List of English writers
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, awa = also wrote/writes as, b. = born, c. = circa; century, cc. = centuries; cleric = Anglican priest, d. = died, fl. = floruit, or. = originally, RC = Roman Catholic, SF = science fiction, YA = young-adult fiction
A
- A. W. (fl. 1602), poet
- Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838–1926), theologian, philologist and novelist
- Gilbert Abbott à Beckett (1811–1856), humorist
- George Abbot (1562–1633), writer, AV translator and cleric
- Lascelles Abercrombie (1881–1938), poet and critic
- 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 (b. 1949), novelist and biographer
- Eliza Acton (1799–1859), poet and cookery writer
- Harold Acton (1904–1994), writer and scholar
- Paul Adam (b. 1958), novelist
- Charles Warren Adams (awa Charles Felix, 1833–1903), novelist and lawyer, The Notting Hill Mystery
- Douglas Adams (1952–2001), novelist and scriptwriter
- John Adams, (pre-1670–1738), cartographer and gazetteer compiler
- Richard Adams (b. 1920), novelist, Watership Down
- Sarah Flower Adams (1805–1848), poet and hymnist
- Donald Adamson (b. 1939), writer and historian
- John Adamson (1787–1855), antiquary, poet and translator
- Arthur St. John Adcock (1864–1930), novelist and editor
- Fleur Adcock (b. 1934), poet
- Joseph Addison (1672–1719), essayist and poet, The Spectator'
- Percy Addleshaw (wrote as Percy Hemingway, 1866–1916), writer and poet
- Diran Adebayo (b. 1968), novelist and broadcaster
- Mark Adlard (b. 1932), novelist
- James Agate (1877–1947), diarist and critic
- Bola Agbaje (living), playwright
- John Aglionby (d. 1609/10), scholar, AV translator and cleric
- Grace Aguilar (1816–1847), novelist and writer
- Allan Ahlberg (b. 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
- William Harrison Ainsworth (1805–1882), novelist
- Mark Akenside (1721–1770), poet
- William Alabaster (1567–1640), poet, playwright and cleric
- James Albery (1838–1889), playwright
- Alice Albinia (b. 1976), travel writer
- Mary Alcock (c. 1742–1798), poet and essayist
- Thomas Aldham or Aldam, (c. 1616–1660), writer and Quaker
- Richard Aldington (1892–1962), novelist and poet
- Brian Aldiss (b. 1925), novelist
- Henry Aldrich (1647–1710), poet and theologian
- Horace Alexander (1889–1989), writer on India, ornithologist and Quaker
- Alan F. Alford (b. 1961), writer on mythology
- Monica Ali (b. 1967), novelist, Brick Lane
- Cyril Alington (1872–1955), novelist and writer
- Nicholas Allan (living), children's writer
- Rupert Allason (awa 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 (b. 1951), novelist and children's writer
- Vincent Alsop (c. 1630–1703), writer and dissenting minister
- Al Alvarez (b. 1929), poet and writer
- Moniza Alvi (b. 1968), poet and writer
- Eric Ambler (1909–1998), novelist and screenwriter
- Isaac Ambrose (1604–1663/4), writer, diarist and cleric
- Elizabeth Amherst (c. 1716–1779), poet and naturalist
- Kingsley Amis (1922–1995), poet and novelist, Lucky Jim
- Martin Amis (b. 1949), novelist
- Thomas Amory (c. 1691–1788), novelist and miscellanist
- Thomas Amory (1701–1774), poet and dissenting cleric
- Valerie Anand (awa Flora Buckley, b. 1937), novelist
- Patrick Anderson (1915–1979), poet
- Rachel Anderson (b. 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
- Miles Peter Andrews (1742–1814), playwright and poet
- Norman Angell (1872–1967), Nobel Prize winner, political writer and economist
- Jane Anger (fl. 1589), pamphleteer
- Peter Anghelides (fl. 1990s), writer
- Charlotte Anley (1796–1893), novelist and writer
- George Anson Lord Anson (1697–1762), writer, explorer and admiral
- Christopher Anstey (1724–1805), writer and poet
- Charles James Apperley (wrote as Nimrod, 1777–1843), hunting and racing writer
- Lisa Appignanesi (b. 1946), writer and historian
- Roy Apps (b. 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 (b. 1940), novelist and politician
- Philip Ardagh (b. 1961), children's writer
- John Arden (b. 1930), playwright and novelist
- Edward Ardizzone (1900–1979), children's writer and illustrator
- Reginald Arkell (1882–1959), novelist, playwright and screenwriter
- Michael Arlen (or. 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 (b. 1963), poet, playwright and novelist
- Martin Armstrong (1882–1974), novelist and poet
- Peter Armstrong (b. 1957), poet and psychotherapist
- Richard Armstrong (1903–1986), novelist, historian and children's writer
- Elizabeth von Arnim (awa Alice Cholmondeley, 1866–1941), novelist
- Edwin Arnold (1832–1904), poet and journalist
- Edwin Lester Arnold (1857–1935), writer and novelist
- Elizabeth Arnold (b. 1944), children's writer
- Matthew Arnold (1822–1888), poet, Dover Beach
- Richard Arnold (d. 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
- 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 (b. 1948), poet and travel writer
- Maurice Ash (1917–2003), writer on environment and planning
- Russell Ash (1946–2010), writer
- Timothy Garton Ash (b. 1955), historian
- Elizabeth Ashbridge (1713–1755), autobiographer and Quaker
- Geoffrey Ashe (b. 1923), cultural historian
- Thomas Ashe or Ash (fl. 1600–1618), legal writer
- Thomas Ashe (1770–1835), novelist and miscellanist
- Thomas Ashe (1836–1889), poet
- Daisy Ashford (1881–1972), child author, The Young Visiters
- Elias Ashmole (1617–1692), antiquary and patron
- Will Ashon (b. 1969), novelist and music writer
- Francis Leslie Ashton (1904–1994), novelist
- Andrea Ashworth (b. 1969), writer and scholar
- Anne Askew (1521–1546), poet, writer and martyr
- Nadeem Aslam (b. 1966), novelist
- 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
- Edwin Atherstone (1788–1872), poet and novelist
- Diana Athill (b. 1917), editor, novelist and memoirist
- James Atkinson (1780–1852), scholar
- Kate Atkinson (b. 1952), novelist
- William Atkinson (d. 1509), translator
- David Attenborough (b. 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, (d. 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 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
- Christopher Awdry (b. 1940), children's writer
- Wilbert Awdry (Rev. W. Awdry, 1911–1997), children's writer and cleric, Thomas the Tank Engine
- Alan Ayckbourn (b. 1939), playwright
- A. J. Ayer (1910–1989), philosopher
- Pam Ayres (b. 1947), poet and songwriter
- Michael Ayrton (1921–1975), writer and artist
- Shamim Azad, (living), writer and translator
- Trezza Azzopardi, (living), novelist
B
- Charles Babbage (1791–1871), polymath
- Gervase Babington (1549/50–1610), theologian and bishop
- David Baddiel (b. 1964), novelist and comic
- 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
- Enid Bagnold (1889–1981), novelist and playwright, National Velvet
- Richard Bagot (1860–1921), novelist and essayist
- David Bailey (living), story writer and editor
- H. C. Bailey (1878–1961), novelist
- Hilary Bailey (b. 1936), biographer and editor
- Nathan Bailey (d. 1742), philologist
- Paul Bailey (b. 1937), novelist and dramatist
- Philip James Bailey (1816–1902), poet
- Samuel Bailey (1791–1870), philosopher and economist
- Beryl Bainbridge (b. 1932), 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 (b. 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 ancient historian
- Samuel Bamford (1788–1872), writer and dialect poet
- John Codrington Bampfylde (1764–1796/7), poet
- Richard Bancroft (1544–1610), AV translator and archbishop
- Isabella Banks (1821–1897), novelist and poet
- Lynne Reid Banks (b. 1929), novelist
- Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743–1825), poet and children's writer
- W. N. P. Barbellion (real name Bruce Frederick Cummings, 1889–1919), diarist
- Richard Barber (b. 1941), historian
- Alexander Barclay (c. 1476–1552), poet and translator
- Florence L. Barclay (1862–1921), novelist
- James Barclay (b. 1965), novelist
- John Baret (d. 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 (b. 1952), writer, film director and visual artist
- Elspeth Barker (b. 1940), 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 (b. 1966), novelist
- Pat Barker (b. 1943), novelist
- Raffaella Barker (b. 1964), novelist and journalist
- Sebastian Barker (b. 1945), poet
- George Barlow (wrote as James Hinton, 1837–1913/14), poet
- William Barlow (d. 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 of Newcastle.
- Jonathan Barnes (b. 1942), philosopher
- Julian Barnes (b. 1946), novelist, Flaubert's Parrot
- William Barnes (1801–1886), dialect poet
- Correlli Barnett (b. 1927), historian
- Richard Barnfield (1574–1620), poet
- Alexander Baron (1917–1999), novelist and screenwriter
- 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 (b. 1928), novelist and dramatist
- William Bartholomew (1793–1867), librettist and composer
- Mike Bartlett (b. 1980), playwright and director
- Bernard Barton (1784–1849), poet and Quaker
- Henry Howarth Bashford (1880–1961), novelist and physician
- William Basse (c. 1583–1653/4), poet
- Jonathan Bate (b. 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 (b. 1957), novelist
- Basil Al Bayati (b. 1946), writer, architect and proponent of metaphoric architecture
- F. W. N. Bayley (1808–1853), miscellanist
- John Bayley (b. 1925), 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 (b. 1953), children's writer and illustrator
- John Beadle (d. 1667), diarist and cleric
- Richard Bean (b. 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
- William Beckford (1760–1844), novelist and patron
- Lillian Beckwith (b. 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 (b. Isabella Mary Mayson, 1836–1865), cookery writer
- Antony Beevor (b. 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 (awa 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
- 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 (b. 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 (b. 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 (b. 1943), poet
- Elisabeth Beresford (b. 1928), 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 (b. 1926), novelist, G.
- Reginald Berkeley (1890–1935), playwright and screenwriter
- John Berkenhout (1726–1791), naturalist
- Steven Berkoff (b. 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 (b. 1935), cookery writer
- 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 (b. 1954), poet
- Hester Biddle (c. 1629–1697), Quaker pamphleteer and preacher
- John Stanyan Bigg (1828–1865), poet
- Mark Billingham (b. 1961), novelist
- Thomas Bilson(1547–1616), theologian, AV translator and bishop
- Andrew Bing (1574–1652), scholar, AV translator and cleric
- Laurence Binyon (1869–1943), poet and art historian
- T. J. Binyon (1936–2004), novelist, translator and biographer
- Thomas Birch (1705–1766), historian
- Caroline Bird (b. 1986), poet and playwright
- Isabella Bird (1831–1904), travel writer and naturalist
- Dea Birkett (b. 1958), writer
- John Birtwhistle (b. 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 (b. 1923), novelist
- Thomas Blackburn (1916–1977), poet
- Malorie Blackman (b. 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 (b. 1932), children's writer and illustrator
- William Blake (1757–1827), poet and artist, Songs of Innocence and of Experience
- Helen Blakeman (b. 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 (b. 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. 1757/63 – 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 (b. 1922), 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 (b. 1926), children's writer, Paddington Bear
- Elizabeth Bonhôte (1744–1818), novelist
- Christopher Booker (b. 1937), writer and journalist
- George Boole (1815–1864), mathematician and logician
- Mary Everest Boole (1832–1916), mathematics 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 (b. 1952), novelist
- Brooke Boothby (1744–1824), scholar and poet
- Frances Boothby (fl. 1669–70), playwright
- Basil Boothroyd (1910–1988), writer and humourist
- George Borrow (1803–1881), novelist and travel writer, Romany Rye
- Lucy M. Boston (1892–1990), children's writer
- Clifford Edmund Bosworth (b. 1928), 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 (b. 1924), 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 (b. 1924), 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 (b. 1959), children's writer and screenwriter
- William Binnington Boyce (1804–1889), philologist, theologian and Methodist minister
- Abel Boyer (c. 1667–1729), journalist, miscellanist and translator
- Charles Boyle (1674–1731), writer and playwright
- Charles Boyle (b. 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 (b. 1958), writer and novelist
- Alison Brackenbury (b. 1953), poet
- 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 (b. 1933), novelist
- Ernle Bradford (1922–1986), historian and writer
- 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, B. A., 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
- Hilary Bradt (b. 1941), travel writer and publisher
- John Brady (d. 1814), miscellanist
- Melvyn Bragg (b. 1939), novelist, biographer and broadcaster
- John Braine (1922–1986), novelist, Room at the Top
- Richard Braithwaite or Brathwait, (1588–1673), poet
- Ernest Bramah (b. 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 (b. 1957), writer and comedian
- William Branthwaite (d. 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 – c. 1626), poet and tractarian
- Richard Brett (1567–1637), scholar, AV translator and cleric
- Simon Brett (b. 1945), novelist and playwright
- E. Cobham Brewer (1810–1897), writer and cleric, Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
- George Brewer (b. 1766), miscellanist
- James Norris Brewer (fl. 1799–1829), topographer and novelist
- John Brewster (1753–1842), writer and cleric
- Shane Briant (b. 1946), novelist and actor
- John Bridges (1536–1618), tractarian and bishop
- Robert Bridges (1844–1930), Poet Laureate
- Katharine Mary Briggs (1898–1980), folklore writer
- Raymond Briggs (b. 1934), children's writer and illustrator
- John Bright (1811–1889), orator and politician
- Joanna Briscoe (b. 1963), novelist and journalist
- 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 (b. 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 (or. Brunty, 1777–1861), poet, writer and cleric
- Rhidian Brook (b. 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
- Rupert Brooke (1887–1915), poet
- Stephanie Brookes (b. 1980), writer
- Anita Brookner (1929–2016), novelist
- Kevin Brooks (b. 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, diarist and missionary
- John Brown (1715–1766), essayist and cleric
- Pamela Brown (1924–1989), children's writer
- Pete Brown (b. 1940), performance poet and songwriter
- Pete Brown (b. 1968), beer writer and columnist
- Stewart Brown (b. 1951), poet and scholar
- Tom Brown (1663–1704), satirist and translator
- Anthony Browne (b. 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 (b. 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 and surgeon
- Raymond Buckland (b. 1934), occultist
- William Buckland (1784–1856), geologist, palaeontologist and cleric
- Henry Thomas Buckle (1821–1862), historian
- 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), Elizabethan 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 (or. John Burgess Wilson, 1917–1993), novelist, A Clockwork Orange
- Melvin Burgess (b. 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 (d. 1798), pamphleteer and official
- Francis Burleigh (fl. 1590–1610), AV translator and cleric
- Michael Burleigh (b. 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 (awa 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, (b. 1939), philosopher and classicist
- James Burrow (1701–1782), scholar, scientist and lawyer
- Montagu Burrows (1819–1905), naval historian and officer
- 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
- Gwendoline Butler (b. 1922), 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 (b. 1969), playwright
- Mary Butts (1890–1937), writer and poet
- Bertha Henry Buxton (1844–1881), novelist and children's writer
- Nigel Buxton (b. 1924), travel writer and wine critic
- Thomas Buxton (1786–1845), political writer
- A. S. Byatt (b. 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 (b. 1953), writer and broadcaster
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- Florence Caddy (1837–1923), writer
- Hall Caine (1853–1931), romantic novelist and playwright
- Mona Caird (1854–1932), essayist, reformer 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 (b. 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
- Denis Cannan (b. 1919), 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 (b. 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 (d. 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 (b. 1945), 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, novelist and horse breeder
- Cathy Cassidy (b. 1962), children's writer
- Egerton Castle (1858–1920), novelist (with wife Agnes) and fencer
- Helen Castor (living), historian and broadcaster
- Sarah Caudwell (real name Sarah Cockburn, 1939–2000), novelist
- Charles Causley (1917–2003), poet and editor
- David Caute (b. 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. 1415/22 – c. 1492), printer and translator
- Lord David Cecil (1902–1986), scholar and biographer
- Dorothea Celesia (or. Mallet, 1738–1790), poet and translator
- Susanna Centlivre (awa Susanna Carroll, c. 1667–1723), playwright, poet and actress
- Laurence Chaderton (c. 1536–1640), theologian, AV translator and cleric
- Henry Chadwick (1920–2008), theologian, church historian and cleric
- John Chalkhill (fl. c. 1600), poet
- Thomas Chaloner (1521–1565), poet, translator and statesman
- Edward Chamberlayne (1616–1703), writer, historian and translator
- William Chamberlayne (1619–1689), poet
- Aidan Chambers (b. 1934), children's writer
- E. K. Chambers (1866–1954), literary historian
- Ephraim Chambers (c. 1680–1740), writer and encyclopaedist
- 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 (b. 1940), food writer
- Hester Chapone (1727–1801), writer and bluestocking
- Charlotte Charke (or. 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 (b. Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin, 1907–1993), novelist, Simon Templar
- James Hadley Chase (b. Rene Brabazon Raymond, awa James L. Docherty, Ambrose Grant, Raymond Marshall, (1906–1985), novelist
- Debjani Chatterjee (b. 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 (b. 1923), garden writer
- William Andrew Chatto (awa Stephen Oliver, 1799–1864), travel and general writer
- Bruce Chatwin (1940–1989), novelist and travel writer
- Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343–1400), poet and courtier, The Canterbury Tales
- Cris Cheek (b. 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 (d. 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
- 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 (b. 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 (b. 1973), writer
- John Clare (1793–1864), poet
- Emily Clark (fl. 1798–1819), novelist and poet
- T. J. Clark (b. 1943), art historian
- Amy Clarke (1892–1980), poet and school historian
- Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008), SF novelist
- Bob Clarke (b. 1964), archaeologist and historian
- Charles Cowden Clarke (1787–1877), writer and scholar
- Lindsay Clarke (b. 1939), novelist and poet
- Mary Cowden Clarke ((or. Novello, 1809–1898), writer and scholar
- Pauline Clarke (b. 1921), children's writer
- Richard Clarke (d. 1634), scholar, AV translator and cleric
- Roy Clarke (b. 1930), screenwriter and playwright
- Samuel Clarke (1675–1729), philosopher and cleric
- Susanna Clarke (b. 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 (b. 1973), novelist and journalist
- Brian Cleeve (1921–2003), novelist
- Lucas Cleeve (awa Mrs Howard Kingscote, 1868–1908), novelist
- John Cleland (1709–1789), novelist, Fanny Hill
- Dick Clement (b. 1937), scriptwriter
- Jack Clemo (1916–1994), poet and novelist
- John Cleveland (1613–1658), poet
- 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 (b. Catherine Raftor, 1711–1785), playwright and actress
- Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861), poet
- Bryan Clough (b. 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 (b. 1961), novelist
- Lady Mary Coke (1727–1811), correspondent and diarist
- Barry Cole (b. 1936), poet and novelist
- G. D. H. Cole (1889–1959), economist, historian and novelist
- Margaret Cole (1893–1980), politician and novelist
- Olivia Cole (b. 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), poet
- Anthony Collins (1676–1729), philosopher
- Charles James Collins (1820–1864), novelist and journalist
- Jackie Collins (b. 1937), 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 (b. 1948), 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 (d. 1625), diarist, soldier and politician
- Paul Conneally (b. 1959), poet, artist and musician
- Charlie Connelly (b. 1970), football and travel writer
- Cyril Connolly (1903–1974), writer and critic
- Joseph Connolly (b. 1950), journalist and novelist
- Tony Connor (b. 1930), poet and playwright
- Robert Conquest (b. 1917), 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 (b. 1940), novelist and screenwriter
- Edward Dutton Cook (1829–1883), novelist and critic
- Eliza Cook (1818–1889), poet
- James Cook (1728–1779), mariner and travel writer
- 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 (b. 1953), writer and editor
- Duff Cooper (1890–1954), writer, diarist and politician
- Jilly Cooper (b. 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 (1853/54–1914), theosophist
- Wendy Cope (b. 1945), poet
- Esther Copley (1786–1851) children's and domestic economy 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
- 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 (b. 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 (d. 1634 or 1652), lexicographer
- Joseph Cottle (1770–1853), poet, essayist and bookseller
- Charles Cotton (1630–1687), poet and writer
- Robert Bruce Cotton (1570/71 – 1631), antiquary and political writer
- Oswald Couldrey (1882–1958), poet and artist
- Stephen Coulter (awa 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
- William Cowper (1731–1800), poet, John Gilpin
- Anthony Berkeley Cox (awa Anthony Berkeley, etc., 1893–1971), novelist
- Edward Coxere (1633–1694), autobiographer and seaman
- George Crabbe (1754–1832), poet and naturalist
- Jim Crace (b. 1946), novelist
- Hubert Crackanthorpe (or. Cookson, 1870–1896), essayist and story writer
- Albert Craig (the "Surrey Poet", 1849–1909), sports poet
- Amanda Craig (b. 1959), novelist
- Dinah Craik (awa 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 (b. 1941), novelist
- Nicholas Cresswell (1750–1804), diarist and farmer
- Bernard Crick (1929–2008), political scientist
- Martin Crimp (b. 1956), playwright
- Arthur Shearly Cripps (1869–1952), story writer and poet
- Quentin Crisp (b. 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 (b. 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 (b. 1945), children's writer
- Kevin Crossley-Holland (b. 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 (b. 1961), novelist
- 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
- Nathanael Culverwel (1619–1651), philosopher and theologian
- 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
- Roland Curram (b. 1932), novelist and actor
- R. N. Currey (1907–2001), poet
- Lionel George Curtis (1872–1955), advocate of 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 (b. 1946), novelist
- John Cutts (1661–1707), poet, writer and soldier
D
- David Dabydeen (b. 1955), novelist and critic
- Charlotte Dacre (wrote as Rosa Matilda, 1782–1841), novelist and poet
- William Dakins (d. 1607), scholar, AV translator and cleric
- Andrew Dalby (b. 1947), writer
- Celia Dale (1912–2011), novelist
- Penny Dale (b. 1954), children's writer and illustrator
- Thomas Dale (1797–1870), poet, theologian and cleric
- Robert Charles Dallas (1756–1824), writer, translator and judge
- 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 (b. 1957), playwright
- Alicia D'Anvers (1688–1725), poet
- Ella D'Arcy (c. 1856–1939), novelist and translator
- Bill Dare (living), scriptwriter, novelist and playwright
- Bernard Darwin (1876–1961), golf writer
- Charles Darwin (1809–1882), natural historian, On the Origin of Species
- Emma Darwin (b. 1964), novelist
- Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802), natural historian and poet
- Florence Henrietta Darwin (1863/4 – 1920), playwright
- Elizabeth Daryush (or. Bridges, 1887–1977), poet
- George Webbe Dasent (1817–1896), writer and translator
- Rana Dasgupta (b. 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 (b. 1964), novelist and journalist
- Hunter Davies (b. 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 (b. 1963), novelist
- Peter Ho Davies (b. 1966), novelist
- John Davis or Davys (c. 1543–1605), writer and navigator
- Lindsey Davis (b. 1949), novelist
- Ann Davison (1914–1992), travel writer
- Humphry Davy (1778–1829), writer, chemist and inventor
- Richard Dawkins (b. 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 (b. 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 (b. 1953), food writer and broadcaster
- April De Angelis (b. 1960), playwright
- Louis de Bernières (b. 1954), novelist, Captain Corelli's Mandolin
- Alain de Botton (b. 1969), writer, novelist and essayist
- Guy de la Bédoyère (b. 1957), historian and broadcaster
- Walter de la Mare (awa 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 (b. 1953), novelist, poet and autobiographer
- Edward de Vere, earl of Oxford (1550–1604), playwright, poet and courtier
- William Frederick Deacon (1799–1844), writer and journalist
- Roger Deakin (1943–2006), countryside writer
- Ellen Dean (living), novelist and broadcaster
- Nick Dear (b. 1955), playwright and screenwriter
- Geoffrey Dearmer (1893–1996), poet
- Percy Dearmer, (1867–1936), reformer and cleric
- John Dee (1527–1608/9), mathematician, occultist and political economist
- Denise Deegan (b. 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 (b. 1929), military 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 (b. 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 (1614/15 – 1669), poet
- Felix Dennis (b. 1947), 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
- Colin Dexter (b. 1930), novelist, Inspector Morse novels
- Nirpal Singh Dhaliwal (b. 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 (b. 1962), YA novelist
- Patric Dickinson (1914–1994), poet, translator and playwright
- Peter Dickinson (b. 1927), novelist, children's writer and poet
- Kenelm Digby (1603–1665), philosopher
- Leonard Digges (1588–1635), poet and translator
- Francis Dillingham (d. 1625), scholar, AV translator and cleric
- Wentworth Dillon (1630–1685), poet, critic and translator
- John Disney (1677–1729/30), writer on moral reform and cleric
- John Disney (1746–1816), writer, biographer and Unitarian minister
- Jenny Diski (b. 1947), novelist and essayist
- Isaac D'Israeli (1766–1848), essayist
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881), novelist and statesman
- Henry Hall Dixon (1822–1870), writer
- Richard Watson Dixon (1833–1900), poet and church historian
- 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
- 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 (b. 1951), travel writer
- Berlie Doherty (b. 1943), children's writer, poet and dramatist
- Paul C. Doherty (several pen names, b. 1946), novelist
- Digby Mackworth Dolben (1848–1867), poet
- Alfred Domett (1811–1887), poet and statesman
- Angus Donald (b. 1965), novelist
- Julia Donaldson (b. 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 (b. 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
- Andrew Downes (c. 1549–1628), scholar, AV translator and cleric
- Jenny Downham (b. 1964), novelist
- Ernest Dowson (1867–1900), poet and story writer
- Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930), novelist and story writer, Sherlock Holmes
- Richard Doyle (b. 1948), novelist
- Francis Hastings Doyle (1810–1888), poet
- Margaret Drabble (b. 1939), novelist and critic
- Phil Drabble (1914–2007), writer and broadcaster
- Judith Drake (fl. 1696–1707), essayist
- Nathan Drake (1766–1836), essayist and physician
- Nick Drake (b. 1961), poet and novelist
- Augusta Theodosia Drane (1823–1894), writer and nun
- Michael Drayton (1563–1631), poet
- John Drinkwater (1882–1937), poet and playwright
- Henry Drummond (1786–1860), religious writer, politician and banker
- 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
- Maureen Duffy (b. 1933), poet, screenwriter and novelist
- Stella Duffy (b. 1963), novelist and playwright
- William Dugdale (1605–1686), antiquary
- Alfred Duggan (1903–1964), historian and novelist
- Ian Duhig (b. 1954), poet
- Richard Duke (1658–1711), poet and cleric
- Ashley Dukes (1885–1959), playwright and critic
- Cuthbert Dukes (1890–1977), medical writer and pathologist
- Sarah Dunant (b. 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 (b. 1952), poet, novelist and children's writer,
- Antony Dunn (b. 1973), poet and playwright
- Nell Dunn (b. 1936), novelist and playwright
- James Duport (1606–1679), scholar and cleric
- John Duport (d. 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 (b. 1958), writer
- George Dyer (1755–1841), scholar and poet
- Clifford Dyment (1914–1971), poet and critic
E
- Rae Earl (b. 1971), writer and broadcaster
- John Earle (1601–1665), writer and bishop
- Anthony Earnshaw (1924–2001), writer and illustrator
- Edward Backhouse Eastwick (1814–1883), scholar and diplomat
- 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 (b. 1948), playwright
- 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 (b. 1928), novelist
- Richard Edwardes (c. 1523–1566), poet and playwright
- Amelia Edwards (1831–1892), novelist and travel writer
- David Edwards (b. 1929), writer and cleric
- Monica Edwards (1912–1998), children's writer
- Thomas Edwards (d. 1599), poet
- Pierce Egan (1772–1849), sports writer
- Pierce Egan the Younger (1814–1880), novelist
- Elizabeth Egerton (b. 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 (b. 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, b. 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
- Frances Minto Elliot (1820–1898), historian and novelist
- Ebenezer Elliott (1781–1849), poet
- Edith Ellis (1861–1916), writer and anthologist
- 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 (b. 1941), novelist and poet
- Sarah Stickney Ellis (1799–1872), Quaker writer on women's education
- Warren Ellis (b. 1968), graphic novelist and comic book writer
- R. J. Ellory (b. 1965), novelist
- Thomas Ellwood (1639–1713), poet and religious writer
- Ernest Elmore (awa John Bude, 1901–1957), crime and fantasy writer
- Elizabeth Elstob (1683–1756), scholar and translator
- Ben Elton (b. 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 (b. 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 (b. 1975), children's writer
- Ephelia (fl. 1679, real name probably Mary Stewart, Duchess of Richmond), poet
- Barbara Erskine (b. 1944), novelist
- Thomas Erskine (1750–1823), lawyer, politician and political writer
- Susan Ertz (1894–1985), novelist
- George Etherege (c. 1635 – c. 1692), playwright, The Man of Mode
- Abel Evans (1679–1737), poet and cleric
- Arthur Evans (1851–1941), archaeologist
- Arthur Benoni Evans (1781–1854), poet, scholar and cleric
- John Evans (1823–1908), archaeologist
- Margiad Evans (real name Peggy Eileen Williams, 1909–1958), novelist, poet and illustrator
- Nicholas Evans (b. 1950), novelist
- Paul Evans (1945–1991), poet
- John Evelyn (1620–1706), writer and diarist, Sylva, A Discourse of Forest Trees
- 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 (b. 1944), novelist and playwright
- Juliana Horatia Ewing (1841–1885), children's writer
- 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 (d. 1513), diarist and chronicler
- Harry Fainlight (1935–1982), poet
- Ruth Fainlight (b. 1932), poet, writer and translator
- Thomas Fairfax (1612–1671), poet and army officer
- Margaret Fairley (1885–1968), scholar, editor 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
- Catherine Maria Fanshawe (1765–1834), poet
- Richard Fanshawe (1608–1666), poet and translator
- U. A. Fanthorpe (1929–2009), poet
- John Fardell (b. 1967), children's writer and cartoonist
- Joseph Farington (1747–1821), diarist and painter
- Helen Farish (b. 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
- Paul Farley (b. 1965), poet
- Nigel Farndale (b. 1964), novelist and biographer
- Jeffery Farnol (1878–1952), novelist
- 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
- Sebastian Faulks (b. 1953), novelist
- Joseph Fawcett (1758–1804), poet and cleric
- Francis Fawkes (1721–1777), poet and translator
- Eliza Fay (1755/56–1816), correspondent and traveller
- John Russell Fearn (1908–1960), novelist
- Daniel Featley or Fairclough (1582–1645), polemicist, AV translator and cleric
- Vicki Feaver (b. 1943), poet
- Elaine Feinstein (b. 1930), 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 (. 1615), writer and RC priest
- John Fenn (1739–1794), antiquary and editor
- Elijah Fenton (1683–1730), poet
- James Fenton (b. 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 (b. 1915), travel writer and scholar
- Elizabeth Ferrars (1907–1995), novelist
- Jasper Fforde (b. 1961), novelist
- Michael Field, pen name 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 (b. 1958), novelist, screenwriter and journalist
- 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 (b. 1970), writer
- Graeme Fife (living), writer, playwright and broadcaster
- Eva Figes (b. 1932), novelist and critic
- Robert Filmer (1588–1653), political writer
- Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661–1720), poet
- Brian Finch (1936–2007), scriptwriter and dramatist
- William Coles Finch (1864–1944), historian and countryside writer
- Anne Fine (b. 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 (b. 1964), playwright, screenwriter and songwriter
- Margery Fish (1892–1969), garden writer
- Tibor Fischer (b. 1959), novelist
- Allen Fisher (b. 1944), poet and editor
- John Fisher (1469–1535), theologian, cardinal and martyr
- Roy Fisher (b. 1930), 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 (b. 1959), historian
- Peter Flannery (b. 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
- 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 (b. 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
- Robert Fludd (1574–1637), physician and occultist
- Giles Foden (b. 1967), novelist
- Winifred Foley (1914–2009), memoirist and novelist
- Albany Fonblanque (1794–1872), journalist and editor
- Samuel Foote (1720–1777), playwright and theater manager
- Tim Footman (b. 1968), writer and editor
- Colin Forbes (real name Raymond Sawkins, 1923–2006), novelist
- Duncan Forbes (b. 1947), poet
- Anne Ford (1737–1824), writer and actress
- Boris Ford (1917–1998), critic and editor
- Ford Madox Ford (or. Ford Madox Hueffer, 1873–1939), novelist and poet
- John Ford (1586–1640), playwright, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
- Mark Ford (b. 1962), poet and essayist
- Richard Ford (1796–1858), travel writer
- Thomas Ford or Forde (1580–1648), poet and composer
- Michael Foreman (b. 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
- Helen Forrester (b. 1919), writer
- Tony Forrester (b. 1953), bridge writer and player
- E. M. Forster (1879–1970), novelist and essayist, A Passage to India
- John Forster (1812–1876), biographer and critic
- Margaret Forster (b. 1938), novelist and biographer
- Frederick Forsyth (b. 1938), novelist, The Day of the Jackal
- Richard Fortey (b. 1946), science writer
- John Foster (1770–1843), essayist
- Jon Foster (b. 1981), scriptwriter
- John Knight Fotheringham (1874–1936), historian and astronomer
- Adam Foulds (b. 1974), novelist and poet
- Tim Fountain (b. 1967), playwright
- Edith Henrietta Fowler (1865–1944), novelist
- Ellen Thorneycroft 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
- Barclay Fox (1817–1855), diarist and gardener
- Caroline Fox (1819–1871), diarist
- Francis Fox (1675–1738), writer and cleric
- George Fox (1624–1691), diarist and Quaker
- Robin Lane Fox (b. 1946), historian and 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 (b. 1956), poet
- Philip Francis (1740–1818), pamphleteer and translator
- Suzanne Francis (b. 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 (b. 1953), novelist
- George MacDonald Fraser (1925–2008), historical novelist and screenwriter, The Flashman Papers
- Michael Frayn (b. 1933), playwright and novelist
- Margaret Frazer (pseudonym, living), novelist
- Jonathan Freedland (b. 1967), writer
- Edward Augustus Freeman (1823–1892), historian
- John Freeman (1880–1929), poet
- R. Austin Freeman (1862–1943), novelist
- Elizabeth Wynne Fremantle (1779–1857), diarist
- Celia Fremlin (1914–2009), novelist
- Patrick French (b. 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 (b. 1957), novelist and comedian
- Alexandra Fuller (b. 1969), writer
- Andrew Fuller (1754–1815), theologian and Baptist minister
- Claire Fuller (living), novelist
- John Fuller (b. 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
- Georgiana Fullerton (or. Leverson-Gower, 1812–1885), novelist and religious writer
- Ulpian Fulwell (1545/6 – c. 1585), playwright, satirist and cleric
- Monica Furlong (1930–2003), religious writer and biographer
- Frederick James Furnivall (1825–1910), philologist
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- Neil Gaiman (b. 1960), novelist and screenwriter
- Winifred Gales (1761–1839), novelist and memoirist
- Norman Gale (1862–1942), poet
- John Galsworthy (awa John Sinjohn, 1867–1933), novelist and dramatist, The Forsyte Saga
- Francis Galton (1822–1911), polymath
- Jane Gardam (b. 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 (b. 1960), writer
- Alex Garland (b. 1970), novelist and screenwriter
- Alan Garner (b. 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 (awa 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 (b. 1941), fantasy novelist
- Thomas Gaspey (1788–1871), novelist and journalist
- Francis Aidan Gasquet (1846–1929), historian and cardinal
- Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy (b. 1933), biographer and social 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 (b. 1941), novelist
- 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 (b. 1948), novelist
- Pam Gems (b. 1925), playwright
- Emily Gerard (1849–1905), novelist
- John Gerard (1545–1611/12), botanical writer and herbalist
- William Gerhardie (or. 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 (b. 1947), novelist and poet
- Wilfred Wilson Gibson (1878–1962), poet
- John Gifford (1758–1818), historical and political writer, Anti-Jacobin Review
- William Gifford (1756–1826), poet and satirist
- Harriet Gilbert (b. 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 (b. Burrows, 1828–1885), writer
- Robert Murray Gilchrist (1867–1917), novelist and topographical writer
- Penelope Gilliatt (1932–1993), novelist, screenwriter and film critic
- 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 (b. 1956), novelist and playwright
- Joseph Glanvill (1636–1680), writer, philosopher and cleric
- Brian Glanville (b. 1931), football writer and novelist
- William Nugent Glascock (c.1787-1847), naval officer and novelist
- Rodge Glass (b. 1978), novelist and biographer
- Hannah Glasse (1708–1770), writer on cookery and housekeeping
- Victoria Glendinning (b. 1937), biographer and novelist
- Richard Glover (1712–1785), poet and playwright
- Elinor Glyn (1864–1943), novelist
- John Godber (b. 1956), playwright
- Robert Goddard (b. 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, The 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 (b. 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 (b. 1939), writer and journalist
- Edmund Gosse (1849–1928), novelist, poet and critic
- Philip Henry Gosse (1810–1888), scientist and 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), humourist and poet
- Laurie Graham (b. 1947), novelist and journalist
- Stephen Graham (1884–1975), travel writer and novelist
- Kenneth Grahame (1859–1931), writer, The Wind in the Willows
- Sarah Grand (real name Mrs. David C. M'Fall, or. Frances Elizabeth Clarke, 1854–1943), novelist and suffragist
- Clive Granger (1934–2009), Nobel Prize–winning economist
- Andrew Grant (b. 1968), novelist
- John Grant (awa Jonathan Gash, Graham Gaunt, b. 1933), novelist and physician
- Linda Grant (b. 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 (b. 1948), philosopher
- 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 (b. 1942), 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 (b. 1963), novelist, screenwriter and poet
- Lavinia Greenlaw (b. 1962), poet and novelist
- Frederick Greenwood (1830–1909), man of letters
- James Greenwood (c. 1830/35 – 1929), children's writer and journalist
- Walter Greenwood (1903–1974), novelist, Love on the Dole
- Walter Wilson Greg (1875–1959), bibliographer and editor
- Richard Gregory (1864–1952), science writer and astronomer
- Joyce Grenfell (1910–1979), writer and comedian
- Julian Grenfell (1888–1915), poet
- Charles Greville (1794–1865), diarist and cricketer
- Frances Greville (c. 1724–1789), poet
- Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke (1554–1628), poet and playwright
- Paul Grice (awa H. P. Grice, 1913–1988), philosopher of language
- Bill Griffiths (1948–2007), poet, scholar and translator
- Jane Griffiths (b. 1970), poet and lecturer
- Paul Griffiths (b. 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
- Leopold Hartley Grindon (1818–1904), educator and botanist
- Francis Grose (1731–1791), antiquary and lexicographer
- John Gross (b. 1935), critic, writer and anthologist
- Philip Gross (b. 1952), poet, novelist and playwright
- George Grossmith (1847–1912), writer and entertainer, Diary of a Nobody
- 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 (b. 1947), poet
- Edward Grubb (1854–1939), Quaker writer
- Sydney Grundy (1848–1914), playwright and librettist
- Philip Guedalla (1889–1944), historian and travel writer
- Harry Guest (b. 1932), poet
- Thom Gunn (1929–2004), poet
- Elizabeth Gunning (1769–1823), novelist and translator
- Peter Gunning (1614–1684), writer and bishop
- Suresh and Jyoti Guptara (b. 1988), writers
- 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 (b. 1978), poet
- Mark Haddon (b, 1962), novelist, children's writer and poet
- Henry Rider Haggard (1856–1925), novelist and story writer, King Solomon's Mines
- Richard Hakluyt (c. 1552/53–1616), 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, 1868–1919), 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 (b. 1974), novelist and poet
- Simon Hall (b. 1969), novelist and broadcaster
- Steven Hall (b. 1975), novelist and playwright
- Tarquin Hall (b. 1969), writer and journalist
- Thomas Hall (1610–1665), writer and cleric
- Arthur Hallam (1811–1833), poet
- Henry Hallam (1777–1859), historian
- Leslie Halliwell (1929–1989), film critic and encyclopaedist
- James Halliwell-Phillipps (1820–1889), Shakespearean and biographer
- Bruce Barrymore Halpenny (b. early 20th c.), writer and military historian
- A. H. Halsey (b. 1923), sociologist
- Alan Halsey (b. 1947), poet
- Michael Hamburger (1924–2007), writer, poet and translator
- Philip Gilbert Hamerton (wrote as Adolphus Segrave, 1834–1894), writer and artist
- Andy Hamilton (author) (b. 1974), non-fiction writer and journalist
- Ann Mary Hamilton (fl. 1806–13), novelist
- Charles Hamilton (wrote 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 (b. 1960), SF novelist
- James Hamilton-Paterson (b. 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
- Christopher Hampton (b. 1946), playwright, screenwriter and translator
- William Hampton (b. 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 (b. 1971), poet and novelist
- Derek Hansen (b. 1944), novelist
- Jonas Hanway (1712–1786), travel writer and pamphleteer
- Michael Hardcastle (b. 1933), children's writer
- John Harding (d. 1610), scholar, AV translator and cleric
- Frances Hardinge (b. 1973), children's writer
- Mollie Hardwick (1916–2003), novelist and writer
- Ronald Hardy (b. 1919), 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 (b. 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, translator and courtier
- 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 (b. 1964), novelist
- Robert Harris (b. 1957), novelist, writer and screenwriter
- Rosemary Harris (b. 1923), children's writer
- Austin Harrison (1873–1928), editor and writer
- Jane Ellen Harrison (1850–1928), classicist
- Sarah Harrison (b. 1946), novelist and children's writer
- Thomas Harrison (1555–1631), scholar, AV translator and cleric
- Tony Harrison (b. 1938), poet and playwright
- William Harrison (1534–1593), writer and cleric
- Tom Harrisson (awa 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 (awa William Napier, b. 1965), novelist and journalist
- Adam Hart-Davis (b. 1943), writer and broadcaster
- Duff Hart-Davis (b. 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 (b. 1938), novelist
- William Harvey (1578–1657), physician
- F. W. Harvey (1888–1957), poet
- W. F. Harvey (1885–1937), story writer
- Lee Harwood (b. 1939), poet
- Alamgir Hashmi (b. 1951), poet, scholar and professor
- Minnie Louise Haskins (1875–1957), poet and welfare worker
- Christopher Hassall (1912–1963), playwright, actor and poet
- Edward Hasted (1732–1812), local historian
- Michael Hastings (b. 1938), 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 (d. 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 (b. 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
- Anna Haycraft (wrote as Alice Thomas Ellis, 1932–2005), novelist
- 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 and diplomat
- 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 (or. 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
- Zoë Heller (b. 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
- 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 (b. 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 (b. 1943), 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 (b. 1928), garden writer
- Maurice Hewlett (1861–1923), historical novelist and poet
- 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 (or. 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, b. 1929), novelist
- Susanna Highmore (1690–1750), poet
- Aaron Hill (1685–1750), playwright and writer
- Christopher Hill (1912–2003), historian
- Eric Hill (b. 1927), children's writer and illustrator
- Geoffrey Hill (b. 1932), poet and academic
- John Hill (c. 1716–1775), novelist, journalist and botanist
- Justin Hill (b. 1971), novelist, biographer and translator
- Lorna Hill (1902–1991), children's writer and novelist
- Reginald Hill (b. 1936), novelist
- Rosemary Hill (living), cultural historian and biographer
- Selima Hill (b. 1945), poet
- Susan Hill (b. 1942), novelist and writer
- Tobias Hill (b. 1970), novelist and poet
- Mischa Hiller (b. 1962), novelist
- Lawrence D. Hills (1911–1991), garden writer
- Jeff Hilson (b. 1966), poet
- James Hilton (1900–1954), novelist
- Lisa Hilton (living), novelist and biographer
- Walter Hilton (1340–1396), mystic
- Barry Hines (b. 1939), novelist
- Nigel Hinton (b. 1941), novelist and children's writer
- Shakespeare Hirst (1841–1907), actor, author and Shakespearean
- William Henry Hitchener (fl. 1813), travel writer
- Henry Hitchings (b. 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 (b. 1973), novelist
- 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 (b. 1946), writer and broadcaster
- Pete Hoida (b. 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
- Raphael Holinshed (1529–1580), chronicler, translator and cleric
- Jane Holland (b. 1966), poet and novelist
- John Holland (1794–1872), poet and journalist
- Philemon Holland (1552–1637), translator
- Sarah Holland (b. 1961), writer and actress
- Thomas Holland (1539–1612), scholar, AV translator and cleric
- William Holland (1746–1819), diarist and cleric
- Helen Hollick (b. 1953), novelist
- Alan Hollinghurst (b. 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 (b. 1945), biographer
- Robert Holmes (1926–1986), scriptwriter
- Emily Sarah Holt (1836–1893), novelist and children's writer
- Hazel Holt (b. 1928), novelist
- Winifred Holtby (1898–1935), novelist
- Stewart Home (b. 1962), novelist, writer and artist
- Joseph Hone (b. 1937), 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 (b/ 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 (b. 1953), children's novelist
- Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889), poet, The Wreck of the Deutschland
- Simon Hopkinson (b. 1954), food writer and chef
- Sydney Horler (1888–1954), novelist
- Alfred Aloysius Horn (1861–1931), travel writer
- Nick Hornby (b. 1957), novelist
- Alistair Horne (b. 1925), 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 (b. 1935), poet and translator
- Anthony Horowitz (b. 1956), novelist, children's writer and screenwriter
- William Horwood (b. 1944), novelist and children's writer
- John Hoskins or Hoskyns (1566–1638), poet and politician
- Charlotte Hough (1924–2008), detective novelist and children's writer
- Richard Hough (awa 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 (b. 1923), novelist
- Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle, Earl of Carlisle (1748–1825), poet, playwright and pamphleteer
- Hartley Howard (real name Leopold Horace Ognall, also wrote 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 (b. 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 and gaming
- Fred Hoyle (1915–2001), astronomer and SF writer
- Geoffrey Hoyle (b. 1942), SF writer
- Sisley Huddleston (1883–1952), writer and journalist
- Stephen Hudson (real name Sydney Schiff, 1868–1944), novelist and translator
- David Hughes (1930–2005), novelist and biographer
- Frieda Hughes (b. 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 (b. 1927), 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 (b. 1955), translator, critic and poet
- Fergus Hume (1859–1932), novelist
- Tobias Hume (c. 1590–1645), musician and poet
- Helen Humphreys (b. 1961), poet and novelist
- Neil Humphreys (b. 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
- 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 (b. 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
- Timothy Hyman (b. 1946), art writer
- Henry Hyndman (1842–1921), writer and politician
- C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne (wrote as Weatherby Chesney, 1866–1944), novelist
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- Eva Ibbotson (b. 1925), novelist and children's writer
- David Icke (b. 1952), writer and public speaker
- Conn Iggulden (b. 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 (b. 1965), novelist and science writer
- Mick Inkpen (b. 1952), children's writer and illustrator
- Hammond Innes (awa 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 (b. 1938), Holocaust denier
- R. L. G. Irving (1877–1969), mountaineering writer
- Margaret Irwin (1889–1969), novelist and biographer
- Robert Irwin (b. 1946), historian, novelist and Arabist
- Nathaniel Isaacs (1808–1872), traveller and writer
- Christopher Isherwood (1904–1986), novelist, Goodbye to Berlin
- Kazuo Ishiguro (b. 1954), novelist, An Artist of the Floating World
- Eric Ives (b. 1931), historian and biographer
- George Cecil Ives (1867–1950), poet, diarist and reformer
- Helen Ivory (b. 1969), poet
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- Donald Jack (1924–2003), novelist, playwright and scriptwriter
- Benedict Jacka (living), YA novelist
- Catherine Jackson (1824–1891), historian and editor
- Mick Jackson (b. 1960), novelist
- Alaric Jacob (1909–1995), novelist and journalist
- Anna Jacobs (b. 1941), novelist
- Joseph Jacobs (1854–1916), folklorist and historian
- W. W. Jacobs (1863–1943), novelist and story writer, The Monkey's Paw
- Howard Jacobson (b. 1942), novelist and journalist
- Brian Jacques (1939–2011), novelist
- Frances Jacson (1754–1842), novelist
- Richard Jago (1715–1781), poet and cleric
- Christopher James (b. 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 (b. 1920), 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 (b. 1935), novelist and story writer
- Claude Scudamore Jarvis (1879–1953), writer and naturalist
- Tim Jeal (b. 1945), novelist and biographer
- James Hopwood Jeans (1877–1946), writer and astronomer
- Samuel Jebb (c. 1694–1772), scholar, editor and physician
- Richard Jefferies (1848–1887), nature writer and essayist
- Agnes Jekyll (1861–1937), writer
- Gertrude Jekyll (1843–1932), garden writer
- Alan Jenkins (b. 1955), poet
- Amy Jenkins (b. 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 (awa 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
- Rowan Joffé (b. 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
- 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 (b. 1934), novelist
- E. B. C. Jones (1893–1966), novelist
- Ebenezer Jones (1820–1860), poet
- Ernest Charles Jones (1819–1869), poet, novelist and Chartist
- Henry Arthur Jones (1851–1929), playwright
- Sadie Jones (b. 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 (b. 1932), poet and novelist
- Gabriel Josipovici (b. 1940), novelist and critic
- John Josselyn (fl. 1638–1675), writer and traveller
- Benjamin Jowett (1817–1893), scholar and translator
- Graham Joyce (b. 1954), novelist and YA writer
- Alan Judd (b. 1946), novelist and biographer
- Tony Judt (1948–2010), historian and political writer
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- Carrie Kabak (b. 1951), novelist and illustrator
- Sarah Kane (1971–1999), playwright
- Anna Kavan (awa Helen Ferguson, real name Helen Emily Woods, 1901–1968), novelist and painter
- Joanna Kavenna (b. 1974), novelist and travel writer
- Sheila Kaye-Smith (1887–1956), novelist
- Judith Kazantzis (b. 1940), poet and anthologist
- Annie Keary (1825–1879), novelist, poet and children's writer
- Jonathan Keates (b. 1946), writer and novelist
- John Keats (1795–1821), poet, "Ode to a Nightingale"
- John Keble (1792–1866), poet and cleric
- Maurice Keen (1933–2012), historian
- Ann Kelley (b. 1941), children's writer and poet
- Herbert Kelly (1860–1950), religious writer and cleric
- Fanny Kemble (1809–1893), playwright, diarist and actress
- Gene Kemp (b. 1926), children's writer
- Jonathan Kemp (b. 1967), novelist
- Margery Kempe (c. 1373 – post-1438), mystic
- Thomas Ken (1637–1711), hymnist and cleric
- May Kendall (real name Emma Goldworth Kendall, 1861 – c. 1943), poet, novelist and satirist
- Tim Kendall (b. 1970), poet, editor and critic
- Luke Kennard (b. 1982), poet and lecturer
- Lena Kennedy (1914–1986), novelist
- Margaret Kennedy (1896–1967), novelist and playwright
- Ally Kennen (b. 1975), children's writer and singer
- White Kennett (1660–1728), antiquary, writer and bishop
- Charles Lamb Kenney (1823–1881), journalist, librettist and miscellanist
- James Kenney (1780–1849), playwright
- William Kenrick (c. 1725–1779), satirist and playwright
- Judith Kerr (b. 1923), children's writer and screenwriter
- David Kessler (awa Adam Palmer, b. 1957), novelist
- Sidney Keyes (1922–1943), poet
- John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946), economist
- Richard Kilby (1560–1620), scholar, AV translator and cleric
- Anne Killigrew (1660–1685), poet
- Henry Killigrew (1613–1700), playwright and cleric
- Thomas Killigrew (1612–1683), playwright
- William Killigrew (1606–1695), playwright and courtier
- Francis Kilvert (1840–1879), diarist and cleric
- Clive King (b. 1924), children's writer
- Daren King (b. 1972), novelist and children's writer
- Francis King (1923–2011), novelist and story writer
- Geoffrey King (fl. 1600s), theologian, AV translator and cleric
- Gregory King (1648–1712), statistician and genealogist
- Henry King (1592–1669), poet and bishop
- William King (1663–1712), poet and essayist
- William King (b. 1959), novelist
- Desmond King-Hele (b. 1927), writer and physicist
- Alexander William Kinglake (1809–1891), travel writer and historian
- Charles Kingsley (1819–1875), novelist, The Water Babies
- Henry Kingsley (1830–1876), novelist
- Mary Kingsley (1862–1900), ethnographer and explorer
- Peter Kingsley (living), philosopher
- Hugh Kingsmill (1889–1949), novelist, humourist and biographer
- Dick King-Smith (1922–2011), children's writer
- W. H. G. Kingston (1814–1880), children's writer
- Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), novelist, essayist and poet, The Jungle Book
- Andrew Kippis (1725–1795), writer and Presbyterian minister
- William Kirby (1759–1850), entomologist
- Geoffrey Kirk (1921–2003), classicist
- Francis Kirkman (1632 – c. 1680), writer and bookseller
- James Kirkup (1918–2009), poet, translator and travel writer
- C. H. B. Kitchin (1895–1967), novelist
- Flora Klickmann (1867–1958), journalist, editor and children's writer
- Matthew Kneale (b. 1960), novelist, English Passengers
- Nigel Kneale (1922–2006), screenwriter and genre novelist
- Anne Knight (1792–1860), children's writer and educator
- Charles Knight (1791–1873), writer and publisher
- Ellis Cornelia Knight (1757–1837), novelist and painter
- Eric Knight (1897–1943), novelist and children's writer, Lassie Come-Home
- G. Wilson Knight (1897–1985), critic and scholar
- Henry Gally Knight (1786–1846), novelist and architecture writer
- Richard Payne Knight (1750–1824), classicist and connoisseur
- Samuel Knight (1675–1746), biographer, antiquary and cleric
- Stephen Knight (1951–1985), writer
- Stephen Thomas Knight (b. 1940), literary historian
- Richard Knolles (c. 1545–1610), historian and translator
- Hanserd Knollys (1599–1691), translator and Baptist minister
- Frederick Knott (1916–2002), playwright and screenwriter
- Ronald Knox (1888–1957), writer, translator and theologian
- Vicesimus Knox (1752–1821), essayist and cleric
- Dorothy Koomson (b. 1971), novelist,
- Bernard Kops (b. 1926), playwright and novelist
- Michael Korda (b. 1933), writer and editor
- Hari Kunzru (b. 1969), novelist
- Hanif Kureishi (b. 1954), novelist and playwright
- Thomas Kyd (1558–1595), playwright, The Spanish Tragedy
- Francis Kynaston (1587–1642), poet and translator
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- Ian La Frenais (b. 1936), TV scriptwriter
- Robert Lacey (b. 1944), biographer and historian
- James Lackington (1746–1815), memoirist and bookseller
- Thomas Hailes Lacy (1809–1873), playwright and publisher
- Andrew Lamb (b. 1942), writer on music
- Caroline Lamb (1785–1828), novelist
- Charles (1775–1834) and Mary Lamb (1764–1847), essayists
- Charlotte Lamb (real name Sarah Coates, several pen names, 1937–2000), novelist
- Lynton Lamb (1907–1977), crime writer and illustrator
- Derek Lambert (awa Nigel Falkirk, 1929–2001), thriller writer
- Joseph Lancaster (1778–1838), educator
- Osbert Lancaster (1908–1986), writer and cartoonist
- John Lanchester (b. 1962), journalist and novelist
- Letitia Elizabeth Landon (wrote as L. E. L., 1802–1838), poet and novelist
- Robert Eyres Landor (1781–1869), playwright, poet and cleric
- Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864), writer and poet
- Edward William Lane (1801–1876), scholar and translator
- Joel Lane (b. 1963), novelist, story writer and poet
- John Langhorne (1735–1779), poet and translator
- William Langland (c. 1332 – c. 1386), poet, Piers Plowman
- Peter Langtoft (d. c. 1305), chronicler
- Bennet Langton (1736–1801), writer
- Emilia Lanier or Lanyer, (1569–1645) poet
- R. F. Langley (b. 1938), poet
- Nathaniel Lardner (1684–1768), theologian
- Philip Larkin (1922–1985), poet
- Michael Laskey (b. 1944), poet and editor
- Harold Laski (1893–1950), political theorist and writer
- Marghanita Laski (1915–1988), novelist and broadcaster
- David Lassman (b. 1963), writer and scriptwriter
- Francis Lathom (1774–1832), novelist and playwright
- Hugh Latimer (c. 1487–1555), preacher, bishop and martyr
- William Laud (1573–1645), theologian, archbishop and martyr
- Hugh Laurie (b. 1959), novelist and actor
- William Law (1686–1761), theologian.
- D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930), novelist and poet, Sons and Lovers
- George A. Lawrence (1827–1876), novelist
- T. E. Lawrence (1888–1935), writer and soldier, Seven Pillars of Wisdom
- William Lawrence (1783–1867), scientist
- Benjamin Lay (1681–1760), pamphleteer
- Cecil Howard Lay (1885–1956), poet and artist
- Layamon or Laȝamon (early 13th c.), chronicler
- John Layfield (d. 1617), scholar, AV translator and cleric
- John le Carré (real name D. J. M. Cornwell, b. 1931), thriller writer, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
- Richard Le Gallienne (1866–1947), writer and poet
- William Le Queux (1866–1947), novelist, poet and essayist
- Jane Leade (1624–1704), religious writer
- Mary Leapor (1722–1746), poet
- Edward Lear (1812–1888), poet and artist, The Owl and the Pussycat
- James Leasor (1923–2007), novelist and historian
- Stephen Leather (living), novelist
- F. R. Leavis (1895–1978), critic and editor
- Norman Lebrecht (b. 1948), music writer
- Harriet Lee (1757–1851), novelist and playwright
- Laurie Lee (1914–1997), poet and memoirist, Cider with Rosie
- Mark Lee (b. 1957), accountancy writer
- Nathaniel Lee (1653–1692), playwright
- Sidney Lee (1859–1926), biographer and critic
- Sophia Lee (1750–1824), novelist and playwright
- Vernon Lee (real name Violet Paget, 1856–1935), novelist and essayist
- Eugene Lee-Hamilton (1845–1907), poet
- James Lees-Milne (1908–1997), writer and diarist
- Joseph Leftwich (real name Lefkovicz, 1892–1984), poet, translator and anthologist
- John Lehmann (1907–1987), poet and editor
- R. C. Lehmann (1856–1929), writer and lyricist
- Rosamond Lehmann (1901–1990), novelist, autobiographer and translator
- Chandos Leigh (1791–1850), writer and poet
- Richard Leigh (1649/50–1728), poet
- Clare Leighton (1898–1989), writer and illustrator
- John Leland or Leyland (c. 1503/6–1552), antiquary
- John Leland (1691–1766), writer and Presbyterian minister
- Mark Lemon (1809–1870), playwright, novelist and editor
- John Lemprière (c. 1765–1824), scholar and lexicographer
- Sue Lenier (b. 1957) poet and playwright
- Rebecca Lenkiewicz (b. 1968), playwright
- John Lennon (1940–1980), singer and songwriter
- Charlotte Lennox (1730–1804), writer and poet
- Alan Leo (real name William Frederick Allan, 1860–1917), astrologer
- Roger L'Estrange (1615–1704), pamphleteer and translator
- Ada Leverson (1862–1933), novelist
- Denise Levertov (1923–1997), poet
- Michael Levey (1927–2008), art historian
- Peter Levi (1931–2000), poet, critic and travel writer
- Bernard Levin (1928–2004), writer and broadcaster
- Amy Levy (1861–1889), poet and novelist
- Andrea Levy (b. 1956), novelist
- Juliette de Bairacli Levy (1912–2009), herbalist
- Tim Lewens (b. 1974), philosopher
- George Henry Lewes (1817–1878), philosopher and critic
- Alethea Lewis (wrote as Eugenia De Acton, 1749–1827), novelist
- C. S. Lewis (1898–1963), novelist, children's writer and critic, The Chronicles of Narnia
- David Lewis (1682–1760), poet and playwright
- George Cornewall Lewis (1806–1863), writer, philologist and politician
- Hilda Lewis (1896–1974), novelist and children's writer
- Leopold Davis Lewis (1828–1890), playwright and translator
- Matthew Lewis (1775–1818), novelist and diarist
- Roger Lewis (b. 1960), biographer and scholar
- Ted Lewis (1940–1982), novelist and screenwriter
- Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957), writer and painter
- Marina Lewycka (b. 1946), novelist and medical writer
- Anne Ley (c. 1599-1641), writer, teacher, and polemicist
- Peter Leycester (1614–1678), antiquary and historian
- Nell Leyshon (living), dramatist and novelist
- Henry George Liddell (1811–1898), scholar, lexicographer and cleric
- John Lilburne (c. 1614–1657), pamphleteer
- George Lillo (1693–1739), playwright
- Thomas Linacre or Lynaker (c. 1460–1524), physician and translator
- David Lindsay (1876–1945), novelist
- John Lingard (1771–1851), historian and hymnist
- Martin Lings (1909–2005), scholar and poet
- William Linley (1771–1835), writer and musician
- Eliza Lynn Linton (1822–1898), novelist and essayist
- Mary Linwood (1755–1845), novelist and needlewoman
- Suzannah Lipscomb (living), historian and broadcaster
- Anne Lister (1791–1840), diarist and traveller
- Thomas Henry Lister (1800–1842), novelist and registrar-general
- Toby Litt (b. 1968), novelist and editor
- Emanuel Litvinoff (b. 1915), novelist, poet and autobiographer
- Edward Lively (1545–1605), scholar, AV translator and cleric
- Penelope Lively (b. 1933), novelist and children's writer
- Richard Llewellyn (real name Richard Llewellyn Lloyd, 1906–1983), novelist and screenwriter
- Charles Lloyd (1775–1839), poet and translator
- Christopher Lloyd (1921–2006), garden writer
- Robert Lloyd (1733–1764), poet and satirist
- John Locke (1632–1704), philosopher, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
- William John Locke (1863–1930), novelist and playwright
- Frederick Locker-Lampson (1821–1895), poet
- David Lodge (author) (b. 1935), novelist and critic
- Edmund Lodge (1756–1839), herald and biographer
- Oliver Lodge (1851–1940), physicist and science writer
- Oliver W. F. Lodge (1878–1955), poet and playwright
- Thomas Lodge (c. 1558–1625), playwright and poet
- Tom Lodge (1936–2012), writer and broadcaster
- John Lodwick (1916–1959), novelist
- Hugh Lofting (1886–1947), children's writer and poet, Dr. Dolittle
- Norah Lofts (1904–1983), novelist and biographer
- Christopher Logue (b. 1926), poet and screenwriter
- Herbert Lomas (b. 1924), poet and translator
- A. A. Long (b. 1937), classicist
- Charles Edward Long (1796–1861), antiquary
- George Long (1800–1879), polymath and translator
- Kate Long (living), novelist
- Elizabeth Longford (1906–2002), biographer
- Roger Longrigg (1939–2000), novelist
- E. C. R. Lorac (real name Edith Caroline Rivett, awa Carol Carnac, 1884–1959), novelist
- F. G. Loring (1869–1951), story writer and engineer
- Jane C. Loudon (1807–1858), novelist
- Richard Lovelace (1618–1657), poet
- Peter Lovesey (b. 1936), crime writer
- William Lovett (1800–1877), writer and Chartist
- Archibald Low (1888–1956), science writer
- Sidney James Mark Low (1857–1932), historian
- Edward Lowbury (1913–2007), poet and bacteriologist
- Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes (1868–1947), novelist
- William Thomas Lowndes (c. 1798–1843), bibliographer
- Malcolm Lowry (1909–1957), poet and novelist
- Mina Loy (or. Mina Gertrude Löwry, 1882–1966), poet, playwright and novelist
- John Lubbock (1834–1913), scientist and politician
- Percy Lubbock (1879–1965), essayist and biographer
- E. V. Lucas (1868–1938), essayist
- F. L. Lucas (1894–1967), classicist and poet
- Edward Lucie-Smith (b. 1933), writer and poet
- Edmund Ludlow (c. 1617–1692), memoirist
- Jane Lumley, Lady Lumley (1537–1538), translator
- Arnold Lunn (1888–1874), writer and skier
- Henry Luttrell (c. 1765–1851), poet
- Narcissus Luttrell (1657–1732), historian
- Alfred Comyn Lyall (1835–1911), historian and poet
- Gavin Lyall (1932–2003), thriller writer
- John Lydgate (c. 1370 – c. 1451), poet
- Charles Lyell (1797–1875), geologist
- John Lyly (1553/4–1606), writer and dramatist
- Jonathan Lynn (b. 1943), screenwriter and novelist
- Elinor Lyon (1921–2008), children's writer
- George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton (1709–1773), politician and poet
- George William Lyttelton (1883–1962), correspondent and educator
- Rosina Bulwer Lytton (1802–1882), novelist and campaigner
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- James Mabbe (1572–1642), poet and translator
- Richard Mabey (b. 1941), nature writer
- Catharine Macaulay (1731–1791), historian
- Rose Macaulay (1881–1958), novelist and biographer
- Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859), historian and poet
- Desmond MacCarthy (1877–1952), critic
- Fiona MacCarthy (b. 1940), biographer and cultural historian
- Philip MacDonald (awa Oliver Fleming, etc., 1900–1980), novelist and screenwriter
- A. G. Macdonell (1895–1941), essayist, England, Their England
- Robert Macfarlane (b. 1976), travel writer and critic
- William McFee (1881–1966), novelist and essayist
- Arthur Machen, (or. Arthur Llewelyn Jones, 1863–1947) novelist and mystic
- Colin MacInnes (1914–1976), novelist
- Ben Macintyre (b. 1963), biographer
- Denis Mackail (1892–1971), novelist
- Compton Mackenzie (1883–1972), novelist, Whisky Galore
- Serena Mackesy (living), novelist
- Mary Mackie (living), novelist and non-fiction writer
- Joseph Macleod (awa Adam Drinan, 1903–1984), poet, playwright and broadcaster
- Barry MacSweeney (1948–2000), poet and journalist
- Falconer Madan (1851–1935), writer and bibliographer
- Judith Madan (b. Judith Cowper, 1702–1781), poet
- Martin Madan (1726–1790), writer, translator and cleric
- Charles Madge (1912–1996), poet and sociologist
- Thomas Madox (1666–1727), Historiographer Royal and antiquary
- Bryan Magee (b. 1930), writer and broadcaster
- Magnus Magnusson (1929–2007), broadcaster, scholar and translator
- Michelle Magorian (b. 1947), children's writer, Goodnight Mister Tom
- Henry James Sumner Maine (1822–1888), jurist and historian
- Petre Mais (1885–1975), travel writer and educator
- Frederic William Maitland (1850–1906), jurist and historian
- Julia Maitland (1808–1864), writer and traveller
- Sara Maitland (b. 1950), novelist and religious writer
- Bathsua Makin (real name Bathsua Reginald, c. 1600 – c. 1675), writer and scholar
- Lucas Malet (real name Mary St. Leger Kingsley, 1852–1931), novelist
- William Hurrell Mallock (1849–1923), novelist, satirist and poet
- Thomas Malory (c. 1430 – c. 1471), author, Le Morte d'Arthur
- Eric Malpass (1910–1996), novelist
- Thomas Robert Malthus (1766–1834), political economist
- Bernard Mandeville (1670–1733), philosopher and satirist
- Richmal Mangnall (1769–1820), schoolbook writer and headmistress
- Andrew Mango (b. 1926), writer and broadcaster
- Delarivier Manley (1663 or 1670–1724), novelist, playwright and pamphleteer
- Mary E. Mann (1848–1929), novelist and story writer
- George Manners (1778–1853), writer and editor
- Ethel Mannin (1900–1984), novelist, essayist and travel writer
- Anne Manning (1807–1879), novelist
- Olivia Manning (1908–1980), novelist and critic, Fortunes of War
- Ruth Manning-Sanders (1886–1988), poet and children's writer
- Robert Mannyng (c. 1275 – c. 1338), poet
- Henry Longueville Mansel (1820–1871), philosopher
- Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923), story writer and poet, The Garden Party
- Keith Mansfield (b. 1965), novelist and screenwriter
- Richard Mant (1776–1848), writer, translator and cleric
- Hilary Mantel (b. 1952), novelist and critic, Wolf Hall
- Thomas Manton (1620–1677), theologian and Puritan minister
- Francis Marbury or Merbury (1555–1611), playwright and cleric
- Jane Marcet (1769–1858), science writer for children
- Bessie Marchant (1862–1941), children's writer
- Jan Mark, (or. Janet Marjorie Brisland, 1943–2006) children's writer
- Gervase Markham (c. 1568–1637), poet and writer
- Mrs. Markham (real name Elizabeth Penrose, 1780–1837), children's writer
- Stephen Marley (b. 1946), novelist and screenwriter
- Tim Marlow (b. 1963), art historian and broadcaster
- Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593), playwright, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
- Derek Marlowe (1938–1996), novelist and playwright
- Martin Marprelate (pseudonym, fl. 1588–1590), tractarian
- Ellen Marriage (1865–1946), translator, La Comédie humaine
- Anthony Marriott (b. 1931), playwright and actor
- Florence Marryat (1833–1899), novelist and actress
- Frederick Marryat (wrote as Captain Marryat, 1792–1848), novelist and children's writer, Mr Midshipman Easy
- Philip Marsden (b. 1961), travel writer and novelist
- Edward Marsh (1872–1953), polymath and translator
- Edward Garrard Marsh (1783–1862), poet and cleric
- Richard Marsh (real name Richard Bernard Heldemann, 1857–1915), novelist
- Alfred Marshall (1842–1924), economist
- Archibald Marshall (1866–1934), novelist and journalist
- Arthur Marshall (1910–1989), writer and broadcaster
- Christabel Marshall (1871–1960), writer, playwright and suffragist
- Emma Marshall (1830–1899), children's writer
- Sybil Marshall (1913–2005), writer, novelist and educator
- Adam Mars-Jones (b. 1954), novelist and critic
- John Marston (1576–1634), poet, playwright and satirist
- John Westland Marston (1819–1890), playwright
- Philip Bourke Marston (1850–1887), poet
- Andrew Martin (b. 1962), novelist
- J. P. Martin (1879–1966), children's writer
- William Martin (1767–1810), naturalist and palaeontologist
- Harriet Martineau (1802–1876), sociologist and translator
- James Martineau (1805–1900), philosopher
- Andrew Marvell (1621–1678), poet
- Eleanor Marx (1855–1898), translator and writer
- Theo Marzials (1850–1920), poet and composer
- Eric Maschwitz (1901–1969), writer and lyricist
- John Masefield (1878–1967), Poet Laureate and novelist
- A. E. W. Mason (1865–1948), novelist
- Anita Mason (b. 1942), novelist
- Paul Nicholas Mason (b. 1958), novelist and playwright
- Richard Mason (1919–1997), novelist
- William Mason (1724–1797), poet
- Gerald Massey (1828–1907), poet and Egyptologist
- William Nathaniel Massey (1809–1881), writer and politician
- Philip Massinger (1584–1640), playwright
- Harold Massingham (b. 1932) poet
- H. J. Massingham (1888–1952), nature writer and poet
- John Masters (1914–1983), novelist, autobiographer and army officer
- Steve Matchett (b. 1962), writer and broadcaster
- Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (1854–1918), occultist and translator
- Ellen Buckingham Mathews (wrote as Helen Mathers, 1853–1920), novelist
- Thomas James Mathias (c. 1754–1835), satirist and translator
- Tobie Matthew (1577–1655), writer and translator
- Aylmer and Louise Maude (1858–1938 and 1855–1939), translators and writers
- Robin Maugham (1916–1981), novelist, playwright and travel writer
- William Somerset Maugham (1874–1965), novelist and writer, The Moon and Sixpence
- Henry Maundrell (1665–1701), travel writer and cleric
- Frederick Denison Maurice (1805–1872), religious writer and socialist
- Thomas Maurice (1754–1824), poet and historian
- William Fordyce Mavor (1758–1837), schoolbook writer
- Simon Mawer (b. 1948), novelist
- Donald Maxwell (1877–1936), travel writer and illustrator
- W. B. Maxwell (1866–1938), novelist
- Thomas May (1595–1650), poet, playwright and translator
- Henry Mayhew (1812–1887), social researcher and playwright, London Labour and the London Poor
- James Mayhew (b. 1964), children's writer and illustrator
- Peter Mayle (b. 1939), writer and novelist
- Jasper Mayne (1604–1672), poet and playwright
- William Mayne (1928–2010), children's writer, A Grass Rope
- Margaret Mayo (b. 1936), novelist
- Steve McCaffery (b. 1947), poet and scholar
- Maria McCann (b. 1956), novelist
- Keith McCarthy (b. 1960), crime writer and pathologist
- Tom McCarthy (b. 1969), novelist and screenwriter
- Geraldine McCaughrean (b. 1951), novelist and children's writer
- Derek McCulloch ("Uncle Mac", 1897–1967), children's writer and broadcaster
- Flora McDonnell (b. 1963), children's writer
- Ian McEwan (b. 1948), novelist and screenwriter
- William McFee (1881–1966), story writer
- Roger McGough (b. 1937), performance poet
- John McGrath (1935–2002), playwright
- Patrick McGrath (b. 1950), novelist
- Jon McGregor (b. 1976), novelist
- R. J. McGregor (living), children's novelist and playwright,
- Hilary McKay (living), children's writer
- Jamie McKendrick (b. 1955), poet
- Ronald Brunlees McKerrow (1872–1940), literary critic and bibliographer
- Andy McNab (b. 1959), novelist and soldier
- H. C. McNeile (wrote as Sapper, 1888–1937), novelist, Bulldog Drummond
- Cilla McQueen (b. 1949), poet
- J. M. E. McTaggart (1866–1925), philosopher
- G. R. S. Mead (1863–1933), writer and theosopher
- Henry Medwall (c. 1462–1502), playwright
- Thomas Medwin (1788–1869), poet, translator and biographer
- Arthur Mee (1875–1943), writer and educator
- Thomas Meech (1868–1940), writer and journalist
- James Meek (b. 1962), novelist and journalist
- Mary Meeke (d. c. 1816), novelist and translator
- George Melly (1926–2007), writer, critic and musician
- Charlotte Mendelson (b. 1972), novelist
- George Meredith (1828–1909), novelist and poet, The Egoist
- Louisa Anne Meredith (1812–1895), poet and novelist
- Francis Meres (1565–1672), anthologist and cleric
- Charles Merivale (1808–1893), historian and cleric
- Herman Charles Merivale (wrote as Felix Dale, 1839–1906), playwright and poet
- Herman Merivale (1806–1874), historian
- John Herman Merivale (1779–1844), man of letters
- Leonard Merrick (1864–1939), novelist
- Robert Merry (1755–1798), poet
- Charlotte Mew (1869–1928), poet
- E. H. W. Meyerstein (1889–1952), man of letters
- Alice Meynell (1847–1922), poet and essayist
- Viola Meynell (1885–1956), poet and novelist
- Nicholas Michell (1807–1880), poet and novelist
- Peter Middlebrook (b. 1965), writer
- Christopher Middleton (b. 1926), poet, translator and scholar
- Conyers Middleton (1683–1750), biographer and cleric
- Nick Middleton (b. 1960), geographer
- Richard Barham Middleton (1882–1911), poet and ghost-story writer
- Stanley Middleton (1919–2009), novelist
- Thomas Middleton (1580–1627), playwright and poet, The Revenger's Tragedy
- China Miéville (b. 1972), novelist and political writer
- Grace Mildmay (c. 1552–1620), diarist
- Susan Miles (real name Ursula Wyllie Roberts, 1887–1975), novelist and poet
- John Stuart Mill (1806–1873), philosopher
- John Guille Millais (1865–1931), naturalist and travel writer
- Andrew Miller (b. 1960), novelist
- James Miller (1703–1744), playwright, poet and cleric
- Jonathan Miller (b. 1934), writer and director
- Russell Miller (b. 1938), biographer
- Thomas Miller (1807–1874), novelist and poet
- Robert Millhouse (1788–1839), poet
- Spike Milligan (1918–2002), humorist
- Henry Hart Milman (1791–1868), historian, playwright and cleric
- Arthur F. H. Mills (d. 1955), novelist
- Dorothy Mills (1896–1959), novelist and travel writer
- George Mills (1896–1972), children's writer
- Magnus Mills (b. 1954), novelist
- Mark Mills (living), novelist and screenwriter
- Henry Hart Milman (1791–1868), playwright, poet and cleric
- A. A. Milne (1882–1956), novelist and playwright, Winnie-the-Pooh
- Drew Milne (b. 1964), poet and scholar
- John Milner (1628–1702), writer and cleric
- John Milner (1752–1826), writer and RC bishop
- Marion Milner (1900–1998), diarist and psychoanalyst
- Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton (1809–1885), poet and politician
- Giles Milton (b. 1966), historian
- John Milton (1608–1674), poet and theologian, Paradise Lost
- Ted Milton (b. 1943), poet and musician
- Richard Milward (b. 1984), novelist
- Anthony Minghella (1954–2008), playwright and screenwriter
- Laurence Minot (c. 1300 – c. 1352), poet
- Hope Mirrlees (1887–1978), novelist, translator and poet
- Adrian Mitchell (1932–2008), poet, playwright and novelist
- David Mitchell (b. 1969), novelist
- Dreda Say Mitchell (b. 1965), novelist, broadcaster and journalist
- Gladys Mitchell (wrote as Stephen Hockaby and Malcolm Torrie, 1901–1983), novelist
- Julian Mitchell (b. 1935), playwright and screenwriter
- Bertram Mitford, Lord Redesdale, (1837–1916), writer and diplomat
- Bertram Mitford (1855–1914), novelist
- John Mitford (1782–1831), poet and naval officer
- Mary Russell Mitford (wrote as Miss Mitford, 1787–1855), essayist, novelist and playwright, Our Village
- Nancy Mitford (1904–1973), novelist and writer, Noblesse Oblige
- William Mitford (1744–1827), historian
- Timothy Mo (b. 1950), novelist
- Ivan Moffat (1918–2002), screenwriter
- Deborah Moggach (b. 1948), novelist and screenwriter
- George Mogridge (1787–1854), poet, children's writer and tractarian
- John Mole (b. 1941), poet
- Mary Louisa Molesworth (awa Ennis Graham, 1839–1921), children's writer
- Mary Mollineux (1651–1696), poet
- Rowland Molony (b. 1946), poet and writer
- Nicola Monaghan (living), novelist
- William Thomas Moncrieff (1794–1857), playwright
- Francis Money-Coutts (wrote as Mountjoy, 1852–1923), poet
- Geraldine Monk (b. 1952), poet
- William Cosmo Monkhouse (1840–1901), poet and critic
- Harold Monro (1879–1932), poet
- Nicholas Monsarrat (1910–1979), novelist
- Basil Montagu (1770–1851), miscellanist
- Charles Montagu, earl of Halifax (1661–1715), poet and statesman
- Elizabeth Montagu (1718–1800), writer and bluestocking
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762), correspondent and poet
- Charles Edward Montague (1867–1928), novelist and essayist
- Simon Sebag Montefiore (b. 1965), writer and historian
- Florence Montgomery (1843–1923), novelist and children's writer
- James Montgomery (1771–1854), poet and editor
- Robert Montgomery (1807–1855), poet and cleric
- Agustus Montrose (1830–1899), playwright and novelist
- Edward Moor (1771–1848), writer and soldier
- Michael Moorcock (b. 1939), novelist
- Alan Moore (b. 1953), graphic novelist
- Edward Moore (1712–1757), playwright
- Edward Moore (1835–1916), classicist
- Francis Moore (1657–1715, astrologer and physician
- G. E. Moore (1873–1958), philosopher
- Jonas Moore (1617–1679), mathematician
- Nicholas Moore (1918–1986), poet
- Olive Moore (real name Constance Vaughan, 1905 – c. 1970), novelist and essayist
- Thomas Sturge Moore (1870–1944), poet and playwright
- Tim Moore (b. 1964), travel writer
- Geoffrey Moorhouse (1931–2009), writer
- Roger Moorhouse (b. 1968), historian
- Henrietta Moraes (1931–1999), writer and model
- Philip Morant (1700–1770), historian and cleric
- Thomas Osbert Mordaunt (1730–1809), poet and army officer
- Hannah More (1745–1833), poet and religious writer
- Henry More (1614–1687), philosopher and poet
- Thomas More (1478–1535), scholar, Utopia
- E. D. Morel (1873–1924), writer on colonialism
- Thomas Morell (1703–1784), librettist
- Charles Langbridge Morgan (1894–1958) novelist, playwright and poet
- Peter Morgan (b. 1963), screenwriter and playwright
- Thomas Charles Morgan (1783–1843), physician and philosopher
- James Justinian Morier (1780–1849), novelist and travel writer
- Stanley Morison (1889–1967), typographer and writer
- Samuel Morland or Moreland (1625–1695), polymath
- David Morley (b. 1964), poet and critic
- Henry Morley (1822–1894), critic and biographer
- Iris Morley (1910–1953), novelist and journalist
- John Morley (1838–1923), statesman, biographer and writer
- Sheridan Morley (1941–2007), biographer, critic and broadcaster
- Sally Morningstar (living), occultist
- Michael Morpurgo (b. 1943), children's writer, poet and playwright
- Clare Morrall (b. 1952), novelist
- Ivan Morris (1925–1976), writer, scholar and translator
- Jan Morris (or. James Morris, b. 1926), travel writer
- William Morris (1834–1896), writer, artist and poet
- Arthur Morrison (1863–1945), novelist and journalist
- Blake Morrison (b. 1950), poet, novelist and critic
- Graham Mort (living), poet and story writer
- Chapman Mortimer (b. 1922), novelist and screenwriter
- Ian Mortimer (b. 1967), historian
- John Mortimer (1923–2009), novelist, playwright and lawyer, Horace Rumpole
- Penelope Mortimer (1918–1999), novelist, biographer and critic
- J. B. Morton (wrote as Beachcomber, 1893–1979), columnist
- John Maddison Morton (1811–1891), playwright
- Thomas Morton (1764–1838), playwright
- Joseph Moser (1748–1819), writer and artist
- Brian Moses (b. 1950), poet and children's writer
- Nicholas Mosley (b. 1923), novelist
- Geoffrey Moss (1885–1954), novelist and soldier
- Thomas Moss (1740–1808), poet and cleric
- W. Stanley Moss (1919–1965), novelist, writer and army officer
- James Mossman (1926–1971), writer and broadcaster
- Andrew Motion (b. 1952), Poet Laureate
- Peter Anthony Motteux (or. Pierre Antoine, 1663–1718), poet, playwright and translator
- Eric Mottram (1924–1995), poet and editor
- Ralph Hale Mottram (1883–1971), novelist and poet
- John Moultrie (1799–1874), poet and cleric
- Ferdinand Mount (b. 1939), novelist
- Edward Moxon (1801–1858), poet and publisher
- Jojo Moyes (b. 1969), romantic novelist
- James Bowling Mozley (1813–1878), writer and cleric
- Thomas Mozley (1806–1893), writer and cleric
- Henry Muddiman (1628–1692), journalist and publisher
- William Mudford (1782–1848), essayist, novelist and translator
- Malcolm Muggeridge (1903–1990), writer and broadcaster
- Lodowicke Muggleton (1609–1698), writer
- Richard Mulcaster (c. 1531–1611), educator
- Clare Mulley (b. 1969), biographer and activist
- A. J. Munby (1828–1910), diarist and poet
- A. N. L. Munby (1913–1974), ghost-story writer
- Anthony Munday (c. 1560–1633), playwright, poet and translator
- Talbot Mundy (awa Walter Galt, 1879–1940), novelist
- Iris Murdoch (1919–1999), novelist
- Jill Murphy (b. 1949), children's writer
- Margaret Murphy (b. 1959), novelist
- Gilbert Murray (1866–1957), scholar
- John Murray (b. 1950), novelist
- Simon Murray (Children's Author & Illustrator) (b. 1980), children's author and illustrator
- John Middleton Murry (1889–1957), writer and critic
- Valerie Grosvenor Myer (1935–2007), literary historian, novelist and poet
- Ernest Myers (1844–1921), poet and translator
- Frederic W. H. Myers (1843–1901), poet and essayist
- Leo Myers (1881–1944), novelist
- Julie Myerson (b. 1960), novelist and journalist
N
- Thomas Nabbes (1605–1641), playwright
- Constance Naden (1858–1889), poet and philosopher
- Daljit Nagra (b. 1966), poet
- V. S. Naipaul (b. 1932), novelist and Nobel Prize winner
- Priscilla Napier (1908–1998), biographer, translator and poet
- Edward Nares (1762–1841), theologian, novelist and cleric
- Roger Nash (b. 1942), philosopher and poet
- Thomas Nashe (1567–1601), poet and pamphleteer
- Bill Naughton (1910–1992), playwright
- John Mason Neale (1818–1866), cleric, hymnist and translator
- Patrick Neate (b. 1970), novelist and playwright
- Mary Anna Needell (1830–1922), novelist
- Violet Needham (1876–1967), children's writer
- Henry Neele (1798–1928), poet and critic
- Graham Nelson (b. 1968), poet and mathematician
- Robert Nelson (1656–1715), religious writer
- E. Nesbit (1858–1924), children's writer and poet, The Railway Children
- Henry Nettleship (1839–1893), classicist
- Alexander Neville (1544–1614), historian and translator
- Linda Newbery (b. 1952), novelist and children's writer
- Henry Newbolt (1862–1938), poet
- P. H. Newby (1918–1997), novelist
- Bernard Newman (1897–1968), novelist and propagandist
- John Henry Newman (1801–1890), writer and RC cardinal
- Isaac Newton (1642–1727), polymath
- John Newton (1725–1807), hymnist and pamphleteer
- Thomas Newton (c. 1542–1607), poet and translator
- William Newton (1750–1830), poet
- Charles Nicholl (living), biographer
- David Nicholls (b. 1966), novelist and screenwriter
- Sally Nicholls (b. 1983), children's writer
- Beverley Nichols (1898–1983), novelist, playwright and garden writer
- John Nichols (1745–1826), antiquary and editor
- Bowyer Nichols (1859–1939), poet
- Peter Nichols (b. 1927), playwright and screenwriter
- Robert Nichols (1893–1944), poet and playwright
- Geoff Nicholson (b. 1953), novelist and editor
- Joseph Shield Nicholson (1850–1927), economist and novelist
- Norman Nicholson (1914–1987), poet
- Renton Nicholson (1809–1861), writer
- William Nicholson (artist) (1872–1949), children's writer and illustrator
- William Nicholson (writer) (b. 1948), novelist, screenwriter and playwright
- Adam Nicolson (b. 1957), historian and nature writer
- Harold Nicolson (1886–1968), writer, diarist and politician
- Nigel Nicolson (1917–2004), writer and publisher
- O. S. Nock (1905–1994), railway writer
- Roden Noel (1834–1894), poet
- David Nokes (1948–2009), biographer and screenwriter
- Malcolm Nokes (1897–1986), science and educator
- Jeff Noon (b. 1957), novelist and playwright
- Denis Norden (b. 1922), scriptwriter and broadcaster
- Lawrence Norfolk (b. 1963), novelist
- Barry Norman (b. 1933), novelist and broadcaster
- Roger Norman (b. 1948), children's and YA writer
- John Norris (1657–1711), philosopher and poet
- William Edward Norris, (1847–1925) novelist
- Dudley North, Lord North (1602–1677) writer and poet
- Roger North (1653–1734), lawyer and biographer
- Thomas North (1535–1604), translator
- James Northcote (1746–1831), essayist and illustrator
- Caroline Norton (1808–1877), novelist, pamphleteer and poet
- Mary Norton (1903–1992), children's writer
- Thomas Norton (1532–1584), poet and lawyer
- Richard Norton-Taylor (b. 1944), playwright and journalist
- John Julius Norwich (or. John Julius Cooper, b. 1929), historian and travel writer
- Julian of Norwich (1342 – c. 1416), mystic
- Alexander Nowell (1507–1602), writer and cleric
- Alfred Noyes (1880–1958), poet
- Anthony Nuttall (1937–2007), critic and scholar
- Geoffrey Nuttall (1911–2007), church historian and Congregational minister
- Jeff Nuttall (1933–2004), poet and performer
- Robert Nye (b. 1939), poet, novelist and editor
- John Nyren (1764–1837), cricket writer
O
- Ann Oakley (b. 1944), novelist and sociologist
- Graham Oakley (b. 1929), children's writer
- Patrick O'Brian (or. Richard Patrick Russ, 1914–2000), novelist
- Sean O'Brien (b. 1952), poet, playwright and editor
- Thomas Occleve or Hoccleve (c. 1368–1426), poet
- William Ockham or Occam (c. 1288 – c. 1348), philosopher, Occam's Razor
- Philip O'Connor (1916–1998), writer and poet
- John Oldham (1653–1683), poet
- John Oldmixon (1673–1742), historian and pamphleteer
- William Oldys (1696–1761), antiquary
- Laurence Oliphant (1829–1888), writer and traveller
- F. S. Oliver (1864–1934), political writer
- Jamie Oliver (b. 1975), cookery writer and chef
- Martin Oliver (living), children's writer
- Michael Oliver (1937–2002), writer and broadcaster
- Paul Oliver (b. 1927), arts writer
- Reggie Oliver (b. 1952), story writer and playwright
- Richard Ollard (1923–2007), historian and biographer
- Alfred Ollivant (1874–1927), children's writer
- Daniel O'Mahony (b. 1973), novelist and writer
- Carola Oman (1897–1978), biographer, novelist and children's writer
- Charles Oman (1860–1946), historian
- Michael O'Neill (b. 1953), poet and scholar
- Oliver Onions (1873–1961), novelist
- Onyeka, (real name Onyeka Nubia, living), writer and playwright
- Amelia Opie (1769–1853), novelist and poet
- Iona Opie (b. 1923), and Peter Opie (1918–1982), ethnographers
- E. Phillips Oppenheim (wrote as Anthony Partridge, 1866–1946), novelist
- Emma Orczy (Baroness Orczy, 1865–1947), novelist and playwright, The Scarlet Pimpernel
- George Ormerod (1785–1873), antiquary and historian
- Joe Orton (1933–1967), playwright
- George Orwell (real name Eric Blair), (1903–1950), novelist and essayist, 1984
- Martin Orwin (b. 1963), poet and writer
- Dorothy Osborne (1627–1695), correspondent
- John Osborne (1929–1994), playwright, Look Back in Anger
- Robin Osborne (b. 1957), classicist and historian
- Arthur O'Shaughnessy (1844–1881), poet
- Maggie O'Sullivan (b. 1951), poet and performer
- Alice Oswald (b. 1966), poet
- Peter Oswald (living), playwright
- William Young Ottley (1771–1836), art historian
- Thomas Otway (1652–1685), playwright
- Ouida (real name Maria Louise Ramé, 1839–1908), novelist
- William Oughtred (1574–1660), mathematician
- Keith Ovenden (b. 1943), novelist and biographer
- John Overall (1559–1619), scholar, AV translator and bishop
- Thomas Overbury (1581–1613), poet and essayist
- Richard Overton (c. 1599–1664), pamphleteer
- John Owen (1616–1683), theologian
- Richard Owen (1804–1892), scientist
- Wilfred Owen (1893–1918), poet
- Elsie J. Oxenham (real name Elsie Jeanette Dunkerley, 1880–1960), children's writer
- John Oxenham (real name William Arthur Dunkerley, 1852–1941), novelist and poet
- Mary Oxlie (fl. 1616), poet
- Helen Oyeyemi (b. 1984), novelist and playwright
P
- Ruth Padel (b. 1946), poet and journalist
- Lynda Page (b. 1950), novelist
- Russell Page (1906–1985), garden writer and designer
- John Paget (d. 1638), writer and Presbyterian minister
- Barry Pain (1864–1928), novelist and humourist
- Thomas Paine (1737–1809), political writer and pamphleteer, Rights of Man
- William Painter (c. 1540–1594), writer
- William Paley (1743–1805), philosopher, theologian and cleric
- Francis Palgrave (1788–1861), historian
- Francis Turner Palgrave (1824–1897), poet and anthologist
- William Gifford Palgrave (1826–1888), travel writer and orientalist
- Alan Palmer (living), historian and biographer
- Edward Henry Palmer (1840–1882), translator and orientalist
- Herbert Edward Palmer (1880–1961), poet and critic
- John Palmer (c. 1729–1790) writer and Unitarian minister
- John Palmer (1742–1786), writer and Unitarian minister
- Samuel Palmer (1805–1881), poet and painter
- Robert Paltock (1697–1767), novelist
- Joseph Pardo (c. 1624 – 1677), writer and hazzan
- Julia Pardoe (1806–1862), poet, novelist and travel writer
- Bernard Pares (1867–1949), historian and Russian expert
- Edith Pargeter (awa Ellis Peters, 1913–1995), novelist and historian
- Emma Parker (fl. 1809–1817), novelist
- Henry Parker (1604–1652), political writer
- Martin Parker (c. 1600 – c. 1656), balladeer
- Matthew Parker (1504–1575), Bible translator and archbishop, the Bishops' Bible
- Norman Parker (b. 1954), memoirist
- Samuel Parker (1640–1688), theologian and bishop
- Samuel Parker (1681–1730), religious writer and translator
- Bessie Rayner Parkes (1829–1925), writer and poet
- C. Northcote Parkinson (1909–1993), naval historian and writer on administration, Parkinson's Law
- John Parkinson (botanist) (1567–1650), herbalist
- Adele Parks (b. 1969), novelist
- Tim Parks (b. 1954), novelist and translator
- David Parlett (b. 1939), games writer
- Samuel Parr (1747–1825), political writer, scholar and educator
- Cecil Parrott (1909–1984), translator, biographer and diplomat
- Eliza Parsons (1739–1811), novelist
- Frances Partridge (1900–2004), diarist and translator
- John Pass (b. 1947), poet and scholar
- Paston Family (14th – 16th cc.), Paston Letters
- Walter Pater (1839–1894), essayist and novelist
- Coventry Patmore (1823–1896), poet and critic
- Simon Patrick (1626–1707), theologian and bishop
- Brian Patten (b. 1946), poet and children's writer
- Mark Pattison (1813–1884), writer and cleric
- Tom Paulin (b. 1949), poet, academic and broadcaster
- Michelle Paver (b. 1960), children's writer
- Stel Pavlou (b. 1970), novelist and screenwriter
- James Payn (1830–1898), novelist and miscellanist
- John Payne (1842–1917), poet and translator
- Nick Payne (living), playwright
- David Peace (b. 1967), novelist
- Henry Peacham the Elder (1546–1634), rhetorician and cleric
- Henry Peacham the Younger (c. 1573 – c. 1643), poet and critic
- Lucy Peacock (fl. 1785–1816), children's writer, editor and translator
- Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866), satirical novelist and poet, Nightmare Abbey
- Mervyn Peake (1911–1968), novelist and poet, Gormenghast
- Philippa Pearce (1920–2006), children's writer, Tom's Midnight Garden
- Pearl Poet (unnamed, fl. 14th c.), poet, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- Hugh Pearman (b. 1955), critic and architect.
- Tim Pears (b. 1956), novelist
- Dan Pearson (b. 1964), garden writer
- Hesketh Pearson (1887–1964), biographer
- John Pearson (b. 1930), biographer
- John Pearson (1612–1686), theologian and bishop
- Edward R. Pease (1857–1955), writer and politician
- Reginald Pecock (c. 1395–1460), theologian and bishop
- Margaret Pedler (d. 1948), novelist
- Arthur George Villiers Peel (awa George Peel, 1869–1956), economist and politician
- Constance Peel (awa Mrs. C. S. Peel and Dorothy Peel, 1868-1934), journalist, novelist and writer on household economy
- J. H. B. Peel (1913–1983), writer, poet and journalist
- George Peele (1556–1596), playwright and poet, The Old Wives' Tale
- Mal Peet (living), children's writer
- Samuel Pegge (1704–1796), antiquary, translator and cleric
- Isaac Penington (1616–1679), Quaker writer
- William Penn (1644–1718), politician, writer and Quaker
- Thomas Pennant (1726–1798), naturalist, antiquary and travel writer
- Roland Penrose (1900–1984), biographer and artist
- Hilary Pepler (1878–1951), writer and poet
- Michael Peppiatt (b. 1941), art critic, art historian and biographer
- Emily Pepys (1833–1877), child diarist
- Samuel Pepys (1633–1703), diarist and administrator
- Thomas Percy (1729–1811), bishop, poet and anthologist, Percy's Reliques
- John Perrin (c. 1558–1615), scholar, AV translator and cleric
- Chris Petit (b. 1949), novelist and film director
- William Petty (1623–1687), economist and philosopher
- K. M. Peyton (or. Kathleen Herald, 1929), children's writer
- Gilbert Phelps (1915–1993), novelist, critic and educator
- St. John Philby (1885–1960), writer, intelligence officer and Arabist
- Ambrose Philips (1674–1739), poet
- John Philips (1676–1709), poet
- Katherine Philips (1632–1644), poet
- Caryl Phillips (b. 1958), novelist
- Edward Phillips (1630 – c. 1696), writer and philologist
- John Phillips (1631–1706), writer
- J. B. Phillips (1906–1982), Bible translator and cleric
- Richard Phillips (1767–1840), writer and publisher
- Stephen Phillips (1864–1915), poet and playwright
- Eden Phillpotts (1862–1960), novelist, poet and playwright
- Henry Phillpotts (1778–1869), pamphleteer and bishop
- Gervase Phinn (b. 1946), novelist, poet and educator
- Constantine Phipps (1797–1863), writer and politician
- David Andrew Phoenix (b. 1966), writer, scientist and educator
- Barbara Leonie Picard (1917–2011), children's writer
- Tom Pickard (b. 1946), poet and scriptwriter
- David Pickering (b. 1958), compiler of reference books
- Marmaduke Pickthall (1875–1936), scholar, Qur'an translator and novelist
- Sarah Piers (d. 1719), poet
- Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877–1959), economist
- Mary Pilkington, (1766–1839) novelist, poet and children's writer
- Arthur Wing Pinero (1855–1934), playwright
- William Pinnock (1782–1843) educator
- Harold Pinter (1930–2008), Nobel prize winner, playwright and screenwriter, The Caretaker
- Isaac Pitman (1813–1897), writer on shorthand
- Christopher Pitt (1699–1748), poet and translator
- Ruth Pitter (1897–1992), poet
- Mary Pix (1666–1709), playwright and novelist
- James Planché (1796–1880), playwright
- Victor Plarr (1863–1929), poet and biographer
- Alan Plater (1935–2010), playwright, screenwriter and novelist
- Karen Platt (living), garden writer
- Robert Plot (1640–1996), naturalist, chemist and antiquary
- Max Plowman (1883–1941), writer and poet
- J. H. Plumb (1911–2001), historian
- Anne Plumptre (1760–1818), writer and translator
- Isaac Pocock (1782–1835), playwright and painter
- Tom Pocock (1925–2007), biographer and historian
- Richard Pococke (1704–1765), travel writer, diarist and bishop
- Frank Podmore (1856–1910), writer and politician
- Michael Podro (1931–2008), art historian
- Elizabeth Polack (fl. 1830–38), playwright
- John William Polidori (1795–1821), writer, poet and physician
- Alfred Oliver Pollard (1893–1960), novelist and army officer
- Alfred W. Pollard (1859–1944), bibliographer and scholar
- Margaret Steuart Pollard (1903–1996), poet and writer
- William Pollard (1828–1893), Quaker writer
- Jacob Polley (b. 1975), poet and novelist
- Elizabeth Polwheele or Polewhele (c. 1651 – c. 1691), playwright
- Richard Polwhele (1760–1838), poet, writer and cleric
- John Pomfret (1667–1703), poet and cleric
- John Poole (1786–1872), playwright
- Alexander Pope (1688–1744), poet
- Dudley Pope (1925–1997), novelist
- Jessie Pope (1868–1941), poet and writer
- Walter Pope (1627–1714), astronomer and poet
- James Pope-Hennessy (1916–1974), biographer and travel writer
- Samuel Pordage (1633–1691), poet
- Eleanor Anne Porden (1795–1825), poet
- Richard Porson (1759–1808), classicist
- Anna Maria Porter (1780–1832), novelist and poet
- Henry Porter (d. 1599), playwright
- Henry Porter (b. 1953), novelist and journalist
- Jane Porter (1776–1850), novelist
- Linda Porter (b. 1947), historian and biographer
- Roy Porter (1946–2002), historian
- Sheena Porter (b. 1935), children's writer
- Jacob Post (1774–1855), Quaker writer
- Raymond Postgate (1896–1971), novelist and social historian
- Beatrix Potter (1866–1943), children's writer and illustrator, The Tale of Peter Rabbit
- Dennis Potter (1935–1994), playwright and screenwriter
- Robert Potter (1721–1804), translator, poet and cleric
- Anthony Powell (1905–2000), novelist, A Dance to the Music of Time
- Michael Powell (1905–1990), writer and film director
- Eileen Power (1889–1940), historian
- Marguerite Agnes Power (1815–1867), novelist, periodical writer, and editor.
- Rhoda Power (1890–1957), children's writer and broadcaster
- John Cowper Powys (1872–1963), novelist
- Llewelyn Powys (1884–1939), travel writer and biographer
- T. F. Powys (1875–1953), novelist and story writer
- Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802–1839), poet and politician
- Terry Pratchett (b. 1948), novelist
- Anne Pratt (1806–1893), botanical writer and illustrator
- Samuel Jackson Pratt (1749–1814), poet, playwright and novelist
- Lucy Prebble (b. 1981), playwright
- Thomas Preston (1537–1598), scholar and playwright
- Thomas Preston (1563–1640), writer and RC monk
- Diana Primrose (fl. 1630), poet
- Matthew Prior (1664–1721), poet
- Anthony Price (b. 1928), thriller writer
- Bonamy Price (1807–1888), political economist
- Nancy Price (1880–1970), dramatist, novelist and poet
- Richard Price (1723–1791), economist, philosopher and Unitarian minister
- Susan Price (b. 1955), children's writer
- Uvedale Price (1747–1829), art critic
- Christopher Priest (b. 1943), novelist
- Chris Priestley (b. 1958), children's writer and illustrator
- J. B. Priestley (1894–1984), playwright and novelist
- Joseph Priestley (1733–1804), theologian and philosopher
- Alison Prince (b. 1931), children's writer and screenwriter
- Peter Prince (living), novelist and screenwriter
- V. S. Pritchett (1900–1997), writer
- May Probyn (1856–1909), poet
- Adelaide Anne Procter (1825–1864), poet
- Bryan Waller Procter (wrote as Barry Cornwall, 1787–1874), songwriter and playwright
- Sophie Amelia Prosser, (1807–1882), children's writer
- Sally Prue (living), children's writer
- Paula Pryke (b. 1960), writer and florist
- J. H. Prynne (b. 1936), poet
- William Prynne (1600–1699), religious writer and historian
- John Pudney (1909–1977), writer and poet
- Sheenagh Pugh (b. 1950), poet and novelist
- Pullein-Thompson sisters: Josephine, (b. 1924), Diana, (b. 1925) and Christine, (1925–2005), children's writers
- Charlotte Pullein-Thompson (wrote as Charlotte Popescu, b. 1957), children's and garden writer
- Philip Pullman (b. 1946), children's writer, His Dark Materials
- Samuel Purchas (c. 1575–1626), travel writer
- C. B. Purdom (1883–1965), critic and biographer
- Libby Purves (b. 1950), novelist, broadcaster and columnist
- Edward Bouverie Pusey (1800–1882), theologian, scholar and cleric
- George Puttenham (1529–1590), and Richard Puttenham (c. 1520 – c. 1601), critics and courtiers
- Henry James Pye (1745–1813), Poet Laureate and writer
- Thomas Pyle (1674–1756), writer and cleric
- Barbara Pym (1913–1980), novelist
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- Bernard Quaritch (1819–1899), bookseller and bibliographer
- Francis Quarles (1592–1644), poet
- C. H. B. Quennell (1872–1935), writer and architect
- Marjorie Quennell (1884–1972), historian
- Peter Quennell (1905–1993), biographer, poet and essayist
- Arthur Quiller-Couch (wrote as Q, 1863–1944), novelist and literary critic, Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250–1900
- Mabel Quiller-Couch (c. 1866–1924), children's writer and editor
- Edward Quillinan (1791–1851), poet and translator
- Ann Quin (1936–1973), novelist
- Anthony Quiney (living), architectural historian and academic
- Anthony Quinton (1925–2010), philosopher and broadcaster
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- Jonathan Raban (b. 1942), travel writer
- Michael Rabbet (c. 1562–1630), AV translator and cleric
- Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823), novelist, The Mysteries of Udolpho
- Jeremiah Radcliffe (d. 1612 or c. 1620), scholar, AV translator and cleric
- Dollie Radford (real name Caroline Maitland, 1858–1920), poet and writer
- Simon Rae (living), poet and cricket writer
- Elizabeth Raffald (1833–1881), cookery writer
- Shahida Rahman (b. 1971), author, writer and publisher
- Bali Rai (b. 1971), YA novelist
- Craig Raine (b. 1944) poet and critic
- Kathleen Raine (1908–2003), poet and translator
- Nina Raine (living), playwright and director
- John Rainolds (1549–1607), AV translator and cleric
- Ross Raisin (b. 1979), novelist
- Arthur Raistrick (1896–1991), polymath
- Walter Raleigh or Ralegh (1552–1618), poet and navigator
- Walter Raleigh (1861–1922), scholar and poet
- Thomas Randolph (1605–1635), poet
- William Brighty Rands (wrote as Henry Holbeach and Matthew Browne, 1823–1882), children's writer and hymnist
- Nicholas Rankin (b. 1950), biographer, historian and broadcaster
- Arthur Ransome (1884–1967), children's writer, Swallows and Amazons
- Ellen Henrietta Ranyard (1810–1879), religious writer
- Hastings Rashdall (1858–1924), philosopher and cleric
- John Rastell or Rastall (c. 1475–1536) chronicler and playwright
- Julian Rathbone (1935–2008), novelist
- Terence Rattigan (1911–1977), playwright and screenwriter
- Simon Raven (1927–2001), novelist, screenwriter and playwright
- Ralph Ravens (c. 1553–1615), scholar, AV translator and cleric
- Edward Ravenscroft (c. 1654–1707), playwright
- Gwen Raverat (1885–1957), memoirist and illustrator
- Thomas Ravis (c. 1560–1609), scholar, AV translator and bishop
- George Rawlinson (1812–1902), scholar, historian and cleric
- Hardwicke Rawnsley (1851–1920), poet and hymnist
- Tom Raworth (b. 1938), poet
- John Ray (1627–1705), naturalist and lexicographer
- Derek Raymond (real name R. W. A. Cook, 1931–1994), novelist
- Claire Rayner (1931–2010), novelist and broadcaster
- Jay Rayner (b. 1966), novelist and food writer
- Shoo Rayner (or. Hugh Rayner, 1956), children's writer and illustrator
- J. S. Raynor (b. 1944), novelist
- Benedict Read (b. 1945), art critic
- Herbert Read (1893–1968), poet, critic and novelist
- Miss Read (real name Dora Jessie Saint, 1913–2012), novelist, autobiographer and children's writer
- Piers Paul Read (b. 1941), novelist and writer
- Charles Reade (1814–1884), novelist, The Cricket on the Hearth
- John Redford (d. 1547), poet, playwright and composer
- Peter Redgrove (1932–2003), poet, novelist and editor
- Patrick Redmond (b. 1966), thriller writer
- Henry Reed (1914–1986), poet and translator
- Isaac Reed (1742–1807), biographer and Shakespearean
- Jeremy Reed (b. 1951), poet, novelist and critic
- Talbot Baines Reed (1852–1893), children's novelist
- Douglas Reeman (wrote as Alexander Kent, b. 1924), novelist
- David Rees (1936–1993), children's writer
- Terence Reese (1913–1996), bridge writer
- Clara Reeve (1729–1807), novelist
- John Reeve (1608–1658), religious writer
- Philip Reeve (b. 1966), children's writer and illustrator
- Amber Reeves (1887–1981), novelist and writer
- James Reeves (or. John Morris Reeves, 1909–1978), poet and children's writer
- Christopher Reid (b. 1949), poet and essayist
- Jonathan Rendall (b. 1964), novelist
- Ruth Rendell (awa Barbara Vine, b. 1930), novelist
- Louise Rennison (b. 1951), children's writer and comic
- John Reresby (1634–1689), politician and diarist
- Frederic Reynolds (1764–1841), playwright
- George W. M. Reynolds (1814–1879, novelist and journalist
- Henry Reynolds (1564–1632), poet, translator and critic
- John Hamilton Reynolds (1794–1852), poet
- Dan Rhodes (b. 1972), novelist and story writer
- William Barnes Rhodes (1772–1826), playwright
- Ernest Rhys (1859–1946), writer, poet and editor
- David Ricardo (1772–1823), political economist
- Ben Rice (b. 1972), novelist
- James Rice (1843–1882), novelist
- Barnabe Rich (c. 1540–1617), writer and soldier
- Alfred Bate Richards (1820–1876), playwright, poet and essayist
- I. A. Richards (1893–1979), critic
- Justin Richards (b. 1961), novelist
- Vernon Richards (or. Vero Recchioni, 1915–2001), anarchist writer
- Dorothy Richardson (1873–1957), novelist and translator
- Elizabeth Richardson (1576/7–1651), religious writer
- John Richardson (d. 1625), scholar, AV translator and cleric
- John Richardson (1657–1753), Quaker preacher and memoirist
- Samuel Richardson (1689–1761), novelist, Pamela
- Christopher Ricks (b. 1933), critic and anthologist
- Edgell Rickword (1898–1982), poet, critic and editor
- Anne Ridler (1912–2001), poet and editor
- James Ridley (wrote as Charles Morell, 1736–1765), novelist and story writer
- Nicholas Ridley (1500–1555), theologian and bishop
- Philip Ridley (b. 1964), playwright, artist and children's writer
- D. C. H. Rieu (1916–2008), scholar and translator
- E. V. Rieu (1887–1972), scholar, translator and poet
- Denise Riley (b. 1948), poet and scholar
- Gwendoline Riley (b. 1979), novelist
- Peter Riley (b. 1940), poet and essayist
- Stella Rimington (b. 1935), novelist and intelligence officer
- James Riordan (b. 1936), children's writer and footballer
- Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie (1837–1919), novelist and essayist
- James Ewing Ritchie (1820–1898), travel writer, political biographer and journalist
- Joseph Ritson (b. Richardson, 1752–1803), antiquary and editor
- Graham Robb (b. 1958), biographer and critic
- Andrew Roberts (b. 1963), historian and biographer
- David Roberts (living), novelist and editor
- Katherine Roberts (b. 1962), children's writer
- Keith Roberts (1935–2000), novelist and story writer
- Lynette Roberts (b. Evelyn Beatrice Roberts, 1909–1995), poet
- Michael Roberts (1902–1948), poet and critic
- Michael Symmons Roberts (b. 1963), poet and librettist
- Michèle Roberts (b. 1949), novelist and poet
- Morley Roberts (1857–1942), novelist
- Joseph Clinton Robertson (wrote as Sholto Percy, 1788–1852), writer and editor
- Thomas William Robertson (1829–1871), playwright
- Denise Robins (several pen names, 1897–1985), novelist
- Patricia Robins (awa Claire Lorrimer, b. 1921), novelist
- Austin Robinson (1897–1993), economist
- Derek Robinson (b. 1932), novelist
- Henry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867), man of letters
- Hilary Robinson (b. 1962), children's writer
- Joan Robinson (1903–1983), economist
- John Robinson (1919–1983), writer and bishop
- Mary Robinson (1757–1800), poet and novelist
- Nigel Robinson (living), writer and editor
- Peter Robinson (b. 1953), poet and translator
- Rony Robinson (b. 1940), novelist and playwright
- John Roby (1793–1850), poet and writer
- Paul Roche (1916–2007), poet, novelist and critic
- Rennell Rodd (1858–1941), poet and politician
- John Rodker (1894–1955), writer and poet
- Jane Rogers (b. 1952), novelist
- Samuel Rogers (1763–1855), poet
- Thorold Rogers (1823–1890), political economist and radical
- Woodes Rogers (d. 1732), mariner and travel writer
- Peter Mark Roget (1779–1869), philologist, Roget's Thesaurus
- Sax Rohmer (real name A. H. S. Ward, 1883–1959), novelist
- Frederick Rolfe (1860–1913), novelist and artist
- Richard Rolle (1290–1349), writer and Bible translator
- L. T. C. Rolt (1910–1974), transport writer
- Isabella Frances Romer (1798–1852), travel writer
- Stephen Romer (b. 1957), poet and critic
- William Roscoe (1753–1831), scholar and poet
- Elizabeth and Gerald Rose (latter b. 1935), children's writers and illustrators
- Paul Rose (b. 1935), writer and politician
- Michael Rosen (b. 1946), children's writer and poet
- Isaac Rosenberg (1890–1918), poet and playwright
- Jack Rosenthal (1931–2004), screenwriter
- Alan Ross (1922–2001), poet, writer and editor
- Christina Rossetti (1830–1894), poet
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882), poet and painter
- Maria Francesca Rossetti (1827–1876), writer and translator
- William Michael Rossetti (1829–1919), writer and critic
- John Horace Round (1854–1928), historian and genealogist
- W. H. D. Rouse (1863–1950), classicist and editor
- Martin Routh (1755–1854), classicist
- Alick Rowe (1939–2009), scriptwriter and novelist
- Elizabeth Rowe (1674–1737), poet and novelist
- Nicholas Rowe (1674–1718), Poet Laureate
- Richard Rowlands (c. 1550–1640), historian and antiquary
- Samuel Rowlands (c. 1573–1630), poet and pamphleteer
- Samuel Rowley (d. c. 1633), playwright and actor
- William Rowley (c. 1585–1626), playwright and actor
- J. K. Rowling (b. 1965), children's writer, Harry Potter
- Lucinda Roy (b. 1955), novelist and poet
- Gillian Rubinstein (awa Lian Hearn, b. 1942), children's writer and playwright
- Carol Rumens (b. 1944), poet and scholar
- Peter Rushforth (1945–2005), novelist
- John Ruskin (1819–1900), essayist, poet and art critic
- Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), philosopher
- Lord John Russell (1792–1878), biographer and prime minister
- William Clark Russell (1844–1911), novelist
- William Howard Russell (1820–1907), travel writer and war correspondent
- John D. Rutherford (b. 1941), scholar and translator
- Chris Ryan (b. 1961), novelist and soldier
- Gilbert Ryle (1900–1976), philosopher
- Thomas Rymer (c. 1643–1713), Historiographer Royal and poet
- Royce Ryton (1924–2009), playwright
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- Suhayl Saadi (b. 1961), novelist, playwright and physician
- Oliver Sacks (b. 1933), writer and neurologist
- Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset (1638–1706), poet and rake
- Lady Margaret Sackville (1881–1963), poet and children's writer
- Thomas Sackville, Earl of Dorset (1536–1608), poet and statesman
- Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962), poet and novelist
- Lorna Sage (1943–2001), critic and scholar
- Lawrence Sail (b. 1942), poet and editor
- George Saintsbury (1845–1933), critic
- Saki (real name Hector Hugh Munro) (1870–1916), story writer and satirist
- Henry Stephens Salt (1851–1939), writer and campaigner
- John Saltmarsh (d. 1647), writer and cleric
- Fiona Sampson (b. 1968), poet and editor
- Kevin Sampson (b. 1961), novelist
- Ignatius Sancho (c. 1729–1780), writer and domestic servant
- Nicholas Sanders (c. 1530–1581), polemicist and RC priest
- Robert Sanderson (1587–1663), theologian
- Edwin Sandys (1519–1588), Bishops' Bible translator and bishop
- George Sandys (1577–1644), poet and traveller
- Peter Sanger (b. 1943), poet and scholar
- C. J. Sansom (b. 1952), novelist
- Clive Sansom (1910–1981), poet, playwright and educator
- William Sansom (1912–1976), novelist and travel writer
- Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967), poet and novelist
- Hilary Saint George Saunders (wrote as Francis Beeding, etc., 1898–1951), novelist
- James Savage (1767–1845), writer, antiquary and editor
- Richard Savage (c. 1697–1743), poet and satirist
- Henry Savile (1549–1622), scholar and AV translator
- Michael Saward (b. 1932), hymnist
- Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957), novelist, Lord Peter Wimsey
- Frank Sayers (1763–1817), poet and metaphysician
- Francis Scarfe (1911–1986), poet and novelist
- Vernon Scannell (1922–2007), poet
- Alex Scarrow (living), novelist and screenwriter
- Simon Scarrow (living), historical novelist
- Simon Schama (b. 1945), historian
- Ann Schlee (b. 1934), novelist
- Catherine Amy Dawson Scott (1865–1934), poet, playwright and novelist
- Geoffrey Scott (1884–1929), writer and poet
- Hugh Stowell Scott (wrote as Henry Seton Merriman, c. 1863–1903), novelist
- Jane Scott (1779–1839), playwright
- John Scott (1783–1821), editor and writer
- John Scott of Amwell (1731–1783), poet
- John A. Scott (b. 1948), poet and novelist
- Mary Scott (1751/2–1793), poet
- Paul Mark Scott (1920–1978), novelist, playwright and poet
- Sarah Scott (1720–1795), novelist and translator
- William Bell Scott (1811–1890), poet and artist
- Will Scott (1893−1964), crime writer and playwright
- Anne Scott-James (1913–2009), novelist, editor and garden writer
- E. J. Scovell (1907–1999), poet
- James Scudamore (b. 1976), novelist
- George Bazeley Scurfield (1920–1991), poet, novelist and politician
- Marcus Sedgwick (b. 1968), children's writer
- Charles Sedley (1639–1701), poet and rake
- Kate Sedley (real name Brenda Clarke, b. 1926), novelist
- Frederic Seebohm (1833–1912), economic historian
- John Robert Seeley (1834–1895), historian and essayist
- Rachel Seiffert (b. 1971), novelist
- David Selbourne (b. 1937), philosopher and playwright
- Catherine Selden (fl. 1797–1817), novelist
- John Selden (1584–1654), polymath
- Will Self (b. 1961), novelist and columnist
- Charles Seltman (1886–1957), art historian
- George Selwyn (1719–1791), correspondent and wit
- Nassau William Senior (1790–1864), economist
- Sepharial (real name Walter Gorn Old, 1864–1929), astrologer and numerologist
- Gitta Sereny (b. 1921), biographer and historian
- Ian Serraillier (1912–1994), novelist and poet
- Robert Service (b. 1947), historian and Russian scholar
- Diane Setterfield (b. 1964), novelist
- Elkanah Settle (1648–1724), playwright and poet
- Anna Seward ("Swan of Lichfield", 1747–1809), poet and biographer
- Thomas Seward (1708–1790), writer
- William Seward (1747–1799), anecdotist
- Anna Sewell (1820–1878), novelist, Black Beauty
- Elizabeth Missing Sewell (1815–1906), novelist and religious writer
- Mary Wright Sewell (1797–1884), children's writer
- William Sewell (1804–1874), writer, translator and cleric
- Miranda Seymour (b. 1948), biographer, novelist and children's writer
- Martin Seymour-Smith (1928–1998), poet and critic
- Thomas Shadwell (c. 1642–1692), Poet Laureate, Historiographer Royal and playwright
- Anthony Shaffer (b. 1926), playwright and novelist
- Peter Shaffer (b. 1926), playwright
- Eddy Shah (b. 1944), novelist and newspaper owner
- Saira Shah (b. 1964), writer and film-maker
- Tahir Shah (b. 1966), travel writer and critic
- Olivia Shakespear (1863–1938), novelist and playwright
- Nicholas Shakespeare (b. 1957), novelist and biographer
- William Shakespeare (c. 1564–1616), poet and playwright
- Edward Shanks (1892–1953), poet and critic
- Jo Shapcott (b. 1953), poet and scholar
- Evelyn Sharp (1869–1955), journalist, children's writer and suffragist
- Margery Sharp (1905–1991), novelist, children's writer and playwright
- Richard Sharp (1759–1835), polemicist and hatter
- Thomas Wilfred Sharp (1901–1978), writer on planning
- Kevin Sharpe (1949–2011), historian
- Richard Sharpe (living), historian
- Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1847–1909), ornithologist and editor
- Tom Sharpe (b. 1928), novelist
- George Shaw (1751–1813), botanist and zoologist
- Pete Shaw (b. 1966), writer and producer
- Peter Shaw (1694–1763), physician, medical writer and translator
- Robert Shaw (1927–1978), actor and novelist
- Watkins Shaw (1911–1996), musicologist
- John Shebbeare (1709–1788), novelist and satirist
- Wilfrid Sheed (1930–2011), writer, novelist and essayist
- John Sheffield (known as Mulgrave, then Buckingham, 1647–1721) poet and essayist
- Edward Sheldon (1599–1687), religious translator
- Mary Shelley (1797–1851), author, Frankenstein
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822), poet
- George Shelvocke (1675–1742), travel writer and privateer
- William Shenstone (1714–1763), poet
- Stav Sherez (b. 1970), novelist
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816), playwright, The Rivals
- William Sherlock (1641–1707), theologian and cleric
- Philip Sherrard (1922–1995), classicist, translator and religious writer
- R. C. Sherriff (1890–1975), playwright, novelist and screenwriter
- Charles Scott Sherrington (1857–1952), science writer, physiologist and Nobel Prize winner
- Norman Sherry (b. 1935), novelist and biographer
- Mary Martha Sherwood (1775–1851), children's writer and tractarian
- James Shirley (1596–1666), playwright
- Joseph Henry Shorthouse (1834–1903), novelist
- Fredegond Shove (1889–1949), poet
- Nevil Shute (1899–1960), novelist and aviation engineer
- Penelope Shuttle (b. 1947), poet and novelist
- Gareth Sibson (b. 1977), novelist and broadcaster
- Elizabeth Siddal (1829–1862), artist and poet
- Mary Sidney (later Mary Herbert, countess of Pembroke, 1561–1621), poet and translator
- Philip Sidney (1554–1586), poet and soldier
- Robert Sidney, earl of Leicester (1563–1626) poet and statesman
- Una Lucy Silberrad (1872–1955), novelist
- Jon Silkin (1930–1997), poet, editor and critic
- Alan Sillitoe (1928–2010), novelist, poet and translator
- Elizabeth Simcoe (1762–1850), diarist
- George Augustus Simcox (1841–1905), poet and scholar
- Kathryn Simmonds (b. 1972), poet and story writer
- Jack Simmons (1915–2000), historian
- Brian Simon (1915–2002), educator
- Dave Simpson (living), playwright
- David Simpson (1745–1799), writer and cleric
- Dorothy Simpson (b. 1933), novelist
- Helen Simpson (b. 1959), novelist and story writer
- Joe Simpson (b. 1960), writer and mountaineer
- John Simpson (1746–1812), writer and Unitarian minister
- John Simpson (b. 1953), lexicographer
- John Palgrave Simpson (1807–1887), playwright
- N. F. Simpson (1919–2011), playwright
- George Robert Sims (1847–1922), writer, poet and journalist
- Andrew Sinclair (b. 1945), novelist, historian and biographer
- Clive Sinclair (b. 1948), novelist
- Ian Sinclair writer, poet and film-maker
- May Sinclair (real name Mary Amelia St. Clair, 1863–1946), novelist, poet and critic
- C. H. Sisson (1914–2003), poet, translator and writer
- Edith Sitwell (1887–1964), poet
- Osbert Sitwell (1892–1969), writer
- Sacheverell Sitwell (1897–1988), poet and writer
- Walter William Skeat (1835–1912), philologist
- Barbara Skelton (1916–1996), novelist and memoirist
- John Skelton (c. 1460–1529), poet and satirist
- Robert Skidelsky (b. 1939), economic historian and biographer
- Joseph Skipsey (1832–1903), poet and editor
- George Edward MacKenzie Skues (1858–1949), fishing writer
- Barbara Sleigh (1906–1982), children's writer
- Edward Slow (1841–1925), dialect poet
- Carolyn Smart (b. 1952), poet
- Christopher Smart (1722–1771), poet
- Francis Edward Smedley (1818–1864), novelist
- Menella Bute Smedley (1819–1877), novelist, poet and translator
- Albert Richard Smith (1816–1860), writer and mountaineer
- Charlotte Smith (1749–1806), poet and novelist
- David Smith (b. 1963), historian
- Dodie Smith (1896–1990), novelist and playwright, The Hundred and One Dalmatians
- Edmund Smith (1672–1710), poet and translator
- Eleanor Smith (1902–1945), novelist
- Emma Smith (b. 1923), novelist and children's writer
- Horace Smith (or. Horatio Smith, 1779–1849), novelist and poet
- Joan Smith (b. 1953), novelist and journalist
- John Frederick Smith (1806–1890), novelist
- Ken Smith (1938–2003), poet
- Michael Marshall Smith (b. 1965), novelist and screenwriter
- Miles Smith (1554–1624), scholar, AV translator and cleric
- Sid Smith (b. 1949), novelist and journalist
- Stevie Smith (1902–1971), poet and novelist
- Sydney Smith (1771–1845), writer and cleric
- Thomas Smith (fl. 1600-1627), writer and soldier
- Tom Rob Smith (b. 1979), novelist
- Wentworth Smith (1571 – c. 1623), playwright
- William Smith (fl. 1590s), poet
- William Smith (1769–1839), geologist
- William Smith (1813–1893), lexicographer
- Zadie Smith (b. 1975), novelist
- Frank Smythe (1900–1949), writer and mountaineer
- Percy Smythe (1826–1869), polyglot and man of letters
- C. P. Snow (1905–1980), novelist and physicist
- William Somervile (1675–1742), poet
- Charles Sorley (1895–1915), poet
- William Sotheby (1757–1833), poet and translator
- Ahdaf Soueif (b. 1950), novelist and translator
- Robert South (1634–1716), theologian and cleric
- R. W. Southern (1912–2001), historian
- Robert Southey (1774–1843), Poet Laureate
- Robert Southwell (1561–1595), poet, tractarian and martyr
- Nancy Spain (1917–1964), novelist, biographer and journalist
- Robert Spaulding (fl. 1610s), scholar, AV translator and cleric
- Rachel Speght (b. 1596), poet and polemicist
- Henry Spelman (c. 1562–1641), historian and antiquary
- Bernard Spencer (1909–1963), poet
- Colin Spencer (b. 1933), writer, artist and broadcaster
- Herbert Spencer (1820–1903), philosopher
- John Spencer (1630–1693), scholar and cleric
- William Robert Spencer (1769–1834), poet and wit
- Stephen Spender (1909–1995), poet, novelist and travel writer
- Edmund Spenser (c. 1552–1599), poet, The Faerie Queene
- John Spenser (1559–1614), scholar, AV translator and cleric
- Dennis Spooner (1932–1986), TV screenwriter
- William Archibald Spooner (1844–1930), scholar, spoonerisms
- Jean Sprackland (b. 1962), poet
- Francis Spufford (b. 1964), writer
- Charles Spurgeon (1834–1892), writer and Baptist minister
- J. C. Squire (1884–1958), poet and historian
- Edward St Aubyn (b. 1960), novelist and journalist
- Bayle St. John (1822–1859), travel writer and biographer
- Henry St John, Lord Bolingbroke (1678–1751) politician and philosopher
- James Augustus St. John (b. James John, 1795–1875), journalist, writer and traveller
- Spenser St. John (1825–1910), biographer, travel writer and diplomat
- Brian Stableford (b. 1948), SF writer
- Tom Stacey (b. 1930), novelist, writer and publisher
- David A. T. Stafford (b. 1942), historian
- Julian Stallabrass (living), art historian
- John Stallworthy (b. 1935), scholar and poet
- John Stammers (b. 1954), poet
- Josiah Stamp (1880–1941), economist and banker
- Derek Stanford (1918–2008), biographer and poet
- Louisa Stanhope (fl. 1806–1827), novelist
- Philip Stanhope, Lord Chesterfield, (1694–1773) politician and writer
- Arthur Stanley (1815–1881), theologian and cleric
- Thomas Stanley (1625–1678), poet and philosopher
- Andy Stanton (living), children's writer,
- Olaf Stapledon (1886–1950), philosopher and novelist
- Robert Stapylton (d. 1669), playwright, poet and translator
- Freya Stark (1893–1993), travel writer
- Mariana Starke (1761/2–1838), travel writer, poet and playwright
- Boris Starling (living), novelist and screenwriter
- William Thomas Stead (1849–1912), campaigner
- Michael Steed (b. 1940), political scientist and broadcaster
- Wickham Steed (1871–1856), journalist and historian
- Anne Steele (wrote as Theodosia, 1717–1778), hymnist
- David Ramsay Steele (living), philosopher
- Jonathan Steele (living), writer and journalist
- Marguerite Steen (1894–1975), novelist and biographer
- George Steevens (1736–1800), Shakespearean
- James Kenneth Stephen (1859–1892), poet
- Leslie Stephen (1832–1904), writer and mountaineer
- Frederic George Stephens (1828–1907), art critic
- Henry Pottinger Stephens (1851–1903), playwright and novelist
- James Francis Stephens (1792–1852), entomologist
- Robert Stephens (1665–1732), Historiographer Royal
- Simon Stephens (b. 1971), playwright
- G. B. Stern (1890–1973), novelist, playwright and biographer
- Laurence Sterne (1713–1768), novelist and cleric, Tristram Shandy
- George Alexander Stevens (1710–1780), playwright, poet and actor
- Matthew Stevenson (d. 1654), poet
- William Stevenson (1530–1575), poet and playwright
- Angus Stewart (1936–1998) novelist, diarist and poet
- John "Walking" Stewart (1747–1822), philosopher and traveller
- Mary Stewart (b. 1916), novelist
- William Stobbs (1914–2000), children's writer and illustrator
- Julian Stockwin (b. 1944), novelist
- Sewell Stokes (1902–1979), novelist, biographer and playwright
- Nick Stone (b. 1966), novelist
- Samuel John Stone (1839–1900), hymnist and cleric
- David Storey (b. 1933), novelist and playwright
- Catherine Storr (1913–2001), children's writer
- Thomas Story (c. 1670–1742), writer and Quaker
- John Stow (c. 1525–1605), historian and antiquary
- Herbert Strang (pen name of George Herbert Ely, 1866–1958, and Charles James L'Estrange, 1867–1947), children's writers
- Alix Strachey (1892–1973), psychoanalyst and translator
- James Strachey (1887–1967), psychoanalyst and editor
- Julia Strachey (1901–1979), novelist
- Lytton Strachey (1880–1932), biographer and critic, Eminent Victorians
- Ray Strachey (or. Rachel Costelloe, 1887–1940), biographer and campaigner
- Paul Strathern (b. 1940), novelist and scholar
- Noel Streatfeild (1895–1986), children's writer
- A. G. Street (1892–1966), writer and broadcaster
- Cecil Street (wrote as John Rhode, Miles Burton etc., 1884–1965), novelist
- Joe Stretch (b. 1982), novelist
- Hesba Stretton (real name Sarah Smith, 1832–1911), novelist and children's writer
- Agnes Strickland (1796–1874), historian, poet and children's writer
- William Strode (1600–1643), poet
- Leonard Strong (wrote as L. A. G. Strong, 1896–1958), novelist, poet and children's writer
- Jan Struther (real name Joyce Anstruther, (1901–1953), novelist and hymnist
- John Strype (1643–1737), historian, biographer and cleric
- Alexander Stuart (living), novelist and screenwriter
- Muriel Stuart (1885–1967), poet and garden writer
- John Stubbs or Stubbe (c. 1543–1591), pamphleteer
- John Studley (c. 1545 – c. 1590), translator
- Joseph Sturge (1793–1859) abolitionist writer and campaigner
- Howard Sturgis (1855–1920), novelist
- Julian Sturgis (1848–1904), novelist and poet
- George Sturt (awa George Bourne, 1863–1927), country writer
- John Strype (1643–1737), historian and biographer
- Showell Styles (1908–2005), novelist and children's writer
- John Suckling (1609–1642), poet
- J. W. N. Sullivan (1886–1937), science writer
- Montague Summers (1880–1948), writer and occultist
- Kate Summerscale (b. 1965), writer and journalist
- Robert Smith Surtees (1805–1864), novelist
- William Sutcliffe (b. 1971), novelist
- Alfred Sutro (1863–1933), playwright and translator
- E. W. Swanton (1907–2000), cricket writer and broadcaster
- Graham Swift (b. 1949), novelist
- Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909), poet
- Robert Swindells (b. 1939), children's writer
- Randall Swingler (1909–1967), poet
- Frank Swinnerton (1884–1982), novelist and editor
- Christopher Sykes (1907–1986), travel writer and biographer
- Percy Sykes (1867–1945), travel writer and historian
- Joshua Sylvester (1563–1618), poet
- John Addington Symonds (1840–1893), poet and critic
- A. J. A. Symons (1900–1941), writer and bibliographer
- Arthur Symons (1865–1945), poet and essayist
- Julian Symons (1912–1994), crime writer and poet
- Mitchell Symons (b. 1957), writer and journalist
- George Szirtes (b. 1948), poet and translator
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- Thomas Noon Talfourd (1795–1854), writer, playwright and lawyer
- Derek Tangye (1912–1996), writer
- Nigel Tangye (1909–1988), writer and flying instructor
- Heather Tanner (1903–1993), countryside writer
- James T. Tanner (1858–1915), playwright and director
- Thomas Tanner (1630–1682), writer and cleric
- Thomas Tanner (1674–1735), antiquary and bishop
- TheaurauJohn Tany (or. Thomas Totney, 1608–1659), religious writer
- John Tatham (fl. 1632–64), playwright and poet
- Jemima von Tautphoeus (b. Jemima Montgomery, 1807–1893), novelist
- R. H. Tawney (1880–1962), economic historian
- A. J. P. Taylor (1906–1990), historian
- Andrew Taylor (b. 1951), novelist
- Ann Taylor (1782–1866), poet, children's writer and critic
- D. J. Taylor (b. 1960), novelist and biographer
- Edgar Taylor (1793–1839), writer and translator
- Elizabeth Taylor (1912–1975), novelist
- Emily Taylor (1795–1872), writer, poet and hymnist
- G. P. Taylor (b. 1958), novelist and cleric
- Henry Taylor (1711–1785), polemicist and cleric
- Henry Taylor (1800–1886), playwright
- Isaac Taylor (1787–1865), scholar, cleric and inventor
- Jane Taylor (1783–1824), children's poet and novelist
- Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667), religious writer
- John Taylor (1703–1772), autobiographer and oculist
- John Taylor (the "Water Poet", 1578–1653), poet
- John Taylor (1750–1826), poet and hymnist
- Philip Meadows Taylor (1808–1876), novelist and administrator
- Richard Taylor (1782–1858), naturalist and editor
- Sean Taylor (living), children's writer
- Thomas Taylor (1758–1835), translator
- Tom Taylor (1817–1880), playwright and editor
- William Taylor (d. 1423), Lollard theologian
- William Taylor (1765–1836), scholar and translator
- Barry Tebb (b. 1942), poet, publisher and anthologist
- William Temple (1555–1627), logician
- William Temple (1628–1699), essayist and statesman
- William Temple (1881–1944), writer and archbishop
- William F. Temple (1914–1989), SF writer
- Edward Wyndham Tennant (1897–1916), poet
- Emma Tennant (b. 1937), novelist
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892), Poet Laureate, The Charge of the Light Brigade
- Frederick Tennyson (1807–1898), poet
- Henry Teonge (c. 1620–1690), diarist and naval chaplain
- Lisa St Aubin de Terán (b. 1953), novelist and memoirist
- A. S. J. Tessimond (1902–1962), poet
- Anne Isabella Thackeray, Lady Ritchie (1837–1919), novelist and essayist
- William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863), novelist, Vanity Fair
- Algernon Sydney Thelwall (1795–1863), writer and cleric
- John Thelwall (1764–1834), poet and writer
- Sydney Thelwall (1834–1922), scholar, translator and cleric
- Lewis Theobald (1688–1744), scholar, critic and translator
- Marcel Theroux (b. 1968), novelist and broadcaster
- Philip Thicknesse (1719–1792), writer
- Angela Thirkell (1890–1961), novelist
- Connop Thirlwall (1797–1875), historian, translator and bishop
- Adam Thirlwell (b. 1978), novelist
- William Turner Thiselton-Dyer (1843–1926), botanist
- D. M. Thomas (b. 1935), novelist, poet and translator
- David St John Thomas (b. 1929), writer and publisher
- Donald Serrell Thomas (awa Francis Selwyn, b. 1926), novelist, biographer and poet
- Edward Thomas (1878–1917), poet
- Edward J. Thomas (1869–1958), historian of Buddhism and librarian
- Elizabeth Thomas (1675–1731), poet
- Elizabeth Thomas (wrote as Mrs Bridget Bluemantle and Mrs Martha Homely, 1770/71–1855), novelist and poet
- Hugh Thomas (b. 1931), historian
- Scarlett Thomas (b. 1972), novelist
- W. Ian Thomas (1914–2007), writer and missionary
- John Thomlinson (1692–1761), diarist and cleric
- Edward Healy Thompson (1813–1891), religious writer and editor
- Flora Thompson (1876–1947), novelist and poet, Lark Rise to Candleford
- Francis Thompson (1859–1907), poet
- Harry Thompson (1960–2005), biographer, novelist and TV producer
- James Thompson (1817–1877), journalist and local historian
- Kate Thompson (b. 1956), novelist and children's writer
- William Thompson (c. 1712 – c. 1766), poet
- William Thoms (1803–1885), antiquary and miscellanist
- Giles Thomson (1553–1612), scholar, AV translator and cleric
- Jamie Thomson (b. 1958), novelist and children's writer
- Katherine Thomson (awa Mrs Thomson and Grace Wharton, 1797–1862), novelist and historian
- Richard Thomson (fl. 1600s), scholar, AV translator and cleric
- Rupert Thomson (b. 1955), novelist and memoirist
- Wilfrid Thorley (1878–1963), poet and educator
- George Walter Thornbury (1828–1876), poet, novelist and travel writer
- Guy Thorne (real name C. Ranger Gull, 1876–1923), novelist
- Matt Thorne (b. 1974), novelist, journalist and children's writer
- William Thorne (c. 1568–1630), orientalist, AV translator and cleric
- Bonnell Thornton (1725–1768), poet, essayist and critic
- Robert John Thornton (1768–1837), botanist and physician
- Tim Thornton (b. 1973), novelist and drummer
- Adam Thorpe (b. 1956), poet and novelist
- Kay Thorpe (living), romantic novelist
- Ralph Thoresby (1658–1725), antiquary and diarist
- Hester Thrale (awa Mrs. Piozzi, 1741–1821), diarist and biographer,
- Colin Thubron (b. 1939), travel writer and novelist
- Edward Thurlow, Lord Thurlow (1731–1806), poet and lord chancellor
- E. Temple Thurston (1879–1933), playwright, poet and novelist
- Ann Thwaite (b. 1932), biographer
- Anthony Thwaite (b. 1930), poet and writer
- Chidiock Tichborne (1558–1586), poet and conspirator
- Thomas Tickell (1686–1740), poet
- Robert Tighe (d. 1620), AV translator and cleric
- Terence Tiller (1916–1987), poet and radio producer
- E. M. W. Tillyard (1889–1962), classicist and literary critic
- Stella Tillyard (b. 1957), historian and novelist
- John Timbs (awa Horace Welby, 1801–1875), writer, antiquary and editor
- William M. Timlin (1892–1943), writer and illustrator
- Gillian Tindall (living), historian and novelist
- Peter Tinniswood (1936–2003), novelist and scriptwriter
- John Tobin (1770–1804), playwright
- Barbara Euphan Todd (1890–1976), novelist and children's writer
- H. E. Todd (1908–1988), children's writer
- Malcolm Todd (b. 1939), historian
- J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973), fantasy writer and scholar, The Lord of the Rings
- Simon Tolkien (b. 1959), novelist and barrister
- Elizabeth Tollet (1694–1754), poet
- Francis Tolson (d. 1745), poet
- Thomas Tomkis (c. 1580–1634), playwright
- Claire Tomalin (b. 1933), biographer
- Charles Tomlinson (b. 1927), poet and translator
- H. M. Tomlinson, (1873–1958), travel writer, novelist and journalist
- Theresa Tomlinson (b. 1946), children's writer
- Rosemary Tonks (b. 1932), poet and novelist
- Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna (pen name Charlotte Elizabeth, 1790–1846), tractarian and novelist
- John Horne Tooke (1736–1812), philologist and politician
- Rebecca Tope (living), crime writer and journalist
- Augustus Montague Toplady (1740–1778), theologian and hymnist
- Angela Topping (b. 1954), poet and critic
- Paul Torday (b. 1946), novelist
- Chris Torrance (b. 1941), poet and musician
- Richard Tottel (d. 1594), miscellanist
- Cyril Tourneur (1575–1626), playwright
- Nigel Tourneur (fl. 1898), writer
- Doreen Tovey (1918–2008), cat writer
- Peter Townend (1935–1999), writer and journalist
- John Rowe Townsend (b. 1922), children's writer and scholar
- Joseph Townsend (1739–1816), economist, physician and cleric
- Peter Townsend (1928–2009), sociologist and economist
- Sue Townsend (b. 1946), novelist, Adrian Mole books
- Tom Townsend (b. 1971), international bridge player and writer
- Aurelian Townshend (1583–1643), poet and playwright
- Charles Townshend (b. 1945), historian
- Chauncy Hare Townshend (1798–1868), poet and cleric
- Thomas Townson (1715–1792), writer and cleric
- Arnold Toynbee (1852–1883), economic historian
- Arnold J. Toynbee (1889–1975), historian
- Philip Toynbee (1916–1981), novelist, poet and journalist
- Polly Toynbee (b. 1946), journalist and writer
- John Tradescant (1608–1662), botanist and antiquary
- Thomas Traherne (1636/7–1674), poet and religious writer
- Henry Duff Traill (1842–1900), humorist, editor and biographer
- Anna Trapnell (fl. 1650s), religious writer
- Ben Travers (1886–1980), playwright and novelist
- Karen Traviss (living), novelist
- Mary Treadgold (1910–2005), children's writer
- Geoffrey Trease (1909–1998), children's writer
- Miles Tredinnick (b. 1955), playwright, screenwriter and singer
- Iris Tree (1897–1968), poet and actress
- Viola Tree (1884–1938), writer and actress
- Henry Treece (1911–1966), poet, novelist and children's writer
- Edward John Trelawney (1792–1881), biographer and novelist
- Rose Tremain (b. 1943), novelist
- Kate Tremayne (living), novelist
- Rex Tremlett (1903–1986), writer and broadcaster
- Francis Chenevix Trench (1805–1886), writer and cleric
- Richard Chenevix Trench (1807–1886), philologist, poet and archbishop
- Robert Tressell or Tressall (or. Robert Croker, later Noonan, 1870–1911), novelist, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
- G. M. Trevelyan (1876–1962), historian
- George Trevelyan (1838–1928), writer and statesman
- R. C. Trevelyan (1872–1951), poet and translator
- Raleigh Trevelyan (b. 1923), historian
- John Trevisa (1342–1402), translator
- Elleston Trevor (or. Trevor Dudley-Smith, awa Adam Hall etc., 1920–1995), novelist
- Rachel Trickett (1923–1999), novelist and scholar
- Jonathan Trigell (b. 1974), novelist
- Sarah Trimmer (1741–1810), children's writer
- Henry Baker Tristram (1822–1906), travel writer, naturalist and cleric
- Anthony Trollope (1815–1882), novelist, Chronicles of Barsetshire
- Frances Trollope (1780–1863), novelist and travel writer
- Joanna Trollope (awa Caroline Harvey, b. 1943), novelist
- Thomas Adolphus Trollope (1810–1892), travel writer and novelist
- Thomas Trotter (1760–1832), physician and medical writer
- Peter Trower (b. 1930), poet and novelist
- Thomas Tryon (1634–1703), writer and vegetarian
- Edwin Charles Tubb (several pen names, b. 1919), novelist
- Abraham Tucker (wrote as Edward Search, 1705–1774), philosopher
- Charlotte Maria Tucker (wrote as A.L.O.E, 1821–1893), children's writer
- Cuthbert Tunstall or Tonstall (1474–1559), writer and bishop
- Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810–1889), writer and poet
- George Turberville (c. 1540 – pre-1597), poet
- Charles Tennyson Turner (1808–1879), poet and translator
- David Turner (1927–1990), playwright and scriptwriter
- Ernest Sackville Turner (1909–2006), writer and journalist
- Joe Turner (living), scriptwriter and playwright
- John Frayn Turner (living), military historian
- Matthew Turner (d. 1788), philosopher and physician
- Philip Turner (wrote as Stephen Chance, 1925–2006), children's writer and cleric
- Reginald Turner (1869–1938), novelist and aesthete
- Roger Turner (living), garden writer and designer
- Sharon Turner (1768–1847), historian
- Steve Turner (living), poet and biographer
- Thomas Turner (1729–1793), diarist and shopkeeper
- Tom Turner (living), garden writer and designer
- Thomas Tusser (1524–1580), poet and farmer
- Ethel Brilliana Tweedie (awa Mrs Alec Tweedie 1862–1940), travel writer
- Robert Twigger (b. 1964), writer
- Horace Twiss (c. 1787–1849), writer and politician
- Kenneth Tynan (1927–1980), drama critic and producer
- William Tyndale (1494–1536), scholar and Bible translator
- George Tyrrell (1861–1909), theologian and scholar
- Robert Yelverton Tyrrell (1844–1914), scholar and translator
- Thomas Tyrwhitt (1730–1786), scholar, editor and critic
- Henry David Thoreau (b.1817-1862), author, poet, philosopher Walden
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- Nicholas Udall, Uvedale or Woodall (1505–1556), playwright and translator, Ralph Roister Doister
- Jenny Uglow (living), biographer and critic
- Evelyn Underhill (1875–1941), religious writer and novelist
- Peter Underwood (b. 1923), writer and broadcaster
- Barry Unsworth (1930–2012), historical novelist
- Cathi Unsworth (living), novelist
- Arthur Upfield (1890–1964), crime writer
- John Upton (1707–1760), editor and critic
- Lawrence Upton (b. 1949), poet and artist
- Edward Upward (1903–2009), novelist and story writer
- Mark Urban (b. 1961), military writer
- J. O. Urmson (1915–2012), philosopher
- Thomas Usk (d. 1388), poet
- Alison Uttley (1884–1976), children's writer, Little Grey Rabbit
V
- Horace Annesley Vachell (1861–1955), novelist and playwright
- John Van der Kiste (b. 1954), writer and polymath
- John Vanbrugh (1664–1726), playwright and architect
- Bernard Vaughan (1847–1922), writer and RC priest
- Keith Vaughan (1912–1977), diarist and artist
- Robert Vaughan (1795–1868), historian, editor and Congregationalist minister
- Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee (b. 1953), writer and Sufi mystic
- Thomas Vaux (1510–1556), poet
- R. V. Vernède (1905–2003), writer and administrator
- Frances Vernon (1963–1991), novelist
- F. B. Vickers (1903–1985), novelist and playwright
- Salley Vickers (b. 1948), novelist and psychotherapist
- Sherard Vines (1890–1974), poet, novelist and critic
- Elfrida Vipont (real name Elfrida Vipont Foulds, 1902–1992), children's writer
- E. H. Visiak (real name Edward Harold Physick, 1878–1972), poet and novelist
- E. C. Vivian (real name Charles Henry Cannell, 1882–1947), novelist and military historian
- Ernest Alfred Vizetelly (1853–1922), translator
- Frederick Augustus Voigt (1892–1957), foreign affairs writer
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- Thomas Wade (1805–1875), poet and playwright
- Lucy Wadham (b. 1964), novelist and journalist
- Rekha Waheed (living), novelist
- John Wain (1925–1994), poet and novelist
- Daniel Wakefield (1776–1846), political economist
- Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1796–1862), writer and politician
- Gilbert Wakefield (1756–1801), scholar and polemicist
- H. Russell Wakefield (1890–1964), novelist and story writer
- Priscilla Wakefield (1871–1832), educator and philanthropist
- Robert Wakefield (d. 1537), linguist and scholar
- George Waldron (1690 – c. 1730), topographer and poet
- Arthur Waley (1889–1966), orientalist and translator
- Alan Walker (b. 1930), biographer, musicologist and broadcaster
- Charles Walker (fl. 1860s), religious writer
- Charles Curwen Walker (1856–1940), Christadelphian writer and editor
- George Walker (c. 1581–1651), writer and cleric
- George Walker (c. 1734–1807), dissenting writer and mathematician
- George Walker (1772–1847), novelist and political writer
- George Walker (1803 – post-1851), chess writer
- Obadiah Walker (1616–1699), scholar and educator
- Ted Walker (1934–2004), poet, dramatist and broadcaster
- Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913), naturalist and biologist
- Edgar Wallace (1875–1932), novelist and playwright
- Helen Wallace (b. 1946), current affairs writer
- Ian Wallace (living), ornithologist
- John Graham Wallace (b. 1966), children's writer and illustrator
- Nick Wallace (b. 1972), novelist
- Robert Wallace (1791–1850), writer, biographer and Unitarian minister
- William Wallace (b. 1941), scholar and writer on government
- J. M. Wallace-Hadrill (1916–1985), historian
- Edmund Waller (1606–1687), poet
- John Waller (1917–1995), poet and anthologist
- David Walliams (b. 1971), children's writer and comedian
- John Wallis (1616–1703), mathematician and writer
- Martin Walls (b. 1970), poet and journalist
- Leo Walmsley (1892–1966), novelist and autobiographer
- Horace Walpole (1717–1797), novelist and man of letters, The Castle of Otranto
- Horatio Walpole (1678–1757), writer and politician
- Hugh Walpole (1884–1941), novelist
- Helen Walsh (b. 1977), novelist
- Jill Paton Walsh (b. 1937), novelist and children's writer
- John Henry Walsh (awa Stonehenge, 1810–1888), field sports writer
- Sheila Walsh (1928–2009), novelist
- William Walsh (1663–1708), poet and critic
- Guy Walters (b. 1971), novelist and journalist
- Hugh Walters (1910–1993), novelist
- Minette Walters (b. 1949), novelist
- Vanessa Walters (b. 1978), novelist and playwright
- Izaak Walton (1593–1683), writer, The Compleat Angler
- William Walwyn (1600–1681), pamphleteer
- Humfrey Wanley (1672–1726), scholar and palaeographer
- Nathaniel Wanley (1634–1680), writer and cleric
- Henry Wansbrough (living), writer, Bible translator and RC monk
- William Warburton (1698–1779), critic and bishop
- Barbara Ward (1914–1981), economist and environmentalist
- Chris Ward (b. 1958), playwright
- Edward Ward (1660 or 1667–1731), satirist and publican
- Keith Ward (b. 1938), philosopher and cleric
- Mrs. Humphry Ward (b. Mary Augusta Arnold, 1851–1920), novelist
- Robert Ward (fl. 1611), AV translator and cleric
- Robert Plumer Ward (1765–1846), lawyer and novelist
- Samuel Ward (1572–1643), scholar, AV translator and cleric
- Seth Ward (1617–1689), polemicist, astronomer and bishop
- Thomas Humphry Ward (1845–1926), writer and journalist
- William George Ward (1812–1882), theologian and mathematician
- Marina Warner (b. 1946), novelist and biographer
- Rex Warner (1905–1986), novelist and translator
- Richard Warner (c. 1713–1775), botanist and scholar
- Richard Warner (1763–1853), topographer, antiquary and cleric
- Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893–1978), novelist and poet
- William Warner (c. 1558–1609), poet and translator
- Mary Warnock (b. 1924), philosopher
- John Warren, Lord de Tabley (1835–1895), poet and botanist
- Samuel Warren (1807–1877), novelist and barrister
- Thomas Herbert Warren (1853–1930), scholar and poet
- Tony Warren (b. 1936), screenwriter and novelist
- Joseph Warton (1722–1800), poet and critic
- Thomas Warton (c. 1688–1745), poet
- Thomas Warton (1728–1790), Poet Laureate and critic
- Robin Waterfield (b. 1952), translator and classicist
- Andrew Waterhouse (1958–2001), poet and environmentalist
- Ellis Waterhouse (1905–1985), art historian and editor
- Gilbert Waterhouse (1883–1916), poet and architect
- Keith Waterhouse (1929–2009), novelist and screenwriter
- Rachel Waterhouse (b. 1923), historian and activist
- Sarah Waters (b. 1966), novelist
- Charles Waterton (1782–1865), naturalist and explorer
- Denys Watkins-Pitchford (wrote as BB, 1905–1990), naturalist and children's writer
- David Watmough (b. 1926), playwright and novelist
- Colin Watson (1920–1983), novelist
- E. L. Grant Watson (1885–1970), writer and biologist
- James Watson (b. 1936), children's writer and playwright
- Richard Watson (1781–1833), Methodist theologian
- Richard Watson (1737–1816), writer and bishop
- Rosamund Marriott Watson (wrote as Graham R. Tomson, 1860–1911), poet and garden writer
- Thomas Watson (1555–1592), poet and translator
- Thomas Watson (c. 1620–1686), writer and preacher
- Victor Watson (b. 1936), children's author and writer on children's literature
- William Watson (1858–1935), poet
- Winifred Watson (1906–2002), novelist
- Alan Watts (1915–1973), philosopher
- Alaric Alexander Watts (1797–1864), poet and editor
- Isaac Watts (1674–1748), hymnist
- Theodore Watts-Dunton (1832–1914), critic, novelist and poet
- Alec Waugh (1898–1981), novelist
- Auberon Waugh (1939–2001), novelist and journalist
- Edwin Waugh (1817–1890), dialect poet
- Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966), novelist, travel writer and diarist, Brideshead Revisited
- Arthur Way (1847–1930), classicist and translator
- Camilla Way (b. 1973), novelist and editor
- Adrian Weale (b. 1964), military writer
- Frederic Weatherly (1848–1929), lyricist
- Willoughby Weaving (1885–1977), poet
- Clifford Webb (1895–1972), children's writer and illustrator
- Mary Webb (1881–1927), novelist and poet
- Philip Barker Webb (1793–1854), botanist and traveller
- Sidney Webb (1859–1947), and Beatrice Webb (1858–1943), political economists
- Augusta Webster (1837–1894), poet and playwright
- John Webster (c. 1580–1634), playwright, The Duchess of Malfi
- Camilla Wedgwood (1901–1955), anthropologist
- C. V. Wedgwood (1910–1997), historian
- Ernest Weekley (1865–1964), philologist
- Samantha Weinberg (b. 1967), novelist and travel writer
- Arabella Weir (b. 1957), writer and actor
- Denton Welch (1915–1948), novelist, diarist and artist
- Ronald Welch (real name Ronald Oliver Felton, 1909–1982), novelist and children's writer
- Fay Weldon (b. 1931), novelist and screenwriter
- Dorothy Wellesley (1889–1956), poet and editor
- Charles Jeremiah Wells (c. 1798–1879), poet
- H. G. Wells (1866–1946), novelist and critic, The War of the Worlds
- John Wells (1936–1998), satirist
- Leonard Welsted (1688–1747), poet
- Louise Wener (b. 1966), novelist and singer
- Arnold Wesker (b. 1932), playwright
- Charles Wesley (1707–1788), preacher and hymnist
- John Wesley (1703–1791), theologian and cleric
- Mary Wesley (1912–2002), novelist
- Samuel Wesley (1662–1735), poet and polemicist
- Samuel Wesley (1690 or 1691–1739), poet and cleric
- Arthur Graeme West (1891–1917), diarist and poet
- Gilbert West (1703–1756), poet and translator
- Jane West (wrote as Prudentia Homespun, 1758–1852), novelist, writer and poet
- Paul West (b. 1930), novelist and poet
- Rebecca West (real name Cicely Isabel Fairfield, (1892–1983), novelist and travel writer
- Robert Westall (1929–1993), children's writer
- William Bury Westall (1834–1903), novelist
- Charles Molloy Westmacott (awa Bernard Blackmantle, c. 1788–1868), writer and journalist
- Joyce Wethered (1901–1997), writer and golfer
- Robert Wever (fl. 1550), poet
- Stanley J. Weyman (1855–1928), novelist
- Anne Wharton (1659–1685), poet and playwright
- George Wharton (1618–1681), pamphleteer and astrologer
- Goodwin Wharton (1653–1704), autobiographer
- Gordon Wharton (b. 1929), poet
- Henry Wharton (1664–1695), writer, biographer and cleric
- Michael Wharton (wrote as Peter Simple, 1913–2006), humorist
- Mary Whateley (Mary Darwall, awa Harriet Airey, 1738–1835), poet and playwright
- Richard Whateley (1787–1863), theologian, economist and archbishop
- Dennis Wheatley (1897–1977), thriller writer
- Ethel Rolt Wheeler (1869–1958), poet, journalist and essayist
- Hugh Wheeler (1912–1987), novelist, playwright and screenwriter
- Mortimer Wheeler (1890–1976), archaeologist
- John Wheeler-Bennett (1902–1975), analyst and historian
- Francis Wheen (b. 1957), biographer and journalist
- Eric Whelpton (1894–1981), travel writer
- George Whetstone (c. 1544 – c. 1587), writer and playwright
- Charles Whibley (1859–1930), critic and writer
- Dorothy Whipple (1893–1966), novelist
- Laurence Whistler (1912–2000), poet and engraver
- Evelyn Whitaker (1844–1929), children's writer
- Antonia White (real name Eirine Botting, 1899–1980), novelist, playwright and children's writer
- Dorothy White (c. 1630–1686), Quaker pamphleteer and preacher
- Gilbert White (1720–1795), naturalist and cleric, The Natural History of Selborne
- Hale White (wrote as Mark Rutherford, 1831–1913), writer
- Henry Kirke White (1785–1806), poet and hymnist
- Michael White (writes as Sam Fisher, living), writer
- T. H. White, (1906–1964), children's writer and poet, The Once and Future King
- Thomas White (awa Blackloe, 1593–1676), theologian and RC priest
- Tony White (living), novelist and travel writer
- George Whitefield (1714–1770), theologian and preacher
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947), mathematician and philosopher
- Charles Whitehead (1804–1862), poet and novelist
- George Whitehead (1636–1723), Quaker preacher and writer
- William Whitehead (1715–1785), Poet Laureate and playwright
- Richard Whiteing (wrote as Whyte Thorne, 1840–1928), novelist and journalist
- Dorothy Whitelock (1901–1982), historian
- Bulstrode Whitelocke (1605–1675), chronicler
- Hugh Whitemore (b. 1936), playwright and screenwriter
- David Whitley (b. 1985), YA novelist
- Geoffrey Whitney (c. 1548 – c. 1601), poet
- Isabella Whitney (fl. 1567–1573), poet
- James Pounder Whitney (1857–1939), historian
- Gerald James Whitrow (1912–2000), cosmologist
- Crispin Whittell (b. 1969), playwright
- Ian Whybrow (b. 1941), children's writer
- Thomas Whythorne (1528–1595), poet, autobiographer and composer
- Frederick Wicks (1840–1910), novelist and inventor
- Susan Wicks (b. 1947), poet and novelist
- Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen (1792–1836), poet and scholar
- Clare Wigfall (b. 1976), story writer
- William Wilberforce (1759–1833), religious writer and reformer
- John Wilbye (1574–1638), madrigalist
- Patrick Wilde (living), playwright and screenwriter
- Peter Wildeblood (1923–1999), writer and journalist
- John Wilkes (1725–1797), radical
- Charles Wilkins (1749–1836), orientalist and translator
- George Wilkins (fl. 1607), playwright and pamphleteer
- Harold T. Wilkins (1891–1960), writer and historian
- John Wilkins (1614–1672), natural philosopher, writer and bishop
- Vaughan Wilkins (1890–1959), novelist and journalist
- John Wilkinson (b. 1953), poet
- John Gardner Wilkinson (1797–1875), writer, traveller and scholar
- Paul Wilkinson (1937–2011), political writer
- Geoffrey Willans (1911–1958), writer and journalist, (with Ronald Searle) Nigel Molesworth
- Barbara Willard (1909–1994), children's writer and novelist
- Anna Williams (1706–1783), poet
- Bernard Williams (1929–2003), philosopher
- Charles Williams (1886–1945), novelist, poet and scholar
- Charlie Williams (b. 1971), novelist
- Eric Williams (1911–1983) WW2 escape writer
- Frederick Smeeton Williams (1829–1886), railway writer
- Helen Maria Williams (1761/2–1827), poet, translator and radical
- Hugo Williams (b. 1942), poet and travel writer
- Isaac Williams (1802–1865), writer, poet and cleric
- John Williams (1761–1818), poet and satirist
- John Hartley Williams (b. 1942), poet
- Jules Williams writer, director and producer
- Nicholas Williams (b. 1942), philologist
- Nigel Williams (b. 1948), novelist, playwright and screenwriter
- Paul Williams (b. 1967), writer on subcultures
- Paul Andrew Williams (b. 1973), screenwriter and film director
- Robina Williams (living), novelist
- Rowan Williams (b. 1950), writer and archbishop
- Sarah Williams (1837–1868), poet
- Timothy Williams (b. 1946), crime novelist
- William Mattieu Williams (1820–1892), writer on science, education and politics
- Alice Muriel Williamson (1869–1933), novelist
- Charles Norris Williamson (1859–1920), novelist and motoring writer
- Henry Williamson (1895–1977), novelist, Tarka the Otter
- Kenneth Williamson (1914–1977), ornithologist
- Timothy Williamson (b. 1955), philosopher
- Browne Willis (1682–1760), writer and antiquary
- Paul Willis (living), sociologist
- Robert Willis (engineer) (1800–1875), architectural writer and cleric
- Ted Willis (1914–1992), playwright and screenwriter
- Tim Willocks (living), novelist, screenwriter and psychiatrist
- Francis Willughby or Willoughby (1635–1672), ornithologist
- Clive Wilmer (b. 1945), poet
- Val Wilmer (b. 1941), music writer and photographer
- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647–1680), satirical poet and rake
- A. N. Wilson (b. 1950), novelist and biographer
- Andrew Wilson (b. 1961), historian and current affairs writer
- Angus Wilson (1913–1991), novelist
- Bryan R. Wilson (1926–2004), sociologist of religion
- Colin Wilson (b. 1931), novelist and philosopher
- Harriette Wilson (1786–1845), courtesan and memoirist
- Herbert Wrigley Wilson (1866–1940) naval historian
- Horace Hayman Wilson (1786–1860), orientalist and translator
- Ian Wilson (b. 1941), religious and science writer
- J. Dover Wilson (1881–1969), Shakespearean and critic
- Jacqueline Wilson (b. 1945), children's writer
- John Wilson (1527–1596), playwright and translator
- Leslie Wilson (living), novelist and children's writer
- Richard Wilson (b. 1950), Shakespearean
- Robert Wilson (fl. 1572–1600), playwright
- Robert Wilson (b. 1957), novelist
- Sandy Wilson (1924–2014), lyricist and composer, The Boy Friend
- T. P. Cameron Wilson (1888–1918), poet
- Thomas Wilson (1524–1581), rhetorician and diplomat
- Thomas Wilson (1773–1858), dialect poet
- Jane Wilson-Howarth (aka Jane Wilson, b. 1954) travel and health writer and physician
- R. D. Wingfield (1928–2007), novelist and radio dramatist
- Catherine Winkworth (1827–1878), translator and hymnist
- Gerrard Winstanley (1609–1676), pamphleteer
- Stephen Winsten (real name Samuel Weinstein, 1893–1991), writer
- John Strange Winter (real name Henrietta Eliza Vaughan Stannard 1856–1911), novelist
- Jeanette Winterson (b. 1959), novelist
- Jane Wiseman (c. 1682–1717), poet and playwright
- George Wither (1588–1667), poet and satirist
- P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975), novelist and playwright, Jeeves
- John Wolcot (wrote as Peter Pindar, 1738–1819), poet and satirist
- Lucien Wolf (1857–1930), historian
- Humbert Wolfe (1885–1940), poet and translator
- Ronald Wolfe (1922–2011), TV scriptwriter
- Jonathan Wolff (b. 1959), philosopher
- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797), polemicist and novelist, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
- Philip Womack (living), novelist
- Anthony Wood (1632–1695), antiquary
- Christopher Wood (wrote as Timothy Lea, b. 1935), novelist and screenwriter
- David Wood (b. 1944), children's playwright, screenwriter and actor
- Ellen Wood (Mrs. Henry Wood, 1814–1887), novelist
- Robert Wood (c. 1622–1685), mathematician and translator
- Sara Wood (living), novelist and story writer
- Thomas Wood (1892–1950), writer and composer
- George Woodcock (1912–1995), poet and thinker
- James Woodforde (1740–1803), diarist and cleric
- Walter Bradford Woodgate (wrote as Wat Bradwood, 1841–1920), writer and barrister
- Cecil Woodham-Smith (1896–1977), historian and biographer
- Martin Woodhouse (b. 1932), novelist and screenwriter
- Richard Woodman (b. 1944), novelist and mariner
- Charles Woodmason (c. 1720–1789), diarist, poet and cleric
- Margaret Louisa Woods (1856–1945), novelist and poet
- Anthony Woodville or Wydeville, Earl Rivers (c. 1440–1483) translator
- Gerard Woodward (b. 1961), novelist and poet
- John Woodward (1665–1728), naturalist and antiquary
- Emily Woof (b. 1967), playwright, screenwriter and actress
- Leonard Woolf (1880–1969), writer, editor and publisher
- Virginia Woolf (1882–1941), novelist and biographer, To the Lighthouse
- Thomas Woolner (1825–1892) poet and sculptor
- Christopher Wordsworth (1807–1885), poet, classicist and bishop
- Dorothy Wordsworth (1771–1855), diarist and poet,
- William Wordsworth (1770–1850), poet, The Prelude
- Frank Worrall (living), sports writer
- Philip Stanhope Worsley (1835–1866), poet, translator and cleric
- T. C. Worsley (1907–1977), writer and critic
- Henry Wotton (1568–1639), poet and translator
- Nathaniel Wraxall (1751–1831), memoirist and political writer
- P. C. Wren (1875–1941), novelist
- Crispin Wright (b. 1942), philosopher
- David Wright (1920–1994), poet, translator and biographer
- Derrick Wright (b. 1928), military historian
- Edward Wright (1561–1615), mathematician
- Fred Wright (b. 1947), historian and theologian
- Joseph Wright (1855–1930), philologist and lexicographer
- Kit Wright (b. 1944), poet, children's writer and anthologist
- N. T. Wright (awa Tom Wright, b. 1948), writer and bishop
- Patrick Wright (living), historian and broadcaster
- Richard Wright (Unitarian) (1764–1836), writer and Unitarian minister
- Thomas Wright (1810–1877), writer and antiquary
- William Aldis Wright (1831–1914), writer and editor
- Mary Wroth (1587–1651/3), writer and poet
- Andrea Wulf (b. 1972), biographer and garden writer
- Arthur Wyatt (living), writer and editor
- George Wyatt (1550–1623), writer and biographer
- Stephen Wyatt (b. 1948), playwright and adapter
- Thomas Wyatt (1503–1542), poet and translator
- Woodrow Wyatt (1918–1997), diarist and politician
- William Wycherley (c. 1640–1715), playwright, The Country Wife
- Robert Wydow (c. 1446–1505), poet, musician and cleric
- John Wycliffe (mid-1320s – 1384), theologian and Bible translator
- John Wyndham (awa John Beynon, 1903–1969), novelist, The Day of the Triffids
- D. B. Wyndham-Lewis (wrote as Timothy Shy, 1891–1969), humourist
- Peter Wynne-Thomas (b. 1934), cricket writer
Y
- Jane Yardley (living), novelist
- William Yarrell (1784–1856), naturalist
- Dornford Yates (real name Cecil William Mercer, 1885–1960), novelist
- Edmund Yates (1831–1894), novelist and playwright
- Ann Yearsley (1753–1806), poet
- Victor Maslin Yeates (1897–1934), writer and pilot
- R. J. Yeatman (1897–1968), humourist, 1066 and All That (with W. C. Sellar)
- Tamar Yellin (living), novelist and story writer
- Theresa Yelverton (or. Maria Theresa Longworth, 1833–1881), travel writer
- Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823–1901), novelist
- Walter Yonge of Colyton (1579–1649), diarist and lawyer
- Barbara Yorke (b. 1951), historian
- Margaret Yorke (1924–2012), crime writer
- Matthew Yorke (b. 1958), novelist and editor
- Arthur Young (1741–1820), writer and economist
- E. H. Young (1880–1949), novelist
- Edward Young (1683–1765), poet
- F. E. Mills Young (1875–1954), novelist
- Francis Brett Young (1884–1954), novelist
- G. M. Young (1882–1959), historian
- Gary Young (living), screenwriter
- Gavin Young (1928–2001), travel writer and journalist
- Hilton Young, Lord Kennet (1879–1960), writer and politician
- Robert J. C. Young (b. 1950), thinker and historian
- Thomas Young (1773–1829), polymath
- Toby Young (living), journalist and playwright
Z
- Helen Zahavi (b. 1966), novelist
- Adam Zamoyski (b. 1949), biographer and historian
- Israel Zangwill (1864–1926), novelist and playwright
- Louis Zangwill (1869–1938), novelist
- Oliver Zangwill (1913–1987), psychologist
- Benjamin Zephaniah (b. 1958), dub poet
- Philip Ziegler (b. 1929), biographer and historian
- Alice Zimmern (1855–1939), writer and translator
- Helen Zimmern (1846–1934), writer and translator
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