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 (born 1938), novelist, The Day of the Jackal

• Richard Fortey (born 1946), 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 (born 1928), 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 (born 1931), 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

• 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 (born 1943), 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 (born 1928), 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

• Benjamin Hoadly (1676–1761), polemicist and bishop

• Louisa Gurney Hoare (1784–1836), diarist and educator

• Richard Colt Hoare (1758–1838), diarist, travel writer and antiquary

• Thomas Hobbes, (1588–1679) political philosopher, Leviathan

• Peter Hobbs (born 1973), novelist

• John Hobhouse, 1st Baron Broughton (1786–1869), political writer and diarist

• Eric Hobsbawm (1917–2012), historian

• Margaret Hoby (1571–1633), diarist

• Joseph Hocking (1860–1937), novelist and cleric

• Silas Hocking (1850–1935), novelist and cleric

• Jane Aiken Hodge (1917–2009), novelist

• C. Walter Hodges (1909–2004), children's writer and illustrator

• Ralph Hodgson (1871–1962), poet and translator

• Shadworth Hodgson (1832–1912), philosopher

• W. N. Hodgson (wrote as Edward Melbourne, 1893–1916), poet

• Barbara Hofland (1770–1844), children's writer

• Thomas Jefferson Hogg (1792–1862), biographer

• Simon Hoggart (1946–2014), writer and broadcaster

• Pete Hoida (born 1944), poet and painter

• Fanny Holcroft (1780–1844), novelist and poet

• Thomas Holcroft (1745–1809), playwright and miscellanist

• Molly Holden (1927–1981), poet

• William Holder (1616–1698), music scholar and cleric

• Robert Holdstock (1948–2009), novelist

• Margaret Holford (1757–1834), novelist, playwright and poet

• Margaret Holford (1778–1852), poet and translator

• Raphael Holinshed (1529–1580), chronicler, translator and cleric

• Abraham Holland (died 1626), poet

• Jane Holland (born 1966), poet and novelist

• John Holland (1794–1872), poet and journalist

• Philemon Holland (1552–1637), translator

• Sarah Holland (born 1961), writer and actress

• Thomas Holland (1539–1612), scholar, AV translator and cleric

• William Holland (1746–1819), diarist and cleric

• Helen Hollick (born 1953), novelist

• Alan Hollinghurst (born 1954), novelist and translator

• John Holloway (1920–1999), poet and scholar

• Constance Holme (1880–1955), novelist and playwright

• John Holmes (1703–1760), educator

• Richard Holmes (born 1945), biographer

• Robert Holmes (1926–1986), scriptwriter

• Emily Sarah Holt (1836–1893), novelist and children's writer

• Hazel Holt (1928–2015), novelist

• Winifred Holtby (1898–1935), novelist

• Stewart Home (born 1962), novelist, writer and artist

• Joseph Hone (1937–2016), novelist

• William Hone (1780–1842), satirist and bookseller

• Thomas Hood (1799–1845), poet and humorist

• Tom Hood (1835–1874), humorist, playwright and poet

• Theodore Hook (1788–1841), writer and prankster

• Jeremy Hooker (born 1941), poet, critic and broadcaster

• Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911), botanist and explorer

• Richard Hooker (1554–1600), theologian

• William Jackson Hooker (1785–1865), botanist

• John Hoole (1727–1803), translator and poet

• Alexander Beresford Hope (1820–1887), writer

• Anthony Hope, (real name Anthony Hope Hawkins, 1863–1933) novelist, The Prisoner of Zenda

• Thomas Hope (1769–1831), writer and novelist

• Bill Hopkins (1928–2011), novelist

• Cathy Hopkins (born 1953), children's novelist

• Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889), poet, "The Wreck of the Deutschland"

• Simon Hopkinson (born 1954), food writer and chef

• Sydney Horler (1888–1954), novelist

• Alfred Aloysius Horn (1861–1931), travel writer

• Nick Hornby (born 1957), novelist

• Alistair Horne (1925–2017), historian and biographer

• Kenneth Horne (1900–1975), playwright

• Richard Henry Horne (1802–1884), poet and critic

• Roy Horniman (1874–1930), novelist and playwright

• E. W. Hornung (1866–1921), author, A. J. Raffles

• Frances Horovitz (1938–1983), poet and broadcaster

• Michael Horovitz (1935–2021), poet and translator

• Anthony Horowitz (born 1956), novelist, children's writer and screenwriter

• William Horwood (born 1944), novelist and children's writer

• John Hoskins or Hoskyns (1566–1638), poet and politician

• Clare Hoskyns-Abrahall (1900–1990), biographer and children's writer

• Charlotte Hough (1924–2008), detective novelist and children's writer

• Richard Hough (also as Bruce Carter, 1922–1999), maritime historian and children's writer

• Stanley Bennett Hough (1917–1998), SF and thriller writer

• Stanley Houghton (1881–1913), playwright

• Geoffrey Household (1900–1988), novelist

• A. E. Housman (1859–1936), poet and scholar, A Shropshire Lad

• Laurence Housman (1865–1959), playwright

• Anne Howard (c. 1696–1764), poet

• Brian Howard (1905–1958), poet

• Edward Howard (1624 – c. 1700), playwright and poet

• Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923–2014), novelist

• Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle, Earl of Carlisle (1748–1825), poet, playwright and pamphleteer

• Hartley Howard (real name Leopold Horace Ognall, also as Harry Carmichael, 1908–1979), crime novelist

• Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517–1547), poet

• Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton (1540–1614), writer and courtier

• John Howard (1726–1790), philanthropist and reformer

• Robert Howard (1626–1698), playwright

• Sandra Howard (born 1940), novelist

• David Armine Howarth (1912–1991), historian and writer

• James Howell (1594–1666), Historiographer Royal and poet

• Francis Howgill (1618–1668), Quaker writer and preacher

• Anna Mary Howitt (1824–1884), poet, writer and painter

• Mary Howitt (1799–1888), poet and translator

• Richard Howitt (1799–1869), poet

• William Howitt (1792–1879), writer and traveller

• Edmond Hoyle (1672–1769), writer on games

• Fred Hoyle (1915–2001), astronomer and SF writer

• Geoffrey Hoyle (born 1942), SF writer

• Sisley Huddleston (1883–1952), writer and journalist

• Stephen Hudson (real name Sydney Schiff, 1868–1944), novelist and translator

• Pauline von Hügel (1858-1901), religious writer

• David Hughes (1930–2005), novelist and biographer

• Frieda Hughes (born 1960), children's writer, poet and painter

• Molly Hughes (1866–1956), writer and educator

• Richard Hughes (1900–1976), poet, novelist and playwright, A High Wind in Jamaica

• Shirley Hughes (1927–2022), children's writer and illustrator

• Ted Hughes (1930–1998), Poet Laureate, translator and anthologist

• Thomas Hughes (1822–1896), writer and novelist, Tom Brown's Schooldays

• E. M. Hull (real name Edith Maude Winstanley, 1880–1947), novelist

• Katharine Hull (1921–1977) and Pamela Whitlock (1920–1982), children's writers, The Far-Distant Oxus

• T. E. Hulme (1883–1917), critic and poet

• Michael Hulse (born 1955), translator, critic and poet

• Fergus Hume (1859–1932), novelist

• Tobias Hume (c. 1590–1645), musician and poet

• Helen Humphreys (born 1961), poet and novelist

• Neil Humphreys (born 1974), writer on Singapore

• Leigh Hunt (1784–1859), poet and essayist

• Violet Hunt (1862–1942), novelist and biographer

• John Hunter (1737–1821), explorer, travel writer and naval officer

• Norman Hunter (1899–1995), children's novelist, Professor Branestawm

• Rachel Hunter (c. 1754–1813), novelist

• Richard Hurd, (1720–1808), writer, translator and bishop

• James Hurdis (1763–1801), poet and cleric

• Hyman Hurwitz (1770–1844), writer and scholar

• Dyneley Hussey (1893–1972), poet and music critic

• Sheila Hutchins (living), cookery-book writer

• A. S. M. Hutchinson (1880–1971), novelist

• John Hutchinson (1674–1737), theologian

• Lucy Hutchinson (1620–1681), biographer and translator

• R. C. Hutchinson (1907–1975), novelist

• Ralph Hutchinson (c. 1553–1606), scholar, AV translator and cleric

• Angela Huth (born 1938), novelist and playwright

• Leonard Hutten (c. 1557–1632), scholar, AV translator and cleric

• Catherine Hutton (1756–1846), novelist and correspondent

• William Hutton (1723–1815), poet and historian

• Richard Holt Hutton (1826–1897), writer and theologian

• Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), novelist and essayist, Brave New World

• Julian Huxley (1887–1975), zoologist, philosopher and science writer

• Leonard Huxley (1860–1933), writer, biographer and editor

• Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895), scientist and essayist

• Edward Hyde, Lord Clarendon (1609–1674), historian and statesman

• Liz Hyder (born 1976 or 1977), novelist

• Timothy Hyman (born 1946), art writer

• Henry Hyndman (1842–1921), writer and politician

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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

• Elijah Impey (1732–1809), memoirist and judge

• 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 (born 1946), 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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• Donald Jack (1924–2003), novelist, playwright and scriptwriter

• Benedict Jacka (living), YA novelist

• Catherine Jackson (1824–1891), historian and editor

• Mick Jackson (born 1960), novelist

• Alaric Jacob (1909–1995), novelist and journalist

• Anna Jacobs (born 1941), novelist

• Joseph Jacobs (1854–1916), folklorist and historian

• 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

• Frances Jacson (1754–1842), novelist

• 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

• John Cordy Jeaffreson (1831–1901), novelist and non-fiction writer

• Tim Jeal (born 1945), novelist and biographer

• James Hopwood Jeans (1877–1946), writer and astronomer

• Samuel Jebb (c. 1694–1772), scholar and physician

• Richard Jefferies (1848–1887), nature writer and essayist

• Agnes Jekyll (1861–1937), writer

• Gertrude Jekyll (1843–1932), garden writer

• Alan Jenkins (born 1955), poet

• Amy Jenkins (born 1966), novelist and screenwriter

• Peter Jenkins (1934–1992), journalist and screenwriter

• 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