List of English writers (D–J)

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

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

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* David Dabydeen (born 1955), novelist and critic
* Charlotte Dacre (wrote as Rosa Matilda, 1782–1841), novelist and poet
* Roald Dahl (1916–1990), novelist, children's writer and poet
* William Dakins (died 1607), scholar, AV translator and cleric
* Andrew Dalby (born 1947), writer
* Celia Dale (1912–2011), novelist and book reviewer
* Penny Dale (born 1954), children's writer and illustrator
* Thomas Dale (1797–1870), poet, theologian and cleric
* Robert Charles Dallas (1756–1824), writer and poet
* Anne Seymour Damer (1748–1828), novelist and sculptor
* William Dampier (1651–1715), travel writer and buccaneer
* William Danby (1752–1833), scholar and philosopher
* Clemence Dane (real name Winifred Ashton, 1888–1965), novelist and playwright
* Samuel Daniel (1562–1619), poet and historian
* William Barker Daniel (1754–1833), field sports writer and cleric
* Sarah Daniels (born 1957), playwright
* Alicia D'Anvers (1688–1725), poet
* Ella D'Arcy (c. 1856–1939), novelist and translator
* Bill Dare (living), scriptwriter, novelist and playwright
* F. J. Harvey Darton (1878–1936), children's literature historian and publisher
* Bernard Darwin (1876–1961), golf writer
* Charles Darwin (1809–1882), natural historian, On the Origin of Species
* Emma Darwin (born 1964), novelist
* Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802), natural historian and poet
* Florence Henrietta Darwin (1863/1864–1920), playwright
* Elizabeth Daryush (originally Bridges, 1887–1977), poet
* George Webbe Dasent (1817–1896), writer and translator
* Rana Dasgupta (born 1972), novelist
* William Davenant (1606–1668), poet and playwright
* Robert Davenport (fl. 1623–1639), playwright and poet
* Selina Davenport (1779–1859), novelist
* C. A. F. Rhys Davids (1857–1942), Buddhist scholar and translator
* Lionel Davidson (1922–2009), novelist
* Donald Davie (1922–1995), poet and critic
* Caitlin Davies (born 1964), novelist and journalist
* Hunter Davies (born 1936), writer and biographer
* Hugh Sykes Davies (1909–1984), poet and novelist
* John Davies (c. 1565–1618), poet and satirist
* John Davies (1569–1626), poet and lawyer
* Linda Davies (born 1963), novelist
* Paul B. Davies (living), writer and actor
* Peter Ho Davies (born 1966), writer
* John Davis or Davys (c. 1543–1605), writer and navigator
* Lindsey Davis (born 1949), novelist
* Ann Davison (1914–1992), travel writer
* Humphry Davy (1778–1829), writer and inventor
* Elizabeth Dawbarn (died 1839), writer on religion and child care
* Richard Dawkins (born 1941), science writer
* Coningsby Dawson (1883–1959), novelist, poet and soldier
* Jennifer Dawson (1929–2000), novelist
* Jill Dawson (living), poet, novelist and editor
* William James Dawson (1854–1928), poet and religious writer
* James Wentworth Day (1899–1983), countryside writer and broadcaster
* Jeffery Day (1896–1918), poet
* John Day (1574 – c. 1640), playwright, The Parliament of Bees
* Martin Day (born 1969), novelist and screenwriter
* Thomas Day (1748–1789), children's writer and educator
* Cecil Day-Lewis (1904–1972), Poet Laureate, translator and novelist
* Tamasin Day-Lewis (born 1953), food writer and broadcaster
* April De Angelis (born 1960), playwright
* Louis de Bernières (born 1954), novelist, Captain Corelli's Mandolin
* Alain de Botton (born 1969), writer, novelist and essayist
* Maria De Fleury (fl. 1773–1791), poet, hymnist and polemicist
* Guy de la Bédoyère (born 1957), historian and broadcaster
* Walter de la Mare (also as Walter Ramal, 1873–1956), poet and novelist
* Michael de Larrabeiti (1934–2008), novelist and travel writer
* William De Morgan (1839–1917), novelist and potter
* Thomas de Quincey (1785–1859), essayist and critic, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
* Hugh de Selincourt (1878–1951), writer and journalist
* Aubrey de Sélincourt (1894–1962), classicist, translator and children's writer
* Lisa St Aubin de Terán (born 1953), novelist, poet and autobiographer
* Edward de Vere, earl of Oxford (1550–1604), playwright and poet
* William Frederick Deacon (1799–1844), writer and journalist
* Roger Deakin (1943–2006), countryside writer
* Louise Dean (living), novelist
* Nick Dear (born 1955), playwright and screenwriter
* Geoffrey Dearmer (1893–1996), poet
* Percy Dearmer, (1867–1936), reformer and cleric
* John Dee (1527–1608/1609), mathematician, occultist and political economist
* Denise Deegan (born 1952), novelist, screenwriter and playwright
* Warwick Deeping (1877–1950), novelist and story writer
* Daniel Defoe (c. 1659–1731), novelist and pamphleteer, Robinson Crusoe
* Paul Dehn (1912–1976), screenwriter and playwright
* Len Deighton (born 1929), historian, cookery writer and novelist, The IPCRESS File
* Thomas Dekker (1572–1632), playwright
* E. M. Delafield (1890–1943), novelist
* Michael De-la-Noy (1934–2002), writer and journalist
* Mary Delany (born Mary Granville), (1700–1788), letter writer, artist and bluestocking
* R. F. Delderfield (1912–1972), novelist and playwright, A Horseman Riding By
* Ethel M. Dell (1881–1939), novelist
* Thomas Deloney (1553–1600), balladeer and novelist
* John Denham (1614/1615–1669), poet
* Felix Dennis (1947–2014), poet and publisher
* George Dennis (1814–1898), writer and explorer
* John Dennis (1657–1734), critic and playwright
* Nigel Dennis (1912–1989), writer, novelist and playwright
* Mary Deverell (1731–1805), religious writer, essayist and poet
* Colin Dexter (1930–2017), novelist, Inspector Morse novels
* Nirpal Singh Dhaliwal (born 1974), novelist and journalist
* William Diaper (1685–1717), poet and translator
* Charles Dibdin (c. 1745–1814), playwright, poet and songwriter
* Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776–1847), bibliographer
* Thomas John Dibdin (1771–1841), playwright and songwriter
* Charles Dickens (1812–1870), novelist, David Copperfield
* Monica Dickens (1915–1992), novelist and children's writer
* Anne Hepple Dickinson (wrote as Anne Hepple, 1877–1959), novelist
* Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson (1862–1932), historian and political activist
* John Dickinson (born 1962), YA novelist
* Patric Dickinson (1914–1994), poet, translator and playwright
* Peter Dickinson (1927–2015), novelist, children's writer and poet
* Alice Diehl (1844–1912), novelist and musician
* Kenelm Digby (1603–1665), philosopher
* Leonard Digges (1588–1635), poet and translator
* Francis Dillingham (died 1625), scholar, AV translator and cleric
* Wentworth Dillon (1630–1685), poet, critic and translator
* John Disney (1677–1729/1730), writer on moral reform and cleric
* John Disney (1746–1816), writer, biographer and Unitarian minister
* Jenny Diski (1947–2016), novelist and essayist
* Isaac D'Israeli (1766–1848), essayist
* Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881), novelist and statesman
* Ella Hepworth Dixon (1857–1932), novelist, essayist and editor
* Henry Hall Dixon (1822–1870), writer
* Richard Watson Dixon (1833–1900), poet and church historian
* Sarah Dixon (1671–1765), poet
* William Hepworth Dixon (1821–1879), historian, biographer and travel writer
* Sydney Thompson Dobell (1824–1874), poet and critic
* Henry Austin Dobson (1840–1921), poet and essayist
* Susannah Dobson (died 1795), translator
* Catherine Isabella Dodd (1860–1932), educational writer and novelist
* William Dodd (1729–1777), writer, cleric and forger
* John Doddridge (1555–1628), writer, antiquary and judge
* Philip Doddridge (1702–1751), religious writer and hymnist
* George Bubb Dodington (1691–1792), politician, poet and diarist
* Robert Dodsley (1704–1764), poet, writer and bookseller
* Christina Dodwell (born 1951), travel writer
* Ann Doherty (c. 1786 – c. 1831–32), romantic novelist
* Berlie Doherty (born 1943), children's writer, poet and dramatist
* Paul C. Doherty (several pen names, b. 1946), novelist
* Digby Mackworth Dolben (1848–1867), poet
* Dorcas Dole (fl. later 17th century), Quaker pamphleteer
* Alfred Domett (1811–1887), poet and statesman
* Angus Donald (born 1965), novelist
* Julia Donaldson (born 1948), children's writer and playwright
* John Donne (1572–1631), poet and cleric
* Desmond Donnelly (1920–1974), writer, journalist and politician
* Eleanor Doorly (1880–1950), children's writer
* Thomas Doubleday (1790–1870), writer, playwright and songwriter
* Sarah Doudney (1841–1926), novelist, children's writer and hymnist
* Charles Montagu Doughty (1843–1926), poet, writer and traveller
* Louise Doughty (born 1963), novelist and playwright
* Keith Douglas (1920–1944), poet
* Lord Alfred Douglas (1870–1945), poet
* Norman Douglas (1868–1952), novelist
* Siobhan Dowd (1960–2007), novelist, anthologist and children's writer, Bog Child
* Mary Frances Dowdall (1876–1939), novelist and non-fiction writer
* Andrew Downes (c. 1549–1628), scholar, AV translator and cleric
* Jenny Downham (born 1964), novelist
* Ernest Dowson (1867–1900), poet and story writer
* Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930), novelist and story writer, Sherlock Holmes
* Richard Doyle (1948–2017), novelist
* Francis Hastings Doyle (1810–1888), poet
* Margaret Drabble (born 1939), novelist and critic
* Phil Drabble (1914–2007), writer and broadcaster
* Judith Drake (fl. 1696–1707), essayist
* Nathan Drake (1766–1836), essayist
* Nick Drake (born 1961), poet and novelist
* Augusta Theodosia Drane (1823–1894), religious writer and biographer
* Michael Drayton (1563–1631), poet
* John Drinkwater (1882–1937), poet and playwright
* Henry Drummond (1786–1860), religious writer, politician and banker
* Anna Harriett Drury (also Harriet, 1824–1912), novelist, poet and children's writer
* John Dryden, (1631–1700) poet and playwright, Absalom and Achitophel
* Daphne du Maurier (1907–1989), novelist, Rebecca
* George du Maurier (1834–1896), novelist and illustrator, Trilby
* Edward Dubois (1774–1850), wit and man of letters
* Stephen Duck (c. 1705–1756), poet and cleric
* Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux (1857–1944), poet and author
* Ernest Dudley (real name Vivian Ernest Coltman-Allen, 1908–2006), novelist, screenwriter and actor
* Lord Dufferin (1826–1902), writer and explorer
* Charles Duff (1894–1966), writer, translator and satirist
* Lucie, Lady Duff-Gordon (1821–1869), correspondent and translator
* Maureen Duffy (born 1933), poet, screenwriter and novelist
* Stella Duffy (born 1963), novelist and playwright
* William Dugdale (1605–1686), antiquary
* Alfred Duggan (1903–1964), historian and novelist
* Ian Duhig (born 1954), poet
* Richard Duke (1658–1711), poet and cleric
* Ashley Dukes (1885–1959), playwright and critic
* Cuthbert Dukes (1890–1977), medical writer and pathologist
* Michael Dummett (1925–2011), philosopher
* Sarah Dunant (born 1950), writer and novelist
* John Duncombe (1729–1786), poet and cleric
* William Duncombe (1690–1769), translator and playwright
* Roderic Dunkerley (1884–1966), religious writer
* Helen Dunmore (1952–2017), poet, novelist and children's writer,
* Antony Dunn (born 1973), poet and playwright
* Nell Dunn (born 1936), novelist and playwright
* James Duport (1606–1679), scholar and cleric
* John Duport (died 1617), scholar, AV translator and cleric
* Mortimer Durand (1850–1924), novelist, travel writer and diplomat
* C. V. Durell (1882–1968), mathematics writer
* Thomas D'Urfey (1653–1723), playwright and poet
* Raymond Durgnat (1932–2002), film critic
* Edith Durham (1863–1944), travel writer
* Gerald Durrell (1925–1995), naturalist and author, My Family and Other Animals
* Lawrence Durrell (1921–1990), novelist and poet, The Alexandria Quartet
* John Dunton (1659–1733), writer, bookseller and pamphleteer
* Edward Dyer (1543–1607), poet and courtier
* Geoff Dyer (born 1958), writer
* George Dyer (1755–1841), scholar and poet
* Clifford Dyment (1914–1971), poet and critic

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

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* Frederick William Faber (1814–1863), hymnist and theologian
* Geoffrey Faber (1889–1961), poet and publisher
* George Stanley Faber (1773–1854), theologian and cleric
* Robert Fabyan (died 1513), diarist and chronicler
* Harry Fainlight (1935–1982), poet
* Ruth Fainlight (born 1932), poet, writer and translator
* Thomas Fairfax (1612–1671), poet and army officer
* Margaret Fairley (1885–1968), scholar and activist
* J. Meade Falkner (1858–1932), novelist
* Hugh Falkus (1917–1996), fishing writer
* Julian Fane (1927–2009), novelist and memoirist
* Mildmay Fane, earl of Westmorland (1602–1666), poet and playwright
* Violet Fane (real name Mary Montgomerie Lamb, 1843–1905), novelist and poet
* Ann, Lady Fanshawe (1625–1680), memoirist
* Catherine Maria Fanshawe (1765–1834), poet
* Richard Fanshawe (1608–1666), poet and translator
* U. A. Fanthorpe (1929–2009), poet
* John Fardell (born 1967), children's writer and cartoonist
* Joseph Farington (1747–1821), diarist and painter
* Helen Farish (born 1962), poet
* Benjamin Farjeon (1838–1903), novelist and playwright
* Eleanor Farjeon (1881–1965), children's writer and poet
* Herbert Farjeon (1887–1945), playwright and critic
* Joseph Jefferson Farjeon (1883–1955), novelist, playwright and screenwriter
* Paul Farley (born 1965), poet
* Nigel Farndale (born 1964), novelist and biographer
* Jeffery Farnol (1878–1952), novelist
* Florence Farr (1860–1917), religious writer and playwright
* Frederic William Farrar (Dean Farrar, 1831–1903), novelist and cleric
* Stewart Farrar (1916–2000), scriptwriter and novelist
* J. G. Farrell (1935–1979), novelist
* Kathleen Farrell (1912–1999), novelist
* Gertrude Minnie Faulding (1875–1961), novelist and children's writer
* Sebastian Faulks (born 1953), novelist
* Joseph Fawcett (1758–1804), poet and cleric
* Francis Fawkes (1721–1777), poet and translator
* Eliza Fay (1755/1756–1816), correspondent and traveller
* John Russell Fearn (1908–1960), novelist
* Jane Fearon (1654 or 1656–1737), religious writer
* Daniel Featley or Fairclough (1582–1645), polemicist, AV translator and cleric
* Vicki Feaver (born 1943), poet
* Elaine Feinstein (1930–2019), poet, novelist and dramatist
* John Fell (1625–1686), scholar and cleric
* Owen Feltham or Felltham (c. 1602–1668), aphorist and essayist
* George Manville Fenn (1831–1909), novelist and children's writer
* John Fenn (died 1615), writer and RC priest
* John Fenn (1739–1794), antiquary and editor
* Elijah Fenton (1683–1730), poet
* Geoffrey Fenton (c. 1539–1608), writer, translator and politician
* Gertrude Fenton (1841-1884), novelist and editor
* James Fenton (born 1949), poet and critic
* Roger Fenton (1565–1615), writer, AV translator and cleric
* Eliza Fenwick (1766–1840), novelist and children's writer
* Ruby Ferguson (1899–1966), novelist and children's writer
* Bernard Fergusson Lord Ballantrae, (1911–1980), historian and general
* Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915–2011), travel writer and scholar
* Elizabeth Ferrars (1907–1995), novelist
* Maria Fetherstonhaugh (1847–1918), novelist
* Jasper Fforde (born 1961), novelist
* Michael Field, pseudonym of Katherine Harris Bradley (1846–1914) and Edith Emma Cooper (1862–1913), poets and diarists
* Richard Field (1561–1616), theologian
* Daphne Fielding (1904–1997), writer and biographer
* Helen Fielding (born 1958), novelist and screenwriter
* Henry Fielding (1707–1754), novelist and poet, Tom Jones
* Sarah Fielding (1709–1768), novelist and children's writer
* Xan Fielding (1918–1991), writer, translator and soldier
* Celia Fiennes (1662–1741), diarist and travel writer
* William Fiennes (born 1970), writer
* Graeme Fife (living), writer, playwright and broadcaster
* Eva Figes (1932–2012), novelist and critic
* Robert Filmer (1588–1653), political writer
* Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661–1720), poet
* Brian Finch (1936–2007), scriptwriter and playwright
* William Coles Finch (1864–1944), historian and countryside writer
* Anne Fine (born 1947), novelist and children's writer
* Cordelia Fine (living), psychologist and writer
* George Finlay (1799–1875), historian
* Ronald Firbank (1886–1926), novelist and playwright
* Charles Harding Firth (1857–1936), historian and biographer
* John Rupert Firth (1890–1960), linguistics scholar
* Tim Firth (born 1964), playwright, screenwriter and songwriter
* Margery Fish (1892–1969), garden writer
* Tibor Fischer (born 1959), novelist
* Allen Fisher (born 1944), poet and editor
* Ann Fisher (1719–1798), educational writer
* John Fisher (1469–1535), theologian, cardinal and martyr
* Roy Fisher (1930–2017), poet and jazz pianist
* Edward Fitzgerald (1809–1883), poet and translator, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
* Penelope Fitzgerald (1916–2000), novelist, poet and biographer
* Judith Flanders (born 1959), historian
* Peter Flannery (born 1951), playwright and screenwriter
* Thomas Flatman (1638–1688), poet and miniaturist
* James Elroy Flecker (1884–1915), poet, novelist and playwright
* Richard Flecknoe (c. 1600 – c. 1678), poet, playwright and writer
* Abraham Fleming (Flemyng, c. 1552 – 1607), writer, translator and cleric
* Ian Fleming (1908–1964), novelist, James Bond
* Peter Fleming (1907–1971), travel writer
* Giles Fletcher (1586–1623), poet
* Giles Fletcher (c. 1548–1611), poet
* J. S. Fletcher (1863–1935) novelist
* John Fletcher (1579–1625), playwright
* Phineas Fletcher (1582–1650), poet
* Susan Fletcher (born 1979), novelist
* Thomas Fletcher (1666–1713), poet, translator and cleric
* Antony Flew (1923–2010), philosopher
* Robert Newton Flew (1886–1962), theologian and Methodist minister
* F. S. Flint (1885–1960), poet
* John Florio (1553–1625), lexicographer and translator
* Alice Flowerdew (1759–1830), poet and hymnist
* Robert Fludd (1574–1637), physician and occultist
* Giles Foden (born 1967), novelist
* Winifred Foley (1914–2009), memoirist and novelist
* Albany Fonblanque (1794–1872), journalist and editor
* Samuel Foote (1720–1777), playwright
* Tim Footman (born 1968), writer and editor
* Colin Forbes (real name Raymond Sawkins, 1923–2006), novelist
* Duncan Forbes (born 1947), poet
* Anne Ford (1737–1824), writer and actress
* Boris Ford (1917–1998), critic and editor
* Ford Madox Ford (originally Ford Madox Hueffer, 1873–1939), novelist and poet
* John Ford (1586–1640), playwright, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
* Mark Ford (born 1962), poet and essayist
* Richard Ford (1796–1858), travel writer
* Thomas Ford or Forde (1580–1648), poet and composer
* Michael Foreman (born 1938), children's writer and illustrator
* C. S. Forester, (1899–1966) novelist, Horatio Hornblower
* Simon Forman, (1552–1611) astrologer and occultist
* David Forrest (real names R. Forrest-Webb and David Eliades, living), novelists
* Alfred Henry Forrester (Alfred Crowquill, 1804–1872), writer and illustrator
* Helen Forrester (1919–2011), writer
* Tony Forrester (born 1953), bridge writer and player
* Jeff Forshaw (born 1968), professor of particle physics
* E. M. Forster (1879–1970), novelist and essayist, A Passage to India
* John Forster (1812–1876), biographer and critic
* Margaret Forster (1938–2016), novelist and biographer
* Mary Forster (c. 1620–1687), Quaker polemicist
* Frederick Forsyth (1938–2025), novelist, The Day of the Jackal
* Richard Fortey (1946–2025), science writer
* E. M. Foster, Mrs. (fl. late 18th and early 19th cc.), novelist
* John Foster (1770–1843), essayist
* John Knight Fotheringham (1874–1936), historian and astronomer
* Adam Foulds (born 1974), novelist and poet
* Tim Fountain (born 1967), playwright
* Margaret Fountaine (1862–1940), lepidopterist
* Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler (also Edith Henrietta Fowler, 1860–1929), novelist
* Henry Watson Fowler (1858–1933) and Francis George Fowler (1871–1918), grammarians, Fowler's Modern English Usage
* John Fowles (1926–2005), novelist and essayist
* Caroline Fox (1819–1871), diarist
* Francis Fox (1675–1738), writer and cleric
* George Fox (1624–1691), diarist and Quaker
* Robin Lane Fox (born 1946), garden writer
* Edgar Foxall (1906–1990), poet
* John Foxe (1517–1587), writer, Foxe's Book of Martyrs
* Samuel Foxe (1560–1630), diarist
* Dick Francis (1920–2010), racing novelist
* Matthew Francis (born 1956), poet
* Philip Francis (1740–1818), pamphleteer and translator
* Suzanne Francis (born 1959), novelist
* Gilbert Frankau (1884–1952), novelist and poet
* Julia Frankau (wrote as Frank Danby, 1863–1916), novelist
* John Franklin (1786–1847), explorer and novelist
* Antonia Fraser (1932), biographer and novelist
* Caro Fraser (1953–2020), novelist
* George MacDonald Fraser (1925–2008), novelist and screenwriter, The Flashman Papers
* Michael Frayn (born 1933), playwright and novelist
* Margaret Frazer (pseudonym, living), novelist
* Jonathan Freedland (born 1967), writer
* Edward Augustus Freeman (1823–1892), historian
* John Freeman (1880–1929), poet
* R. Austin Freeman (1862–1943), novelist
* Nicholas Freeston (1907–1988), poet
* Elizabeth Wynne Fremantle (1779–1857), diarist
* Celia Fremlin (1914–2009), novelist
* Patrick French (born 1966), biographer and author
* John Hookham Frere (1769–1846), poet and translator
* William Powell Frith (1819–1909), memoirist and painter
* James Anthony Froude (1818–1894), historian
* Richard Hurrell Froude (1803–1836), poet, writer and cleric
* C. B. Fry, (1872–1956) cricket writer
* Caroline Fry (1787–1846), religious writer and poet
* Christopher Fry (1907–2005), dramatist
* Plantagenet Somerset Fry (real name Peter George Robin Fry, 1931–1996), historian
* Stephen Fry (born 1957), novelist and comedian
* Alexandra Fuller (born 1969), writer
* Andrew Fuller (1754–1815), theologian and Baptist minister
* Claire Fuller (living), novelist
* John Fuller (born 1937), poet and novelist
* Peter Fuller (1947–1990), writer and art critic
* Roy Fuller (1912–1991), poet and novelist
* Thomas Fuller (1608–1661), writer, historian and cleric
* Lady Georgiana Fullerton (originally Leverson-Gower, 1812–1885), novelist and religious writer
* Ulpian Fulwell (1545/1546 – c. 1585), playwright, satirist and cleric
* Monica Furlong (1930–2003), religious writer and biographer
* Frederick James Furnivall (1825–1910), philologist

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* Thomas Gage (c. 1597–1656), travel writer and cleric
* Neil Gaiman (born 1960), novelist and screenwriter
* Norman Gale (1862–1942), poet
* Winifred Gales (1761–1839), novelist and memoirist
* John Galsworthy (also as John Sinjohn, 1867–1933), novelist and dramatist, The Forsyte Saga
* Francis Galton (1822–1911), polymath
* Jane Gardam (1928–2025), novelist and children's writer
* Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1829–1902), historian
* Stephen Gardiner (1924–2007), writer and architect
* Gerald Gardner (1884–1964), writer on witchcraft
* Helen Gardner (1908–1986), critic and scholar
* John Gardner (1926–2007), novelist, The Liquidator
* Leon Garfield (1921–1996), novelist and children's writer
* Simon Garfield (born 1960), writer
* Alex Garland (born 1970), novelist and screenwriter
* Alan Garner (born 1934), children's writer
* William Garner (1920–2005), novelist
* Constance Garnett (1861–1946), translator
* David Garnett (1892–1981), novelist and playwright
* Edward Garnett (1868–1937), author and critic
* Eve Garnett (1900–1991), children's writer and illustrator
* Richard Garnett (1835–1906), scholar and poet
* David Garrick (1717–1779), actor, playwright and poet
* Samuel Garth (1661–1719), poet and physician
* Charles Garvice (also as Caroline Hart, 1850–1920), novelist
* George Gascoigne (1535–1577), poet and translator
* David Gascoyne (1916–2001), poet
* Norman Gash (1912–2009), historian
* Elizabeth Gaskell (Mrs. Gaskell, 1810–1865), novelist, Cranford
* Jane Gaskell (born 1941), fantasy novelist
* Thomas Gaspey (1788–1871), novelist and journalist
* Francis Aidan Gasquet (1846–1929), historian and cardinal
* Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy (1933–2019), biographer and historian
* Robert Gathorne-Hardy (1902–1973), garden writer
* Alfred Gatty, (1813–1903) writer and cleric
* Margaret Gatty (wrote as Mrs. Alfred Gatty, 1809–1873), children's writer
* John Gauden (1605–1662), writer and bishop
* William Gaunt (1900–1980), art historian
* Jamila Gavin (born 1941), novelist and children's writer
* John Gawsworth (1912–1970), poet and anthologist
* John Gay (1685–1732), poet and playwright, The Beggar's Opera
* John Gay (1699–1745), moral philosopher and cleric
* Maggie Gee (born 1948), novelist
* Pam Gems (1925–2011), playwright
* Dorothea Gerard (1855–1915), novelist
* Emily Gerard (1849–1905), novelist
* John Gerard (1545–1611/1612), botanical writer and herbalist
* William Gerhardie (originally Gerhardi, 1895–1977), novelist
* Karen Gershon (1923–1993), poet, writer and novelist
* Edward Gibbon (1737–1794), historian, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
* Stella Gibbons (1902–1989), novelist and poet, Cold Comfort Farm
* Philip Gibbs (1877–1962), writer and journalist
* Edmund Gibson (1669–1748), antiquary, translator and bishop
* Miles Gibson (born 1947), novelist and poet
* Wilfred Wilson Gibson (1878–1962), poet
* John Gifford (1758–1818), historical and political writer
* William Gifford (1756–1826), poet and satirist
* Harriett Gilbert (born 1948), novelist, critic and broadcaster
* Joseph Gilbert (1779–1852), writer and Congregational minister
* Michael Gilbert (1912–2006), novelist
* W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911), playwright and poet, The Mikado
* William Gilbert or Gilberd (1544–1603), scientist
* William Gilbert (1804–1890), novelist and naval surgeon
* Alexander Gilchrist (1828–1861), biographer and critic
* Anne Gilchrist (born Burrows, 1828–1885), writer
* Robert Murray Gilchrist (1867–1917), novelist and topographical writer
* Penelope Gilliatt (1932–1993), novelist, screenwriter and film critic
* William Gilpin (1724–1804), writer, artist and cleric
* Morris Ginsberg (1879–1970), sociologist
* Alfred Gissing (1896–1975), biographer and editor
* Algernon Gissing (1860–1937), novelist and travel writer
* George Gissing (1857–1903), novelist, New Grub Street
* Mary Gladstone (1847–1927), diarist
* William Gladstone (1809–1898), writer and statesman
* Lesley Glaister (born 1956), novelist and playwright
* Joseph Glanvill (1636–1680), writer, philosopher and cleric
* Brian Glanville (1931–2025), football writer and novelist
* William Nugent Glascock (c. 1787–1847), novelist and naval officer
* Katharine Glasier (also as Katharine Conway, 1867–1950), writer and socialist
* Rodge Glass (born 1978), novelist and biographer
* Hannah Glasse (1708–1770), writer on cookery and housekeeping
* Victoria Glendinning (born 1937), biographer and novelist
* Richard Glover (1712–1785), poet and playwright
* Elinor Glyn (1864–1943), novelist
* John Godber (born 1956), playwright
* Robert Goddard (born 1954), novelist
* Rumer Godden (1907–1998), novelist, children's writer and biographer
* A. D. Godley (1856–1925), comic poet
* Sidney Godolphin (1610–1643), poet
* William Godwin (1756–1836), novelist and philosopher
* Louis Golding (1895–1958), novelist and poet
* William Golding (1911–1993), Nobel Prize–winning novelist and poet, Lord of the Flies
* Douglas Goldring (1887–1960), poet, travel writer and novelist
* Israel Gollancz (1863–1930), scholar and editor
* Laurence Gomme (1853–1916), folklore writer and public servant
* Christopher Goodman (1520–1603), pamphleteer and Bible translator
* Jason Goodwin (born 1964), novelist and travel writer
* Barnabe Googe or Gooche (1540–1594), poet and translator
* Catherine Gore (1799–1861), novelist and playwright
* Charles Gore (1853–1932), theologian and bishop
* Geoffrey Gorer (1905–1985), writer and anthropologist
* Arthur Gorges (c. 1569–1625), poet and sea captain
* Ray Gosling (1939–2013), writer and journalist
* Edmund Gosse (1849–1928), novelist, poet and critic
* Philip Henry Gosse (1810–1888), natural historian
* Stephen Gosson (1554–1624), satirist and playwright
* Elizabeth Goudge (1900–1984), novelist and children's writer
* William Gouge (1575–1653), writer and cleric
* Thomas Gouge (1609–1681), writer and Presbyterian minister
* Gerald Gould (1885–1936), poet and journalist
* Nathaniel Gould (1857–1919), novelist
* John Gower (c. 1330–1408), poet
* Posie Graeme-Evans (living), novelist and TV director
* Eleanor Graham (1896–1984), children's writer, editor and anthologist
* Harry Graham (1874–1936), humorist and poet
* Laurie Graham (born 1947), novelist and journalist
* Stephen Graham (1884–1975), travel writer and novelist
* Virginia Graham (1910–1993), humorist, translator and poet
* Kenneth Grahame (1859–1931), writer, The Wind in the Willows
* Sarah Grand (real name Mrs. David C. M'Fall, originally Frances Elizabeth Clarke, 1854–1943), novelist and suffragist
* Clive Granger (1934–2009), Nobel Prize–winning economist
* Andrew Grant (born 1968), novelist
* John Grant (also as Jonathan Gash, Graham Gaunt, b. 1933), novelist and physician
* Linda Grant (born 1951), novelist and writer
* Michael Grant (1914–2004), historian
* George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne (1666–1735), playwright and poet
* Harley Granville-Barker (1877–1946), playwright and actor
* Richard Graves (1715–1804), novelist, poet and cleric
* Robert Graves (1895–1985), poet and novelist, I, Claudius
* John Gray (1866–1934), poet and translator
* John N. Gray (born 1948), philosopher
* Maxwell Gray (Mary Gleed Tuttiett, 1846–1926), novelist and poet
* Patience Gray (1917–2005), cookery writer
* Simon Gray (1936–2008) playwright, novelist and memoirist.
* Thomas Gray (1716–1771), poet
* Eliza S. Craven Green (1803–1866), poet
* Candida Lycett Green (1942–2014), writer and journalist
* Henry Green (real name Henry Vincent Yorke), (1905–1973), novelist
* John Richard Green (1837–1883), historian
* Mary Anne Everett Green (1818–1895), historian
* Matthew Green (1696–1737), poet
* Roger Lancelyn Green (1918–1987), biographer and children's writer
* Sarah Green (fl. 1790–1825), novelist
* Thomas Hill Green (1836–1882), philosopher and radical
* Vivian H. H. Green (1915–2005), historian and cleric
* Kate Greenaway (1846–1901), children's writer and illustrator
* Graham Greene (1904–1991), novelist and playwright, Our Man in Havana
* Robert Greene (1558–1592), playwright and pamphleteer
* Chris Greenhalgh (born 1963), novelist, screenwriter and poet
* Lavinia Greenlaw (born 1962), poet and novelist
* Frederick Greenwood (1830–1909), man of letters
* James Greenwood (c. 1830/1835–1929), children's writer and journalist
* Walter Greenwood (1903–1974), novelist, Love on the Dole
* Walter Wilson Greg (1875–1959), bibliographer
* Richard Gregory (1864–1952), science writer and astronomer
* Joyce Grenfell (1910–1979), writer and comedian
* Julian Grenfell (1888–1915), poet
* Charles Greville (1794–1865), diarist and cricketer
* Frances Greville (c. 1724–1789), poet
* Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke (1554–1628), poet and playwright
* Henry M. Grey (1867-1937), travel writer
* Paul Grice (also as H. P. Grice, 1913–1988), philosopher of language
* Arthur Griffiths (1838–1908), crime novelist and military historian
* Bill Griffiths (1948–2007), poet, scholar and translator
* Jane Griffiths (born 1970), poet and lecturer
* Paul Griffiths (born 1947), novelist, librettist and music critic
* John Grigg (1924–2001), biographer and journalist
* Geoffrey Grigson (1905–1985), poet and editor
* Arthur Grimble (1888–1956), writer and anthropologist
* Elizabeth Grimston (c. 1563 – c. 1603), poet
* Leopold Hartley Grindon (1818–1904), educator and botanist
* Francis Grose (1731–1791), antiquary and lexicographer
* John Gross (1935–2011), critic, writer and anthologist
* Philip Gross (born 1952), poet, novelist and playwright
* George Grossmith (1847–1912), writer and entertainer, and Weedon Grossmith (1854–1919), writer, artist and actor, Diary of a Nobody
* George Grote (1794–1871), classicist and reformer
* Charlotte Grove (1773–1860), diarist
* George Grove (1820–1900), editor and writer on music, Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians
* Paul Groves (born 1947), poet
* Edward Grubb (1854–1939), Quaker writer
* Bertha Jane Grundy (1837–1912), novelist
* Sydney Grundy (1848–1914), playwright and librettist
* Philip Guedalla (1889–1944), historian and travel writer
* Harry Guest (1932–2021), poet
* Arthur Guirdham (1905–1992), non-fiction writer, novelist and physician
* Thom Gunn (1929–2004), poet
* Elizabeth Gunning (1769–1823), novelist and translator
* Peter Gunning (1614–1684), writer and bishop
* Edmund Gurney (1847–1888), writer and psychologist
* Ivor Gurney (1890–1937), poet and composer
* Thomas Anstey Guthrie (wrote as F. Anstey, 1856–1934), novelist and journalist, Vice Versa
* Bernard Gutteridge (1916–1985), poet
* Emma Jane Guyton or Worboise (1825–1887), novelist
* Brion Gysin (1916–1986), poet, novelist and painter

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* William Habington (1605–1654), poet
* Alan Hackney (1924–2009), novelist and screenwriter
* Jen Hadfield (born 1978), poet
* Mark Haddon (born 1962), novelist, children's writer and poet
* Henry Rider Haggard (1856–1925), novelist and story writer, King Solomon's Mines
* Matt Haig (born 1975), novelist and journalist
* Richard Hakluyt (c. 1552/1553–1616), travel writer, translator and cleric
* J. B. S. Haldane (1892–1964), scientist, philosopher and children's writer
* Kathleen Hale (1898–2000), children's writer and illustrator, Orlando the Marmalade Cat
* Anne Halkett (1623–1699), memoirist and religious writer
* Edward Hall or Halle (c. 1498–1547), chronicler
* Evelyn Beatrice Hall (wrote as S. G. Tallentyre, 1868–1956), biographer and translator
* Henry Hall (c. 1656–1707), poet and composer
* Joseph Hall (1574–1656), satirist, moralist and bishop
* Radclyffe Hall (1880–1943), novelist and poet
* Sarah Hall (born 1974), novelist and poet
* Simon Hall (born 1969), novelist and broadcaster
* Steven Hall (born 1975), novelist and playwright
* Tarquin Hall (born 1969), writer and journalist
* Thomas Hall (1610–1665), writer and cleric
* Arthur Hallam (1811–1833), poet
* Henry Hallam (1777–1859), historian
* Edward Halliwell (16th c.), playwright and author, Fellow of Cambridge's King's College
* Leslie Halliwell (1929–1989), film critic and encyclopedist
* James Halliwell-Phillipps (1820–1889), Shakespearean and biographer
* Bruce Barrymore Halpenny (born early 20th c.), writer and military historian
* Alan Halsey (1949–2022), poet
* Michael Hamburger (1924–2007), writer, poet and translator
* Philip Gilbert Hamerton (wrote as Adolphus Segrave, 1834–1894), writer and artist
* Mohsin Hamid (born 1971), novelist and brand consultant
* Andy Hamilton (author) (born 1974), non-fiction writer and journalist
* Ann Mary Hamilton (fl. 1806–13), novelist
* Charles Hamilton (also as Frank Richards, etc., 1876–1961), children's writer, Billy Bunter
* Cicely Mary Hamilton (1872–1952), writer, playwright and feminist
* Cosmo Hamilton (1870–1942), playwright and novelist
* Edward Walter Hamilton (1847–1908), political diarist and civil servant
* Ian Hamilton (1938–2001), critic, biographer and poet
* Patrick Hamilton (1904–1962), playwright and novelist
* Peter F. Hamilton (born 1960), SF novelist
* James Hamilton-Paterson (born 1941), novelist, poet and writer
* Edward Bruce Hamley (1824–1893), military theorist and novelist
* Edward Hamley (1764–1834), poet and cleric
* James Hammond (1710–1742), poet and politician
* Stuart Hampshire (1914–2004), philosopher and literary critic
* John Hampson (1901–1955), novelist
* Robert Gavin Hampson (born 1948), poet
* Christopher Hampton (born 1946), playwright, screenwriter and translator
* William Hampton (born 1959), poet
* Marika Hanbury-Tenison (1938–1982), cookery and travel writer
* Irene Handl (1901–1987), novelist and actress
* St. John Hankin (1869–1909), playwright
* James Hanley (1897–1985), novelist and screenwriter
* Sophie Hannah (born 1971), poet and novelist
* Derek Hansen (born 1944), novelist
* Jonas Hanway (1712–1786), travel writer and pamphleteer
* Caroline Hardaker (born 1986), poet and novelist
* Michael Hardcastle (1933–2019), children's writer
* John Harding (died 1610), scholar, AV translator and cleric
* Frances Hardinge (born 1973), children's writer
* Mollie Hardwick (1916–2003), novelist and writer
* Ronald Hardy (1919–1991), novelist
* Thomas Hardy (1840–1928), novelist and poet, The Mayor of Casterbridge
* Augustus Hare (1834–1903), travel writer and raconteur
* Augustus William Hare (1792–1834), essayist and cleric
* Cyril Hare (real name A. A. G. Clark, 1900–1958), novelist
* David Hare (born 1947), playwright
* Julius Charles Hare (1795–1855), religious writer
* R. M. Hare (1919–2002), philosopher
* Roger Hargreaves (1935–1988), children's writer and illustrator, Mr. Men
* James Harington (1611–1677), political writer
* John Harington (1561–1612), poet and translator
* John Harmar (c. 1555–1613), scholar, AV translator and cleric
* Cynthia Harnett (1893–1981), children's writer
* Charles George Harper (1863–1943), travel writer and illustrator
* Beatrice Harraden (1864–1936), novelist, lexicographer and suffragist
* Thomas Harriot (1560–1621), astronomer, mathematician and translator
* Frank Harris (1856–1931), writer, editor and autobiographer
* James Harris (1709–1780), philosopher and grammarian
* Joanne Harris (born 1964), novelist
* Robert Harris (born 1957), novelist, writer and screenwriter
* Rosemary Harris (born 1927), children's writer
* Austin Harrison (1873–1928), editor and writer
* Jane Ellen Harrison (1850–1928), classicist
* Sarah Harrison (born 1946), novelist and children's writer
* Thomas Harrison (1555–1631), scholar, AV translator and cleric
* Tony Harrison (born 1938), poet and playwright
* William Harrison (1534–1593), writer and cleric
* Tom Harrisson (also as T. H. Harrisson, 1911–1976), polymath
* David Harsent (wrote as Jack Curtis, David Lawrence, b. 1942), novelist, poet and scriptwriter
* B. H. Liddell Hart (1895–1970), historian and army officer
* Christopher Hart (also as William Napier, b. 1965), novelist
* Adam Hart-Davis (born 1943), writer and broadcaster
* Duff Hart-Davis (born 1936), biographer and naturalist
* Walter Harte (1709–1774), poet and historian
* David Hartley (1705–1757), philosopher and psychologist
* John Hartley (1839–1915), dialect poet and writer
* L. P. Hartley (1895–1972), novelist, The Go-Between
* Frederick William Harvey (1888–1957), poet
* Gabriel Harvey (c. 1545–1630), poet and writer
* John Harvey (born 1938), novelist
* William Harvey (1578–1657), physician
* F. W. Harvey (1888–1957), poet
* W. F. Harvey (1885–1937), story writer
* Lee Harwood (1939–2015), poet
* Alamgir Hashmi (born 1951), poet and scholar
* Minnie Louise Haskins (1875–1957), poet and welfare worker
* Christopher Hassall (1912–1963), playwright, actor and poet
* Edward Hasted (1732–1812), historian
* Michael Hastings (1938–2011), playwright, novelist and screenwriter
* Richard Hathwaye, (fl. 1597–1603) playwright
* Ann Hatton (wrote as Ann of Swansea, 1764–1838), novelist
* Joseph Hatton (1841–1907), novelist and editor
* William Haughton (died 1605), playwright
* Frances Ridley Havergal (1836–1879), poet and hymnist
* Stephen Hawes (c. 1474–1523), poet
* Robert Stephen Hawker (1803–1875), poet and cleric
* John Hawkesworth (1715–1773), writer, editor and playwright
* John Hawkins (1719–1789), writer and biographer
* Laetitia Matilda Hawkins (1759–1835), novelist
* Spike Hawkins (1943–2017), poet and performer
* Thomas Hawkins (1575 – c. 1640), poet and translator
* Ian Hay (real name John Hay Beith, 1876–1952), novelist and playwright
* Roy Hay (1910–1989), garden writer and broadcaster
* William Hayley (1745–1820), poet, playwright and biographer
* Carole Hayman (living), novelist, screenwriter and actor
* Robert Hayman (1575–1629), poet and colonist
* Mary Hays (1759–1843), novelist
* Alethea Hayter (1911–2006), biographer and historian
* William Hayter (diplomat) (1906–1995), writer
* Abraham Hayward (1801–1884), essayist
* John Hayward (c. 1560–1627), historian
* Eliza Haywood (1793–1756), novelist, playwright and poet
* C. H. Hazlewood (1823–1875), playwright
* William Hazlitt (1778–1830), essayist and critic
* Mary Hearne (fl. 1718), novelist
* Thomas Hearne or Hearn (1678–1735), antiquary and scholar
* Ambrose Heath (originally Francis Geoffrey Miller, 1891–1969), cookery writer and translator
* Thomas Little Heath (1861–1940), classicist and translator
* John Heath-Stubbs (1918–2006), poet, translator and anthologist
* Reginald Heber (1783–1826), poet, hymnist and bishop
* Richard Heber (1773–1833), classicist and editor
* Annie French Hector (Mrs Alexander, 1825–1902), novelist
* Zoë Heller (born 1965), novelist and journalist
* Elizabeth Helme (c. 1753 – c. 1812), novelist and translator
* Arthur Helps (1813–1875), writer, novelist and biographer
* Racey Helps (1913–1970), children's writer
* Felicia Hemans (1793–1835), poet
* Maggie Hemingway (1946–1993), novelist
* John Henley (1692–1756), poet, writer and cleric
* Samuel Henley (1740–1815), poet and writer
* William Ernest Henley (1849–1903), poet
* Charles Frederick Henningsen (1815–1877), writer and mercenary
* Robert Henriques (1905–1967), novelist and biographer
* Alan Henry (1947–2016), Grand Prix reporter and writer.
* Matthew Henry (1662–1714), Bible commentator and cleric
* Philip Henry (1631–1696), diarist and cleric
* John Stevens Henslow (1796–1861), botanist, geologist and cleric
* Philip Henslowe, (c. 1550–1616), diarist and theatre manager
* G. A. Henty, (1832–1902), novelist
* Philip Hensher (born 1965), novelist and critic
* Rayner Heppenstall (1911–1981), novelist and poet
* John Abraham Heraud (1799–1887), poet, playwright and critic
* A. P. Herbert (1890–1971), humorist, novelist and playwright
* Edward Herbert, Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1583–1648), poet and soldier
* George Herbert (1593–1633), poet
* James Herbert (1943–2013), novelist
* Mary Herbert, countess of Pembroke (1561–1621), poet and translator
* William Herbert (1718–1795), bibliographer
* William Herbert (1771–1851), antiquary and librarian
* William Herbert (1778–1847), poet, cleric and botanist
* Edward Heron-Allen (1861–1943), novelist, historian and translator
* Robert Herrick (1591–1674), poet and cleric
* James Herriot (pen name of James Alfred Wight, 1916–1995), writer
* Elizabeth Hervey (1759–1824), novelist
* John Hervey (1696–1743), political writer and memoirist
* Thomas Kibble Hervey (1799–1859), poet and critic
* D. G. Hessayon (1928–2025), garden writer
* Maurice Hewlett (1861–1923), historical novelist and poet
* John Hey (1734–1815), theologian and poet
* Richard Hey (1745–1835), essayist and academic
* William Hey (1736–1819), surgeon
* Christopher Heydon (1561–1623), astrologist
* John Heydon (1629 – c. 1667), astrologer and Rosicrucian
* Georgette Heyer (1902–1974), novelist
* Peter Heylin or Heylyn (1600–1662), pamphleteer and cleric
* Jasper Heywood (1535–1598), poet and translator
* John Heywood (c. 1497 – c. 1580), playwright and poet
* Thomas Heywood (early 1570s – 1641), playwright, A Woman Killed with Kindness
* Eleanor Hibbert (originally Eleanor Alice Burford, wrote as Jean Plaidy, etc., 1906–1993), novelist
* Robert Smythe Hichens (1864–1950), novelist and playwright
* William Hickey (1749–1830), memoirist
* Jack Higgins (wrote as Harry Patterson, 1929–2022), novelist
* Philip E. High (1914–2006), science fiction novelist
* Susanna Highmore (1690–1750), poet
* Aaron Hill (1685–1750), playwright and writer
* Christopher Hill (1912–2003), historian
* Eric Hill (1927–2014), children's writer and illustrator
* Geoffrey Hill (1932–2016), poet and academic
* John Hill (c. 1716–1775), novelist, journalist and botanist
* Justin Hill (born 1971), novelist, biographer and translator
* Lorna Hill (1902–1991), children's writer and novelist
* Octavia Hill (1838–1912), social reformer
* Reginald Hill (1936–2012), novelist
* Rosemary Hill (living), cultural historian and biographer
* Selima Hill (born 1945), poet
* Susan Hill (born 1942), novelist and writer
* Tobias Hill (born 1970), novelist and poet
* Mischa Hiller (born 1962), novelist
* Lawrence D. Hills (1911–1991), garden writer
* Jeff Hilson (born 1966), poet
* James Hilton (1900–1954), novelist
* Lisa Hilton (living), novelist and biographer
* Walter Hilton (1340–1396), mystic
* Barry Hines (1939–2016), novelist
* Nigel Hinton (born 1941), novelist and children's writer
* Shakespeare Hirst (1841–1907), actor, author and Shakespearean
* William Henry Hitchener (fl. 1813), travel writer
* Henry Hitchings (born 1974), writer and scholar
* Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980), screenwriter and director
* Christopher Eric Hitchens (1949–2011), writer and journalist
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* Thomas Hobbes, (1588–1679) political philosopher, Leviathan
* Peter Hobbs (born 1973), novelist
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* Tom Hood (1835–1874), humorist, playwright and poet
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* Clare Hoskyns-Abrahall (1900–1990), biographer and children's writer
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* E. M. Hull (real name Edith Maude Winstanley, 1880–1947), novelist
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* Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), novelist and essayist, Brave New World
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* Edward Hyde, Lord Clarendon (1609–1674), historian and statesman
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* Eva Ibbotson (1925–2010), novelist and children's writer
* David Icke (born 1952), writer and public speaker
* Conn Iggulden (born 1971), novelist and children's writer
* Selwyn Image (1849–1930), poet, designer and cleric
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* Elizabeth Inchbald (1753–1821), novelist and playwright
* William Ralph Inge (known as Dean Inge, 1860–1954), writer, theologian and cleric
* Thomas Ingelend (fl. 1560), The Disobedient Child
* Jean Ingelow (1820–1897), poet and novelist
* Julia, Lady Inglis (1833–1904), diarist
* Simon Ings (born 1965), novelist and science writer
* Mick Inkpen (born 1952), children's writer and illustrator
* Hammond Innes (also as Ralph Hammond, 1919–1998), novelist and children's writer
* Samuel Ireland (1744–1800), writer and engraver
* William Henry Ireland (1775–1835), poet, novelist and forger
* David Irving (born 1938), Holocaust denier
* R. L. G. Irving (1877–1969), mountaineering writer
* Margaret Irwin (1889–1969), novelist and biographer
* Robert Irwin (1946–2024), historian, novelist and Arabist
* Nathaniel Isaacs (1808–1872), traveller and writer
* Christopher Isherwood (1904–1986), novelist, Goodbye to Berlin
* Kazuo Ishiguro (born 1954), novelist, An Artist of the Floating World
* Eric Ives (1931–2012), historian and biographer
* George Cecil Ives (1867–1950), poet, diarist and reformer
* Helen Ivory (born 1969), poet

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

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