# List of English writers (A–C)

This page was split from List of English writers on 26 October. See that page for prior attributions. List of English writers lists writers in English, born or raised in England (or who lived in England for a lengthy period), who already have Wikipedia pages. References for the information here appear on the linked Wikipedia pages. The list is incomplete – please help to expand it by adding Wikipedia page-owning writers who have written extensively in any genre or field, including science and scholarship. Please follow the entry format. A seminal work added to a writer's entry should also have a Wikipedia page. This is a subsidiary to the List of English people. There are or should be similar lists of Irish, Scots, Welsh, Manx, Jersey, and Guernsey writers.
Abbreviations: AV = Authorized King James Version of the Bible, also as = also wrote/writes as, c. = circa; century, cc. = centuries; cleric = Anglican priest, fl. = floruit, RC = Roman Catholic, SF = science fiction, YA = young adult fiction
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## A

* A. W. (fl. 1602), poet
* Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838–1926), theologian and novelist
* Gilbert Abbott à Beckett (1811–1856), humorist
* George Abbot (1562–1633), writer, AV translator and cleric
* Kia Abdullah (born 1982), novelist and feature writer
* Lascelles Abercrombie (1881–1938), poet and critic
* Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé (born 1998), novelist
* Paul Ableman (1927–2006), playwright and novelist
* J. R. Ackerley (1896–1967), autobiographer, novelist and playwright
* Rodney Ackland (1908–1991), playwright, actor and screenwriter
* Peter Ackroyd (born 1949), novelist and biographer
* Eliza Acton (1799–1859), poet and cookery writer
* Harold Acton (1904–1994), writer and scholar
* Hazel Adair (1900–1990), novelist
* Paul Adam (born 1958), novelist
* Ruth Adam (1907–1977), novelist and non-fiction writer
* Charles Warren Adams (also as Charles Felix, 1833–1903), novelist and lawyer
* Douglas Adams (1952–2001), novelist and scriptwriter
* Francis Adams (1862–1893), essayist and dramatist
* John Adams, (pre-1670–1738), cartographer and gazetteer compiler
* Poppy Adams (living), novelist and TV screenwriter
* Richard Adams (1920–2016), novelist, Watership Down
* Sarah Flower Adams (1805–1848), poet and hymnist
* Donald Adamson (born 1939), writer and historian
* John Adamson (1787–1855), antiquary, poet and translator
* Arthur St. John Adcock (1864–1930), novelist and editor
* Fleur Adcock (born 1934), poet
* Joseph Addison (1672–1719), essayist and poet, The Spectator
* Percy Addleshaw (wrote as Percy Hemingway, 1866–1916), writer and poet
* Diran Adebayo (born 1968), novelist and broadcaster
* Mark Adlard (born 1932), novelist
* James Agate (1877–1947), diarist and critic
* Bola Agbaje (living), playwright
* John Aglionby (died 1609/1610), scholar, AV translator and cleric
* Grace Aguilar (1816–1847), novelist and writer
* Allan Ahlberg (born 1939), children's writer
* Robert Aickman (1914–1981), novelist and conservationist
* Joan Aiken (1924–2004), novelist
* Arthur Aikin (1783–1854), science writer
* Lucy Aikin (1781–1864), children's writer, biographer and historian
* John Aikin (1747–1822), writer and physician
* Alfred Ainger (1837–1904), biographer and critic
* Ruth Ainsworth (1908–1984), children's writer
* William Harrison Ainsworth (1805–1882), novelist
* Catherine Aird (Kinn Hamilton McIntosh, living), crime fiction writer
* Mark Akenside (1721–1770), poet
* William Alabaster (1567–1640), poet, playwright and cleric
* James Albery (1838–1889), playwright
* Alice Albinia (born 1976), travel writer
* Mary Alcock (c. 1742–1798), poet and essayist
* Naomi Alderman (born 1974), novelist and game writer
* Thomas Aldham or Aldam, (c. 1616–1660), writer and Quaker
* Richard Aldington (1892–1962), novelist and poet
* Brian Aldiss (1925–2017), novelist
* Henry Aldrich (1647–1710), poet and theologian
* Horace Alexander (1889–1989), writer on India, ornithologist and Quaker
* Miriam Alexander (1879-19??), historical novelist
* Alan F. Alford (born 1961), writer on mythology
* Monica Ali (born 1967), novelist
* Cyril Alington (1872–1955), novelist and writer
* Nicholas Allan (living), children's writer
* Rupert Allason (also as Nigel West, b. 1951), historian and thriller writer
* James Allen (1864–1912), self-help writer and poet
* Walter Allen (1911–1995), novelist and critic
* Margery Allingham (1904–1966), novelist, Albert Campion
* Drummond Allison (1921–1943), poet
* Kenneth Allott (1912–1973), poet and anthologist
* Kenneth Allsop (1920–1973), writer and broadcaster
* E. M. Almedingen (1898–1971), novelist, biographer and children's writer
* John Almon (1737–1804), journalist and anthologist
* David Almond (born 1951), novelist and children's writer
* Vincent Alsop (c. 1630–1703), writer and dissenting minister
* Al Alvarez (1929–2019), poet and writer
* Moniza Alvi (born 1968), poet and writer
* Eric Ambler (1909–1998), novelist and screenwriter
* Isaac Ambrose (1604–1663/1664), writer, diarist and cleric
* Elizabeth Amherst (c. 1716–1779), poet and naturalist
* Kingsley Amis (1922–1995), poet and novelist, Lucky Jim
* Martin Amis (1949–2023), novelist
* Thomas Amory (c. 1691–1788), novelist and miscellanist
* Thomas Amory (1701–1774), poet and dissenting cleric
* Valerie Anand (also as Flora Buckley, b. 1937), novelist
* Patrick Anderson (1915–1979), poet
* Rachel Anderson (born 1943), children's writer
* Verily Anderson (1915–2010), writer
* Lancelot Andrewes (1555–1626), scholar, AV translator and cleric
* Roger Andrewes (fl. 1610s), scholar, AV translator and cleric
* Julie Andrews (born 1935), children's writer and actress
* Miles Peter Andrews (1742–1814), playwright and poet
* Norman Angell (1872–1967), Nobel Prize winner, political writer and economist
* Jane Anger (fl. 1589), pamphleteer
* Charlotte Anley (1796–1893), didactic novelist and writer
* George Anson, 1st Baron Anson (1697–1762), writer, explorer and admiral
* Christopher Anstey (1724–1805), writer and poet
* Evelyn Anthony (1926–2018) historical novelist and thriller writer
* Charles James Apperley (wrote as Nimrod, 1777–1843), hunting and racing writer
* Lisa Appignanesi (born 1946), writer and historian
* Roy Apps (born 1951), children's writer
* Arthur John Arberry (1905–1969), orientalist and translator
* Harriet Arbuthnot (1793–1834), political diarist
* John Arbuthnot (1667–1735), satirist and polymath
* Fred Archer (1915–1999), countryside writer
* Jeffrey Archer (born 1940), novelist and politician
* Philip Ardagh (born 1961), children's writer
* John Arden (1930–2012), playwright and novelist
* Edward Ardizzone (1900–1979), children's writer and illustrator
* Reginald Arkell (1882–1959), novelist, playwright and screenwriter
* Michael Arlen (originally Dikran Kouyoumdjian, 1895–1956), essayist, playwright and novelist
* John Arlott (1914–1991), cricket writer and commentator
* Robert Armin (c. 1563–1615), playwright and actor
* Simon Armitage (born 1963), poet, playwright and novelist
* Annie Armitt (1850–1933), novelist, poet and essayist
* Martin Armstrong (1882–1974), novelist and poet
* Peter Armstrong (born 1957), poet and psychotherapist
* Richard Armstrong (1903–1986), novelist, historian and children's writer
* Elizabeth von Arnim (also as Alice Cholmondeley, 1866–1941), novelist
* Edwin Arnold (1832–1904), poet and journalist
* Edwin Lester Arnold (1857–1935), writer and novelist
* Elizabeth Arnold (born 1944), children's writer
* Matthew Arnold (1822–1888), poet, Dover Beach
* Richard Arnold (died c. 1521), chronicler and merchant
* Thomas Arnold (1795–1842), educator and historian
* Thomas Walker Arnold (1864–1930), Islamist scholar
* William Delafield Arnold (1828–1859), novelist and colonial administrator
* Pat Arrowsmith (born 1930), novelist, poet and non-fiction writer
* Anthony Ascham (c. 1614–1650), scholar and politician
* Roger Ascham (c. 1515–1568), writer and scholar
* John Ash (1724–1779), lexicographer and Baptist minister
* John Ash (1948–2019), poet and travel writer
* Maurice Ash (1917–2003), writer on environment and planning
* Russell Ash (1946–2010), writer
* Timothy Garton Ash (born 1955), historian
* Elizabeth Ashbridge (1713–1755), autobiographer and Quaker
* Joseph Ashby-Sterry (1836 or 1838–1917), poet, novelist and journalist
* Geoffrey Ashe (1923–2022), cultural historian
* Thomas Ashe or Ash (fl. 1600–1618), legal writer
* Thomas Ashe (1770–1835), novelist and miscellanist
* Thomas Ashe (1836–1889), poet
* Michael Asher (born 1953) author and explorer
* Daisy Ashford (1881–1972), child author, The Young Visiters
* Lindsay Ashford (born 1959), crime novelist and journalist
* Elias Ashmole (1617–1692), antiquary and patron
* Carl Ashmore (born 1968), children's writer
* Will Ashon (born 1969), novelist and music writer
* Francis Leslie Ashton (1904–1994), novelist
* Andrea Ashworth (born 1969), writer and scholar
* Anne Askew (1521–1546), poet, writer and martyr
* Nadeem Aslam (born 1966), novelist
* Elizabeth Mary Aslin (1926–1989), art historian
* Cynthia Asquith (1887–1960), novelist and diarist
* Herbert Asquith (1881–1947), poet and novelist
* Margot Asquith (1864–1935), memoirist
* Nicholas Assheton (1590–1625), diarist
* Mary Astell (1666–1731), poet and writer
* Judy Astley (living), novelist and illustrator
* Edwin Atherstone (1788–1872), poet and novelist
* Diana Athill (1917–2019), editor, novelist and memoirist
* Blanche Atkinson (1847–1911), novelist and children's writer
* James Atkinson (1780–1852), scholar
* Kate Atkinson (born 1952), novelist
* William Atkinson (died 1509), translator
* David Attenborough (born 1926), writer, naturalist and broadcaster
* Francis Atterbury (1663–1732), writer and bishop
* Mabel Lucie Attwell (1879–1964), children's writer and illustrator
* Penelope Aubin (1679–1738), poet, novelist and translator
* John Aubrey (1626–1697), writer and antiquary, Brief Lives
* John Audelay or Awdelay, (died c. 1426), poet and cleric
* W. H. Auden (1907–1973), poet
* Stacy Aumonier (1877–1928), novelist, story writer and essayist
* Jane Austen (1775–1817), novelist, Pride and Prejudice
* Katherine Austen (1629 – c. 1683), diarist and poet
* Alfred Austin (1835–1913), Poet Laureate
* John Austin (1790–1859), legal philosopher
* John Langshaw Austin (1911–1960), philosopher and translator
* Sarah Austin (1793–1867), translator
* Edward Aveling (1849–1898), writer, pamphleteer and translator
* Peter Avery (1923–2008), scholar and translator
* Jack Avon (born 1967), financial writer and consultant
* Tash Aw (born 1971), novelist and non-fiction writer
* Christopher Awdry (born 1940), children's writer
* Wilbert Awdry (Rev. W. Awdry, 1911–1997), children's writer and cleric, Thomas the Tank Engine
* Alan Ayckbourn (born 1939), playwright
* A. J. Ayer (1910–1989), philosopher
* Pam Ayres (born 1947), poet and songwriter
* Michael Ayrton (1921–1975), writer and artist
* Shamim Azad, (born 1952), writer and translator
* Trezza Azzopardi, (born 1961), novelist
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## B

* Charles Babbage (1791–1871), polymath
* Gervase Babington (1549/1550–1610), theologian and bishop
* David Baddiel (born 1964), novelist and comedian
* Robert Baden-Powell (1857–1941), writer and army officer, Scouting for Boys
* Edmund Backhouse (1873–1944), orientalist and autobiographer
* Anne Bacon (c. 1528–1610), translator and correspondent
* Francis Bacon (1561–1626), essayist, New Atlantis
* Phanuel Bacon (1699–1783), playwright and poet
* John F. Baddeley (1854–1940), travel writer and journalist
* Robert Bage (1730–1801), novelist and radical
* Walter Bagehot (1826–1877), economist and essayist
* Desmond Bagley (1923–1983), horror novelist
* Enid Bagnold (1889–1981), novelist and playwright, National Velvet
* Richard Bagot (1860–1921), novelist and essayist
* David Bailey (living), story writer
* H. C. Bailey (1878–1961), novelist
* Hilary Bailey (1936–2017), biographer and editor
* Nathan Bailey (died 1742), philologist
* Paul Bailey (born 1937), novelist and dramatist
* Philip James Bailey (1816–1902), poet
* Samuel Bailey (1791–1870), philosopher and economist
* Beryl Bainbridge (1932–2010), novelist
* Denys Val Baker (1917–1984), novelist and story writer
* Henry Baker (1698–1774), naturalist and poet
* Samuel Baker (1821–1893), writer and explorer
* Rajeev Balasubramanyam (born 1974), novelist
* Nigel Balchin (1908–1970), novelist and screenwriter
* John Bale (1495–1563), playwright and bishop
* J. G. Ballard (1930–2009), novelist
* Dacre Balsdon (1901–1977), novelist and historian
* Samuel Bamford (1788–1872), writer and dialect poet
* John Codrington Bampfylde (1764–1796/1797), poet
* Richard Bancroft (1544–1610), AV translator and archbishop
* Isabella Banks (1821–1897), novelist and poet
* Lynne Reid Banks (born 1929), novelist
* Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743–1825), poet and children's writer
* W. N. P. Barbellion (real name Bruce Frederick Cummings, 1889–1919), diarist
* Margaret Barber (Michael Fairless, 1869–1901), novelist and children's writer
* Alexander Barclay (c. 1476–1552), poet and translator
* Florence L. Barclay (1862–1921), novelist
* James Barclay (born 1965), novelist
* John Baret (died c. 1580), lexicographer
* Owen Barfield (1898–1997), novelist, poet and philosopher
* Richard Harris Barham (wrote as Thomas Ingoldsby, 1788–1845), novelist and poet, The Ingoldsby Legends
* Maurice Baring (1874–1945), playwright, novelist and poet
* Sabine Baring-Gould (1834–1924), novelist, hymnist and cleric
* A. L. Barker (1918–2002), novelist
* Cicely Mary Barker (1895–1973), children's and religious writer and illustrator
* Clive Barker (born 1952), writer, film director and visual artist
* Elspeth Barker (1940–2022), novelist
* George Granville Barker (1913–1991), poet and novelist
* Jane Barker (1652–1732), poet and novelist
* Mary Anne Barker (1831–1911), writer and poet
* Nicola Barker (born 1966), novelist
* Pat Barker (born 1943), novelist
* Raffaella Barker (born 1964), novelist and journalist
* Sebastian Barker (1945–2014), poet
* Clement Barksdale (1609–1687), poet and cleric
* George Barlow (wrote as James Hinton, 1837–1913/1914), poet
* William Barlow (died 1613), scholar, AV translator and bishop
* Mordaunt Roger Barnard (1828–1906), translator and cleric
* Kitty Barne (1883–1961), children's writer
* Barnabe Barnes (1568 or 1569–1609), poet and playwright
* Ambrose Barnes (1627–1710), nonconformist and mayor
* Jonathan Barnes (born 1942), philosopher
* Julian Barnes (born 1946), novelist, Flaubert's Parrot
* William Barnes (1801–1886), dialect poet
* Correlli Barnett (1927–2022), historian
* Richard Barnfield (1574–1620), poet
* Alexander Baron (1917–1999), novelist and screenwriter
* Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (1831–1919), novelist
* Geoffrey Barraclough (1908–1984), historian
* John Barret (1631–1713), writer and Presbyterian minister
* Joseph Barret (1665–1699), theological writer and merchant
* Leslie Barringer (1895–1968), editor and novelist
* Isaac Barrow (1630–1677), scholar and cleric
* John Barrow (fl. 1735–1774), lexicographer and historian
* William Barrow (1754–1836), writer and cleric
* Stan Barstow (1928–2011), novelist and dramatist
* William Bartholomew (1793–1867), librettist and composer
* Mike Bartlett (born 1980), playwright and director
* Bernard Barton (1784–1849), poet and Quaker
* Henry Howarth Bashford (1880–1961), novelist and physician
* William Basse (c. 1583–1653/1654), poet
* Jonathan Bate (born 1958), biographer and editor
* James Bateman (1811–1897), garden writer
* H. E. Bates (1905–1974), novelist, The Darling Buds of May
* Henry Walter Bates (1825–1892), naturalist and explorer
* Ralph Bates (1899–2000), novelist
* Elizabeth Bath (1772–1856), poet
* Richard Baxter (1615–1691), poet, hymnist and theologian
* Stephen Baxter (born 1957), novelist
* Basil Al Bayati (born 1946), writer and architect
* John Bayley (1925–2015), critic and novelist
* Peter Bayley (c. 1778–1883), poet and playwright
* Ada Ellen Bayly (wrote as Edna Lyall, 1857–1903), novelist
* Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797–1830), poet and playwright
* Martin Baynton (born 1953), children's writer and illustrator
* Jeremy John Beadle (1958–1995), critic
* John Beadle (died 1667), diarist and cleric
* Anne Beale (1816–1900), novelist and poet
* Richard Bean (born 1956), playwright
* Francis Beaumont (1584–1616), playwright
* John Beaumont (1583–1627), poet
* Joseph Beaumont (1616–1699), poet and cleric
* Aubrey Beardsley (1872–1898), writer and illustrator
* Laura Beatty (living), biographer and novelist
* Samuel Beazley (1786–1851), novelist, playwright and architect
* Peter Beckford (1740–1811), writer and landowner
* William Beckford (1760–1844), novelist and patron
* Lillian Beckwith (born Lillian Comber, 1916–2004), novelist
* Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849), poet
* William Bedwell (1561–1632), scholar, AV translator and cleric
* Henry Charles Beeching (1859–1919), poet and anthologist
* Patricia Beer (1919–1999), poet and critic
* Constance Beerbohm (1811–1892), writer
* Julius Beerbohm (1854–1906), travel writer and explorer
* Max Beerbohm (1872–1956), novelist and caricaturist, Zuleika Dobson
* Alfred Beesley (1800–1847), poet and topographer
* Mrs Beeton (born Isabella Mary Mayson, 1836–1865), cookery writer
* Antony Beevor (born 1946), historian and novelist
* Aphra Behn (1640–1689), novelist and playwright
* Daubridgecourt Belchier (1580–1621), dramatist
* Adrian Bell (1901–1980), countryside writer
* Clive Bell (1881–1964), art critic
* Florence Bell (1851–1930), playwright and editor
* Gertrude Bell (1868–1926), writer and traveller
* Josephine Bell (also as David Wintringham, 1897–1987), novelist
* Julian Bell (1908–1937), poet
* Mary Hayley Bell (1911–2005), novelist, playwright and actress
* Quentin Bell (1910–1996), critic and biographer
* Thomas Bell (1792–1880), zoologist and writer
* John Bellers (1654–1725), writer and Quaker
* Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953), writer and poet
* Thomas Belt (1832–1878), naturalist and geologist
* Elizabeth Benger (1775–1827), poet, novelist and biographer
* Edward Benlowes (1603–1676), poet
* Alan Bennett (born 1934), playwright and broadcaster
* Anna Maria Bennett (c. 1760–1808), novelist
* Arnold Bennett (1867–1931), novelist
* Edwin Keppel Bennett (wrote as Francis Bennett, 1887–1958), writer, poet and scholar
* A. C. Benson (1862–1925), poet and diarist
* E. F. Benson (1867–1940), novelist and story writer
* Peter Benson (born 1956), novelist
* Robert Hugh Benson (1871–1914), novelist, writer and cleric
* Stella Benson (1892–1933), novelist, poet and travel writer
* George Bentham (1800–1884), botanist
* Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832), philosopher
* Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875–1956), novelist, humorist and poet
* Elizabeth Bentley (1767–1839), poet
* Nicolas Bentley (1907–1978), writer and illustrator
* Phyllis Bentley (1894–1977), novelist and biographer
* Richard Bentley (1662–1742), theologian and poet
* Edward Berdoe (1836–1916), critic, novelist and physician
* Richard Berengarten (born 1943), poet
* Elisabeth Beresford (1928–2010), children's writer, the Wombles
* J. D. Beresford (1873–1947), novelist
* James Beresford (1764–1840), satirist, translator and cleric
* Leila Berg (1917–2012), children's writer
* John Berger (1926–2017), novelist, G.
* Reginald Berkeley (1890–1935), playwright and screenwriter
* John Berkenhout (1726–1791), naturalist
* Steven Berkoff (born 1937), playwright and actor
* William Bayle Bernard (1807–1875), playwright, critic and novelist
* John Bourchier Berners (1467–1533), translator and statesman
* Juliana Berners (Bernes, b. c. 1388), writer on heraldry, hawking etc., The Book of Saint Albans
* Elizabeth Berridge (1919–2009), English novelist
* Francis Berry (1915–2006), poet and critic
* Mary Berry (1763–1852), writer and editor
* Mary Berry (born 1935), cookery writer
* Tess Berry-Hart (born 1978), playwright and novelist
* Charles Bertram (1723–1765), literary forger
* Annie Besant (1847–1933), writer and campaigner
* Walter Besant (1836–1901), novelist and historian
* Charles Best (1570–1627), poet
* Alfred Bestall (1892–1986), children's writer and illustrator, Rupert Bear
* Henry Digby Beste (1768–1836), religious writer
* Matilda Betham-Edwards (1836–1919), novelist, poet and travel writer
* Nicholas Bethell (1938–2007), writer, translator and politician
* John Betjeman (1906–1984), Poet Laureate and writer
* Thomas Betterton (1635–1710), playwright and actor
* Edwyn Bevan (1870–1943), philosopher and historian
* Elizabeth Beverley (fl. 1815–30), pamphleteer and actress
* L. S. Bevington (1845–1895), essayist, anarchist and poet
* Elizabeth Bibesco (1897–1945), novelist and poet
* Tessa Biddington (born 1954), poet
* Hester Biddle (c. 1629–1697), Quaker pamphleteer and preacher
* Elizabeth Biddulph, Baroness Biddulph (1834-1916), biographer and Woman of the Bedchamber to Queen Victoria
* John Stanyan Bigg (1828–1865), poet
* Mark Billingham (born 1961), novelist
* William Billington (1825–1884), poet
* Thomas Bilson(1547–1616), theologian, AV translator and bishop
* Andrew Bing (1574–1652), scholar, AV translator and cleric
* Margaret Bingham (1740–1814), poet and painter
* Laurence Binyon (1869–1943), poet and art historian
* T.J. Binyon (1936–2004), novelist, translator and biographer
* Carol Birch (born 1951), novelist and critic
* Thomas Birch (1705–1766), historian
* Caroline Bird (born 1986), poet and playwright
* Isabella Bird (1831–1904), travel writer and naturalist
* Dea Birkett (born 1958), writer
* John Birtwhistle (born 1946), poet and librettist
* Samuel Bishop (1731–1795), poet and essayist
* Clementina Black (1853–1922), novelist and political writer
* Robert Black (1829–1915), novelist, story writer and translator
* Sarah Blackborow (fl. 1650s – 1660s), Quaker writer and preacher
* John Blackburn (1923–1993), novelist
* Thomas Blackburn (1916–1977), poet
* Malorie Blackman (born 1962), children's writer and screenwriter
* R. D. Blackmore (1825–1900), novelist, Lorna Doone
* Richard Blackmore (1654–1729), poet and religious writer
* William Blackstone (1723–1780), legal writer
* Algernon Blackwood (1869–1951), novelist and story writer
* Caroline Blackwood (1931–1996), novelist and critic
* Helen Blackwood, Lady Dufferin (1807–1867), poet and songwriter
* Max Blagg (living), poet and writer
* Quentin Blake (born 1932), children's writer and illustrator
* William Blake (1757–1827), poet and artist, Songs of Innocence and of Experience
* Helen Blakeman (born 1971), playwright and screenwriter
* Susanna Blamire (1747–1794), poet
* Edward Blanchard (1820–1899), playwright and songwriter
* Samuel Laman Blanchard (1804–1845), writer, journalist and poet
* Robert Blatchford (wrote as Nunquam, 1851–1943), journalist, writer and campaigner
* Barbara Blaugdone (c. 1609–1705), Quaker autobiographer
* Nicholas Blincoe (born 1965), novelist and screenwriter
* Mathilde Blind (1841–1896), poet and biographer
* Edward Blishen (1920–1996), writer and broadcaster
* Eliot Bliss (Emily Bliss, 1903–1990), novelist and poet
* Walter Blith (1605–1654), writer on husbandry
* Robert Bloomfield (1766–1823), poet
* John Bloundelle-Burton (c. 1850–1917), journalist and novelist
* Charles Blount (1654–1693), polemicist
* Elizabeth Blower (c. 1757/1763 – post–1816), novelist, poet and actress
* Evelyn, Princess Blücher (1876–1960), diarist and memoirist
* Nicholas Blundell (1669–1737), diarist
* Edmund Blunden (1896–1974), poet, author and critic
* Anthony Blunt (1907–1983), art historian and spy
* Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840–1922), poet and author
* Ronald Blythe (1922–2023), writer and editor,
* Enid Blyton (1897–1968), children's writer, Noddy
* James Boaden (1762–1839), biographer, playwright and journalist
* Frederick S. Boas (1862–1957), literary historian
* John Ernest Bode (1816–1874), poet, hymnist and cleric
* John Bodenham (1569–1610), anthologist
* Barbara Bodichon (1827–1891), educator and feminist
* John Bois (1560–1643), scholar, AV translator and cleric
* Osbern Bokenam (c. 1393 – c. 1463), literary historian and cleric
* Robert Bolt (1924–1995), dramatist and screenwriter, A Man For All Seasons
* Sharon Bolton, mystery fiction writer
* Michael Bond (1926–2017), children's writer, Paddington Bear
* Elizabeth Bonhôte (1744–1818), novelist
* Christopher Booker (1937–2019), writer and journalist
* Luke Booker (1762–1835), poet, antiquary and cleric
* George Boole (1815–1864), mathematician and logician
* Mary Everest Boole (1832–1916), schoolbook writer
* Barton Booth (1681–1733), actor and poet
* Charles Booth (1840–1916), social researcher, Life and Labour of the People in London
* Martin Booth (1944–2004), novelist, poet and editor
* Stephen Booth (born 1952), novelist
* Brooke Boothby (1744–1824), scholar and poet
* Frances Boothby (fl. 1669–70), playwright
* Basil Boothroyd (1910–1988), writer and humorist
* George Borrow (1803–1881), novelist and travel writer, Romany Rye
* Lucy M. Boston (1892–1990), children's writer
* Clifford Edmund Bosworth (1928–2015), historian and Arabist
* Joseph Bosworth (1789–1876), lexicographer and Anglo-Saxon scholar
* Phyllis Bottome (1884–1963), novelist and psychoanalyst
* Gordon Bottomley (1874–1948), poet and dramatist
* Ronald Bottrall (1906–1989), poet and academic
* Marjorie Boulton (1924–2017), writer and Esperantist
* Francis William Bourdillon (1852–1921), poet
* Thomas Edward Bowdich (1791–1824), traveller and writer
* Henrietta Maria Bowdler ("Harriet", 1750–1830), religious writer and expurgator
* Jane Bowdler (1743–1784), poet and essayist
* John Bowdler (1746–1823), religious writer and pamphleteer
* John Bowdler (1783–1815), writer and poet
* Thomas Bowdler (1754–1825), writer and expurgator
* Thomas Bowdler 1782–1856), writer and cleric
* Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973), novelist and story writer
* John Griffith Bowen (1924–2019), novelist and screenwriter
* Marjorie Bowen (real name Gabrielle Margaret Vere Long, 1885–1952), novelist and writer
* Emily Bowes (1806–1857), religious poet and artist
* Mary Bowes (1749–1800), playwright and botanist
* Tim Bowler (living), children's writer
* William Lisle Bowles (1762–1850), poet and critic
* Maurice Bowra (1898–1971), scholar and wit
* Frank Cottrell Boyce (born 1959), children's writer and screenwriter
* William Binnington Boyce (1804–1889), philologist and Methodist minister
* Abel Boyer (c. 1667–1729), journalist, miscellanist and translator
* Charles Boyle (1674–1731), writer and playwright
* Charles Boyle (born 1951), poet
* John Boyle (1707–1762), writer and translator
* Roger Boyle (1621–1679), playwright and statesman
* Charles Vernon Boys (1855–1944), physicist and polymath
* Ernest Franklin Bozman (1895–1968), writer and editor
* Michael Bracewell (born 1958), writer and novelist
* Alison Brackenbury (born 1953), poet
* Paula Brackston (living), genre novelist
* Jason Bradbury (living), children's writer and TV presenter
* Malcolm Bradbury (1932–2000), novelist
* Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1837–1915), novelist, Lady Audley's Secret
* Henry J. Bradfield (1805–1852), poet, writer and colonial officer
* Barbara Taylor Bradford (born 1933), novelist
* Ernle Bradford (1922–1986), historian and writer
* Walter Bradick (1706-1794)
* Charles Bradlaugh (1833–1891), writer and freethinker
* A. C. Bradley (1851–1935), literary critic
* Charles Bradley (1789–1871), writer and preacher
* Edward Bradley (wrote as Cuthbert M. Bede, BA, 1827–1889), novelist and cleric
* F. H. Bradley (1846–1924), philosopher
* Henry Bradley (1845–1923), philologist and lexicographer
* Henry Bradshaw (c. 1450–1513), poet and monk
* Nicholas Bradshawe (c. 1635), writer
* Hilary Bradt (born 1941), travel writer and publisher
* John Brady (died 1814), miscellanist
* Melvyn Bragg (born 1939), novelist, biographer and broadcaster
* John Braine (1922–1986), novelist, Room at the Top
* Richard Braithwaite or Brathwait, (1588–1673), poet
* Ernest Bramah (born Ernest Bramah Smith, 1868–1942), novelist and humorist
* James Bramston (1694–1744), poet and satirist
* Barbarina Brand Lady Dacre, (1768–1854), poet, playwright and translator
* Christianna Brand (real name Mary Christianna Milne, 1907–1988), novelist and children's writer
* Hannah Brand (1754–1821), playwright, poet and actress
* Jo Brand (born 1957), writer and comedian
* William Branthwaite (died 1620), scholar, AV translator and cleric
* Anna Brassey (1839–1887), travel writer
* Anna Eliza Bray (1790–1883), novelist and topographer
* Charles Bray (1811–1884), philosopher and phrenologist
* Angela Brazil (1868–1947), novelist
* Wallace Breem (1926–1990), novelist and librarian
* John Brent (1808–1882), novelist and antiquary
* Elinor Brent-Dyer (1894–1969), children's writer, Chalet School
* Frederick Sadleir Brereton (1852–1957), writer for boys
* John Brereton (1571 or 1572 – c. 1632), travel writer and explorer
* Nicholas Breton (c. 1545–1626), poet and tractarian
* Richard Brett (1567–1637), scholar, AV translator and cleric
* Simon Brett (born 1945), novelist and playwright
* E. Cobham Brewer (1810–1897), writer and cleric, Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
* George Brewer (1766–18??), miscellanist
* James Norris Brewer (fl. 1799–1829), topographer and novelist
* John Brewster (1753–1842), writer and cleric
* Shane Briant (1946–2021), novelist and actor
* John Bridges (1536–1618), tractarian and bishop
* Robert Bridges (1844–1930), Poet Laureate
* Victor Bridges (1878–1972), novelist and playwright
* Katharine Mary Briggs (1898–1980), folklore writer
* Raymond Briggs (1934–2022), children's writer and illustrator
* John Bright (1811–1889), orator and politician
* Joanna Briscoe (born 1963), novelist and journalist
* Sophia Briscoe (fl. 1770s), novelist
* Vera Brittain (1893–1970), writer and pacifist
* Edwin Brock (1927–1997), poet
* William Brock (1807–1875), biographer and Baptist minister
* Alexander Brome (1620–1666), poet
* Richard Brome (c. 1590 – c. 1653), playwright
* Vincent Brome (1910–2004), biographer and novelist
* Eliza Bromley (fl. 1784–1803), novelist and translator
* Eleanor Bron (born 1938), writer and actress
* Anne Brontë (1820–1849), novelist, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
* Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855), novelist, Jane Eyre
* Emily Brontë (1818–1848), novelist and poet, Wuthering Heights
* Patrick Brontë (originally Brunty, 1777–1861), poet, writer and cleric
* Rhidian Brook (born 1964), novelist and screenwriter
* Arthur de Capell Brooke (1791–1858), travel writer
* Christopher N. L. Brooke (living), historian
* Frances Brooke (1724–1789), novelist and playwright
* Jocelyn Brooke (1908–1966), novelist, poet and biographer
* John Brooke (died 1582), religious writer and translator
* Rupert Brooke (1887–1915), poet
* Anita Brookner (1928–2016), novelist
* Kevin Brooks (born 1959), children's writer
* Shirley Brooks (1816–1874), novelist, playwright and poet
* Ralph Broome (1742–1835), pamphleteer and poet
* William Broome (1689–1745), poet and translator
* Robert Barnabas Brough (1828–1864), writer and poet
* George Brown (1835–1917), ethnographer and diarist
* John Brown (1715–1766), essayist and cleric
* Pamela Brown (1924–1989), children's writer
* Pete Brown (1940–2023), performance poet and songwriter
* Pete Brown (born 1968), beer writer and columnist
* Stewart Brown (born 1951), poet and scholar
* Tom Brown (1663–1704), satirist and translator
* Anthony Browne (born 1946), children's writer and illustrator
* Edward Browne (1862–1926), orientalist and writer
* Isaac Hawkins Browne (1705–1760), poet
* Moses Browne (1704–1787), poet and cleric
* Thomas Browne (1705–1782), polymath, Religio Medici
* William Browne (c. 1590 – c. 1645), poet
* Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861), poet
* Oscar Browning (1837–1923), writer and scholar
* Robert Browning (1812–1889), poet
* Alan Brownjohn (born 1931), poet and novelist
* Dorita Fairlie Bruce (1885–1970), children's writer
* Henry James Bruce (1880–1951), autobiographer and diplomat
* Francis Bryan (c. 1490–1550), poet and courtier
* Arthur Bryant (1899–1985), historian
* Samuel Egerton Brydges (1762–1836), bibliographer and editor
* Bryher (real name Annie Winifred Ellerman, 1894–1983), novelist, poet and memoirist
* Charles Bucke (1781–1846), writer and poet
* Anthony Buckeridge (1912–2004), children's writer, Jennings
* James Silk Buckingham (1786–1855), journalist and travel writer
* Leicester Silk Buckingham (1825–1867), playwright and historian
* Francis Trevelyan Buckland (1826–1880), natural historian
* Raymond Buckland (1934–2017), occultist
* William Buckland (1784–1856), geologist, palaeontologist and cleric
* Henry Thomas Buckle (1821–1862), historian
* Catherine Mary Buckton (1826-1904), campaigner and writer
* Maria Elizabeth Budden (c. 1780–1832), children's writer
* Eustace Budgell (1686–1737), writer and politician
* Frank Thomas Bullen (1857–1915), novelist and autobiographer
* A. H. Bullen (1857–1920), scholar
* J. B. Bullen (living), critic
* Gerald Bullett (1893–1958), novelist, critic and poet
* Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873), novelist, poet and playwright
* Robert Bulwer-Lytton (wrote as Owen Meredith, 1831–1891), poet
* Basil Bunting (1900–1985), poet
* John Bunyan (1628–1688), writer, The Pilgrim's Progress
* Josiah Burchett (c. 1666–1746), naval historian
* George Burges (1786–1864), classicist
* Anthony Burgess (originally John Burgess Wilson, 1917–1993), novelist, A Clockwork Orange
* Melvin Burgess (born 1954), children's writer
* John William Burgon (1813–1888), poet and theologian
* John Burgoyne (1722–1792), playwright and army officer
* Thomas Burke (1886–1945), novelist and writer
* William Burke (died 1798), pamphleteer and official
* Francis Burleigh (fl. 1590–1610), AV translator and cleric
* Michael Burleigh (born 1955), historian
* Andrew Burnaby (1732–1812), travel writer and cleric
* Francis Burnand (1836–1917), humorist and dramatist
* Thomas Burnet (c. 1635–1715), theologian
* Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849–1924), children's writer, The Secret Garden
* Caroline Burney (fl. early 19th century), novelist
* Charles Burney (1726–1814), music scholar and composer
* Charles Burney (1757–1817), scholar, educator and cleric
* Fanny Burney (also as Frances, Mme d'Arblay, 1752–1840), novelist and diarist, Evelina
* Frances Burney (1776–1828), dramatist
* James Burney (1750–1821), travel writer and admiral
* Sarah Burney (1772–1844), novelist
* Myles Burnyeat (1939–2019), philosopher and classicist
* James Burr (born 1971), fiction writer
* Sophia Burrell (1753–1802), poet and playwright
* James Burrow (1701–1782), scholar, scientist and lawyer
* Montagu Burrows (1819–1905), naval historian and officer
* Hester Burton (1913–2000), historical novelist and children's writer
* Maurice Burton (1898–1992), science writer and zoologist
* Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890), writer, translator and explorer
* Robert Burton (1577–1640), polymath, The Anatomy of Melancholy
* Charlotte Bury (1775–1861), novelist and poet
* Elizabeth Bury (1644–1720), diarist and polymath
* Alban Butler (1710–1773), writer and cleric
* Catherine Butler (earlier Charles Butler, born 1963), children's writer and academic
* Gwendoline Butler (1922–2013), novelist
* Joseph Butler (1692–1752), theologian and bishop
* Josephine Butler (1828–1906), writer and campaigner
* Samuel Butler (1612–1680), poet and satirist, Hudibras
* Samuel Butler (1835–1902), writer and satirist, Erewhon
* Herbert Butterfield (1900–1979), historian
* Jez Butterworth (born 1969), playwright
* Mary Butts (1890–1937), writer and poet
* Bertha Henry Buxton (1844–1881), novelist and children's writer
* Nigel Buxton (1924–2015), travel writer and wine critic
* Thomas Buxton (1786–1845), political writer
* A. S. Byatt (born 1936), novelist
* John Byrom (1692–1763), poet
* John Byron (1723–1786), memoirist and admiral
* Lord Byron (1788–1824), poet, Don Juan
* Robert Byron (1905–1941), travel writer
* Ingram Bywater (1840–1914), scholar and editor
* Michael Bywater (born 1953), writer and broadcaster
* Top
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* C
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* E
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* G
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## C

* Florence Caddy (1837–1923), writer
* Hall Caine (1853–1931), novelist and playwright
* Mona Caird (1854–1932), essayist, novelist and feminist
* John Caius the Elder or Kay (fl. 1480), narrative poet
* Maria Callcott (1785–1842), children's writer, travel writer, and illustrator
* Brian Callison (born 1932), novelist
* Charles Stuart Calverley (1831–1884), poet and translator
* Roland Camberton (real name Henry Cohen, 1921–1965), novelist
* Ada Cambridge (1844–1926), novelist and poet
* William Camden (1551–1623), historian and antiquary
* Richard Cameron (living), playwright
* Thomas Campion (1567–1620), poet and composer
* Bruce Campbell (1912–1993), ornithologist
* W. H. Canaway (1925–1988), novelist
* James Cancellar, (fl. 1564), English theological writer
* Hugh Candidus (c. 1095 – c. 1160), historian in Latin and monk
* Denis Cannan (1919–2011), playwright and screenwriter
* Gilbert Cannan (1884–1955), novelist and translator
* Joanna Cannan (1898–1961), novelist and children's writer
* May Wedderburn Cannan (1893–1973), poet and autobiographer
* Dorothy Cannell (born 1943), novelist
* Victor Canning (1911–1986), novelist, essayist and children's writer
* William Canton (1845–1926), poet and children's writer
* Edward Capell (1713–1781), Shakespearean
* Edward Capern (1819–1894), poet and postman
* John Capgrave (1393–1464), theologian and historian
* Neville Cardus (1888–1975), cricket writer and music critic
* Thomas Carew (1595–1640), poet
* Henry Carey (1687–1743), poet, playwright and song-writer
* Mary Carey, Lady Carey (c. 1609 – c. 1680), poet
* Rosa Nouchette Carey (1840–1909), novelist and children's writer
* Robert Carliell (died c. 1622), poet
* John Carne (1789–1844), travel writer and biographer
* Edward Carpenter (1844–1929), poet and philosopher
* Humphrey Carpenter (1946–2005), biographer, broadcaster and children's writer
* Barbara Comyns Carr (1907–1992), novelist and artist
* J. L. Carr (1912–1994), novelist and schoolbook writer
* Lewis Carroll (real name Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, 1832–1898), children's writer and mathematician, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
* Angela Carter (1940–1992), novelist
* Elizabeth Carter (17171806), poet, translator and bluestocking
* Barbara Cartland (1901–2000), novelist
* George Cartwright (1739–1819), diarist and explorer
* Justin Cartwright (1945–2018), novelist
* William Cartwright (1611–1643), playwright
* Elizabeth Cary (1585–1639), poet and playwright, The Tragedy of Mariam
* Henry Francis Cary (1772–1844), translator and critic
* Lucius Cary (Lord Falkland, 1610–1643), poet, writer and politician
* Patrick Cary or Carey, (c. 1624–1658), poet
* John Caryll (1625–1711), poet, playwright and diplomat
* Juanita Casey (1925–2012), poet and novelist
* Cathy Cassidy (born 1962), children's writer
* Egerton Castle (1858–1920), novelist (with wife Agnes)
* Helen Castor (living), historian and broadcaster
* Sarah Caudwell (real name Sarah Cockburn, 1939–2000), novelist
* Charles Causley (1917–2003), poet and editor
* David Caute (born 1936), novelist and historian
* Tiberius Cavallo (1749–1809), natural philosopher
* George Cavendish (1494 – c. 1652), biographer and poet
* Jane Cavendish (later Jane Cheyne, 1621–1669), poet and playwright
* Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle, (1623–1673), poet, novelist and playwright
* William Cavendish (1592–1676), polymath
* William Caxton (c. 1415/1422 – c. 1492), printer and translator
* Lord David Cecil (1902–1986), scholar and biographer
* Dorothea Celesia (originally Mallet, 1738–1790), poet and translator
* Susanna Centlivre (also as Susanna Carroll, c. 1667–1723), playwright, poet and actress
* Mark Chadbourn (born 1960), genre novelist
* Laurence Chaderton (c. 1536–1640), theologian, AV translator and cleric
* Henry Chadwick (1920–2008), theologian, historian and cleric
* John Chalkhill (fl. c. 1600), poet
* Annie Emma Challice (1821–1875), author
* Thomas Chaloner (1521–1565), poet, translator and statesman
* Edward Chamberlayne (1616–1703), writer, historian and translator
* William Chamberlayne (1619–1689), poet
* Shaun Chamberlin (living), author and activist
* Aidan Chambers (born 1934), children's writer
* Ephraim Chambers (c. 1680–1740), writer and encyclopedist
* Frederick Chamier (1796–1870), novelist and sea captain
* Meira Chand (living), novelist
* Mary Chandler (1687–1745), poet
* Raymond Chandler (1888–1959), crime writer
* Samuel Chandler (1693–1766), theologian and Presbyterian minister
* Henry Channon ("Chips", 1897–1958), writer and diarist
* George Chapman (1559–1634), poet, playwright and translator
* Guy Chapman (1889–1972), writer and historian
* Pat Chapman (1940–2022), food writer
* Hester Chapone (1727–1801), writer and bluestocking
* Charlotte Charke (originally Cibber, 1713–1760), writer and actress
* Elizabeth Charles (1828–1896), novelist and religious writer
* Gerda Charles (real name Edna Lipson, 1914–1996), novelist and anthologist
* Maria Louisa Charlesworth (1819–1880), children's writer
* Leslie Charteris (born Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin, 1907–1993), novelist, Simon Templar
* James Hadley Chase, b. Rene Brabazon Raymond, also as James L. Docherty, Ambrose Grant, etc., (1906–1985), novelist
* Debjani Chatterjee (born 1952), poet, translator and children's writer
* Georgiana Chatterton (1806–1876), travel writer, novelist and poet
* Thomas Chatterton (wrote as Thomas Rowley, 1752–1770), poet
* Beth Chatto (1923–2018), garden writer
* William Andrew Chatto (also as Stephen Oliver, 1799–1864), travel and general writer
* Bruce Chatwin (1940–1989), novelist and travel writer
* Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343–1400), poet, The Canterbury Tales
* Cris Cheek (born 1955), poet and performer
* Mavis Cheek (living), novelist
* John Cheke (1514–1557), classicist and translator
* George Tomkyns Chesney (1830–1895), novelist and army officer
* G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936), novelist, poet and essayist, Father Brown
* Henry Chettle (c. 1564 – c. 1607), playwright
* William Rufus Chetwood (died 1766), playwright, novelist and publisher
* Peter Cheyney (1896–1951), novelist
* Josiah Child (1630–1699), political economist and merchant
* Lee Child (real name Jim Grant, b. 1954), thriller writer
* Wilfred Rowland Childe (1890–1952), poet
* Erskine Childers (1870–1922), novelist and politician
* William Chillingworth (1602–1644), religious writer
* Mary Cholmondeley (1859–1925), novelist
* Charles Chorley (c. 1810–1874), man of letters
* Agatha Christie (1891–1976), mystery writer
* Mary Chudleigh (1656–1710), poet and polemicist
* Alfred John Church (1829–1912), scholar, poet and translator
* Richard Church (1893–1972), poet
* Richard William Church (1815–1890), biographer, historian and cleric
* Caryl Churchill (born 1938), playwright and translator
* Charles Churchill (1731–1764), poet and satirist
* Winston Churchill (1874–1965), writer, prime minister and Nobel Prize winner
* Thomas Churchyard (c. 1520–1604), poet and soldier
* Colley Cibber (1671–1757), Poet Laureate, playwright and bowdlerizer
* Horatio Clare (born 1973), writer
* John Clare (1793–1864), poet
* Emily Clark (fl. 1798–1819), novelist and poet
* Amy Clarke (1892–1980), poet and school historian
* Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008), SF novelist
* Bob Clarke (born 1964), archaeologist and historian
* Charles Cowden Clarke (1787–1877), writer and scholar
* Mrs. Henry Clarke (Amy, 1853–1908), historical novelist and children's writer
* Jane Clarke, biochemist and academic
* Jane E. Clarke (born 1954), children's writer
* Lindsay Clarke (born 1939), novelist and poet
* Mary Cowden Clarke (originally Novello, 1809–1898), writer and scholar
* Pauline Clarke (1921–2013), children's writer
* Richard Clarke (died 1634), scholar, AV translator and cleric
* Roy Clarke (born 1930), screenwriter and playwright
* Samuel Clarke (1675–1729), philosopher and cleric
* Susanna Clarke (born 1959), novelist, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
* T. E. B. Clarke (1907–1989), screenwriter and novelist
* Laurence Clarkson or Claxton (1615–1667), writer and theologian
* John Clavell (1601–1643), writer, playwright and highwayman
* Chris Cleave (born 1973), novelist and journalist
* Brian Cleeve (1921–2003), novelist
* Lucas Cleeve (also as Mrs Howard Kingscote, 1868–1908), novelist
* John Cleland (1709–1789), novelist, Fanny Hill
* Dick Clement (born 1937), scriptwriter
* Jack Clemo (1916–1994), poet and novelist
* John Cleveland (1613–1658), poet
* Barbara Cleverly (born 1940), novelist
* Anne Clifford (1590–1676), diarist
* Lucy Clifford (wrote as Mrs. W. K. Clifford, 1846–1929), novelist, playwright and children's writer
* William Kingdon Clifford (1846–1879), philosopher and children's writer
* Caroline Clive (wrote as "V", 1801–1872), novelist and poet
* John Clive (1933–2012), novelist and actor
* Kitty Clive (born Catherine Raftor, 1711–1785), playwright and actress
* Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861), poet
* Bryan Clough (born 1932), writer
* William Cobbett (1763–1835), writer and pamphleteer, Rural Rides
* Bob Cobbing (1920–2002), poet and artist
* Richard Cobbold (1797–1877), novelist and writer
* Richard Cobden (1804–1865), pamphleteer
* Aston Cockayne (1605–1684), poet and playwright
* Catherine Trotter Cockburn (1679–1749), novelist and playwright
* Edward Cocker (1631–1676), writer and engraver
* Richard Cocks (1566–1624), diarist
* Henry Cockton (1807–1853), novelist
* Jonathan Coe (born 1961), novelist
* Lady Mary Coke (1727–1811), correspondent and diarist
* Barry Cole (1936–2014), poet and novelist
* G. D. H. Cole (1889–1959), economist, historian and novelist
* Margaret Cole (1893–1980), politician and novelist
* Olivia Cole (born 1982), poet
* John William Colenso (1814–1883), writer and bishop
* Christabel Rose Coleridge (1843–1921), novelist and editor
* Derwent Coleridge (1800–1883), writer, scholar and cleric
* Ernest Hartley Coleridge (1846–1920), critic, editor and poet
* Hartley Coleridge (1796–1849), poet and critic
* Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861–1907), novelist and poet
* Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834), poet, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
* Sara Coleridge (1802–1852), author and translator
* Stephen Coleridge (1854–1936), writer, poet and campaigner
* Jane Collier (1714–1755), satirist
* Jeremy Collier (1650–1726), pamphleteer and cleric
* John Collier (wrote as Tim Bobbin, 1708–1786), dialect poet and caricaturist
* John Collier (1901–1980), story writer and screenwriter
* John Payne Collier (1789–1883), literary critic, editor and forger
* Mary Collier (c. 1688–1762), poet
* R. G. Collingwood (1889–1943), philosopher and historian
* W. G. Collingwood (1854–1932), writer and artist
* An Collins (fl. 1653), religious poet
* Anthony Collins (1676–1729), philosopher
* Charles James Collins (1820–1864), novelist and journalist
* Jackie Collins (1937–2015), novelist
* John Collins (1625–1683), mathematician
* John Collins (1742–1808), poet and lyricist
* John Churton Collins (1848–1908), literary critic
* Mortimer Collins (1827–1876), novelist and poet
* Norman Collins (1907–1982), novelist
* Warwick Collins (1948–2013), novelist and screenwriter
* Wilkie Collins (1824–1889), novelist, The Moonstone
* William Collins (1721–1759), poet
* John Stewart Collis (1900–1984), biographer and countryside writer
* Maurice Collis (1889–1973), writer and biographer
* Mary Collyer (c. 1716–1762), translator and novelist.
* George Colman (1732–1794), playwright
* George Colman (1762–1836), playwright and poet
* Jock Colville (1915–1987), diarist and civil servant
* Howard Colvin (1919–2007), architectural historian
* William Combe (1741–1823), miscellanist and poet
* Alex Comfort (1920–2000), novelist, poet and writer
* Jack Common (1903–1968), novelist
* Ivy Compton-Burnett (1884–1969), novelist
* William Congreve (1670–1729), playwright and poet, Erewhon
* Thomas Coningsby (died 1625), diarist, soldier and politician
* Paul Conneally (born 1959), poet, artist and musician
* Charlie Connelly (born 1970), football and travel writer
* Cyril Connolly (1903–1974), writer and critic
* Joseph Connolly (born 1950), writer and novelist
* Tony Connor (born 1930), poet and playwright
* Robert Conquest (1917–2015), historian and poet
* Henry Constable (1562–1613), poet
* Hugh Conway (real name Frederick John Fargus, 1847–1885), novelist
* Robert Seymour Conway (1864–1933), classicist
* John Conybeare (1692–1755), theologian and bishop
* John Josias Conybeare (1779–1824), scholar, translator and cleric
* William Daniel Conybeare (1787–1857), writer and cleric
* William John Conybeare (1815–1857), writer, novelist and cleric
* David Cook (1940–2015), novelist and screenwriter
* Edward Dutton Cook (1829–1883), novelist and critic
* Eliza Cook (1818–1889), poet
* James Cook (1728–1779), travel writer and mariner
* Judith Cook (1933–2004), novelist
* Dorian Cooke (1916–2005), poet and intelligence officer
* Thomas Cooke (1703–1756), poet, playwright and translator
* Catherine Cookson (1906–1998), novelist
* William Henry Coombes (1767–1850), writer and RC priest
* Artemis Cooper (born 1953), writer and editor
* Duff Cooper (1890–1954), writer, diarist and politician
* Jilly Cooper (born 1937), writer and novelist
* Lettice Cooper (1897–1994), novelist and critic
* Thomas Cooper (1805–1892), poet and novelist
* William Cooper (real name H. S. Hoff, 1910–2002), novelist
* Isabel Cooper-Oakley (1853/1854–1914), theosophist
* Wendy Cope (born 1945), poet
* Esther Copley (1786–1851) children's and housekeeping writer
* A. E. Coppard (1878–1957) poet and story writer
* Abiezer Coppe (1619–1672) religious writer
* Richard Corbet or Corbett (1582–1635), poet and bishop
* Jim Corbett (1875–1955), writer and conservationist
* Julian Corbett (1854–1922), naval historian
* Michael Cordy (living), novelist
* Marie Corelli (1855–1924), novelist
* Alan Coren (1938–2007), writer, satirist and broadcaster
* Hilary Corke (1921–2001), poet
* Adam Cornford (born 1950), poet and essayist
* Frances Cornford (1886–1960), poet
* Francis M. Cornford (1874–1943), scholar and poet
* John Cornford (1915–1936), poet
* Caroline Cornwallis (1786–1858), writer and polyglot
* Jane Cornwallis (1581–1659), correspondent
* Bernard Cornwell (born 1944), novelist
* William Cornysh or Cornish (1465–1523), dramatist, poet and composer
* Felicitas Corrigan (1908–2003), writer and nun
* Annie Sophie Cory (wrote as Victoria Cross, 1868–1952), novelist
* William Johnson Cory (1823–1892), poet and educator
* Thomas Coryat or Coryate (c. 1577–1617), travel writer and poet
* Louisa Stuart Costello (1799–1870), travel writer, novelist and poet
* John Cosin (1594–1672), polemicist and bishop
* Randle Cotgrave (died 1634 or 1652), lexicographer
* Joseph Cottle (1770–1853), poet and essayist
* Colin Cotterill (born 1952), author and cartoonist
* Charles Cotton (1630–1687), poet and writer
* Robert Bruce Cotton (1570/1571 – 1631), antiquary and political writer
* Oswald Couldrey (1882–1958), poet and artist
* Stephen Coulter (also as James Mayo, b. 1914), novelist
* G. G. Coulton (1858–1947), historian and polemicist
* William John Courthope (1842–1917), critic and poet
* Polly Courtney (living), novelist
* Francis Coventry (1725–1754 or 1759), novelist
* Miles Coverdale (c. 1488–1569), Bible translator
* Noël Coward (1899–1973), playwright, Blithe Spirit
* Abraham Cowley (1618–1667), poet
* Hannah Cowley (1743–1809), playwright
* Dorothy Cowlin (1911–2010), novelist and poet
* E. E. Cowper (1859–1933), novelist
* Frank Cowper (1849–1930), yachtsman and author
* William Cowper (1731–1800), poet, John Gilpin
* Anthony Berkeley Cox (also as Anthony Berkeley, etc., 1893–1971), novelist
* Edward Coxere (1633–1694), autobiographer and seaman
* George Crabbe (1754–1832), poet and naturalist
* Jim Crace (born 1946), novelist
* Hubert Crackanthorpe (originally Cookson, 1870–1896), essayist and story writer
* Nicholas Crafts (born 1949), economic historian
* Albert Craig (the Surrey Poet, 1849–1909), sports poet
* Amanda Craig (born 1959), novelist
* Dinah Craik (also as Miss Mulock, 1826–1887), novelist and poet
* Edward Crankshaw (1909–1984), writer, historian and translator
* Richard Crashaw (1613–1649), poet
* Elizabeth Craven (1750–1828), travel writer and playwright
* John Creasey (1908–1973), novelist
* Edward Shepherd Creasy (1812–1878), historian
* Thomas Creech (1659–1700), translator
* Thomas Creevey (1768–1838), diarist and politician
* Mandell Creighton (1843–1901), historian and bishop
* Helen Cresswell (1934–2005), children's writer and screenwriter
* Jasmine Cresswell (born 1941), novelist
* Nicholas Cresswell (1750–1804), diarist and farmer
* Bernard Crick (1929–2008), political scientist
* Martin Crimp (born 1956), playwright
* Arthur Shearly Cripps (1869–1952), story writer and poet
* Quentin Crisp (born Denis Charles Pratt, 1908–1999), writer and raconteur
* Ann Batten Cristall (1769–1848), poet
* Herbert Croft (1751–1815), novelist
* Rupert Croft-Cooke (wrote as Leo Bruce, 1903–1979), novelist
* Andrew Crofts (born 1953), ghost writer
* Bithia Mary Croker (1849–1920), novelist
* Thomas Francis Dillon Croker (wrote as T. F. Dillon Croker, 1831–1912), antiquary and poet
* Richmal Crompton (real name Richmal Crompton Lamburn, 1890–1969), novelist, Just William
* Vincent Cronin (1924–2011), historian and biographer
* Camilla Dufour Crosland (1812–1895), poet, novelist and historical writer
* A. F. Cross (1863–1940), poet, playwright and journalist
* Gillian Cross (born 1945), children's writer
* Kevin Crossley-Holland (born 1941), children's writer, poet and editor
* Catherine Crowe (1790–1872), novelist and playwright
* William Crowe (1745–1829), poet
* Aleister Crowley (1875–1947), writer, mystic and occultist
* John Crowne (1641–1712), playwright
* Andrew Crozier (1943–2008), poet and scholar
* Andrew Crumey (born 1961), novelist
* Barry Cryer (1935–2022), writer
* J. A. Cuddon (1928–1996), novelist, playwright and lexicographer
* Annie Hall Cudlip (1838–1918), novelist
* Pender Hodge Cudlip (1834–1911), writer and cleric
* John Cullum (1733–1785), antiquary, historian and cleric
* Hannah Cullwick (1833–1909), diarist and servant
* Nathaniel Culverwell (1619–1651), philosopher and theologian
* Nigel Cumberland (born 1967), self-help and leadership non-fiction author
* Richard Cumberland (1631–1718), philosopher and bishop
* Richard Cumberland (1732–1811), playwright, poet and novelist
* Nancy Cunard (1896–1965), poet and memoirist
* Joseph Cundall (wrote as Stephen Percy, 1818–1895), children's writer and publisher
* John Cunliffe (1933–2018), children's writer
* Roland Curram (born 1932), novelist and actor
* R. N. Currey (1907–2001), poet
* Lionel George Curtis (1872–1955), writer on world government
* William Curtis (1746–1799), botanist
* Alice Curwen (c. 1619–1679), Quaker writer and preacher
* Henry Cust (1861–1917), writer and editor
* Catherine Cuthbertson (pre–1780 – post–1830), novelist
* Judith Cutler (born 1946), novelist
* John Cutts (1661–1707), poet, writer and soldier
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