List of English writers (K–Q)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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* Ruth Padel (born 1946), poet and journalist
* Lynda Page (c. 1950–2024), novelist
* Russell Page (1906–1985), garden writer and designer
* John Paget (died 1638), writer and Presbyterian minister
* Barry Pain (1864–1928), novelist and humorist
* Thomas Paine (1737–1809), political pamphleteer, Rights of Man
* William Painter (c. 1540–1594), writer
* William Paley (1743–1805), philosopher, theologian and cleric
* Francis Palgrave (1788–1861), historian
* Francis Turner Palgrave (1824–1897), poet and anthologist
* William Gifford Palgrave (1826–1888), travel writer and orientalist
* Alan Palmer (1926–2022), historian and biographer
* Charlotte Palmer (c. 1762 – 1834 or after), novelist
* Edward Henry Palmer (1840–1882), translator and orientalist
* Herbert Edward Palmer (1880–1961), poet and critic
* John Palmer (c. 1729–1790) writer and Unitarian minister
* John Palmer (1742–1786), writer and Unitarian minister
* Samuel Palmer (1805–1881), poet and painter
* Robert Paltock (1697–1767), novelist
* Jane Ellen Panton (1847–1923), novelist and domestic science writer
* Joseph Pardo (c. 1624 – 1677), writer and hazzan
* Julia Pardoe (1806–1862), poet, novelist and travel writer
* Bernard Pares (1867–1949), historian and Russian expert
* Edith Pargeter (also as Ellis Peters, 1913–1995), novelist and historian
* Emma Parker (fl. 1809–1817), novelist
* Henry Parker (1604–1652), political writer
* Martin Parker (c. 1600 – c. 1656), balladeer
* Matthew Parker (1504–1575), Bible translator and archbishop, Bishops' Bible
* Norman Parker (born 1954), memoirist
* Samuel Parker (1640–1688), theologian and bishop
* Samuel Parker (1681–1730), religious writer and translator
* Una-Mary Parker (1930–2019), novelist and journalist
* Bessie Rayner Parkes (1829–1925), writer and poet
* C. Northcote Parkinson (1909–1993), naval historian and writer on administration, Parkinson's Law
* John Parkinson (botanist) (1567–1650), herbalist
* Adele Parks (born 1969), novelist
* Tim Parks (born 1954), novelist and translator
* David Parlett (born 1939), games writer
* Samuel Parr (1747–1825), political writer, scholar and educator
* Cecil Parrott (1909–1984), translator and biographer
* Eliza Parsons (1739–1811), novelist
* Frances Partridge (1900–2004), diarist and translator
* John Pass (born 1947), poet and scholar
* Paston Family (14th – 16th cc.), Paston Letters
* Mrs Henry de la Pasture (1866–1945), novelist, dramatist and children's writer
* Walter Pater (1839–1894), essayist and novelist
* Coventry Patmore (1823–1896), poet and critic
* Simon Patrick (1626–1707), theologian and bishop
* Brian Patten (born 1946), poet and children's writer
* Mark Pattison (1813–1884), writer and cleric
* Phyllis Paul (1903-1973), writer of supernatural fiction
* Tom Paulin (born 1949), poet, academic and broadcaster
* Michelle Paver (born 1960), children's writer
* Stel Pavlou (born 1970), novelist and screenwriter
* James Payn (1830–1898), novelist and miscellanist
* John Payne (1842–1917), poet and translator
* Nick Payne (born 1984), playwright
* David Peace (born 1967), novelist
* Henry Peacham the Elder (1546–1634), rhetorician and cleric
* Henry Peacham the Younger (c. 1573 – c. 1643), poet and critic
* Lucy Peacock (fl. 1785–1816), children's writer, editor and translator
* Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866), novelist and poet, Nightmare Abbey
* Mervyn Peake (1911–1968), novelist and poet, Gormenghast
* Philippa Pearce (1920–2006), children's writer, Tom's Midnight Garden
* Pearl Poet (unnamed, fl. 14th c.), poet, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
* Hugh Pearman (born 1955), critic and architect.
* Tim Pears (born 1956), novelist
* Dan Pearson (born 1964), garden writer
* Hesketh Pearson (1887–1964), biographer
* John Pearson (1930–2021), biographer
* John Pearson (1612–1686), theologian and bishop
* Edward R. Pease (1857–1955), writer and politician
* Reginald Pecock (c. 1395–1460), theologian and bishop
* Margaret Pedler (died 1948), novelist
* Arthur George Villiers Peel (also as George Peel, 1869–1956), economist and politician
* Constance Peel (also as Mrs. C. S. Peel and Dorothy Peel, 1868–1934), novelist and writer on household economy
* J. H. B. Peel (1913–1983), writer, poet and journalist
* George Peele (1556–1596), playwright and poet, The Old Wives' Tale
* Mal Peet (1947–2015), children's writer
* Samuel Pegge (1704–1796), antiquary, translator and cleric
* Isaac Penington (1616–1679), Quaker writer
* William Penn (1644–1718), politician, writer and Quaker
* Thomas Pennant (1726–1798), naturalist, antiquary and travel writer
* Francis Penrose (1817–1903), architect and archaeologist
* Roland Penrose (1900–1984), biographer and artist
* Hilary Pepler (1878–1951), writer and poet
* Michael Peppiatt (born 1941), art critic and biographer
* Emily Pepys (1833–1877), child diarist
* Samuel Pepys (1633–1703), diarist and administrator
* Thomas Percy (1729–1811), bishop, poet and anthologist, Percy's Reliques
* John Perrin (c. 1558–1615), scholar, AV translator and cleric
* Anne Perry (1938–2023), novelist
* Chris Petit (born 1949), novelist and film director
* William Petty (1623–1687), economist and philosopher
* K.M. Peyton (originally Kathleen Herald, 1929–2023), children's writer
* Gilbert Phelps (1915–1993), novelist, critic and educator
* St. John Philby (1885–1960), writer and intelligence officer
* Ambrose Philips (1674–1739), poet
* John Philips (1676–1709), poet
* Katherine Philips (1632–1644), poet
* Caryl Phillips (born 1958), novelist
* Edward Phillips (1630 – c. 1696), writer and philologist
* John Phillips (1631–1706), writer
* J. B. Phillips (1906–1982), Bible translator and cleric
* Richard Phillips (1767–1840), writer and publisher
* Stephen Phillips (1864–1915), poet and playwright
* Eden Phillpotts (1862–1960), novelist, poet and playwright
* Henry Phillpotts (1778–1869), pamphleteer and bishop
* Gervase Phinn (born 1946), novelist, poet and educator
* Constantine Phipps (1797–1863), writer and politician
* David Andrew Phoenix (born 1966), writer, scientist and educator
* Barbara Leonie Picard (1917–2011), children's writer
* Tom Pickard (born 1946), poet and scriptwriter
* David Pickering (born 1958), compiler of reference books
* Marmaduke Pickthall (1875–1936), scholar, Qur'an translator and novelist
* Sarah Piers (died 1719), poet
* Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877–1959), economist
* William Thomas Pike (1838–1924), publisher, journalist, editor, writer
* Mary Pilkington, (1766–1839) novelist, poet and children's writer
* Arthur Wing Pinero (1855–1934), playwright
* William Pinnock (1782–1843) educator
* Harold Pinter (1930–2008), Nobel prize winner, playwright and screenwriter, The Caretaker
* Isaac Pitman (1813–1897), writer on shorthand
* Christopher Pitt (1699–1748), poet and translator
* William Pitt (died 1840), shipbuilder and poet
* Ruth Pitter (1897–1992), poet
* Mary Pix (1666–1709), playwright and novelist
* James Planché (1796–1880), playwright
* Victor Plarr (1863–1929), poet and biographer
* Alan Plater (1935–2010), playwright, screenwriter and novelist
* Karen Platt (living), garden writer
* Robert Plot (1640–1996), naturalist, chemist and antiquary
* Max Plowman (1883–1941), writer and poet
* J. H. Plumb (1911–2001), historian
* Anne Plumptre (1760–1818), writer and translator
* Isaac Pocock (1782–1835), playwright and painter
* Tom Pocock (1925–2007), biographer and historian
* Richard Pococke (1704–1765), travel writer, diarist and bishop
* Frank Podmore (1856–1910), writer and politician
* Michael Podro (1931–2008), art historian
* Elizabeth Polack (fl. 1830–1838), playwright
* John William Polidori (1795–1821), writer and poet
* Alfred Oliver Pollard (1893–1960), novelist and army officer
* Alfred W. Pollard (1859–1944), bibliographer and scholar
* Margaret Steuart Pollard (1903–1996), poet and writer
* William Pollard (1828–1893), Quaker writer
* Jacob Polley (born 1975), poet and novelist
* Elizabeth Polwheele or Polewhele (c. 1651 – c. 1691), playwright
* Richard Polwhele (1760–1838), poet, writer and cleric
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