List of English writers (A–C)

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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* A. W. (fl. 1602), poet
* Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838–1926), theologian and novelist
* Gilbert Abbott à Beckett (1811–1856), humorist
* George Abbot (1562–1633), writer, AV translator and cleric
* Kia Abdullah (born 1982), novelist and feature writer
* Lascelles Abercrombie (1881–1938), poet and critic
* Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé (born 1998), novelist
* Paul Ableman (1927–2006), playwright and novelist
* J. R. Ackerley (1896–1967), autobiographer, novelist and playwright
* Rodney Ackland (1908–1991), playwright, actor and screenwriter
* Peter Ackroyd (born 1949), novelist and biographer
* Eliza Acton (1799–1859), poet and cookery writer
* Harold Acton (1904–1994), writer and scholar
* Hazel Adair (1900–1990), novelist
* Paul Adam (born 1958), novelist
* Ruth Adam (1907–1977), novelist and non-fiction writer
* Charles Warren Adams (also as Charles Felix, 1833–1903), novelist and lawyer
* Douglas Adams (1952–2001), novelist and scriptwriter
* Francis Adams (1862–1893), essayist and dramatist
* John Adams, (pre-1670–1738), cartographer and gazetteer compiler
* Poppy Adams (living), novelist and TV screenwriter
* Richard Adams (1920–2016), novelist, Watership Down
* Sarah Flower Adams (1805–1848), poet and hymnist
* Donald Adamson (1939–2024), writer and historian
* John Adamson (1787–1855), antiquary, poet and translator
* Arthur St. John Adcock (1864–1930), novelist and editor
* Fleur Adcock (1934–2024), poet
* Joseph Addison (1672–1719), essayist and poet, The Spectator
* Percy Addleshaw (wrote as Percy Hemingway, 1866–1916), writer and poet
* Diran Adebayo (born 1968), novelist and broadcaster
* Mark Adlard (born 1932), novelist
* James Agate (1877–1947), diarist and critic
* Bola Agbaje (living), playwright
* John Aglionby (died 1609/1610), scholar, AV translator and cleric
* Grace Aguilar (1816–1847), novelist and writer
* Allan Ahlberg (born 1939), children's writer
* Robert Aickman (1914–1981), novelist and conservationist
* Joan Aiken (1924–2004), novelist
* Arthur Aikin (1783–1854), science writer
* Lucy Aikin (1781–1864), children's writer, biographer and historian
* John Aikin (1747–1822), writer and physician
* Alfred Ainger (1837–1904), biographer and critic
* Ruth Ainsworth (1908–1984), children's writer
* William Harrison Ainsworth (1805–1882), novelist
* Catherine Aird (Kinn Hamilton McIntosh, living), crime fiction writer
* Mark Akenside (1721–1770), poet
* William Alabaster (1567–1640), poet, playwright and cleric
* James Albery (1838–1889), playwright
* Alice Albinia (born 1976), travel writer
* Mary Alcock (c. 1742–1798), poet and essayist
* Naomi Alderman (born 1974), novelist and game writer
* Thomas Aldham or Aldam, (c. 1616–1660), writer and Quaker
* Richard Aldington (1892–1962), novelist and poet
* Brian Aldiss (1925–2017), novelist
* Henry Aldrich (1647–1710), poet and theologian
* Horace Alexander (1889–1989), writer on India, ornithologist and Quaker
* Miriam Alexander (1879-19??), historical novelist
* Alan F. Alford (born 1961), writer on mythology
* Monica Ali (born 1967), novelist
* Cyril Alington (1872–1955), novelist and writer
* Nicholas Allan (living), children's writer
* Rupert Allason (also as Nigel West, b. 1951), historian and thriller writer
* James Allen (1864–1912), self-help writer and poet
* Walter Allen (1911–1995), novelist and critic
* Margery Allingham (1904–1966), novelist, Albert Campion
* Drummond Allison (1921–1943), poet
* Kenneth Allott (1912–1973), poet and anthologist
* Kenneth Allsop (1920–1973), writer and broadcaster
* E. M. Almedingen (1898–1971), novelist, biographer and children's writer
* John Almon (1737–1804), journalist and anthologist
* David Almond (born 1951), novelist and children's writer
* Vincent Alsop (c. 1630–1703), writer and dissenting minister
* Al Alvarez (1929–2019), poet and writer
* Moniza Alvi (born 1968), poet and writer
* Eric Ambler (1909–1998), novelist and screenwriter
* Isaac Ambrose (1604–1663/1664), writer, diarist and cleric
* Elizabeth Amherst (c. 1716–1779), poet and naturalist
* Kingsley Amis (1922–1995), poet and novelist, Lucky Jim
* Martin Amis (1949–2023), novelist
* Thomas Amory (c. 1691–1788), novelist and miscellanist
* Thomas Amory (1701–1774), poet and dissenting cleric
* Valerie Anand (also as Flora Buckley, 1937–2024), novelist
* Patrick Anderson (1915–1979), poet
* Rachel Anderson (born 1943), children's writer
* Verily Anderson (1915–2010), writer
* Lancelot Andrewes (1555–1626), scholar, AV translator and cleric
* Roger Andrewes (fl. 1610s), scholar, AV translator and cleric
* Julie Andrews (born 1935), children's writer and actress
* Miles Peter Andrews (1742–1814), playwright and poet
* Norman Angell (1872–1967), Nobel Prize winner, political writer and economist
* Jane Anger (fl. 1589), pamphleteer
* Charlotte Anley (1796–1893), didactic novelist and writer
* George Anson, 1st Baron Anson (1697–1762), writer, explorer and admiral
* Christopher Anstey (1724–1805), writer and poet
* Evelyn Anthony (1926–2018) historical novelist and thriller writer
* Charles James Apperley (wrote as Nimrod, 1777–1843), hunting and racing writer
* Lisa Appignanesi (born 1946), writer and historian
* Roy Apps (born 1951), children's writer
* Arthur John Arberry (1905–1969), orientalist and translator
* Harriet Arbuthnot (1793–1834), political diarist
* John Arbuthnot (1667–1735), satirist and polymath
* Fred Archer (1915–1999), countryside writer
* Jeffrey Archer (born 1940), novelist and politician
* Philip Ardagh (born 1961), children's writer
* John Arden (1930–2012), playwright and novelist
* Edward Ardizzone (1900–1979), children's writer and illustrator
* Reginald Arkell (1882–1959), novelist, playwright and screenwriter
* Michael Arlen (originally Dikran Kouyoumdjian, 1895–1956), essayist, playwright and novelist
* John Arlott (1914–1991), cricket writer and commentator
* Robert Armin (c. 1563–1615), playwright and actor
* Simon Armitage (born 1963), poet, playwright and novelist
* Annie Armitt (1850–1933), novelist, poet and essayist
* Martin Armstrong (1882–1974), novelist and poet
* Peter Armstrong (born 1957), poet and psychotherapist
* Richard Armstrong (1903–1986), novelist, historian and children's writer
* Elizabeth von Arnim (also as Alice Cholmondeley, 1866–1941), novelist
* Edwin Arnold (1832–1904), poet and journalist
* Edwin Lester Arnold (1857–1935), writer and novelist
* Elizabeth Arnold (born 1944), children's writer
* Matthew Arnold (1822–1888), poet, Dover Beach
* Richard Arnold (died c. 1521), chronicler and merchant
* Thomas Arnold (1795–1842), educator and historian
* Thomas Walker Arnold (1864–1930), Islamist scholar
* William Delafield Arnold (1828–1859), novelist and colonial administrator
* Pat Arrowsmith (1930–2023), novelist, poet and non-fiction writer
* Anthony Ascham (c. 1614–1650), scholar and politician
* Roger Ascham (c. 1515–1568), writer and scholar
* John Ash (1724–1779), lexicographer and Baptist minister
* John Ash (1948–2019), poet and travel writer
* Maurice Ash (1917–2003), writer on environment and planning
* Russell Ash (1946–2010), writer
* Timothy Garton Ash (born 1955), historian
* Elizabeth Ashbridge (1713–1755), autobiographer and Quaker
* Joseph Ashby-Sterry (1836 or 1838–1917), poet, novelist and journalist
* Geoffrey Ashe (1923–2022), cultural historian
* Thomas Ashe or Ash (fl. 1600–1618), legal writer
* Thomas Ashe (1770–1835), novelist and miscellanist
* Thomas Ashe (1836–1889), poet
* Michael Asher (born 1953) author and explorer
* Daisy Ashford (1881–1972), child author, The Young Visiters
* Lindsay Ashford (born 1959), crime novelist and journalist
* Elias Ashmole (1617–1692), antiquary and patron
* Carl Ashmore (born 1968), children's writer
* Will Ashon (born 1969), novelist and music writer
* Francis Leslie Ashton (1904–1994), novelist
* Andrea Ashworth (born 1969), writer and scholar
* Anne Askew (1521–1546), poet, writer and martyr
* Nadeem Aslam (born 1966), novelist
* Elizabeth Mary Aslin (1926–1989), art historian
* Cynthia Asquith (1887–1960), novelist and diarist
* Herbert Asquith (1881–1947), poet and novelist
* Margot Asquith (1864–1935), memoirist
* Nicholas Assheton (1590–1625), diarist
* Mary Astell (1666–1731), poet and writer
* Judy Astley (living), novelist and illustrator
* Edwin Atherstone (1788–1872), poet and novelist
* Diana Athill (1917–2019), editor, novelist and memoirist
* Blanche Atkinson (1847–1911), novelist and children's writer
* James Atkinson (1780–1852), scholar
* Kate Atkinson (born 1952), novelist
* William Atkinson (died 1509), translator
* David Attenborough (born 1926), writer, naturalist and broadcaster
* Francis Atterbury (1663–1732), writer and bishop
* Mabel Lucie Attwell (1879–1964), children's writer and illustrator
* Penelope Aubin (1679–1738), poet, novelist and translator
* John Aubrey (1626–1697), writer and antiquary, Brief Lives
* John Audelay or Awdelay, (died c. 1426), poet and cleric
* W. H. Auden (1907–1973), poet
* Stacy Aumonier (1877–1928), novelist, story writer and essayist
* Jane Austen (1775–1817), novelist, Pride and Prejudice
* Katherine Austen (1629 – c. 1683), diarist and poet
* Alfred Austin (1835–1913), Poet Laureate
* John Austin (1790–1859), legal philosopher
* John Langshaw Austin (1911–1960), philosopher and translator
* Sarah Austin (1793–1867), translator
* Edward Aveling (1849–1898), writer, pamphleteer and translator
* Peter Avery (1923–2008), scholar and translator
* Jack Avon (born 1967), financial writer and consultant
* Tash Aw (born 1971), novelist and non-fiction writer
* Christopher Awdry (born 1940), children's writer
* Wilbert Awdry (Rev. W. Awdry, 1911–1997), children's writer and cleric, Thomas the Tank Engine
* Alan Ayckbourn (born 1939), playwright
* A. J. Ayer (1910–1989), philosopher
* Pam Ayres (born 1947), poet and songwriter
* Michael Ayrton (1921–1975), writer and artist
* Shamim Azad, (born 1952), writer and translator
* Trezza Azzopardi, (born 1961), novelist

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* Charles Babbage (1791–1871), polymath
* Gervase Babington (1549/1550–1610), theologian and bishop
* David Baddiel (born 1964), novelist and comedian
* Robert Baden-Powell (1857–1941), writer and army officer, Scouting for Boys
* Edmund Backhouse (1873–1944), orientalist and autobiographer
* Anne Bacon (c. 1528–1610), translator and correspondent
* Francis Bacon (1561–1626), essayist, New Atlantis
* Phanuel Bacon (1699–1783), playwright and poet
* John F. Baddeley (1854–1940), travel writer and journalist
* Robert Bage (1730–1801), novelist and radical
* Walter Bagehot (1826–1877), economist and essayist
* Desmond Bagley (1923–1983), horror novelist
* Enid Bagnold (1889–1981), novelist and playwright, National Velvet
* Richard Bagot (1860–1921), novelist and essayist
* David Bailey (living), story writer
* H. C. Bailey (1878–1961), novelist
* Hilary Bailey (1936–2017), biographer and editor
* Nathan Bailey (died 1742), philologist
* Paul Bailey (1937–2024), novelist and dramatist
* Philip James Bailey (1816–1902), poet
* Samuel Bailey (1791–1870), philosopher and economist
* Beryl Bainbridge (1932–2010), novelist
* Denys Val Baker (1917–1984), novelist and story writer
* Henry Baker (1698–1774), naturalist and poet
* Samuel Baker (1821–1893), writer and explorer
* Rajeev Balasubramanyam (born 1974), novelist
* Nigel Balchin (1908–1970), novelist and screenwriter
* John Bale (1495–1563), playwright and bishop
* J. G. Ballard (1930–2009), novelist
* Dacre Balsdon (1901–1977), novelist and historian
* Samuel Bamford (1788–1872), writer and dialect poet
* John Codrington Bampfylde (1764–1796/1797), poet
* Richard Bancroft (1544–1610), AV translator and archbishop
* Isabella Banks (1821–1897), novelist and poet
* Lynne Reid Banks (1929–2024), novelist
* Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743–1825), poet and children's writer
* W. N. P. Barbellion (real name Bruce Frederick Cummings, 1889–1919), diarist
* Margaret Barber (Michael Fairless, 1869–1901), novelist and children's writer
* Alexander Barclay (c. 1476–1552), poet and translator
* Florence L. Barclay (1862–1921), novelist
* James Barclay (born 1965), novelist
* John Baret (died c. 1580), lexicographer
* Owen Barfield (1898–1997), novelist, poet and philosopher
* Richard Harris Barham (wrote as Thomas Ingoldsby, 1788–1845), novelist and poet, The Ingoldsby Legends
* Maurice Baring (1874–1945), playwright, novelist and poet
* Sabine Baring-Gould (1834–1924), novelist, hymnist and cleric
* A. L. Barker (1918–2002), novelist
* Cicely Mary Barker (1895–1973), children's and religious writer and illustrator
* Clive Barker (born 1952), writer, film director and visual artist
* Elspeth Barker (1940–2022), novelist
* George Granville Barker (1913–1991), poet and novelist
* Jane Barker (1652–1732), poet and novelist
* Mary Anne Barker (1831–1911), writer and poet
* Nicola Barker (born 1966), novelist
* Pat Barker (born 1943), novelist
* Raffaella Barker (born 1964), novelist and journalist
* Sebastian Barker (1945–2014), poet
* Clement Barksdale (1609–1687), poet and cleric
* George Barlow (wrote as James Hinton, 1837–1913/1914), poet
* William Barlow (died 1613), scholar, AV translator and bishop
* Mordaunt Roger Barnard (1828–1906), translator and cleric
* Kitty Barne (1883–1961), children's writer
* Barnabe Barnes (1568 or 1569–1609), poet and playwright
* Ambrose Barnes (1627–1710), nonconformist and mayor
* Jonathan Barnes (born 1942), philosopher
* Julian Barnes (born 1946), novelist, Flaubert's Parrot
* William Barnes (1801–1886), dialect poet
* Correlli Barnett (1927–2022), historian
* Richard Barnfield (1574–1620), poet
* Alexander Baron (1917–1999), novelist and screenwriter
* Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (1831–1919), novelist
* Geoffrey Barraclough (1908–1984), historian
* John Barret (1631–1713), writer and Presbyterian minister
* Joseph Barret (1665–1699), theological writer and merchant
* Leslie Barringer (1895–1968), editor and novelist
* Isaac Barrow (1630–1677), scholar and cleric
* John Barrow (fl. 1735–1774), lexicographer and historian
* William Barrow (1754–1836), writer and cleric
* Stan Barstow (1928–2011), novelist and dramatist
* William Bartholomew (1793–1867), librettist and composer
* Mike Bartlett (born 1980), playwright and director
* Bernard Barton (1784–1849), poet and Quaker
* Henry Howarth Bashford (1880–1961), novelist and physician
* William Basse (c. 1583–1653/1654), poet
* Jonathan Bate (born 1958), biographer and editor
* James Bateman (1811–1897), garden writer
* H. E. Bates (1905–1974), novelist, The Darling Buds of May
* Henry Walter Bates (1825–1892), naturalist and explorer
* Ralph Bates (1899–2000), novelist
* Elizabeth Bath (1772–1856), poet
* Richard Baxter (1615–1691), poet, hymnist and theologian
* Stephen Baxter (born 1957), novelist
* Basil Al Bayati (born 1946), writer and architect
* John Bayley (1925–2015), critic and novelist
* Peter Bayley (c. 1778–1883), poet and playwright
* Ada Ellen Bayly (wrote as Edna Lyall, 1857–1903), novelist
* Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797–1830), poet and playwright
* Martin Baynton (born 1953), children's writer and illustrator
* Jeremy John Beadle (1958–1995), critic
* John Beadle (died 1667), diarist and cleric
* Anne Beale (1816–1900), novelist and poet
* Richard Bean (born 1956), playwright
* Francis Beaumont (1584–1616), playwright
* John Beaumont (1583–1627), poet
* Joseph Beaumont (1616–1699), poet and cleric
* Aubrey Beardsley (1872–1898), writer and illustrator
* Laura Beatty (living), biographer and novelist
* Samuel Beazley (1786–1851), novelist, playwright and architect
* Peter Beckford (1740–1811), writer and landowner
* William Beckford (1760–1844), novelist and patron
* Lillian Beckwith (born Lillian Comber, 1916–2004), novelist
* Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849), poet
* William Bedwell (1561–1632), scholar, AV translator and cleric
* Henry Charles Beeching (1859–1919), poet and anthologist
* Patricia Beer (1919–1999), poet and critic
* Constance Beerbohm (1811–1892), writer
* Julius Beerbohm (1854–1906), travel writer and explorer
* Max Beerbohm (1872–1956), novelist and caricaturist, Zuleika Dobson
* Alfred Beesley (1800–1847), poet and topographer
* Mrs Beeton (born Isabella Mary Mayson, 1836–1865), cookery writer
* Antony Beevor (born 1946), historian and novelist
* Aphra Behn (1640–1689), novelist and playwright
* Daubridgecourt Belchier (1580–1621), dramatist
* Adrian Bell (1901–1980), countryside writer
* Clive Bell (1881–1964), art critic
* Florence Bell (1851–1930), playwright and editor
* Gertrude Bell (1868–1926), writer and traveller
* Josephine Bell (also as David Wintringham, 1897–1987), novelist
* Julian Bell (1908–1937), poet
* Mary Hayley Bell (1911–2005), novelist, playwright and actress
* Quentin Bell (1910–1996), critic and biographer
* Thomas Bell (1792–1880), zoologist and writer
* John Bellers (1654–1725), writer and Quaker
* Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953), writer and poet
* Thomas Belt (1832–1878), naturalist and geologist
* Elizabeth Benger (1775–1827), poet, novelist and biographer
* Edward Benlowes (1603–1676), poet
* Alan Bennett (born 1934), playwright and broadcaster
* Anna Maria Bennett (c. 1760–1808), novelist
* Arnold Bennett (1867–1931), novelist
* Edwin Keppel Bennett (wrote as Francis Bennett, 1887–1958), writer, poet and scholar
* A. C. Benson (1862–1925), poet and diarist
* E. F. Benson (1867–1940), novelist and story writer
* Peter Benson (born 1956), novelist
* Robert Hugh Benson (1871–1914), novelist, writer and cleric
* Stella Benson (1892–1933), novelist, poet and travel writer
* George Bentham (1800–1884), botanist
* Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832), philosopher
* Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875–1956), novelist, humorist and poet
* Elizabeth Bentley (1767–1839), poet
* Nicolas Bentley (1907–1978), writer and illustrator
* Phyllis Bentley (1894–1977), novelist and biographer
* Richard Bentley (1662–1742), theologian and poet
* Edward Berdoe (1836–1916), critic, novelist and physician
* Richard Berengarten (born 1943), poet
* Elisabeth Beresford (1928–2010), children's writer, the Wombles
* J. D. Beresford (1873–1947), novelist
* James Beresford (1764–1840), satirist, translator and cleric
* Leila Berg (1917–2012), children's writer
* John Berger (1926–2017), novelist, G.
* Reginald Berkeley (1890–1935), playwright and screenwriter
* John Berkenhout (1726–1791), naturalist
* Steven Berkoff (born 1937), playwright and actor
* William Bayle Bernard (1807–1875), playwright, critic and novelist
* John Bourchier Berners (1467–1533), translator and statesman
* Juliana Berners (Bernes, b. c. 1388), writer on heraldry, hawking etc., The Book of Saint Albans
* Elizabeth Berridge (1919–2009), English novelist
* Francis Berry (1915–2006), poet and critic
* Mary Berry (1763–1852), writer and editor
* Mary Berry (born 1935), cookery writer
* Tess Berry-Hart (born 1978), playwright and novelist
* Charles Bertram (1723–1765), literary forger
* Annie Besant (1847–1933), writer and campaigner
* Walter Besant (1836–1901), novelist and historian
* Charles Best (1570–1627), poet
* Alfred Bestall (1892–1986), children's writer and illustrator, Rupert Bear
* Henry Digby Beste (1768–1836), religious writer
* Matilda Betham-Edwards (1836–1919), novelist, poet and travel writer
* Nicholas Bethell (1938–2007), writer, translator and politician
* John Betjeman (1906–1984), Poet Laureate and writer
* Thomas Betterton (1635–1710), playwright and actor
* Edwyn Bevan (1870–1943), philosopher and historian
* Elizabeth Beverley (fl. 1815–30), pamphleteer and actress
* L. S. Bevington (1845–1895), essayist, anarchist and poet
* Elizabeth Bibesco (1897–1945), novelist and poet
* Tessa Biddington (born 1954), poet
* Hester Biddle (c. 1629–1697), Quaker pamphleteer and preacher
* Elizabeth Biddulph, Baroness Biddulph (1834-1916), biographer and Woman of the Bedchamber to Queen Victoria
* John Stanyan Bigg (1828–1865), poet
* Mark Billingham (born 1961), novelist
* William Billington (1825–1884), poet
* Thomas Bilson(1547–1616), theologian, AV translator and bishop
* Andrew Bing (1574–1652), scholar, AV translator and cleric
* Margaret Bingham (1740–1814), poet and painter
* Laurence Binyon (1869–1943), poet and art historian
* T.J. Binyon (1936–2004), novelist, translator and biographer
* Carol Birch (born 1951), novelist and critic
* Thomas Birch (1705–1766), historian
* Caroline Bird (born 1986), poet and playwright
* Isabella Bird (1831–1904), travel writer and naturalist
* Dea Birkett (born 1958), writer
* John Birtwhistle (born 1946), poet and librettist
* Samuel Bishop (1731–1795), poet and essayist
* Clementina Black (1853–1922), novelist and political writer
* Robert Black (1829–1915), novelist, story writer and translator
* Sarah Blackborow (fl. 1650s – 1660s), Quaker writer and preacher
* John Blackburn (1923–1993), novelist
* Thomas Blackburn (1916–1977), poet
* Malorie Blackman (born 1962), children's writer and screenwriter
* R. D. Blackmore (1825–1900), novelist, Lorna Doone
* Richard Blackmore (1654–1729), poet and religious writer
* William Blackstone (1723–1780), legal writer
* Algernon Blackwood (1869–1951), novelist and story writer
* Caroline Blackwood (1931–1996), novelist and critic
* Helen Blackwood, Lady Dufferin (1807–1867), poet and songwriter
* Max Blagg (living), poet and writer
* Quentin Blake (born 1932), children's writer and illustrator
* William Blake (1757–1827), poet and artist, Songs of Innocence and of Experience
* Helen Blakeman (born 1971), playwright and screenwriter
* Susanna Blamire (1747–1794), poet
* Edward Blanchard (1820–1899), playwright and songwriter
* Samuel Laman Blanchard (1804–1845), writer, journalist and poet
* Robert Blatchford (wrote as Nunquam, 1851–1943), journalist, writer and campaigner
* Barbara Blaugdone (c. 1609–1705), Quaker autobiographer
* Nicholas Blincoe (born 1965), novelist and screenwriter
* Mathilde Blind (1841–1896), poet and biographer
* Edward Blishen (1920–1996), writer and broadcaster
* Eliot Bliss (Emily Bliss, 1903–1990), novelist and poet
* Walter Blith (1605–1654), writer on husbandry
* Robert Bloomfield (1766–1823), poet
* John Bloundelle-Burton (c. 1850–1917), journalist and novelist
* Charles Blount (1654–1693), polemicist
* Elizabeth Blower (c. 1757/1763 – post–1816), novelist, poet and actress
* Evelyn, Princess Blücher (1876–1960), diarist and memoirist
* Nicholas Blundell (1669–1737), diarist
* Edmund Blunden (1896–1974), poet, author and critic
* Anthony Blunt (1907–1983), art historian and spy
* Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840–1922), poet and author
* Ronald Blythe (1922–2023), writer and editor,
* Enid Blyton (1897–1968), children's writer, Noddy
* James Boaden (1762–1839), biographer, playwright and journalist
* Frederick S. Boas (1862–1957), literary historian
* John Ernest Bode (1816–1874), poet, hymnist and cleric
* John Bodenham (1569–1610), anthologist
* Barbara Bodichon (1827–1891), educator and feminist
* John Bois (1560–1643), scholar, AV translator and cleric
* Osbern Bokenam (c. 1393 – c. 1463), literary historian and cleric
* Robert Bolt (1924–1995), dramatist and screenwriter, A Man For All Seasons
* Sharon Bolton, mystery fiction writer
* Michael Bond (1926–2017), children's writer, Paddington Bear
* Elizabeth Bonhôte (1744–1818), novelist
* Christopher Booker (1937–2019), writer and journalist
* Luke Booker (1762–1835), poet, antiquary and cleric
* George Boole (1815–1864), mathematician and logician
* Mary Everest Boole (1832–1916), schoolbook writer
* Barton Booth (1681–1733), actor and poet
* Charles Booth (1840–1916), social researcher, Life and Labour of the People in London
* Martin Booth (1944–2004), novelist, poet and editor
* Stephen Booth (born 1952), novelist
* Brooke Boothby (1744–1824), scholar and poet
* Frances Boothby (fl. 1669–70), playwright
* Basil Boothroyd (1910–1988), writer and humorist
* George Borrow (1803–1881), novelist and travel writer, Romany Rye
* Lucy M. Boston (1892–1990), children's writer
* Clifford Edmund Bosworth (1928–2015), historian and Arabist
* Joseph Bosworth (1789–1876), lexicographer and Anglo-Saxon scholar
* Phyllis Bottome (1884–1963), novelist and psychoanalyst
* Gordon Bottomley (1874–1948), poet and dramatist
* Ronald Bottrall (1906–1989), poet and academic
* Marjorie Boulton (1924–2017), writer and Esperantist
* Francis William Bourdillon (1852–1921), poet
* Thomas Edward Bowdich (1791–1824), traveller and writer
* Henrietta Maria Bowdler ("Harriet", 1750–1830), religious writer and expurgator
* Jane Bowdler (1743–1784), poet and essayist
* John Bowdler (1746–1823), religious writer and pamphleteer
* John Bowdler (1783–1815), writer and poet
* Thomas Bowdler (1754–1825), writer and expurgator
* Thomas Bowdler 1782–1856), writer and cleric
* Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973), novelist and story writer
* John Griffith Bowen (1924–2019), novelist and screenwriter
* Marjorie Bowen (real name Gabrielle Margaret Vere Long, 1885–1952), novelist and writer
* Emily Bowes (1806–1857), religious poet and artist
* Mary Bowes (1749–1800), playwright and botanist
* Tim Bowler (living), children's writer
* William Lisle Bowles (1762–1850), poet and critic
* Maurice Bowra (1898–1971), scholar and wit
* Frank Cottrell Boyce (born 1959), children's writer and screenwriter
* William Binnington Boyce (1804–1889), philologist and Methodist minister
* Abel Boyer (c. 1667–1729), journalist, miscellanist and translator
* Charles Boyle (1674–1731), writer and playwright
* Charles Boyle (born 1951), poet
* John Boyle (1707–1762), writer and translator
* Roger Boyle (1621–1679), playwright and statesman
* Charles Vernon Boys (1855–1944), physicist and polymath
* Ernest Franklin Bozman (1895–1968), writer and editor
* Michael Bracewell (born 1958), writer and novelist
* Alison Brackenbury (born 1953), poet
* Paula Brackston (living), genre novelist
* Jason Bradbury (living), children's writer and TV presenter
* Malcolm Bradbury (1932–2000), novelist
* Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1837–1915), novelist, Lady Audley's Secret
* Henry J. Bradfield (1805–1852), poet, writer and colonial officer
* Barbara Taylor Bradford (1933–2024), novelist
* Ernle Bradford (1922–1986), historian and writer
* Walter Bradick (1706-1794)
* Charles Bradlaugh (1833–1891), writer and freethinker
* A. C. Bradley (1851–1935), literary critic
* Charles Bradley (1789–1871), writer and preacher
* Edward Bradley (wrote as Cuthbert M. Bede, BA, 1827–1889), novelist and cleric
* F. H. Bradley (1846–1924), philosopher
* Henry Bradley (1845–1923), philologist and lexicographer
* Henry Bradshaw (c. 1450–1513), poet and monk
* Nicholas Bradshawe (c. 1635), writer
* Hilary Bradt (born 1941), travel writer and publisher
* John Brady (died 1814), miscellanist
* Melvyn Bragg (born 1939), novelist, biographer and broadcaster
* John Braine (1922–1986), novelist, Room at the Top
* Richard Braithwaite or Brathwait, (1588–1673), poet
* Ernest Bramah (born Ernest Bramah Smith, 1868–1942), novelist and humorist
* James Bramston (1694–1744), poet and satirist
* Barbarina Brand Lady Dacre, (1768–1854), poet, playwright and translator
* Christianna Brand (real name Mary Christianna Milne, 1907–1988), novelist and children's writer
* Hannah Brand (1754–1821), playwright, poet and actress
* Jo Brand (born 1957), writer and comedian
* William Branthwaite (died 1620), scholar, AV translator and cleric
* Anna Brassey (1839–1887), travel writer
* Anna Eliza Bray (1790–1883), novelist and topographer
* Charles Bray (1811–1884), philosopher and phrenologist
* Angela Brazil (1868–1947), novelist
* Wallace Breem (1926–1990), novelist and librarian
* John Brent (1808–1882), novelist and antiquary
* Elinor Brent-Dyer (1894–1969), children's writer, Chalet School
* Frederick Sadleir Brereton (1852–1957), writer for boys
* John Brereton (1571 or 1572 – c. 1632), travel writer and explorer
* Nicholas Breton (c. 1545–1626), poet and tractarian
* Richard Brett (1567–1637), scholar, AV translator and cleric
* Simon Brett (born 1945), novelist and playwright
* E. Cobham Brewer (1810–1897), writer and cleric, Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
* George Brewer (1766–18??), miscellanist
* James Norris Brewer (fl. 1799–1829), topographer and novelist
* John Brewster (1753–1842), writer and cleric
* Shane Briant (1946–2021), novelist and actor
* John Bridges (1536–1618), tractarian and bishop
* Robert Bridges (1844–1930), Poet Laureate
* Victor Bridges (1878–1972), novelist and playwright
* Katharine Mary Briggs (1898–1980), folklore writer
* Raymond Briggs (1934–2022), children's writer and illustrator
* John Bright (1811–1889), orator and politician
* Joanna Briscoe (born 1963), novelist and journalist
* Sophia Briscoe (fl. 1770s), novelist
* Vera Brittain (1893–1970), writer and pacifist
* Edwin Brock (1927–1997), poet
* William Brock (1807–1875), biographer and Baptist minister
* Alexander Brome (1620–1666), poet
* Richard Brome (c. 1590 – c. 1653), playwright
* Vincent Brome (1910–2004), biographer and novelist
* Eliza Bromley (fl. 1784–1803), novelist and translator
* Eleanor Bron (born 1938), writer and actress
* Anne Brontë (1820–1849), novelist, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
* Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855), novelist, Jane Eyre
* Emily Brontë (1818–1848), novelist and poet, Wuthering Heights
* Patrick Brontë (originally Brunty, 1777–1861), poet, writer and cleric
* Rhidian Brook (born 1964), novelist and screenwriter
* Arthur de Capell Brooke (1791–1858), travel writer
* Christopher N. L. Brooke (living), historian
* Frances Brooke (1724–1789), novelist and playwright
* Jocelyn Brooke (1908–1966), novelist, poet and biographer
* John Brooke (died 1582), religious writer and translator
* Rupert Brooke (1887–1915), poet
* Anita Brookner (1928–2016), novelist
* Kevin Brooks (born 1959), children's writer
* Shirley Brooks (1816–1874), novelist, playwright and poet
* Ralph Broome (1742–1835), pamphleteer and poet
* William Broome (1689–1745), poet and translator
* Robert Barnabas Brough (1828–1864), writer and poet
* George Brown (1835–1917), ethnographer and diarist
* John Brown (1715–1766), essayist and cleric
* Pamela Brown (1924–1989), children's writer
* Pete Brown (1940–2023), performance poet and songwriter
* Pete Brown (born 1968), beer writer and columnist
* Stewart Brown (born 1951), poet and scholar
* Tom Brown (1663–1704), satirist and translator
* Anthony Browne (born 1946), children's writer and illustrator
* Edward Browne (1862–1926), orientalist and writer
* Isaac Hawkins Browne (1705–1760), poet
* Moses Browne (1704–1787), poet and cleric
* Thomas Browne (1705–1782), polymath, Religio Medici
* William Browne (c. 1590 – c. 1645), poet
* Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861), poet
* Oscar Browning (1837–1923), writer and scholar
* Robert Browning (1812–1889), poet
* Alan Brownjohn (1931–2024), poet and novelist
* Dorita Fairlie Bruce (1885–1970), children's writer
* Henry James Bruce (1880–1951), autobiographer and diplomat
* Francis Bryan (c. 1490–1550), poet and courtier
* Arthur Bryant (1899–1985), historian
* Samuel Egerton Brydges (1762–1836), bibliographer and editor
* Bryher (real name Annie Winifred Ellerman, 1894–1983), novelist, poet and memoirist
* Charles Bucke (1781–1846), writer and poet
* Anthony Buckeridge (1912–2004), children's writer, Jennings
* James Silk Buckingham (1786–1855), journalist and travel writer
* Leicester Silk Buckingham (1825–1867), playwright and historian
* Francis Trevelyan Buckland (1826–1880), natural historian
* Raymond Buckland (1934–2017), occultist
* William Buckland (1784–1856), geologist, palaeontologist and cleric
* Henry Thomas Buckle (1821–1862), historian
* Catherine Mary Buckton (1826-1904), campaigner and writer
* Maria Elizabeth Budden (c. 1780–1832), children's writer
* Eustace Budgell (1686–1737), writer and politician
* Frank Thomas Bullen (1857–1915), novelist and autobiographer
* A. H. Bullen (1857–1920), scholar
* J. B. Bullen (living), critic
* Gerald Bullett (1893–1958), novelist, critic and poet
* Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873), novelist, poet and playwright
* Robert Bulwer-Lytton (wrote as Owen Meredith, 1831–1891), poet
* Basil Bunting (1900–1985), poet
* John Bunyan (1628–1688), writer, The Pilgrim's Progress
* Josiah Burchett (c. 1666–1746), naval historian
* George Burges (1786–1864), classicist
* Anthony Burgess (originally John Burgess Wilson, 1917–1993), novelist, A Clockwork Orange
* Melvin Burgess (born 1954), children's writer
* John William Burgon (1813–1888), poet and theologian
* John Burgoyne (1722–1792), playwright and army officer
* Thomas Burke (1886–1945), novelist and writer
* William Burke (died 1798), pamphleteer and official
* Francis Burleigh (fl. 1590–1610), AV translator and cleric
* Michael Burleigh (born 1955), historian
* Andrew Burnaby (1732–1812), travel writer and cleric
* Francis Burnand (1836–1917), humorist and dramatist
* Thomas Burnet (c. 1635–1715), theologian
* Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849–1924), children's writer, The Secret Garden
* Caroline Burney (fl. early 19th century), novelist
* Charles Burney (1726–1814), music scholar and composer
* Charles Burney (1757–1817), scholar, educator and cleric
* Fanny Burney (also as Frances, Mme d'Arblay, 1752–1840), novelist and diarist, Evelina
* Frances Burney (1776–1828), dramatist
* James Burney (1750–1821), travel writer and admiral
* Sarah Burney (1772–1844), novelist
* Myles Burnyeat (1939–2019), philosopher and classicist
* James Burr (born 1971), fiction writer
* Sophia Burrell (1753–1802), poet and playwright
* James Burrow (1701–1782), scholar, scientist and lawyer
* Montagu Burrows (1819–1905), naval historian and officer
* Hester Burton (1913–2000), historical novelist and children's writer
* Maurice Burton (1898–1992), science writer and zoologist
* Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890), writer, translator and explorer
* Robert Burton (1577–1640), polymath, The Anatomy of Melancholy
* Charlotte Bury (1775–1861), novelist and poet
* Elizabeth Bury (1644–1720), diarist and polymath
* Alban Butler (1710–1773), writer and cleric
* Catherine Butler (earlier Charles Butler, born 1963), children's writer and academic
* Gwendoline Butler (1922–2013), novelist
* Joseph Butler (1692–1752), theologian and bishop
* Josephine Butler (1828–1906), writer and campaigner
* Samuel Butler (1612–1680), poet and satirist, Hudibras
* Samuel Butler (1835–1902), writer and satirist, Erewhon
* Herbert Butterfield (1900–1979), historian
* Jez Butterworth (born 1969), playwright
* Mary Butts (1890–1937), writer and poet
* Bertha Henry Buxton (1844–1881), novelist and children's writer
* Nigel Buxton (1924–2015), travel writer and wine critic
* Thomas Buxton (1786–1845), political writer
* A. S. Byatt (1936–2023), novelist
* John Byrom (1692–1763), poet
* John Byron (1723–1786), memoirist and admiral
* Lord Byron (1788–1824), poet, Don Juan
* Robert Byron (1905–1941), travel writer
* Ingram Bywater (1840–1914), scholar and editor
* Michael Bywater (born 1953), writer and broadcaster

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## C

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* Florence Caddy (1837–1923), writer
* Hall Caine (1853–1931), novelist and playwright
* Mona Caird (1854–1932), essayist, novelist and feminist
* John Caius the Elder or Kay (fl. 1480), narrative poet
* Maria Callcott (1785–1842), children's writer, travel writer, and illustrator
* Brian Callison (1934–2024), novelist
* Charles Stuart Calverley (1831–1884), poet and translator
* Roland Camberton (real name Henry Cohen, 1921–1965), novelist
* Ada Cambridge (1844–1926), novelist and poet
* William Camden (1551–1623), historian and antiquary
* Richard Cameron (living), playwright
* Thomas Campion (1567–1620), poet and composer
* Bruce Campbell (1912–1993), ornithologist
* W. H. Canaway (1925–1988), novelist
* James Cancellar, (fl. 1564), English theological writer
* Hugh Candidus (c. 1095 – c. 1160), historian in Latin and monk
* Denis Cannan (1919–2011), playwright and screenwriter
* Gilbert Cannan (1884–1955), novelist and translator
* Joanna Cannan (1898–1961), novelist and children's writer
* May Wedderburn Cannan (1893–1973), poet and autobiographer
* Dorothy Cannell (born 1943), novelist
* Victor Canning (1911–1986), novelist, essayist and children's writer
* William Canton (1845–1926), poet and children's writer
* Edward Capell (1713–1781), Shakespearean
* Edward Capern (1819–1894), poet and postman
* John Capgrave (1393–1464), theologian and historian
* Neville Cardus (1888–1975), cricket writer and music critic
* Thomas Carew (1595–1640), poet
* Henry Carey (1687–1743), poet, playwright and song-writer
* Mary Carey, Lady Carey (c. 1609 – c. 1680), poet
* Rosa Nouchette Carey (1840–1909), novelist and children's writer
* Robert Carliell (died c. 1622), poet
* John Carne (1789–1844), travel writer and biographer
* Edward Carpenter (1844–1929), poet and philosopher
* Humphrey Carpenter (1946–2005), biographer, broadcaster and children's writer
* Barbara Comyns Carr (1907–1992), novelist and artist
* J. L. Carr (1912–1994), novelist and schoolbook writer
* Lewis Carroll (real name Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, 1832–1898), children's writer and mathematician, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
* Angela Carter (1940–1992), novelist
* Elizabeth Carter (1717–1806), poet, translator and bluestocking
* Barbara Cartland (1901–2000), novelist
* George Cartwright (1739–1819), diarist and explorer
* Justin Cartwright (1945–2018), novelist
* William Cartwright (1611–1643), playwright
* Elizabeth Cary (1585–1639), poet and playwright, The Tragedy of Mariam
* Henry Francis Cary (1772–1844), translator and critic
* Lucius Cary (Lord Falkland, 1610–1643), poet, writer and politician
* Patrick Cary or Carey, (c. 1624–1658), poet
* John Caryll (1625–1711), poet, playwright and diplomat
* Juanita Casey (1925–2012), poet and novelist
* Cathy Cassidy (born 1962), children's writer
* Egerton Castle (1858–1920), novelist (with wife Agnes)
* Helen Castor (living), historian and broadcaster
* Sarah Caudwell (real name Sarah Cockburn, 1939–2000), novelist
* Charles Causley (1917–2003), poet and editor
* David Caute (born 1936), novelist and historian
* Tiberius Cavallo (1749–1809), natural philosopher
* George Cavendish (1494 – c. 1652), biographer and poet
* Jane Cavendish (later Jane Cheyne, 1621–1669), poet and playwright
* Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle, (1623–1673), poet, novelist and playwright
* William Cavendish (1592–1676), polymath
* William Caxton (c. 1415/1422 – c. 1492), printer and translator
* Lord David Cecil (1902–1986), scholar and biographer
* Dorothea Celesia (originally Mallet, 1738–1790), poet and translator
* Susanna Centlivre (also as Susanna Carroll, c. 1667–1723), playwright, poet and actress
* Mark Chadbourn (born 1960), genre novelist
* Laurence Chaderton (c. 1536–1640), theologian, AV translator and cleric
* Charles Chadwick (1932–2025), novelist
* Henry Chadwick (1920–2008), theologian, historian and cleric
* John Chalkhill (fl. c. 1600), poet
* Annie Emma Challice (1821–1875), author
* Thomas Chaloner (1521–1565), poet, translator and statesman
* Edward Chamberlayne (1616–1703), writer, historian and translator
* William Chamberlayne (1619–1689), poet
* Shaun Chamberlin (living), author and activist
* Aidan Chambers (1934–2025), children's writer
* Ephraim Chambers (c. 1680–1740), writer and encyclopedist
* Frederick Chamier (1796–1870), novelist and sea captain
* Meira Chand (living), novelist
* Mary Chandler (1687–1745), poet
* Raymond Chandler (1888–1959), crime writer
* Samuel Chandler (1693–1766), theologian and Presbyterian minister
* Henry Channon ("Chips", 1897–1958), writer and diarist
* George Chapman (1559–1634), poet, playwright and translator
* Guy Chapman (1889–1972), writer and historian
* Pat Chapman (1940–2022), food writer
* Hester Chapone (1727–1801), writer and bluestocking
* Charlotte Charke (originally Cibber, 1713–1760), writer and actress
* Elizabeth Charles (1828–1896), novelist and religious writer
* Gerda Charles (real name Edna Lipson, 1914–1996), novelist and anthologist
* Maria Louisa Charlesworth (1819–1880), children's writer
* Leslie Charteris (born Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin, 1907–1993), novelist, Simon Templar
* James Hadley Chase, b. Rene Brabazon Raymond, also as James L. Docherty, Ambrose Grant, etc., (1906–1985), novelist
* Debjani Chatterjee (born 1952), poet, translator and children's writer
* Georgiana Chatterton (1806–1876), travel writer, novelist and poet
* Thomas Chatterton (wrote as Thomas Rowley, 1752–1770), poet
* Beth Chatto (1923–2018), garden writer
* William Andrew Chatto (also as Stephen Oliver, 1799–1864), travel and general writer
* Bruce Chatwin (1940–1989), novelist and travel writer
* Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343–1400), poet, The Canterbury Tales
* Cris Cheek (born 1955), poet and performer
* Mavis Cheek (living), novelist
* John Cheke (1514–1557), classicist and translator
* George Tomkyns Chesney (1830–1895), novelist and army officer
* G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936), novelist, poet and essayist, Father Brown
* Henry Chettle (c. 1564 – c. 1607), playwright
* William Rufus Chetwood (died 1766), playwright, novelist and publisher
* Peter Cheyney (1896–1951), novelist
* Josiah Child (1630–1699), political economist and merchant
* Lee Child (real name Jim Grant, b. 1954), thriller writer
* Wilfred Rowland Childe (1890–1952), poet
* Erskine Childers (1870–1922), novelist and politician
* William Chillingworth (1602–1644), religious writer
* Mary Cholmondeley (1859–1925), novelist
* Charles Chorley (c. 1810–1874), man of letters
* Agatha Christie (1891–1976), mystery writer
* Mary Chudleigh (1656–1710), poet and polemicist
* Alfred John Church (1829–1912), scholar, poet and translator
* Richard Church (1893–1972), poet
* Richard William Church (1815–1890), biographer, historian and cleric
* Caryl Churchill (born 1938), playwright and translator
* Charles Churchill (1731–1764), poet and satirist
* Winston Churchill (1874–1965), writer, prime minister and Nobel Prize winner
* Thomas Churchyard (c. 1520–1604), poet and soldier
* Colley Cibber (1671–1757), Poet Laureate, playwright and bowdlerizer
* Horatio Clare (born 1973), writer
* John Clare (1793–1864), poet
* Emily Clark (fl. 1798–1819), novelist and poet
* Amy Clarke (1892–1980), poet and school historian
* Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008), SF novelist
* Bob Clarke (born 1964), archaeologist and historian
* Charles Cowden Clarke (1787–1877), writer and scholar
* Mrs. Henry Clarke (Amy, 1853–1908), historical novelist and children's writer
* Jane Clarke, biochemist and academic
* Jane E. Clarke (born 1954), children's writer
* Lindsay Clarke (born 1939), novelist and poet
* Mary Cowden Clarke (originally Novello, 1809–1898), writer and scholar
* Pauline Clarke (1921–2013), children's writer
* Richard Clarke (died 1634), scholar, AV translator and cleric
* Roy Clarke (born 1930), screenwriter and playwright
* Samuel Clarke (1675–1729), philosopher and cleric
* Susanna Clarke (born 1959), novelist, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
* T. E. B. Clarke (1907–1989), screenwriter and novelist
* Laurence Clarkson or Claxton (1615–1667), writer and theologian
* John Clavell (1601–1643), writer, playwright and highwayman
* Chris Cleave (born 1973), novelist and journalist
* Brian Cleeve (1921–2003), novelist
* Lucas Cleeve (also as Mrs Howard Kingscote, 1868–1908), novelist
* John Cleland (1709–1789), novelist, Fanny Hill
* Dick Clement (born 1937), scriptwriter
* Jack Clemo (1916–1994), poet and novelist
* John Cleveland (1613–1658), poet
* Barbara Cleverly (born 1940), novelist
* Anne Clifford (1590–1676), diarist
* Lucy Clifford (wrote as Mrs. W. K. Clifford, 1846–1929), novelist, playwright and children's writer
* William Kingdon Clifford (1846–1879), philosopher and children's writer
* Caroline Clive (wrote as "V", 1801–1872), novelist and poet
* John Clive (1933–2012), novelist and actor
* Kitty Clive (born Catherine Raftor, 1711–1785), playwright and actress
* Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861), poet
* Bryan Clough (born 1932), writer
* William Cobbett (1763–1835), writer and pamphleteer, Rural Rides
* Bob Cobbing (1920–2002), poet and artist
* Richard Cobbold (1797–1877), novelist and writer
* Richard Cobden (1804–1865), pamphleteer
* Aston Cockayne (1605–1684), poet and playwright
* Catherine Trotter Cockburn (1679–1749), novelist and playwright
* Edward Cocker (1631–1676), writer and engraver
* Richard Cocks (1566–1624), diarist
* Henry Cockton (1807–1853), novelist
* Jonathan Coe (born 1961), novelist
* Lady Mary Coke (1727–1811), correspondent and diarist
* Barry Cole (1936–2014), poet and novelist
* G. D. H. Cole (1889–1959), economist, historian and novelist
* Margaret Cole (1893–1980), politician and novelist
* Olivia Cole (born 1982), poet
* John William Colenso (1814–1883), writer and bishop
* Christabel Rose Coleridge (1843–1921), novelist and editor
* Derwent Coleridge (1800–1883), writer, scholar and cleric
* Ernest Hartley Coleridge (1846–1920), critic, editor and poet
* Hartley Coleridge (1796–1849), poet and critic
* Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861–1907), novelist and poet
* Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834), poet, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
* Sara Coleridge (1802–1852), author and translator
* Stephen Coleridge (1854–1936), writer, poet and campaigner
* Jane Collier (1714–1755), satirist
* Jeremy Collier (1650–1726), pamphleteer and cleric
* John Collier (wrote as Tim Bobbin, 1708–1786), dialect poet and caricaturist
* John Collier (1901–1980), story writer and screenwriter
* John Payne Collier (1789–1883), literary critic, editor and forger
* Mary Collier (c. 1688–1762), poet
* R. G. Collingwood (1889–1943), philosopher and historian
* W. G. Collingwood (1854–1932), writer and artist
* An Collins (fl. 1653), religious poet
* Anthony Collins (1676–1729), philosopher
* Charles James Collins (1820–1864), novelist and journalist
* Jackie Collins (1937–2015), novelist
* John Collins (1625–1683), mathematician
* John Collins (1742–1808), poet and lyricist
* John Churton Collins (1848–1908), literary critic
* Mortimer Collins (1827–1876), novelist and poet
* Norman Collins (1907–1982), novelist
* Warwick Collins (1948–2013), novelist and screenwriter
* Wilkie Collins (1824–1889), novelist, The Moonstone
* William Collins (1721–1759), poet
* John Stewart Collis (1900–1984), biographer and countryside writer
* Maurice Collis (1889–1973), writer and biographer
* Mary Collyer (c. 1716–1762), translator and novelist.
* George Colman (1732–1794), playwright
* George Colman (1762–1836), playwright and poet
* Jock Colville (1915–1987), diarist and civil servant
* Howard Colvin (1919–2007), architectural historian
* William Combe (1741–1823), miscellanist and poet
* Alex Comfort (1920–2000), novelist, poet and writer
* Jack Common (1903–1968), novelist
* Ivy Compton-Burnett (1884–1969), novelist
* William Congreve (1670–1729), playwright and poet, Erewhon
* Thomas Coningsby (died 1625), diarist, soldier and politician
* Paul Conneally (born 1959), poet, artist and musician
* Charlie Connelly (born 1970), football and travel writer
* Cyril Connolly (1903–1974), writer and critic
* Joseph Connolly (born 1950), writer and novelist
* Tony Connor (born 1930), poet and playwright
* Robert Conquest (1917–2015), historian and poet
* Henry Constable (1562–1613), poet
* Hugh Conway (real name Frederick John Fargus, 1847–1885), novelist
* Robert Seymour Conway (1864–1933), classicist
* John Conybeare (1692–1755), theologian and bishop
* John Josias Conybeare (1779–1824), scholar, translator and cleric
* William Daniel Conybeare (1787–1857), writer and cleric
* William John Conybeare (1815–1857), writer, novelist and cleric
* David Cook (1940–2015), novelist and screenwriter
* Edward Dutton Cook (1829–1883), novelist and critic
* Eliza Cook (1818–1889), poet
* James Cook (1728–1779), travel writer and mariner
* Judith Cook (1933–2004), novelist
* Dorian Cooke (1916–2005), poet and intelligence officer
* Thomas Cooke (1703–1756), poet, playwright and translator
* Catherine Cookson (1906–1998), novelist
* William Henry Coombes (1767–1850), writer and RC priest
* Artemis Cooper (born 1953), writer and editor
* Duff Cooper (1890–1954), writer, diarist and politician
* Jilly Cooper (born 1937), writer and novelist
* Lettice Cooper (1897–1994), novelist and critic
* Thomas Cooper (1805–1892), poet and novelist
* William Cooper (real name H. S. Hoff, 1910–2002), novelist
* Isabel Cooper-Oakley (1853/1854–1914), theosophist
* Wendy Cope (born 1945), poet
* Esther Copley (1786–1851) children's and housekeeping writer
* A. E. Coppard (1878–1957) poet and story writer
* Abiezer Coppe (1619–1672) religious writer
* Richard Corbet or Corbett (1582–1635), poet and bishop
* Jim Corbett (1875–1955), writer and conservationist
* Julian Corbett (1854–1922), naval historian
* Michael Cordy (living), novelist
* Marie Corelli (1855–1924), novelist
* Alan Coren (1938–2007), writer, satirist and broadcaster
* Hilary Corke (1921–2001), poet
* Adam Cornford (born 1950), poet and essayist
* Frances Cornford (1886–1960), poet
* Francis M. Cornford (1874–1943), scholar and poet
* John Cornford (1915–1936), poet
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