# List of English writers (K–Q)

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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* Carrie Kabak (born 1951), novelist and illustrator
* Sarah Kane (1971–1999), playwright
* Anna Kavan (also as Helen Ferguson, real name Helen Emily Woods, 1901–1968), novelist and painter
* Joanna Kavenna (born 1974), novelist and travel writer
* Sheila Kaye-Smith (1887–1956), novelist
* Judith Kazantzis (1940–2018), poet and anthologist
* Annie Keary (1825–1879), novelist, poet and children's writer
* Jonathan Keates (born 1946), writer and novelist
* John Keats (1795–1821), poet, "Ode to a Nightingale"
* John Keble (1792–1866), poet and cleric
* Maurice Keen (1933–2012), historian
* Ann Kelley (born 1941), children's writer and poet
* Herbert Kelly (1860–1950), religious writer and cleric
* Sheelagh Kelly (born 1948), historical novelist
* Fanny Kemble (1809–1893), playwright, diarist and actress
* Gene Kemp (1926–2015), children's writer
* Jonathan Kemp (born 1967), novelist
* Margery Kempe (c. 1373 – post–1438), mystic
* Thomas Ken (1637–1711), hymnist and cleric
* May Kendall (real name Emma Goldworth Kendall, 1861 – c. 1943), poet, novelist and satirist
* Tim Kendall (born 1970), poet, editor and critic
* Luke Kennard (born 1982), poet and lecturer
* Lena Kennedy (1914–1986), novelist
* Margaret Kennedy (1896–1967), novelist and playwright
* Ally Kennen (born 1975), children's writer and singer
* White Kennett (1660–1728), antiquary, writer and bishop
* Charles Lamb Kenney (1823–1881), librettist and miscellanist
* James Kenney (1780–1849), playwright
* William Kenrick (c. 1725–1779), satirist and playwright
* Judith Kerr (1923–2019), children's writer and screenwriter
* Lady Amabel Kerr (1846-1906), biographer, children's writer, novelist
* David Kessler (also as Adam Palmer, born 1957), novelist
* R. W. Ketton-Cremer (1906–1969), local historian and biographer
* Sidney Keyes (1922–1943), poet
* John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946), economist
* Vaseem Khan (born 1973), novelist
* Richard Kilby (1560–1620), scholar, AV translator and cleric
* Anne Killigrew (1660–1685), poet
* Henry Killigrew (1613–1700), playwright and cleric
* Thomas Killigrew (1612–1683), playwright
* William Killigrew (1606–1695), playwright and courtier
* Francis Kilvert (1840–1879), diarist and cleric
* Clive King (1924–2018), children's writer
* Daren King (born 1972), novelist and children's writer
* Francis King (1923–2011), novelist and story writer
* Geoffrey King (fl. 1600s), theologian, AV translator and cleric
* Gregory King (1648–1712), statistician and genealogist
* Henry King (1592–1669), poet and bishop
* William King (1663–1712), poet and essayist
* William King (born 1959), novelist
* Desmond King-Hele (1927–2019), writer and physicist
* Alexander William Kinglake (1809–1891), travel writer and historian
* Charles Kingsley (1819–1875), novelist, The Water Babies
* Henry Kingsley (1830–1876), novelist
* Mary Kingsley (1862–1900), ethnographer and explorer
* Peter Kingsley (born 1953), philosopher
* Hugh Kingsmill (1889–1949), novelist, humorist and biographer
* Dick King-Smith (1922–2011), children's writer
* W. H. G. Kingston (1814–1880), children's writer
* Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), novelist, essayist and poet, The Jungle Book
* Andrew Kippis (1725–1795), writer and Presbyterian minister
* William Kirby (1759–1850), entomologist
* Geoffrey Kirk (1921–2003), classicist
* Francis Kirkman (1632 – c. 1680), writer and bookseller
* James Kirkup (1918–2009), poet, translator and travel writer
* C. H. B. Kitchin (1895–1967), novelist
* Flora Klickmann (1867–1958), journalist, editor and children's writer
* Matthew Kneale (born 1960), novelist, English Passengers
* Nigel Kneale (1922–2006), screenwriter and genre novelist
* Anne Knight (1792–1860), children's writer and educator
* Charles Knight (1791–1873), writer and publisher
* Ellis Cornelia Knight (1757–1837), novelist and painter
* Eric Knight (1897–1943), novelist and children's writer, Lassie Come-Home
* G. Wilson Knight (1897–1985), critic and scholar
* Henry Gally Knight (1786–1846), novelist and architecture writer
* Richard Payne Knight (1750–1824), classicist and connoisseur
* Samuel Knight (1675–1746), biographer, antiquary and cleric
* Stephen Knight (1951–1985), writer
* Stephen Thomas Knight (born 1940), literary historian
* Richard Knolles (c. 1545–1610), historian and translator
* Hanserd Knollys (1599–1691), translator and Baptist minister
* Frederick Knott (1916–2002), playwright and screenwriter
* Ronald Knox (1888–1957), writer, translator and theologian
* Vicesimus Knox (1752–1821), essayist and cleric
* Dorothy Koomson (born 1971), novelist,
* Bernard Kops (born 1926), playwright and novelist
* Michael Korda (born 1933), writer and editor
* Hari Kunzru (born 1969), novelist
* Hanif Kureishi (born 1954), novelist and playwright
* Thomas Kyd (1558–1595), playwright, The Spanish Tragedy
* Francis Kynaston (1587–1642), poet and translator
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* Ian La Frenais (born 1936), scriptwriter
* Robert Lacey (born 1944), biographer and historian
* James Lackington (1746–1815), memoirist
* Thomas Hailes Lacy (1809–1873), playwright and publisher
* Olivia Laing (born 1977), fiction and non-fiction
* Andrew Lamb (born 1942), writer on music
* Caroline Lamb (1785–1828), novelist
* Charles (1775–1834) and Mary Lamb (1764–1847), essayists
* Charlotte Lamb (real name Sarah Coates, several pen names, 1937–2000), novelist
* Lynton Lamb (1907–1977), crime writer and illustrator
* Constant Lambert (1905–1951, England, Mu/D), music critic and librettist
* Derek Lambert (also as Nigel Falkirk, 1929–2001), thriller writer
* Joseph Lancaster (1778–1838), educator
* Osbert Lancaster (1908–1986), writer and cartoonist
* John Lanchester (born 1962), journalist and novelist
* Letitia Elizabeth Landon (wrote as L. E. L., 1802–1838), poet and novelist
* Robert Eyres Landor (1781–1869), playwright, poet and cleric
* Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864), writer and poet
* Edward William Lane (1801–1876), scholar and translator
* Jane Lane (1905–1978), historical novelist and biographer
* Joel Lane (born 1963), novelist, story writer and poet
* John Langhorne (1735–1779), poet and translator
* William Langland (c. 1332 – c. 1386), poet, Piers Plowman
* Peter Langtoft (died c. 1305), chronicler
* Bennet Langton (1736–1801), writer
* Emilia Lanier or Lanyer, (1569–1645) poet
* R. F. Langley (1938–2011), poet
* Nathaniel Lardner (1684–1768), theologian
* Philip Larkin (1922–1985), poet
* Michael Laskey (born 1944), poet and editor
* Harold Laski (1893–1950), political writer
* Marghanita Laski (1915–1988), novelist and broadcaster
* David Lassman (born 1963), writer and scriptwriter
* Francis Lathom (1774–1832), novelist and playwright
* Hugh Latimer (c. 1487–1555), preacher, bishop and martyr
* William Laud (1573–1645), theologian, archbishop and martyr
* Hugh Laurie (born 1959), novelist and actor
* William Law (1686–1761), theologian.
* D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930), novelist and poet, Sons and Lovers
* George A. Lawrence (1827–1876), novelist
* T. E. Lawrence (1888–1935), writer and soldier, Seven Pillars of Wisdom
* William Lawrence (1783–1867), scientist
* Benjamin Lay (1681–1760), pamphleteer
* Cecil Howard Lay (1885–1956), poet and artist
* Layamon or Laȝamon (early 13th c.), chronicler
* John Layfield (died 1617), scholar, AV translator and cleric
* John le Carré (real name D. J. M. Cornwell, 1931–2020), thriller writer, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
* Richard Le Gallienne (1866–1947), writer and poet
* William Le Queux (1866–1947), novelist, poet and essayist
* Jane Leade (1624–1704), religious writer
* Mary Leapor (1722–1746), poet
* Edward Lear (1812–1888), poet and artist, The Owl and the Pussycat
* James Leasor (1923–2007), novelist and historian
* Stephen Leather (born 1956), novelist
* F. R. Leavis (1895–1978), critic and editor
* Norman Lebrecht (born 1948), music writer
* Francis Nigel Lee (1934–2011), theologian
* Harriet Lee (1757–1851), novelist and playwright
* Laurie Lee (1914–1997), poet and memoirist, Cider with Rosie
* Nathaniel Lee (1653–1692), playwright
* Sidney Lee (1859–1926), biographer and critic
* Sophia Lee (1750–1824), novelist and playwright
* Vernon Lee (real name Violet Paget, 1856–1935), novelist and essayist
* Eugene Lee-Hamilton (1845–1907), poet
* James Lees-Milne (1908–1997), writer and diarist
* Joseph Leftwich (real name Lefkovicz, 1892–1984), poet, translator and anthologist
* John Lehmann (1907–1987), poet and editor
* R. C. Lehmann (1856–1929), writer and lyricist
* Rosamond Lehmann (1901–1990), novelist, autobiographer and translator
* Chandos Leigh (1791–1850), writer and poet
* Dorothy Leigh (died c. 1616), writer on child-raising
* Richard Leigh (1649/1650–1728), poet
* Clare Leighton (1898–1989), writer and illustrator
* John Leland or Leyland (c. 1503/1506–1552), antiquary
* John Leland (1691–1766), writer and Presbyterian minister
* Mark Lemon (1809–1870), playwright, novelist and editor
* John Lemprière (c. 1765–1824), scholar and lexicographer
* Sue Lenier (born 1957) poet and playwright
* Rebecca Lenkiewicz (born 1968), playwright
* John Lennon (1940–1980), singer and songwriter
* Charlotte Lennox (1730–1804), writer and poet
* Alan Leo (real name William Frederick Allan, 1860–1917), astrologer
* Roger L'Estrange (1615–1704), pamphleteer and translator
* Ada Leverson (1862–1933), novelist
* Denise Levertov (1923–1997), poet
* Michael Levey (1927–2008), art historian
* Peter Levi (1931–2000), poet, critic and travel writer
* Bernard Levin (1928–2004), writer and broadcaster
* Amy Levy (1861–1889), poet and novelist
* Andrea Levy (1956–2019), novelist
* Juliette de Baïracli Levy (1912–2009), herbalist
* Tim Lewens (born 1974), philosopher
* George Henry Lewes (1817–1878), philosopher and critic
* Alethea Lewis (wrote as Eugenia De Acton, 1749–1827), novelist
* C. S. Lewis (1898–1963), novelist, children's writer and critic, The Chronicles of Narnia
* David Lewis (1682–1760), poet and playwright
* George Cornewall Lewis (1806–1863), writer, philologist and politician
* Hilda Lewis (1896–1974), novelist and children's writer
* Leopold David Lewis (1828–1890), playwright and translator
* Matthew Lewis (1775–1818), novelist and diarist
* Roger Lewis (born 1960), biographer and scholar
* Ted Lewis (1940–1982), novelist and screenwriter
* Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957), writer and painter
* Marina Lewycka (born 1946), novelist and medical writer
* Anne Ley (c. 1599–1641), writer, teacher, and polemicist
* Peter Leycester (1614–1678), antiquary and historian
* Nell Leyshon (living), dramatist and novelist
* Henry George Liddell (1811–1898), scholar, lexicographer and cleric
* John Lilburne (c. 1614–1657), pamphleteer
* George Lillo (1693–1739), playwright
* Thomas Linacre or Lynaker (c. 1460–1524), physician and translator
* David Lindsay (1876–1945), novelist
* John Lingard (1771–1851), historian and hymnist
* Martin Lings (1909–2005), scholar and poet
* William Linley (1771–1835), writer and musician
* Eliza Lynn Linton (1822–1898), novelist and essayist
* Mary Linwood (1755–1845), novelist and needlewoman
* Suzannah Lipscomb (born 1978), historian and broadcaster
* Anne Lister (1791–1840), diarist and traveller
* S. E. Lister (born 1988), historical novelist
* Thomas Henry Lister (1800–1842), novelist
* Toby Litt (born 1968), novelist and editor
* Emanuel Litvinoff (1915–2011), novelist, poet and autobiographer
* Edward Lively (1545–1605), scholar, AV translator and cleric
* Penelope Lively (born 1933), novelist and children's writer
* Richard Llewellyn (real name Richard Llewellyn Lloyd, 1906–1983), novelist and screenwriter
* Charles Lloyd (1775–1839), poet and translator
* Christopher Lloyd (1921–2006), garden writer
* Robert Lloyd (1733–1764), poet and satirist
* John Locke (1632–1704), philosopher, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
* William John Locke (1863–1930), novelist and playwright
* Frederick Locker-Lampson (1821–1895), poet
* David Lodge (author) (born 1935), novelist and critic
* Edmund Lodge (1756–1839), herald and biographer
* Oliver Lodge (1851–1940), physicist and science writer
* Oliver W. F. Lodge (1878–1955), poet and playwright
* Thomas Lodge (c. 1558–1625), playwright and poet
* Tom Lodge (1936–2012), writer and broadcaster
* John Lodwick (1916–1959), novelist
* Hugh Lofting (1886–1947), children's writer and poet, Dr. Dolittle
* Norah Lofts (1904–1983), novelist and biographer
* Christopher Logue (1926–2011), poet and screenwriter
* Herbert Lomas (1924–2011), poet and translator
* Charles Edward Long (1796–1861), antiquary
* George Long (1800–1879), polymath and translator
* Kate Long (born 1964), novelist, The Bad Mother's Handbook
* Elizabeth Longford (1906–2002), biographer
* Roger Longrigg (1939–2000), novelist
* E. C. R. Lorac (real name Edith Caroline Rivett, also as Carol Carnac, 1884–1959), novelist
* Jane C. Loudon (1807–1858), novelist
* Nicholas Love (died c. 1424), translator and prior
* Richard Lovelace (1618–1657), poet
* Henry Lovelich (fl. 15th c.), poet and translator
* Peter Lovesey (born 1936), crime writer
* William Lovett (1800–1877), writer and Chartist
* Archibald Low (1888–1956), science writer
* Sidney James Mark Low (1857–1932), historian
* Edward Lowbury (1913–2007), poet and bacteriologist
* Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes (1868–1947), novelist
* William Thomas Lowndes (c. 1798–1843), bibliographer
* Malcolm Lowry (1909–1957), poet and novelist
* Robert Lowth (1710–1787), poet, bishop and grammarian
* Mina Loy (originally Mina Gertrude Löwry, 1882–1966), poet, playwright and novelist
* John Lubbock (1834–1913), scientist and politician
* Percy Lubbock (1879–1965), essayist and biographer
* E. V. Lucas (1868–1938), essayist
* F. L. Lucas (1894–1967), classicist and poet
* Edward Lucie-Smith (born 1933), writer and poet
* Edmund Ludlow (c. 1617–1692), memoirist
* Jane Lumley, Lady Lumley (1537–1538), translator
* Arnold Lunn (1888–1874), writer and skier
* Henry Luttrell (c. 1765–1851), poet
* Narcissus Luttrell (1657–1732), historian
* Alfred Comyn Lyall (1835–1911), historian and poet
* Gavin Lyall (1932–2003), thriller writer
* John Lydgate (c. 1370 – c. 1451), poet
* Charles Lyell (1797–1875), geologist
* John Lyly (1553/1554–1606), writer and dramatist
* Jonathan Lynn (born 1943), screenwriter and novelist
* Elinor Lyon (1921–2008), children's writer
* P. H. B. Lyon (1893–1986), poet and school headmaster
* George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton (1709–1773), politician and poet
* George William Lyttelton (1883–1962), correspondent and educator
* Rosina Bulwer Lytton (1802–1882), novelist and campaigner
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* James Mabbe (1572–1642), poet and translator
* Richard Mabey (born 1941), nature writer
* Catharine Macaulay (1731–1791), historian
* Rose Macaulay (1881–1958), novelist and biographer
* Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859), historian and poet
* Desmond MacCarthy (1877–1952), critic
* Fiona MacCarthy (1940–2020), biographer and cultural historian
* Philip MacDonald (also as Oliver Fleming, etc., 1900–1980), novelist and screenwriter
* A. G. Macdonell (1895–1941), essayist, England, Their England
* Robert Macfarlane (born 1976), travel writer and critic
* William McFee (1881–1966), novelist and essayist
* Arthur Machen, (originally Arthur Llewelyn Jones, 1863–1947) novelist and mystic
* Colin MacInnes (1914–1976), novelist
* Ben Macintyre (born 1963), biographer
* Denis Mackail (1892–1971), novelist
* Compton Mackenzie (1883–1972), novelist, Whisky Galore
* Serena Mackesy (living), novelist
* Mary Mackie (living), novelist and non-fiction writer
* Joseph Macleod (also as Adam Drinan, 1903–1984), poet, playwright and broadcaster
* Barry MacSweeney (1948–2000), poet and journalist
* Falconer Madan (1851–1935), writer and bibliographer
* Judith Madan (born Judith Cowper, 1702–1781), poet
* Martin Madan (1726–1790), writer, translator and cleric
* Charles Madge (1912–1996), poet and sociologist
* Thomas Madox (1666–1727), Historiographer Royal and antiquary
* Bryan Magee (1930–2019), writer and broadcaster
* Magnus Magnusson (1929–2007), broadcaster, scholar and translator
* Michelle Magorian (born 1947), children's writer, Goodnight Mister Tom
* Henry James Sumner Maine (1822–1888), jurist and historian
* Petre Mais (1885–1975), travel writer and educator
* Frederic William Maitland (1850–1906), jurist and historian
* Julia Maitland (1808–1864), writer and traveller
* Sara Maitland (born 1950), novelist and religious writer
* Bathsua Makin (real name Bathsua Reginald, c. 1600 – c. 1675), writer and scholar
* Lucas Malet (real name Mary St. Leger Kingsley, 1852–1931), novelist
* William Hurrell Mallock (1849–1923), novelist, satirist and poet
* Thomas Malory (c. 1430 – c. 1471), author, Le Morte d'Arthur
* Eric Malpass (1910–1996), novelist
* Thomas Robert Malthus (1766–1834), political economist
* Bernard Mandeville (1670–1733), philosopher and satirist
* Richmal Mangnall (1769–1820), schoolbook writer
* Andrew Mango (1926–2014), writer and broadcaster
* H. A. Manhood (1904–1991), short story writer
* Guy Mankowski (born 1983), writer
* Delarivier Manley (1663 or 1670–1724), novelist, playwright and pamphleteer
* Mary E. Mann (1848–1929), novelist and story writer
* George Manners (1778–1853), writer and editor
* Ethel Mannin (1900–1984), novelist, essayist and travel writer
* Anne Manning (1807–1879), novelist
* Olivia Manning (1908–1980), novelist and critic, Fortunes of War
* Ruth Manning-Sanders (1886–1988), poet and children's writer
* Sarra Manning, writer and journalist
* Robert Mannyng (c. 1275 – c. 1338), poet and chronicler, Handlyng Synne
* Henry Longueville Mansel (1820–1871), philosopher
* Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923), story writer and poet, The Garden Party
* Keith Mansfield (born 1965), novelist and screenwriter
* Richard Mant (1776–1848), writer, translator and cleric
* Hilary Mantel (1952–2022), novelist and critic, Wolf Hall
* Thomas Manton (1620–1677), theologian and Puritan minister
* Francis Marbury or Merbury (1555–1611), playwright and cleric
* Jane Marcet (1769–1858), science writer for children
* Bessie Marchant (1862–1941), children's writer
* Jan Mark, (originally Janet Marjorie Brisland, 1943–2006) children's writer
* Gervase Markham (c. 1568–1637), poet and writer
* Mrs. Markham (real name Elizabeth Penrose, 1780–1837), children's writer
* Stephen Marley (born 1946), novelist and screenwriter
* Tim Marlow (born 1963), art historian and broadcaster
* Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593), playwright, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
* Derek Marlowe (1938–1996), novelist and playwright
* Martin Marprelate (pseudonym, fl. 1588–1590), tractarian
* Ellen Marriage (1865–1946), translator, La Comédie humaine
* Anthony Marriott (1931–2014), playwright and actor
* Florence Marryat (1833–1899), novelist
* Frederick Marryat (wrote as Captain Marryat, 1792–1848), novelist and children's writer, Mr Midshipman Easy
* Philip Marsden (born 1961), travel writer and novelist
* Edward Marsh (1872–1953), polymath and translator
* Edward Garrard Marsh (1783–1862), poet and cleric
* Richard Marsh (real name Richard Bernard Heldemann, 1857–1915), novelist
* Alfred Marshall (1842–1924), economist
* Archibald Marshall (1866–1934), novelist and journalist
* Arthur Marshall (1910–1989), writer and broadcaster
* Christabel Marshall (1871–1960), writer, playwright and suffragist
* Emma Marshall (1830–1899), children's writer
* Sybil Marshall (1913–2005), writer, novelist and educator
* Adam Mars-Jones (born 1954), novelist and critic
* John Marston (1576–1634), poet, playwright and satirist
* John Westland Marston (1819–1890), playwright
* Philip Bourke Marston (1850–1887), poet
* Andrew Martin (born 1962), novelist
* J. P. Martin (1879–1966), children's writer
* William Martin (1767–1810), naturalist and palaeontologist
* Harriet Martineau (1802–1876), sociologist and translator
* James Martineau (1805–1900), philosopher
* Andrew Marvell (1621–1678), poet
* Eleanor Marx (1855–1898), translator and writer
* Theo Marzials (1850–1920), poet and composer
* Eric Maschwitz (1901–1969), writer and lyricist
* John Masefield (1878–1967), Poet Laureate and novelist
* A. E. W. Mason (1865–1948), novelist
* Anita Mason (1942–2020), novelist
* Paul Nicholas Mason (born 1958), novelist and playwright
* Richard Mason (1919–1997), novelist
* William Mason (1724–1797), poet
* Gerald Massey (1828–1907), poet and Egyptologist
* William Nathaniel Massey (1809–1881), writer and politician
* Philip Massinger (1584–1640), playwright
* Harold Massingham (1932–2011) poet
* H. J. Massingham (1888–1952), nature writer and poet
* John Masters (1914–1983), novelist, autobiographer and army officer
* John Mastin (1747–1829), local historian and cleric
* Steve Matchett (born 1962), writer and broadcaster
* Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (1854–1918), occultist and translator
* Ellen Buckingham Mathews (wrote as Helen Mathers, 1853–1920), novelist
* Thomas James Mathias (c. 1754–1835), satirist and translator
* Tobie Matthew (1577–1655), writer and translator
* Aylmer and Louise Maude (1858–1938 and 1855–1939), translators and writers
* Robin Maugham (1916–1981), novelist, playwright and travel writer
* William Somerset Maugham (1874–1965), novelist and writer, The Moon and Sixpence
* Henry Maundrell (1665–1701), travel writer and cleric
* Frederick Denison Maurice (1805–1872), religious writer and socialist
* Thomas Maurice (1754–1824), poet and historian
* William Fordyce Mavor (1758–1837), schoolbook writer
* Simon Mawer (born 1948), novelist
* Donald Maxwell (1877–1936), travel writer and illustrator
* W. B. Maxwell (1866–1938), novelist
* Thomas May (1595–1650), poet, playwright and translator
* Henry Mayhew (1812–1887), social researcher and playwright, London Labour and the London Poor
* James Mayhew (born 1964), children's writer and illustrator
* Peter Mayle (1939–2018), writer and novelist
* Jasper Mayne (1604–1672), poet and playwright
* William Mayne (1928–2010), children's writer, A Grass Rope
* Margaret Mayo (born 1936), novelist
* F. M. Mayor (1872-1932), novelist and short story writer
* Steve McCaffery (born 1947), poet and scholar
* Maria McCann (born 1956), novelist
* Keith McCarthy (born 1960), crime writer and pathologist
* Tom McCarthy (born 1969), novelist and screenwriter
* Geraldine McCaughrean (born 1951), novelist and children's writer
* Derek McCulloch ("Uncle Mac", 1897–1967), children's writer and broadcaster
* Flora McDonnell (born 1963), children's writer
* Ian McEwan (born 1948), novelist and screenwriter
* William McFee (1881–1966), story writer
* James McGee, novelist
* Roger McGough (born 1937), performance poet
* John McGrath (1935–2002), playwright
* Patrick McGrath (born 1950), novelist
* Jon McGregor (born 1976), novelist
* R. J. McGregor (1887–1961), children's novelist and playwright
* Hilary McKay (born 1959), children's writer
* Jamie McKendrick (born 1955), poet
* Ronald Brunlees McKerrow (1872–1940), literary critic and bibliographer
* Andy McNab (born 1959), novelist and soldier
* H. C. McNeile (wrote as Sapper, 1888–1937), novelist, Bulldog Drummond
* Cilla McQueen (born 1949), poet
* J. M. E. McTaggart (1866–1925), philosopher
* G. R. S. Mead (1863–1933), writer and theosopher
* Henry Medwall (c. 1462–1502), playwright
* Thomas Medwin (1788–1869), poet, translator and biographer
* Arthur Mee (1875–1943), writer and educator
* Thomas Meech (1868–1940), writer and journalist
* James Meek (born 1962), novelist
* Mary Meeke (died c. 1816), novelist and translator
* George Melly (1926–2007), writer, critic and musician
* Charlotte Mendelson (born 1972), novelist
* George Meredith (1828–1909), novelist and poet, The Egoist
* Louisa Anne Meredith (1812–1895), poet and novelist
* Francis Meres (1565–1672), anthologist and cleric
* Charles Merivale (1808–1893), historian and cleric
* Herman Charles Merivale (wrote as Felix Dale, 1839–1906), playwright and poet
* Herman Merivale (1806–1874), historian
* John Herman Merivale (1779–1844), man of letters
* Leonard Merrick (1864–1939), novelist
* Ian Merrill (born 1965), novelist
* Robert Merry (1755–1798), poet
* Charlotte Mew (1869–1928), poet
* E. H. W. Meyerstein (1889–1952), man of letters
* Alice Meynell (1847–1922), poet and essayist
* Viola Meynell (1885–1956), poet and novelist
* Nicholas Michell (1807–1880), poet and novelist
* Christopher Middleton (1926–2015), poet, translator and scholar
* Conyers Middleton (1683–1750), biographer and cleric
* Nick Middleton (born 1960), geographer
* Richard Barham Middleton (1882–1911), poet and story writer
* Stanley Middleton (1919–2009), novelist
* Thomas Middleton (1580–1627), playwright and poet, The Revenger's Tragedy
* China Miéville (born 1972), novelist and political writer
* Grace Mildmay (c. 1552–1620), diarist
* Susan Miles (real name Ursula Wyllie Roberts, 1887–1975), novelist and poet
* John Stuart Mill (1806–1873), philosopher
* John Guille Millais (1865–1931), naturalist and travel writer
* Andrew Miller (born 1960), novelist
* James Miller (1703–1744), playwright, poet and cleric
* Jonathan Miller (1934–2019), writer and director
* Russell Miller (born 1938), biographer
* Thomas Miller (1807–1874), novelist and poet
* Robert Millhouse (1788–1839), poet
* Spike Milligan (1918–2002), humorist
* Arthur F. H. Mills (1887–1955), novelist
* Dorothy Mills (1896–1959), novelist and travel writer
* George Mills (1896–1972), children's writer
* Magnus Mills (born 1954), novelist
* Mark Mills (living), novelist and screenwriter
* Henry Hart Milman (1791–1868), playwright, poet and cleric
* A. A. Milne (1882–1956), novelist and playwright, Winnie-the-Pooh
* Drew Milne (born 1964), poet and scholar
* John Milner (1628–1702), writer and cleric
* John Milner (1752–1826), writer and RC bishop
* Marion Milner (1900–1998), diarist and psychoanalyst
* Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton (1809–1885), poet and politician
* Giles Milton (born 1966), historian
* John Milton (1608–1674), poet and theologian, Paradise Lost
* Ted Milton (born 1943), poet and musician
* Richard Milward (born 1984), novelist
* Anthony Minghella (1954–2008), playwright and screenwriter
* Laurence Minot (c. 1300 – c. 1352), poet
* Hope Mirrlees (1887–1978), novelist, translator and poet
* Adrian Mitchell (1932–2008), poet, playwright and novelist
* Basil Mitchell (1917–2011), philosopher
* David Mitchell (born 1969), novelist
* Dreda Say Mitchell (born 1965), novelist, broadcaster and journalist
* Gladys Mitchell (wrote as Stephen Hockaby and Malcolm Torrie, 1901–1983), novelist
* Julian Mitchell (born 1935), playwright and screenwriter
* Bertram Mitford, Lord Redesdale, (1837–1916), writer and diplomat
* Bertram Mitford (1855–1914), novelist
* John Mitford (1782–1831), poet and naval officer
* Mary Russell Mitford (wrote as Miss Mitford, 1787–1855), essayist, novelist and playwright, Our Village
* Nancy Mitford (1904–1973), novelist and writer, Noblesse Oblige
* William Mitford (1744–1827), historian
* Timothy Mo (born 1950), novelist
* Ivan Moffat (1918–2002), screenwriter
* Deborah Moggach (born 1948), novelist and screenwriter
* Lottie Moggach, journalist and author
* George Mogridge (1787–1854), poet, children's writer and tractarian
* Caroline Moir (living, England, novelist and playwright)
* John Mole (born 1941), poet
* Mary Louisa Molesworth (also as Ennis Graham, 1839–1921), children's writer
* Frances Molloy (1947–1991), novelist
* Mary Mollineux (1651–1696), poet
* Rowland Molony (born 1946), poet and writer
* Nicola Monaghan (living), novelist
* William Thomas Moncrieff (1794–1857), playwright
* Francis Money-Coutts (wrote as Mountjoy, 1852–1923), poet
* Geraldine Monk (born 1952), poet
* William Cosmo Monkhouse (1840–1901), poet and critic
* Harold Monro (1879–1932), poet
* Nicholas Monsarrat (1910–1979), novelist
* Basil Montagu (1770–1851), miscellanist
* Charles Montagu, earl of Halifax (1661–1715), poet and statesman
* Elizabeth Montagu (1718–1800), writer and bluestocking
* Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762), correspondent and poet
* Charles Edward Montague (1867–1928), novelist and essayist
* Simon Sebag Montefiore (born 1965), writer and historian
* Florence Montgomery (1843–1923), novelist and children's writer
* James Montgomery (1771–1854), poet and editor
* Robert Montgomery (1807–1855), poet and cleric
* Colin Moon (born 1957), author and public speaker
* Edward Moor (1771–1848), writer and soldier
* Michael Moorcock (born 1939), novelist
* Alan Moore (born 1953), graphic novelist
* Edward Moore (1712–1757), playwright
* Edward Moore (1835–1916), classicist
* Francis Moore (1657–1715, astrologer and physician
* G. E. Moore (1873–1958), philosopher
* Jonas Moore (1617–1679), mathematician
* Nicholas Moore (1918–1986), poet
* Olive Moore (real name Constance Vaughan, 1905 – c. 1970), novelist and essayist
* Thomas Sturge Moore (1870–1944), poet and playwright
* Tim Moore (born 1964), travel writer
* Geoffrey Moorhouse (1931–2009), writer
* Roger Moorhouse (born 1968), historian
* Henrietta Moraes (1931–1999), writer and model
* Philip Morant (1700–1770), historian and cleric
* Elinor Mordaunt (1872–1942), fiction and non-fiction writer
* Thomas Osbert Mordaunt (1730–1809), poet and army officer
* Gertrude More (1606–1633), religious writer and Benedictine nun
* Hannah More (1745–1833), poet and religious writer
* Henry More (1614–1687), philosopher and poet
* Thomas More (1478–1535), scholar, Utopia
* E. D. Morel (1873–1924), writer on colonialism
* Thomas Morell (1703–1784), librettist
* Charles Langbridge Morgan (1894–1958) novelist, playwright and poet
* Peter Morgan (born 1963), screenwriter and playwright
* William De Morgan (1839–1917), novelist and ceramicist
* Thomas Charles Morgan (1783–1843), physician and philosopher
* Richard K. Morgan (born 1965), novelists and short story writer
* James Justinian Morier (1780–1849), novelist and travel writer
* Stanley Morison (1889–1967), writer and typographer
* Samuel Morland or Moreland (1625–1695), polymath
* David Morley (born 1964), poet and critic
* Henry Morley (1822–1894), critic and biographer
* Iris Morley (1910–1953), novelist and journalist
* John Morley (1838–1923), biographer, writer and politician
* Sheridan Morley (1941–2007), biographer, critic and broadcaster
* Michael Morpurgo (born 1943), children's writer, poet and playwright
* Clare Morrall (born 1952), novelist
* Ivan Morris (1925–1976), writer, scholar and translator
* Jan Morris (originally James Morris, 1926–2020), travel writer
* William Morris (1834–1896), writer, artist and poet
* Arthur Morrison (1863–1945), novelist and journalist
* Blake Morrison (born 1950), poet, novelist and critic
* Graham Mort (living), poet and story writer
* Chapman Mortimer (1907–1988), novelist and screenwriter
* Ian Mortimer (born 1967), historian
* John Mortimer (1923–2009), novelist, playwright and lawyer, Horace Rumpole
* Penelope Mortimer (1918–1999), novelist, biographer and critic
* J. B. Morton (wrote as Beachcomber, 1893–1979), columnist
* John Maddison Morton (1811–1891), playwright
* Thomas Morton (1764–1838), playwright
* Joseph Moser (1748–1819), writer and artist
* Brian Moses (born 1950), poet and children's writer
* Nicholas Mosley (1923–2017), novelist
* Geoffrey Moss (1885–1954), novelist and soldier
* Thomas Moss (1740–1808), poet and cleric
* W. Stanley Moss (1919–1965), novelist, writer and army officer
* James Mossman (1926–1971), writer and broadcaster
* Andrew Motion (born 1952), Poet Laureate
* Peter Anthony Motteux (originally Pierre Antoine, 1663–1718), poet, playwright and translator
* Eric Mottram (1924–1995), poet and editor
* Ralph Hale Mottram (1883–1971), novelist and poet
* Martha Moulsworth (1577–1646), autobiographical poet
* John Moultrie (1799–1874), poet and cleric
* Ferdinand Mount (born 1939), novelist
* Edward Moxon (1801–1858), poet
* Jojo Moyes (born 1969), romantic novelist
* Fiona Mozley (born 1988), novelist
* James Bowling Mozley (1813–1878), writer and cleric
* Thomas Mozley (1806–1893), writer and cleric
* Henry Muddiman (1628–1692), journalist and publisher
* William Mudford (1782–1848), essayist, novelist and translator
* Malcolm Muggeridge (1903–1990), writer and broadcaster
* Lodowicke Muggleton (1609–1698), writer
* Richard Mulcaster (c. 1531–1611), educator
* Clara Mulholland (1849–1934), novelist, playwright, children's writer and translator
* Clare Mulley (born 1969), biographer and activist
* A. J. Munby (1828–1910), diarist and poet
* A. N. L. Munby (1913–1974), ghost-story writer
* Anthony Munday (c. 1560–1633), playwright, poet and translator
* Talbot Mundy (also as Walter Galt, 1879–1940), novelist
* Iris Murdoch (1919–1999), novelist
* Jill Murphy (1949–2021), children's writer
* Margaret Murphy (born 1959), novelist
* Gilbert Murray (1866–1957), scholar
* John Murray (born 1950), novelist
* John Middleton Murry (1889–1957), writer and critic
* Valerie Grosvenor Myer (1935–2007), novelist, poet and critic
* Ernest Myers (1844–1921), poet and translator
* Frederic W. H. Myers (1843–1901), poet and essayist
* Leo Myers (1881–1944), novelist
* Julie Myerson (born 1960), novelist and journalist
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* Thomas Nabbes (1605–1641), playwright
* Constance Naden (1858–1889), poet and philosopher
* Daljit Nagra (born 1966), poet
* V. S. Naipaul (1932–2018), novelist and Nobel Prize winner
* Priscilla Napier (1908–1998), biographer, translator and poet
* Edward Nares (1762–1841), theologian, novelist and cleric
* Roger Nash (born 1942), philosopher and poet
* Thomas Nashe (1567–1601), poet and pamphleteer
* Bill Naughton (1910–1992), playwright
* John Neal (1793–1876), novelist, essayist and poet
* John Mason Neale (1818–1866), hymnist, cleric and translator
* Patrick Neate (born 1970), novelist and screenwriter
* Mary Anna Needell (1830–1922), novelist
* Violet Needham (1876–1967), children's writer
* Henry Neele (1798–1928), poet and critic
* Malcolm Neesam (1946–2022), historian of Harrogate, North Yorkshire
* Graham Nelson (born 1968), poet and mathematician
* Robert Nelson (1656–1715), religious writer
* E. Nesbit (1858–1924), children's writer and poet, The Railway Children
* Henry Nettleship (1839–1893), classicist
* Lord William Beauchamp Nevill (1860–1939) convict-autobiographer, and prison reformer
* Alexander Neville (1544–1614), historian and translator
* Linda Newbery (born 1952), novelist and children's writer
* Henry Newbolt (1862–1938), poet
* P. H. Newby (1918–1997), novelist
* Bernard Newman (1897–1968), novelist and propagandist
* John Henry Newman (1801–1890), writer and cardinal
* Isaac Newton (1642–1727), polymath
* John Newton (1725–1807), hymnist and pamphleteer
* Thomas Newton (c. 1542–1607), poet and translator
* William Newton (1750–1830), poet
* Charles Nicholl (living), biographer
* David Nicholls (born 1966), novelist and screenwriter
* Sally Nicholls (born 1983), children's writer
* Beverley Nichols (1898–1983), novelist, playwright and garden writer
* John Nichols (1745–1826), antiquary
* Bowyer Nichols (1859–1939), poet
* Peter Nichols (1927–2019), playwright and screenwriter
* Robert Nichols (1893–1944), poet and playwright
* Geoff Nicholson (born 1953), novelist and editor
* Joseph Shield Nicholson (1850–1927), economist and novelist
* Norman Nicholson (1914–1987), poet
* Renton Nicholson (1809–1861), writer
* William Nicholson (artist) (1872–1949), children's writer and illustrator
* William Nicholson (writer) (born 1948), novelist, screenwriter and playwright
* Adam Nicolson (born 1957), historian and nature writer
* Harold Nicolson (1886–1968), writer, diarist and politician
* Nigel Nicolson (1917–2004), writer and publisher
* O. S. Nock (1905–1994), railway writer
* Roden Noel (1834–1894), poet
* David Nokes (1948–2009), biographer and screenwriter
* Malcolm Nokes (1897–1986), science and educator
* Jeff Noon (born 1957), novelist and playwright
* Denis Norden (1922–2018), scriptwriter and broadcaster
* Lawrence Norfolk (born 1963), novelist
* Barry Norman (1933–2017), novelist and broadcaster
* Roger Norman (born 1948), children's and YA writer
* John Norris (1657–1711), philosopher and poet
* William Edward Norris, (1847–1925) novelist
* Dudley North, Lord North (1602–1677) writer and poet
* Roger North (1653–1734), lawyer and biographer
* Thomas North (1535–1604), translator
* James Northcote (1746–1831), essayist and illustrator
* Caroline Norton (1808–1877), novelist, pamphleteer and poet
* Mary Norton (1903–1992), children's writer
* Thomas Norton (1532–1584), poet and lawyer
* Richard Norton-Taylor (born 1944), playwright and journalist
* John Julius Norwich (originally John Julius Cooper, 1929–2018), historian and travel writer
* Julian of Norwich (1342 – c. 1416), mystic
* Alexander Nowell (1507–1602), writer and cleric
* Alfred Noyes (1880–1958), poet
* Anthony Nuttall (1937–2007), critic and scholar
* Geoffrey Nuttall (1911–2007), church historian and Congregational minister
* Jeff Nuttall (1933–2004), poet and performer
* Robert Nye (1939–2016), poet, novelist and editor
* John Nyren (1764–1837), cricket writer
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* Ann Oakley (born 1944), novelist and sociologist
* Graham Oakley (1929–2022), children's writer
* John Oakman (c. 1748–1793), writer and engraver
* Patrick O'Brian (originally Richard Patrick Russ, 1914–2000), novelist
* Sean O'Brien (born 1952), poet, playwright and editor
* Thomas Occleve or Hoccleve (c. 1368–1426), poet
* William Ockham or Occam (c. 1288 – c. 1348), philosopher, Occam's Razor
* Sarah Ockwell-Smith (born c. 1976), parent and child-care author
* Philip O'Connor (1916–1998), writer and poet
* John Oldham (1653–1683), poet
* John Oldmixon (1673–1742), historian and pamphleteer
* William Oldys (1696–1761), antiquary
* Laurence Oliphant (1829–1888), writer and traveller
* F. S. Oliver (1864–1934), political writer
* Jamie Oliver (born 1975), cookery writer and chef
* Martin Oliver (living), children's writer
* Michael Oliver (1937–2002), writer and broadcaster
* Paul Oliver (1927–2017), arts writer
* Reggie Oliver (born 1952), story writer and playwright
* Richard Ollard (1923–2007), historian and biographer
* Alfred Ollivant (1874–1927), children's writer
* Daniel O'Mahony (born 1973), novelist and writer
* Carola Oman (1897–1978), biographer, novelist and children's writer
* Charles Oman (1860–1946), historian
* Michael O'Neill (1953–2018), poet and scholar
* Oliver Onions (1873–1961), novelist
* Onyeka, (real name Onyeka Nubia, living), writer and playwright
* Amelia Opie (1769–1853), novelist and poet
* Iona Opie (1923–2017), and Peter Opie (1918–1982), ethnographers
* E. Phillips Oppenheim (wrote as Anthony Partridge, 1866–1946), novelist
* Emma Orczy (Baroness Orczy, 1865–1947), novelist and playwright, The Scarlet Pimpernel
* Orderic Vitalis (1075 – c. 1142), chronicler
* George Ormerod (1785–1873), antiquary and historian
* Joe Orton (1933–1967), playwright
* George Orwell (real name Eric Blair), (1903–1950), novelist and essayist, 1984
* Martin Orwin (born 1963), poet and writer
* Dorothy Osborne (1627–1695), correspondent
* John Osborne (1929–1994), playwright, Look Back in Anger
* Robin Osborne (born 1957), classicist and historian
* Alice Oseman (born 1996), YA author
* Arthur O'Shaughnessy (1844–1881), poet
* Maggie O'Sullivan (born 1951), poet and performer
* Alice Oswald (born 1966), poet
* Peter Oswald (born 1965), playwright
* William Young Ottley (1771–1836), art historian
* Thomas Otway (1652–1685), playwright
* Ouida (real name Maria Louise Ramé, 1839–1908), novelist
* William Oughtred (1574–1660), mathematician
* Keith Ovenden (born 1943), novelist and biographer
* John Overall (1559–1619), scholar, AV translator and bishop
* Thomas Overbury (1581–1613), poet and essayist
* Richard Overton (c. 1599–1664), pamphleteer
* John Owen (1616–1683), theologian
* Richard Owen (1804–1892), scientist
* Wilfred Owen (1893–1918), poet
* Elsie J. Oxenham (real name Elsie Jeanette Dunkerley, 1880–1960), children's writer
* John Oxenham (real name William Arthur Dunkerley, 1852–1941), novelist and poet
* Mary Oxlie (fl. 1616), poet
* Helen Oyeyemi (born 1984), novelist and playwright
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* Ruth Padel (born 1946), poet and journalist
* Lynda Page (born 1950), novelist
* Russell Page (1906–1985), garden writer and designer
* John Paget (died 1638), writer and Presbyterian minister
* Barry Pain (1864–1928), novelist and humorist
* Thomas Paine (1737–1809), political pamphleteer, Rights of Man
* William Painter (c. 1540–1594), writer
* William Paley (1743–1805), philosopher, theologian and cleric
* Francis Palgrave (1788–1861), historian
* Francis Turner Palgrave (1824–1897), poet and anthologist
* William Gifford Palgrave (1826–1888), travel writer and orientalist
* Alan Palmer (1926–2022), historian and biographer
* Charlotte Palmer (c. 1762 – 1834 or after), novelist
* Edward Henry Palmer (1840–1882), translator and orientalist
* Herbert Edward Palmer (1880–1961), poet and critic
* John Palmer (c. 1729–1790) writer and Unitarian minister
* John Palmer (1742–1786), writer and Unitarian minister
* Samuel Palmer (1805–1881), poet and painter
* Robert Paltock (1697–1767), novelist
* Jane Ellen Panton (1847–1923), novelist and domestic science writer
* Joseph Pardo (c. 1624 – 1677), writer and hazzan
* Julia Pardoe (1806–1862), poet, novelist and travel writer
* Bernard Pares (1867–1949), historian and Russian expert
* Edith Pargeter (also as Ellis Peters, 1913–1995), novelist and historian
* Emma Parker (fl. 1809–1817), novelist
* Henry Parker (1604–1652), political writer
* Martin Parker (c. 1600 – c. 1656), balladeer
* Matthew Parker (1504–1575), Bible translator and archbishop, Bishops' Bible
* Norman Parker (born 1954), memoirist
* Samuel Parker (1640–1688), theologian and bishop
* Samuel Parker (1681–1730), religious writer and translator
* Una-Mary Parker (1930–2019), novelist and journalist
* Bessie Rayner Parkes (1829–1925), writer and poet
* C. Northcote Parkinson (1909–1993), naval historian and writer on administration, Parkinson's Law
* John Parkinson (botanist) (1567–1650), herbalist
* Adele Parks (born 1969), novelist
* Tim Parks (born 1954), novelist and translator
* David Parlett (born 1939), games writer
* Samuel Parr (1747–1825), political writer, scholar and educator
* Cecil Parrott (1909–1984), translator and biographer
* Eliza Parsons (1739–1811), novelist
* Frances Partridge (1900–2004), diarist and translator
* John Pass (born 1947), poet and scholar
* Paston Family (14th – 16th cc.), Paston Letters
* Mrs Henry de la Pasture (1866–1945), novelist, dramatist and children's writer
* Walter Pater (1839–1894), essayist and novelist
* Coventry Patmore (1823–1896), poet and critic
* Simon Patrick (1626–1707), theologian and bishop
* Brian Patten (born 1946), poet and children's writer
* Mark Pattison (1813–1884), writer and cleric
* Phyllis Paul (1903-1973), writer of supernatural fiction
* Tom Paulin (born 1949), poet, academic and broadcaster
* Michelle Paver (born 1960), children's writer
* Stel Pavlou (born 1970), novelist and screenwriter
* James Payn (1830–1898), novelist and miscellanist
* John Payne (1842–1917), poet and translator
* Nick Payne (born 1984), playwright
* David Peace (born 1967), novelist
* Henry Peacham the Elder (1546–1634), rhetorician and cleric
* Henry Peacham the Younger (c. 1573 – c. 1643), poet and critic
* Lucy Peacock (fl. 1785–1816), children's writer, editor and translator
* Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866), novelist and poet, Nightmare Abbey
* Mervyn Peake (1911–1968), novelist and poet, Gormenghast
* Philippa Pearce (1920–2006), children's writer, Tom's Midnight Garden
* Pearl Poet (unnamed, fl. 14th c.), poet, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
* Hugh Pearman (born 1955), critic and architect.
* Tim Pears (born 1956), novelist
* Dan Pearson (born 1964), garden writer
* Hesketh Pearson (1887–1964), biographer
* John Pearson (1930–2021), biographer
* John Pearson (1612–1686), theologian and bishop
* Edward R. Pease (1857–1955), writer and politician
* Reginald Pecock (c. 1395–1460), theologian and bishop
* Margaret Pedler (died 1948), novelist
* Arthur George Villiers Peel (also as George Peel, 1869–1956), economist and politician
* Constance Peel (also as Mrs. C. S. Peel and Dorothy Peel, 1868–1934), novelist and writer on household economy
* J. H. B. Peel (1913–1983), writer, poet and journalist
* George Peele (1556–1596), playwright and poet, The Old Wives' Tale
* Mal Peet (1947–2015), children's writer
* Samuel Pegge (1704–1796), antiquary, translator and cleric
* Isaac Penington (1616–1679), Quaker writer
* William Penn (1644–1718), politician, writer and Quaker
* Thomas Pennant (1726–1798), naturalist, antiquary and travel writer
* Francis Penrose (1817–1903), architect and archaeologist
* Roland Penrose (1900–1984), biographer and artist
* Hilary Pepler (1878–1951), writer and poet
* Michael Peppiatt (born 1941), art critic and biographer
* Emily Pepys (1833–1877), child diarist
* Samuel Pepys (1633–1703), diarist and administrator
* Thomas Percy (1729–1811), bishop, poet and anthologist, Percy's Reliques
* John Perrin (c. 1558–1615), scholar, AV translator and cleric
* Anne Perry (1938–2023), novelist
* Chris Petit (born 1949), novelist and film director
* William Petty (1623–1687), economist and philosopher
* K.M. Peyton (originally Kathleen Herald, born 1929), children's writer
* Gilbert Phelps (1915–1993), novelist, critic and educator
* St. John Philby (1885–1960), writer and intelligence officer
* Ambrose Philips (1674–1739), poet
* John Philips (1676–1709), poet
* Katherine Philips (1632–1644), poet
* Caryl Phillips (born 1958), novelist
* Edward Phillips (1630 – c. 1696), writer and philologist
* John Phillips (1631–1706), writer
* J. B. Phillips (1906–1982), Bible translator and cleric
* Richard Phillips (1767–1840), writer and publisher
* Stephen Phillips (1864–1915), poet and playwright
* Eden Phillpotts (1862–1960), novelist, poet and playwright
* Henry Phillpotts (1778–1869), pamphleteer and bishop
* Gervase Phinn (born 1946), novelist, poet and educator
* Constantine Phipps (1797–1863), writer and politician
* David Andrew Phoenix (born 1966), writer, scientist and educator
* Barbara Leonie Picard (1917–2011), children's writer
* Tom Pickard (born 1946), poet and scriptwriter
* David Pickering (born 1958), compiler of reference books
* Marmaduke Pickthall (1875–1936), scholar, Qur'an translator and novelist
* Sarah Piers (died 1719), poet
* Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877–1959), economist
* William Thomas Pike (1838–1924), publisher, journalist, editor, writer
* Mary Pilkington, (1766–1839) novelist, poet and children's writer
* Arthur Wing Pinero (1855–1934), playwright
* William Pinnock (1782–1843) educator
* Harold Pinter (1930–2008), Nobel prize winner, playwright and screenwriter, The Caretaker
* Isaac Pitman (1813–1897), writer on shorthand
* Christopher Pitt (1699–1748), poet and translator
* William Pitt (died 1840), shipbuilder and poet
* Ruth Pitter (1897–1992), poet
* Mary Pix (1666–1709), playwright and novelist
* James Planché (1796–1880), playwright
* Victor Plarr (1863–1929), poet and biographer
* Alan Plater (1935–2010), playwright, screenwriter and novelist
* Karen Platt (living), garden writer
* Robert Plot (1640–1996), naturalist, chemist and antiquary
* Max Plowman (1883–1941), writer and poet
* J. H. Plumb (1911–2001), historian
* Anne Plumptre (1760–1818), writer and translator
* Isaac Pocock (1782–1835), playwright and painter
* Tom Pocock (1925–2007), biographer and historian
* Richard Pococke (1704–1765), travel writer, diarist and bishop
* Frank Podmore (1856–1910), writer and politician
* Michael Podro (1931–2008), art historian
* Elizabeth Polack (fl. 1830–1838), playwright
* John William Polidori (1795–1821), writer and poet
* Alfred Oliver Pollard (1893–1960), novelist and army officer
* Alfred W. Pollard (1859–1944), bibliographer and scholar
* Margaret Steuart Pollard (1903–1996), poet and writer
* William Pollard (1828–1893), Quaker writer
* Jacob Polley (born 1975), poet and novelist
* Elizabeth Polwheele or Polewhele (c. 1651 – c. 1691), playwright
* Richard Polwhele (1760–1838), poet, writer and cleric
* John Pomfret (1667–1702), poet and cleric
* George Ayliffe Poole (1809–1883), religious writer and cleric
* John Poole (1786–1872), playwright
* Alexander Pope (1688–1744), poet
* Dudley Pope (1925–1997), novelist
* Jessie Pope (1868–1941), poet and writer
* Walter Pope (1627–1714), astronomer and poet
* James Pope-Hennessy (1916–1974), biographer and travel writer
* Samuel Pordage (1633–1691), poet
* Eleanor Anne Porden (1795–1825), poet
* Richard Porson (1759–1808), classicist
* Alice Hobbins Porter (1854–1926), writer, journalist, editor
* Anna Maria Porter (1780–1832), novelist and poet
* Henry Porter (died 1599), playwright
* Henry Porter (born 1953), novelist and journalist
* Jane Porter (1776–1850), novelist
* Linda Porter (born 1947), historian and biographer
* Robert Percival Porter (1852-1917), journalist, statistician, economics writer
* Roy Porter (1946–2002), historian
* Sheena Porter (born 1935), children's writer
* Suzanne Portnoy (born 1961), writer and playwright
* Jacob Post (1774–1855), Quaker writer
* Raymond Postgate (1896–1971), novelist and social historian
* Beatrix Potter (1866–1943), children's writer and illustrator, The Tale of Peter Rabbit
* Dennis Potter (1935–1994), playwright and screenwriter
* Robert Potter (1721–1804), translator, poet and cleric
* Anthony Powell (1905–2000), novelist
* Michael Powell (1905–1990), writer and film director
* Eileen Power (1889–1940), historian
* Marguerite Agnes Power (1815–1867), novelist and periodical writer and editoriginally
* Rhoda Power (1890–1957), children's writer and broadcaster
* John Cowper Powys (1872–1963), novelist
* Llewelyn Powys (1884–1939), travel writer and biographer
* T. F. Powys (1875–1953), novelist and story writer
* Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802–1839), poet and politician
* Terry Pratchett (1948–2015), novelist
* Anne Pratt (1806–1893), botanical writer and illustrator
* Samuel Jackson Pratt (1749–1814), poet, playwright and novelist
* Lucy Prebble (born 1981), playwright
* Thomas Preston (1537–1598), scholar and playwright
* Thomas Preston (1563–1640), writer and monk
* Diana Primrose (fl. 1630), poet
* Matthew Prior (1664–1721), poet
* Anthony Price (1928–2019), thriller writer
* Bonamy Price (1807–1888), political economist
* Nancy Price (1880–1970), playwright, novelist and poet
* Nicholas A. Price, writer, poet, photographer and visual artist
* Richard Price (1723–1791), economist, philosopher and Unitarian minister
* Susan Price (born 1955), children's writer
* Uvedale Price (1747–1829), art critic
* Christopher Priest (born 1943), novelist
* Chris Priestley (born 1958), children's writer and illustrator
* J. B. Priestley (1894–1984), playwright and novelist
* Joseph Priestley (1733–1804), theologian and philosopher
* Alison Prince (1931–2019), children's writer, biographer and screenwriter
* Peter Prince (born 1942), novelist and screenwriter
* John Laurence Pritchard (1885–1968), mathematician, and novelist
* V. S. Pritchett (1900–1997), writer
* May Probyn (1856–1909), poet
* Adelaide Anne Procter (1825–1864), poet
* Bryan Procter (wrote as Barry Cornwall, 1787–1874), songwriter and playwright
* Sophie Amelia Prosser, (1807–1882), children's writer
* Sally Prue (living), children's writer
* Paula Pryke (born 1960), writer and florist
* J.H. Prynne (born 1936), poet
* William Prynne (1600–1699), religious writer and historian
* John Pudney (1909–1977), writer and poet
* Sheenagh Pugh (born 1950), poet and novelist
* Christine Pullein-Thompson, (1925–2005), children's writer
* Diana Pullein-Thompson, (1925–2015), children's writer
* Josephine Pullein-Thompson (1924–2014), children's writer
* Charlotte Pullein-Thompson (wrote as Charlotte Popescu, born 1957), children's and garden writer
* Philip Pullman (born 1946), children's writer, His Dark Materials
* Samuel Purchas (c. 1575–1626), travel writer
* C. B. Purdom (1883–1965), critic and biographer
* Libby Purves (born 1950), novelist, broadcaster and columnist
* Edward Bouverie Pusey (1800–1882), theologian, scholar and cleric
* George Puttenham (1529–1590), and Richard Puttenham (c. 1520 – c. 1601), critics and courtiers
* Henry James Pye (1745–1813), Poet Laureate and writer
* Thomas Pyle (1674–1756), writer and cleric
* Barbara Pym (1913–1980), novelist
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## Q

* Bernard Quaritch (1819–1899), bookseller and bibliographer
* Francis Quarles (1592–1644), poet
* C. H. B. Quennell (1872–1935), writer and architect
* Marjorie Quennell (1884–1972), historian
* Peter Quennell (1905–1993), biographer, poet and essayist
* Arthur Quiller-Couch (wrote as Q, 1863–1944), novelist and critic, Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250–1900
* Mabel Quiller-Couch (c. 1866–1924), children's writer and editor
* Edward Quillinan (1791–1851), poet and translator
* Janet Quin-Harkin (born 1941), novelist
* Ann Quin (1936–1973), novelist
* Anthony Quiney (born 1935), architectural historian
* Anthony Quinton (1925–2010), philosopher and broadcaster
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