List of English writers (D–J)

List of English writers lists writers in English, born or raised in England (or who lived in England for a lengthy period), who already have Wikipedia pages. References for the information here appear on the linked Wikipedia pages. The list is incomplete – please help to expand it by adding Wikipedia page-owning writers who have written extensively in any genre or field, including science and scholarship. Please follow the entry format. A seminal work added to a writer's entry should also have a Wikipedia page. This is a subsidiary to the List of English people. There are or should be similar lists of Irish, Scots, Welsh, Manx, Jersey, and Guernsey writers.

Abbreviations: AV = Authorized King James Version of the Bible, also as = also wrote/writes as, c. = circa; century, cc. = centuries; cleric = Anglican priest, fl. = floruit, RC = Roman Catholic, SF = science fiction, YA = young adult fiction

D

• David Dabydeen (born 1955), novelist and critic
• Charlotte Dacre (wrote as Rosa Matilda, 1782–1841), novelist and poet
• Roald Dahl (1916–1990), novelist, children's writer and poet
• William Dakins (died 1607), scholar, AV translator and cleric
• Andrew Dalby (born 1947), writer
• Celia Dale (1912–2011), novelist and book reviewer
• Penny Dale (born 1954), children's writer and illustrator
• Thomas Dale (1797–1870), poet, theologian and cleric
• Robert Charles Dallas (1756–1824), writer and poet
• Anne Seymour Damer (1748–1828), novelist and sculptor
• William Dampier (1651–1715), travel writer and buccaneer
• William Danby (1752–1833), scholar and philosopher
• Clemence Dane (real name Winifred Ashton, 1888–1965), novelist and playwright
• Samuel Daniel (1562–1619), poet and historian
• William Barker Daniel (1754–1833), field sports writer and cleric
• Sarah Daniels (born 1957), playwright
• Alicia D'Anvers (1688–1725), poet
• Ella D'Arcy (c. 1856–1939), novelist and translator
• Bill Dare (living), scriptwriter, novelist and playwright
• F. J. Harvey Darton (1878–1936), children's literature historian and publisher
• Bernard Darwin (1876–1961), golf writer
• Charles Darwin (1809–1882), natural historian, On the Origin of Species
• Emma Darwin (born 1964), novelist
• Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802), natural historian and poet
• Florence Henrietta Darwin (1863/1864–1920), playwright
• Elizabeth Daryush (originally Bridges, 1887–1977), poet
• George Webbe Dasent (1817–1896), writer and translator
• Rana Dasgupta (born 1972), novelist
• William Davenant (1606–1668), poet and playwright
• Robert Davenport (fl. 1623–1639), playwright and poet
• Selina Davenport (1779–1859), novelist
• C. A. F. Rhys Davids (1857–1942), Buddhist scholar and translator
• Lionel Davidson (1922–2009), novelist
• Donald Davie (1922–1995), poet and critic
• Caitlin Davies (born 1964), novelist and journalist
• Hunter Davies (born 1936), writer and biographer
• Hugh Sykes Davies (1909–1984), poet and novelist
• John Davies (c. 1565–1618), poet and satirist
• John Davies (1569–1626), poet and lawyer
• Linda Davies (born 1963), novelist
• Paul B. Davies (living), writer and actor
• Peter Ho Davies (born 1966), writer
• John Davis or Davys (c. 1543–1605), writer and navigator
• Lindsey Davis (born 1949), novelist
• Ann Davison (1914–1992), travel writer
• Humphry Davy (1778–1829), writer and inventor
• Elizabeth Dawbarn (died 1839), writer on religion and child care
• Richard Dawkins (born 1941), science writer
• Coningsby Dawson (1883–1959), novelist, poet and soldier
• Jennifer Dawson (1929–2000), novelist
• Jill Dawson (living), poet, novelist and editor
• William James Dawson (1854–1928), poet and religious writer
• James Wentworth Day (1899–1983), countryside writer and broadcaster
• Jeffery Day (1896–1918), poet
• John Day (1574 – c. 1640), playwright, The Parliament of Bees
• Martin Day (born 1969), novelist and screenwriter
• Thomas Day (1748–1789), children's writer and educator
• Cecil Day-Lewis (1904–1972), Poet Laureate, translator and novelist
• Tamasin Day-Lewis (born 1953), food writer and broadcaster
• April De Angelis (born 1960), playwright
• Louis de Bernières (born 1954), novelist, Captain Corelli's Mandolin
• Alain de Botton (born 1969), writer, novelist and essayist
• Maria De Fleury (fl. 1773–1791), poet, hymnist and polemicist
• Guy de la Bédoyère (born 1957), historian and broadcaster
• Walter de la Mare (also as Walter Ramal, 1873–1956), poet and novelist
• Michael de Larrabeiti (1934–2008), novelist and travel writer
• William De Morgan (1839–1917), novelist and potter
• Thomas de Quincey (1785–1859), essayist and critic, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
• Hugh de Selincourt (1878–1951), writer and journalist
• Aubrey de Sélincourt (1894–1962), classicist, translator and children's writer
• Lisa St Aubin de Terán (born 1953), novelist, poet and autobiographer
• Edward de Vere, earl of Oxford (1550–1604), playwright and poet
• William Frederick Deacon (1799–1844), writer and journalist
• Roger Deakin (1943–2006), countryside writer
• Louise Dean (living), novelist
• Nick Dear (born 1955), playwright and screenwriter
• Geoffrey Dearmer (1893–1996), poet
• Percy Dearmer, (1867–1936), reformer and cleric
• John Dee (1527–1608/1609), mathematician, occultist and political economist
• Denise Deegan (born 1952), novelist, screenwriter and playwright
• Warwick Deeping (1877–1950), novelist and story writer
• Daniel Defoe (c. 1659–1731), novelist and pamphleteer, Robinson Crusoe
• Paul Dehn (1912–1976), screenwriter and playwright
• Len Deighton (born 1929), historian, cookery writer and novelist, The IPCRESS File
• Thomas Dekker (1572–1632), playwright
• E. M. Delafield (1890–1943), novelist
• Michael De-la-Noy (1934–2002), writer and journalist
• Mary Delany (born Mary Granville), (1700–1788), letter writer, artist and bluestocking
• R. F. Delderfield (1912–1972), novelist and playwright, A Horseman Riding By
• Ethel M. Dell (1881–1939), novelist
• Thomas Deloney (1553–1600), balladeer and novelist
• John Denham (1614/1615–1669), poet
• Felix Dennis (1947–2014), poet and publisher
• George Dennis (1814–1898), writer and explorer
• John Dennis (1657–1734), critic and playwright
• Nigel Dennis (1912–1989), writer, novelist and playwright
• Mary Deverell (1731–1805), religious writer, essayist and poet
• Colin Dexter (1930–2017), novelist, Inspector Morse novels
• Nirpal Singh Dhaliwal (born 1974), novelist and journalist
• William Diaper (1685–1717), poet and translator
• Charles Dibdin (c. 1745–1814), playwright, poet and songwriter
• Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776–1847), bibliographer
• Thomas John Dibdin (1771–1841), playwright and songwriter
• Charles Dickens (1812–1870), novelist, David Copperfield
• Monica Dickens (1915–1992), novelist and children's writer
• Anne Hepple Dickinson (wrote as Anne Hepple, 1877–1959), novelist
• Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson (1862–1932), historian and political activist
• John Dickinson (born 1962), YA novelist
• Patric Dickinson (1914–1994), poet, translator and playwright
• Peter Dickinson (1927–2015), novelist, children's writer and poet
• Alice Diehl (1844–1912), novelist and musician
• Kenelm Digby (1603–1665), philosopher
• Leonard Digges (1588–1635), poet and translator
• Francis Dillingham (died 1625), scholar, AV translator and cleric
• Wentworth Dillon (1630–1685), poet, critic and translator
• John Disney (1677–1729/1730), writer on moral reform and cleric
• John Disney (1746–1816), writer, biographer and Unitarian minister
• Jenny Diski (1947–2016), novelist and essayist
• Isaac D'Israeli (1766–1848), essayist
• Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881), novelist and statesman
• Ella Hepworth Dixon (1857–1932), novelist, essayist and editor
• Henry Hall Dixon (1822–1870), writer
• Richard Watson Dixon (1833–1900), poet and church historian
• Sarah Dixon (1671–1765), poet
• William Hepworth Dixon (1821–1879), historian, biographer and travel writer
• Sydney Thompson Dobell (1824–1874), poet and critic
• Henry Austin Dobson (1840–1921), poet and essayist
• Susannah Dobson (died 1795), translator
• Catherine Isabella Dodd (1860–1932), educational writer and novelist
• William Dodd (1729–1777), writer, cleric and forger
• John Doddridge (1555–1628), writer, antiquary and judge
• Philip Doddridge (1702–1751), religious writer and hymnist
• George Bubb Dodington (1691–1792), politician, poet and diarist
• Robert Dodsley (1704–1764), poet, writer and bookseller
• Christina Dodwell (born 1951), travel writer
• Ann Doherty (c. 1786 – c. 1831–32), romantic novelist
• Berlie Doherty (born 1943), children's writer, poet and dramatist
• Paul C. Doherty (several pen names, b. 1946), novelist
• Digby Mackworth Dolben (1848–1867), poet
• Dorcas Dole (fl. later 17th century), Quaker pamphleteer
• Alfred Domett (1811–1887), poet and statesman
• Angus Donald (born 1965), novelist
• Julia Donaldson (born 1948), children's writer and playwright
• John Donne (1572–1631), poet and cleric
• Desmond Donnelly (1920–1974), writer, journalist and politician
• Eleanor Doorly (1880–1950), children's writer
• Thomas Doubleday (1790–1870), writer, playwright and songwriter
• Sarah Doudney (1841–1926), novelist, children's writer and hymnist
• Charles Montagu Doughty (1843–1926), poet, writer and traveller
• Louise Doughty (born 1963), novelist and playwright
• Keith Douglas (1920–1944), poet
• Lord Alfred Douglas (1870–1945), poet
• Norman Douglas (1868–1952), novelist
• Siobhan Dowd (1960–2007), novelist, anthologist and children's writer, Bog Child
• Mary Frances Dowdall (1876–1939), novelist and non-fiction writer
• Andrew Downes (c. 1549–1628), scholar, AV translator and cleric
• Jenny Downham (born 1964), novelist
• Ernest Dowson (1867–1900), poet and story writer
• Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930), novelist and story writer, Sherlock Holmes
• Richard Doyle (1948–2017), novelist
• Francis Hastings Doyle (1810–1888), poet
• Margaret Drabble (born 1939), novelist and critic
• Phil Drabble (1914–2007), writer and broadcaster
• Judith Drake (fl. 1696–1707), essayist
• Nathan Drake (1766–1836), essayist
• Nick Drake (born 1961), poet and novelist
• Augusta Theodosia Drane (1823–1894), religious writer and biographer
• Michael Drayton (1563–1631), poet
• John Drinkwater (1882–1937), poet and playwright
• Henry Drummond (1786–1860), religious writer, politician and banker
• Anna Harriett Drury (also Harriet, 1824–1912), novelist, poet and children's writer
• John Dryden, (1631–1700) poet and playwright, Absalom and Achitophel
• Daphne du Maurier (1907–1989), novelist, Rebecca
• George du Maurier (1834–1896), novelist and illustrator, Trilby
• Edward Dubois (1774–1850), wit and man of letters
• Stephen Duck (c. 1705–1756), poet and cleric
• Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux (1857–1944), poet and author
• Ernest Dudley (real name Vivian Ernest Coltman-Allen, 1908–2006), novelist, screenwriter and actor
• Lord Dufferin (1826–1902), writer and explorer
• Charles Duff (1894–1966), writer, translator and satirist
• Lucie, Lady Duff-Gordon (1821–1869), correspondent and translator
• Maureen Duffy (born 1933), poet, screenwriter and novelist
• Stella Duffy (born 1963), novelist and playwright
• William Dugdale (1605–1686), antiquary
• Alfred Duggan (1903–1964), historian and novelist
• Ian Duhig (born 1954), poet
• Richard Duke (1658–1711), poet and cleric
• Ashley Dukes (1885–1959), playwright and critic
• Cuthbert Dukes (1890–1977), medical writer and pathologist
• Michael Dummett (1925–2011), philosopher
• Sarah Dunant (born 1950), writer and novelist
• John Duncombe (1729–1786), poet and cleric
• William Duncombe (1690–1769), translator and playwright
• Roderic Dunkerley (1884–1966), religious writer
• Helen Dunmore (1952–2017), poet, novelist and children's writer,
• Antony Dunn (born 1973), poet and playwright
• Nell Dunn (born 1936), novelist and playwright
• James Duport (1606–1679), scholar and cleric
• John Duport (died 1617), scholar, AV translator and cleric
• Mortimer Durand (1850–1924), novelist, travel writer and diplomat
• C. V. Durell (1882–1968), mathematics writer
• Thomas D'Urfey (1653–1723), playwright and poet
• Raymond Durgnat (1932–2002), film critic
• Edith Durham (1863–1944), travel writer
• Gerald Durrell (1925–1995), naturalist and author, My Family and Other Animals
• Lawrence Durrell (1921–1990), novelist and poet, The Alexandria Quartet
• John Dunton (1659–1733), writer, bookseller and pamphleteer
• Edward Dyer (1543–1607), poet and courtier
• Geoff Dyer (born 1958), writer
• George Dyer (1755–1841), scholar and poet
• Clifford Dyment (1914–1971), poet and critic

E

• Rae Earl (born 1971), writer and broadcaster
• John Earle (1601–1665), writer and bishop
• Anthony Earnshaw (1924–2001), writer and illustrator
• Joan Adeney Easdale (1913–1998), poet
• Edward Backhouse Eastwick (1814–1883), scholar
• Mary Emma Ebsworth (1794–1881), playwright and translator
• Laurence Echard (1670–1730), historian and translator
• Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882–1944), science writer
• E. R. Eddison (1882–1945), novelist, poet and translator
• Emily Eden (1797–1869), novelist
• Frederick Morton Eden (1766–1809), social researcher
• Richard Edes (1555–1604), writer, AV translator and cleric
• David Edgar (born 1948), playwright
• John George Edgar (1834–1864), miscellaneous writer for boys
• Maria Edgeworth (1767–1849), novelist, Castle Rackrent
• Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1744–1817), writer and politician
• James Edmeston (1791–1867), hymnist and architect
• Robert Edric (real name Gary Edric Armitage, b. 1956), novelist
• J. T. Edson (1928–2014), novelist
• Richard Edwardes (c. 1523–1566), poet and playwright
• Amelia Edwards (1831–1892), novelist and travel writer
• David Edwards (1929–2018), writer and cleric
• Monica Edwards (1912–1998), children's writer
• Thomas Edwards (died 1599), poet
• Richard Eedes (died 1686), religious writer
• Pierce Egan (1772–1849), sports writer
• Pierce Egan the Younger (1814–1880), novelist
• Elizabeth Egerton (born Cavendish, 1626–1663), poet and dramatist
• George Egerton (real name Mary Chavelita Bright, 1859–1945), writer, translator and feminist
• Rowland Egerton-Warburton (1804–1891), poet
• Sarah Fyge Egerton (1670–1723), poet
• Thomas Egerton (Lord Ellesmere, Lord Brackley, 1540–1617), statesman and patron
• Stephen Elboz (born 1956), children's writer
• Josephine Elder (real name Olive Gwendoline Potter, 1895–1988), children's writer
• Peter Berresford Ellis (writes as Peter Tremayne and Peter MacAlan, born 1943), novelist
• Charles Eliot (1862–1931), travel writer and diplomat
• George Eliot (real name Mary Ann Evans, 1819–1880), novelist, Middlemarch
• T. S. Eliot (1888–1965), poet, playwright and Nobel Prize winner, The Waste Land
• Anne Elliot, novelist
• Frances Minto Elliot (1820–1898), historian and novelist
• Ebenezer Elliott (1781–1849), poet
• Janice Elliott (1931–1995), novelist and children's writer
• Julia Anne Elliott (1809-1841), poet and hymnwriter
• Edith Ellis (1861–1916), writer and anthologist
• Alice Thomas Ellis (Anna Haycraft, 1932–2005), fiction and non-fiction writer
• Edwin John Ellis (1848–1916), poet, editor and illustrator
• H. F. Ellis (1907–2000), humorous writer and novelist
• Havelock Ellis (1859–1939), sexologist, reformer and editor
• Royston Ellis (1941–2023), novelist and poet
• Sarah Stickney Ellis (1799–1872), Quaker writer on women's education
• Warren Ellis (born 1968), graphic novelist and comic book writer
• Thomas Ellwood (1639–1713), poet and religious writer
• Ernest Elmore (also as John Bude, 1901–1957), crime and fantasy writer
• Elizabeth Elstob (1683–1756), scholar and translator
• Ben Elton (born 1959), novelist, playwright and comedian
• Oliver Elton (1861–1945), scholar and translator,
• Alfred Elwes (1819–1888), children's writer and translator
• Thomas Elyot (c. 1490–1536), scholar and diplomat
• Sally Emerson (born 1954), novelist and anthologist
• William Empson (1906–1984), critic and poet, Seven Types of Ambiguity
• William Enfield (1741–1797), elocutionist and Unitarian minister
• Barry England (1932–2009), novelist
• Isobel English (real name June Guesdon Braybrooke, 1920–1994), novelist
• D. J. Enright (1920–2002), poet and critic
• Sam Enthoven (born 1975), children's writer
• Ephelia (fl. 1679, real name probably Mary Stewart, Duchess of Richmond), poet
• Anthony Errington (died 1719), divine
• Barbara Erskine (born 1944), novelist
• Thomas Erskine (1750–1823), lawyer and political writer
• Susan Ertz (1894–1985), novelist
• Edith Escombe (1866–1950), fiction writer and essayist
• George Etherege (c. 1635 – c. 1692), playwright, The Man of Mode
• Abel Evans (1679–1737), poet and cleric
• Anne Evans (1820–1870), poet and composer
• Arthur Evans (1851–1941), archaeologist
• Arthur Benoni Evans (1781–1854), poet, scholar and cleric
• John Evans (1823–1908), archaeologist
• Katherine Evans and Sarah Cheevers (1618–1692 and 1608–1664), Quaker evangelists
• Margiad Evans (real name Peggy Eileen Williams, 1909–1958), novelist, poet and illustrator
• Nicholas Evans (1950–2022), novelist
• Paul Evans (1945–1991), poet
• Sebastian Evans (1830–1909), poet, journalist and artist
• John Evelyn (1620–1706), writer and diarist, Sylva, A Discourse of Forest Trees
• H. D. Everett (1851–1923), novelist
• Peter Everett (1931–1999), novelist
• Evelyn Everett-Green (1856–1932), novelist and children's writer
• George Every (1909–2003), theologian and poet
• Gavin Ewart (1916–1995), poet and anthologist
• Barbara Ewing (born 1944), novelist and playwright
• Juliana Horatia Ewing (1841–1885), children's writer
• Catherine Exley (1779-1857), English diarist
• Leonora Eyles (1889–1960), feminist writer and novelist
• Vincent Eyre (1811–1881), military writer and general

F

• Frederick William Faber (1814–1863), hymnist and theologian
• Geoffrey Faber (1889–1961), poet and publisher
• George Stanley Faber (1773–1854), theologian and cleric
• Robert Fabyan (died 1513), diarist and chronicler
• Harry Fainlight (1935–1982), poet
• Ruth Fainlight (born 1932), poet, writer and translator
• Thomas Fairfax (1612–1671), poet and army officer
• Margaret Fairley (1885–1968), scholar and activist
• J. Meade Falkner (1858–1932), novelist
• Hugh Falkus (1917–1996), fishing writer
• Julian Fane (1927–2009), novelist and memoirist
• Mildmay Fane, earl of Westmorland (1602–1666), poet and playwright
• Violet Fane (real name Mary Montgomerie Lamb, 1843–1905), novelist and poet
• Ann, Lady Fanshawe (1625–1680), memoirist
• Catherine Maria Fanshawe (1765–1834), poet
• Richard Fanshawe (1608–1666), poet and translator
• U. A. Fanthorpe (1929–2009), poet
• John Fardell (born 1967), children's writer and cartoonist
• Joseph Farington (1747–1821), diarist and painter
• Helen Farish (born 1962), poet
• Benjamin Farjeon (1838–1903), novelist and playwright
• Eleanor Farjeon (1881–1965), children's writer and poet
• Herbert Farjeon (1887–1945), playwright and critic
• Joseph Jefferson Farjeon (1883–1955), novelist, playwright and screenwriter
• Paul Farley (born 1965), poet
• Nigel Farndale (born 1964), novelist and biographer
• Jeffery Farnol (1878–1952), novelist
• Florence Farr (1860–1917), religious writer and playwright
• Frederic William Farrar (Dean Farrar, 1831–1903), novelist and cleric
• Stewart Farrar (1916–2000), scriptwriter and novelist
• J.G. Farrell (1935–1979), novelist
• Kathleen Farrell (1912–1999), novelist
• Gertrude Minnie Faulding (1875–1961), novelist and children's writer
• Sebastian Faulks (born 1953), novelist
• Joseph Fawcett (1758–1804), poet and cleric
• Francis Fawkes (1721–1777), poet and translator
• Eliza Fay (1755/1756–1816), correspondent and traveller
• John Russell Fearn (1908–1960), novelist
• Jane Fearon (1654 or 1656–1737), religious writer
• Daniel Featley or Fairclough (1582–1645), polemicist, AV translator and cleric
• Vicki Feaver (born 1943), poet
• Elaine Feinstein (1930–2019), poet, novelist and dramatist
• John Fell (1625–1686), scholar and cleric
• Owen Feltham or Felltham (c. 1602–1668), aphorist and essayist
• George Manville Fenn (1831–1909), novelist and children's writer
• John Fenn (died 1615), writer and RC priest
• John Fenn (1739–1794), antiquary and editor
• Elijah Fenton (1683–1730), poet
• Geoffrey Fenton (c. 1539–1608), writer, translator and politician
• Gertrude Fenton (1841-1884), novelist and editor
• James Fenton (born 1949), poet and critic
• Roger Fenton (1565–1615), writer, AV translator and cleric
• Eliza Fenwick (1766–1840), novelist and children's writer
• Ruby Ferguson (1899–1966), novelist and children's writer
• Bernard Fergusson Lord Ballantrae, (1911–1980), historian and general
• Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915–2011), travel writer and scholar
• Elizabeth Ferrars (1907–1995), novelist
• Maria Fetherstonhaugh (1847–1918), novelist
• Jasper Fforde (born 1961), novelist
• Michael Field, pseudonym of Katherine Harris Bradley (1846–1914) and Edith Emma Cooper (1862–1913), poets and diarists
• Richard Field (1561–1616), theologian
• Daphne Fielding (1904–1997), writer and biographer
• Helen Fielding (born 1958), novelist and screenwriter
• Henry Fielding (1707–1754), novelist and poet, Tom Jones
• Sarah Fielding (1709–1768), novelist and children's writer
• Xan Fielding (1918–1991), writer, translator and soldier
• Celia Fiennes (1662–1741), diarist and travel writer
• William Fiennes (born 1970), writer
• Graeme Fife (living), writer, playwright and broadcaster
• Eva Figes (1932–2012), novelist and critic
• Robert Filmer (1588–1653), political writer
• Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661–1720), poet
• Brian Finch (1936–2007), scriptwriter and playwright
• William Coles Finch (1864–1944), historian and countryside writer
• Anne Fine (born 1947), novelist and children's writer
• Cordelia Fine (living), psychologist and writer
• George Finlay (1799–1875), historian
• Ronald Firbank (1886–1926), novelist and playwright
• Charles Harding Firth (1857–1936), historian and biographer
• John Rupert Firth (1890–1960), linguistics scholar
• Tim Firth (born 1964), playwright, screenwriter and songwriter
• Margery Fish (1892–1969), garden writer
• Tibor Fischer (born 1959), novelist
• Allen Fisher (born 1944), poet and editor
• Ann Fisher (1719–1798), educational writer
• John Fisher (1469–1535), theologian, cardinal and martyr
• Roy Fisher (1930–2017), poet and jazz pianist
• Edward Fitzgerald (1809–1883), poet and translator, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
• Penelope Fitzgerald (1916–2000), novelist, poet and biographer
• Judith Flanders (born 1959), historian
• Peter Flannery (born 1951), playwright and screenwriter
• Thomas Flatman (1638–1688), poet and miniaturist
• James Elroy Flecker (1884–1915), poet, novelist and playwright
• Richard Flecknoe (c. 1600 – c. 1678), poet, playwright and writer
• Abraham Fleming (Flemyng, c. 1552 – 1607), writer, translator and cleric
• Ian Fleming (1908–1964), novelist, James Bond
• Peter Fleming (1907–1971), travel writer
• Giles Fletcher (1586–1623), poet
• Giles Fletcher (c. 1548–1611), poet
• J. S. Fletcher (1863–1935) novelist
• John Fletcher (1579–1625), playwright
• Phineas Fletcher (1582–1650), poet
• Susan Fletcher (born 1979), novelist
• Thomas Fletcher (1666–1713), poet, translator and cleric
• Antony Flew (1923–2010), philosopher
• Robert Newton Flew (1886–1962), theologian and Methodist minister
• F. S. Flint (1885–1960), poet
• John Florio (1553–1625), lexicographer and translator
• Alice Flowerdew (1759–1830), poet and hymnist
• Robert Fludd (1574–1637), physician and occultist
• Giles Foden (born 1967), novelist
• Winifred Foley (1914–2009), memoirist and novelist
• Albany Fonblanque (1794–1872), journalist and editor
• Samuel Foote (1720–1777), playwright
• Tim Footman (born 1968), writer and editor
• Colin Forbes (real name Raymond Sawkins, 1923–2006), novelist
• Duncan Forbes (born 1947), poet
• Anne Ford (1737–1824), writer and actress
• Boris Ford (1917–1998), critic and editor
• Ford Madox Ford (originally Ford Madox Hueffer, 1873–1939), novelist and poet
• John Ford (1586–1640), playwright, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
• Mark Ford (born 1962), poet and essayist
• Richard Ford (1796–1858), travel writer
• Thomas Ford or Forde (1580–1648), poet and composer
• Michael Foreman (born 1938), children's writer and illustrator
• C. S. Forester, (1899–1966) novelist, Horatio Hornblower
• Simon Forman, (1552–1611) astrologer and occultist
• David Forrest (real names R. Forrest-Webb and David Eliades, living), novelists
• Alfred Henry Forrester (Alfred Crowquill, 1804–1872), writer and illustrator
• Helen Forrester (1919–2011), writer
• Tony Forrester (born 1953), bridge writer and player
• Jeff Forshaw (born 1968), professor of particle physics
• E. M. Forster (1879–1970), novelist and essayist, A Passage to India
• John Forster (1812–1876), biographer and critic
• Margaret Forster (1938–2016), novelist and biographer
• Mary Forster (c. 1620–1687), Quaker polemicist
• Frederick Forsyth (born 1938), novelist, The Day of the Jackal
• Richard Fortey (born 1946), science writer
• E. M. Foster, Mrs. (fl. late 18th and early 19th cc.), novelist
• John Foster (1770–1843), essayist
• John Knight Fotheringham (1874–1936), historian and astronomer
• Adam Foulds (born 1974), novelist and poet
• Tim Fountain (born 1967), playwright
• Margaret Fountaine (1862–1940), lepidopterist
• Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler (also Edith Henrietta Fowler, 1860–1929), novelist
• Henry Watson Fowler (1858–1933) and Francis George Fowler (1871–1918), grammarians, Fowler's Modern English Usage
• John Fowles (1926–2005), novelist and essayist
• Caroline Fox (1819–1871), diarist
• Francis Fox (1675–1738), writer and cleric
• George Fox (1624–1691), diarist and Quaker
• Robin Lane Fox (born 1946), garden writer
• Edgar Foxall (1906–1990), poet
• John Foxe (1517–1587), writer, Foxe's Book of Martyrs
• Samuel Foxe (1560–1630), diarist
• Dick Francis (1920–2010), racing novelist
• Matthew Francis (born 1956), poet
• Philip Francis (1740–1818), pamphleteer and translator
• Suzanne Francis (born 1959), novelist
• Gilbert Frankau (1884–1952), novelist and poet
• Julia Frankau (wrote as Frank Danby, 1863–1916), novelist
• John Franklin (1786–1847), explorer and novelist
• Antonia Fraser (1932), biographer and novelist
• Caro Fraser (1953–2020), novelist
• George MacDonald Fraser (1925–2008), novelist and screenwriter, The Flashman Papers
• Michael Frayn (born 1933), playwright and novelist
• Margaret Frazer (pseudonym, living), novelist
• Jonathan Freedland (born 1967), writer
• Edward Augustus Freeman (1823–1892), historian
• John Freeman (1880–1929), poet
• R. Austin Freeman (1862–1943), novelist
• Nicholas Freeston (1907–1988), poet
• Elizabeth Wynne Fremantle (1779–1857), diarist
• Celia Fremlin (1914–2009), novelist
• Patrick French (born 1966), biographer and author
• John Hookham Frere (1769–1846), poet and translator
• William Powell Frith (1819–1909), memoirist and painter
• James Anthony Froude (1818–1894), historian
• Richard Hurrell Froude (1803–1836), poet, writer and cleric
• C. B. Fry, (1872–1956) cricket writer
• Caroline Fry (1787–1846), religious writer and poet
• Christopher Fry (1907–2005), dramatist
• Plantagenet Somerset Fry (real name Peter George Robin Fry, 1931–1996), historian
• Stephen Fry (born 1957), novelist and comedian
• Alexandra Fuller (born 1969), writer
• Andrew Fuller (1754–1815), theologian and Baptist minister
• Claire Fuller (living), novelist
• John Fuller (born 1937), poet and novelist
• Peter Fuller (1947–1990), writer and art critic
• Roy Fuller (1912–1991), poet and novelist
• Thomas Fuller (1608–1661), writer, historian and cleric
• Lady Georgiana Fullerton (originally Leverson-Gower, 1812–1885), novelist and religious writer
• Ulpian Fulwell (1545/1546 – c. 1585), playwright, satirist and cleric
• Monica Furlong (1930–2003), religious writer and biographer
• Frederick James Furnivall (1825–1910), philologist

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• Thomas Gage (c. 1597–1656), travel writer and cleric
• Neil Gaiman (born 1960), novelist and screenwriter
• Norman Gale (1862–1942), poet
• Winifred Gales (1761–1839), novelist and memoirist
• John Galsworthy (also as John Sinjohn, 1867–1933), novelist and dramatist, The Forsyte Saga
• Francis Galton (1822–1911), polymath
• Jane Gardam (born 1928), novelist and children's writer
• Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1829–1902), historian
• Stephen Gardiner (1924–2007), writer and architect
• Gerald Gardner (1884–1964), writer on witchcraft
• Helen Gardner (1908–1986), critic and scholar
• John Gardner (1926–2007), novelist, The Liquidator
• Leon Garfield (1921–1996), novelist and children's writer
• Simon Garfield (born 1960), writer
• Alex Garland (born 1970), novelist and screenwriter
• Alan Garner (born 1934), children's writer
• William Garner (1920–2005), novelist
• Constance Garnett (1861–1946), translator
• David Garnett (1892–1981), novelist and playwright
• Edward Garnett (1868–1937), author and critic
• Eve Garnett (1900–1991), children's writer and illustrator
• Richard Garnett (1835–1906), scholar and poet
• David Garrick (1717–1779), actor, playwright and poet
• Samuel Garth (1661–1719), poet and physician
• Charles Garvice (also as Caroline Hart, 1850–1920), novelist
• George Gascoigne (1535–1577), poet and translator
• David Gascoyne (1916–2001), poet
• Norman Gash (1912–2009), historian
• Elizabeth Gaskell (Mrs. Gaskell, 1810–1865), novelist, Cranford
• Jane Gaskell (born 1941), fantasy novelist
• Thomas Gaspey (1788–1871), novelist and journalist
• Francis Aidan Gasquet (1846–1929), historian and cardinal
• Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy (1933–2019), biographer and historian
• Robert Gathorne-Hardy (1902–1973), garden writer
• Alfred Gatty, (1813–1903) writer and cleric
• Margaret Gatty (wrote as Mrs. Alfred Gatty, 1809–1873), children's writer
• John Gauden (1605–1662), writer and bishop
• William Gaunt (1900–1980), art historian
• Jamila Gavin (born 1941), novelist and children's writer
• John Gawsworth (1912–1970), poet and anthologist
• John Gay (1685–1732), poet and playwright, The Beggar's Opera
• John Gay (1699–1745), moral philosopher and cleric
• Maggie Gee (born 1948), novelist
• Pam Gems (1925–2011), playwright
• Dorothea Gerard (1855–1915), novelist
• Emily Gerard (1849–1905), novelist
• John Gerard (1545–1611/1612), botanical writer and herbalist
• William Gerhardie (originally Gerhardi, 1895–1977), novelist
• Karen Gershon (1923–1993), poet, writer and novelist
• Edward Gibbon (1737–1794), historian, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• Stella Gibbons (1902–1989), novelist and poet, Cold Comfort Farm
• Philip Gibbs (1877–1962), writer and journalist
• Edmund Gibson (1669–1748), antiquary, translator and bishop
• Miles Gibson (born 1947), novelist and poet
• Wilfred Wilson Gibson (1878–1962), poet
• John Gifford (1758–1818), historical and political writer
• William Gifford (1756–1826), poet and satirist
• Harriett Gilbert (born 1948), novelist, critic and broadcaster
• Joseph Gilbert (1779–1852), writer and Congregational minister
• Michael Gilbert (1912–2006), novelist
• W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911), playwright and poet, The Mikado
• William Gilbert or Gilberd (1544–1603), scientist
• William Gilbert (1804–1890), novelist and naval surgeon
• Alexander Gilchrist (1828–1861), biographer and critic
• Anne Gilchrist (born Burrows, 1828–1885), writer
• Robert Murray Gilchrist (1867–1917), novelist and topographical writer
• Penelope Gilliatt (1932–1993), novelist, screenwriter and film critic
• William Gilpin (1724–1804), writer, artist and cleric
• Morris Ginsberg (1879–1970), sociologist
• Alfred Gissing (1896–1975), biographer and editor
• Algernon Gissing (1860–1937), novelist and travel writer
• George Gissing (1857–1903), novelist, New Grub Street
• Mary Gladstone (1847–1927), diarist
• William Gladstone (1809–1898), writer and statesman
• Lesley Glaister (born 1956), novelist and playwright
• Joseph Glanvill (1636–1680), writer, philosopher and cleric
• Brian Glanville (born 1931), football writer and novelist
• William Nugent Glascock (c. 1787–1847), novelist and naval officer
• Katharine Glasier (also as Katharine Conway, 1867–1950), writer and socialist
• Rodge Glass (born 1978), novelist and biographer
• Hannah Glasse (1708–1770), writer on cookery and housekeeping
• Victoria Glendinning (born 1937), biographer and novelist
• Richard Glover (1712–1785), poet and playwright
• Elinor Glyn (1864–1943), novelist
• John Godber (born 1956), playwright
• Robert Goddard (born 1954), novelist
• Rumer Godden (1907–1998), novelist, children's writer and biographer
• A. D. Godley (1856–1925), comic poet
• Sidney Godolphin (1610–1643), poet
• William Godwin (1756–1836), novelist and philosopher
• Louis Golding (1895–1958), novelist and poet
• William Golding (1911–1993), Nobel Prize–winning novelist and poet, Lord of the Flies
• Douglas Goldring (1887–1960), poet, travel writer and novelist
• Israel Gollancz (1863–1930), scholar and editor
• Laurence Gomme (1853–1916), folklore writer and public servant
• Christopher Goodman (1520–1603), pamphleteer and Bible translator
• Jason Goodwin (born 1964), novelist and travel writer
• Barnabe Googe or Gooche (1540–1594), poet and translator
• Catherine Gore (1799–1861), novelist and playwright
• Charles Gore (1853–1932), theologian and bishop
• Geoffrey Gorer (1905–1985), writer and anthropologist
• Arthur Gorges (c. 1569–1625), poet and sea captain
• Ray Gosling (1939–2013), writer and journalist
• Edmund Gosse (1849–1928), novelist, poet and critic
• Philip Henry Gosse (1810–1888), natural historian
• Stephen Gosson (1554–1624), satirist and playwright
• Elizabeth Goudge (1900–1984), novelist and children's writer
• William Gouge (1575–1653), writer and cleric
• Thomas Gouge (1609–1681), writer and Presbyterian minister
• Gerald Gould (1885–1936), poet and journalist
• Nathaniel Gould (1857–1919), novelist
• John Gower (c. 1330–1408), poet
• Posie Graeme-Evans (living), novelist and TV director
• Eleanor Graham (1896–1984), children's writer, editor and anthologist
• Harry Graham (1874–1936), humorist and poet
• Laurie Graham (born 1947), novelist and journalist
• Stephen Graham (1884–1975), travel writer and novelist
• Virginia Graham (1910–1993), humorist, translator and poet
• Kenneth Grahame (1859–1931), writer, The Wind in the Willows
• Sarah Grand (real name Mrs. David C. M'Fall, originally Frances Elizabeth Clarke, 1854–1943), novelist and suffragist
• Clive Granger (1934–2009), Nobel Prize–winning economist
• Andrew Grant (born 1968), novelist
• John Grant (also as Jonathan Gash, Graham Gaunt, b. 1933), novelist and physician
• Linda Grant (born 1951), novelist and writer
• Michael Grant (1914–2004), historian
• George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne (1666–1735), playwright and poet
• Harley Granville-Barker (1877–1946), playwright and actor
• Richard Graves (1715–1804), novelist, poet and cleric
• Robert Graves (1895–1985), poet and novelist, I, Claudius
• John Gray (1866–1934), poet and translator
• John N. Gray (born 1948), philosopher
• Maxwell Gray (Mary Gleed Tuttiett, 1846–1926), novelist and poet
• Patience Gray (1917–2005), cookery writer
• Simon Gray (1936–2008) playwright, novelist and memoirist.
• Thomas Gray (1716–1771), poet
• Eliza S. Craven Green (1803–1866), poet
• Candida Lycett Green (1942–2014), writer and journalist
• Henry Green (real name Henry Vincent Yorke), (1905–1973), novelist
• John Richard Green (1837–1883), historian
• Mary Anne Everett Green (1818–1895), historian
• Matthew Green (1696–1737), poet
• Roger Lancelyn Green (1918–1987), biographer and children's writer
• Sarah Green (fl. 1790–1825), novelist
• Thomas Hill Green (1836–1882), philosopher and radical
• Vivian H. H. Green (1915–2005), historian and cleric
• Kate Greenaway (1846–1901), children's writer and illustrator
• Graham Greene (1904–1991), novelist and playwright, Our Man in Havana
• Robert Greene (1558–1592), playwright and pamphleteer
• Chris Greenhalgh (born 1963), novelist, screenwriter and poet
• Lavinia Greenlaw (born 1962), poet and novelist
• Frederick Greenwood (1830–1909), man of letters
• James Greenwood (c. 1830/1835–1929), children's writer and journalist
• Walter Greenwood (1903–1974), novelist, Love on the Dole
• Walter Wilson Greg (1875–1959), bibliographer
• Richard Gregory (1864–1952), science writer and astronomer
• Joyce Grenfell (1910–1979), writer and comedian
• Julian Grenfell (1888–1915), poet
• Charles Greville (1794–1865), diarist and cricketer
• Frances Greville (c. 1724–1789), poet
• Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke (1554–1628), poet and playwright
• Henry M. Grey (1867-1937), travel writer
• Paul Grice (also as H. P. Grice, 1913–1988), philosopher of language
• Arthur Griffiths (1838–1908), crime novelist and military historian
• Bill Griffiths (1948–2007), poet, scholar and translator
• Jane Griffiths (born 1970), poet and lecturer
• Paul Griffiths (born 1947), novelist, librettist and music critic
• John Grigg (1924–2001), biographer and journalist
• Geoffrey Grigson (1905–1985), poet and editor
• Arthur Grimble (1888–1956), writer and anthropologist
• Elizabeth Grimston (c. 1563 – c. 1603), poet
• Leopold Hartley Grindon (1818–1904), educator and botanist
• Francis Grose (1731–1791), antiquary and lexicographer
• John Gross (1935–2011), critic, writer and anthologist
• Philip Gross (born 1952), poet, novelist and playwright
• George Grossmith (1847–1912), writer and entertainer, and Weedon Grossmith (1854–1919), writer, artist and actor, Diary of a Nobody
• George Grote (1794–1871), classicist and reformer
• Charlotte Grove (1773–1860), diarist
• George Grove (1820–1900), editor and writer on music, Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians
• Paul Groves (born 1947), poet
• Edward Grubb (1854–1939), Quaker writer
• Bertha Jane Grundy (1837–1912), novelist
• Sydney Grundy (1848–1914), playwright and librettist
• Philip Guedalla (1889–1944), historian and travel writer
• Harry Guest (1932–2021), poet
• Arthur Guirdham (1905–1992), non-fiction writer, novelist and physician
• Thom Gunn (1929–2004), poet
• Elizabeth Gunning (1769–1823), novelist and translator
• Peter Gunning (1614–1684), writer and bishop
• Edmund Gurney (1847–1888), writer and psychologist
• Ivor Gurney (1890–1937), poet and composer
• Thomas Anstey Guthrie (wrote as F. Anstey, 1856–1934), novelist and journalist, Vice Versa
• Bernard Gutteridge (1916–1985), poet
• Emma Jane Guyton or Worboise (1825–1887), novelist
• Brion Gysin (1916–1986), poet, novelist and painter

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• William Habington (1605–1654), poet
• Alan Hackney (1924–2009), novelist and screenwriter
• Jen Hadfield (born 1978), poet
• Mark Haddon (born 1962), novelist, children's writer and poet
• Henry Rider Haggard (1856–1925), novelist and story writer, King Solomon's Mines
• Matt Haig (born 1975), novelist and journalist
• Richard Hakluyt (c. 1552/1553–1616), travel writer, translator and cleric
• J. B. S. Haldane (1892–1964), scientist, philosopher and children's writer
• Kathleen Hale (1898–2000), children's writer and illustrator, Orlando the Marmalade Cat
• Anne Halkett (1623–1699), memoirist and religious writer
• Edward Hall or Halle (c. 1498–1547), chronicler
• Evelyn Beatrice Hall (wrote as S. G. Tallentyre, 1868–1956), biographer and translator
• Henry Hall (c. 1656–1707), poet and composer
• Joseph Hall (1574–1656), satirist, moralist and bishop
• Radclyffe Hall (1880–1943), novelist and poet
• Sarah Hall (born 1974), novelist and poet
• Simon Hall (born 1969), novelist and broadcaster
• Steven Hall (born 1975), novelist and playwright
• Tarquin Hall (born 1969), writer and journalist
• Thomas Hall (1610–1665), writer and cleric
• Arthur Hallam (1811–1833), poet
• Henry Hallam (1777–1859), historian
• Edward Halliwell (16th c.), playwright and author, Fellow of Cambridge's King's College
• Leslie Halliwell (1929–1989), film critic and encyclopedist
• James Halliwell-Phillipps (1820–1889), Shakespearean and biographer
• Bruce Barrymore Halpenny (born early 20th c.), writer and military historian
• Alan Halsey (1949–2022), poet
• Michael Hamburger (1924–2007), writer, poet and translator
• Philip Gilbert Hamerton (wrote as Adolphus Segrave, 1834–1894), writer and artist
• Mohsin Hamid (born 1971), novelist and brand consultant
• Andy Hamilton (author) (born 1974), non-fiction writer and journalist
• Ann Mary Hamilton (fl. 1806–13), novelist
• Charles Hamilton (also as Frank Richards, etc., 1876–1961), children's writer, Billy Bunter
• Cicely Mary Hamilton (1872–1952), writer, playwright and feminist
• Cosmo Hamilton (1870–1942), playwright and novelist
• Edward Walter Hamilton (1847–1908), political diarist and civil servant
• Ian Hamilton (1938–2001), critic, biographer and poet
• Patrick Hamilton (1904–1962), playwright and novelist
• Peter F. Hamilton (born 1960), SF novelist
• James Hamilton-Paterson (born 1941), novelist, poet and writer
• Edward Bruce Hamley (1824–1893), military theorist and novelist
• Edward Hamley (1764–1834), poet and cleric
• James Hammond (1710–1742), poet and politician
• Stuart Hampshire (1914–2004), philosopher and literary critic
• John Hampson (1901–1955), novelist
• Robert Gavin Hampson (born 1948), poet
• Christopher Hampton (born 1946), playwright, screenwriter and translator
• William Hampton (born 1959), poet
• Marika Hanbury-Tenison (1938–1982), cookery and travel writer
• Irene Handl (1901–1987), novelist and actress
• St. John Hankin (1869–1909), playwright
• James Hanley (1897–1985), novelist and screenwriter
• Sophie Hannah (born 1971), poet and novelist
• Derek Hansen (born 1944), novelist
• Jonas Hanway (1712–1786), travel writer and pamphleteer
• Caroline Hardaker (born 1986), poet and novelist
• Michael Hardcastle (1933–2019), children's writer
• John Harding (died 1610), scholar, AV translator and cleric
• Frances Hardinge (born 1973), children's writer
• Mollie Hardwick (1916–2003), novelist and writer
• Ronald Hardy (1919–1991), novelist
• Thomas Hardy (1840–1928), novelist and poet, The Mayor of Casterbridge
• Augustus Hare (1834–1903), travel writer and raconteur
• Augustus William Hare (1792–1834), essayist and cleric
• Cyril Hare (real name A. A. G. Clark, 1900–1958), novelist
• David Hare (born 1947), playwright
• Julius Charles Hare (1795–1855), religious writer
• R. M. Hare (1919–2002), philosopher
• Roger Hargreaves (1935–1988), children's writer and illustrator, Mr. Men
• James Harington (1611–1677), political writer
• John Harington (1561–1612), poet and translator
• John Harmar (c. 1555–1613), scholar, AV translator and cleric
• Cynthia Harnett (1893–1981), children's writer
• Charles George Harper (1863–1943), travel writer and illustrator
• Beatrice Harraden (1864–1936), novelist, lexicographer and suffragist
• Thomas Harriot (1560–1621), astronomer, mathematician and translator
• Frank Harris (1856–1931), writer, editor and autobiographer
• James Harris (1709–1780), philosopher and grammarian
• Joanne Harris (born 1964), novelist
• Robert Harris (born 1957), novelist, writer and screenwriter
• Rosemary Harris (born 1927), children's writer
• Austin Harrison (1873–1928), editor and writer
• Jane Ellen Harrison (1850–1928), classicist
• Sarah Harrison (born 1946), novelist and children's writer
• Thomas Harrison (1555–1631), scholar, AV translator and cleric
• Tony Harrison (born 1938), poet and playwright
• William Harrison (1534–1593), writer and cleric
• Tom Harrisson (also as T. H. Harrisson, 1911–1976), polymath
• David Harsent (wrote as Jack Curtis, David Lawrence, b. 1942), novelist, poet and scriptwriter
• B. H. Liddell Hart (1895–1970), historian and army officer
• Christopher Hart (also as William Napier, b. 1965), novelist
• Adam Hart-Davis (born 1943), writer and broadcaster
• Duff Hart-Davis (born 1936), biographer and naturalist
• Walter Harte (1709–1774), poet and historian
• David Hartley (1705–1757), philosopher and psychologist
• John Hartley (1839–1915), dialect poet and writer
• L. P. Hartley (1895–1972), novelist, The Go-Between
• Frederick William Harvey (1888–1957), poet
• Gabriel Harvey (c. 1545–1630), poet and writer
• John Harvey (born 1938), novelist
• William Harvey (1578–1657), physician
• F. W. Harvey (1888–1957), poet
• W. F. Harvey (1885–1937), story writer
• Lee Harwood (1939–2015), poet
• Alamgir Hashmi (born 1951), poet and scholar
• Minnie Louise Haskins (1875–1957), poet and welfare worker
• Christopher Hassall (1912–1963), playwright, actor and poet
• Edward Hasted (1732–1812), historian
• Michael Hastings (1938–2011), playwright, novelist and screenwriter
• Richard Hathwaye, (fl. 1597–1603) playwright
• Ann Hatton (wrote as Ann of Swansea, 1764–1838), novelist
• Joseph Hatton (1841–1907), novelist and editor
• William Haughton (died 1605), playwright
• Frances Ridley Havergal (1836–1879), poet and hymnist
• Stephen Hawes (c. 1474–1523), poet
• Robert Stephen Hawker (1803–1875), poet and cleric
• John Hawkesworth (1715–1773), writer, editor and playwright
• John Hawkins (1719–1789), writer and biographer
• Laetitia Matilda Hawkins (1759–1835), novelist
• Spike Hawkins (born 1943), poet and performer
• Thomas Hawkins (1575 – c. 1640), poet and translator
• Ian Hay (real name John Hay Beith, 1876–1952), novelist and playwright
• Roy Hay (1910–1989), garden writer and broadcaster
• William Hayley (1745–1820), poet, playwright and biographer
• Carole Hayman (living), novelist, screenwriter and actor
• Robert Hayman (1575–1629), poet and colonist
• Mary Hays (1759–1843), novelist
• Alethea Hayter (1911–2006), biographer and historian
• William Hayter (diplomat) (1906–1995), writer
• Abraham Hayward (1801–1884), essayist
• John Hayward (c. 1560–1627), historian
• Eliza Haywood (1793–1756), novelist, playwright and poet
• C. H. Hazlewood (1823–1875), playwright
• William Hazlitt (1778–1830), essayist and critic
• Mary Hearne (fl. 1718), novelist
• Thomas Hearne or Hearn (1678–1735), antiquary and scholar
• Ambrose Heath (originally Francis Geoffrey Miller, 1891–1969), cookery writer and translator
• Thomas Little Heath (1861–1940), classicist and translator
• John Heath-Stubbs (1918–2006), poet, translator and anthologist
• Reginald Heber (1783–1826), poet, hymnist and bishop
• Richard Heber (1773–1833), classicist and editor
• Annie French Hector (Mrs Alexander, 1825–1902), novelist
• Zoë Heller (born 1965), novelist and journalist
• Elizabeth Helme (c. 1753 – c. 1812), novelist and translator
• Arthur Helps (1813–1875), writer, novelist and biographer
• Racey Helps (1913–1970), children's writer
• Felicia Hemans (1793–1835), poet
• Maggie Hemingway (1946–1993), novelist
• John Henley (1692–1756), poet, writer and cleric
• Samuel Henley (1740–1815), poet and writer
• William Ernest Henley (1849–1903), poet
• Charles Frederick Henningsen (1815–1877), writer and mercenary
• Robert Henriques (1905–1967), novelist and biographer
• Alan Henry (1947–2016), Grand Prix reporter and writer.
• Matthew Henry (1662–1714), Bible commentator and cleric
• Philip Henry (1631–1696), diarist and cleric
• John Stevens Henslow (1796–1861), botanist, geologist and cleric
• Philip Henslowe, (c. 1550–1616), diarist and theatre manager
• G. A. Henty, (1832–1902), novelist
• Philip Hensher (born 1965), novelist and critic
• Rayner Heppenstall (1911–1981), novelist and poet
• John Abraham Heraud (1799–1887), poet, playwright and critic
• A. P. Herbert (1890–1971), humorist, novelist and playwright
• Edward Herbert, Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1583–1648), poet and soldier
• George Herbert (1593–1633), poet
• James Herbert (1943–2013), novelist
• Mary Herbert, countess of Pembroke (1561–1621), poet and translator
• William Herbert (1718–1795), bibliographer
• William Herbert (1771–1851), antiquary and librarian
• William Herbert (1778–1847), poet, cleric and botanist
• Edward Heron-Allen (1861–1943), novelist, historian and translator
• Robert Herrick (1591–1674), poet and cleric
• James Herriot (pen name of James Alfred Wight, 1916–1995), writer
• Elizabeth Hervey (1759–1824), novelist
• John Hervey (1696–1743), political writer and memoirist
• Thomas Kibble Hervey (1799–1859), poet and critic
• D. G. Hessayon (born 1928), garden writer
• Maurice Hewlett (1861–1923), historical novelist and poet
• John Hey (1734–1815), theologian and poet
• Richard Hey (1745–1835), essayist and academic
• William Hey (1736–1819), surgeon
• Christopher Heydon (1561–1623), astrologist
• John Heydon (1629 – c. 1667), astrologer and Rosicrucian
• Georgette Heyer (1902–1974), novelist
• Peter Heylin or Heylyn (1600–1662), pamphleteer and cleric
• Jasper Heywood (1535–1598), poet and translator
• John Heywood (c. 1497 – c. 1580), playwright and poet
• Thomas Heywood (early 1570s – 1641), playwright, A Woman Killed with Kindness
• Eleanor Hibbert (originally Eleanor Alice Burford, wrote as Jean Plaidy, etc., 1906–1993), novelist
• Robert Smythe Hichens (1864–1950), novelist and playwright
• William Hickey (1749–1830), memoirist
• Jack Higgins (wrote as Harry Patterson, 1929–2022), novelist
• Philip E. High (1914–2006), science fiction novelist
• Susanna Highmore (1690–1750), poet
• Aaron Hill (1685–1750), playwright and writer
• Christopher Hill (1912–2003), historian
• Eric Hill (1927–2014), children's writer and illustrator
• Geoffrey Hill (1932–2016), poet and academic
• John Hill (c. 1716–1775), novelist, journalist and botanist
• Justin Hill (born 1971), novelist, biographer and translator
• Lorna Hill (1902–1991), children's writer and novelist
• Octavia Hill (1838–1912), social reformer
• Reginald Hill (1936–2012), novelist
• Rosemary Hill (living), cultural historian and biographer
• Selima Hill (born 1945), poet
• Susan Hill (born 1942), novelist and writer
• Tobias Hill (born 1970), novelist and poet
• Mischa Hiller (born 1962), novelist
• Lawrence D. Hills (1911–1991), garden writer
• Jeff Hilson (born 1966), poet
• James Hilton (1900–1954), novelist
• Lisa Hilton (living), novelist and biographer
• Walter Hilton (1340–1396), mystic
• Barry Hines (1939–2016), novelist
• Nigel Hinton (born 1941), novelist and children's writer
• Shakespeare Hirst (1841–1907), actor, author and Shakespearean
• William Henry Hitchener (fl. 1813), travel writer
• Henry Hitchings (born 1974), writer and scholar
• Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980), screenwriter and director
• Christopher Eric Hitchens (1949–2011), writer and journalist
• Benjamin Hoadly (1676–1761), polemicist and bishop
• Louisa Gurney Hoare (1784–1836), diarist and educator
• Richard Colt Hoare (1758–1838), diarist, travel writer and antiquary
• Thomas Hobbes, (1588–1679) political philosopher, Leviathan
• Peter Hobbs (born 1973), novelist
• John Hobhouse, 1st Baron Broughton (1786–1869), political writer and diarist
• Eric Hobsbawm (1917–2012), historian
• Margaret Hoby (1571–1633), diarist
• Joseph Hocking (1860–1937), novelist and cleric
• Silas Hocking (1850–1935), novelist and cleric
• Jane Aiken Hodge (1917–2009), novelist
• C. Walter Hodges (1909–2004), children's writer and illustrator
• Ralph Hodgson (1871–1962), poet and translator
• Shadworth Hodgson (1832–1912), philosopher
• W. N. Hodgson (wrote as Edward Melbourne, 1893–1916), poet
• Barbara Hofland (1770–1844), children's writer
• Thomas Jefferson Hogg (1792–1862), biographer
• Simon Hoggart (1946–2014), writer and broadcaster
• Pete Hoida (born 1944), poet and painter
• Fanny Holcroft (1780–1844), novelist and poet
• Thomas Holcroft (1745–1809), playwright and miscellanist
• Molly Holden (1927–1981), poet
• William Holder (1616–1698), music scholar and cleric
• Robert Holdstock (1948–2009), novelist
• Margaret Holford (1757–1834), novelist, playwright and poet
• Margaret Holford (1778–1852), poet and translator
• Raphael Holinshed (1529–1580), chronicler, translator and cleric
• Abraham Holland (died 1626), poet
• Jane Holland (born 1966), poet and novelist
• John Holland (1794–1872), poet and journalist
• Philemon Holland (1552–1637), translator
• Sarah Holland (born 1961), writer and actress
• Thomas Holland (1539–1612), scholar, AV translator and cleric
• William Holland (1746–1819), diarist and cleric
• Helen Hollick (born 1953), novelist
• Alan Hollinghurst (born 1954), novelist and translator
• John Holloway (1920–1999), poet and scholar
• Constance Holme (1880–1955), novelist and playwright
• John Holmes (1703–1760), educator
• Richard Holmes (born 1945), biographer
• Robert Holmes (1926–1986), scriptwriter
• Emily Sarah Holt (1836–1893), novelist and children's writer
• Hazel Holt (1928–2015), novelist
• Winifred Holtby (1898–1935), novelist
• Stewart Home (born 1962), novelist, writer and artist
• Joseph Hone (1937–2016), novelist
• William Hone (1780–1842), satirist and bookseller
• Thomas Hood (1799–1845), poet and humorist
• Tom Hood (1835–1874), humorist, playwright and poet
• Theodore Hook (1788–1841), writer and prankster
• Jeremy Hooker (born 1941), poet, critic and broadcaster
• Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911), botanist and explorer
• Richard Hooker (1554–1600), theologian
• William Jackson Hooker (1785–1865), botanist
• John Hoole (1727–1803), translator and poet
• Alexander Beresford Hope (1820–1887), writer
• Anthony Hope, (real name Anthony Hope Hawkins, 1863–1933) novelist, The Prisoner of Zenda
• Thomas Hope (1769–1831), writer and novelist
• Bill Hopkins (1928–2011), novelist
• Cathy Hopkins (born 1953), children's novelist
• Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889), poet, "The Wreck of the Deutschland"
• Simon Hopkinson (born 1954), food writer and chef
• Sydney Horler (1888–1954), novelist
• Alfred Aloysius Horn (1861–1931), travel writer
• Nick Hornby (born 1957), novelist
• Alistair Horne (1925–2017), historian and biographer
• Kenneth Horne (1900–1975), playwright
• Richard Henry Horne (1802–1884), poet and critic
• Roy Horniman (1874–1930), novelist and playwright
• E. W. Hornung (1866–1921), author, A. J. Raffles
• Frances Horovitz (1938–1983), poet and broadcaster
• Michael Horovitz (1935–2021), poet and translator
• Anthony Horowitz (born 1956), novelist, children's writer and screenwriter
• William Horwood (born 1944), novelist and children's writer
• John Hoskins or Hoskyns (1566–1638), poet and politician
• Clare Hoskyns-Abrahall (1900–1990), biographer and children's writer
• Charlotte Hough (1924–2008), detective novelist and children's writer
• Richard Hough (also as Bruce Carter, 1922–1999), maritime historian and children's writer
• Stanley Bennett Hough (1917–1998), SF and thriller writer
• Stanley Houghton (1881–1913), playwright
• Geoffrey Household (1900–1988), novelist
• A. E. Housman (1859–1936), poet and scholar, A Shropshire Lad
• Laurence Housman (1865–1959), playwright
• Anne Howard (c. 1696–1764), poet
• Brian Howard (1905–1958), poet
• Edward Howard (1624 – c. 1700), playwright and poet
• Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923–2014), novelist
• Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle, Earl of Carlisle (1748–1825), poet, playwright and pamphleteer
• Hartley Howard (real name Leopold Horace Ognall, also as Harry Carmichael, 1908–1979), crime novelist
• Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517–1547), poet
• Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton (1540–1614), writer and courtier
• John Howard (1726–1790), philanthropist and reformer
• Robert Howard (1626–1698), playwright
• Sandra Howard (born 1940), novelist
• David Armine Howarth (1912–1991), historian and writer
• James Howell (1594–1666), Historiographer Royal and poet
• Francis Howgill (1618–1668), Quaker writer and preacher
• Anna Mary Howitt (1824–1884), poet, writer and painter
• Mary Howitt (1799–1888), poet and translator
• Richard Howitt (1799–1869), poet
• William Howitt (1792–1879), writer and traveller
• Edmond Hoyle (1672–1769), writer on games
• Fred Hoyle (1915–2001), astronomer and SF writer
• Geoffrey Hoyle (born 1942), SF writer
• Sisley Huddleston (1883–1952), writer and journalist
• Stephen Hudson (real name Sydney Schiff, 1868–1944), novelist and translator
• Pauline von Hügel (1858-1901), religious writer
• David Hughes (1930–2005), novelist and biographer
• Frieda Hughes (born 1960), children's writer, poet and painter
• Molly Hughes (1866–1956), writer and educator
• Richard Hughes (1900–1976), poet, novelist and playwright, A High Wind in Jamaica
• Shirley Hughes (1927–2022), children's writer and illustrator
• Ted Hughes (1930–1998), Poet Laureate, translator and anthologist
• Thomas Hughes (1822–1896), writer and novelist, Tom Brown's Schooldays
• E. M. Hull (real name Edith Maude Winstanley, 1880–1947), novelist
• Katharine Hull (1921–1977) and Pamela Whitlock (1920–1982), children's writers, The Far-Distant Oxus
• T. E. Hulme (1883–1917), critic and poet
• Michael Hulse (born 1955), translator, critic and poet
• Fergus Hume (1859–1932), novelist
• Tobias Hume (c. 1590–1645), musician and poet
• Helen Humphreys (born 1961), poet and novelist
• Neil Humphreys (born 1974), writer on Singapore
• Leigh Hunt (1784–1859), poet and essayist
• Violet Hunt (1862–1942), novelist and biographer
• John Hunter (1737–1821), explorer, travel writer and naval officer
• Norman Hunter (1899–1995), children's novelist, Professor Branestawm
• Rachel Hunter (c. 1754–1813), novelist
• Richard Hurd, (1720–1808), writer, translator and bishop
• James Hurdis (1763–1801), poet and cleric
• Hyman Hurwitz (1770–1844), writer and scholar
• Dyneley Hussey (1893–1972), poet and music critic
• Sheila Hutchins (living), cookery-book writer
• A. S. M. Hutchinson (1880–1971), novelist
• John Hutchinson (1674–1737), theologian
• Lucy Hutchinson (1620–1681), biographer and translator
• R. C. Hutchinson (1907–1975), novelist
• Ralph Hutchinson (c. 1553–1606), scholar, AV translator and cleric
• Angela Huth (born 1938), novelist and playwright
• Leonard Hutten (c. 1557–1632), scholar, AV translator and cleric
• Catherine Hutton (1756–1846), novelist and correspondent
• William Hutton (1723–1815), poet and historian
• Richard Holt Hutton (1826–1897), writer and theologian
• Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), novelist and essayist, Brave New World
• Julian Huxley (1887–1975), zoologist, philosopher and science writer
• Leonard Huxley (1860–1933), writer, biographer and editor
• Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895), scientist and essayist
• Edward Hyde, Lord Clarendon (1609–1674), historian and statesman
• Liz Hyder (born 1976 or 1977), novelist
• Timothy Hyman (born 1946), art writer
• Henry Hyndman (1842–1921), writer and politician

I

• Eva Ibbotson (1925–2010), novelist and children's writer
• David Icke (born 1952), writer and public speaker
• Conn Iggulden (born 1971), novelist and children's writer
• Selwyn Image (1849–1930), poet, designer and cleric
• Elijah Impey (1732–1809), memoirist and judge
• Elizabeth Inchbald (1753–1821), novelist and playwright
• William Ralph Inge (known as Dean Inge, 1860–1954), writer, theologian and cleric
• Thomas Ingelend (fl. 1560), The Disobedient Child
• Jean Ingelow (1820–1897), poet and novelist
• Julia, Lady Inglis (1833–1904), diarist
• Simon Ings (born 1965), novelist and science writer
• Mick Inkpen (born 1952), children's writer and illustrator
• Hammond Innes (also as Ralph Hammond, 1919–1998), novelist and children's writer
• Samuel Ireland (1744–1800), writer and engraver
• William Henry Ireland (1775–1835), poet, novelist and forger
• David Irving (born 1938), Holocaust denier
• R. L. G. Irving (1877–1969), mountaineering writer
• Margaret Irwin (1889–1969), novelist and biographer
• Robert Irwin (born 1946), historian, novelist and Arabist
• Nathaniel Isaacs (1808–1872), traveller and writer
• Christopher Isherwood (1904–1986), novelist, Goodbye to Berlin
• Kazuo Ishiguro (born 1954), novelist, An Artist of the Floating World
• Eric Ives (1931–2012), historian and biographer
• George Cecil Ives (1867–1950), poet, diarist and reformer
• Helen Ivory (born 1969), poet

J

• Donald Jack (1924–2003), novelist, playwright and scriptwriter
• Benedict Jacka (living), YA novelist
• Catherine Jackson (1824–1891), historian and editor
• Mick Jackson (born 1960), novelist
• Alaric Jacob (1909–1995), novelist and journalist
• Anna Jacobs (born 1941), novelist
• Joseph Jacobs (1854–1916), folklorist and historian
• W. W. Jacobs (1863–1943), novelist and story writer, The Monkey's Paw
• Howard Jacobson (born 1942), novelist and journalist
• Brian Jacques (1939–2011), novelist
• Frances Jacson (1754–1842), novelist
• Richard Jago (1715–1781), poet and cleric
• Christopher James (born 1975), poet
• Elinor James (1644–1719), polemicist and printer
• G. P. R. James (1799–1860), novelist and Historiographer Royal
• M. R. James (1862–1936), story writer and scholar, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
• P. D. James (1920–2014), novelist
• Robert Rhodes James (1933–1999), biographer, historian and politician
• Thomas James (1573–1629), librarian and poet
• William Milbourne James (1881–1973), writer, poet and admiral
• Anna Brownell Jameson (1794–1860), travel writer and art critic
• Storm Jameson (1891–1986), novelist and autobiographer
• James Janeway (1636–1674), children's writer
• Rosemary Hawley Jarman (1935–2015), novelist and story writer
• Claude Scudamore Jarvis (1879–1953), writer and naturalist
• Antony Jay (1930–2016), writer, broadcaster, and director
• John Cordy Jeaffreson (1831–1901), novelist and non-fiction writer
• Tim Jeal (born 1945), novelist and biographer
• James Hopwood Jeans (1877–1946), writer and astronomer
• Samuel Jebb (c. 1694–1772), scholar and physician
• Richard Jefferies (1848–1887), nature writer and essayist
• Agnes Jekyll (1861–1937), writer
• Gertrude Jekyll (1843–1932), garden writer
• Alan Jenkins (born 1955), poet
• Amy Jenkins (born 1966), novelist and screenwriter
• Peter Jenkins (1934–1992), journalist and screenwriter
• Elizabeth Jennings (1926–2001), poet
• Humphrey Jennings (1907–1950), writer and film maker
• Soame Jenyns (1704–1787), poet and essayist
• Edgar Jepson (also as R. Edison Page, 1863–1938), writer and novelist
• Selwyn Jepson (1899–1989), crime writer
• Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927), humorist and playwright, Three Men in a Boat
• Douglas William Jerrold (1803–1857), playwright, novelist and essayist
• John Heneage Jesse (1809–1874), historian and poet
• William Stanley Jevons (1840–1882), economist and logician
• Geraldine Jewsbury (1812–1880), novelist and critic
• Maria Jane Jewsbury (1800–1833), poet and critic
• C. E. M. Joad (1891–1953), philosopher and broadcaster
• Elizabeth Jocelin (c. 1595–1622), writer on child-raising
• Rowan Joffé (born 1973), screenwriter
• W. E. Johns (1893–1968), novelist and pilot, Biggles
• B. S. Johnson (1933–1973), novelist and editor
• Lionel Johnson (1867–1902), poet and essayist
• Pamela Hansford Johnson (1912–1981), novelist, playwright and critic
• Richard Johnson (1573 – c. 1659), writer
• Samuel Johnson (1649–1703), pamphleteer and cleric
• Samuel Johnson, (1709–1784) writer, poet and lexicographer
• Kate Johnson (born c. 1980), writer
• Brian Jones (1938–2009), poet
• Charlotte Jones (living), playwright and actress
• David Jones (1895–1974), poet, writer and artist
• Daniel Jones (1881–1967), phonetician
• Diana Wynne Jones (1934–2011), novelist
• Ebenezer Jones (1820–1860), poet
• Ernest Charles Jones (1819–1869), poet, novelist and Chartist
• Henry Arthur Jones (1851–1929), playwright
• Lara Jones (1975–2010), children's writer Poppy Cat series
• Sadie Jones (born 1967), novelist
• Tobias Jones (living), writer
• William Jones (1726–1800), theologian and cleric
• William Jones (1746–1794), polyglot and poet
• Ben Jonson (1573–1637), poet and dramatist, Bartholomew Fair
• Robert Furneaux Jordan (1905–1978), crime writer and critic
• John Jortin (1698–1770), biographer and historian
• Jenny Joseph (1932–2018), poet and novelist
• Gabriel Josipovici (born 1940), novelist and critic
• John Josselyn (fl. 1638–1675), writer and traveller
• Benjamin Jowett (1817–1893), scholar and translator
• Graham Joyce (1954–2014), novelist and YA writer
• Alan Judd (born 1946), novelist and biographer
• Tony Judt (1948–2010), historian and political writer

See also

• English literature
• English novel
• List of children's literature authors
• List of children's non-fiction writers
• List of English-language poets
• List of English novelists
• Lists of writers