List of English writers
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List of English writers is an incomplete alphabetical list of writers from England. It includes writers in all genres and in any language. This is a subsidiary list to the List of English people.
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| Contents: | A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z See also |
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[edit] A
- Douglas Adams, (1952-2001), comic novelist
- Cyril Alington, (1872-1955), crime novelist and non-fiction writer
- Kingsley Amis, (1922-1995), poet and novelist
- Martin Amis, (born 1949), novelist
- Matthew Arnold, (1822-1888), poet
- David Attenborough, (born 1926), naturalist and broadcaster
- W. H. Auden, (1907-1973), poet
- Jane Austen, (1775-1817), novelist
- Alan Ayckbourn, (born 1939), playwright
- Pam Ayres, (born 1947), poet
[edit] B
- Francis Bacon, (1561-1626), essayist
- Leslie Barringer, (1895-1968), editor, fantasy and historical novelist
- Max Beerbohm, (1872-1956), comic writer and caricaturist
- Aphra Behn, a writer
- Hilaire Belloc, (1870-1953), writer and poet
- Alan Bennett, (born 1934), playwright
- J. M. Barrie, (1860-1937), novelist and dramatist
- Arnold Bennett, (1867-1931), novelist
- John Betjeman, (1906-1984), Poet Laureate
- Robert Black, (1829-1915), fiction writer, translator and journalist
- William Blake, (1757-1827), artist and poet
- Enid Blyton, (1897-1968), children's author
- Robert Bolt, (1924-1995), dramatist and screenwriter. Wrote A Man For All Seasons
- Anne Brontë, (1820-1849), novelist
- Charlotte Brontë, (1816-1855), novelist
- Emily Brontë, (1818-1848), novelist and poet
- Rupert Brooke, (1887-1915), poet
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning, (1806-1861), poet
- Robert Browning, (1812-1889), poet
- Anthony Buckeridge, (1912-2004) children's author
- John Bunyan, (1628-1688), author
- Anthony Burgess, (1917-1993), novelist
- Fanny Burney, (1752-1840), writer
- Samuel Butler (1612-1680), poet and satirist
- Samuel Butler (1835-1902), writer and satirist
- George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron, (1788-1824), poet
[edit] C
- Sir Hall Caine, (1853-1931), romantic novelist and playwright
- Lewis Carroll, (pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), (1832-1898), author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- Angela Carter, (1940-1992), novelist
- Geoffrey Chaucer, (c. 1343-1400), poet, author of The Canterbury Tales
- G. K. Chesterton, (1874-1936), novelist, poet and essayist
- Agatha Christie, (1891-1976), mystery writer
- Winston Churchill, (1874-1965), British prime minister, author and Nobel prizewinner
- John Clare, (1793-1864), poet
- Brian Cleeve, (1921-2003), novelist
- Jonathan Coe, (born 1961), novelist
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, (1772-1834), poet
- Wilkie Collins, (1824-1889), novelist
- William Congreve, (1670-1729), playwright and poet
- Joseph Connolly, (born 1950), journalist and novelist
- Joseph Conrad, (1857-1924), novelist
- Noel Coward, (1899-1973), playwright
[edit] D
- Daniel Defoe, a novelist and author of famous Robinson Crusoe
- Walter de la Mare
- Thomas de Quincey
- Charles Dickens,a novelist
- John Donne, poet
- Lord Alfred Douglas,
- John Dryden, poet
- Carol Ann Duffy,
- Daphne du Maurier
- Arthur Conan Doyle
[edit] E
- Maria Edgeworth, (1767-1849), Anglo-Irish novelist
- George Eliot, (pen name of Mary Ann Evans) (1819-1880), novelist
- T. S. Eliot, (1888-1965), poet, playwright, literary critic and Nobel prizewinner
- Warren Ellis, (born 1968), comic book/graphic novel writer
- Alfred Elwes, (1819-1888), author of children's literature and translator
- George Etheridge, (1635?-1692), playwright
[edit] F
- Henry Fielding, (1707-1754), novelist
- Ian Fleming, (1908-1964), author, creator of James Bond
- C. S. Forester, (1899-1966), author
- E. M. Forster, (1879-1970), author
- Frederick Forsyth, (born 1938), author and political commentator
- Christopher Fry, (1907-2005), dramatist
- Stephen Fry, (born 1957), novelist and comedian
- David Forrest, four humorous novels & one of horror stories. One novel filmed by Walt Disney another a long running (34 years) musical. A pseudonym of R.Forrest-Webb & David Eliades.
[edit] G
- John Galsworthy, (1867-1933), author and dramatist
- Elizabeth Gaskell, (1810-1865), novelist
- William Golding, (1911-1993), novelist, poet and Nobel prizewinner
- Elizabeth Goudge, (1900-1984), novelist and children's writer
- Kenneth Grahame, (1859-1931), author
- Robert Graves, (1895-1985), poet, scholar and novelist
- Thomas Gray, (1716-1771), poet
- Henry Green, (pen name of Henry Vincent Yorke), (1905-1973), novelist
- Graham Greene, (1904-1991), author
[edit] H
- Thomas Hardy, (1840-1928), novelist and poet
- Eliza Haywood, (1793-1756), novelist, playwright and poet
- William Hazlitt, (1778-1830), essayist and literary critic
- Robert Herrick, (1591-1674), poet
- James Herriot, (pen name of James Alfred Wight),(1916-1995), writer
Jack Higgins, (pen name of Harry Patterson) (1929 - Present)
- Barry Hines, (born 1939), novelist
- Gerard Manley Hopkins, (1844-1889), poet
- Nick Hornby, (born 1957), novelist
- A. E. Housman, (1859-1936), poet and scholar
- Laurence Housman, (1865-1959), playwright
- Hartley Howard, (1908-1979), (pen name of Leopold Horace Ognall), crime novelist
- Ted Hughes, 1930-1998), Poet Laureate
- Leigh Hunt, (1784-1859), poet
- Aldous Huxley, (1884-1963), writer
- Thomas Henry Huxley, (1825-1895), scientific essayist, coiner of the term agnosticism
- Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, (1899-1980), Artist, director
[edit] I
- David Icke, (born 1952), conspiracy theorist
- William Ralph Inge, (1860-1954), clergyman, writer and mysticist
- Christopher Isherwood, (1904-1986), novelist
[edit] J
- Richard Jefferies, (1848-1887), nature writer and essayist
- Jerome K. Jerome, (1859-1927), humorist and playwright
- Samuel Johnson, (1709-1784), poet
- Ben Jonson, (1573-1637), poet and dramatist
- John Josselyn, (dates unknown; seventeenth century), author of books about New England
[edit] K
- John Keats, (1795-1821), poet
- Charles Kingsley, (1819-1875), novelist
- Rudyard Kipling, (1865-1936), author
- Hanif Kureishi, (born 1954), novelist and playwright
- Thomas Kyd, (1558-1595), playwright - The Spanish Tragedy
[edit] L
- Charles Lamb, (1775-1834), essayist
- Philip Larkin, (1922-1985), poet
- Hugh Laurie, (born 1959), actor, comedian and novelist
- D. H. Lawrence, (1885-1930), poet
- Edward Lear, (1812-1888), artist, humorist and poet
- John Lennon, (1940-1980), author of In His Own Write & A Spaniard In The Works
- Archibald Low, (1888-1956), science writer
- C. S. Lewis, (1898-1963), novelist, children's writer and Christian apologist
[edit] M
- Lord Macaulay, (1800-1859), essayist, historian and poet
- Colin MacInnes, (1914-1976), novelist
- Thomas Malory, (c. 1430-c. 1471), author of Le Morte d'Arthur
- Andrew Mango, (born 1926), author
- Christopher Marlowe, (1564-1593), playwright
- Eric Maschwitz, (1901-1969), writer, lyricist and entertainer
- John Masefield, (1878-1967), Poet Laureate and novelist
- William Somerset Maugham, (1874-1965), writer
- Ian McEwan, (born 1948), novelist
- Andy McNab, (born 1959), novelist and ex-soldier
- A. A. Milne, (1882-1956), author and poet
- John Milton, (1608-1674), poet
- Nancy Mitford, (1904-1973), novelist
- Alan Moore, (born 1953), comic book/graphic novel writer
- Thomas More, (1478-1535), author and scholar
- William Morris, (1834-1896), author, artist and poet
- Margaret Murphy, (born ?), crime novelist
[edit] N
- Beverley Nichols, (1898-1983), author
- Kim Richard Nossal, (born ?), professor and author
[edit] O
- Joe Orton, (1933-1967), dramatist
- George Orwell, (pen name of Eric Blair), (1903-1950), journalist and novelist
- John Osborne, (1929-1994), dramatist, wrote Look Back in Anger
- Wilfred Owen, (1893-1918), war poet
[edit] P
- Walter Pater, (1839-1894), essayist and novelist
- Hesketh Pearson, (1887-1964), biographer
- Samuel Pepys, (1633-1703), diarist
- Harold Pinter, (born 1930), playwright and Nobel prize winner
- Alexander Pope, (1688-1744), poet
- Beatrix Potter, (1866-1943), author and illustrator
- Terry Pratchett, (born 1948), fantasy author
- Nancy Price, (1880-1970), dramatist, novelist, poet and diarist
- J. B. Priestley, (1894-1984), dramatist and novelist
- Philip Pullman, (born 1946), author
- C. B. Purdom, (1883-1965), drama critic, author, biographer
[edit] Q
- Arthur Quiller-Couch a.k.a. Q, (1863-1944), novelist and literary critic
[edit] R
- Ann Radcliffe, (1764-1823), writer (gothic novel)
- Ian Rankin
- Arthur Ransome, (1884-1967), author and journalist
- Rony Robinson, (born 1940), author
- Christina Rossetti, (1830-1894), poet
- J. K. Rowling, (born 1965), author of the Harry Potter books
- John Ruskin, (1819-1900), essayist, poet and art critic
[edit] S
- Vita Sackville-West, (1892-1962), poet and novelist
- Saki (pen name of Hector Hugh Munro), (1870-1916), short story writer and satirist
- Siegfried Sassoon, (1886-1967), poet and novelist
- Dorothy L. Sayers, (1893-1957), mystery author, scholar, translator and religious writer
- George Bazeley Scurfield, (1920-1991), poet, novelist, author, and politician
- William Shakespeare, (c. 1564-1616), poet and playwright
- Mary Shelley, (1797-1851), author
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, (1792-1822), poet
- Philip Sidney, (1554-1586), poet and soldier
- Joe Simpson, (born 1960), mountaineer and author of many books including Touching the Void
- John Skelton, (c.1460-1529), poet
- Edmund Spenser, (c. 1552-1599), poet, wrote The Faerie Queene
- Nevil Shute, (1899-1960), aeronautical engineer and author
- Stevie Smith, (1902-1971), poet and novelist
- Dodie Smith, (1896-1990), novelist and playwright
- Robert Southey, (1774-1843), Poet Laureate
- Stephen Spender, (1909-1995), poet
- Algernon Swinburne, (1837-1909), poet
- Bram Stoker, (1847-1912), writer with best known for his vampire novel Dracula(1897).
[edit] T
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, (1809-1892), Poet Laureate
- William Makepeace Thackeray, (1811-1863), novelist
- Francis Thompson, (1859-1907), poet
- H. E. Todd, (died 1988), children's writer
- Kay Thorpe, romantic novelist (debut 1968, The Last of the Mallorys)
- J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973), author of The Lord of the Rings
- Doreen Tovey (1918-2008), cat writer
- Anthony Trollope, (1815-1882), novelist
- Robert Trevelyan; four historical novels; a pseudonym of author Robert Forrest-Webb
[edit] W
- Hugh Walpole, (1884-1941), novelist
- Evelyn Waugh, (1903-1966), novelist
- John Webster, (died 1630), poet
- H. G. Wells, (1866-1946), novelist and social critic
- Charles Williams, (1886-1945), novelist and scholar
- Gilbert White, (1720-1795), naturalist
- P. G. Wodehouse, (1881-1975), humorous author, playwright and lyricist
- Mary Wollstonecraft, (1759-1797), pioneer feminist known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
- Virginia Woolf, (1882-1941), author and feminist
- William Wordsworth, (1770-1850), Romantic poet
- John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, (1647–1680), satirical poet
- Derrick Wright, (1928- ), military history author
[edit] Y
- Charlotte Mary Yonge,(1823-1901), novelist
