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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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  • Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838–1926), theologian and novelist
  • Gilbert Abbott à Beckett (1811–1856), humorist
  • George Abbot (1562–1633), writer, AV translator and cleric
  • Kia Abdullah (born 1982), novelist and feature writer
  • Lascelles Abercrombie (1881–1938), poet and critic
  • Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé (born 1998), novelist
  • Paul Ableman (1927–2006), playwright and novelist
  • J. R. Ackerley (1896–1967), autobiographer, novelist and playwright
  • Rodney Ackland (1908–1991), playwright, actor and screenwriter
  • Peter Ackroyd (born 1949), novelist and biographer
  • Eliza Acton (1799–1859), poet and cookery writer
  • Harold Acton (1904–1994), writer and scholar
  • Hazel Adair (1900–1990), novelist
  • Paul Adam (born 1958), novelist
  • Ruth Adam (1907–1977), novelist and non-fiction writer
  • Charles Warren Adams (also as Charles Felix, 1833–1903), novelist and lawyer
  • Douglas Adams (1952–2001), novelist and scriptwriter
  • Francis Adams (1862–1893), essayist and dramatist
  • John Adams, (pre-1670–1738), cartographer and gazetteer compiler
  • Poppy Adams (living), novelist and TV screenwriter
  • Richard Adams (1920–2016), novelist, Watership Down
  • Sarah Flower Adams (1805–1848), poet and hymnist
  • Donald Adamson (born 1939), writer and historian
  • John Adamson (1787–1855), antiquary, poet and translator
  • Arthur St. John Adcock (1864–1930), novelist and editor
  • Fleur Adcock (born 1934), poet
  • Joseph Addison (1672–1719), essayist and poet, The Spectator
  • Percy Addleshaw (wrote as Percy Hemingway, 1866–1916), writer and poet
  • Diran Adebayo (born 1968), novelist and broadcaster
  • Mark Adlard (born 1932), novelist
  • James Agate (1877–1947), diarist and critic
  • Bola Agbaje (living), playwright
  • John Aglionby (died 1609/1610), scholar, AV translator and cleric
  • Grace Aguilar (1816–1847), novelist and writer
  • Allan Ahlberg (born 1939), children's writer
  • Robert Aickman (1914–1981), novelist and conservationist
  • Joan Aiken (1924–2004), novelist
  • Arthur Aikin (1783–1854), science writer
  • Lucy Aikin (1781–1864), children's writer, biographer and historian
  • John Aikin (1747–1822), writer and physician
  • Alfred Ainger (1837–1904), biographer and critic
  • Ruth Ainsworth (1908–1984), children's writer
  • William Harrison Ainsworth (1805–1882), novelist
  • Catherine Aird (Kinn Hamilton McIntosh, living), crime fiction writer
  • Mark Akenside (1721–1770), poet
  • William Alabaster (1567–1640), poet, playwright and cleric
  • James Albery (1838–1889), playwright
  • Alice Albinia (born 1976), travel writer
  • Mary Alcock (c. 1742–1798), poet and essayist
  • Naomi Alderman (born 1974), novelist and game writer
  • Thomas Aldham or Aldam, (c. 1616–1660), writer and Quaker
  • Richard Aldington (1892–1962), novelist and poet
  • Brian Aldiss (1925–2017), novelist
  • Henry Aldrich (1647–1710), poet and theologian
  • Horace Alexander (1889–1989), writer on India, ornithologist and Quaker
  • Miriam Alexander (1879-19??), historical novelist
  • Alan F. Alford (born 1961), writer on mythology
  • Monica Ali (born 1967), novelist
  • Cyril Alington (1872–1955), novelist and writer
  • Nicholas Allan (living), children's writer
  • Rupert Allason (also as Nigel West, b. 1951), historian and thriller writer
  • James Allen (1864–1912), self-help writer and poet
  • Walter Allen (1911–1995), novelist and critic
  • Margery Allingham (1904–1966), novelist, Albert Campion
  • Drummond Allison (1921–1943), poet
  • Kenneth Allott (1912–1973), poet and anthologist
  • Kenneth Allsop (1920–1973), writer and broadcaster
  • E. M. Almedingen (1898–1971), novelist, biographer and children's writer
  • John Almon (1737–1804), journalist and anthologist
  • David Almond (born 1951), novelist and children's writer
  • Vincent Alsop (c. 1630–1703), writer and dissenting minister
  • Al Alvarez (1929–2019), poet and writer
  • Moniza Alvi (born 1968), poet and writer
  • Eric Ambler (1909–1998), novelist and screenwriter
  • Isaac Ambrose (1604–1663/1664), writer, diarist and cleric
  • Elizabeth Amherst (c. 1716–1779), poet and naturalist
  • Kingsley Amis (1922–1995), poet and novelist, Lucky Jim
  • Martin Amis (1949–2023), novelist
  • Thomas Amory (c. 1691–1788), novelist and miscellanist
  • Thomas Amory (1701–1774), poet and dissenting cleric
  • Valerie Anand (also as Flora Buckley, b. 1937), novelist
  • Patrick Anderson (1915–1979), poet
  • Rachel Anderson (born 1943), children's writer
  • Verily Anderson (1915–2010), writer
  • Lancelot Andrewes (1555–1626), scholar, AV translator and cleric
  • Roger Andrewes (fl. 1610s), scholar, AV translator and cleric
  • Julie Andrews (born 1935), children's writer and actress
  • Miles Peter Andrews (1742–1814), playwright and poet
  • Norman Angell (1872–1967), Nobel Prize winner, political writer and economist
  • Jane Anger (fl. 1589), pamphleteer
  • Charlotte Anley (1796–1893), didactic novelist and writer
  • George Anson, 1st Baron Anson (1697–1762), writer, explorer and admiral
  • Christopher Anstey (1724–1805), writer and poet
  • Evelyn Anthony (1926–2018) historical novelist and thriller writer
  • Charles James Apperley (wrote as Nimrod, 1777–1843), hunting and racing writer
  • Lisa Appignanesi (born 1946), writer and historian
  • Roy Apps (born 1951), children's writer
  • Arthur John Arberry (1905–1969), orientalist and translator
  • Harriet Arbuthnot (1793–1834), political diarist
  • John Arbuthnot (1667–1735), satirist and polymath
  • Fred Archer (1915–1999), countryside writer
  • Jeffrey Archer (born 1940), novelist and politician
  • Philip Ardagh (born 1961), children's writer
  • John Arden (1930–2012), playwright and novelist
  • Edward Ardizzone (1900–1979), children's writer and illustrator
  • Reginald Arkell (1882–1959), novelist, playwright and screenwriter
  • Michael Arlen (originally Dikran Kouyoumdjian, 1895–1956), essayist, playwright and novelist
  • John Arlott (1914–1991), cricket writer and commentator
  • Robert Armin (c. 1563–1615), playwright and actor
  • Simon Armitage (born 1963), poet, playwright and novelist
  • Annie Armitt (1850–1933), novelist, poet and essayist
  • Martin Armstrong (1882–1974), novelist and poet
  • Peter Armstrong (born 1957), poet and psychotherapist
  • Richard Armstrong (1903–1986), novelist, historian and children's writer
  • Elizabeth von Arnim (also as Alice Cholmondeley, 1866–1941), novelist
  • Edwin Arnold (1832–1904), poet and journalist
  • Edwin Lester Arnold (1857–1935), writer and novelist
  • Elizabeth Arnold (born 1944), children's writer
  • Matthew Arnold (1822–1888), poet, Dover Beach
  • Richard Arnold (died c. 1521), chronicler and merchant
  • Thomas Arnold (1795–1842), educator and historian
  • Thomas Walker Arnold (1864–1930), Islamist scholar
  • William Delafield Arnold (1828–1859), novelist and colonial administrator
  • Pat Arrowsmith (born 1930), novelist, poet and non-fiction writer
  • Anthony Ascham (c. 1614–1650), scholar and politician
  • Roger Ascham (c. 1515–1568), writer and scholar
  • John Ash (1724–1779), lexicographer and Baptist minister
  • John Ash (1948–2019), poet and travel writer
  • Maurice Ash (1917–2003), writer on environment and planning
  • Russell Ash (1946–2010), writer
  • Timothy Garton Ash (born 1955), historian
  • Elizabeth Ashbridge (1713–1755), autobiographer and Quaker
  • Joseph Ashby-Sterry (1836 or 1838–1917), poet, novelist and journalist
  • Geoffrey Ashe (1923–2022), cultural historian
  • Thomas Ashe or Ash (fl. 1600–1618), legal writer
  • Thomas Ashe (1770–1835), novelist and miscellanist
  • Thomas Ashe (1836–1889), poet
  • Michael Asher (born 1953) author and explorer
  • Daisy Ashford (1881–1972), child author, The Young Visiters
  • Lindsay Ashford (born 1959), crime novelist and journalist
  • Elias Ashmole (1617–1692), antiquary and patron
  • Carl Ashmore (born 1968), children's writer
  • Will Ashon (born 1969), novelist and music writer
  • Francis Leslie Ashton (1904–1994), novelist
  • Andrea Ashworth (born 1969), writer and scholar
  • Anne Askew (1521–1546), poet, writer and martyr
  • Nadeem Aslam (born 1966), novelist
  • Elizabeth Mary Aslin (1926–1989), art historian
  • Cynthia Asquith (1887–1960), novelist and diarist
  • Herbert Asquith (1881–1947), poet and novelist
  • Margot Asquith (1864–1935), memoirist
  • Nicholas Assheton (1590–1625), diarist
  • Mary Astell (1666–1731), poet and writer
  • Judy Astley (living), novelist and illustrator
  • Edwin Atherstone (1788–1872), poet and novelist
  • Diana Athill (1917–2019), editor, novelist and memoirist
  • Blanche Atkinson (1847–1911), novelist and children's writer
  • James Atkinson (1780–1852), scholar
  • Kate Atkinson (born 1952), novelist
  • William Atkinson (died 1509), translator
  • David Attenborough (born 1926), writer, naturalist and broadcaster
  • Francis Atterbury (1663–1732), writer and bishop
  • Mabel Lucie Attwell (1879–1964), children's writer and illustrator
  • Penelope Aubin (1679–1738), poet, novelist and translator
  • John Aubrey (1626–1697), writer and antiquary, Brief Lives
  • John Audelay or Awdelay, (died c. 1426), poet and cleric
  • W. H. Auden (1907–1973), poet
  • Stacy Aumonier (1877–1928), novelist, story writer and essayist
  • Jane Austen (1775–1817), novelist, Pride and Prejudice
  • Katherine Austen (1629 – c. 1683), diarist and poet
  • Alfred Austin (1835–1913), Poet Laureate
  • John Austin (1790–1859), legal philosopher
  • John Langshaw Austin (1911–1960), philosopher and translator
  • Sarah Austin (1793–1867), translator
  • Edward Aveling (1849–1898), writer, pamphleteer and translator
  • Peter Avery (1923–2008), scholar and translator
  • Jack Avon (born 1967), financial writer and consultant
  • Tash Aw (born 1971), novelist and non-fiction writer
  • Christopher Awdry (born 1940), children's writer
  • Wilbert Awdry (Rev. W. Awdry, 1911–1997), children's writer and cleric, Thomas the Tank Engine
  • Alan Ayckbourn (born 1939), playwright
  • A. J. Ayer (1910–1989), philosopher
  • Pam Ayres (born 1947), poet and songwriter
  • Michael Ayrton (1921–1975), writer and artist
  • Shamim Azad, (born 1952), writer and translator
  • Trezza Azzopardi, (born 1961), novelist
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  • Gervase Babington (1549/1550–1610), theologian and bishop
  • David Baddiel (born 1964), novelist and comedian
  • Robert Baden-Powell (1857–1941), writer and army officer, Scouting for Boys
  • Edmund Backhouse (1873–1944), orientalist and autobiographer
  • Anne Bacon (c. 1528–1610), translator and correspondent
  • Francis Bacon (1561–1626), essayist, New Atlantis
  • Phanuel Bacon (1699–1783), playwright and poet
  • John F. Baddeley (1854–1940), travel writer and journalist
  • Robert Bage (1730–1801), novelist and radical
  • Walter Bagehot (1826–1877), economist and essayist
  • Desmond Bagley (1923–1983), horror novelist
  • Enid Bagnold (1889–1981), novelist and playwright, National Velvet
  • Richard Bagot (1860–1921), novelist and essayist
  • David Bailey (living), story writer
  • H. C. Bailey (1878–1961), novelist
  • Hilary Bailey (1936–2017), biographer and editor
  • Nathan Bailey (died 1742), philologist
  • Paul Bailey (born 1937), novelist and dramatist
  • Philip James Bailey (1816–1902), poet
  • Samuel Bailey (1791–1870), philosopher and economist
  • Beryl Bainbridge (1932–2010), novelist
  • Denys Val Baker (1917–1984), novelist and story writer
  • Henry Baker (1698–1774), naturalist and poet
  • Samuel Baker (1821–1893), writer and explorer
  • Rajeev Balasubramanyam (born 1974), novelist
  • Nigel Balchin (1908–1970), novelist and screenwriter
  • John Bale (1495–1563), playwright and bishop
  • J. G. Ballard (1930–2009), novelist
  • Dacre Balsdon (1901–1977), novelist and historian
  • Samuel Bamford (1788–1872), writer and dialect poet
  • John Codrington Bampfylde (1764–1796/1797), poet
  • Richard Bancroft (1544–1610), AV translator and archbishop
  • Isabella Banks (1821–1897), novelist and poet
  • Lynne Reid Banks (born 1929), novelist
  • Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743–1825), poet and children's writer
  • W. N. P. Barbellion (real name Bruce Frederick Cummings, 1889–1919), diarist
  • Margaret Barber (Michael Fairless, 1869–1901), novelist and children's writer
  • Alexander Barclay (c. 1476–1552), poet and translator
  • Florence L. Barclay (1862–1921), novelist
  • James Barclay (born 1965), novelist
  • John Baret (died c. 1580), lexicographer
  • Owen Barfield (1898–1997), novelist, poet and philosopher
  • Richard Harris Barham (wrote as Thomas Ingoldsby, 1788–1845), novelist and poet, The Ingoldsby Legends
  • Maurice Baring (1874–1945), playwright, novelist and poet
  • Sabine Baring-Gould (1834–1924), novelist, hymnist and cleric
  • A. L. Barker (1918–2002), novelist
  • Cicely Mary Barker (1895–1973), children's and religious writer and illustrator
  • Clive Barker (born 1952), writer, film director and visual artist
  • Elspeth Barker (1940–2022), novelist
  • George Granville Barker (1913–1991), poet and novelist
  • Jane Barker (1652–1732), poet and novelist
  • Mary Anne Barker (1831–1911), writer and poet
  • Nicola Barker (born 1966), novelist
  • Pat Barker (born 1943), novelist
  • Raffaella Barker (born 1964), novelist and journalist
  • Sebastian Barker (1945–2014), poet
  • Clement Barksdale (1609–1687), poet and cleric
  • George Barlow (wrote as James Hinton, 1837–1913/1914), poet
  • William Barlow (died 1613), scholar, AV translator and bishop
  • Mordaunt Roger Barnard (1828–1906), translator and cleric
  • Kitty Barne (1883–1961), children's writer
  • Barnabe Barnes (1568 or 1569–1609), poet and playwright
  • Ambrose Barnes (1627–1710), nonconformist and mayor
  • Jonathan Barnes (born 1942), philosopher
  • Julian Barnes (born 1946), novelist, Flaubert's Parrot
  • William Barnes (1801–1886), dialect poet
  • Correlli Barnett (1927–2022), historian
  • Richard Barnfield (1574–1620), poet
  • Alexander Baron (1917–1999), novelist and screenwriter
  • Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (1831–1919), novelist
  • Geoffrey Barraclough (1908–1984), historian
  • John Barret (1631–1713), writer and Presbyterian minister
  • Joseph Barret (1665–1699), theological writer and merchant
  • Leslie Barringer (1895–1968), editor and novelist
  • Isaac Barrow (1630–1677), scholar and cleric
  • John Barrow (fl. 1735–1774), lexicographer and historian
  • William Barrow (1754–1836), writer and cleric
  • Stan Barstow (1928–2011), novelist and dramatist
  • William Bartholomew (1793–1867), librettist and composer
  • Mike Bartlett (born 1980), playwright and director
  • Bernard Barton (1784–1849), poet and Quaker
  • Henry Howarth Bashford (1880–1961), novelist and physician
  • William Basse (c. 1583–1653/1654), poet
  • Jonathan Bate (born 1958), biographer and editor
  • James Bateman (1811–1897), garden writer
  • H. E. Bates (1905–1974), novelist, The Darling Buds of May
  • Henry Walter Bates (1825–1892), naturalist and explorer
  • Ralph Bates (1899–2000), novelist
  • Elizabeth Bath (1772–1856), poet
  • Richard Baxter (1615–1691), poet, hymnist and theologian
  • Stephen Baxter (born 1957), novelist
  • Basil Al Bayati (born 1946), writer and architect
  • John Bayley (1925–2015), critic and novelist
  • Peter Bayley (c. 1778–1883), poet and playwright
  • Ada Ellen Bayly (wrote as Edna Lyall, 1857–1903), novelist
  • Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797–1830), poet and playwright
  • Martin Baynton (born 1953), children's writer and illustrator
  • Jeremy John Beadle (1958–1995), critic
  • John Beadle (died 1667), diarist and cleric
  • Anne Beale (1816–1900), novelist and poet
  • Richard Bean (born 1956), playwright
  • Francis Beaumont (1584–1616), playwright
  • John Beaumont (1583–1627), poet
  • Joseph Beaumont (1616–1699), poet and cleric
  • Aubrey Beardsley (1872–1898), writer and illustrator
  • Laura Beatty (living), biographer and novelist
  • Samuel Beazley (1786–1851), novelist, playwright and architect
  • Peter Beckford (1740–1811), writer and landowner
  • William Beckford (1760–1844), novelist and patron
  • Lillian Beckwith (born Lillian Comber, 1916–2004), novelist
  • Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849), poet
  • William Bedwell (1561–1632), scholar, AV translator and cleric
  • Henry Charles Beeching (1859–1919), poet and anthologist
  • Patricia Beer (1919–1999), poet and critic
  • Constance Beerbohm (1811–1892), writer
  • Julius Beerbohm (1854–1906), travel writer and explorer
  • Max Beerbohm (1872–1956), novelist and caricaturist, Zuleika Dobson
  • Alfred Beesley (1800–1847), poet and topographer
  • Mrs Beeton (born Isabella Mary Mayson, 1836–1865), cookery writer
  • Antony Beevor (born 1946), historian and novelist
  • Aphra Behn (1640–1689), novelist and playwright
  • Daubridgecourt Belchier (1580–1621), dramatist
  • Adrian Bell (1901–1980), countryside writer
  • Clive Bell (1881–1964), art critic
  • Florence Bell (1851–1930), playwright and editor
  • Gertrude Bell (1868–1926), writer and traveller
  • Josephine Bell (also as David Wintringham, 1897–1987), novelist
  • Julian Bell (1908–1937), poet
  • Mary Hayley Bell (1911–2005), novelist, playwright and actress
  • Quentin Bell (1910–1996), critic and biographer
  • Thomas Bell (1792–1880), zoologist and writer
  • John Bellers (1654–1725), writer and Quaker
  • Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953), writer and poet
  • Thomas Belt (1832–1878), naturalist and geologist
  • Elizabeth Benger (1775–1827), poet, novelist and biographer
  • Edward Benlowes (1603–1676), poet
  • Alan Bennett (born 1934), playwright and broadcaster
  • Anna Maria Bennett (c. 1760–1808), novelist
  • Arnold Bennett (1867–1931), novelist
  • Edwin Keppel Bennett (wrote as Francis Bennett, 1887–1958), writer, poet and scholar
  • A. C. Benson (1862–1925), poet and diarist
  • E. F. Benson (1867–1940), novelist and story writer
  • Peter Benson (born 1956), novelist
  • Robert Hugh Benson (1871–1914), novelist, writer and cleric
  • Stella Benson (1892–1933), novelist, poet and travel writer
  • George Bentham (1800–1884), botanist
  • Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832), philosopher
  • Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875–1956), novelist, humorist and poet
  • Elizabeth Bentley (1767–1839), poet
  • Nicolas Bentley (1907–1978), writer and illustrator
  • Phyllis Bentley (1894–1977), novelist and biographer
  • Richard Bentley (1662–1742), theologian and poet
  • Edward Berdoe (1836–1916), critic, novelist and physician
  • Richard Berengarten (born 1943), poet
  • Elisabeth Beresford (1928–2010), children's writer, the Wombles
  • J. D. Beresford (1873–1947), novelist
  • James Beresford (1764–1840), satirist, translator and cleric
  • Leila Berg (1917–2012), children's writer
  • John Berger (1926–2017), novelist, G.
  • Reginald Berkeley (1890–1935), playwright and screenwriter
  • John Berkenhout (1726–1791), naturalist
  • Steven Berkoff (born 1937), playwright and actor
  • William Bayle Bernard (1807–1875), playwright, critic and novelist
  • John Bourchier Berners (1467–1533), translator and statesman
  • Juliana Berners (Bernes, b. c. 1388), writer on heraldry, hawking etc., The Book of Saint Albans
  • Elizabeth Berridge (1919–2009), English novelist
  • Francis Berry (1915–2006), poet and critic
  • Mary Berry (1763–1852), writer and editor
  • Mary Berry (born 1935), cookery writer
  • Tess Berry-Hart (born 1978), playwright and novelist
  • Charles Bertram (1723–1765), literary forger
  • Annie Besant (1847–1933), writer and campaigner
  • Walter Besant (1836–1901), novelist and historian
  • Charles Best (1570–1627), poet
  • Alfred Bestall (1892–1986), children's writer and illustrator, Rupert Bear
  • Henry Digby Beste (1768–1836), religious writer
  • Matilda Betham-Edwards (1836–1919), novelist, poet and travel writer
  • Nicholas Bethell (1938–2007), writer, translator and politician
  • John Betjeman (1906–1984), Poet Laureate and writer
  • Thomas Betterton (1635–1710), playwright and actor
  • Edwyn Bevan (1870–1943), philosopher and historian
  • Elizabeth Beverley (fl. 1815–30), pamphleteer and actress
  • L. S. Bevington (1845–1895), essayist, anarchist and poet
  • Elizabeth Bibesco (1897–1945), novelist and poet
  • Tessa Biddington (born 1954), poet
  • Hester Biddle (c. 1629–1697), Quaker pamphleteer and preacher
  • Elizabeth Biddulph, Baroness Biddulph (1834-1916), biographer and Woman of the Bedchamber to Queen Victoria
  • John Stanyan Bigg (1828–1865), poet
  • Mark Billingham (born 1961), novelist
  • William Billington (1825–1884), poet
  • Thomas Bilson(1547–1616), theologian, AV translator and bishop
  • Andrew Bing (1574–1652), scholar, AV translator and cleric
  • Margaret Bingham (1740–1814), poet and painter
  • Laurence Binyon (1869–1943), poet and art historian
  • T.J. Binyon (1936–2004), novelist, translator and biographer
  • Carol Birch (born 1951), novelist and critic
  • Thomas Birch (1705–1766), historian
  • Caroline Bird (born 1986), poet and playwright
  • Isabella Bird (1831–1904), travel writer and naturalist
  • Dea Birkett (born 1958), writer
  • John Birtwhistle (born 1946), poet and librettist
  • Samuel Bishop (1731–1795), poet and essayist
  • Clementina Black (1853–1922), novelist and political writer
  • Robert Black (1829–1915), novelist, story writer and translator
  • Sarah Blackborow (fl. 1650s – 1660s), Quaker writer and preacher
  • John Blackburn (1923–1993), novelist
  • Thomas Blackburn (1916–1977), poet
  • Malorie Blackman (born 1962), children's writer and screenwriter
  • R. D. Blackmore (1825–1900), novelist, Lorna Doone
  • Richard Blackmore (1654–1729), poet and religious writer
  • William Blackstone (1723–1780), legal writer
  • Algernon Blackwood (1869–1951), novelist and story writer
  • Caroline Blackwood (1931–1996), novelist and critic
  • Helen Blackwood, Lady Dufferin (1807–1867), poet and songwriter
  • Max Blagg (living), poet and writer
  • Quentin Blake (born 1932), children's writer and illustrator
  • William Blake (1757–1827), poet and artist, Songs of Innocence and of Experience
  • Helen Blakeman (born 1971), playwright and screenwriter
  • Susanna Blamire (1747–1794), poet
  • Edward Blanchard (1820–1899), playwright and songwriter
  • Samuel Laman Blanchard (1804–1845), writer, journalist and poet
  • Robert Blatchford (wrote as Nunquam, 1851–1943), journalist, writer and campaigner
  • Barbara Blaugdone (c. 1609–1705), Quaker autobiographer
  • Nicholas Blincoe (born 1965), novelist and screenwriter
  • Mathilde Blind (1841–1896), poet and biographer
  • Edward Blishen (1920–1996), writer and broadcaster
  • Eliot Bliss (Emily Bliss, 1903–1990), novelist and poet
  • Walter Blith (1605–1654), writer on husbandry
  • Robert Bloomfield (1766–1823), poet
  • Charles Blount (1654–1693), polemicist
  • Elizabeth Blower (c. 1757/1763 – post–1816), novelist, poet and actress
  • Evelyn, Princess Blücher (1876–1960), diarist and memoirist
  • Nicholas Blundell (1669–1737), diarist
  • Edmund Blunden (1896–1974), poet, author and critic
  • Anthony Blunt (1907–1983), art historian and spy
  • Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840–1922), poet and author
  • Ronald Blythe (1922–2023), writer and editor,
  • Enid Blyton (1897–1968), children's writer, Noddy
  • James Boaden (1762–1839), biographer, playwright and journalist
  • Frederick S. Boas (1862–1957), literary historian
  • John Ernest Bode (1816–1874), poet, hymnist and cleric
  • John Bodenham (1569–1610), anthologist
  • Barbara Bodichon (1827–1891), educator and feminist
  • John Bois (1560–1643), scholar, AV translator and cleric
  • Osbern Bokenam (c. 1393 – c. 1463), literary historian and cleric
  • Robert Bolt (1924–1995), dramatist and screenwriter, A Man For All Seasons
  • Sharon Bolton, mystery fiction writer
  • Michael Bond (1926–2017), children's writer, Paddington Bear
  • Elizabeth Bonhôte (1744–1818), novelist
  • Christopher Booker (1937–2019), writer and journalist
  • Luke Booker (1762–1835), poet, antiquary and cleric
  • George Boole (1815–1864), mathematician and logician
  • Mary Everest Boole (1832–1916), schoolbook writer
  • Barton Booth (1681–1733), actor and poet
  • Charles Booth (1840–1916), social researcher, Life and Labour of the People in London
  • Martin Booth (1944–2004), novelist, poet and editor
  • Stephen Booth (born 1952), novelist
  • Brooke Boothby (1744–1824), scholar and poet
  • Frances Boothby (fl. 1669–70), playwright
  • Basil Boothroyd (1910–1988), writer and humorist
  • George Borrow (1803–1881), novelist and travel writer, Romany Rye
  • Lucy M. Boston (1892–1990), children's writer
  • Clifford Edmund Bosworth (1928–2015), historian and Arabist
  • Joseph Bosworth (1789–1876), lexicographer and Anglo-Saxon scholar
  • Phyllis Bottome (1884–1963), novelist and psychoanalyst
  • Gordon Bottomley (1874–1948), poet and dramatist
  • Ronald Bottrall (1906–1989), poet and academic
  • Marjorie Boulton (1924–2017), writer and Esperantist
  • Francis William Bourdillon (1852–1921), poet
  • Thomas Edward Bowdich (1791–1824), traveller and writer
  • Henrietta Maria Bowdler ("Harriet", 1750–1830), religious writer and expurgator
  • Jane Bowdler (1743–1784), poet and essayist
  • John Bowdler (1746–1823), religious writer and pamphleteer
  • John Bowdler (1783–1815), writer and poet
  • Thomas Bowdler (1754–1825), writer and expurgator
  • Thomas Bowdler 1782–1856), writer and cleric
  • Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973), novelist and story writer
  • John Griffith Bowen (1924–2019), novelist and screenwriter
  • Marjorie Bowen (real name Gabrielle Margaret Vere Long, 1885–1952), novelist and writer
  • Emily Bowes (1806–1857), religious poet and artist
  • Mary Bowes (1749–1800), playwright and botanist
  • Tim Bowler (living), children's writer
  • William Lisle Bowles (1762–1850), poet and critic
  • Maurice Bowra (1898–1971), scholar and wit
  • Frank Cottrell Boyce (born 1959), children's writer and screenwriter
  • William Binnington Boyce (1804–1889), philologist and Methodist minister
  • Abel Boyer (c. 1667–1729), journalist, miscellanist and translator
  • Charles Boyle (1674–1731), writer and playwright
  • Charles Boyle (born 1951), poet
  • John Boyle (1707–1762), writer and translator
  • Roger Boyle (1621–1679), playwright and statesman
  • Charles Vernon Boys (1855–1944), physicist and polymath
  • Ernest Franklin Bozman (1895–1968), writer and editor
  • Michael Bracewell (born 1958), writer and novelist
  • Alison Brackenbury (born 1953), poet
  • Paula Brackston (living), genre novelist
  • Jason Bradbury (living), children's writer and TV presenter
  • Malcolm Bradbury (1932–2000), novelist
  • Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1837–1915), novelist, Lady Audley's Secret
  • Henry J. Bradfield (1805–1852), poet, writer and colonial officer
  • Barbara Taylor Bradford (born 1933), novelist
  • Ernle Bradford (1922–1986), historian and writer
  • Walter Bradick (1706-1794)
  • Charles Bradlaugh (1833–1891), writer and freethinker
  • A. C. Bradley (1851–1935), literary critic
  • Charles Bradley (1789–1871), writer and preacher
  • Edward Bradley (wrote as Cuthbert M. Bede, BA, 1827–1889), novelist and cleric
  • F. H. Bradley (1846–1924), philosopher
  • Henry Bradley (1845–1923), philologist and lexicographer
  • Henry Bradshaw (c. 1450–1513), poet and monk
  • Nicholas Bradshawe (c. 1635), writer
  • Hilary Bradt (born 1941), travel writer and publisher
  • John Brady (died 1814), miscellanist
  • Melvyn Bragg (born 1939), novelist, biographer and broadcaster
  • John Braine (1922–1986), novelist, Room at the Top
  • Richard Braithwaite or Brathwait, (1588–1673), poet
  • Ernest Bramah (born Ernest Bramah Smith, 1868–1942), novelist and humorist
  • James Bramston (1694–1744), poet and satirist
  • Barbarina Brand Lady Dacre, (1768–1854), poet, playwright and translator
  • Christianna Brand (real name Mary Christianna Milne, 1907–1988), novelist and children's writer
  • Hannah Brand (1754–1821), playwright, poet and actress
  • Jo Brand (born 1957), writer and comedian
  • William Branthwaite (died 1620), scholar, AV translator and cleric
  • Anna Brassey (1839–1887), travel writer
  • Anna Eliza Bray (1790–1883), novelist and topographer
  • Charles Bray (1811–1884), philosopher and phrenologist
  • Angela Brazil (1868–1947), novelist
  • Wallace Breem (1926–1990), novelist and librarian
  • John Brent (1808–1882), novelist and antiquary
  • Elinor Brent-Dyer (1894–1969), children's writer, Chalet School
  • Frederick Sadleir Brereton (1852–1957), writer for boys
  • John Brereton (1571 or 1572 – c. 1632), travel writer and explorer
  • Nicholas Breton (c. 1545–1626), poet and tractarian
  • Richard Brett (1567–1637), scholar, AV translator and cleric
  • Simon Brett (born 1945), novelist and playwright
  • E. Cobham Brewer (1810–1897), writer and cleric, Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
  • George Brewer (1766–18??), miscellanist
  • James Norris Brewer (fl. 1799–1829), topographer and novelist
  • John Brewster (1753–1842), writer and cleric
  • Shane Briant (1946–2021), novelist and actor
  • John Bridges (1536–1618), tractarian and bishop
  • Robert Bridges (1844–1930), Poet Laureate
  • Victor Bridges (1878–1972), novelist and playwright
  • Katharine Mary Briggs (1898–1980), folklore writer
  • Raymond Briggs (1934–2022), children's writer and illustrator
  • John Bright (1811–1889), orator and politician
  • Joanna Briscoe (born 1963), novelist and journalist
  • Sophia Briscoe (fl. 1770s), novelist
  • Vera Brittain (1893–1970), writer and pacifist
  • Edwin Brock (1927–1997), poet
  • William Brock (1807–1875), biographer and Baptist minister
  • Alexander Brome (1620–1666), poet
  • Richard Brome (c. 1590 – c. 1653), playwright
  • Vincent Brome (1910–2004), biographer and novelist
  • Eliza Bromley (fl. 1784–1803), novelist and translator
  • Eleanor Bron (born 1938), writer and actress
  • Anne Brontë (1820–1849), novelist, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
  • Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855), novelist, Jane Eyre
  • Emily Brontë (1818–1848), novelist and poet, Wuthering Heights
  • Patrick Brontë (originally Brunty, 1777–1861), poet, writer and cleric
  • Rhidian Brook (born 1964), novelist and screenwriter
  • Arthur de Capell Brooke (1791–1858), travel writer
  • Christopher N. L. Brooke (living), historian
  • Frances Brooke (1724–1789), novelist and playwright
  • Jocelyn Brooke (1908–1966), novelist, poet and biographer
  • John Brooke (died 1582), religious writer and translator
  • Rupert Brooke (1887–1915), poet
  • Anita Brookner (1928–2016), novelist
  • Kevin Brooks (born 1959), children's writer
  • Shirley Brooks (1816–1874), novelist, playwright and poet
  • Ralph Broome (1742–1835), pamphleteer and poet
  • William Broome (1689–1745), poet and translator
  • Robert Barnabas Brough (1828–1864), writer and poet
  • George Brown (1835–1917), ethnographer and diarist
  • John Brown (1715–1766), essayist and cleric
  • Pamela Brown (1924–1989), children's writer
  • Pete Brown (1940–2023), performance poet and songwriter
  • Pete Brown (born 1968), beer writer and columnist
  • Stewart Brown (born 1951), poet and scholar
  • Tom Brown (1663–1704), satirist and translator
  • Anthony Browne (born 1946), children's writer and illustrator
  • Edward Browne (1862–1926), orientalist and writer
  • Isaac Hawkins Browne (1705–1760), poet
  • Moses Browne (1704–1787), poet and cleric
  • Thomas Browne (1705–1782), polymath, Religio Medici
  • William Browne (c. 1590 – c. 1645), poet
  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861), poet
  • Oscar Browning (1837–1923), writer and scholar
  • Robert Browning (1812–1889), poet
  • Alan Brownjohn (born 1931), poet and novelist
  • Dorita Fairlie Bruce (1885–1970), children's writer
  • Henry James Bruce (1880–1951), autobiographer and diplomat
  • Francis Bryan (c. 1490–1550), poet and courtier
  • Arthur Bryant (1899–1985), historian
  • Samuel Egerton Brydges (1762–1836), bibliographer and editor
  • Bryher (real name Annie Winifred Ellerman, 1894–1983), novelist, poet and memoirist
  • Charles Bucke (1781–1846), writer and poet
  • Anthony Buckeridge (1912–2004), children's writer, Jennings
  • James Silk Buckingham (1786–1855), journalist and travel writer
  • Leicester Silk Buckingham (1825–1867), playwright and historian
  • Francis Trevelyan Buckland (1826–1880), natural historian
  • Raymond Buckland (1934–2017), occultist
  • William Buckland (1784–1856), geologist, palaeontologist and cleric
  • Henry Thomas Buckle (1821–1862), historian
  • Catherine Mary Buckton (1826-1904), campaigner and writer
  • Maria Elizabeth Budden (c. 1780–1832), children's writer
  • Eustace Budgell (1686–1737), writer and politician
  • Frank Thomas Bullen (1857–1915), novelist and autobiographer
  • A. H. Bullen (1857–1920), scholar
  • J. B. Bullen (living), critic
  • Gerald Bullett (1893–1958), novelist, critic and poet
  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873), novelist, poet and playwright
  • Robert Bulwer-Lytton (wrote as Owen Meredith, 1831–1891), poet
  • Basil Bunting (1900–1985), poet
  • John Bunyan (1628–1688), writer, The Pilgrim's Progress
  • Josiah Burchett (c. 1666–1746), naval historian
  • George Burges (1786–1864), classicist
  • Anthony Burgess (originally John Burgess Wilson, 1917–1993), novelist, A Clockwork Orange
  • Melvin Burgess (born 1954), children's writer
  • John William Burgon (1813–1888), poet and theologian
  • John Burgoyne (1722–1792), playwright and army officer
  • Thomas Burke (1886–1945), novelist and writer
  • William Burke (died 1798), pamphleteer and official
  • Francis Burleigh (fl. 1590–1610), AV translator and cleric
  • Michael Burleigh (born 1955), historian
  • Andrew Burnaby (1732–1812), travel writer and cleric
  • Francis Burnand (1836–1917), humorist and dramatist
  • Thomas Burnet (c. 1635–1715), theologian
  • Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849–1924), children's writer, The Secret Garden
  • Caroline Burney (fl. early 19th century), novelist
  • Charles Burney (1726–1814), music scholar and composer
  • Charles Burney (1757–1817), scholar, educator and cleric
  • Fanny Burney (also as Frances, Mme d'Arblay, 1752–1840), novelist and diarist, Evelina
  • Frances Burney (1776–1828), dramatist
  • James Burney (1750–1821), travel writer and admiral
  • Sarah Burney (1772–1844), novelist
  • Myles Burnyeat (1939–2019), philosopher and classicist
  • James Burr (born 1971), fiction writer
  • Sophia Burrell (1753–1802), poet and playwright
  • James Burrow (1701–1782), scholar, scientist and lawyer
  • Montagu Burrows (1819–1905), naval historian and officer
  • Hester Burton (1913–2000), historical novelist and children's writer
  • Maurice Burton (1898–1992), science writer and zoologist
  • Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890), writer, translator and explorer
  • Robert Burton (1577–1640), polymath, The Anatomy of Melancholy
  • Charlotte Bury (1775–1861), novelist and poet
  • Elizabeth Bury (1644–1720), diarist and polymath
  • Alban Butler (1710–1773), writer and cleric
  • Catherine Butler (earlier Charles Butler, born 1963), children's writer and academic
  • Gwendoline Butler (1922–2013), novelist
  • Joseph Butler (1692–1752), theologian and bishop
  • Josephine Butler (1828–1906), writer and campaigner
  • Samuel Butler (1612–1680), poet and satirist, Hudibras
  • Samuel Butler (1835–1902), writer and satirist, Erewhon
  • Herbert Butterfield (1900–1979), historian
  • Jez Butterworth (born 1969), playwright
  • Mary Butts (1890–1937), writer and poet
  • Bertha Henry Buxton (1844–1881), novelist and children's writer
  • Nigel Buxton (1924–2015), travel writer and wine critic
  • Thomas Buxton (1786–1845), political writer
  • A. S. Byatt (born 1936), novelist
  • John Byrom (1692–1763), poet
  • John Byron (1723–1786), memoirist and admiral
  • Lord Byron (1788–1824), poet, Don Juan
  • Robert Byron (1905–1941), travel writer
  • Ingram Bywater (1840–1914), scholar and editor
  • Michael Bywater (born 1953), writer and broadcaster


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  • Hall Caine (1853–1931), novelist and playwright
  • Mona Caird (1854–1932), essayist, novelist and feminist
  • John Caius the Elder or Kay (fl. 1480), narrative poet
  • Maria Callcott (1785–1842), children's writer, travel writer, and illustrator
  • Brian Callison (born 1932), novelist
  • Charles Stuart Calverley (1831–1884), poet and translator
  • Roland Camberton (real name Henry Cohen, 1921–1965), novelist
  • Ada Cambridge (1844–1926), novelist and poet
  • William Camden (1551–1623), historian and antiquary
  • Richard Cameron (living), playwright
  • Thomas Campion (1567–1620), poet and composer
  • Bruce Campbell (1912–1993), ornithologist
  • W. H. Canaway (1925–1988), novelist
  • James Cancellar, (fl. 1564), English theological writer
  • Hugh Candidus (c. 1095 – c. 1160), historian in Latin and monk
  • Denis Cannan (1919–2011), playwright and screenwriter
  • Gilbert Cannan (1884–1955), novelist and translator
  • Joanna Cannan (1898–1961), novelist and children's writer
  • May Wedderburn Cannan (1893–1973), poet and autobiographer
  • Dorothy Cannell (born 1943), novelist
  • Victor Canning (1911–1986), novelist, essayist and children's writer
  • William Canton (1845–1926), poet and children's writer
  • Edward Capell (1713–1781), Shakespearean
  • Edward Capern (1819–1894), poet and postman
  • John Capgrave (1393–1464), theologian and historian
  • Neville Cardus (1888–1975), cricket writer and music critic
  • Thomas Carew (1595–1640), poet
  • Henry Carey (1687–1743), poet, playwright and song-writer
  • Mary Carey, Lady Carey (c. 1609 – c. 1680), poet
  • Rosa Nouchette Carey (1840–1909), novelist and children's writer
  • Robert Carliell (died c. 1622), poet
  • John Carne (1789–1844), travel writer and biographer
  • Edward Carpenter (1844–1929), poet and philosopher
  • Humphrey Carpenter (1946–2005), biographer, broadcaster and children's writer
  • Barbara Comyns Carr (1907–1992), novelist and artist
  • J. L. Carr (1912–1994), novelist and schoolbook writer
  • Lewis Carroll (real name Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, 1832–1898), children's writer and mathematician, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
  • Angela Carter (1940–1992), novelist
  • Elizabeth Carter (17171806), poet, translator and bluestocking
  • Barbara Cartland (1901–2000), novelist
  • George Cartwright (1739–1819), diarist and explorer
  • Justin Cartwright (1945–2018), novelist
  • William Cartwright (1611–1643), playwright
  • Elizabeth Cary (1585–1639), poet and playwright, The Tragedy of Mariam
  • Henry Francis Cary (1772–1844), translator and critic
  • Lucius Cary (Lord Falkland, 1610–1643), poet, writer and politician
  • Patrick Cary or Carey, (c. 1624–1658), poet
  • John Caryll (1625–1711), poet, playwright and diplomat
  • Juanita Casey (1925–2012), poet and novelist
  • Cathy Cassidy (born 1962), children's writer
  • Egerton Castle (1858–1920), novelist (with wife Agnes)
  • Helen Castor (living), historian and broadcaster
  • Sarah Caudwell (real name Sarah Cockburn, 1939–2000), novelist
  • Charles Causley (1917–2003), poet and editor
  • David Caute (born 1936), novelist and historian
  • Tiberius Cavallo (1749–1809), natural philosopher
  • George Cavendish (1494 – c. 1652), biographer and poet
  • Jane Cavendish (later Jane Cheyne, 1621–1669), poet and playwright
  • Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle, (1623–1673), poet, novelist and playwright
  • William Cavendish (1592–1676), polymath
  • William Caxton (c. 1415/1422 – c. 1492), printer and translator
  • Lord David Cecil (1902–1986), scholar and biographer
  • Dorothea Celesia (originally Mallet, 1738–1790), poet and translator
  • Susanna Centlivre (also as Susanna Carroll, c. 1667–1723), playwright, poet and actress
  • Mark Chadbourn (born 1960), genre novelist
  • Laurence Chaderton (c. 1536–1640), theologian, AV translator and cleric
  • Henry Chadwick (1920–2008), theologian, historian and cleric
  • John Chalkhill (fl. c. 1600), poet
  • Annie Emma Challice (1821–1875), author
  • Thomas Chaloner (1521–1565), poet, translator and statesman
  • Edward Chamberlayne (1616–1703), writer, historian and translator
  • William Chamberlayne (1619–1689), poet
  • Shaun Chamberlin (living), author and activist
  • Aidan Chambers (born 1934), children's writer
  • Ephraim Chambers (c. 1680–1740), writer and encyclopedist
  • Frederick Chamier (1796–1870), novelist and sea captain
  • Meira Chand (living), novelist
  • Mary Chandler (1687–1745), poet
  • Raymond Chandler (1888–1959), crime writer
  • Samuel Chandler (1693–1766), theologian and Presbyterian minister
  • Henry Channon ("Chips", 1897–1958), writer and diarist
  • George Chapman (1559–1634), poet, playwright and translator
  • Guy Chapman (1889–1972), writer and historian
  • Pat Chapman (1940–2022), food writer
  • Hester Chapone (1727–1801), writer and bluestocking
  • Charlotte Charke (originally Cibber, 1713–1760), writer and actress
  • Elizabeth Charles (1828–1896), novelist and religious writer
  • Gerda Charles (real name Edna Lipson, 1914–1996), novelist and anthologist
  • Maria Louisa Charlesworth (1819–1880), children's writer
  • Leslie Charteris (born Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin, 1907–1993), novelist, Simon Templar
  • James Hadley Chase, b. Rene Brabazon Raymond, also as James L. Docherty, Ambrose Grant, etc., (1906–1985), novelist
  • Debjani Chatterjee (born 1952), poet, translator and children's writer
  • Georgiana Chatterton (1806–1876), travel writer, novelist and poet
  • Thomas Chatterton (wrote as Thomas Rowley, 1752–1770), poet
  • Beth Chatto (1923–2018), garden writer
  • William Andrew Chatto (also as Stephen Oliver, 1799–1864), travel and general writer
  • Bruce Chatwin (1940–1989), novelist and travel writer
  • Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343–1400), poet, The Canterbury Tales
  • Cris Cheek (born 1955), poet and performer
  • Mavis Cheek (living), novelist
  • John Cheke (1514–1557), classicist and translator
  • George Tomkyns Chesney (1830–1895), novelist and army officer
  • G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936), novelist, poet and essayist, Father Brown
  • Henry Chettle (c. 1564 – c. 1607), playwright
  • William Rufus Chetwood (died 1766), playwright, novelist and publisher
  • Peter Cheyney (1896–1951), novelist
  • Josiah Child (1630–1699), political economist and merchant
  • Lee Child (real name Jim Grant, b. 1954), thriller writer
  • Wilfred Rowland Childe (1890–1952), poet
  • Erskine Childers (1870–1922), novelist and politician
  • William Chillingworth (1602–1644), religious writer
  • Mary Cholmondeley (1859–1925), novelist
  • Charles Chorley (c. 1810–1874), man of letters
  • Agatha Christie (1891–1976), mystery writer
  • Mary Chudleigh (1656–1710), poet and polemicist
  • Alfred John Church (1829–1912), scholar, poet and translator
  • Richard Church (1893–1972), poet
  • Richard William Church (1815–1890), biographer, historian and cleric
  • Caryl Churchill (born 1938), playwright and translator
  • Charles Churchill (1731–1764), poet and satirist
  • Winston Churchill (1874–1965), writer, prime minister and Nobel Prize winner
  • Thomas Churchyard (c. 1520–1604), poet and soldier
  • Colley Cibber (1671–1757), Poet Laureate, playwright and bowdlerizer
  • Horatio Clare (born 1973), writer
  • John Clare (1793–1864), poet
  • Emily Clark (fl. 1798–1819), novelist and poet
  • Amy Clarke (1892–1980), poet and school historian
  • Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008), SF novelist
  • Bob Clarke (born 1964), archaeologist and historian
  • Charles Cowden Clarke (1787–1877), writer and scholar
  • Mrs. Henry Clarke (Amy, 1853–1908), historical novelist and children's writer
  • Jane Clarke, biochemist and academic
  • Jane E. Clarke (born 1954), children's writer
  • Lindsay Clarke (born 1939), novelist and poet
  • Mary Cowden Clarke (originally Novello, 1809–1898), writer and scholar
  • Pauline Clarke (1921–2013), children's writer
  • Richard Clarke (died 1634), scholar, AV translator and cleric
  • Roy Clarke (born 1930), screenwriter and playwright
  • Samuel Clarke (1675–1729), philosopher and cleric
  • Susanna Clarke (born 1959), novelist, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
  • T. E. B. Clarke (1907–1989), screenwriter and novelist
  • Laurence Clarkson or Claxton (1615–1667), writer and theologian
  • John Clavell (1601–1643), writer, playwright and highwayman
  • Chris Cleave (born 1973), novelist and journalist
  • Brian Cleeve (1921–2003), novelist
  • Lucas Cleeve (also as Mrs Howard Kingscote, 1868–1908), novelist
  • John Cleland (1709–1789), novelist, Fanny Hill
  • Dick Clement (born 1937), scriptwriter
  • Jack Clemo (1916–1994), poet and novelist
  • John Cleveland (1613–1658), poet
  • Barbara Cleverly (born 1940), novelist
  • Anne Clifford (1590–1676), diarist
  • Lucy Clifford (wrote as Mrs. W. K. Clifford, 1846–1929), novelist, playwright and children's writer
  • William Kingdon Clifford (1846–1879), philosopher and children's writer
  • Caroline Clive (wrote as "V", 1801–1872), novelist and poet
  • John Clive (1933–2012), novelist and actor
  • Kitty Clive (born Catherine Raftor, 1711–1785), playwright and actress
  • Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861), poet
  • Bryan Clough (born 1932), writer
  • William Cobbett (1763–1835), writer and pamphleteer, Rural Rides
  • Bob Cobbing (1920–2002), poet and artist
  • Richard Cobbold (1797–1877), novelist and writer
  • Richard Cobden (1804–1865), pamphleteer
  • Aston Cockayne (1605–1684), poet and playwright
  • Catherine Trotter Cockburn (1679–1749), novelist and playwright
  • Edward Cocker (1631–1676), writer and engraver
  • Richard Cocks (1566–1624), diarist
  • Henry Cockton (1807–1853), novelist
  • Jonathan Coe (born 1961), novelist
  • Lady Mary Coke (1727–1811), correspondent and diarist
  • Barry Cole (1936–2014), poet and novelist
  • G. D. H. Cole (1889–1959), economist, historian and novelist
  • Margaret Cole (1893–1980), politician and novelist
  • Olivia Cole (born 1982), poet
  • John William Colenso (1814–1883), writer and bishop
  • Christabel Rose Coleridge (1843–1921), novelist and editor
  • Derwent Coleridge (1800–1883), writer, scholar and cleric
  • Ernest Hartley Coleridge (1846–1920), critic, editor and poet
  • Hartley Coleridge (1796–1849), poet and critic
  • Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861–1907), novelist and poet
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834), poet, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
  • Sara Coleridge (1802–1852), author and translator
  • Stephen Coleridge (1854–1936), writer, poet and campaigner
  • Jane Collier (1714–1755), satirist
  • Jeremy Collier (1650–1726), pamphleteer and cleric
  • John Collier (wrote as Tim Bobbin, 1708–1786), dialect poet and caricaturist
  • John Collier (1901–1980), story writer and screenwriter
  • John Payne Collier (1789–1883), literary critic, editor and forger
  • Mary Collier (c. 1688–1762), poet
  • R. G. Collingwood (1889–1943), philosopher and historian
  • W. G. Collingwood (1854–1932), writer and artist
  • An Collins (fl. 1653), religious poet
  • Anthony Collins (1676–1729), philosopher
  • Charles James Collins (1820–1864), novelist and journalist
  • Jackie Collins (1937–2015), novelist
  • John Collins (1625–1683), mathematician
  • John Collins (1742–1808), poet and lyricist
  • John Churton Collins (1848–1908), literary critic
  • Mortimer Collins (1827–1876), novelist and poet
  • Norman Collins (1907–1982), novelist
  • Warwick Collins (1948–2013), novelist and screenwriter
  • Wilkie Collins (1824–1889), novelist, The Moonstone
  • William Collins (1721–1759), poet
  • John Stewart Collis (1900–1984), biographer and countryside writer
  • Maurice Collis (1889–1973), writer and biographer
  • Mary Collyer (c. 1716–1762), translator and novelist.
  • George Colman (1732–1794), playwright
  • George Colman (1762–1836), playwright and poet
  • Jock Colville (1915–1987), diarist and civil servant
  • Howard Colvin (1919–2007), architectural historian
  • William Combe (1741–1823), miscellanist and poet
  • Alex Comfort (1920–2000), novelist, poet and writer
  • Jack Common (1903–1968), novelist
  • Ivy Compton-Burnett (1884–1969), novelist
  • William Congreve (1670–1729), playwright and poet, Erewhon
  • Thomas Coningsby (died 1625), diarist, soldier and politician
  • Paul Conneally (born 1959), poet, artist and musician
  • Charlie Connelly (born 1970), football and travel writer
  • Cyril Connolly (1903–1974), writer and critic
  • Joseph Connolly (born 1950), writer and novelist
  • Tony Connor (born 1930), poet and playwright
  • Robert Conquest (1917–2015), historian and poet
  • Henry Constable (1562–1613), poet
  • Hugh Conway (real name Frederick John Fargus, 1847–1885), novelist
  • Robert Seymour Conway (1864–1933), classicist
  • John Conybeare (1692–1755), theologian and bishop
  • John Josias Conybeare (1779–1824), scholar, translator and cleric
  • William Daniel Conybeare (1787–1857), writer and cleric
  • William John Conybeare (1815–1857), writer, novelist and cleric
  • David Cook (1940–2015), novelist and screenwriter
  • Edward Dutton Cook (1829–1883), novelist and critic
  • Eliza Cook (1818–1889), poet
  • James Cook (1728–1779), travel writer and mariner
  • Judith Cook (1933–2004), novelist
  • Dorian Cooke (1916–2005), poet and intelligence officer
  • Thomas Cooke (1703–1756), poet, playwright and translator
  • Catherine Cookson (1906–1998), novelist
  • William Henry Coombes (1767–1850), writer and RC priest
  • Artemis Cooper (born 1953), writer and editor
  • Duff Cooper (1890–1954), writer, diarist and politician
  • Jilly Cooper (born 1937), writer and novelist
  • Lettice Cooper (1897–1994), novelist and critic
  • Thomas Cooper (1805–1892), poet and novelist
  • William Cooper (real name H. S. Hoff, 1910–2002), novelist
  • Isabel Cooper-Oakley (1853/1854–1914), theosophist
  • Wendy Cope (born 1945), poet
  • Esther Copley (1786–1851) children's and housekeeping writer
  • A. E. Coppard (1878–1957) poet and story writer
  • Abiezer Coppe (1619–1672) religious writer
  • Richard Corbet or Corbett (1582–1635), poet and bishop
  • Jim Corbett (1875–1955), writer and conservationist
  • Julian Corbett (1854–1922), naval historian
  • Michael Cordy (living), novelist
  • Marie Corelli (1855–1924), novelist
  • Alan Coren (1938–2007), writer, satirist and broadcaster
  • Hilary Corke (1921–2001), poet
  • Adam Cornford (born 1950), poet and essayist
  • Frances Cornford (1886–1960), poet
  • Francis M. Cornford (1874–1943), scholar and poet
  • John Cornford (1915–1936), poet
  • Caroline Cornwallis (1786–1858), writer and polyglot
  • Jane Cornwallis (1581–1659), correspondent
  • Bernard Cornwell (born 1944), novelist
  • William Cornysh or Cornish (1465–1523), dramatist, poet and composer
  • Felicitas Corrigan (1908–2003), writer and nun
  • Annie Sophie Cory (wrote as Victoria Cross, 1868–1952), novelist
  • William Johnson Cory (1823–1892), poet and educator
  • Thomas Coryat or Coryate (c. 1577–1617), travel writer and poet
  • Louisa Stuart Costello (1799–1870), travel writer, novelist and poet
  • John Cosin (1594–1672), polemicist and bishop
  • Randle Cotgrave (died 1634 or 1652), lexicographer
  • Joseph Cottle (1770–1853), poet and essayist
  • Colin Cotterill (born 1952), author and cartoonist
  • Charles Cotton (1630–1687), poet and writer
  • Robert Bruce Cotton (1570/1571 – 1631), antiquary and political writer
  • Oswald Couldrey (1882–1958), poet and artist
  • Stephen Coulter (also as James Mayo, b. 1914), novelist
  • G. G. Coulton (1858–1947), historian and polemicist
  • William John Courthope (1842–1917), critic and poet
  • Polly Courtney (living), novelist
  • Francis Coventry (1725–1754 or 1759), novelist
  • Miles Coverdale (c. 1488–1569), Bible translator
  • Noël Coward (1899–1973), playwright, Blithe Spirit
  • Abraham Cowley (1618–1667), poet
  • Hannah Cowley (1743–1809), playwright
  • Dorothy Cowlin (1911–2010), novelist and poet
  • E. E. Cowper (1859–1933), novelist
  • Frank Cowper (1849–1930), yachtsman and author
  • William Cowper (1731–1800), poet, John Gilpin
  • Anthony Berkeley Cox (also as Anthony Berkeley, etc., 1893–1971), novelist
  • Edward Coxere (1633–1694), autobiographer and seaman
  • George Crabbe (1754–1832), poet and naturalist
  • Jim Crace (born 1946), novelist
  • Hubert Crackanthorpe (originally Cookson, 1870–1896), essayist and story writer
  • Nicholas Crafts (born 1949), economic historian
  • Albert Craig (the Surrey Poet, 1849–1909), sports poet
  • Amanda Craig (born 1959), novelist
  • Dinah Craik (also as Miss Mulock, 1826–1887), novelist and poet
  • Edward Crankshaw (1909–1984), writer, historian and translator
  • Richard Crashaw (1613–1649), poet
  • Elizabeth Craven (1750–1828), travel writer and playwright
  • John Creasey (1908–1973), novelist
  • Edward Shepherd Creasy (1812–1878), historian
  • Thomas Creech (1659–1700), translator
  • Thomas Creevey (1768–1838), diarist and politician
  • Mandell Creighton (1843–1901), historian and bishop
  • Helen Cresswell (1934–2005), children's writer and screenwriter
  • Jasmine Cresswell (born 1941), novelist
  • Nicholas Cresswell (1750–1804), diarist and farmer
  • Bernard Crick (1929–2008), political scientist
  • Martin Crimp (born 1956), playwright
  • Arthur Shearly Cripps (1869–1952), story writer and poet
  • Quentin Crisp (born Denis Charles Pratt, 1908–1999), writer and raconteur
  • Ann Batten Cristall (1769–1848), poet
  • Herbert Croft (1751–1815), novelist
  • Rupert Croft-Cooke (wrote as Leo Bruce, 1903–1979), novelist
  • Andrew Crofts (born 1953), ghost writer
  • Bithia Mary Croker (1849–1920), novelist
  • Thomas Francis Dillon Croker (wrote as T. F. Dillon Croker, 1831–1912), antiquary and poet
  • Richmal Crompton (real name Richmal Crompton Lamburn, 1890–1969), novelist, Just William
  • Vincent Cronin (1924–2011), historian and biographer
  • Camilla Dufour Crosland (1812–1895), poet, novelist and historical writer
  • A. F. Cross (1863–1940), poet, playwright and journalist
  • Gillian Cross (born 1945), children's writer
  • Kevin Crossley-Holland (born 1941), children's writer, poet and editor
  • Catherine Crowe (1790–1872), novelist and playwright
  • William Crowe (1745–1829), poet
  • Aleister Crowley (1875–1947), writer, mystic and occultist
  • John Crowne (1641–1712), playwright
  • Andrew Crozier (1943–2008), poet and scholar
  • Andrew Crumey (born 1961), novelist
  • Barry Cryer (1935–2022), writer
  • J. A. Cuddon (1928–1996), novelist, playwright and lexicographer
  • Annie Hall Cudlip (1838–1918), novelist
  • Pender Hodge Cudlip (1834–1911), writer and cleric
  • John Cullum (1733–1785), antiquary, historian and cleric
  • Hannah Cullwick (1833–1909), diarist and servant
  • Nathaniel Culverwell (1619–1651), philosopher and theologian
  • Nigel Cumberland (born 1967), self-help and leadership non-fiction author
  • Richard Cumberland (1631–1718), philosopher and bishop
  • Richard Cumberland (1732–1811), playwright, poet and novelist
  • Nancy Cunard (1896–1965), poet and memoirist
  • Joseph Cundall (wrote as Stephen Percy, 1818–1895), children's writer and publisher
  • John Cunliffe (1933–2018), children's writer
  • Roland Curram (born 1932), novelist and actor
  • R. N. Currey (1907–2001), poet
  • Lionel George Curtis (1872–1955), writer on world government
  • William Curtis (1746–1799), botanist
  • Alice Curwen (c. 1619–1679), Quaker writer and preacher
  • Henry Cust (1861–1917), writer and editor
  • Catherine Cuthbertson (pre–1780 – post–1830), novelist
  • Judith Cutler (born 1946), novelist
  • John Cutts (1661–1707), poet, writer and soldier


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