List of English writers (R–Z)

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, c. = circa; century; cc. = centuries; cleric = Anglican priest, fl. = floruit = flourished, RC = Roman Catholic, SF = science fiction, YA = young adult fiction

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• Jonathan Raban (1942–2023), travel writer

• Michael Rabbet (c. 1562–1630), AV translator and cleric

• Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823), novelist, The Mysteries of Udolpho

• Jeremiah Radcliffe (died 1612 or c. 1620), scholar, AV translator and cleric

• Dollie Radford (real name Caroline Maitland, 1858–1920), poet and writer

• Simon Rae (living), poet and cricket writer

• Elizabeth Raffald (1833–1881), cookery writer

• Shahida Rahman (born 1971), writer and publisher

• Bali Rai (born 1971), YA novelist

• Craig Raine (born 1944) poet and critic

• Kathleen Raine (1908–2003), poet and translator

• Nina Raine (living), playwright and director

• John Rainolds (1549–1607), AV translator and cleric

• Ross Raisin (born 1979), novelist

• Arthur Raistrick (1896–1991), polymath

• Walter Raleigh or Ralegh (1552–1618), poet and navigator

• Walter Raleigh (1861–1922), scholar and poet

• Lobsang Rampa (real name Cyril Henry Hoskin, 1910–1981), novelist

• Leonard G. G. Ramsey (1913–1990), writer, editor and encyclopaedist

• Thomas Randolph (1605–1635), poet

• William Brighty Rands (wrote as Henry Holbeach and Matthew Browne, 1823–1882), children's writer and hymnist

• Charles Rangeley-Wilson (living), novelist and poet

• Nicholas Rankin (born 1950), biographer, historian and broadcaster

• Arthur Ransome (1884–1967), children's writer, Swallows and Amazons

• Ellen Henrietta Ranyard (1810–1879), religious writer

• Hastings Rashdall (1858–1924), philosopher and cleric

• John Rastell or Rastall (c. 1475–1536) chronicler and playwright

• Julian Rathbone (1935–2008), novelist

• Terence Rattigan (1911–1977), playwright and screenwriter The Winslow Boy

• Simon Raven (1927–2001), novelist, screenwriter and playwright

• Ralph Ravens (c. 1553–1615), scholar, AV translator and cleric

• Edward Ravenscroft (c. 1654–1707), playwright

• Gwen Raverat (1885–1957), memoirist and illustrator

• Thomas Ravis (c. 1560–1609), scholar, AV translator and bishop

• George Rawlinson (1812–1902), scholar, historian and cleric

• Hardwicke Rawnsley (1851–1920), poet and hymnist

• Tom Raworth (1938–2017), poet

• John Ray (1627–1705), naturalist and lexicographer

• Derek Raymond (real name R. W. A. Cook, 1931–1994), novelist

• Claire Rayner (1931–2010), novelist and broadcaster

• Jay Rayner (born 1966), novelist and food writer

• Shoo Rayner (originally Hugh Rayner, 1956), children's writer and illustrator

• Benedict Read (1945–2016), art critic

• Herbert Read (1893–1968), poet, critic and novelist

• Miss Read (real name Dora Jessie Saint, 1913–2012), novelist, autobiographer and children's writer

• Piers Paul Read (born 1941), novelist and writer

• Charles Reade (1814–1884), novelist, The Cloister and the Hearth

• Hazel Alden Reason (1901–1976), writer on science for children

• John Redford (died 1547), poet, playwright and composer

• Peter Redgrove (1932–2003), poet, novelist and editor

• Patrick Redmond (born 1966), thriller writer

• Henry Reed (1914–1986), poet and translator

• Isaac Reed (1742–1807), biographer and Shakespearean

• Jeremy Reed (born 1951), poet, novelist and critic

• Talbot Baines Reed (1852–1893), children's novelist

• Douglas Reeman (wrote as Alexander Kent, 1924–2017), novelist

• David Rees (1936–1993), children's writer

• Terence Reese (1913–1996), bridge writer

• Clara Reeve (1729–1807), novelist, The Old English Baron

• John Reeve (1608–1658), religious writer

• Philip Reeve (born 1966), children's writer and illustrator

• Amber Reeves (1887–1981), novelist and writer

• James Reeves (originally John Morris Reeves, 1909–1978), poet and children's writer

• Christopher Reid (born 1949), poet and essayist

• Jonathan Rendall (born 1964), novelist

• Ruth Rendell (also as Barbara Vine, 1930–2015), novelist

• Louise Rennison (1951–2016), children's writer and comic

• John Reresby (1634–1689), politician and diarist

• Frederic Reynolds (1764–1841), playwright

• George W. M. Reynolds (1814–1879, novelist and journalist

• Henry Reynolds (1564–1632), poet, translator and critic

• John Hamilton Reynolds (1794–1852), poet

• Dan Rhodes (born 1972), novelist and story writer

• Pam Rhodes (born 1950), novelist and broadcaster

• William Barnes Rhodes (1772–1826), playwright

• Ernest Rhys (1859–1946), writer, poet and editor

• David Ricardo (1772–1823), political economist

• Ben Rice (born 1972), novelist

• James Rice (1843–1882), novelist

• Barnabe Rich (c. 1540–1617), writer and soldier

• Alfred Bate Richards (1820–1876), playwright, poet and essayist

• I. A. Richards (1893–1979), critic

• Justin Richards (born 1961), novelist

• Vernon Richards (originally Vero Recchioni, 1915–2001), anarchist writer

• Dorothy Richardson (1873–1957), novelist and translator

• Elizabeth Richardson (1576/1577–1651), religious writer

• John Richardson (died 1625), scholar, AV translator and cleric

• John Richardson (1657–1753), Quaker preacher and memoirist

• Samuel Richardson (1689–1761), novelist, Pamela

• Christopher Ricks (born 1933), critic and anthologist

• Edgell Rickword (1898–1982), poet, critic and editor

• Anne Ridler (1912–2001), poet and editor

• James Ridley (wrote as Charles Morell, 1736–1765), novelist and story writer

• Mark Ridley (1560 – c. 1624), lexicographer of Russian

• Nicholas Ridley (1500–1555), theologian and bishop

• Philip Ridley (born 1964), playwright and children's writer

• D. C. H. Rieu (1916–2008), scholar and translator

• E. V. Rieu (1887–1972), scholar, translator and poet

• Denise Riley (born 1948), poet and scholar

• Gwendoline Riley (born 1979), novelist

• Peter Riley (born 1940), poet and essayist

• Stella Rimington (born 1935), novelist and intelligence officer

• James Riordan (1936–2012), children's writer and footballer

• Jonathan Ripley, writer, director and producer

• Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie (1837–1919), novelist and essayist

• James Ewing Ritchie (1820–1898), travel writer and political biographer

• Joseph Ritson (1752–1803), antiquary and editor

• Graham Robb (born 1958), biographer and critic

• Andrew Roberts (born 1963), historian and biographer

• David Roberts (living), novelist and editor

• Emma Roberts (1794–1840), travel writer and poet

• Katherine Roberts (born 1962), children's writer

• Keith Roberts (1935–2000), novelist and story writer

• Lynette Roberts (born Evelyn Beatrice Roberts, 1909–1995), poet

• Michael Roberts (1902–1948), poet and critic

• Michael Symmons Roberts (born 1963), poet and librettist

• Michèle Roberts (born 1949), novelist and poet

• Morley Roberts (1857–1942), novelist

• Joseph Clinton Robertson (wrote as Sholto Percy, 1788–1852), writer and editor

• Thomas William Robertson (1829–1871), playwright

• Denise Robins (several pen names, 1897–1985), novelist

• Patricia Robins (also as Claire Lorrimer, 1921–2016), novelist

• Austin Robinson (1897–1993), economist

• Derek Robinson (born 1932), novelist

• Henry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867), man of letters

• Hilary Robinson (born 1962), children's writer

• Joan Robinson (1903–1983), economist

• John Robinson (1919–1983), writer and bishop Honest to God

• Mary Robinson (1757–1800), poet and novelist

• Nigel Robinson (living), writer and editor

• Peter Robinson (born 1953), poet and translator

• Rony Robinson (born 1940), novelist and playwright

• John Roby (1793–1850), poet and writer

• Paul Roche (1916–2007), poet, novelist and critic

• Regina Maria Roche (1764–1845), Gothic novelist

• Rennell Rodd (1858–1941), poet and politician

• John Rodker (1894–1955), writer and poet

• Jane Rogers (born 1952), novelist

• Samuel Rogers (1763–1855), poet

• Thorold Rogers (1823–1890), political economist

• Woodes Rogers (died 1732), travel writer and mariner

• Peter Mark Roget (1779–1869), philologist, Roget's Thesaurus

• Sax Rohmer (real name A. H. S. Ward, 1883–1959), novelist

• Frederick Rolfe (1860–1913), novelist and artist

• Richard Rolle (1290–1349), writer and Bible translator

• L. T. C. Rolt (1910–1974), transport writer

• Isabella Frances Romer (1798–1852), travel writer

• Stephen Romer (born 1957), poet and critic

• William Roscoe (1753–1831), scholar and poet

• Elizabeth and Gerald Rose (latter b. 1935), children's writers and illustrators

• Paul Rose (1935–2015), writer and politician

• Michael Rosen (born 1946), children's writer and poet

• Isaac Rosenberg (1890–1918), poet and playwright

• Jack Rosenthal (1931–2004), screenwriter

• Alan Ross (1922–2001), poet, writer and editor

• Christina Rossetti (1830–1894), poet

• Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882), poet and painter

• Maria Francesca Rossetti (1827–1876), writer and translator

• William Michael Rossetti (1829–1919), writer and critic

• John Horace Round (1854–1928), historian and genealogist

• W. H. D. Rouse (1863–1950), classicist and editor

• Martin Routh (1755–1854), classicist

• Alick Rowe (1939–2009), scriptwriter and novelist

• Elizabeth Singer Rowe (1674–1737), poet and novelist

• Nicholas Rowe (1674–1718), Poet Laureate

• Richard Rowlands (c. 1550–1640), historian and antiquary

• Samuel Rowlands (c. 1573–1630), poet and pamphleteer

• Samuel Rowley (died c. 1633), playwright and actor

• William Rowley (c. 1585–1626), playwright and actor

• J. K. Rowling (born 1965), children's writer, Harry Potter

• Lucinda Roy (born 1955), novelist and poet

• Gillian Rubinstein (also as Lian Hearn, born 1942), children's writer and playwright

• Carol Rumens (born 1944), poet and scholar

• Katherine Rundell (born 1987), children's writer, playwright and academic

• Peter Rushforth (1945–2005), novelist

• John Ruskin (1819–1900), essayist, poet and art critic

• Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), philosopher What I Believe

• Lord John Russell (1792–1878), biographer and prime minister

• William Clark Russell (1844–1911), novelist

• William Howard Russell (1820–1907), travel writer and war correspondent

• John D. Rutherford (born 1941), scholar and translator

• Edward Rutherfurd (born 1948), historical fiction author

• Cecil Bernard Rutley, (1888–1956), children's and science fiction

• Chris Ryan (born 1961), novelist and soldier

• Amy Louisa Rye (1851–unknown), chlidren's writer and social reformer

• Gilbert Ryle (1900–1976), philosopher

• Thomas Rymer (c. 1643–1713), Historiographer Royal and poet

• Royce Ryton (1924–2009), playwright

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• Suhayl Saadi (born 1961), novelist, playwright and physician

• Oliver Sacks (1933–2015), writer and neurologist

• Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset (1638–1706), poet

• Lady Margaret Sackville (1881–1963), poet and children's writer

• Thomas Sackville, Earl of Dorset (1536–1608), poet and statesman

• Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962), poet and novelist All Passion Spent

• Lorna Sage (1943–2001), critic and scholar

• Lawrence Sail (born 1942), poet and editor

• George Saintsbury (1845–1933), critic

• Saki (real name Hector Hugh Munro) (1870–1916), story writer and satirist

• Anbara Salam, historical fiction writer

• Henry Stephens Salt (1851–1939), writer and campaigner

• John Saltmarsh (died 1647), writer and cleric

• Fiona Sampson (born 1968), poet and editor

• Kevin Sampson (born 1961), novelist

• Ignatius Sancho (c. 1729–1780), writer and domestic servant

• Nicholas Sanders (c. 1530–1581), polemicist and RC priest

• Robert Sanderson (1587–1663), theologian

• Edwin Sandys (1519–1588), Bishops' Bible translator and bishop

• George Sandys (1577–1644), poet and traveller

• Peter Sanger (born 1943), poet and scholar

• C. J. Sansom (born 1952), novelist

• Clive Sansom (1910–1981), poet, playwright and educator

• William Sansom (1912–1976), novelist and travel writer

• Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967), poet and novelist Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man

• Hilary Saint George Saunders (wrote as Francis Beeding, etc., 1898–1951), novelist

• James Savage (1767–1845), writer and antiquary

• Richard Savage (c. 1697–1743), poet and satirist

• Henry Savile (1549–1622), scholar and AV translator

• Michael Saward (1932–2015), hymnist

• Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957), novelist, Lord Peter Wimsey

• Frank Sayers (1763–1817), poet and metaphysician

• Arthur Scaife (c. 1855-1934), writer and editor

• Francis Scarfe (1911–1986), poet and novelist

• Vernon Scannell (1922–2007), poet

• Alex Scarrow (living), novelist and screenwriter

• Simon Scarrow (born 1962), historical novelist

• Simon Schama (born 1945), historian

• Ann Schlee (born 1934), novelist

• Caroline Lucy Scott (1784–1857), novelist and religious writer

• Catherine Amy Dawson Scott (1865–1934), poet, playwright and novelist

• Geoffrey Scott (1884–1929), writer and poet

• Hardiman Scott (1920–1999), writer and poet

• Hugh Stowell Scott (wrote as Henry Seton Merriman, c. 1863–1903), novelist

• Jane Scott (1779–1839), playwright

• John Scott (1783–1821), editor and writer

• John Scott of Amwell (1731–1783), poet

• John A. Scott (born 1948), poet and novelist

• Mary Scott (1751/1752–1793), poet

• Paul Mark Scott (1920–1978), novelist, playwright and poet

• Sarah Scott (1720–1795), novelist and translator

• William Bell Scott (1811–1890), poet and artist

• Will Scott (1893−1964), crime writer and playwright

• Anne Scott-James (1913–2009), novelist, editor and garden writer

• E. J. Scovell (1907–1999), poet

• James Scudamore (born 1976), novelist

• George Bazeley Scurfield (1920–1991), poet, novelist and politician

• Marcus Sedgwick (born 1968), children's writer

• Charles Sedley (1639–1701), poet and rake

• Kate Sedley (real name Brenda Clarke, 1926–2022), novelist

• Stephen Sedley (b. 1939), writer on law

• Frederic Seebohm (1833–1912), economic historian

• John Robert Seeley (1834–1895), historian and essayist

• Rachel Seiffert (born 1971), novelist

• David Selbourne (born 1937), philosopher and playwright

• Catherine Selden (fl. 1797–1817), novelist

• John Selden (1584–1654), polymath

• Will Self (born 1961), novelist and columnist

• Charles Seltman (1886–1957), art historian

• George Selwyn (1719–1791), correspondent and wit

• Nassau William Senior (1790–1864), economist

• Sepharial (real name Walter Gorn Old, 1864–1929), astrologer and numerologist

• Gitta Sereny (1921–2012), biographer and historian

• Ian Serraillier (1912–1994), novelist and poet

• Robert Service (born 1947), historian and scholar

• Diane Setterfield (born 1964), novelist

• Elkanah Settle (1648–1724), playwright and poet

• Tim Severin (1940–2020), writer, historian and explorer

• Anna Seward ("Swan of Lichfield", 1747–1809), poet and biographer

• Thomas Seward (1708–1790), writer

• William Seward (1747–1799), anecdotist

• Anna Sewell (1820–1878), novelist, Black Beauty

• Elizabeth Missing Sewell (1815–1906), novelist and religious writer

• Mary Wright Sewell (1797–1884), children's writer

• William Sewell (1804–1874), writer, translator and cleric

• Miranda Seymour (born 1948), biographer, novelist and children's writer

• Martin Seymour-Smith (1928–1998), poet and critic

• Thomas Shadwell (c. 1642–1692), Poet Laureate, Historiographer Royal and playwright

• Anthony Shaffer (1926–2001), playwright and novelist

• Peter Shaffer (1926–2016), playwright Amadeus

• Eddy Shah (born 1944), novelist and newspaper owner

• Saira Shah (born 1964), writer and film-maker

• Tahir Shah (born 1966), travel writer and critic

• Olivia Shakespear (1863–1938), novelist and playwright

• Nicholas Shakespeare (born 1957), novelist and biographer

• William Shakespeare (c. 1564–1616), poet and playwright Hamlet

• Edward Shanks (1892–1953), poet and critic

• Jo Shapcott (born 1953), poet and scholar

• Evelyn Sharp (1869–1955), journalist, children's writer and suffragist

• Jane Sharp (born c. 1641), writer on midwifery

• Margery Sharp (1905–1991), novelist, children's writer and playwright

• Richard Sharp (1759–1835), polemicist and hatter

• Thomas Wilfred Sharp (1901–1978), writer on planning

• Kevin Sharpe (1949–2011), historian

• Richard Sharpe (living), historian

• Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1847–1909), ornithologist and editor

• Tom Sharpe (1928–2013), novelist

• George Shaw (1751–1813), botanist and zoologist

• Pete Shaw (born 1966), writer and producer

• Peter Shaw (1694–1763), physician, medical writer and translator

• Robert Shaw (1927–1978), actor and novelist

• Watkins Shaw (1911–1996), musicologist

• John Shebbeare (1709–1788), novelist and satirist

• Wilfrid Sheed (1930–2011), writer, novelist and essayist

• John Sheffield (also as Mulgrave, then Buckingham, 1647–1721) poet and essayist

• Edward Sheldon (1599–1687), religious translator

• Mary Shelley (1797–1851), author, Frankenstein

• Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822), poet Ode to the West Wind

• George Shelvocke (1675–1742), travel writer

• William Shenstone (1714–1763), poet

• Stav Sherez (born 1970), novelist

• Clare Sheridan (1885–1970), writer and sculptor

• Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816), playwright, The Rivals

• William Sherlock (1641–1707), theologian and cleric

• Philip Sherrard (1922–1995), classicist, translator and religious writer

• R. C. Sherriff (1890–1975), playwright, novelist and screenwriter Journey's End

• Charles Scott Sherrington (1857–1952), science writer and Nobel Prize winner

• Norman Sherry (1935–2016), novelist and biographer

• Mary Martha Sherwood (1775–1851), children's writer and tractarian

• James Shirley (1596–1666), playwright

• Joseph Henry Shorthouse (1834–1903), novelist

• Fredegond Shove (1889–1949), poet

• Nevil Shute (1899–1960), novelist and aviation engineer A Town Like Alice

• Penelope Shuttle (born 1947), poet and novelist

• Gareth Sibson (born 1977), novelist and broadcaster

• Elizabeth Siddal (1829–1862), artist and poet

• Mary Sidney (later Mary Herbert, countess of Pembroke, 1561–1621), poet and translator

• Philip Sidney (1554–1586), poet and soldier

• Robert Sidney, earl of Leicester (1563–1626) poet and statesman

• Una Lucy Silberrad (1872–1955), novelist

• Jon Silkin (1930–1997), poet, editor and critic

• Alan Sillitoe (1928–2010), novelist, poet and translator Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

• Elizabeth Simcoe (1762–1850), diarist

• George Augustus Simcox (1841–1905), poet and scholar

• Kathryn Simmonds (born 1972), poet and story writer

• Jack Simmons (1915–2000), historian

• Brian Simon (1915–2002), educator

• David Simpson (1745–1799), writer and cleric

• Dorothy Simpson (born 1933), novelist

• Helen Simpson (born 1959), novelist and story writer

• Joe Simpson (born 1960), writer and mountaineer

• John Simpson (1746–1812), writer and Unitarian minister

• John Simpson (born 1953), lexicographer

• John Palgrave Simpson (1807–1887), playwright

• N. F. Simpson (1919–2011), playwright

• George Robert Sims (1847–1922), writer, poet and journalist

• Andrew Sinclair (1935–2019), novelist, historian and biographer

• Clive Sinclair (1940–2021), novelist

• Ian Sinclair writer, poet and film-maker

• May Sinclair (real name Mary Amelia St. Clair, 1863–1946), novelist, poet and critic

• C. H. Sisson (1914–2003), poet, translator and writer

• Edith Sitwell (1887–1964), poet

• Osbert Sitwell (1892–1969), writer

• Sacheverell Sitwell (1897–1988), poet and writer

• Walter William Skeat (1835–1912), philologist

• Barbara Skelton (1916–1996), novelist and memoirist

• John Skelton (c. 1460–1529), poet and satirist

• Robert Skidelsky (born 1939), economic historian and biographer

• Joseph Skipsey (1832–1903), poet and editor

• G. E. M. Skues (1858–1949), fishing writer

• Eleanor Sleath (1770–1847), Gothic novelist

• Barbara Sleigh (1906–1982), children's writer Carbonel series

• Edward Slow (1841–1925), dialect poet

• Carolyn Smart (born 1952), poet

• Christopher Smart (1722–1771), poet

• Francis Edward Smedley (1818–1864), novelist

• Menella Bute Smedley (1819–1877), novelist, poet and translator

• Albert Richard Smith (1816–1860), writer and mountaineer

• C. Fox Smith (1882–1954), poet and nautical and children's writer

• Charlotte Smith (1749–1806), poet and novelist

• Charlotte Fell Smith (1851–1937) historian and biographer

• David Smith (born 1963), historian

• Dodie Smith (1896–1990), novelist and playwright, The Hundred and One Dalmatians

• Edmund Smith (1672–1710), poet and translator

• Eleanor Smith (1902–1945), novelist

• Emma Smith (1923–2018), novelist and children's writer

• Georgina Castle Smith (1845–1933), children's writer and novelist

• Horace Smith (originally Horatio Smith, 1779–1849), novelist and poet

• Joan Smith (born 1953), novelist and journalist

• John Frederick Smith (1806–1890), novelist

• Ken Smith (1938–2003), poet

• Michael Marshall Smith (born 1965), novelist and screenwriter

• Miles Smith (1554–1624), scholar, AV translator and cleric

• Sid Smith (born 1949), novelist and journalist

• Stevie Smith (1902–1971), poet and novelist

• Sydney Smith (1771–1845), writer and cleric

• Thomas Smith (fl. 1600–1627), writer and soldier

• Tom Rob Smith (born 1979), novelist

• Wentworth Smith (1571 – c. 1623), playwright

• William Smith (fl. 1590s), poet

• William Smith (1769–1839), geologist

• William Smith (1813–1893), lexicographer

• Zadie Smith (born 1975), novelist

• Frank Smythe (1900–1949), writer and mountaineer

• Percy Smythe (1826–1869), man of letters

• C. P. Snow (1905–1980), novelist and physicist Strangers and Brothers

• John Snow (born 1941), poet, autobiographer and first-class cricketer

• William Somervile (1675–1742), poet

• Charles Sorley (1895–1915), poet

• William Sotheby (1757–1833), poet and translator

• Ahdaf Soueif (born 1950), novelist and translator

• Robert South (1634–1716), theologian and cleric

• Joanna Southcott (1750–1814), religious writer

• R. W. Southern (1912–2001), historian

• Caroline Anne Southey (1786–1854), poet

• Robert Southey (1774–1843), Poet Laureate

• Robert Southwell (1561–1595), poet, tractarian and martyr

• Stephen Southwold (1887–1964), novelist and children's writer

• Nancy Spain (1917–1964), novelist, biographer and journalist

• Robert Spaulding (fl. 1610s), scholar, AV translator and cleric

• Rachel Speght (1596-16??), poet and polemicist

• Henry Spelman (c. 1562–1641), historian and antiquary

• Bernard Spencer (1909–1963), poet

• Colin Spencer (born 1933), writer, artist and broadcaster

• Herbert Spencer (1820–1903), philosopher

• John Spencer (1630–1693), scholar and cleric

• William Robert Spencer (1769–1834), poet and wit

• Emily Spender (1841–1922), novelist and suffragette

• Lillian Spender (1835–1895), novelist and essayist

• Stephen Spender (1909–1995), poet, novelist and travel writer

• Edmund Spenser (c. 1552–1599), poet, The Faerie Queene

• John Spenser (1559–1614), scholar, AV translator and cleric

• Dennis Spooner (1932–1986), TV screenwriter

• William Archibald Spooner (1844–1930), scholar, spoonerisms

• Jean Sprackland (born 1962), poet

• Francis Spufford (born 1964), writer

• Charles Spurgeon (1834–1892), writer and Baptist minister

• J. C. Squire (1884–1958), poet and historian

• Edward St Aubyn (born 1960), novelist and journalist

• Bayle St. John (1822–1859), travel writer and biographer

• Henry St John, Lord Bolingbroke (1678–1751) politician and philosopher

• James Augustus St. John (born James John, 1795–1875), journalist, writer and traveller

• Spenser St. John (1825–1910), biographer, travel writer and diplomat

• Brian Stableford (born 1948), SF writer

• Tom Stacey (1930–2022), novelist, writer and publisher

• David A. T. Stafford (born 1942), historian

• Julian Stallabrass (living), art historian

• Jon Stallworthy (1935–2014), scholar and poet

• John Stammers (born 1954), poet

• Josiah Stamp (1880–1941), economist and banker

• Derek Stanford (1918–2008), biographer and poet

• Louisa Stanhope (fl. 1806–1827), novelist

• Philip Stanhope, Lord Chesterfield, (1694–1773) politician and writer

• Arthur Stanley (1815–1881), theologian and cleric

• Thomas Stanley (1625–1678), poet and philosopher

• Andy Stanton (living), children's writer,

• Olaf Stapledon (1886–1950), philosopher and novelist

• Robert Stapylton (died 1669), playwright, poet and translator

• Freya Stark (1893–1993), travel writer

• Mariana Starke (1761/1762–1838), travel writer, poet and playwright

• David Starkey (b. 1945), historian

• Boris Starling (living), novelist and screenwriter

• William Thomas Stead (1849–1912), campaigner

• Michael Steed (born 1940), political scientist and broadcaster

• Wickham Steed (1871–1856), journalist and historian

• Anne Steele (wrote as Theodosia, 1717–1778), hymnist

• David Ramsay Steele (living), philosopher

• Jonathan Steele (living), writer and journalist

• Marguerite Steen (1894–1975), novelist and biographer

• George Steevens (1736–1800), Shakespearean scholar

• James Kenneth Stephen (1859–1892), poet

• Leslie Stephen (1832–1904), writer and mountaineer

• Frederic George Stephens (1828–1907), art critic

• Henry Pottinger Stephens (1851–1903), playwright and novelist

• James Francis Stephens (1792–1852), entomologist

• Robert Stephens (1665–1732), Historiographer Royal

• Simon Stephens (born 1971), playwright

• G. B. Stern (1890–1973), novelist, playwright and biographer

• Laurence Sterne (1713–1768), novelist and cleric, Tristram Shandy

• George Alexander Stevens (1710–1780), playwright, poet and actor

• Matthew Stevenson (died 1654), poet

• William Stevenson (1530–1575), poet and playwright

• Angus Stewart (1936–1998) novelist, diarist and poet

• John "Walking" Stewart (1747–1822), philosopher and traveller

• Mary Stewart (1916–2014), novelist

• William Stobbs (1914–2000), children's writer and illustrator

• Julian Stockwin (born 1944), novelist

• Sewell Stokes (1902–1979), novelist, biographer and playwright

• Nick Stone (born 1966), novelist

• Samuel John Stone (1839–1900), hymnist and cleric

• David Lee Stone (born 1978), children's writer

• David Storey (1933–2017), novelist and playwright

• Catherine Storr (1913–2001), children's writer

• Thomas Story (c. 1670–1742), writer and Quaker

• John Stow (c. 1525–1605), historian and antiquary

• Herbert Strang (pseudonym of George Herbert Ely, 1866–1958, and Charles James L'Estrange, 1867–1947), children's writers

• Alix Strachey (1892–1973), psychoanalyst and translator

• James Strachey (1887–1967), psychoanalyst and editor

• Julia Strachey (1901–1979), novelist

• Lytton Strachey (1880–1932), biographer and critic, Eminent Victorians

• Ray Strachey (originally Rachel Costelloe, 1887–1940), biographer and campaigner

• Paul Strathern (born 1940), novelist and scholar

• Noel Streatfeild (1895–1986), children's writer Ballet Shoes

• A. G. Street (1892–1966), writer and broadcaster

• Cecil Street (also as John Rhode, Miles Burton etc., 1884–1965), novelist

• Joe Stretch (born 1982), novelist

• Hesba Stretton (real name Sarah Smith, 1832–1911), novelist and children's writer

• Agnes Strickland (1796–1874), historian, poet and children's writer

• William Strode (1600–1643), poet

• Leonard Strong (wrote as L. A. G. Strong, 1896–1958), novelist, poet and children's writer

• Jan Struther (real name Joyce Anstruther, (1901–1953), novelist and hymnist

• John Strype (1643–1737), historian, biographer and cleric

• Alexander Stuart (living), novelist and screenwriter

• Muriel Stuart (1885–1967), poet and garden writer

• John Stubbs or Stubbe (c. 1543–1591), pamphleteer

• John Studley (c. 1545 – c. 1590), translator

• Joseph Sturge (1793–1859) abolitionist writer and campaigner

• Howard Sturgis (1855–1920), novelist

• Julian Sturgis (1848–1904), novelist and poet

• George Sturt (also as George Bourne, 1863–1927), country writer

• John Strype (1643–1737), historian and biographer

• Showell Styles (1908–2005), novelist and children's writer

• John Suckling (1609–1642), poet

• J. W. N. Sullivan (1886–1937), science writer

• Montague Summers (1880–1948), writer and occultist

• Kate Summerscale (born 1965), writer and journalist

• Robert Smith Surtees (1805–1864), novelist

• Alice Sutcliffe (fl. 1624–1634), religious writer

• William Sutcliffe (born 1971), novelist

• Alfred Sutro (1863–1933), playwright and translator

• E. W. Swanton (1907–2000), cricket writer and broadcaster

• Graham Swift (born 1949), novelist

• Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909), poet

• Robert Swindells (born 1939), children's writer

• Randall Swingler (1909–1967), poet

• Frank Swinnerton (1884–1982), novelist and editor

• Christopher Sykes (1907–1986), travel writer and biographer

• Percy Sykes (1867–1945), travel writer and historian

• Joshua Sylvester (1563–1618), poet

• John Addington Symonds (1840–1893), poet and critic

• A. J. A. Symons (1900–1941), writer and bibliographer

• Arthur Symons (1865–1945), poet and essayist

• Julian Symons (1912–1994), crime writer and poet

• Mitchell Symons (born 1957), writer and journalist

• George Szirtes (born 1948), poet and translator

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• Thomas Noon Talfourd (1795–1854), writer, playwright and lawyer

• Derek Tangye (1912–1996), writer

• Nigel Tangye (1909–1988), writer and flying instructor

• Heather Tanner (1903–1993), countryside writer

• James T. Tanner (1858–1915), playwright and director

• Thomas Tanner (1630–1682), writer and cleric

• Thomas Tanner (1674–1735), antiquary and bishop

• Theaurau John Tany (originally Thomas Totney, 1608–1659), religious writer

• Emma Tatham (1829–1855), poet

• John Tatham (fl. 1632–64), playwright and poet

• Jemima von Tautphoeus (born Jemima Montgomery, 1807–1893), novelist

• R. H. Tawney (1880–1962), economic historian

• A. J. P. Taylor (1906–1990), historian

• Andrew Taylor (born 1951), novelist

• Ann Taylor (1782–1866), poet and children's writer

• D. J. Taylor (born 1960), novelist and biographer

• Edgar Taylor (1793–1839), writer and translator

• Elizabeth Taylor (1912–1975), novelist

• Emily Taylor (1795–1872), writer, poet and hymnist

• G. P. Taylor (born 1958), novelist and cleric

• Henry Taylor (1711–1785), polemicist and cleric

• Henry Taylor (1800–1886), playwright

• Isaac Taylor (1787–1865), scholar, cleric and inventor

• Jane Taylor (1783–1824), children's poet and novelist

• Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667), religious writer

• John Taylor (1703–1772), autobiographer

• John Taylor (the "Water Poet", 1578–1653), poet

• John Taylor (1750–1826), poet and hymnist

• Philip Meadows Taylor (1808–1876), novelist

• Richard Taylor (1782–1858), naturalist and editor

• Sean Taylor (living), children's writer

• Thomas Taylor (1758–1835), translator

• Tom Taylor (1817–1880), playwright and editor

• William Taylor (died 1423), Lollard theologian

• William Taylor (1765–1836), scholar and translator

• Roma Tearne (born 1954), novelist

• Barry Tebb (born 1942), poet and anthologist

• Mrs. Bartle Teeling (1851–1906), non-fiction writer and novelist

• William Temple (1555–1627), logician

• William Temple (1628–1699), essayist and statesman

• William Temple (1881–1944), writer and archbishop

• William F. Temple (1914–1989), SF writer

• Edward Tennant (1897–1916), poet

• Emma Tennant (1937–2017), novelist

• Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892), Poet Laureate, The Charge of the Light Brigade

• Frederick Tennyson (1807–1898), poet

• Henry Teonge (c. 1620–1690), diarist and naval chaplain

• Lisa St Aubin de Terán (born 1953), novelist and memoirist

• J. E. Harold Terry (1885–1939), novelist, playwright and critic

• A. S. J. Tessimond (1902–1962), poet

• Anne Isabella Thackeray, Lady Ritchie (1837–1919), novelist and essayist

• William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863), novelist, Vanity Fair

• Algernon Sydney Thelwall (1795–1863), writer and cleric

• John Thelwall (1764–1834), poet and writer

• Sydney Thelwall (1834–1922), scholar, translator and cleric

• Lewis Theobald (1688–1744), scholar, critic and translator

• Marcel Theroux (born 1968), novelist and broadcaster

• Philip Thicknesse (1719–1792), writer

• Angela Thirkell (1890–1961), novelist

• Connop Thirlwall (1797–1875), historian, translator and bishop

• Adam Thirlwell (born 1978), novelist

• William Turner Thiselton-Dyer (1843–1926), botanist

• D. M. Thomas (1935–2023), novelist, poet and translator

• David St John Thomas (1929–2014), writer

• Donald Serrell Thomas (also as Francis Selwyn, b. 1926), novelist, biographer and poet

• Edward Thomas (1878–1917), poet

• Edward J. Thomas (1869–1958), historian of Buddhism and librarian

• Elizabeth Thomas (1675–1731), poet

• Elizabeth Thomas (wrote as Mrs Bridget Bluemantle and Mrs Martha Homely, 1770/1771–1855), novelist and poet

• Hugh Thomas (1931–2017), historian

• Scarlett Thomas (born 1972), novelist

• W. Ian Thomas (1914–2007), writer and missionary

• John Thomlinson (1692–1761), diarist and cleric

• Edward Healy Thompson (1813–1891), religious writer and editor

• Flora Thompson (1876–1947), novelist and poet, Lark Rise to Candleford

• Francis Thompson (1859–1907), poet

• Harry Thompson (1960–2005), biographer, novelist and TV producer

• James Thompson (1817–1877), journalist and historian

• Kate Thompson (born 1956), novelist and children's writer

• Thomas Thompson (1880–1951), fiction and non-fiction writer

• William Thompson (c. 1712 – c. 1766), poet

• William Thoms (1803–1885), antiquary and miscellanist

• A. A. Thomson (1894–1968), cricket and travel writer

• Giles Thomson (1553–1612), scholar, AV translator and cleric

• Jamie Thomson (born 1958), novelist and children's writer

• Katherine Thomson (also as Mrs Thomson and Grace Wharton, 1797–1862), novelist and historian

• Richard Thomson (fl. 1600s), scholar, AV translator and cleric

• Rupert Thomson (born 1955), novelist and memoirist

• Wilfrid Thorley (1878–1963), poet and educator

• George Walter Thornbury (1828–1876), poet, novelist and travel writer

• Guy Thorne (real name C. Ranger Gull, 1876–1923), novelist

• Matt Thorne (born 1974), novelist and children's writer

• William Thorne (c. 1568–1630), orientalist, AV translator and cleric

• Bonnell Thornton (1725–1768), poet, essayist and critic

• Robert John Thornton (1768–1837), botanist and physician

• Tim Thornton (born 1973), novelist and musician

• Adam Thorpe (born 1956), poet and novelist

• Kay Thorpe (living), romantic novelist

• Ralph Thoresby (1658–1725), antiquary and diarist

• Hester Thrale (also as Mrs. Piozzi, 1741–1821), diarist and biographer,

• Colin Thubron (born 1939), travel writer and novelist

• Edward Thurlow, Lord Thurlow (1731–1806), poet and lord chancellor

• E. Temple Thurston (1879–1933), playwright, poet and novelist

• Joseph Thurston (1704–1732), poet

• Ann Thwaite (born 1932), biographer

• Anthony Thwaite (1930–2021), poet and writer

• Charles John Tibbits (1861–1935), journalist, newspaper editor, author, and legal writer

• Chidiock Tichborne (1558–1586), poet and conspirator

• Thomas Tickell (1686–1740), poet

• Robert Tighe (died 1620), AV translator and cleric

• Terence Tiller (1916–1987), poet and radio producer

• E. M. W. Tillyard (1889–1962), classicist and literary critic

• Stella Tillyard (born 1957), historian and novelist

• John Timbs (also as Horace Welby, 1801–1875), writer and antiquary

• William M. Timlin (1892–1943), writer and illustrator

• Gillian Tindall (living), historian and novelist

• Peter Tinniswood (1936–2003), novelist and scriptwriter

• John Tobin (1770–1804), playwright

• Barbara Euphan Todd (1890–1976), novelist and children's writer

• H. E. Todd (1908–1988), children's writer

• Malcolm Todd (1939–2013), historian

• J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973), fantasy writer and scholar, The Lord of the Rings

• Simon Tolkien (born 1959), novelist and barrister

• Elizabeth Tollet (1694–1754), poet

• Francis Tolson (died 1745), poet

• Thomas Tomkis (c. 1580–1634), playwright

• Claire Tomalin (born 1933), biographer

• Charles Tomlinson (1927–2015), poet and translator

• H. M. Tomlinson, (1873–1958), travel writer, novelist and journalist

• Theresa Tomlinson (born 1946), children's writer

• Rosemary Tonks (1932–2014), poet and novelist

• Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna (pen name Charlotte Elizabeth, 1790–1846), tractarian and novelist

• John Horne Tooke (1736–1812), philologist and politician

• Rebecca Tope (living), crime writer and journalist

• Augustus Montague Toplady (1740–1778), theologian and hymnist

• Angela Topping (born 1954), poet and critic

• Paul Torday (1946–2013), novelist

• Chris Torrance (1941–2021), poet and musician

• Richard Tottel (died 1594), miscellanist

• Cyril Tourneur (1575–1626), playwright

• Nigel Tourneur (fl. 1898), writer

• Doreen Tovey (1918–2008), writer

• Peter Townend (1935–1999), writer and journalist

• John Rowe Townsend (1922–2014), children's writer and scholar

• Joseph Townsend (1739–1816), economist, physician and cleric

• Peter Townsend (1928–2009), sociologist and economist

• Sue Townsend (1946–2014), novelist, Adrian Mole books

• Tom Townsend (born 1971), writer and bridge player

• Aurelian Townshend (1583–1643), poet and playwright

• Charles Townshend (born 1945), historian

• Chauncy Hare Townshend (1798–1868), poet and cleric

• Thomas Townson (1715–1792), writer and cleric

• Arnold Toynbee (1852–1883), economic historian

• Arnold J. Toynbee (1889–1975), historian

• Philip Toynbee (1916–1981), novelist, poet and journalist

• Polly Toynbee (born 1946), journalist and writer

• John Tradescant the Younger (1608–1662), botanist and antiquary

• Thomas Traherne (1636/1637–1674), poet and religious writer

• Henry Duff Traill (1842–1900), humorist, editor and biographer

• Anna Trapnell (fl. 1650s), religious writer

• Ben Travers (1886–1980), playwright and novelist

• Karen Traviss (living), novelist

• Mary Treadgold (1910–2005), children's writer

• Geoffrey Trease (1909–1998), children's writer

• Miles Tredinnick (born 1955), playwright, screenwriter and singer

• Iris Tree (1897–1968), poet and actress

• Viola Tree (1884–1938), writer and actress

• Henry Treece (1911–1966), poet, novelist and children's writer

• Edward John Trelawny (1792–1881), biographer and novelist

• Rose Tremain (born 1943), novelist

• Kate Tremayne (living), novelist

• Rex Tremlett (1903–1986), writer and broadcaster

• Francis Chenevix Trench (1805–1886), writer and cleric

• Richard Chenevix Trench (1807–1886), philologist, poet and archbishop

• Christopher Trent, author of Motoring Holidays in Britain

• Robert Tressell or Tressall (originally Robert Croker, later Noonan, 1870–1911), novelist, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

• G. M. Trevelyan (1876–1962), historian

• George Trevelyan (1838–1928), writer and statesman

• R. C. Trevelyan (1872–1951), poet and translator

• Raleigh Trevelyan (1923–2014), historian

• John Trevisa (1342–1402), translator

• Elleston Trevor (originally Trevor Dudley-Smith, also as Adam Hall etc., 1920–1995), novelist

• Rachel Trickett (1923–1999), novelist and scholar

• Jonathan Trigell (born 1974), novelist

• Sarah Trimmer (1741–1810), children's writer

• Henry Baker Tristram (1822–1906), travel writer, naturalist and cleric

• Anthony Trollope (1815–1882), novelist, Chronicles of Barsetshire

• Frances Trollope (1780–1863), novelist and travel writer

• Joanna Trollope (also as Caroline Harvey, b. 1943), novelist

• Thomas Adolphus Trollope (1810–1892), travel writer and novelist

• Thomas Trotter (1760–1832), physician and medical writer

• Peter Trower (1930–2017), poet and novelist

• Thomas Tryon (1634–1703), writer and vegetarian

• Edwin Charles Tubb (several pen names, 1919–2010), novelist

• Abraham Tucker (wrote as Edward Search, 1705–1774), philosopher

• Charlotte Maria Tucker (wrote as A.L.O.E, 1821–1893), children's writer

• Cuthbert Tunstall or Tonstall (1474–1559), writer and bishop

• Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810–1889), writer and poet

• George Turberville (c. 1540 – pre–1597), poet

• Charles Tennyson Turner (1808–1879), poet and translator

• David Turner (1927–1990), playwright and scriptwriter

• Ernest Sackville Turner (1909–2006), writer and journalist

• Joe Turner (living), scriptwriter and playwright

• John Frayn Turner (living), military historian

• Matthew Turner (died 1788), philosopher and physician

• Philip Turner (wrote as Stephen Chance, 1925–2006), children's writer and cleric

• Reginald Turner (1869–1938), novelist and aesthete

• Roger Turner (living), garden writer and designer

• Sharon Turner (1768–1847), historian

• Steve Turner (living), poet and biographer

• Thomas Turner (1729–1793), diarist

• Tom Turner (living), garden writer and designer

• Thomas Tusser (1524–1580), poet and farmer

• Ethel Brilliana Tweedie (also as Mrs Alec Tweedie 1862–1940), travel writer

• Robert Twigger (born 1964), writer

• Horace Twiss (c. 1787–1849), writer and politician

• Kenneth Tynan (1927–1980), drama critic and producer

• William Tyndale (1494–1536), scholar and Bible translator

• George Tyrrell (1861–1909), theologian and scholar

• Robert Yelverton Tyrrell (1844–1914), scholar and translator

• Thomas Tyrwhitt (1730–1786), scholar, editor and critic

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• Nicholas Udall (1505–1556), playwright and translator, Ralph Roister Doister

• Jenny Uglow (born 1947), biographer and critic

• Evelyn Underhill (1875–1941), religious writer and novelist

• Peter Underwood (1923–2014), writer and broadcaster

• Barry Unsworth (1930–2012), novelist

• Cathi Unsworth (living), novelist

• Arthur Upfield (1890–1964), crime writer

• John Upton (1707–1760), editor and critic

• Lawrence Upton (1949–2020), poet and artist

• Edward Upward (1903–2009), novelist and story writer

• Mark Urban (born 1961), military writer

• J. O. Urmson (1915–2012), philosopher

• Thomas Usk (died 1388), poet

• Sarah Elizabeth Utterson (1781–1851), gothic short story writer

• Alison Uttley (1884–1976), children's writer, Little Grey Rabbit

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• Horace Annesley Vachell (1861–1955), novelist and playwright

• John Van der Kiste (born 1954), writer and polymath

• John Vanbrugh (1664–1726), playwright and architect

• Bernard Vaughan (1847–1922), writer and RC priest

• Keith Vaughan (1912–1977), diarist and artist

• Robert Vaughan (1795–1868), historian, editor and Congregationalist minister

• Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee (born 1953), writer and Sufi mystic

• Thomas Vaux (1510–1556), poet

• Kate Veale, author and illustrator of children's books.

• Frances Vernon (1963–1991), novelist

• Salley Vickers (born 1948), novelist and psychotherapist

• Sherard Vines (1890–1974), poet, novelist and critic

• Elfrida Vipont (real name Elfrida Vipont Foulds, 1902–1992), children's writer

• E. H. Visiak (real name Edward Harold Physick, 1878–1972), poet and novelist

• Ernest Alfred Vizetelly (1853–1922), translator

• Frederick Augustus Voigt (1892–1957), foreign affairs writer

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• Thomas Wade (1805–1875), poet and playwright

• Lucy Wadham (born 1964), novelist and journalist

• Rekha Waheed (living), novelist

• John Wain (1925–1994), poet and novelist

• Alfred Wainwright (1907–1991), guidebook writer

• Daniel Wakefield (1776–1846), political economist

• Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1796–1862), writer and politician

• Gilbert Wakefield (1756–1801), scholar and polemicist

• H. Russell Wakefield (1890–1964), novelist and story writer

• Priscilla Wakefield (1871–1832), educator and philanthropist

• Robert Wakefield (died 1537), linguist and scholar

• George Waldron (1690 – c. 1730), topographer and poet

• Arthur Waley (1889–1966), orientalist and translator

• Alan Walker (born 1930), biographer, musicologist and broadcaster

• Charles Walker (fl. 1860s), religious writer

• Charles Curwen Walker (1856–1940), Christadelphian writer and editor

• George Walker (c. 1581–1651), writer and cleric

• George Walker (c. 1734–1807), dissenting writer and mathematician

• George Walker (1772–1847), novelist and political writer

• George Walker (1803 – post–1851), chess writer

• Obadiah Walker (1616–1699), scholar and educator

• Ted Walker (1934–2004), poet, dramatist and broadcaster

• Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913), naturalist and biologist

• Doreen Wallace (1897–1989), novelist and agricultural writer

• Edgar Wallace (1875–1932), novelist and playwright

• Helen Wallace (born 1946), current affairs writer

• Ian Wallace (living), ornithologist

• John Graham Wallace (born 1966), children's writer and illustrator

• Nick Wallace (born 1972), novelist

• Robert Wallace (1791–1850), writer, biographer and Unitarian minister

• William Wallace (born 1941), scholar and writer on government

• J. M. Wallace-Hadrill (1916–1985), historian

• Edmund Waller (1606–1687), poet

• John Waller (1917–1995), poet and anthologist

• David Walliams (born 1971), children's writer and comedian

• John Wallis (1616–1703), mathematician and writer

• Martin Walls (born 1970), poet and journalist

• Leo Walmsley (1892–1966), novelist and autobiographer

• Horace Walpole (1717–1797), novelist and man of letters, The Castle of Otranto

• Horatio Walpole (1678–1757), writer and politician

• Hugh Walpole (1884–1941), novelist

• Helen Walsh (born 1977), novelist

• Jill Paton Walsh (1937–2020), novelist and children's writer

• John Henry Walsh (also as Stonehenge, 1810–1888), field sports writer

• Sheila Walsh (1928–2009), novelist

• William Walsh (1663–1708), poet and critic

• Guy Walters (born 1971), novelist and journalist

• Hugh Walters (1910–1993), novelist

• Minette Walters (born 1949), novelist

• Vanessa Walters (born 1978), novelist and playwright

• Amy Catherine Walton (1849–1939), children's writer

• Izaak Walton (1593–1683), writer, The Compleat Angler

• William Walwyn (1600–1681), pamphleteer

• Humfrey Wanley (1672–1726), scholar and palaeographer

• Nathaniel Wanley (1634–1680), writer and cleric

• Henry Wansbrough (living), writer, Bible translator and RC monk

• William Warburton (1698–1779), critic and bishop

• Barbara Ward (1914–1981), economist and environmentalist

• Chris Ward (born 1958), playwright

• Edward Ward (1660 or 1667–1731), satirist

• Keith Ward (born 1938), philosopher and cleric

• Mrs. Humphry Ward (born Mary Augusta Arnold, 1851–1920), novelist

• Robert Ward (fl. 1611), AV translator and cleric

• Robert Plumer Ward (1765–1846), lawyer and novelist

• Samuel Ward (1572–1643), scholar, AV translator and cleric

• Sarah Ward (living), novelist and critic

• Seth Ward (1617–1689), polemicist, astronomer and bishop

• Thomas Humphry Ward (1845–1926), writer and journalist

• William George Ward (1812–1882), theologian and mathematician

• Terry Wardle (born 1944), children’s author

• Marina Warner (born 1946), novelist and biographer

• Rex Warner (1905–1986), novelist and translator

• Richard Warner (c. 1713–1775), botanist and scholar

• Richard Warner (1763–1853), antiquary and cleric

• Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893–1978), novelist and poet

• William Warner (c. 1558–1609), poet and translator

• Mary Warnock (1924–2019), philosopher

• Blanche Warre-Cornish (1844–1922), novelist and biographer

• John Warren, Lord de Tabley (1835–1895), poet and botanist

• Samuel Warren (1807–1877), novelist and barrister

• Thomas Herbert Warren (1853–1930), scholar and poet

• Tony Warren (1936–2016), screenwriter and novelist

• Joseph Warton (1722–1800), poet and critic

• Thomas Warton (c. 1688–1745), poet

• Thomas Warton (1728–1790), Poet Laureate and critic

• Robin Waterfield (born 1952), translator and classicist

• Andrew Waterhouse (1958–2001), poet and environmentalist

• Ellis Waterhouse (1905–1985), art historian and editor

• Gilbert Waterhouse (1883–1916), poet and architect

• Keith Waterhouse (1929–2009), novelist and screenwriter

• Rachel Waterhouse (1923–2020), historian and activist

• Sarah Waters (born 1966), novelist

• Charles Waterton (1782–1865), naturalist and explorer

• Denys Watkins-Pitchford (wrote as BB, 1905–1990), naturalist and children's writer

• David Watmough (1926–2017), playwright and novelist

• Colin Watson (1920–1983), novelist

• E. L. Grant Watson (1885–1970), writer and biologist

• James Watson (1936–2015), children's writer and playwright

• Richard Watson (1781–1833), Methodist theologian

• Richard Watson (1737–1816), writer and bishop

• Rosamund Marriott Watson (wrote as Graham R. Tomson, 1860–1911), poet and garden writer

• Thomas Watson (1555–1592), poet and translator

• Thomas Watson (c. 1620–1686), writer and preacher

• Victor Watson (born 1936), children's author and academic

• William Watson (1858–1935), poet

• Winifred Watson (1906–2002), novelist

• Alan Watts (1915–1973), philosopher

• Alaric Alexander Watts (1797–1864), poet and editor

• Isaac Watts (1674–1748), hymnist

• Theodore Watts-Dunton (1832–1914), critic, novelist and poet

• Alec Waugh (1898–1981), novelist

• Auberon Waugh (1939–2001), novelist and journalist

• Edwin Waugh (1817–1890), dialect poet

• Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966), novelist, travel writer and diarist, Brideshead Revisited

• Arthur Way (1847–1930), classicist and translator

• Camilla Way (born 1973), novelist and editor

• Adrian Weale (born 1964), military writer

• Frederic Weatherly (1848–1929), lyricist

• Willoughby Weaving (1885–1977), poet

• Clifford Webb (1895–1972), children's writer and illustrator

• Mary Webb (1881–1927), novelist and poet

• Philip Barker Webb (1793–1854), botanist and traveller

• Sidney Webb (1859–1947), and Beatrice Webb (1858–1943), political economists

• Augusta Webster (1837–1894), poet and playwright

• John Webster (c. 1580–1634), playwright, The Duchess of Malfi

• Camilla Wedgwood (1901–1955), anthropologist

• C. V. Wedgwood (1910–1997), historian

• Ernest Weekley (1865–1964), philologist

• Samantha Weinberg (born 1967), novelist and travel writer

• Arabella Weir (born 1957), writer and actor

• Denton Welch (1915–1948), novelist, diarist and artist

• Ronald Welch (real name Ronald Oliver Felton, 1909–1982), novelist and children's writer

• Fay Weldon (1931–2023), novelist and screenwriter

• Dorothy Wellesley (1889–1956), poet and editor

• Charles Jeremiah Wells (c. 1798–1879), poet

• H. G. Wells (1866–1946), novelist and critic, The War of the Worlds

• John Wells (1936–1998), satirist

• Leonard Welsted (1688–1747), poet

• Louise Wener (born 1966), novelist and singer

• Anne Wentworth (1629/1630 – post-1679), religious writer

• Arnold Wesker (1932–2016), playwright

• Charles Wesley (1707–1788), preacher and hymnist

• John Wesley (1703–1791), theologian and cleric

• Mary Wesley (1912–2002), novelist

• Samuel Wesley (1662–1735), poet and polemicist

• Samuel Wesley (1690 or 1691–1739), poet and cleric

• Arthur Graeme West (1891–1917), diarist and poet

• Gilbert West (1703–1756), poet and translator

• Jane West (wrote as Prudentia Homespun, 1758–1852), novelist, writer and poet

• Kate West (1957–), author

• Paul West (1930–2015), novelist and poet

• Rebecca West (real name Cicely Isabel Fairfield, 1892–1983), novelist and travel writer

• Robert Westall (1929–1993), children's writer

• William Bury Westall (1834–1903), novelist

• Charles Molloy Westmacott (also as Bernard Blackmantle, c. 1788–1868), writer and journalist

• Joyce Wethered (1901–1997), golf and gardening writer

• Robert Wever (fl. 1550), poet

• Stanley J. Weyman (1855–1928), novelist

• Anne Wharton (1659–1685), poet and playwright

• George Wharton (1618–1681), pamphleteer and astrologer

• Goodwin Wharton (1653–1704), autobiographer

• Gordon Wharton (1929–2011), poet

• Henry Wharton (1664–1695), writer, biographer and cleric

• Michael Wharton (wrote as Peter Simple, 1913–2006), humorist

• Mary Whateley (Mary Darwall, also as Harriet Airey, 1738–1835), poet and playwright

• Richard Whateley (1787–1863), theologian, economist and archbishop

• Anne Wheathill (fl. 1584), poet and prayer writer

• Dennis Wheatley (1897–1977), thriller writer

• Ethel Rolt Wheeler (1869–1958), poet, journalist and essayist

• Hugh Wheeler (1912–1987), novelist, playwright and screenwriter

• Mortimer Wheeler (1890–1976), archaeologist

• John Wheeler-Bennett (1902–1975), analyst and historian

• Francis Wheen (born 1957), biographer and journalist

• Eric Whelpton (1894–1981), travel writer

• George Whetstone (c. 1544 – c. 1587), writer and playwright

• Charles Whibley (1859–1930), critic and writer

• Dorothy Whipple (1893–1966), novelist

• Laurence Whistler (1912–2000), poet and engraver

• Evelyn Whitaker (1844–1929), children's writer

• Antonia White (real name Eirine Botting, 1899–1980), novelist, playwright and children's writer

• Dorothy White (c. 1630–1686), Quaker pamphleteer and preacher

• Fred M. White (1859–1935), science-fiction and disaster novelist

• Gilbert White (1720–1795), naturalist and cleric, The Natural History of Selborne

• Hale White (wrote as Mark Rutherford, 1831–1913), writer

• Henry Kirke White (1785–1806), poet and hymnist

• Michael White (writes as Sam Fisher, living), writer

• T. H. White, (1906–1964), children's writer and poet, The Once and Future King

• Thomas White (also as Blackloe, 1593–1676), theologian and RC priest

• Tony White (born 1964), novelist and travel writer

• George Whitefield (1714–1770), theologian and preacher

• Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947), mathematician and philosopher

• Charles Whitehead (1804–1862), poet and novelist

• George Whitehead (1636–1723), Quaker preacher and writer

• William Whitehead (1715–1785), Poet Laureate and playwright

• Richard Whiteing (wrote as Whyte Thorne, 1840–1928), novelist and journalist

• Dorothy Whitelock (1901–1982), historian

• Bulstrode Whitelocke (1605–1675), chronicler

• Hugh Whitemore (1936–2018), playwright and screenwriter

• Charles Whiting (1926–2007), novelist and military historian

• David Whitley (born 1985), YA novelist

• Geoffrey Whitney (c. 1548 – c. 1601), poet

• Isabella Whitney (fl. 1567–1573), poet

• James Pounder Whitney (1857–1939), historian

• Gerald James Whitrow (1912–2000), cosmologist

• Crispin Whittell (born 1969), playwright

• Ian Whybrow (born 1941), children's writer

• Thomas Whythorne (1528–1595), poet, autobiographer and composer

• Frederick Wicks (1840–1910), novelist and inventor

• Susan Wicks (born 1947), poet and novelist

• Ally Wilkes (living), novelist and short story writer

• Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen (1792–1836), poet and scholar

• Clare Wigfall (born 1976), story writer

• William Wilberforce (1759–1833), religious writer and reformer

• John Wilbye (1574–1638), madrigalist

• Patrick Wilde (living), playwright and screenwriter

• Peter Wildeblood (1923–1999), writer and journalist

• John Wilkes (1725–1797), radical

• Charles Wilkins (1749–1836), orientalist and translator

• George Wilkins (fl. 1607), playwright and pamphleteer

• Harold T. Wilkins (1891–1960), writer and historian

• John Wilkins (1614–1672), natural philosopher, writer and bishop

• Vaughan Wilkins (1890–1959), novelist and journalist

• John Wilkinson (born 1953), poet

• John Gardner Wilkinson (1797–1875), writer, traveller and scholar

• Paul Wilkinson (1937–2011), political writer

• Geoffrey Willans (1911–1958), writer and journalist, (with Ronald Searle) Nigel Molesworth

• Barbara Willard (1909–1994), children's writer and novelist

• Aeneas Francon Williams (1886–1971), writer, poet, missionary, chaplain

• Alfred Williams (1877–1930), poet

• Anna Williams (1706–1783), poet

• Bernard Williams (1929–2003), philosopher

• Charles Williams (1886–1945), novelist, poet and scholar

• Charlie Williams (born 1971), novelist

• Eric Williams (1911–1983) WW2 writer

• Frederick Smeeton Williams (1829–1886), railway writer

• Helen Maria Williams (1761/1762–1827), poet, translator and radical

• Hugo Williams (born 1942), poet and travel writer

• Isaac Williams (1802–1865), writer, poet and cleric

• John Francon Williams (1854–1911), writer, geographer, historian, journalist, editor

• John Williams (1761–1818), poet and satirist

• John Hartley Williams (1942–2014), poet

• Jules Williams writer, director and producer

• Nicholas Williams (born 1942), philologist

• Nigel Williams (born 1948), novelist, playwright and screenwriter

• Paul Williams (born 1967), writer on subcultures

• Paul Andrew Williams (born 1973), screenwriter and film director

• Robina Williams (living), novelist

• Rowan Williams (born 1950), writer and archbishop

• Sarah Williams (1837–1868), poet

• Timothy Williams (born 1946), crime novelist

• William Mattieu Williams (1820–1892), writer on science, education and politics

• Alice Muriel Williamson (1869–1933), novelist

• Charles Norris Williamson (1859–1920), novelist and motoring writer

• Henry Williamson (1895–1977), novelist, Tarka the Otter

• Kenneth Williamson (1914–1977), ornithologist

• Timothy Williamson (born 1955), philosopher

• Browne Willis (1682–1760), writer and antiquary

• Paul Willis (living), sociologist

• Robert Willis (engineer) (1800–1875), architectural writer and cleric

• Ted Willis (1914–1992), playwright and screenwriter

• Tim Willocks (living), novelist, screenwriter and psychiatrist

• Francis Willughby or Willoughby (1635–1672), ornithologist

• Clive Wilmer (born 1945), poet

• Val Wilmer (born 1941), music writer and photographer

• John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647–1680), satirical poet

• A. N. Wilson (born 1950), novelist and biographer

• Andrew Wilson (born 1961), history and current affairs writer

• Angus Wilson (1913–1991), novelist

• Bryan R. Wilson (1926–2004), sociologist

• Colin Wilson (1931–2013), novelist and philosopher

• Harriette Wilson (1786–1845), courtesan and memoirist

• Herbert Wrigley Wilson (1866–1940) naval historian

• Horace Hayman Wilson (1786–1860), orientalist and translator

• Ian Wilson (born 1941), religious and science writer

• J. Dover Wilson (1881–1969), Shakespearean and critic

• Jacqueline Wilson (born 1945), children's writer

• John Wilson (1527–1596), playwright and translator

• Leslie Wilson (living), novelist and children's writer

• Richard Wilson (born 1950), Shakespearean scholar

• Robert Wilson (fl. 1572–1600), playwright

• Robert Wilson (born 1957), novelist

• Sandy Wilson (1924–2014), lyricist and composer, The Boy Friend

• T. P. Cameron Wilson (1888–1918), poet

• Thomas Wilson (1524–1581), rhetorician and diplomat

• Thomas Wilson (1773–1858), dialect poet

• Jane Wilson-Howarth (aka Jane Wilson, b. 1954) travel and health writer

• R. D. Wingfield (1928–2007), novelist and radio dramatist

• Catherine Winkworth (1827–1878), translator and hymnist

• Jacqueline Winspear (born 1955), novelist

• Gerrard Winstanley (1609–1676), pamphleteer

• Stephen Winsten (real name Samuel Weinstein, 1893–1991), writer

• John Strange Winter (real name Henrietta Eliza Vaughan Stannard 1856–1911), novelist

• Jeanette Winterson (born 1959), novelist

• Jane Wiseman (c. 1682–1717), poet and playwright

• George Wither (1588–1667), poet and satirist

• P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975), novelist and playwright, Jeeves

• John Wolcot (wrote as Peter Pindar, 1738–1819), poet and satirist

• Lucien Wolf (1857–1930), historian

• Humbert Wolfe (1885–1940), poet and translator

• Ronald Wolfe (1922–2011), TV scriptwriter

• Jonathan Wolff (born 1959), philosopher

• Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797), polemicist and novelist, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

• Philip Womack (living), novelist

• Anthony Wood (1632–1695), antiquary

• Christopher Wood (wrote as Timothy Lea, 1935–2015), novelist and screenwriter

• David Wood (born 1944), children's playwright, screenwriter and actor

• Ellen Wood (Mrs. Henry Wood, 1814–1887), novelist

• Robert Wood (c. 1622–1685), mathematician and translator

• Sara Wood (living), novelist and story writer

• Thomas Wood (1892–1950), writer and composer

• George Woodcock (1912–1995), poet and thinker

• James Woodforde (1740–1803), diarist and cleric

• Walter Bradford Woodgate (wrote as Wat Bradwood, 1841–1920), writer on rowing, oarsman and barrister

• Cecil Woodham-Smith (1896–1977), historian and biographer

• Martin Woodhouse (1932–2011), novelist and screenwriter

• Richard Woodman (born 1944), novelist and mariner

• Charles Woodmason (c. 1720–1789), diarist, poet and cleric

• Margaret Louisa Woods (1856–1945), novelist and poet

• Anthony Woodville or Wydeville, Earl Rivers (c. 1440–1483) translator

• Gerard Woodward (born 1961), novelist and poet

• John Woodward (1665–1728), naturalist and antiquary

• Emily Woof (born 1967), playwright, screenwriter and actress

• Leonard Woolf (1880–1969), writer and editor

• Virginia Woolf (1882–1941), novelist and biographer, To the Lighthouse

• Thomas Woolner (1825–1892) poet and sculptor

• Christopher Wordsworth (1807–1885), poet, classicist and bishop

• Dorothy Wordsworth (1771–1855), diarist and poet,

• William Wordsworth (1770–1850), poet, The Prelude

• Frank Worrall (living), sports writer

• Philip Stanhope Worsley (1835–1866), poet, translator and cleric

• T.C. Worsley (1907–1977), writer and critic

• Henry Wotton (1568–1639), poet and translator

• Nathaniel Wraxall (1751–1831), memoirist and political writer

• P. C. Wren (1875–1941), novelist

• Chandos Wren-Hoskyns (1812–1876), agricultural writer and landowner

• Crispin Wright (born 1942), philosopher

• David Wright (1920–1994), poet, translator and biographer

• Derrick Wright (born 1928), military historian

• Edward Wright (1561–1615), mathematician

• Fred Wright (born 1947), historian and theologian

• Joseph Wright (1855–1930), philologist and lexicographer

• Kit Wright (born 1944), poet, children's writer and anthologist

• N. T. Wright (also as Tom Wright, b. 1948), writer and bishop

• Patrick Wright (living), historian and broadcaster

• Richard Wright (Unitarian) (1764–1836), writer and Unitarian minister

• Thomas Wright (1810–1877), writer and antiquary

• William Aldis Wright (1831–1914), writer and editor

• Mary Wroth (1587–1651/1653), writer and poet

• Andrea Wulf (born 1972), biographer and garden writer

• Arthur Wyatt (living), writer and editor

• George Wyatt (1550–1623), writer and biographer

• Stephen Wyatt (born 1948), playwright and adapter

• Thomas Wyatt (1503–1542), poet and translator

• Woodrow Wyatt (1918–1997), diarist and politician

• William Wycherley (c. 1640–1715), playwright, The Country Wife

• Robert Wydow (c. 1446–1505), poet, musician and cleric

• John Wycliffe (mid–1320s – 1384), theologian and Bible translator

• John Wyndham (also as John Beynon, 1903–1969), novelist, The Day of the Triffids

• D. B. Wyndham-Lewis (wrote as Timothy Shy, 1891–1969), humorist

• Peter Wynne-Thomas (1934–2021), cricket writer

Y
• Jane Yardley (living), novelist

• William Yarrell (1784–1856), naturalist

• Dornford Yates (real name Cecil William Mercer, 1885–1960), novelist

• Edmund Yates (1831–1894), novelist and playwright

• Ann Yearsley (1753–1806), poet, playwright and novelist

• Victor Maslin Yeates (1897–1934), writer and pilot

• R. J. Yeatman (1897–1968), humorist, 1066 and All That (with W. C. Sellar)

• Tamar Yellin (living), novelist and story writer

• Theresa Yelverton (originally Maria Theresa Longworth, 1833–1881), travel writer

• Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823–1901), novelist

• Walter Yonge of Colyton (1579–1649), diarist and lawyer

• Edward of York (c. 1373–1415), translator and courtier

• Barbara Yorke (born 1951), historian

• Margaret Yorke (1924–2012), crime writer

• Matthew Yorke (born 1958), novelist and editor

• Arthur Young (1741–1820), writer and economist

• E. H. Young (1880–1949), novelist and children's writer

• Edward Young (1683–1765), poet

• F. E. Mills Young (1875–1954), novelist

• Francis Brett Young (1884–1954), novelist

• G. M. Young (1882–1959), historian

• Gary Young (living), screenwriter

• Gavin Young (1928–2001), travel writer and journalist

• Hilton Young, Lord Kennet (1879–1960), writer and politician

• Robert J. C. Young (born 1950), thinker and historian

• Thomas Young (1773–1829), polymath

• Toby Young (born 1963), journalist and playwright

Z
• Helen Zahavi (born 1966), novelist

• Adam Zamoyski (born 1949), biographer and historian

• Israel Zangwill (1864–1926), novelist and playwright

• Louis Zangwill (1869–1938), novelist

• Oliver Zangwill (1913–1987), psychologist

• Benjamin Zephaniah (born 1958), dub poet

• Philip Ziegler (1929–2023), biographer and historian

• Alfred Eckhard Zimmern (1879–1957), classicist and historian

• Alice Zimmern (1855–1939), writer and translator

• Helen Zimmern (1846–1934), writer and translator