# List of English writers (D–J)

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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* David Dabydeen (born 1955), novelist and critic
* Charlotte Dacre (wrote as Rosa Matilda, 1782–1841), novelist and poet
* Roald Dahl (1916–1990), novelist, children's writer and poet
* William Dakins (died 1607), scholar, AV translator and cleric
* Andrew Dalby (born 1947), writer
* Celia Dale (1912–2011), novelist and book reviewer
* Penny Dale (born 1954), children's writer and illustrator
* Thomas Dale (1797–1870), poet, theologian and cleric
* Robert Charles Dallas (1756–1824), writer and poet
* Anne Seymour Damer (1748–1828), novelist and sculptor
* William Dampier (1651–1715), travel writer and buccaneer
* William Danby (1752–1833), scholar and philosopher
* Clemence Dane (real name Winifred Ashton, 1888–1965), novelist and playwright
* Samuel Daniel (1562–1619), poet and historian
* William Barker Daniel (1754–1833), field sports writer and cleric
* Sarah Daniels (born 1957), playwright
* Alicia D'Anvers (1688–1725), poet
* Ella D'Arcy (c. 1856–1939), novelist and translator
* Bill Dare (living), scriptwriter, novelist and playwright
* F. J. Harvey Darton (1878–1936), children's literature historian and publisher
* Bernard Darwin (1876–1961), golf writer
* Charles Darwin (1809–1882), natural historian, On the Origin of Species
* Emma Darwin (born 1964), novelist
* Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802), natural historian and poet
* Florence Henrietta Darwin (1863/1864–1920), playwright
* Elizabeth Daryush (originally Bridges, 1887–1977), poet
* George Webbe Dasent (1817–1896), writer and translator
* Rana Dasgupta (born 1972), novelist
* William Davenant (1606–1668), poet and playwright
* Robert Davenport (fl. 1623–1639), playwright and poet
* Selina Davenport (1779–1859), novelist
* C. A. F. Rhys Davids (1857–1942), Buddhist scholar and translator
* Lionel Davidson (1922–2009), novelist
* Donald Davie (1922–1995), poet and critic
* Caitlin Davies (born 1964), novelist and journalist
* Hunter Davies (born 1936), writer and biographer
* Hugh Sykes Davies (1909–1984), poet and novelist
* John Davies (c. 1565–1618), poet and satirist
* John Davies (1569–1626), poet and lawyer
* Linda Davies (born 1963), novelist
* Paul B. Davies (living), writer and actor
* Peter Ho Davies (born 1966), writer
* John Davis or Davys (c. 1543–1605), writer and navigator
* Lindsey Davis (born 1949), novelist
* Ann Davison (1914–1992), travel writer
* Humphry Davy (1778–1829), writer and inventor
* Elizabeth Dawbarn (died 1839), writer on religion and child care
* Richard Dawkins (born 1941), science writer
* Coningsby Dawson (1883–1959), novelist, poet and soldier
* Jennifer Dawson (1929–2000), novelist
* Jill Dawson (living), poet, novelist and editor
* William James Dawson (1854–1928), poet and religious writer
* James Wentworth Day (1899–1983), countryside writer and broadcaster
* Jeffery Day (1896–1918), poet
* John Day (1574 – c. 1640), playwright, The Parliament of Bees
* Martin Day (born 1969), novelist and screenwriter
* Thomas Day (1748–1789), children's writer and educator
* Cecil Day-Lewis (1904–1972), Poet Laureate, translator and novelist
* Tamasin Day-Lewis (born 1953), food writer and broadcaster
* April De Angelis (born 1960), playwright
* Louis de Bernières (born 1954), novelist, Captain Corelli's Mandolin
* Alain de Botton (born 1969), writer, novelist and essayist
* Maria De Fleury (fl. 1773–1791), poet, hymnist and polemicist
* Guy de la Bédoyère (born 1957), historian and broadcaster
* Walter de la Mare (also as Walter Ramal, 1873–1956), poet and novelist
* Michael de Larrabeiti (1934–2008), novelist and travel writer
* William De Morgan (1839–1917), novelist and potter
* Thomas de Quincey (1785–1859), essayist and critic, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
* Hugh de Selincourt (1878–1951), writer and journalist
* Aubrey de Sélincourt (1894–1962), classicist, translator and children's writer
* Lisa St Aubin de Terán (born 1953), novelist, poet and autobiographer
* Edward de Vere, earl of Oxford (1550–1604), playwright and poet
* William Frederick Deacon (1799–1844), writer and journalist
* Roger Deakin (1943–2006), countryside writer
* Louise Dean (living), novelist
* Nick Dear (born 1955), playwright and screenwriter
* Geoffrey Dearmer (1893–1996), poet
* Percy Dearmer, (1867–1936), reformer and cleric
* John Dee (1527–1608/1609), mathematician, occultist and political economist
* Denise Deegan (born 1952), novelist, screenwriter and playwright
* Warwick Deeping (1877–1950), novelist and story writer
* Daniel Defoe (c. 1659–1731), novelist and pamphleteer, Robinson Crusoe
* Paul Dehn (1912–1976), screenwriter and playwright
* Len Deighton (born 1929), historian, cookery writer and novelist, The IPCRESS File
* Thomas Dekker (1572–1632), playwright
* E. M. Delafield (1890–1943), novelist
* Michael De-la-Noy (1934–2002), writer and journalist
* Mary Delany (born Mary Granville), (1700–1788), letter writer, artist and bluestocking
* R. F. Delderfield (1912–1972), novelist and playwright, A Horseman Riding By
* Ethel M. Dell (1881–1939), novelist
* Thomas Deloney (1553–1600), balladeer and novelist
* John Denham (1614/1615–1669), poet
* Felix Dennis (1947–2014), poet and publisher
* George Dennis (1814–1898), writer and explorer
* John Dennis (1657–1734), critic and playwright
* Nigel Dennis (1912–1989), writer, novelist and playwright
* Mary Deverell (1731–1805), religious writer, essayist and poet
* Colin Dexter (1930–2017), novelist, Inspector Morse novels
* Nirpal Singh Dhaliwal (born 1974), novelist and journalist
* William Diaper (1685–1717), poet and translator
* Charles Dibdin (c. 1745–1814), playwright, poet and songwriter
* Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776–1847), bibliographer
* Thomas John Dibdin (1771–1841), playwright and songwriter
* Charles Dickens (1812–1870), novelist, David Copperfield
* Monica Dickens (1915–1992), novelist and children's writer
* Anne Hepple Dickinson (wrote as Anne Hepple, 1877–1959), novelist
* Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson (1862–1932), historian and political activist
* John Dickinson (born 1962), YA novelist
* Patric Dickinson (1914–1994), poet, translator and playwright
* Peter Dickinson (1927–2015), novelist, children's writer and poet
* Alice Diehl (1844–1912), novelist and musician
* Kenelm Digby (1603–1665), philosopher
* Leonard Digges (1588–1635), poet and translator
* Francis Dillingham (died 1625), scholar, AV translator and cleric
* Wentworth Dillon (1630–1685), poet, critic and translator
* John Disney (1677–1729/1730), writer on moral reform and cleric
* John Disney (1746–1816), writer, biographer and Unitarian minister
* Jenny Diski (1947–2016), novelist and essayist
* Isaac D'Israeli (1766–1848), essayist
* Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881), novelist and statesman
* Ella Hepworth Dixon (1857–1932), novelist, essayist and editor
* Henry Hall Dixon (1822–1870), writer
* Richard Watson Dixon (1833–1900), poet and church historian
* Sarah Dixon (1671–1765), poet
* William Hepworth Dixon (1821–1879), historian, biographer and travel writer
* Sydney Thompson Dobell (1824–1874), poet and critic
* Henry Austin Dobson (1840–1921), poet and essayist
* Susannah Dobson (died 1795), translator
* Catherine Isabella Dodd (1860–1932), educational writer and novelist
* William Dodd (1729–1777), writer, cleric and forger
* John Doddridge (1555–1628), writer, antiquary and judge
* Philip Doddridge (1702–1751), religious writer and hymnist
* George Bubb Dodington (1691–1792), politician, poet and diarist
* Robert Dodsley (1704–1764), poet, writer and bookseller
* Christina Dodwell (born 1951), travel writer
* Ann Doherty (c. 1786 – c. 1831–32), romantic novelist
* Berlie Doherty (born 1943), children's writer, poet and dramatist
* Paul C. Doherty (several pen names, b. 1946), novelist
* Digby Mackworth Dolben (1848–1867), poet
* Dorcas Dole (fl. later 17th century), Quaker pamphleteer
* Alfred Domett (1811–1887), poet and statesman
* Angus Donald (born 1965), novelist
* Julia Donaldson (born 1948), children's writer and playwright
* John Donne (1572–1631), poet and cleric
* Desmond Donnelly (1920–1974), writer, journalist and politician
* Eleanor Doorly (1880–1950), children's writer
* Thomas Doubleday (1790–1870), writer, playwright and songwriter
* Sarah Doudney (1841–1926), novelist, children's writer and hymnist
* Charles Montagu Doughty (1843–1926), poet, writer and traveller
* Louise Doughty (born 1963), novelist and playwright
* Keith Douglas (1920–1944), poet
* Lord Alfred Douglas (1870–1945), poet
* Norman Douglas (1868–1952), novelist
* Siobhan Dowd (1960–2007), novelist, anthologist and children's writer, Bog Child
* Mary Frances Dowdall (1876–1939), novelist and non-fiction writer
* Andrew Downes (c. 1549–1628), scholar, AV translator and cleric
* Jenny Downham (born 1964), novelist
* Ernest Dowson (1867–1900), poet and story writer
* Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930), novelist and story writer, Sherlock Holmes
* Richard Doyle (1948–2017), novelist
* Francis Hastings Doyle (1810–1888), poet
* Margaret Drabble (born 1939), novelist and critic
* Phil Drabble (1914–2007), writer and broadcaster
* Judith Drake (fl. 1696–1707), essayist
* Nathan Drake (1766–1836), essayist
* Nick Drake (born 1961), poet and novelist
* Augusta Theodosia Drane (1823–1894), religious writer and biographer
* Michael Drayton (1563–1631), poet
* John Drinkwater (1882–1937), poet and playwright
* Henry Drummond (1786–1860), religious writer, politician and banker
* Anna Harriett Drury (also Harriet, 1824–1912), novelist, poet and children's writer
* John Dryden, (1631–1700) poet and playwright, Absalom and Achitophel
* Daphne du Maurier (1907–1989), novelist, Rebecca
* George du Maurier (1834–1896), novelist and illustrator, Trilby
* Edward Dubois (1774–1850), wit and man of letters
* Stephen Duck (c. 1705–1756), poet and cleric
* Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux (1857–1944), poet and author
* Ernest Dudley (real name Vivian Ernest Coltman-Allen, 1908–2006), novelist, screenwriter and actor
* Lord Dufferin (1826–1902), writer and explorer
* Charles Duff (1894–1966), writer, translator and satirist
* Lucie, Lady Duff-Gordon (1821–1869), correspondent and translator
* Maureen Duffy (born 1933), poet, screenwriter and novelist
* Stella Duffy (born 1963), novelist and playwright
* William Dugdale (1605–1686), antiquary
* Alfred Duggan (1903–1964), historian and novelist
* Ian Duhig (born 1954), poet
* Richard Duke (1658–1711), poet and cleric
* Ashley Dukes (1885–1959), playwright and critic
* Cuthbert Dukes (1890–1977), medical writer and pathologist
* Michael Dummett (1925–2011), philosopher
* Sarah Dunant (born 1950), writer and novelist
* John Duncombe (1729–1786), poet and cleric
* William Duncombe (1690–1769), translator and playwright
* Roderic Dunkerley (1884–1966), religious writer
* Helen Dunmore (1952–2017), poet, novelist and children's writer,
* Antony Dunn (born 1973), poet and playwright
* Nell Dunn (born 1936), novelist and playwright
* James Duport (1606–1679), scholar and cleric
* John Duport (died 1617), scholar, AV translator and cleric
* Mortimer Durand (1850–1924), novelist, travel writer and diplomat
* C. V. Durell (1882–1968), mathematics writer
* Thomas D'Urfey (1653–1723), playwright and poet
* Raymond Durgnat (1932–2002), film critic
* Edith Durham (1863–1944), travel writer
* Gerald Durrell (1925–1995), naturalist and author, My Family and Other Animals
* Lawrence Durrell (1921–1990), novelist and poet, The Alexandria Quartet
* John Dunton (1659–1733), writer, bookseller and pamphleteer
* Edward Dyer (1543–1607), poet and courtier
* Geoff Dyer (born 1958), writer
* George Dyer (1755–1841), scholar and poet
* Clifford Dyment (1914–1971), poet and critic
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* Rae Earl (born 1971), writer and broadcaster
* John Earle (1601–1665), writer and bishop
* Anthony Earnshaw (1924–2001), writer and illustrator
* Joan Adeney Easdale (1913–1998), poet
* Edward Backhouse Eastwick (1814–1883), scholar
* Mary Emma Ebsworth (1794–1881), playwright and translator
* Laurence Echard (1670–1730), historian and translator
* Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882–1944), science writer
* E. R. Eddison (1882–1945), novelist, poet and translator
* Emily Eden (1797–1869), novelist
* Frederick Morton Eden (1766–1809), social researcher
* Richard Edes (1555–1604), writer, AV translator and cleric
* David Edgar (born 1948), playwright
* John George Edgar (1834–1864), miscellaneous writer for boys
* Maria Edgeworth (1767–1849), novelist, Castle Rackrent
* Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1744–1817), writer and politician
* James Edmeston (1791–1867), hymnist and architect
* Robert Edric (real name Gary Edric Armitage, b. 1956), novelist
* J. T. Edson (1928–2014), novelist
* Richard Edwardes (c. 1523–1566), poet and playwright
* Amelia Edwards (1831–1892), novelist and travel writer
* David Edwards (1929–2018), writer and cleric
* Monica Edwards (1912–1998), children's writer
* Thomas Edwards (died 1599), poet
* Richard Eedes (died 1686), religious writer
* Pierce Egan (1772–1849), sports writer
* Pierce Egan the Younger (1814–1880), novelist
* Elizabeth Egerton (born Cavendish, 1626–1663), poet and dramatist
* George Egerton (real name Mary Chavelita Bright, 1859–1945), writer, translator and feminist
* Rowland Egerton-Warburton (1804–1891), poet
* Sarah Fyge Egerton (1670–1723), poet
* Thomas Egerton (Lord Ellesmere, Lord Brackley, 1540–1617), statesman and patron
* Stephen Elboz (born 1956), children's writer
* Josephine Elder (real name Olive Gwendoline Potter, 1895–1988), children's writer
* Peter Berresford Ellis (writes as Peter Tremayne and Peter MacAlan, born 1943), novelist
* Charles Eliot (1862–1931), travel writer and diplomat
* George Eliot (real name Mary Ann Evans, 1819–1880), novelist, Middlemarch
* T. S. Eliot (1888–1965), poet, playwright and Nobel Prize winner, The Waste Land
* Anne Elliot, novelist
* Frances Minto Elliot (1820–1898), historian and novelist
* Ebenezer Elliott (1781–1849), poet
* Janice Elliott (1931–1995), novelist and children's writer
* Julia Anne Elliott (1809-1841), poet and hymnwriter
* Edith Ellis (1861–1916), writer and anthologist
* Alice Thomas Ellis (Anna Haycraft, 1932–2005), fiction and non-fiction writer
* Edwin John Ellis (1848–1916), poet, editor and illustrator
* H. F. Ellis (1907–2000), humorous writer and novelist
* Havelock Ellis (1859–1939), sexologist, reformer and editor
* Royston Ellis (1941–2023), novelist and poet
* Sarah Stickney Ellis (1799–1872), Quaker writer on women's education
* Warren Ellis (born 1968), graphic novelist and comic book writer
* Thomas Ellwood (1639–1713), poet and religious writer
* Ernest Elmore (also as John Bude, 1901–1957), crime and fantasy writer
* Elizabeth Elstob (1683–1756), scholar and translator
* Ben Elton (born 1959), novelist, playwright and comedian
* Oliver Elton (1861–1945), scholar and translator,
* Alfred Elwes (1819–1888), children's writer and translator
* Thomas Elyot (c. 1490–1536), scholar and diplomat
* Sally Emerson (born 1954), novelist and anthologist
* William Empson (1906–1984), critic and poet, Seven Types of Ambiguity
* William Enfield (1741–1797), elocutionist and Unitarian minister
* Barry England (1932–2009), novelist
* Isobel English (real name June Guesdon Braybrooke, 1920–1994), novelist
* D. J. Enright (1920–2002), poet and critic
* Sam Enthoven (born 1975), children's writer
* Ephelia (fl. 1679, real name probably Mary Stewart, Duchess of Richmond), poet
* Anthony Errington (died 1719), divine
* Barbara Erskine (born 1944), novelist
* Thomas Erskine (1750–1823), lawyer and political writer
* Susan Ertz (1894–1985), novelist
* Edith Escombe (1866–1950), fiction writer and essayist
* George Etherege (c. 1635 – c. 1692), playwright, The Man of Mode
* Abel Evans (1679–1737), poet and cleric
* Anne Evans (1820–1870), poet and composer
* Arthur Evans (1851–1941), archaeologist
* Arthur Benoni Evans (1781–1854), poet, scholar and cleric
* John Evans (1823–1908), archaeologist
* Katherine Evans and Sarah Cheevers (1618–1692 and 1608–1664), Quaker evangelists
* Margiad Evans (real name Peggy Eileen Williams, 1909–1958), novelist, poet and illustrator
* Nicholas Evans (1950–2022), novelist
* Paul Evans (1945–1991), poet
* Sebastian Evans (1830–1909), poet, journalist and artist
* John Evelyn (1620–1706), writer and diarist, Sylva, A Discourse of Forest Trees
* H. D. Everett (1851–1923), novelist
* Peter Everett (1931–1999), novelist
* Evelyn Everett-Green (1856–1932), novelist and children's writer
* George Every (1909–2003), theologian and poet
* Gavin Ewart (1916–1995), poet and anthologist
* Barbara Ewing (born 1944), novelist and playwright
* Juliana Horatia Ewing (1841–1885), children's writer
* Catherine Exley (1779-1857), English diarist
* Leonora Eyles (1889–1960), feminist writer and novelist
* Vincent Eyre (1811–1881), military writer and general
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* Frederick William Faber (1814–1863), hymnist and theologian
* Geoffrey Faber (1889–1961), poet and publisher
* George Stanley Faber (1773–1854), theologian and cleric
* Robert Fabyan (died 1513), diarist and chronicler
* Harry Fainlight (1935–1982), poet
* Ruth Fainlight (born 1932), poet, writer and translator
* Thomas Fairfax (1612–1671), poet and army officer
* Margaret Fairley (1885–1968), scholar and activist
* J. Meade Falkner (1858–1932), novelist
* Hugh Falkus (1917–1996), fishing writer
* Julian Fane (1927–2009), novelist and memoirist
* Mildmay Fane, earl of Westmorland (1602–1666), poet and playwright
* Violet Fane (real name Mary Montgomerie Lamb, 1843–1905), novelist and poet
* Ann, Lady Fanshawe (1625–1680), memoirist
* Catherine Maria Fanshawe (1765–1834), poet
* Richard Fanshawe (1608–1666), poet and translator
* U. A. Fanthorpe (1929–2009), poet
* John Fardell (born 1967), children's writer and cartoonist
* Joseph Farington (1747–1821), diarist and painter
* Helen Farish (born 1962), poet
* Benjamin Farjeon (1838–1903), novelist and playwright
* Eleanor Farjeon (1881–1965), children's writer and poet
* Herbert Farjeon (1887–1945), playwright and critic
* Joseph Jefferson Farjeon (1883–1955), novelist, playwright and screenwriter
* Paul Farley (born 1965), poet
* Nigel Farndale (born 1964), novelist and biographer
* Jeffery Farnol (1878–1952), novelist
* Florence Farr (1860–1917), religious writer and playwright
* Frederic William Farrar (Dean Farrar, 1831–1903), novelist and cleric
* Stewart Farrar (1916–2000), scriptwriter and novelist
* J. G. Farrell (1935–1979), novelist
* Kathleen Farrell (1912–1999), novelist
* Gertrude Minnie Faulding (1875–1961), novelist and children's writer
* Sebastian Faulks (born 1953), novelist
* Joseph Fawcett (1758–1804), poet and cleric
* Francis Fawkes (1721–1777), poet and translator
* Eliza Fay (1755/1756–1816), correspondent and traveller
* John Russell Fearn (1908–1960), novelist
* Jane Fearon (1654 or 1656–1737), religious writer
* Daniel Featley or Fairclough (1582–1645), polemicist, AV translator and cleric
* Vicki Feaver (born 1943), poet
* Elaine Feinstein (1930–2019), poet, novelist and dramatist
* John Fell (1625–1686), scholar and cleric
* Owen Feltham or Felltham (c. 1602–1668), aphorist and essayist
* George Manville Fenn (1831–1909), novelist and children's writer
* John Fenn (died 1615), writer and RC priest
* John Fenn (1739–1794), antiquary and editor
* Elijah Fenton (1683–1730), poet
* Geoffrey Fenton (c. 1539–1608), writer, translator and politician
* Gertrude Fenton (1841-1884), novelist and editor
* James Fenton (born 1949), poet and critic
* Roger Fenton (1565–1615), writer, AV translator and cleric
* Eliza Fenwick (1766–1840), novelist and children's writer
* Ruby Ferguson (1899–1966), novelist and children's writer
* Bernard Fergusson Lord Ballantrae, (1911–1980), historian and general
* Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915–2011), travel writer and scholar
* Elizabeth Ferrars (1907–1995), novelist
* Maria Fetherstonhaugh (1847–1918), novelist
* Jasper Fforde (born 1961), novelist
* Michael Field, pseudonym of Katherine Harris Bradley (1846–1914) and Edith Emma Cooper (1862–1913), poets and diarists
* Richard Field (1561–1616), theologian
* Daphne Fielding (1904–1997), writer and biographer
* Helen Fielding (born 1958), novelist and screenwriter
* Henry Fielding (1707–1754), novelist and poet, Tom Jones
* Sarah Fielding (1709–1768), novelist and children's writer
* Xan Fielding (1918–1991), writer, translator and soldier
* Celia Fiennes (1662–1741), diarist and travel writer
* William Fiennes (born 1970), writer
* Graeme Fife (living), writer, playwright and broadcaster
* Eva Figes (1932–2012), novelist and critic
* Robert Filmer (1588–1653), political writer
* Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661–1720), poet
* Brian Finch (1936–2007), scriptwriter and playwright
* William Coles Finch (1864–1944), historian and countryside writer
* Anne Fine (born 1947), novelist and children's writer
* Cordelia Fine (living), psychologist and writer
* George Finlay (1799–1875), historian
* Ronald Firbank (1886–1926), novelist and playwright
* Charles Harding Firth (1857–1936), historian and biographer
* John Rupert Firth (1890–1960), linguistics scholar
* Tim Firth (born 1964), playwright, screenwriter and songwriter
* Margery Fish (1892–1969), garden writer
* Tibor Fischer (born 1959), novelist
* Allen Fisher (born 1944), poet and editor
* Ann Fisher (1719–1798), educational writer
* John Fisher (1469–1535), theologian, cardinal and martyr
* Roy Fisher (1930–2017), poet and jazz pianist
* Edward Fitzgerald (1809–1883), poet and translator, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
* Penelope Fitzgerald (1916–2000), novelist, poet and biographer
* Judith Flanders (born 1959), historian
* Peter Flannery (born 1951), playwright and screenwriter
* Thomas Flatman (1638–1688), poet and miniaturist
* James Elroy Flecker (1884–1915), poet, novelist and playwright
* Richard Flecknoe (c. 1600 – c. 1678), poet, playwright and writer
* Abraham Fleming (Flemyng, c. 1552 – 1607), writer, translator and cleric
* Ian Fleming (1908–1964), novelist, James Bond
* Peter Fleming (1907–1971), travel writer
* Giles Fletcher (1586–1623), poet
* Giles Fletcher (c. 1548–1611), poet
* J. S. Fletcher (1863–1935) novelist
* John Fletcher (1579–1625), playwright
* Phineas Fletcher (1582–1650), poet
* Susan Fletcher (born 1979), novelist
* Thomas Fletcher (1666–1713), poet, translator and cleric
* Antony Flew (1923–2010), philosopher
* Robert Newton Flew (1886–1962), theologian and Methodist minister
* F. S. Flint (1885–1960), poet
* John Florio (1553–1625), lexicographer and translator
* Alice Flowerdew (1759–1830), poet and hymnist
* Robert Fludd (1574–1637), physician and occultist
* Giles Foden (born 1967), novelist
* Winifred Foley (1914–2009), memoirist and novelist
* Albany Fonblanque (1794–1872), journalist and editor
* Samuel Foote (1720–1777), playwright
* Tim Footman (born 1968), writer and editor
* Colin Forbes (real name Raymond Sawkins, 1923–2006), novelist
* Duncan Forbes (born 1947), poet
* Anne Ford (1737–1824), writer and actress
* Boris Ford (1917–1998), critic and editor
* Ford Madox Ford (originally Ford Madox Hueffer, 1873–1939), novelist and poet
* John Ford (1586–1640), playwright, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
* Mark Ford (born 1962), poet and essayist
* Richard Ford (1796–1858), travel writer
* Thomas Ford or Forde (1580–1648), poet and composer
* Michael Foreman (born 1938), children's writer and illustrator
* C. S. Forester, (1899–1966) novelist, Horatio Hornblower
* Simon Forman, (1552–1611) astrologer and occultist
* David Forrest (real names R. Forrest-Webb and David Eliades, living), novelists
* Alfred Henry Forrester (Alfred Crowquill, 1804–1872), writer and illustrator
* Helen Forrester (1919–2011), writer
* Tony Forrester (born 1953), bridge writer and player
* Jeff Forshaw (born 1968), professor of particle physics
* E. M. Forster (1879–1970), novelist and essayist, A Passage to India
* John Forster (1812–1876), biographer and critic
* Margaret Forster (1938–2016), novelist and biographer
* Mary Forster (c. 1620–1687), Quaker polemicist
* Frederick Forsyth (born 1938), novelist, The Day of the Jackal
* Richard Fortey (born 1946), science writer
* E. M. Foster, Mrs. (fl. late 18th and early 19th cc.), novelist
* John Foster (1770–1843), essayist
* John Knight Fotheringham (1874–1936), historian and astronomer
* Adam Foulds (born 1974), novelist and poet
* Tim Fountain (born 1967), playwright
* Margaret Fountaine (1862–1940), lepidopterist
* Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler (also Edith Henrietta Fowler, 1860–1929), novelist
* Henry Watson Fowler (1858–1933) and Francis George Fowler (1871–1918), grammarians, Fowler's Modern English Usage
* John Fowles (1926–2005), novelist and essayist
* Caroline Fox (1819–1871), diarist
* Francis Fox (1675–1738), writer and cleric
* George Fox (1624–1691), diarist and Quaker
* Robin Lane Fox (born 1946), garden writer
* Edgar Foxall (1906–1990), poet
* John Foxe (1517–1587), writer, Foxe's Book of Martyrs
* Samuel Foxe (1560–1630), diarist
* Dick Francis (1920–2010), racing novelist
* Matthew Francis (born 1956), poet
* Philip Francis (1740–1818), pamphleteer and translator
* Suzanne Francis (born 1959), novelist
* Gilbert Frankau (1884–1952), novelist and poet
* Julia Frankau (wrote as Frank Danby, 1863–1916), novelist
* John Franklin (1786–1847), explorer and novelist
* Antonia Fraser (1932), biographer and novelist
* Caro Fraser (1953–2020), novelist
* George MacDonald Fraser (1925–2008), novelist and screenwriter, The Flashman Papers
* Michael Frayn (born 1933), playwright and novelist
* Margaret Frazer (pseudonym, living), novelist
* Jonathan Freedland (born 1967), writer
* Edward Augustus Freeman (1823–1892), historian
* John Freeman (1880–1929), poet
* R. Austin Freeman (1862–1943), novelist
* Nicholas Freeston (1907–1988), poet
* Elizabeth Wynne Fremantle (1779–1857), diarist
* Celia Fremlin (1914–2009), novelist
* Patrick French (born 1966), biographer and author
* John Hookham Frere (1769–1846), poet and translator
* William Powell Frith (1819–1909), memoirist and painter
* James Anthony Froude (1818–1894), historian
* Richard Hurrell Froude (1803–1836), poet, writer and cleric
* C. B. Fry, (1872–1956) cricket writer
* Caroline Fry (1787–1846), religious writer and poet
* Christopher Fry (1907–2005), dramatist
* Plantagenet Somerset Fry (real name Peter George Robin Fry, 1931–1996), historian
* Stephen Fry (born 1957), novelist and comedian
* Alexandra Fuller (born 1969), writer
* Andrew Fuller (1754–1815), theologian and Baptist minister
* Claire Fuller (living), novelist
* John Fuller (born 1937), poet and novelist
* Peter Fuller (1947–1990), writer and art critic
* Roy Fuller (1912–1991), poet and novelist
* Thomas Fuller (1608–1661), writer, historian and cleric
* Lady Georgiana Fullerton (originally Leverson-Gower, 1812–1885), novelist and religious writer
* Ulpian Fulwell (1545/1546 – c. 1585), playwright, satirist and cleric
* Monica Furlong (1930–2003), religious writer and biographer
* Frederick James Furnivall (1825–1910), philologist
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* Thomas Gage (c. 1597–1656), travel writer and cleric
* Neil Gaiman (born 1960), novelist and screenwriter
* Norman Gale (1862–1942), poet
* Winifred Gales (1761–1839), novelist and memoirist
* John Galsworthy (also as John Sinjohn, 1867–1933), novelist and dramatist, The Forsyte Saga
* Francis Galton (1822–1911), polymath
* Jane Gardam (born 1928), novelist and children's writer
* Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1829–1902), historian
* Stephen Gardiner (1924–2007), writer and architect
* Gerald Gardner (1884–1964), writer on witchcraft
* Helen Gardner (1908–1986), critic and scholar
* John Gardner (1926–2007), novelist, The Liquidator
* Leon Garfield (1921–1996), novelist and children's writer
* Simon Garfield (born 1960), writer
* Alex Garland (born 1970), novelist and screenwriter
* Alan Garner (born 1934), children's writer
* William Garner (1920–2005), novelist
* Constance Garnett (1861–1946), translator
* David Garnett (1892–1981), novelist and playwright
* Edward Garnett (1868–1937), author and critic
* Eve Garnett (1900–1991), children's writer and illustrator
* Richard Garnett (1835–1906), scholar and poet
* David Garrick (1717–1779), actor, playwright and poet
* Samuel Garth (1661–1719), poet and physician
* Charles Garvice (also as Caroline Hart, 1850–1920), novelist
* George Gascoigne (1535–1577), poet and translator
* David Gascoyne (1916–2001), poet
* Norman Gash (1912–2009), historian
* Elizabeth Gaskell (Mrs. Gaskell, 1810–1865), novelist, Cranford
* Jane Gaskell (born 1941), fantasy novelist
* Thomas Gaspey (1788–1871), novelist and journalist
* Francis Aidan Gasquet (1846–1929), historian and cardinal
* Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy (1933–2019), biographer and historian
* Robert Gathorne-Hardy (1902–1973), garden writer
* Alfred Gatty, (1813–1903) writer and cleric
* Margaret Gatty (wrote as Mrs. Alfred Gatty, 1809–1873), children's writer
* John Gauden (1605–1662), writer and bishop
* William Gaunt (1900–1980), art historian
* Jamila Gavin (born 1941), novelist and children's writer
* John Gawsworth (1912–1970), poet and anthologist
* John Gay (1685–1732), poet and playwright, The Beggar's Opera
* John Gay (1699–1745), moral philosopher and cleric
* Maggie Gee (born 1948), novelist
* Pam Gems (1925–2011), playwright
* Dorothea Gerard (1855–1915), novelist
* Emily Gerard (1849–1905), novelist
* John Gerard (1545–1611/1612), botanical writer and herbalist
* William Gerhardie (originally Gerhardi, 1895–1977), novelist
* Karen Gershon (1923–1993), poet, writer and novelist
* Edward Gibbon (1737–1794), historian, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
* Stella Gibbons (1902–1989), novelist and poet, Cold Comfort Farm
* Philip Gibbs (1877–1962), writer and journalist
* Edmund Gibson (1669–1748), antiquary, translator and bishop
* Miles Gibson (born 1947), novelist and poet
* Wilfred Wilson Gibson (1878–1962), poet
* John Gifford (1758–1818), historical and political writer
* William Gifford (1756–1826), poet and satirist
* Harriett Gilbert (born 1948), novelist, critic and broadcaster
* Joseph Gilbert (1779–1852), writer and Congregational minister
* Michael Gilbert (1912–2006), novelist
* W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911), playwright and poet, The Mikado
* William Gilbert or Gilberd (1544–1603), scientist
* William Gilbert (1804–1890), novelist and naval surgeon
* Alexander Gilchrist (1828–1861), biographer and critic
* Anne Gilchrist (born Burrows, 1828–1885), writer
* Robert Murray Gilchrist (1867–1917), novelist and topographical writer
* Penelope Gilliatt (1932–1993), novelist, screenwriter and film critic
* William Gilpin (1724–1804), writer, artist and cleric
* Morris Ginsberg (1879–1970), sociologist
* Alfred Gissing (1896–1975), biographer and editor
* Algernon Gissing (1860–1937), novelist and travel writer
* George Gissing (1857–1903), novelist, New Grub Street
* Mary Gladstone (1847–1927), diarist
* William Gladstone (1809–1898), writer and statesman
* Lesley Glaister (born 1956), novelist and playwright
* Joseph Glanvill (1636–1680), writer, philosopher and cleric
* Brian Glanville (born 1931), football writer and novelist
* William Nugent Glascock (c. 1787–1847), novelist and naval officer
* Katharine Glasier (also as Katharine Conway, 1867–1950), writer and socialist
* Rodge Glass (born 1978), novelist and biographer
* Hannah Glasse (1708–1770), writer on cookery and housekeeping
* Victoria Glendinning (born 1937), biographer and novelist
* Richard Glover (1712–1785), poet and playwright
* Elinor Glyn (1864–1943), novelist
* John Godber (born 1956), playwright
* Robert Goddard (born 1954), novelist
* Rumer Godden (1907–1998), novelist, children's writer and biographer
* A. D. Godley (1856–1925), comic poet
* Sidney Godolphin (1610–1643), poet
* William Godwin (1756–1836), novelist and philosopher
* Louis Golding (1895–1958), novelist and poet
* William Golding (1911–1993), Nobel Prize–winning novelist and poet, Lord of the Flies
* Douglas Goldring (1887–1960), poet, travel writer and novelist
* Israel Gollancz (1863–1930), scholar and editor
* Laurence Gomme (1853–1916), folklore writer and public servant
* Christopher Goodman (1520–1603), pamphleteer and Bible translator
* Jason Goodwin (born 1964), novelist and travel writer
* Barnabe Googe or Gooche (1540–1594), poet and translator
* Catherine Gore (1799–1861), novelist and playwright
* Charles Gore (1853–1932), theologian and bishop
* Geoffrey Gorer (1905–1985), writer and anthropologist
* Arthur Gorges (c. 1569–1625), poet and sea captain
* Ray Gosling (1939–2013), writer and journalist
* Edmund Gosse (1849–1928), novelist, poet and critic
* Philip Henry Gosse (1810–1888), natural historian
* Stephen Gosson (1554–1624), satirist and playwright
* Elizabeth Goudge (1900–1984), novelist and children's writer
* William Gouge (1575–1653), writer and cleric
* Thomas Gouge (1609–1681), writer and Presbyterian minister
* Gerald Gould (1885–1936), poet and journalist
* Nathaniel Gould (1857–1919), novelist
* John Gower (c. 1330–1408), poet
* Posie Graeme-Evans (living), novelist and TV director
* Eleanor Graham (1896–1984), children's writer, editor and anthologist
* Harry Graham (1874–1936), humorist and poet
* Laurie Graham (born 1947), novelist and journalist
* Stephen Graham (1884–1975), travel writer and novelist
* Virginia Graham (1910–1993), humorist, translator and poet
* Kenneth Grahame (1859–1931), writer, The Wind in the Willows
* Sarah Grand (real name Mrs. David C. M'Fall, originally Frances Elizabeth Clarke, 1854–1943), novelist and suffragist
* Clive Granger (1934–2009), Nobel Prize–winning economist
* Andrew Grant (born 1968), novelist
* John Grant (also as Jonathan Gash, Graham Gaunt, b. 1933), novelist and physician
* Linda Grant (born 1951), novelist and writer
* Michael Grant (1914–2004), historian
* George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne (1666–1735), playwright and poet
* Harley Granville-Barker (1877–1946), playwright and actor
* Richard Graves (1715–1804), novelist, poet and cleric
* Robert Graves (1895–1985), poet and novelist, I, Claudius
* John Gray (1866–1934), poet and translator
* John N. Gray (born 1948), philosopher
* Maxwell Gray (Mary Gleed Tuttiett, 1846–1926), novelist and poet
* Patience Gray (1917–2005), cookery writer
* Simon Gray (1936–2008) playwright, novelist and memoirist.
* Thomas Gray (1716–1771), poet
* Eliza S. Craven Green (1803–1866), poet
* Candida Lycett Green (1942–2014), writer and journalist
* Henry Green (real name Henry Vincent Yorke), (1905–1973), novelist
* John Richard Green (1837–1883), historian
* Mary Anne Everett Green (1818–1895), historian
* Matthew Green (1696–1737), poet
* Roger Lancelyn Green (1918–1987), biographer and children's writer
* Sarah Green (fl. 1790–1825), novelist
* Thomas Hill Green (1836–1882), philosopher and radical
* Vivian H. H. Green (1915–2005), historian and cleric
* Kate Greenaway (1846–1901), children's writer and illustrator
* Graham Greene (1904–1991), novelist and playwright, Our Man in Havana
* Robert Greene (1558–1592), playwright and pamphleteer
* Chris Greenhalgh (born 1963), novelist, screenwriter and poet
* Lavinia Greenlaw (born 1962), poet and novelist
* Frederick Greenwood (1830–1909), man of letters
* James Greenwood (c. 1830/1835–1929), children's writer and journalist
* Walter Greenwood (1903–1974), novelist, Love on the Dole
* Walter Wilson Greg (1875–1959), bibliographer
* Richard Gregory (1864–1952), science writer and astronomer
* Joyce Grenfell (1910–1979), writer and comedian
* Julian Grenfell (1888–1915), poet
* Charles Greville (1794–1865), diarist and cricketer
* Frances Greville (c. 1724–1789), poet
* Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke (1554–1628), poet and playwright
* Henry M. Grey (1867-1937), travel writer
* Paul Grice (also as H. P. Grice, 1913–1988), philosopher of language
* Arthur Griffiths (1838–1908), crime novelist and military historian
* Bill Griffiths (1948–2007), poet, scholar and translator
* Jane Griffiths (born 1970), poet and lecturer
* Paul Griffiths (born 1947), novelist, librettist and music critic
* John Grigg (1924–2001), biographer and journalist
* Geoffrey Grigson (1905–1985), poet and editor
* Arthur Grimble (1888–1956), writer and anthropologist
* Elizabeth Grimston (c. 1563 – c. 1603), poet
* Leopold Hartley Grindon (1818–1904), educator and botanist
* Francis Grose (1731–1791), antiquary and lexicographer
* John Gross (1935–2011), critic, writer and anthologist
* Philip Gross (born 1952), poet, novelist and playwright
* George Grossmith (1847–1912), writer and entertainer, and Weedon Grossmith (1854–1919), writer, artist and actor, Diary of a Nobody
* George Grote (1794–1871), classicist and reformer
* Charlotte Grove (1773–1860), diarist
* George Grove (1820–1900), editor and writer on music, Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians
* Paul Groves (born 1947), poet
* Edward Grubb (1854–1939), Quaker writer
* Bertha Jane Grundy (1837–1912), novelist
* Sydney Grundy (1848–1914), playwright and librettist
* Philip Guedalla (1889–1944), historian and travel writer
* Harry Guest (1932–2021), poet
* Arthur Guirdham (1905–1992), non-fiction writer, novelist and physician
* Thom Gunn (1929–2004), poet
* Elizabeth Gunning (1769–1823), novelist and translator
* Peter Gunning (1614–1684), writer and bishop
* Edmund Gurney (1847–1888), writer and psychologist
* Ivor Gurney (1890–1937), poet and composer
* Thomas Anstey Guthrie (wrote as F. Anstey, 1856–1934), novelist and journalist, Vice Versa
* Bernard Gutteridge (1916–1985), poet
* Emma Jane Guyton or Worboise (1825–1887), novelist
* Brion Gysin (1916–1986), poet, novelist and painter
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* William Habington (1605–1654), poet
* Alan Hackney (1924–2009), novelist and screenwriter
* Jen Hadfield (born 1978), poet
* Mark Haddon (born 1962), novelist, children's writer and poet
* Henry Rider Haggard (1856–1925), novelist and story writer, King Solomon's Mines
* Matt Haig (born 1975), novelist and journalist
* Richard Hakluyt (c. 1552/1553–1616), travel writer, translator and cleric
* J. B. S. Haldane (1892–1964), scientist, philosopher and children's writer
* Kathleen Hale (1898–2000), children's writer and illustrator, Orlando the Marmalade Cat
* Anne Halkett (1623–1699), memoirist and religious writer
* Edward Hall or Halle (c. 1498–1547), chronicler
* Evelyn Beatrice Hall (wrote as S. G. Tallentyre, 1868–1956), biographer and translator
* Henry Hall (c. 1656–1707), poet and composer
* Joseph Hall (1574–1656), satirist, moralist and bishop
* Radclyffe Hall (1880–1943), novelist and poet
* Sarah Hall (born 1974), novelist and poet
* Simon Hall (born 1969), novelist and broadcaster
* Steven Hall (born 1975), novelist and playwright
* Tarquin Hall (born 1969), writer and journalist
* Thomas Hall (1610–1665), writer and cleric
* Arthur Hallam (1811–1833), poet
* Henry Hallam (1777–1859), historian
* Edward Halliwell (16th c.), playwright and author, Fellow of Cambridge's King's College
* Leslie Halliwell (1929–1989), film critic and encyclopedist
* James Halliwell-Phillipps (1820–1889), Shakespearean and biographer
* Bruce Barrymore Halpenny (born early 20th c.), writer and military historian
* Alan Halsey (1949–2022), poet
* Michael Hamburger (1924–2007), writer, poet and translator
* Philip Gilbert Hamerton (wrote as Adolphus Segrave, 1834–1894), writer and artist
* Mohsin Hamid (born 1971), novelist and brand consultant
* Andy Hamilton (author) (born 1974), non-fiction writer and journalist
* Ann Mary Hamilton (fl. 1806–13), novelist
* Charles Hamilton (also as Frank Richards, etc., 1876–1961), children's writer, Billy Bunter
* Cicely Mary Hamilton (1872–1952), writer, playwright and feminist
* Cosmo Hamilton (1870–1942), playwright and novelist
* Edward Walter Hamilton (1847–1908), political diarist and civil servant
* Ian Hamilton (1938–2001), critic, biographer and poet
* Patrick Hamilton (1904–1962), playwright and novelist
* Peter F. Hamilton (born 1960), SF novelist
* James Hamilton-Paterson (born 1941), novelist, poet and writer
* Edward Bruce Hamley (1824–1893), military theorist and novelist
* Edward Hamley (1764–1834), poet and cleric
* James Hammond (1710–1742), poet and politician
* Stuart Hampshire (1914–2004), philosopher and literary critic
* John Hampson (1901–1955), novelist
* Robert Gavin Hampson (born 1948), poet
* Christopher Hampton (born 1946), playwright, screenwriter and translator
* William Hampton (born 1959), poet
* Marika Hanbury-Tenison (1938–1982), cookery and travel writer
* Irene Handl (1901–1987), novelist and actress
* St. John Hankin (1869–1909), playwright
* James Hanley (1897–1985), novelist and screenwriter
* Sophie Hannah (born 1971), poet and novelist
* Derek Hansen (born 1944), novelist
* Jonas Hanway (1712–1786), travel writer and pamphleteer
* Caroline Hardaker (born 1986), poet and novelist
* Michael Hardcastle (1933–2019), children's writer
* John Harding (died 1610), scholar, AV translator and cleric
* Frances Hardinge (born 1973), children's writer
* Mollie Hardwick (1916–2003), novelist and writer
* Ronald Hardy (1919–1991), novelist
* Thomas Hardy (1840–1928), novelist and poet, The Mayor of Casterbridge
* Augustus Hare (1834–1903), travel writer and raconteur
* Augustus William Hare (1792–1834), essayist and cleric
* Cyril Hare (real name A. A. G. Clark, 1900–1958), novelist
* David Hare (born 1947), playwright
* Julius Charles Hare (1795–1855), religious writer
* R. M. Hare (1919–2002), philosopher
* Roger Hargreaves (1935–1988), children's writer and illustrator, Mr. Men
* James Harington (1611–1677), political writer
* John Harington (1561–1612), poet and translator
* John Harmar (c. 1555–1613), scholar, AV translator and cleric
* Cynthia Harnett (1893–1981), children's writer
* Charles George Harper (1863–1943), travel writer and illustrator
* Beatrice Harraden (1864–1936), novelist, lexicographer and suffragist
* Thomas Harriot (1560–1621), astronomer, mathematician and translator
* Frank Harris (1856–1931), writer, editor and autobiographer
* James Harris (1709–1780), philosopher and grammarian
* Joanne Harris (born 1964), novelist
* Robert Harris (born 1957), novelist, writer and screenwriter
* Rosemary Harris (born 1927), children's writer
* Austin Harrison (1873–1928), editor and writer
* Jane Ellen Harrison (1850–1928), classicist
* Sarah Harrison (born 1946), novelist and children's writer
* Thomas Harrison (1555–1631), scholar, AV translator and cleric
* Tony Harrison (born 1938), poet and playwright
* William Harrison (1534–1593), writer and cleric
* Tom Harrisson (also as T. H. Harrisson, 1911–1976), polymath
* David Harsent (wrote as Jack Curtis, David Lawrence, b. 1942), novelist, poet and scriptwriter
* B. H. Liddell Hart (1895–1970), historian and army officer
* Christopher Hart (also as William Napier, b. 1965), novelist
* Adam Hart-Davis (born 1943), writer and broadcaster
* Duff Hart-Davis (born 1936), biographer and naturalist
* Walter Harte (1709–1774), poet and historian
* David Hartley (1705–1757), philosopher and psychologist
* John Hartley (1839–1915), dialect poet and writer
* L. P. Hartley (1895–1972), novelist, The Go-Between
* Frederick William Harvey (1888–1957), poet
* Gabriel Harvey (c. 1545–1630), poet and writer
* John Harvey (born 1938), novelist
* William Harvey (1578–1657), physician
* F. W. Harvey (1888–1957), poet
* W. F. Harvey (1885–1937), story writer
* Lee Harwood (1939–2015), poet
* Alamgir Hashmi (born 1951), poet and scholar
* Minnie Louise Haskins (1875–1957), poet and welfare worker
* Christopher Hassall (1912–1963), playwright, actor and poet
* Edward Hasted (1732–1812), historian
* Michael Hastings (1938–2011), playwright, novelist and screenwriter
* Richard Hathwaye, (fl. 1597–1603) playwright
* Ann Hatton (wrote as Ann of Swansea, 1764–1838), novelist
* Joseph Hatton (1841–1907), novelist and editor
* William Haughton (died 1605), playwright
* Frances Ridley Havergal (1836–1879), poet and hymnist
* Stephen Hawes (c. 1474–1523), poet
* Robert Stephen Hawker (1803–1875), poet and cleric
* John Hawkesworth (1715–1773), writer, editor and playwright
* John Hawkins (1719–1789), writer and biographer
* Laetitia Matilda Hawkins (1759–1835), novelist
* Spike Hawkins (born 1943), poet and performer
* Thomas Hawkins (1575 – c. 1640), poet and translator
* Ian Hay (real name John Hay Beith, 1876–1952), novelist and playwright
* Roy Hay (1910–1989), garden writer and broadcaster
* William Hayley (1745–1820), poet, playwright and biographer
* Carole Hayman (living), novelist, screenwriter and actor
* Robert Hayman (1575–1629), poet and colonist
* Mary Hays (1759–1843), novelist
* Alethea Hayter (1911–2006), biographer and historian
* William Hayter (diplomat) (1906–1995), writer
* Abraham Hayward (1801–1884), essayist
* John Hayward (c. 1560–1627), historian
* Eliza Haywood (1793–1756), novelist, playwright and poet
* C. H. Hazlewood (1823–1875), playwright
* William Hazlitt (1778–1830), essayist and critic
* Mary Hearne (fl. 1718), novelist
* Thomas Hearne or Hearn (1678–1735), antiquary and scholar
* Ambrose Heath (originally Francis Geoffrey Miller, 1891–1969), cookery writer and translator
* Thomas Little Heath (1861–1940), classicist and translator
* John Heath-Stubbs (1918–2006), poet, translator and anthologist
* Reginald Heber (1783–1826), poet, hymnist and bishop
* Richard Heber (1773–1833), classicist and editor
* Annie French Hector (Mrs Alexander, 1825–1902), novelist
* Zoë Heller (born 1965), novelist and journalist
* Elizabeth Helme (c. 1753 – c. 1812), novelist and translator
* Arthur Helps (1813–1875), writer, novelist and biographer
* Racey Helps (1913–1970), children's writer
* Felicia Hemans (1793–1835), poet
* Maggie Hemingway (1946–1993), novelist
* John Henley (1692–1756), poet, writer and cleric
* Samuel Henley (1740–1815), poet and writer
* William Ernest Henley (1849–1903), poet
* Charles Frederick Henningsen (1815–1877), writer and mercenary
* Robert Henriques (1905–1967), novelist and biographer
* Alan Henry (1947–2016), Grand Prix reporter and writer.
* Matthew Henry (1662–1714), Bible commentator and cleric
* Philip Henry (1631–1696), diarist and cleric
* John Stevens Henslow (1796–1861), botanist, geologist and cleric
* Philip Henslowe, (c. 1550–1616), diarist and theatre manager
* G. A. Henty, (1832–1902), novelist
* Philip Hensher (born 1965), novelist and critic
* Rayner Heppenstall (1911–1981), novelist and poet
* John Abraham Heraud (1799–1887), poet, playwright and critic
* A. P. Herbert (1890–1971), humorist, novelist and playwright
* Edward Herbert, Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1583–1648), poet and soldier
* George Herbert (1593–1633), poet
* James Herbert (1943–2013), novelist
* Mary Herbert, countess of Pembroke (1561–1621), poet and translator
* William Herbert (1718–1795), bibliographer
* William Herbert (1771–1851), antiquary and librarian
* William Herbert (1778–1847), poet, cleric and botanist
* Edward Heron-Allen (1861–1943), novelist, historian and translator
* Robert Herrick (1591–1674), poet and cleric
* James Herriot (pen name of James Alfred Wight, 1916–1995), writer
* Elizabeth Hervey (1759–1824), novelist
* John Hervey (1696–1743), political writer and memoirist
* Thomas Kibble Hervey (1799–1859), poet and critic
* D. G. Hessayon (born 1928), garden writer
* Maurice Hewlett (1861–1923), historical novelist and poet
* John Hey (1734–1815), theologian and poet
* Richard Hey (1745–1835), essayist and academic
* William Hey (1736–1819), surgeon
* Christopher Heydon (1561–1623), astrologist
* John Heydon (1629 – c. 1667), astrologer and Rosicrucian
* Georgette Heyer (1902–1974), novelist
* Peter Heylin or Heylyn (1600–1662), pamphleteer and cleric
* Jasper Heywood (1535–1598), poet and translator
* John Heywood (c. 1497 – c. 1580), playwright and poet
* Thomas Heywood (early 1570s – 1641), playwright, A Woman Killed with Kindness
* Eleanor Hibbert (originally Eleanor Alice Burford, wrote as Jean Plaidy, etc., 1906–1993), novelist
* Robert Smythe Hichens (1864–1950), novelist and playwright
* William Hickey (1749–1830), memoirist
* Jack Higgins (wrote as Harry Patterson, 1929–2022), novelist
* Philip E. High (1914–2006), science fiction novelist
* Susanna Highmore (1690–1750), poet
* Aaron Hill (1685–1750), playwright and writer
* Christopher Hill (1912–2003), historian
* Eric Hill (1927–2014), children's writer and illustrator
* Geoffrey Hill (1932–2016), poet and academic
* John Hill (c. 1716–1775), novelist, journalist and botanist
* Justin Hill (born 1971), novelist, biographer and translator
* Lorna Hill (1902–1991), children's writer and novelist
* Octavia Hill (1838–1912), social reformer
* Reginald Hill (1936–2012), novelist
* Rosemary Hill (living), cultural historian and biographer
* Selima Hill (born 1945), poet
* Susan Hill (born 1942), novelist and writer
* Tobias Hill (born 1970), novelist and poet
* Mischa Hiller (born 1962), novelist
* Lawrence D. Hills (1911–1991), garden writer
* Jeff Hilson (born 1966), poet
* James Hilton (1900–1954), novelist
* Lisa Hilton (living), novelist and biographer
* Walter Hilton (1340–1396), mystic
* Barry Hines (1939–2016), novelist
* Nigel Hinton (born 1941), novelist and children's writer
* Shakespeare Hirst (1841–1907), actor, author and Shakespearean
* William Henry Hitchener (fl. 1813), travel writer
* Henry Hitchings (born 1974), writer and scholar
* Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980), screenwriter and director
* Christopher Eric Hitchens (1949–2011), writer and journalist
* Benjamin Hoadly (1676–1761), polemicist and bishop
* Louisa Gurney Hoare (1784–1836), diarist and educator
* Richard Colt Hoare (1758–1838), diarist, travel writer and antiquary
* Thomas Hobbes, (1588–1679) political philosopher, Leviathan
* Peter Hobbs (born 1973), novelist
* John Hobhouse, 1st Baron Broughton (1786–1869), political writer and diarist
* Eric Hobsbawm (1917–2012), historian
* Margaret Hoby (1571–1633), diarist
* Joseph Hocking (1860–1937), novelist and cleric
* Silas Hocking (1850–1935), novelist and cleric
* Jane Aiken Hodge (1917–2009), novelist
* C. Walter Hodges (1909–2004), children's writer and illustrator
* Ralph Hodgson (1871–1962), poet and translator
* Shadworth Hodgson (1832–1912), philosopher
* W. N. Hodgson (wrote as Edward Melbourne, 1893–1916), poet
* Barbara Hofland (1770–1844), children's writer
* Thomas Jefferson Hogg (1792–1862), biographer
* Simon Hoggart (1946–2014), writer and broadcaster
* Pete Hoida (born 1944), poet and painter
* Fanny Holcroft (1780–1844), novelist and poet
* Thomas Holcroft (1745–1809), playwright and miscellanist
* Molly Holden (1927–1981), poet
* William Holder (1616–1698), music scholar and cleric
* Robert Holdstock (1948–2009), novelist
* Margaret Holford (1757–1834), novelist, playwright and poet
* Margaret Holford (1778–1852), poet and translator
* Raphael Holinshed (1529–1580), chronicler, translator and cleric
* Abraham Holland (died 1626), poet
* Jane Holland (born 1966), poet and novelist
* John Holland (1794–1872), poet and journalist
* Philemon Holland (1552–1637), translator
* Sarah Holland (born 1961), writer and actress
* Thomas Holland (1539–1612), scholar, AV translator and cleric
* William Holland (1746–1819), diarist and cleric
* Helen Hollick (born 1953), novelist
* Alan Hollinghurst (born 1954), novelist and translator
* John Holloway (1920–1999), poet and scholar
* Constance Holme (1880–1955), novelist and playwright
* John Holmes (1703–1760), educator
* Richard Holmes (born 1945), biographer
* Robert Holmes (1926–1986), scriptwriter
* Emily Sarah Holt (1836–1893), novelist and children's writer
* Hazel Holt (1928–2015), novelist
* Winifred Holtby (1898–1935), novelist
* Stewart Home (born 1962), novelist, writer and artist
* Joseph Hone (1937–2016), novelist
* William Hone (1780–1842), satirist and bookseller
* Thomas Hood (1799–1845), poet and humorist
* Tom Hood (1835–1874), humorist, playwright and poet
* Theodore Hook (1788–1841), writer and prankster
* Jeremy Hooker (born 1941), poet, critic and broadcaster
* Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911), botanist and explorer
* Richard Hooker (1554–1600), theologian
* William Jackson Hooker (1785–1865), botanist
* John Hoole (1727–1803), translator and poet
* Alexander Beresford Hope (1820–1887), writer
* Anthony Hope, (real name Anthony Hope Hawkins, 1863–1933) novelist, The Prisoner of Zenda
* Thomas Hope (1769–1831), writer and novelist
* Bill Hopkins (1928–2011), novelist
* Cathy Hopkins (born 1953), children's novelist
* Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889), poet, "The Wreck of the Deutschland"
* Simon Hopkinson (born 1954), food writer and chef
* Sydney Horler (1888–1954), novelist
* Alfred Aloysius Horn (1861–1931), travel writer
* Nick Hornby (born 1957), novelist
* Alistair Horne (1925–2017), historian and biographer
* Kenneth Horne (1900–1975), playwright
* Richard Henry Horne (1802–1884), poet and critic
* Roy Horniman (1874–1930), novelist and playwright
* E. W. Hornung (1866–1921), author, A. J. Raffles
* Frances Horovitz (1938–1983), poet and broadcaster
* Michael Horovitz (1935–2021), poet and translator
* Anthony Horowitz (born 1956), novelist, children's writer and screenwriter
* William Horwood (born 1944), novelist and children's writer
* John Hoskins or Hoskyns (1566–1638), poet and politician
* Clare Hoskyns-Abrahall (1900–1990), biographer and children's writer
* Charlotte Hough (1924–2008), detective novelist and children's writer
* Richard Hough (also as Bruce Carter, 1922–1999), maritime historian and children's writer
* Stanley Bennett Hough (1917–1998), SF and thriller writer
* Stanley Houghton (1881–1913), playwright
* Geoffrey Household (1900–1988), novelist
* A. E. Housman (1859–1936), poet and scholar, A Shropshire Lad
* Laurence Housman (1865–1959), playwright
* Anne Howard (c. 1696–1764), poet
* Brian Howard (1905–1958), poet
* Edward Howard (1624 – c. 1700), playwright and poet
* Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923–2014), novelist
* Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle, Earl of Carlisle (1748–1825), poet, playwright and pamphleteer
* Hartley Howard (real name Leopold Horace Ognall, also as Harry Carmichael, 1908–1979), crime novelist
* Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517–1547), poet
* Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton (1540–1614), writer and courtier
* John Howard (1726–1790), philanthropist and reformer
* Robert Howard (1626–1698), playwright
* Sandra Howard (born 1940), novelist
* David Armine Howarth (1912–1991), historian and writer
* James Howell (1594–1666), Historiographer Royal and poet
* Francis Howgill (1618–1668), Quaker writer and preacher
* Anna Mary Howitt (1824–1884), poet, writer and painter
* Mary Howitt (1799–1888), poet and translator
* Richard Howitt (1799–1869), poet
* William Howitt (1792–1879), writer and traveller
* Edmond Hoyle (1672–1769), writer on games
* Fred Hoyle (1915–2001), astronomer and SF writer
* Geoffrey Hoyle (born 1942), SF writer
* Sisley Huddleston (1883–1952), writer and journalist
* Stephen Hudson (real name Sydney Schiff, 1868–1944), novelist and translator
* Pauline von Hügel (1858-1901), religious writer
* David Hughes (1930–2005), novelist and biographer
* Frieda Hughes (born 1960), children's writer, poet and painter
* Molly Hughes (1866–1956), writer and educator
* Richard Hughes (1900–1976), poet, novelist and playwright, A High Wind in Jamaica
* Shirley Hughes (1927–2022), children's writer and illustrator
* Ted Hughes (1930–1998), Poet Laureate, translator and anthologist
* Thomas Hughes (1822–1896), writer and novelist, Tom Brown's Schooldays
* E. M. Hull (real name Edith Maude Winstanley, 1880–1947), novelist
* Katharine Hull (1921–1977) and Pamela Whitlock (1920–1982), children's writers, The Far-Distant Oxus
* T. E. Hulme (1883–1917), critic and poet
* Michael Hulse (born 1955), translator, critic and poet
* Fergus Hume (1859–1932), novelist
* Tobias Hume (c. 1590–1645), musician and poet
* Helen Humphreys (born 1961), poet and novelist
* Neil Humphreys (born 1974), writer on Singapore
* Leigh Hunt (1784–1859), poet and essayist
* Violet Hunt (1862–1942), novelist and biographer
* John Hunter (1737–1821), explorer, travel writer and naval officer
* Norman Hunter (1899–1995), children's novelist, Professor Branestawm
* Rachel Hunter (c. 1754–1813), novelist
* Richard Hurd, (1720–1808), writer, translator and bishop
* James Hurdis (1763–1801), poet and cleric
* Hyman Hurwitz (1770–1844), writer and scholar
* Dyneley Hussey (1893–1972), poet and music critic
* Sheila Hutchins (living), cookery-book writer
* A. S. M. Hutchinson (1880–1971), novelist
* John Hutchinson (1674–1737), theologian
* Lucy Hutchinson (1620–1681), biographer and translator
* R. C. Hutchinson (1907–1975), novelist
* Ralph Hutchinson (c. 1553–1606), scholar, AV translator and cleric
* Angela Huth (born 1938), novelist and playwright
* Leonard Hutten (c. 1557–1632), scholar, AV translator and cleric
* Catherine Hutton (1756–1846), novelist and correspondent
* William Hutton (1723–1815), poet and historian
* Richard Holt Hutton (1826–1897), writer and theologian
* Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), novelist and essayist, Brave New World
* Julian Huxley (1887–1975), zoologist, philosopher and science writer
* Leonard Huxley (1860–1933), writer, biographer and editor
* Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895), scientist and essayist
* Edward Hyde, Lord Clarendon (1609–1674), historian and statesman
* Liz Hyder (born 1976 or 1977), novelist
* Timothy Hyman (born 1946), art writer
* Henry Hyndman (1842–1921), writer and politician
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* Eva Ibbotson (1925–2010), novelist and children's writer
* David Icke (born 1952), writer and public speaker
* Conn Iggulden (born 1971), novelist and children's writer
* Selwyn Image (1849–1930), poet, designer and cleric
* Elijah Impey (1732–1809), memoirist and judge
* Elizabeth Inchbald (1753–1821), novelist and playwright
* William Ralph Inge (known as Dean Inge, 1860–1954), writer, theologian and cleric
* Thomas Ingelend (fl. 1560), The Disobedient Child
* Jean Ingelow (1820–1897), poet and novelist
* Julia, Lady Inglis (1833–1904), diarist
* Simon Ings (born 1965), novelist and science writer
* Mick Inkpen (born 1952), children's writer and illustrator
* Hammond Innes (also as Ralph Hammond, 1919–1998), novelist and children's writer
* Samuel Ireland (1744–1800), writer and engraver
* William Henry Ireland (1775–1835), poet, novelist and forger
* David Irving (born 1938), Holocaust denier
* R. L. G. Irving (1877–1969), mountaineering writer
* Margaret Irwin (1889–1969), novelist and biographer
* Robert Irwin (born 1946), historian, novelist and Arabist
* Nathaniel Isaacs (1808–1872), traveller and writer
* Christopher Isherwood (1904–1986), novelist, Goodbye to Berlin
* Kazuo Ishiguro (born 1954), novelist, An Artist of the Floating World
* Eric Ives (1931–2012), historian and biographer
* George Cecil Ives (1867–1950), poet, diarist and reformer
* Helen Ivory (born 1969), poet
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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 (born 1960), novelist
* Alaric Jacob (1909–1995), novelist and journalist
* Anna Jacobs (born 1941), novelist
* Joseph Jacobs (1854–1916), folklorist and historian
* W. W. Jacobs (1863–1943), novelist and story writer, The Monkey's Paw
* Howard Jacobson (born 1942), novelist and journalist
* Brian Jacques (1939–2011), novelist
* Frances Jacson (1754–1842), novelist
* Richard Jago (1715–1781), poet and cleric
* Christopher James (born 1975), poet
* Elinor James (1644–1719), polemicist and printer
* G. P. R. James (1799–1860), novelist and Historiographer Royal
* M. R. James (1862–1936), story writer and scholar, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
* P. D. James (1920–2014), novelist
* Robert Rhodes James (1933–1999), biographer, historian and politician
* Thomas James (1573–1629), librarian and poet
* William Milbourne James (1881–1973), writer, poet and admiral
* Anna Brownell Jameson (1794–1860), travel writer and art critic
* Storm Jameson (1891–1986), novelist and autobiographer
* James Janeway (1636–1674), children's writer
* Rosemary Hawley Jarman (1935–2015), novelist and story writer
* Claude Scudamore Jarvis (1879–1953), writer and naturalist
* Antony Jay (1930–2016), writer, broadcaster, and director
* John Cordy Jeaffreson (1831–1901), novelist and non-fiction writer
* Tim Jeal (born 1945), novelist and biographer
* James Hopwood Jeans (1877–1946), writer and astronomer
* Samuel Jebb (c. 1694–1772), scholar and physician
* Richard Jefferies (1848–1887), nature writer and essayist
* Agnes Jekyll (1861–1937), writer
* Gertrude Jekyll (1843–1932), garden writer
* Alan Jenkins (born 1955), poet
* Amy Jenkins (born 1966), novelist and screenwriter
* Peter Jenkins (1934–1992), journalist and screenwriter
* Elizabeth Jennings (1926–2001), poet
* Humphrey Jennings (1907–1950), writer and film maker
* Soame Jenyns (1704–1787), poet and essayist
* Edgar Jepson (also as R. Edison Page, 1863–1938), writer and novelist
* Selwyn Jepson (1899–1989), crime writer
* Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927), humorist and playwright, Three Men in a Boat
* Douglas William Jerrold (1803–1857), playwright, novelist and essayist
* John Heneage Jesse (1809–1874), historian and poet
* William Stanley Jevons (1840–1882), economist and logician
* Geraldine Jewsbury (1812–1880), novelist and critic
* Maria Jane Jewsbury (1800–1833), poet and critic
* C. E. M. Joad (1891–1953), philosopher and broadcaster
* Elizabeth Jocelin (c. 1595–1622), writer on child-raising
* Rowan Joffé (born 1973), screenwriter
* W. E. Johns (1893–1968), novelist and pilot, Biggles
* B. S. Johnson (1933–1973), novelist and editor
* Lionel Johnson (1867–1902), poet and essayist
* Pamela Hansford Johnson (1912–1981), novelist, playwright and critic
* Richard Johnson (1573 – c. 1659), writer
* Samuel Johnson (1649–1703), pamphleteer and cleric
* Samuel Johnson, (1709–1784) writer, poet and lexicographer
* Kate Johnson (born c. 1980), writer
* Brian Jones (1938–2009), poet
* Charlotte Jones (living), playwright and actress
* David Jones (1895–1974), poet, writer and artist
* Daniel Jones (1881–1967), phonetician
* Diana Wynne Jones (1934–2011), novelist
* Ebenezer Jones (1820–1860), poet
* Ernest Charles Jones (1819–1869), poet, novelist and Chartist
* Henry Arthur Jones (1851–1929), playwright
* Lara Jones (1975–2010), children's writer Poppy Cat series
* Sadie Jones (born 1967), novelist
* Tobias Jones (living), writer
* William Jones (1726–1800), theologian and cleric
* William Jones (1746–1794), polyglot and poet
* Ben Jonson (1573–1637), poet and dramatist, Bartholomew Fair
* Robert Furneaux Jordan (1905–1978), crime writer and critic
* John Jortin (1698–1770), biographer and historian
* Jenny Joseph (1932–2018), poet and novelist
* Gabriel Josipovici (born 1940), novelist and critic
* John Josselyn (fl. 1638–1675), writer and traveller
* Benjamin Jowett (1817–1893), scholar and translator
* Graham Joyce (1954–2014), novelist and YA writer
* Alan Judd (born 1946), novelist and biographer
* Tony Judt (1948–2010), historian and political writer
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