Muddiman (1628–1692), journalist and publisher
William Mudford (1782–1848), essayist, novelist and translator
Malcolm Muggeridge (1903–1990), writer and broadcaster
Lodowicke Muggleton (1609–1698), writer
Richard Mulcaster (c. 1531–1611), educator
Clara Mulholland (1849–1934), novelist, playwright, children's writer and translator
Clare Mulley (born 1969), biographer and activist
A. J. Munby (1828–1910), diarist and poet
A. N. L. Munby (1913–1974), ghost-story writer
Anthony Munday (c. 1560–1633), playwright, poet and translator
Talbot Mundy (also as Walter Galt, 1879–1940), novelist
Iris Murdoch (1919–1999), novelist
Jill Murphy (1949–2021), children's writer
Margaret Murphy (born 1959), novelist
Gilbert Murray (1866–1957), scholar
John Murray (born 1950), novelist
John Middleton Murry (1889–1957), writer and critic
Valerie Grosvenor Myer (1935–2007), novelist, poet and critic
Ernest Myers (1844–1921), poet and translator
Frederic W. H. Myers (1843–1901), poet and essayist
Leo Myers (1881–1944), novelist
Julie Myerson (born 1960), novelist and journalist

N

Thomas Nabbes (1605–1641), playwright
Constance Naden (1858–1889), poet and philosopher
Daljit Nagra (born 1966), poet
V. S. Naipaul (1932–2018), novelist and Nobel Prize winner
Priscilla Napier (1908–1998), biographer, translator and poet
Edward Nares (1762–1841), theologian, novelist and cleric
Roger Nash (born 1942), philosopher and poet
Thomas Nashe (1567–1601), poet and pamphleteer
Bill Naughton (1910–1992), playwright
John Neal (1793–1876), novelist, essayist and poet
John Mason Neale (1818–1866), hymnist, cleric and translator
Patrick Neate (born 1970), novelist and screenwriter
Mary Anna Needell (1830–1922), novelist
Violet Needham (1876–1967), children's writer
Henry Neele (1798–1928), poet and critic
Malcolm Neesam (1946–2022), historian of Harrogate, North Yorkshire
Graham Nelson (born 1968), poet and mathematician
Robert Nelson (1656–1715), religious writer
E. Nesbit (1858–1924), children's writer and poet, The Railway Children
Henry Nettleship (1839–1893), classicist
Lord William Beauchamp Nevill (1860–1939) convict-autobiographer, and prison reformer
Alexander Neville (1544–1614), historian and translator
Linda Newbery (born 1952), novelist and children's writer
Henry Newbolt (1862–1938), poet
P. H. Newby (1918–1997), novelist
Bernard Newman (1897–1968), novelist and propagandist
John Henry Newman (1801–1890), writer and cardinal
Isaac Newton (1642–1727), polymath
John Newton (1725–1807), hymnist and pamphleteer
Thomas Newton (c. 1542–1607), poet and translator
William Newton (1750–1830), poet
Charles Nicholl (living), biographer
David Nicholls (born 1966), novelist and screenwriter
Sally Nicholls (born 1983), children's writer
Beverley Nichols (1898–1983), novelist, playwright and garden writer
John Nichols (1745–1826), antiquary
Bowyer Nichols (1859–1939), poet
Peter Nichols (1927–2019), playwright and screenwriter
Robert Nichols (1893–1944), poet and playwright
Geoff Nicholson (1953–2025), novelist and editor
Joseph Shield Nicholson (1850–1927), economist and novelist
Norman Nicholson (1914–1987), poet
Renton Nicholson (1809–1861), writer
William Nicholson (artist) (1872–1949), children's writer and illustrator
William Nicholson (writer) (born 1948), novelist, screenwriter and playwright
Adam Nicolson (born 1957), historian and nature writer
Harold Nicolson (1886–1968), writer, diarist and politician
Nigel Nicolson (1917–2004), writer and publisher
O. S. Nock (1905–1994), railway writer
Roden Noel (1834–1894), poet
David Nokes (1948–2009), biographer and screenwriter
Malcolm Nokes (1897–1986), science and educator
Jeff Noon (born 1957), novelist and playwright
Denis Norden (1922–2018), scriptwriter and broadcaster
Lawrence Norfolk (born 1963), novelist
Barry Norman (1933–2017), novelist and broadcaster
Roger Norman (born 1948), children's and YA writer
John Norris (1657–1711), philosopher and poet
William Edward Norris, (1847–1925) novelist
Dudley North, Lord North (1602–1677) writer and poet
Roger North (1653–1734), lawyer and biographer
Thomas North (1535–1604), translator
James Northcote (1746–1831), essayist and illustrator
Caroline Norton (1808–1877), novelist, pamphleteer and poet
Mary Norton (1903–1992), children's writer
Thomas Norton (1532–1584), poet and lawyer
Richard Norton-Taylor (born 1944), playwright and journalist
John Julius Norwich (originally John Julius Cooper, 1929–2018), historian and travel writer
Julian of Norwich (1342 – c. 1416), mystic
Alexander Nowell (1507–1602), writer and cleric
Alfred Noyes (1880–1958), poet
Anthony Nuttall (1937–2007), critic and scholar
Geoffrey Nuttall (1911–2007), church historian and Congregational minister
Jeff Nuttall (1933–2004), poet and performer
Robert Nye (1939–2016), poet, novelist and editor
John Nyren (1764–1837), cricket writer

O

Ann Oakley (born 1944), novelist and sociologist
Graham Oakley (1929–2022), children's writer
John Oakman (c. 1748–1793), writer and engraver
Patrick O'Brian (originally Richard Patrick Russ, 1914–2000), novelist
Sean O'Brien (born 1952), poet, playwright and editor
Thomas Occleve or Hoccleve (c. 1368–1426), poet
William Ockham or Occam (c. 1288 – c. 1348), philosopher, Occam's Razor
Sarah Ockwell-Smith (born c. 1976), parent and child-care author
Philip O'Connor (1916–1998), writer and poet
Leo Ognall (1908–1979), crime novelist (pen names Harry Carmichael and Hartley Howard)
John Oldham (1653–1683), poet
John Oldmixon (1673–1742), historian and pamphleteer
William Oldys (1696–1761), antiquary
Laurence Oliphant (1829–1888), writer and traveller
F. S. Oliver (1864–1934), political writer
Jamie Oliver (born 1975), cookery writer and chef
Martin Oliver (living), children's writer
Michael Oliver (1937–2002), writer and broadcaster
Paul Oliver (1927–2017), arts writer
Reggie Oliver (born 1952), story writer and playwright
Richard Ollard (1923–2007), historian and biographer
Alfred Ollivant (1874–1927), children's writer
Daniel O'Mahony (born 1973), novelist and writer
Carola Oman (1897–1978), biographer, novelist and children's writer
Charles Oman (1860–1946), historian
Michael O'Neill (1953–2018), poet and scholar
Oliver Onions (1873–1961), novelist
Onyeka, (real name Onyeka Nubia, living), writer and playwright
Amelia Opie (1769–1853), novelist and poet
Iona Opie (1923–2017), and Peter Opie (1918–1982), ethnographers
E. Phillips Oppenheim (wrote as Anthony Partridge, 1866–1946), novelist
Emma Orczy (Baroness Orczy, 1865–1947), novelist and playwright, The Scarlet Pimpernel
Orderic Vitalis (1075 – c. 1142), chronicler
George Ormerod (1785–1873), antiquary and historian
Joe Orton (1933–1967), playwright
George Orwell (real name Eric Blair), (1903–1950), novelist and essayist, 1984
Martin Orwin (born 1963), poet and writer
Dorothy Osborne (1627–1695), correspondent
John Osborne (1929–1994), playwright, Look Back in Anger
Robin Osborne (born 1957), classicist and historian
Alice Oseman (born 1996), YA author
Arthur O'Shaughnessy (1844–1881), poet
Maggie O'Sullivan (born 1951), poet and performer
Alice Oswald (born 1966), poet
Peter Oswald (born 1965), playwright
William Young Ottley (1771–1836), art historian
Thomas Otway (1652–1685), playwright
Ouida (real name Maria Louise Ramé, 1839–1908), novelist
William Oughtred (1574–1660), mathematician
Keith Ovenden (1943–2023), novelist and biographer
John Overall (1559–1619), scholar, AV translator and bishop
Thomas Overbury (1581–1613), poet and essayist
Richard Overton (c. 1599–1664), pamphleteer
John Owen (1616–1683), theologian
Richard Owen (1804–1892), scientist
Wilfred Owen (1893–1918), poet
Elsie J. Oxenham (real name Elsie Jeanette Dunkerley, 1880–1960), children's writer
John Oxenham (real name William Arthur Dunkerley, 1852–1941), novelist and poet
Mary Oxlie (fl. 1616), poet
Helen Oyeyemi (born 1984), novelist and playwright

P

Ruth Padel (born 1946), poet and journalist
Lynda Page (c. 1950–2024), novelist
Russell Page (1906–1985), garden writer and designer
John Paget (died 1638), writer and Presbyterian minister
Barry Pain (1864–1928), novelist and humorist
Thomas Paine (1737–1809), political pamphleteer, Rights of Man
William Painter (c. 1540–1594), writer
William Paley (1743–1805), philosopher, theologian and cleric
Francis Palgrave (1788–1861), historian
Francis Turner Palgrave (1824–1897), poet and anthologist
William Gifford Palgrave (1826–1888), travel writer and orientalist
Alan Palmer (1926–2022), historian and biographer
Charlotte Palmer (c. 1762 – 1834 or after), novelist
Edward Henry Palmer (1840–1882), translator and orientalist
Herbert Edward Palmer (1880–1961), poet and critic
John Palmer (c. 1729–1790) writer and Unitarian minister
John Palmer (1742–1786), writer and Unitarian minister
Samuel Palmer (1805–1881), poet and painter
Robert Paltock (1697–1767), novelist
Jane Ellen Panton (1847–1923), novelist and domestic science writer
Joseph Pardo (c. 1624 – 1677), writer and hazzan
Julia Pardoe (1806–1862), poet, novelist and travel writer
Bernard Pares (1867–1949), historian and Russian expert
Edith Pargeter (also as Ellis Peters, 1913–1995), novelist and historian
Emma Parker (fl. 1809–1817), novelist
Henry Parker (1604–1652), political writer
Martin Parker (c. 1600 – c. 1656), balladeer
Matthew Parker (1504–1575), Bible translator and archbishop, Bishops' Bible
Norman Parker (born 1954), memoirist
Samuel Parker (1640–1688), theologian and bishop
Samuel Parker (1681–1730), religious writer and translator
Una-Mary Parker (1930–2019), novelist and journalist
Bessie Rayner Parkes (1829–1925), writer and poet
C. Northcote Parkinson (1909–1993), naval historian and writer on administration, Parkinson's Law
John Parkinson (botanist) (1567–1650), herbalist
Adele Parks (born 1969), novelist
Tim Parks (born 1954), novelist and translator
David Parlett (born 1939), games writer
Samuel Parr (1747–1825), political writer, scholar and educator
Cecil Parrott (1909–1984), translator and biographer
Eliza Parsons (1739–1811), novelist
Frances Partridge (1900–2004), diarist and translator
John Pass (born 1947), poet and scholar
Paston Family (14th – 16th cc.), Paston Letters
Mrs Henry de la Pasture (1866–1945), novelist, dramatist and children's writer
Walter Pater (1839–1894), essayist and novelist
Coventry Patmore (1823–1896), poet and critic
Simon Patrick (1626–1707), theologian and bishop
Brian Patten (born 1946), poet and children's writer
Mark Pattison (1813–1884), writer and cleric
Phyllis Paul (1903-1973), writer of supernatural fiction
Tom Paulin (born 1949), poet, academic and broadcaster
Michelle Paver (born 1960), children's writer
Stel Pavlou (born 1970), novelist and screenwriter
James Payn (1830–1898), novelist and miscellanist
John Payne (1842–1917), poet and translator
Nick Payne (born 1984), playwright
David Peace (born 1967), novelist
Henry Peacham the Elder (1546–1634), rhetorician and cleric
Henry Peacham the Younger (c. 1573 – c. 1643), poet and critic
Lucy Peacock (fl. 1785–1816), children's writer, editor and translator
Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866), novelist and poet, Nightmare Abbey
Mervyn Peake (1911–1968), novelist and poet, Gormenghast
Philippa Pearce (1920–2006), children's writer, Tom's Midnight Garden
Pearl Poet (unnamed, fl. 14th c.), poet, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Hugh Pearman (born 1955), critic and architect.
Tim Pears (born 1956), novelist
Dan Pearson (born 1964), garden writer
Hesketh Pearson (1887–1964), biographer
John Pearson (1930–2021), biographer
John Pearson (1612–1686), theologian and bishop
Edward R. Pease (1857–1955), writer and politician
Reginald Pecock (c. 1395–1460), theologian and bishop
Margaret Pedler (died 1948), novelist
Arthur George Villiers Peel (also as George Peel, 1869–1956), economist and politician
Constance Peel (also as Mrs. C. S. Peel and Dorothy Peel, 1868–1934), novelist and writer on household economy
J. H. B. Peel (1913–1983), writer, poet and journalist
George Peele (1556–1596), playwright and poet, The Old Wives' Tale
Mal Peet (1947–2015), children's writer
Samuel Pegge (1704–1796), antiquary, translator and cleric
Isaac Penington (1616–1679), Quaker writer
William Penn (1644–1718), politician, writer and Quaker
Thomas Pennant (1726–1798), naturalist, antiquary and travel writer
Francis Penrose (1817–1903), architect and archaeologist
Roland Penrose (1900–1984), biographer and artist
Hilary Pepler (1878–1951), writer and poet
Michael Peppiatt (born 1941), art critic and biographer
Emily Pepys (1833–1877), child diarist
Samuel Pepys (1633–1703), diarist and administrator
Thomas Percy (1729–1811), bishop, poet and anthologist, Percy's Reliques
John Perrin (c. 1558–1615), scholar, AV translator and cleric
Anne Perry (1938–2023), novelist
Chris Petit (born 1949), novelist and film director
William Petty (1623–1687), economist and philosopher
K.M. Peyton (originally Kathleen Herald, 1929–2023), children's writer
Gilbert Phelps (1915–1993), novelist, critic and educator
St. John Philby (1885–1960), writer and intelligence officer
Ambrose Philips (1674–1739), poet
John Philips (1676–1709), poet
Katherine Philips (1632–1644), poet
Caryl Phillips (born 1958), novelist
Edward Phillips (1630 – c. 1696), writer and philologist
John Phillips (1631–1706), writer
J. B. Phillips (1906–1982), Bible translator and cleric
Richard Phillips (1767–1840), writer and publisher
Stephen Phillips (1864–1915), poet and playwright
Eden Phillpotts (1862–1960), novelist, poet and playwright
Henry Phillpotts (1778–1869), pamphleteer and bishop
Gervase Phinn (born 1946), novelist, poet and educator
Constantine Phipps (1797–1863), writer and politician
David Andrew Phoenix (born 1966), writer, scientist and educator
Barbara Leonie Picard (1917–2011), children's writer
Tom Pickard (born 1946), poet and scriptwriter
David Pickering (born 1958), compiler of reference books
Marmaduke Pickthall (1875–1936), scholar, Qur'an translator and novelist
Sarah Piers (died 1719), poet
Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877–1959), economist
William Thomas Pike (1838–1924), publisher, journalist, editor, writer
Mary Pilkington, (1766–1839) novelist, poet and children's writer
Arthur Wing Pinero (1855–1934), playwright
William Pinnock (1782–1843) educator
Harold Pinter (1930–2008), Nobel prize winner, playwright and screenwriter, The Caretaker
Isaac Pitman (1813–1897), writer on shorthand
Christopher Pitt (1699–1748), poet and translator
William Pitt (died 1840), shipbuilder and poet
Ruth Pitter (1897–1992), poet
Mary Pix (1666–1709), playwright and novelist
James Planché (1796–1880), playwright
Victor Plarr (1863–1929), poet and biographer
Alan Plater (1935–2010), playwright, screenwriter and novelist
Karen Platt (living), garden writer
Robert Plot (1640–1996), naturalist, chemist and antiquary
Max Plowman (1883–1941), writer and poet
J. H. Plumb (1911–2001), historian
Anne Plumptre (1760–1818), writer and translator
Isaac Pocock (1782–1835), playwright and painter
Tom Pocock (1925–2007), biographer and historian
Richard Pococke (1704–1765), travel writer, diarist and bishop
Frank Podmore (1856–1910), writer and politician
Michael Podro (1931–2008), art historian
Elizabeth Polack (fl. 1830–1838), playwright
John William Polidori (1795–1821), writer and poet
Alfred Oliver Pollard (1893–1960), novelist and army officer
Alfred W. Pollard (1859–1944), bibliographer and scholar
Margaret Steuart Pollard (1903–1996), poet and writer
William Pollard (1828–1893), Quaker writer
Jacob Polley (born 1975), poet and novelist
Elizabeth Polwheele or Polewhele (c. 1651 – c. 1691), playwright
Richard Polwhele (1760–1838), poet, writer and cleric
John Pomfret (1667–1702), poet and cleric
George Ayliffe Poole (1809–1883), religious writer and cleric
John Poole (1786–1872), playwright
Alexander Pope (1688–1744), poet
Dudley Pope (1925–1997), novelist
Jessie Pope (1868–1941), poet and writer
Walter Pope (1627–1714), astronomer and poet
James Pope-Hennessy (1916–1974), biographer and travel writer
Samuel Pordage (1633–1691), poet
Eleanor Anne Porden (1795–1825), poet
Richard Porson (1759–1808), classicist
Alice Hobbins Porter (1854–1926), writer, journalist, editor
Anna Maria Porter (1780–1832), novelist and poet
Henry Porter (died 1599), playwright
Henry Porter (born 1953), novelist and journalist
Jane Porter (1776–1850), novelist
Linda Porter (born 1947), historian and biographer
Robert Percival Porter (1852-1917), journalist, statistician, economics writer
Roy Porter (1946–2002), historian
Sheena Porter (born 1935), children's writer
Suzanne Portnoy (born 1961), writer and playwright
Jacob Post (1774–1855), Quaker writer
Raymond Postgate (1896–1971), novelist and social historian
Beatrix Potter (1866–1943), children's writer and illustrator, The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Dennis Potter (1935–1994), playwright and screenwriter
Robert Potter (1721–1804), translator, poet and cleric
Anthony Powell (1905–2000), novelist
Michael Powell (1905–1990), writer and film director
Eileen Power (1889–1940), historian
Marguerite Agnes Power (1815–1867), novelist and periodical writer and editoriginally
Rhoda Power (1890–1957), children's writer and broadcaster
John Cowper Powys (1872–1963), novelist
Llewelyn Powys (1884–1939), travel writer and biographer
T. F. Powys (1875–1953), novelist and story writer
Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802–1839), poet and politician
Terry Pratchett (1948–2015), novelist
Anne Pratt (1806–1893), botanical writer and illustrator
Samuel Jackson Pratt (1749–1814), poet, playwright and novelist
Lucy Prebble (born 1981), playwright
Thomas Preston (1537–1598), scholar and playwright
Thomas Preston (1563–1640), writer and monk
Diana Primrose (fl. 1630), poet
Matthew Prior (1664–1721), poet
Anthony Price (1928–2019), thriller writer
Bonamy Price (1807–1888), political economist
Nancy Price (1880–1970), playwright, novelist and poet
Nicholas A. Price, writer, poet, photographer and visual artist
Richard Price (1723–1791), economist, philosopher and Unitarian minister
Susan Price (born 1955), children's writer
Uvedale Price (1747–1829), art critic
Christopher Priest (1943–2024), novelist
Chris Priestley (born 1958), children's writer and illustrator
J. B. Priestley (1894–1984), playwright and novelist
Joseph Priestley (1733–1804), theologian and philosopher
Alison Prince (1931–2019), children's writer, biographer and screenwriter
Peter Prince (born 1942), novelist and screenwriter
John Laurence Pritchard (1885–1968), mathematician, and novelist
V. S. Pritchett (1900–1997), writer
May Probyn (1856–1909), poet
Adelaide Anne Procter (1825–1864), poet
Bryan Procter (wrote as Barry Cornwall, 1787–1874), songwriter and playwright
Sophie Amelia Prosser, (1807–1882), children's writer
Sally Prue (living), children's writer
Paula Pryke (born 1960), writer and florist
J.H. Prynne (born 1936), poet
William Prynne (1600–1699), religious writer and historian
John Pudney (1909–1977), writer and poet
Sheenagh Pugh (born 1950), poet and novelist
Christine Pullein-Thompson, (1925–2005), children's writer
Diana Pullein-Thompson, (1925–2015), children's writer
Josephine Pullein-Thompson (1924–2014), children's writer
Charlotte Pullein-Thompson (wrote as Charlotte Popescu, born 1957), children's and garden writer
Philip Pullman (born 1946), children's writer, His Dark Materials
Samuel Purchas (c. 1575–1626), travel writer
C. B. Purdom (1883–1965), critic and biographer
Libby Purves (born 1950), novelist, broadcaster and columnist
Edward Bouverie Pusey (1800–1882), theologian, scholar and cleric
George Puttenham (1529–1590), and Richard Puttenham (c. 1520 – c. 1601), critics and courtiers
Henry James Pye (1745–1813), Poet Laureate and writer
Thomas Pyle (1674–1756), writer and cleric
Barbara Pym (1913–1980), novelist

Q

Bernard Quaritch (1819–1899), bookseller and bibliographer
Francis Quarles (1592–1644), poet
C. H. B. Quennell (1872–1935), writer and architect
Marjorie Quennell (1884–1972), historian
Peter Quennell (1905–1993), biographer, poet and essayist
Arthur Quiller-Couch (wrote as Q, 1863–1944), novelist and critic, Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250–1900
Mabel Quiller-Couch (c. 1866–1924), children's writer and editor
Edward Quillinan (1791–1851), poet and translator
Janet Quin-Harkin (born 1941), novelist
Ann Quin (1936–1973), novelist
Anthony Quiney (born 1935), architectural historian
Anthony Quinton (1925–2010), philosopher and broadcaster

List of English writers (K–Q)

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L

M

N

O

P

Q

See also