List of English writers

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.

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

B

*Francis Bacon, (1561-1626), essayist
*Julian Barnes, (born 1946), novelist
*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
*Arnold Bennett, (1867-1931), novelist
*E. F. Benson, (1867-1940), novelist and short story writer. Author of the Mapp and Lucia series.
*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"
*Ernle Bradford, (1922-1986), historian and writer
*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

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

D

*Daniel Defoe, a novelist and author of famous Robinson Crusoe
*Walter de la Mare (1873-1956)
*Thomas de Quincey, (1785-1859)
*Charles Dickens, (1812-1870), a novelist
*John Donne, poet (1572-1631)
*Lord Alfred Douglas, (1870-1945)
*John Dryden, poet (1631-1700)
*Carol Ann Duffy, (born 1955)
*Daphne du Maurier (1907-1989)
*Arthur Conan Doyle, (1859-1930)

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

F

*Henry Fielding, (1707-1754), novelist
*Ian Fleming, (1908-1964), author, creator of James Bond
*C. S. Forester, (1899-1966), author
*Helen Forrester, (born 1919), 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, novelist, a pseudonym of R.Forrest-Webb & David Eliades.

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

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

I

*David Icke, (born 1952), conspiracy theorist
*William Ralph Inge, (1860-1954), clergyman, writer and mysticist
*Christopher Isherwood, (1904-1986), novelist

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

K

*John Keats, (1795-1821), poet
*Lena Kennedy, (1914-1986), novelist
*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

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

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

N

*Beverley Nichols, (1898-1983), author
*Kim Richard Nossal, (born ?), professor and author

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

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

Q

*Arthur Quiller-Couch a.k.a. Q, (1863-1944), novelist and literary critic

R

*Ann Radcliffe, (1764-1823), writer (gothic novel)
*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

*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

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

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

Y

*Charlotte Mary Yonge,(1823-1901), novelist

ee also

*List of English novelists
*English novel
*English literature