# List of English writers (R–Z)

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, c. = circa; century; cc. = centuries; cleric = Anglican priest, fl. = floruit = flourished, RC = Roman Catholic, SF = scienceW fiction, YA = young adult fiction
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* Jonathan Raban (1942–2023), travel writer
* Michael Rabbet (c. 1562–1630), AV translator and cleric
* Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823), novelist, The Mysteries of Udolpho
* Jeremiah Radcliffe (died 1612 or c. 1620), scholar, AV translator and cleric
* Dollie Radford (real name Caroline Maitland, 1858–1920), poet and writer
* Simon Rae (living), poet and cricket writer
* Elizabeth Raffald (1833–1881), cookery writer
* Shahida Rahman (born 1971), writer and publisher
* Bali Rai (born 1971), YA novelist
* Craig Raine (born 1944) poet and critic
* Kathleen Raine (1908–2003), poet and translator
* Nina Raine (living), playwright and director
* John Rainolds (1549–1607), AV translator and cleric
* Ross Raisin (born 1979), novelist
* Arthur Raistrick (1896–1991), polymath
* Walter Raleigh or Ralegh (1552–1618), poet and navigator
* Walter Raleigh (1861–1922), scholar and poet
* Lobsang Rampa (real name Cyril Henry Hoskin, 1910–1981), novelist
* Leonard G. G. Ramsey (1913–1990), writer, editor and encyclopaedist
* Thomas Randolph (1605–1635), poet
* William Brighty Rands (wrote as Henry Holbeach and Matthew Browne, 1823–1882), children's writer and hymnist
* Charles Rangeley-Wilson (living), novelist and poet
* Nicholas Rankin (born 1950), biographer, historian and broadcaster
* Arthur Ransome (1884–1967), children's writer, Swallows and Amazons
* Ellen Henrietta Ranyard (1810–1879), religious writer
* Hastings Rashdall (1858–1924), philosopher and cleric
* John Rastell or Rastall (c. 1475–1536) chronicler and playwright
* Julian Rathbone (1935–2008), novelist
* Terence Rattigan (1911–1977), playwright and screenwriter The Winslow Boy
* Simon Raven (1927–2001), novelist, screenwriter and playwright
* Ralph Ravens (c. 1553–1615), scholar, AV translator and cleric
* Edward Ravenscroft (c. 1654–1707), playwright
* Gwen Raverat (1885–1957), memoirist and illustrator
* Thomas Ravis (c. 1560–1609), scholar, AV translator and bishop
* George Rawlinson (1812–1902), scholar, historian and cleric
* Hardwicke Rawnsley (1851–1920), poet and hymnist
* Tom Raworth (1938–2017), poet
* John Ray (1627–1705), naturalist and lexicographer
* Derek Raymond (real name R. W. A. Cook, 1931–1994), novelist
* Claire Rayner (1931–2010), novelist and broadcaster
* Jay Rayner (born 1966), novelist and food writer
* Shoo Rayner (originally Hugh Rayner, 1956), children's writer and illustrator
* Benedict Read (1945–2016), art critic
* Herbert Read (1893–1968), poet, critic and novelist
* Miss Read (real name Dora Jessie Saint, 1913–2012), novelist, autobiographer and children's writer
* Piers Paul Read (born 1941), novelist and writer
* Charles Reade (1814–1884), novelist, The Cloister and the Hearth
* Hazel Alden Reason (1901–1976), writer on science for children
* John Redford (died 1547), poet, playwright and composer
* Peter Redgrove (1932–2003), poet, novelist and editor
* Patrick Redmond (born 1966), thriller writer
* Henry Reed (1914–1986), poet and translator
* Isaac Reed (1742–1807), biographer and Shakespearean
* Jeremy Reed (born 1951), poet, novelist and critic
* Talbot Baines Reed (1852–1893), children's novelist
* Douglas Reeman (wrote as Alexander Kent, 1924–2017), novelist
* David Rees (1936–1993), children's writer
* Terence Reese (1913–1996), bridge writer
* Clara Reeve (1729–1807), novelist, The Old English Baron
* John Reeve (1608–1658), religious writer
* Philip Reeve (born 1966), children's writer and illustrator
* Amber Reeves (1887–1981), novelist and writer
* James Reeves (originally John Morris Reeves, 1909–1978), poet and children's writer
* Christopher Reid (born 1949), poet and essayist
* Jonathan Rendall (born 1964), novelist
* Ruth Rendell (also as Barbara Vine, 1930–2015), novelist
* Louise Rennison (1951–2016), children's writer and comic
* John Reresby (1634–1689), politician and diarist
* Frederic Reynolds (1764–1841), playwright
* George W. M. Reynolds (1814–1879, novelist and journalist
* Henry Reynolds (1564–1632), poet, translator and critic
* John Hamilton Reynolds (1794–1852), poet
* Dan Rhodes (born 1972), novelist and story writer
* Pam Rhodes (born 1950), novelist and broadcaster
* William Barnes Rhodes (1772–1826), playwright
* Ernest Rhys (1859–1946), writer, poet and editor
* David Ricardo (1772–1823), political economist
* Ben Rice (born 1972), novelist
* James Rice (1843–1882), novelist
* Barnabe Rich (c. 1540–1617), writer and soldier
* Alfred Bate Richards (1820–1876), playwright, poet and essayist
* I. A. Richards (1893–1979), critic
* Justin Richards (born 1961), novelist
* Vernon Richards (originally Vero Recchioni, 1915–2001), anarchist writer
* Dorothy Richardson (1873–1957), novelist and translator
* Elizabeth Richardson (1576/1577–1651), religious writer
* John Richardson (died 1625), scholar, AV translator and cleric
* John Richardson (1657–1753), Quaker preacher and memoirist
* Samuel Richardson (1689–1761), novelist, Pamela
* Christopher Ricks (born 1933), critic and anthologist
* Edgell Rickword (1898–1982), poet, critic and editor
* Anne Ridler (1912–2001), poet and editor
* James Ridley (wrote as Charles Morell, 1736–1765), novelist and story writer
* Mark Ridley (1560 – c. 1624), lexicographer of Russian
* Nicholas Ridley (1500–1555), theologian and bishop
* Philip Ridley (born 1964), playwright and children's writer
* D. C. H. Rieu (1916–2008), scholar and translator
* E. V. Rieu (1887–1972), scholar, translator and poet
* Denise Riley (born 1948), poet and scholar
* Gwendoline Riley (born 1979), novelist
* Peter Riley (born 1940), poet and essayist
* Stella Rimington (born 1935), novelist and intelligence officer
* James Riordan (1936–2012), children's writer and footballer
* Jonathan Ripley, writer, director and producer
* Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie (1837–1919), novelist and essayist
* James Ewing Ritchie (1820–1898), travel writer and political biographer
* Joseph Ritson (1752–1803), antiquary and editor
* Graham Robb (born 1958), biographer and critic
* Andrew Roberts (born 1963), historian and biographer
* David Roberts (living), novelist and editor
* Emma Roberts (1794–1840), travel writer and poet
* Katherine Roberts (born 1962), children's writer
* Keith Roberts (1935–2000), novelist and story writer
* Lynette Roberts (born Evelyn Beatrice Roberts, 1909–1995), poet
* Michael Roberts (1902–1948), poet and critic
* Michael Symmons Roberts (born 1963), poet and librettist
* Michèle Roberts (born 1949), novelist and poet
* Morley Roberts (1857–1942), novelist
* Joseph Clinton Robertson (wrote as Sholto Percy, 1788–1852), writer and editor
* Thomas William Robertson (1829–1871), playwright
* Denise Robins (several pen names, 1897–1985), novelist
* Patricia Robins (also as Claire Lorrimer, 1921–2016), novelist
* Austin Robinson (1897–1993), economist
* Derek Robinson (born 1932), novelist
* Henry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867), man of letters
* Hilary Robinson (born 1962), children's writer
* Joan Robinson (1903–1983), economist
* John Robinson (1919–1983), writer and bishop Honest to God
* Mary Robinson (1757–1800), poet and novelist
* Nigel Robinson (living), writer and editor
* Peter Robinson (born 1953), poet and translator
* Rony Robinson (born 1940), novelist and playwright
* John Roby (1793–1850), poet and writer
* Paul Roche (1916–2007), poet, novelist and critic
* Regina Maria Roche (1764–1845), Gothic novelist
* Rennell Rodd (1858–1941), poet and politician
* John Rodker (1894–1955), writer and poet
* Jane Rogers (born 1952), novelist
* Samuel Rogers (1763–1855), poet
* Thorold Rogers (1823–1890), political economist
* Woodes Rogers (died 1732), travel writer and mariner
* Peter Mark Roget (1779–1869), philologist, Roget's Thesaurus
* Sax Rohmer (real name A. H. S. Ward, 1883–1959), novelist
* Frederick Rolfe (1860–1913), novelist and artist
* Richard Rolle (1290–1349), writer and Bible translator
* L. T. C. Rolt (1910–1974), transport writer
* Isabella Frances Romer (1798–1852), travel writer
* Stephen Romer (born 1957), poet and critic
* William Roscoe (1753–1831), scholar and poet
* Elizabeth and Gerald Rose (latter b. 1935), children's writers and illustrators
* Paul Rose (1935–2015), writer and politician
* Michael Rosen (born 1946), children's writer and poet
* Isaac Rosenberg (1890–1918), poet and playwright
* Jack Rosenthal (1931–2004), screenwriter
* Alan Ross (1922–2001), poet, writer and editor
* Christina Rossetti (1830–1894), poet
* Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882), poet and painter
* Maria Francesca Rossetti (1827–1876), writer and translator
* William Michael Rossetti (1829–1919), writer and critic
* John Horace Round (1854–1928), historian and genealogist
* W. H. D. Rouse (1863–1950), classicist and editor
* Martin Routh (1755–1854), classicist
* Alick Rowe (1939–2009), scriptwriter and novelist
* Elizabeth Singer Rowe (1674–1737), poet and novelist
* Nicholas Rowe (1674–1718), Poet Laureate
* Richard Rowlands (c. 1550–1640), historian and antiquary
* Samuel Rowlands (c. 1573–1630), poet and pamphleteer
* Samuel Rowley (died c. 1633), playwright and actor
* William Rowley (c. 1585–1626), playwright and actor
* J. K. Rowling (born 1965), children's writer, Harry Potter
* Lucinda Roy (born 1955), novelist and poet
* Gillian Rubinstein (also as Lian Hearn, born 1942), children's writer and playwright
* Carol Rumens (born 1944), poet and scholar
* Katherine Rundell (born 1987), children's writer, playwright and academic
* Peter Rushforth (1945–2005), novelist
* John Ruskin (1819–1900), essayist, poet and art critic
* Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), philosopher What I Believe
* Lord John Russell (1792–1878), biographer and prime minister
* William Clark Russell (1844–1911), novelist
* William Howard Russell (1820–1907), travel writer and war correspondent
* John D. Rutherford (born 1941), scholar and translator
* Edward Rutherfurd (born 1948), historical fiction author
* Cecil Bernard Rutley, (1888–1956), children's and science fiction
* Chris Ryan (born 1961), novelist and soldier
* Amy Louisa Rye (1851–unknown), children's writer and social reformer
* Gilbert Ryle (1900–1976), philosopher
* Thomas Rymer (c. 1643–1713), Historiographer Royal and poet
* Royce Ryton (1924–2009), playwright
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* Suhayl Saadi (born 1961), novelist, playwright and physician
* Oliver Sacks (1933–2015), writer and neurologist
* Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset (1638–1706), poet
* Lady Margaret Sackville (1881–1963), poet and children's writer
* Thomas Sackville, Earl of Dorset (1536–1608), poet and statesman
* Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962), poet and novelist All Passion Spent
* Lorna Sage (1943–2001), critic and scholar
* Lawrence Sail (born 1942), poet and editor
* George Saintsbury (1845–1933), critic
* Saki (real name Hector Hugh Munro) (1870–1916), story writer and satirist
* Anbara Salam, historical fiction writer
* Henry Stephens Salt (1851–1939), writer and campaigner
* John Saltmarsh (died 1647), writer and cleric
* Fiona Sampson (born 1968), poet and editor
* Kevin Sampson (born 1961), novelist
* Ignatius Sancho (c. 1729–1780), writer and domestic servant
* Nicholas Sanders (c. 1530–1581), polemicist and RC priest
* Robert Sanderson (1587–1663), theologian
* Edwin Sandys (1519–1588), Bishops' Bible translator and bishop
* George Sandys (1577–1644), poet and traveller
* Peter Sanger (born 1943), poet and scholar
* C. J. Sansom (born 1952), novelist
* Clive Sansom (1910–1981), poet, playwright and educator
* William Sansom (1912–1976), novelist and travel writer
* Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967), poet and novelist Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man
* Hilary Saint George Saunders (wrote as Francis Beeding, etc., 1898–1951), novelist
* James Savage (1767–1845), writer and antiquary
* Richard Savage (c. 1697–1743), poet and satirist
* Henry Savile (1549–1622), scholar and AV translator
* Michael Saward (1932–2015), hymnist
* Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957), novelist, Lord Peter Wimsey
* Frank Sayers (1763–1817), poet and metaphysician
* Arthur Scaife (c. 1855-1934), writer and editor
* Francis Scarfe (1911–1986), poet and novelist
* Vernon Scannell (1922–2007), poet
* Alex Scarrow (living), novelist and screenwriter
* Simon Scarrow (born 1962), historical novelist
* Simon Schama (born 1945), historian
* Ann Schlee (born 1934), novelist
* Caroline Lucy Scott (1784–1857), novelist and religious writer
* Catherine Amy Dawson Scott (1865–1934), poet, playwright and novelist
* Geoffrey Scott (1884–1929), writer and poet
* Hardiman Scott (1920–1999), writer and poet
* Hugh Stowell Scott (wrote as Henry Seton Merriman, c. 1863–1903), novelist
* Jane Scott (1779–1839), playwright
* John Scott (1783–1821), editor and writer
* John Scott of Amwell (1731–1783), poet
* John A. Scott (born 1948), poet and novelist
* Mary Scott (1751/1752–1793), poet
* Paul Mark Scott (1920–1978), novelist, playwright and poet
* Sarah Scott (1720–1795), novelist and translator
* William Bell Scott (1811–1890), poet and artist
* Will Scott (1893−1964), crime writer and playwright
* Anne Scott-James (1913–2009), novelist, editor and garden writer
* E. J. Scovell (1907–1999), poet
* James Scudamore (born 1976), novelist
* George Bazeley Scurfield (1920–1991), poet, novelist and politician
* Marcus Sedgwick (born 1968), children's writer
* Charles Sedley (1639–1701), poet and rake
* Kate Sedley (real name Brenda Clarke, 1926–2022), novelist
* Stephen Sedley (b. 1939), writer on law
* Frederic Seebohm (1833–1912), economic historian
* John Robert Seeley (1834–1895), historian and essayist
* Rachel Seiffert (born 1971), novelist
* David Selbourne (born 1937), philosopher and playwright
* Catherine Selden (fl. 1797–1817), novelist
* John Selden (1584–1654), polymath
* Will Self (born 1961), novelist and columnist
* Charles Seltman (1886–1957), art historian
* George Selwyn (1719–1791), correspondent and wit
* Nassau William Senior (1790–1864), economist
* Sepharial (real name Walter Gorn Old, 1864–1929), astrologer and numerologist
* Gitta Sereny (1921–2012), biographer and historian
* Ian Serraillier (1912–1994), novelist and poet
* Robert Service (born 1947), historian and scholar
* Diane Setterfield (born 1964), novelist
* Elkanah Settle (1648–1724), playwright and poet
* Tim Severin (1940–2020), writer, historian and explorer
* Anna Seward ("Swan of Lichfield", 1747–1809), poet and biographer
* Thomas Seward (1708–1790), writer
* William Seward (1747–1799), anecdotist
* Anna Sewell (1820–1878), novelist, Black Beauty
* Elizabeth Missing Sewell (1815–1906), novelist and religious writer
* Mary Wright Sewell (1797–1884), children's writer
* William Sewell (1804–1874), writer, translator and cleric
* Miranda Seymour (born 1948), biographer, novelist and children's writer
* Martin Seymour-Smith (1928–1998), poet and critic
* Thomas Shadwell (c. 1642–1692), Poet Laureate, Historiographer Royal and playwright
* Anthony Shaffer (1926–2001), playwright and novelist
* Peter Shaffer (1926–2016), playwright Amadeus
* Eddy Shah (born 1944), novelist and newspaper owner
* Saira Shah (born 1964), writer and film-maker
* Tahir Shah (born 1966), travel writer and critic
* Olivia Shakespear (1863–1938), novelist and playwright
* Nicholas Shakespeare (born 1957), novelist and biographer
* William Shakespeare (c. 1564–1616), poet and playwright Hamlet
* Edward Shanks (1892–1953), poet and critic
* Jo Shapcott (born 1953), poet and scholar
* Evelyn Sharp (1869–1955), journalist, children's writer and suffragist
* Jane Sharp (born c. 1641), writer on midwifery
* Margery Sharp (1905–1991), novelist, children's writer and playwright
* Richard Sharp (1759–1835), polemicist and hatter
* Thomas Wilfred Sharp (1901–1978), writer on planning
* Kevin Sharpe (1949–2011), historian
* Richard Sharpe (living), historian
* Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1847–1909), ornithologist and editor
* Tom Sharpe (1928–2013), novelist
* George Shaw (1751–1813), botanist and zoologist
* Pete Shaw (born 1966), writer and producer
* Peter Shaw (1694–1763), physician, medical writer and translator
* Robert Shaw (1927–1978), actor and novelist
* Watkins Shaw (1911–1996), musicologist
* John Shebbeare (1709–1788), novelist and satirist
* Wilfrid Sheed (1930–2011), writer, novelist and essayist
* John Sheffield (also as Mulgrave, then Buckingham, 1647–1721) poet and essayist
* Edward Sheldon (1599–1687), religious translator
* Mary Shelley (1797–1851), author, Frankenstein
* Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822), poet Ode to the West Wind
* George Shelvocke (1675–1742), travel writer
* William Shenstone (1714–1763), poet
* Stav Sherez (born 1970), novelist
* Clare Sheridan (1885–1970), writer and sculptor
* Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816), playwright, The Rivals
* William Sherlock (1641–1707), theologian and cleric
* Philip Sherrard (1922–1995), classicist, translator and religious writer
* R. C. Sherriff (1890–1975), playwright, novelist and screenwriter Journey's End
* Charles Scott Sherrington (1857–1952), science writer and Nobel Prize winner
* Norman Sherry (1935–2016), novelist and biographer
* Mary Martha Sherwood (1775–1851), children's writer and tractarian
* James Shirley (1596–1666), playwright
* Joseph Henry Shorthouse (1834–1903), novelist
* Fredegond Shove (1889–1949), poet
* Nevil Shute (1899–1960), novelist and aviation engineer A Town Like Alice
* Penelope Shuttle (born 1947), poet and novelist
* Gareth Sibson (born 1977), novelist and broadcaster
* Elizabeth Siddal (1829–1862), artist and poet
* Mary Sidney (later Mary Herbert, countess of Pembroke, 1561–1621), poet and translator
* Philip Sidney (1554–1586), poet and soldier
* Robert Sidney, earl of Leicester (1563–1626) poet and statesman
* Una Lucy Silberrad (1872–1955), novelist
* Jon Silkin (1930–1997), poet, editor and critic
* Alan Sillitoe (1928–2010), novelist, poet and translator Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
* Elizabeth Simcoe (1762–1850), diarist
* George Augustus Simcox (1841–1905), poet and scholar
* Kathryn Simmonds (born 1972), poet and story writer
* Jack Simmons (1915–2000), historian
* Brian Simon (1915–2002), educator
* David Simpson (1745–1799), writer and cleric
* Dorothy Simpson (born 1933), novelist
* Helen Simpson (born 1959), novelist and story writer
* Joe Simpson (born 1960), writer and mountaineer
* John Simpson (1746–1812), writer and Unitarian minister
* John Simpson (born 1953), lexicographer
* John Palgrave Simpson (1807–1887), playwright
* N. F. Simpson (1919–2011), playwright
* George Robert Sims (1847–1922), writer, poet and journalist
* Andrew Sinclair (1935–2019), novelist, historian and biographer
* Clive Sinclair (1940–2021), novelist
* Ian Sinclair writer, poet and film-maker
* May Sinclair (real name Mary Amelia St. Clair, 1863–1946), novelist, poet and critic
* C. H. Sisson (1914–2003), poet, translator and writer
* Edith Sitwell (1887–1964), poet
* Osbert Sitwell (1892–1969), writer
* Sacheverell Sitwell (1897–1988), poet and writer
* Walter William Skeat (1835–1912), philologist
* Barbara Skelton (1916–1996), novelist and memoirist
* John Skelton (c. 1460–1529), poet and satirist
* Robert Skidelsky (born 1939), economic historian and biographer
* Joseph Skipsey (1832–1903), poet and editor
* G. E. M. Skues (1858–1949), fishing writer
* Eleanor Sleath (1770–1847), Gothic novelist
* Barbara Sleigh (1906–1982), children's writer Carbonel series
* Edward Slow (1841–1925), dialect poet
* Carolyn Smart (born 1952), poet
* Christopher Smart (1722–1771), poet
* Francis Edward Smedley (1818–1864), novelist
* Menella Bute Smedley (1819–1877), novelist, poet and translator
* Albert Richard Smith (1816–1860), writer and mountaineer
* C. Fox Smith (1882–1954), poet and nautical and children's writer
* Charlotte Smith (1749–1806), poet and novelist
* Charlotte Fell Smith (1851–1937) historian and biographer
* David Smith (born 1963), historian
* Dodie Smith (1896–1990), novelist and playwright, The Hundred and One Dalmatians
* Edmund Smith (1672–1710), poet and translator
* Eleanor Smith (1902–1945), novelist
* Emma Smith (1923–2018), novelist and children's writer
* Georgina Castle Smith (1845–1933), children's writer and novelist
* Horace Smith (originally Horatio Smith, 1779–1849), novelist and poet
* Joan Smith (born 1953), novelist and journalist
* John Frederick Smith (1806–1890), novelist
* Ken Smith (1938–2003), poet
* Michael Marshall Smith (born 1965), novelist and screenwriter
* Miles Smith (1554–1624), scholar, AV translator and cleric
* Sid Smith (born 1949), novelist and journalist
* Stevie Smith (1902–1971), poet and novelist
* Sydney Smith (1771–1845), writer and cleric
* Thomas Smith (fl. 1600–1627), writer and soldier
* Tom Rob Smith (born 1979), novelist
* Wentworth Smith (1571 – c. 1623), playwright
* William Smith (fl. 1590s), poet
* William Smith (1769–1839), geologist
* William Smith (1813–1893), lexicographer
* Zadie Smith (born 1975), novelist
* Frank Smythe (1900–1949), writer and mountaineer
* Percy Smythe (1826–1869), man of letters
* C. P. Snow (1905–1980), novelist and physicist Strangers and Brothers
* John Snow (born 1941), poet, autobiographer and first-class cricketer
* William Somervile (1675–1742), poet
* Charles Sorley (1895–1915), poet
* William Sotheby (1757–1833), poet and translator
* Ahdaf Soueif (born 1950), novelist and translator
* Robert South (1634–1716), theologian and cleric
* Joanna Southcott (1750–1814), religious writer
* R. W. Southern (1912–2001), historian
* Caroline Anne Southey (1786–1854), poet
* Robert Southey (1774–1843), Poet Laureate
* Robert Southwell (1561–1595), poet, tractarian and martyr
* Stephen Southwold (1887–1964), novelist and children's writer
* Nancy Spain (1917–1964), novelist, biographer and journalist
* Robert Spaulding (fl. 1610s), scholar, AV translator and cleric
* Rachel Speght (1596-16??), poet and polemicist
* Henry Spelman (c. 1562–1641), historian and antiquary
* Bernard Spencer (1909–1963), poet
* Colin Spencer (born 1933), writer, artist and broadcaster
* Herbert Spencer (1820–1903), philosopher
* John Spencer (1630–1693), scholar and cleric
* William Robert Spencer (1769–1834), poet and wit
* Emily Spender (1841–1922), novelist and suffragette
* Lillian Spender (1835–1895), novelist and essayist
* Stephen Spender (1909–1995), poet, novelist and travel writer
* Edmund Spenser (c. 1552–1599), poet, The Faerie Queene
* John Spenser (1559–1614), scholar, AV translator and cleric
* Dennis Spooner (1932–1986), TV screenwriter
* William Archibald Spooner (1844–1930), scholar, spoonerisms
* Jean Sprackland (born 1962), poet
* Francis Spufford (born 1964), writer
* Charles Spurgeon (1834–1892), writer and Baptist minister
* J. C. Squire (1884–1958), poet and historian
* Edward St Aubyn (born 1960), novelist and journalist
* Bayle St. John (1822–1859), travel writer and biographer
* Henry St John, Lord Bolingbroke (1678–1751) politician and philosopher
* James Augustus St. John (born James John, 1795–1875), journalist, writer and traveller
* Spenser St. John (1825–1910), biographer, travel writer and diplomat
* Brian Stableford (born 1948), SF writer
* Tom Stacey (1930–2022), novelist, writer and publisher
* David A. T. Stafford (born 1942), historian
* Julian Stallabrass (living), art historian
* Jon Stallworthy (1935–2014), scholar and poet
* John Stammers (born 1954), poet
* Josiah Stamp (1880–1941), economist and banker
* Derek Stanford (1918–2008), biographer and poet
* Louisa Stanhope (fl. 1806–1827), novelist
* Philip Stanhope, Lord Chesterfield, (1694–1773) politician and writer
* Arthur Stanley (1815–1881), theologian and cleric
* Thomas Stanley (1625–1678), poet and philosopher
* Andy Stanton (living), children's writer,
* Olaf Stapledon (1886–1950), philosopher and novelist
* Robert Stapylton (died 1669), playwright, poet and translator
* Freya Stark (1893–1993), travel writer
* Mariana Starke (1761/1762–1838), travel writer, poet and playwright
* David Starkey (b. 1945), historian
* Boris Starling (living), novelist and screenwriter
* William Thomas Stead (1849–1912), campaigner
* Michael Steed (born 1940), political scientist and broadcaster
* Wickham Steed (1871–1856), journalist and historian
* Anne Steele (wrote as Theodosia, 1717–1778), hymnist
* David Ramsay Steele (living), philosopher
* Jonathan Steele (living), writer and journalist
* Marguerite Steen (1894–1975), novelist and biographer
* George Steevens (1736–1800), Shakespearean scholar
* James Kenneth Stephen (1859–1892), poet
* Leslie Stephen (1832–1904), writer and mountaineer
* Frederic George Stephens (1828–1907), art critic
* Henry Pottinger Stephens (1851–1903), playwright and novelist
* James Francis Stephens (1792–1852), entomologist
* Robert Stephens (1665–1732), Historiographer Royal
* Simon Stephens (born 1971), playwright
* G. B. Stern (1890–1973), novelist, playwright and biographer
* Laurence Sterne (1713–1768), novelist and cleric, Tristram Shandy
* George Alexander Stevens (1710–1780), playwright, poet and actor
* Matthew Stevenson (died 1654), poet
* William Stevenson (1530–1575), poet and playwright
* Angus Stewart (1936–1998) novelist, diarist and poet
* John "Walking" Stewart (1747–1822), philosopher and traveller
* Mary Stewart (1916–2014), novelist
* William Stobbs (1914–2000), children's writer and illustrator
* Julian Stockwin (born 1944), novelist
* Sewell Stokes (1902–1979), novelist, biographer and playwright
* Nick Stone (born 1966), novelist
* Samuel John Stone (1839–1900), hymnist and cleric
* David Lee Stone (born 1978), children's writer
* David Storey (1933–2017), novelist and playwright
* Catherine Storr (1913–2001), children's writer
* Thomas Story (c. 1670–1742), writer and Quaker
* John Stow (c. 1525–1605), historian and antiquary
* Herbert Strang (pseudonym of George Herbert Ely, 1866–1958, and Charles James L'Estrange, 1867–1947), children's writers
* Alix Strachey (1892–1973), psychoanalyst and translator
* James Strachey (1887–1967), psychoanalyst and editor
* Julia Strachey (1901–1979), novelist
* Lytton Strachey (1880–1932), biographer and critic, Eminent Victorians
* Ray Strachey (originally Rachel Costelloe, 1887–1940), biographer and campaigner
* Paul Strathern (born 1940), novelist and scholar
* Noel Streatfeild (1895–1986), children's writer Ballet Shoes
* A. G. Street (1892–1966), writer and broadcaster
* Cecil Street (also as John Rhode, Miles Burton etc., 1884–1965), novelist
* Joe Stretch (born 1982), novelist
* Hesba Stretton (real name Sarah Smith, 1832–1911), novelist and children's writer
* Agnes Strickland (1796–1874), historian, poet and children's writer
* William Strode (1600–1643), poet
* Leonard Strong (wrote as L. A. G. Strong, 1896–1958), novelist, poet and children's writer
* Jan Struther (real name Joyce Anstruther, (1901–1953), novelist and hymnist
* John Strype (1643–1737), historian, biographer and cleric
* Alexander Stuart (living), novelist and screenwriter
* Muriel Stuart (1885–1967), poet and garden writer
* John Stubbs or Stubbe (c. 1543–1591), pamphleteer
* John Studley (c. 1545 – c. 1590), translator
* Joseph Sturge (1793–1859) abolitionist writer and campaigner
* Howard Sturgis (1855–1920), novelist
* Julian Sturgis (1848–1904), novelist and poet
* George Sturt (also as George Bourne, 1863–1927), country writer
* John Strype (1643–1737), historian and biographer
* Showell Styles (1908–2005), novelist and children's writer
* John Suckling (1609–1642), poet
* J. W. N. Sullivan (1886–1937), science writer
* Montague Summers (1880–1948), writer and occultist
* Kate Summerscale (born 1965), writer and journalist
* Robert Smith Surtees (1805–1864), novelist
* Alice Sutcliffe (fl. 1624–1634), religious writer
* William Sutcliffe (born 1971), novelist
* Alfred Sutro (1863–1933), playwright and translator
* E. W. Swanton (1907–2000), cricket writer and broadcaster
* Graham Swift (born 1949), novelist
* Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909), poet
* Robert Swindells (born 1939), children's writer
* Randall Swingler (1909–1967), poet
* Frank Swinnerton (1884–1982), novelist and editor
* Christopher Sykes (1907–1986), travel writer and biographer
* Percy Sykes (1867–1945), travel writer and historian
* Joshua Sylvester (1563–1618), poet
* John Addington Symonds (1840–1893), poet and critic
* A. J. A. Symons (1900–1941), writer and bibliographer
* Arthur Symons (1865–1945), poet and essayist
* Julian Symons (1912–1994), crime writer and poet
* Mitchell Symons (born 1957), writer and journalist
* George Szirtes (born 1948), poet and translator
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## T

* Thomas Noon Talfourd (1795–1854), writer, playwright and lawyer
* Derek Tangye (1912–1996), writer
* Nigel Tangye (1909–1988), writer and flying instructor
* Heather Tanner (1903–1993), countryside writer
* James T. Tanner (1858–1915), playwright and director
* Thomas Tanner (1630–1682), writer and cleric
* Thomas Tanner (1674–1735), antiquary and bishop
* Theaurau John Tany (originally Thomas Totney, 1608–1659), religious writer
* Emma Tatham (1829–1855), poet
* John Tatham (fl. 1632–64), playwright and poet
* Jemima von Tautphoeus (born Jemima Montgomery, 1807–1893), novelist
* R. H. Tawney (1880–1962), economic historian
* A. J. P. Taylor (1906–1990), historian
* Andrew Taylor (born 1951), novelist
* Ann Taylor (1782–1866), poet and children's writer
* D. J. Taylor (born 1960), novelist and biographer
* Edgar Taylor (1793–1839), writer and translator
* Elizabeth Taylor (1912–1975), novelist
* Emily Taylor (1795–1872), writer, poet and hymnist
* G. P. Taylor (born 1958), novelist and cleric
* Henry Taylor (1711–1785), polemicist and cleric
* Henry Taylor (1800–1886), playwright
* Isaac Taylor (1787–1865), scholar, cleric and inventor
* Jane Taylor (1783–1824), children's poet and novelist
* Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667), religious writer
* John Taylor (1703–1772), autobiographer
* John Taylor (the "Water Poet", 1578–1653), poet
* John Taylor (1750–1826), poet and hymnist
* Philip Meadows Taylor (1808–1876), novelist
* Richard Taylor (1782–1858), naturalist and editor
* Sean Taylor (living), children's writer
* Thomas Taylor (1758–1835), translator
* Tom Taylor (1817–1880), playwright and editor
* William Taylor (died 1423), Lollard theologian
* William Taylor (1765–1836), scholar and translator
* Roma Tearne (born 1954), novelist
* Barry Tebb (born 1942), poet and anthologist
* Mrs. Bartle Teeling (1851–1906), non-fiction writer and novelist
* William Temple (1555–1627), logician
* William Temple (1628–1699), essayist and statesman
* William Temple (1881–1944), writer and archbishop
* William F. Temple (1914–1989), SF writer
* Edward Tennant (1897–1916), poet
* Emma Tennant (1937–2017), novelist
* Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892), Poet Laureate, The Charge of the Light Brigade
* Frederick Tennyson (1807–1898), poet
* Henry Teonge (c. 1620–1690), diarist and naval chaplain
* Lisa St Aubin de Terán (born 1953), novelist and memoirist
* J. E. Harold Terry (1885–1939), novelist, playwright and critic
* A. S. J. Tessimond (1902–1962), poet
* Anne Isabella Thackeray, Lady Ritchie (1837–1919), novelist and essayist
* William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863), novelist, Vanity Fair
* Algernon Sydney Thelwall (1795–1863), writer and cleric
* John Thelwall (1764–1834), poet and writer
* Sydney Thelwall (1834–1922), scholar, translator and cleric
* Lewis Theobald (1688–1744), scholar, critic and translator
* Marcel Theroux (born 1968), novelist and broadcaster
* Philip Thicknesse (1719–1792), writer
* Angela Thirkell (1890–1961), novelist
* Connop Thirlwall (1797–1875), historian, translator and bishop
* Adam Thirlwell (born 1978), novelist
* William Turner Thiselton-Dyer (1843–1926), botanist
* D. M. Thomas (1935–2023), novelist, poet and translator
* David St John Thomas (1929–2014), writer
* Donald Serrell Thomas (also as Francis Selwyn, b. 1926), novelist, biographer and poet
* Edward Thomas (1878–1917), poet
* Edward J. Thomas (1869–1958), historian of Buddhism and librarian
* Elizabeth Thomas (1675–1731), poet
* Elizabeth Thomas (wrote as Mrs Bridget Bluemantle and Mrs Martha Homely, 1770/1771–1855), novelist and poet
* Hugh Thomas (1931–2017), historian
* Scarlett Thomas (born 1972), novelist
* W. Ian Thomas (1914–2007), writer and missionary
* John Thomlinson (1692–1761), diarist and cleric
* Edward Healy Thompson (1813–1891), religious writer and editor
* Flora Thompson (1876–1947), novelist and poet, Lark Rise to Candleford
* Francis Thompson (1859–1907), poet
* Harry Thompson (1960–2005), biographer, novelist and TV producer
* James Thompson (1817–1877), journalist and historian
* Kate Thompson (born 1956), novelist and children's writer
* Thomas Thompson (1880–1951), fiction and non-fiction writer
* William Thompson (c. 1712 – c. 1766), poet
* William Thoms (1803–1885), antiquary and miscellanist
* A. A. Thomson (1894–1968), cricket and travel writer
* Giles Thomson (1553–1612), scholar, AV translator and cleric
* Jamie Thomson (born 1958), novelist and children's writer
* Katherine Thomson (also as Mrs Thomson and Grace Wharton, 1797–1862), novelist and historian
* Richard Thomson (fl. 1600s), scholar, AV translator and cleric
* Rupert Thomson (born 1955), novelist and memoirist
* Wilfrid Thorley (1878–1963), poet and educator
* George Walter Thornbury (1828–1876), poet, novelist and travel writer
* Guy Thorne (real name C. Ranger Gull, 1876–1923), novelist
* Matt Thorne (born 1974), novelist and children's writer
* William Thorne (c. 1568–1630), orientalist, AV translator and cleric
* Bonnell Thornton (1725–1768), poet, essayist and critic
* Robert John Thornton (1768–1837), botanist and physician
* Tim Thornton (born 1973), novelist and musician
* Adam Thorpe (born 1956), poet and novelist
* Kay Thorpe (living), romantic novelist
* Ralph Thoresby (1658–1725), antiquary and diarist
* Hester Thrale (also as Mrs. Piozzi, 1741–1821), diarist and biographer,
* Colin Thubron (born 1939), travel writer and novelist
* Edward Thurlow, Lord Thurlow (1731–1806), poet and lord chancellor
* E. Temple Thurston (1879–1933), playwright, poet and novelist
* Joseph Thurston (1704–1732), poet
* Ann Thwaite (born 1932), biographer
* Anthony Thwaite (1930–2021), poet and writer
* Charles John Tibbits (1861–1935), journalist, newspaper editor, author, and legal writer
* Chidiock Tichborne (1558–1586), poet and conspirator
* Thomas Tickell (1686–1740), poet
* Robert Tighe (died 1620), AV translator and cleric
* Terence Tiller (1916–1987), poet and radio producer
* E. M. W. Tillyard (1889–1962), classicist and literary critic
* Stella Tillyard (born 1957), historian and novelist
* John Timbs (also as Horace Welby, 1801–1875), writer and antiquary
* William M. Timlin (1892–1943), writer and illustrator
* Gillian Tindall (living), historian and novelist
* Peter Tinniswood (1936–2003), novelist and scriptwriter
* John Tobin (1770–1804), playwright
* Barbara Euphan Todd (1890–1976), novelist and children's writer
* H. E. Todd (1908–1988), children's writer
* Malcolm Todd (1939–2013), historian
* J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973), fantasy writer and scholar, The Lord of the Rings
* Simon Tolkien (born 1959), novelist and barrister
* Elizabeth Tollet (1694–1754), poet
* Francis Tolson (died 1745), poet
* Thomas Tomkis (c. 1580–1634), playwright
* Claire Tomalin (born 1933), biographer
* Charles Tomlinson (1927–2015), poet and translator
* H. M. Tomlinson, (1873–1958), travel writer, novelist and journalist
* Theresa Tomlinson (born 1946), children's writer
* Rosemary Tonks (1932–2014), poet and novelist
* Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna (pen name Charlotte Elizabeth, 1790–1846), tractarian and novelist
* John Horne Tooke (1736–1812), philologist and politician
* Rebecca Tope (living), crime writer and journalist
* Augustus Montague Toplady (1740–1778), theologian and hymnist
* Angela Topping (born 1954), poet and critic
* Paul Torday (1946–2013), novelist
* Chris Torrance (1941–2021), poet and musician
* Richard Tottel (died 1594), miscellanist
* Cyril Tourneur (1575–1626), playwright
* Nigel Tourneur (fl. 1898), writer
* Doreen Tovey (1918–2008), writer
* Peter Townend (1935–1999), writer and journalist
* John Rowe Townsend (1922–2014), children's writer and scholar
* Joseph Townsend (1739–1816), economist, physician and cleric
* Peter Townsend (1928–2009), sociologist and economist
* Sue Townsend (1946–2014), novelist, Adrian Mole books
* Tom Townsend (born 1971), writer and bridge player
* Aurelian Townshend (1583–1643), poet and playwright
* Charles Townshend (born 1945), historian
* Chauncy Hare Townshend (1798–1868), poet and cleric
* Thomas Townson (1715–1792), writer and cleric
* Arnold Toynbee (1852–1883), economic historian
* Arnold J. Toynbee (1889–1975), historian
* Philip Toynbee (1916–1981), novelist, poet and journalist
* Polly Toynbee (born 1946), journalist and writer
* John Tradescant the Younger (1608–1662), botanist and antiquary
* Thomas Traherne (1636/1637–1674), poet and religious writer
* Henry Duff Traill (1842–1900), humorist, editor and biographer
* Anna Trapnell (fl. 1650s), religious writer
* Ben Travers (1886–1980), playwright and novelist
* Karen Traviss (living), novelist
* Mary Treadgold (1910–2005), children's writer
* Geoffrey Trease (1909–1998), children's writer
* Miles Tredinnick (born 1955), playwright, screenwriter and singer
* Iris Tree (1897–1968), poet and actress
* Viola Tree (1884–1938), writer and actress
* Henry Treece (1911–1966), poet, novelist and children's writer
* Edward John Trelawny (1792–1881), biographer and novelist
* Rose Tremain (born 1943), novelist
* Kate Tremayne (living), novelist
* Rex Tremlett (1903–1986), writer and broadcaster
* Francis Chenevix Trench (1805–1886), writer and cleric
* Richard Chenevix Trench (1807–1886), philologist, poet and archbishop
* Christopher Trent, author of Motoring Holidays in Britain
* Robert Tressell or Tressall (originally Robert Croker, later Noonan, 1870–1911), novelist, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
* G. M. Trevelyan (1876–1962), historian
* George Trevelyan (1838–1928), writer and statesman
* R. C. Trevelyan (1872–1951), poet and translator
* Raleigh Trevelyan (1923–2014), historian
* John Trevisa (1342–1402), translator
* Elleston Trevor (originally Trevor Dudley-Smith, also as Adam Hall etc., 1920–1995), novelist
* Rachel Trickett (1923–1999), novelist and scholar
* Jonathan Trigell (born 1974), novelist
* Sarah Trimmer (1741–1810), children's writer
* Henry Baker Tristram (1822–1906), travel writer, naturalist and cleric
* Anthony Trollope (1815–1882), novelist, Chronicles of Barsetshire
* Frances Trollope (1780–1863), novelist and travel writer
* Joanna Trollope (also as Caroline Harvey, b. 1943), novelist
* Thomas Adolphus Trollope (1810–1892), travel writer and novelist
* Thomas Trotter (1760–1832), physician and medical writer
* Peter Trower (1930–2017), poet and novelist
* Thomas Tryon (1634–1703), writer and vegetarian
* Edwin Charles Tubb (several pen names, 1919–2010), novelist
* Abraham Tucker (wrote as Edward Search, 1705–1774), philosopher
* Charlotte Maria Tucker (wrote as A.L.O.E, 1821–1893), children's writer
* Cuthbert Tunstall or Tonstall (1474–1559), writer and bishop
* Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810–1889), writer and poet
* George Turberville (c. 1540 – pre–1597), poet
* Charles Tennyson Turner (1808–1879), poet and translator
* David Turner (1927–1990), playwright and scriptwriter
* Ernest Sackville Turner (1909–2006), writer and journalist
* Joe Turner (living), scriptwriter and playwright
* John Frayn Turner (living), military historian
* Matthew Turner (died 1788), philosopher and physician
* Philip Turner (wrote as Stephen Chance, 1925–2006), children's writer and cleric
* Reginald Turner (1869–1938), novelist and aesthete
* Roger Turner (living), garden writer and designer
* Sharon Turner (1768–1847), historian
* Steve Turner (living), poet and biographer
* Thomas Turner (1729–1793), diarist
* Tom Turner (living), garden writer and designer
* Thomas Tusser (1524–1580), poet and farmer
* Ethel Brilliana Tweedie (also as Mrs Alec Tweedie 1862–1940), travel writer
* Robert Twigger (born 1964), writer
* Horace Twiss (c. 1787–1849), writer and politician
* Kenneth Tynan (1927–1980), drama critic and producer
* William Tyndale (1494–1536), scholar and Bible translator
* George Tyrrell (1861–1909), theologian and scholar
* Robert Yelverton Tyrrell (1844–1914), scholar and translator
* Thomas Tyrwhitt (1730–1786), scholar, editor and critic

## U

* Nicholas Udall (1505–1556), playwright and translator, Ralph Roister Doister
* Jenny Uglow (born 1947), biographer and critic
* Evelyn Underhill (1875–1941), religious writer and novelist
* Peter Underwood (1923–2014), writer and broadcaster
* Barry Unsworth (1930–2012), novelist
* Cathi Unsworth (living), novelist
* Arthur Upfield (1890–1964), crime writer
* John Upton (1707–1760), editor and critic
* Lawrence Upton (1949–2020), poet and artist
* Edward Upward (1903–2009), novelist and story writer
* Mark Urban (born 1961), military writer
* J. O. Urmson (1915–2012), philosopher
* Thomas Usk (died 1388), poet
* Sarah Elizabeth Utterson (1781–1851), gothic short story writer
* Alison Uttley (1884–1976), children's writer, Little Grey Rabbit
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## V

* Horace Annesley Vachell (1861–1955), novelist and playwright
* John Van der Kiste (born 1954), writer and polymath
* John Vanbrugh (1664–1726), playwright and architect
* Bernard Vaughan (1847–1922), writer and RC priest
* Keith Vaughan (1912–1977), diarist and artist
* Robert Vaughan (1795–1868), historian, editor and Congregationalist minister
* Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee (born 1953), writer and Sufi mystic
* Thomas Vaux (1510–1556), poet
* Kate Veale, author and illustrator of children's books.
* Frances Vernon (1963–1991), novelist
* Salley Vickers (born 1948), novelist and psychotherapist
* Sherard Vines (1890–1974), poet, novelist and critic
* Elfrida Vipont (real name Elfrida Vipont Foulds, 1902–1992), children's writer
* E. H. Visiak (real name Edward Harold Physick, 1878–1972), poet and novelist
* Ernest Alfred Vizetelly (1853–1922), translator
* Frederick Augustus Voigt (1892–1957), foreign affairs writer
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## W

* Thomas Wade (1805–1875), poet and playwright
* Lucy Wadham (born 1964), novelist and journalist
* Rekha Waheed (living), novelist
* John Wain (1925–1994), poet and novelist
* Alfred Wainwright (1907–1991), guidebook writer
* Daniel Wakefield (1776–1846), political economist
* Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1796–1862), writer and politician
* Gilbert Wakefield (1756–1801), scholar and polemicist
* H. Russell Wakefield (1890–1964), novelist and story writer
* Priscilla Wakefield (1871–1832), educator and philanthropist
* Robert Wakefield (died 1537), linguist and scholar
* George Waldron (1690 – c. 1730), topographer and poet
* Arthur Waley (1889–1966), orientalist and translator
* Alan Walker (born 1930), biographer, musicologist and broadcaster
* Charles Walker (fl. 1860s), religious writer
* Charles Curwen Walker (1856–1940), Christadelphian writer and editor
* George Walker (c. 1581–1651), writer and cleric
* George Walker (c. 1734–1807), dissenting writer and mathematician
* George Walker (1772–1847), novelist and political writer
* George Walker (1803 – post–1851), chess writer
* Obadiah Walker (1616–1699), scholar and educator
* Ted Walker (1934–2004), poet, dramatist and broadcaster
* Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913), naturalist and biologist
* Doreen Wallace (1897–1989), novelist and agricultural writer
* Edgar Wallace (1875–1932), novelist and playwright
* Helen Wallace (born 1946), current affairs writer
* Ian Wallace (living), ornithologist
* John Graham Wallace (born 1966), children's writer and illustrator
* Nick Wallace (born 1972), novelist
* Robert Wallace (1791–1850), writer, biographer and Unitarian minister
* William Wallace (born 1941), scholar and writer on government
* J. M. Wallace-Hadrill (1916–1985), historian
* Edmund Waller (1606–1687), poet
* John Waller (1917–1995), poet and anthologist
* David Walliams (born 1971), children's writer and comedian
* John Wallis (1616–1703), mathematician and writer
* Martin Walls (born 1970), poet and journalist
* Leo Walmsley (1892–1966), novelist and autobiographer
* Horace Walpole (1717–1797), novelist and man of letters, The Castle of Otranto
* Horatio Walpole (1678–1757), writer and politician
* Hugh Walpole (1884–1941), novelist
* Helen Walsh (born 1977), novelist
* Jill Paton Walsh (1937–2020), novelist and children's writer
* John Henry Walsh (also as Stonehenge, 1810–1888), field sports writer
* Sheila Walsh (1928–2009), novelist
* William Walsh (1663–1708), poet and critic
* Guy Walters (born 1971), novelist and journalist
* Hugh Walters (1910–1993), novelist
* Minette Walters (born 1949), novelist
* Vanessa Walters (born 1978), novelist and playwright
* Amy Catherine Walton (1849–1939), children's writer
* Izaak Walton (1593–1683), writer, The Compleat Angler
* William Walwyn (1600–1681), pamphleteer
* Humfrey Wanley (1672–1726), scholar and palaeographer
* Nathaniel Wanley (1634–1680), writer and cleric
* Henry Wansbrough (living), writer, Bible translator and RC monk
* William Warburton (1698–1779), critic and bishop
* Barbara Ward (1914–1981), economist and environmentalist
* Chris Ward (born 1958), playwright
* Edward Ward (1660 or 1667–1731), satirist
* Keith Ward (born 1938), philosopher and cleric
* Mrs. Humphry Ward (born Mary Augusta Arnold, 1851–1920), novelist
* Robert Ward (fl. 1611), AV translator and cleric
* Robert Plumer Ward (1765–1846), lawyer and novelist
* Samuel Ward (1572–1643), scholar, AV translator and cleric
* Sarah Ward (living), novelist and critic
* Seth Ward (1617–1689), polemicist, astronomer and bishop
* Thomas Humphry Ward (1845–1926), writer and journalist
* William George Ward (1812–1882), theologian and mathematician
* Terry Wardle (born 1944), children's author
* Marina Warner (born 1946), novelist and biographer
* Rex Warner (1905–1986), novelist and translator
* Richard Warner (c. 1713–1775), botanist and scholar
* Richard Warner (1763–1853), antiquary and cleric
* Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893–1978), novelist and poet
* William Warner (c. 1558–1609), poet and translator
* Mary Warnock (1924–2019), philosopher
* Blanche Warre-Cornish (1844–1922), novelist and biographer
* John Warren, Lord de Tabley (1835–1895), poet and botanist
* Samuel Warren (1807–1877), novelist and barrister
* Thomas Herbert Warren (1853–1930), scholar and poet
* Tony Warren (1936–2016), screenwriter and novelist
* Joseph Warton (1722–1800), poet and critic
* Thomas Warton (c. 1688–1745), poet
* Thomas Warton (1728–1790), Poet Laureate and critic
* Robin Waterfield (born 1952), translator and classicist
* Andrew Waterhouse (1958–2001), poet and environmentalist
* Ellis Waterhouse (1905–1985), art historian and editor
* Gilbert Waterhouse (1883–1916), poet and architect
* Keith Waterhouse (1929–2009), novelist and screenwriter
* Rachel Waterhouse (1923–2020), historian and activist
* Sarah Waters (born 1966), novelist
* Charles Waterton (1782–1865), naturalist and explorer
* Denys Watkins-Pitchford (wrote as BB, 1905–1990), naturalist and children's writer
* David Watmough (1926–2017), playwright and novelist
* Colin Watson (1920–1983), novelist
* E. L. Grant Watson (1885–1970), writer and biologist
* James Watson (1936–2015), children's writer and playwright
* Richard Watson (1781–1833), Methodist theologian
* Richard Watson (1737–1816), writer and bishop
* Rosamund Marriott Watson (wrote as Graham R. Tomson, 1860–1911), poet and garden writer
* Thomas Watson (1555–1592), poet and translator
* Thomas Watson (c. 1620–1686), writer and preacher
* Victor Watson (born 1936), children's author and academic
* William Watson (1858–1935), poet
* Winifred Watson (1906–2002), novelist
* Alan Watts (1915–1973), philosopher
* Alaric Alexander Watts (1797–1864), poet and editor
* Isaac Watts (1674–1748), hymnist
* Theodore Watts-Dunton (1832–1914), critic, novelist and poet
* Alec Waugh (1898–1981), novelist
* Auberon Waugh (1939–2001), novelist and journalist
* Edwin Waugh (1817–1890), dialect poet
* Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966), novelist, travel writer and diarist, Brideshead Revisited
* Arthur Way (1847–1930), classicist and translator
* Camilla Way (born 1973), novelist and editor
* Adrian Weale (born 1964), military writer
* Frederic Weatherly (1848–1929), lyricist
* Willoughby Weaving (1885–1977), poet
* Clifford Webb (1895–1972), children's writer and illustrator
* Mary Webb (1881–1927), novelist and poet
* Philip Barker Webb (1793–1854), botanist and traveller
* Sidney Webb (1859–1947), and Beatrice Webb (1858–1943), political economists
* Augusta Webster (1837–1894), poet and playwright
* John Webster (c. 1580–1634), playwright, The Duchess of Malfi
* Camilla Wedgwood (1901–1955), anthropologist
* C. V. Wedgwood (1910–1997), historian
* Ernest Weekley (1865–1964), philologist
* Samantha Weinberg (born 1967), novelist and travel writer
* Arabella Weir (born 1957), writer and actor
* Denton Welch (1915–1948), novelist, diarist and artist
* Ronald Welch (real name Ronald Oliver Felton, 1909–1982), novelist and children's writer
* Fay Weldon (1931–2023), novelist and screenwriter
* Dorothy Wellesley (1889–1956), poet and editor
* Charles Jeremiah Wells (c. 1798–1879), poet
* H. G. Wells (1866–1946), novelist and critic, The War of the Worlds
* John Wells (1936–1998), satirist
* Leonard Welsted (1688–1747), poet
* Louise Wener (born 1966), novelist and singer
* Anne Wentworth (1629/1630 – post-1679), religious writer
* Arnold Wesker (1932–2016), playwright
* Charles Wesley (1707–1788), preacher and hymnist
* John Wesley (1703–1791), theologian and cleric
* Mary Wesley (1912–2002), novelist
* Samuel Wesley (1662–1735), poet and polemicist
* Samuel Wesley (1690 or 1691–1739), poet and cleric
* Arthur Graeme West (1891–1917), diarist and poet
* Gilbert West (1703–1756), poet and translator
* Jane West (wrote as Prudentia Homespun, 1758–1852), novelist, writer and poet
* Kate West (1957–), author
* Paul West (1930–2015), novelist and poet
* Rebecca West (real name Cicely Isabel Fairfield, 1892–1983), novelist and travel writer
* Robert Westall (1929–1993), children's writer
* William Bury Westall (1834–1903), novelist
* Charles Molloy Westmacott (also as Bernard Blackmantle, c. 1788–1868), writer and journalist
* Joyce Wethered (1901–1997), golf and gardening writer
* Robert Wever (fl. 1550), poet
* Stanley J. Weyman (1855–1928), novelist
* Anne Wharton (1659–1685), poet and playwright
* George Wharton (1618–1681), pamphleteer and astrologer
* Goodwin Wharton (1653–1704), autobiographer
* Gordon Wharton (1929–2011), poet
* Henry Wharton (1664–1695), writer, biographer and cleric
* Michael Wharton (wrote as Peter Simple, 1913–2006), humorist
* Mary Whateley (Mary Darwall, also as Harriet Airey, 1738–1835), poet and playwright
* Richard Whateley (1787–1863), theologian, economist and archbishop
* Anne Wheathill (fl. 1584), poet and prayer writer
* Dennis Wheatley (1897–1977), thriller writer
* Ethel Rolt Wheeler (1869–1958), poet, journalist and essayist
* Hugh Wheeler (1912–1987), novelist, playwright and screenwriter
* Mortimer Wheeler (1890–1976), archaeologist
* John Wheeler-Bennett (1902–1975), analyst and historian
* Francis Wheen (born 1957), biographer and journalist
* Eric Whelpton (1894–1981), travel writer
* George Whetstone (c. 1544 – c. 1587), writer and playwright
* Charles Whibley (1859–1930), critic and writer
* Dorothy Whipple (1893–1966), novelist
* Laurence Whistler (1912–2000), poet and engraver
* Evelyn Whitaker (1844–1929), children's writer
* Antonia White (real name Eirine Botting, 1899–1980), novelist, playwright and children's writer
* Dorothy White (c. 1630–1686), Quaker pamphleteer and preacher
* Fred M. White (1859–1935), science-fiction and disaster novelist
* Gilbert White (1720–1795), naturalist and cleric, The Natural History of Selborne
* Hale White (wrote as Mark Rutherford, 1831–1913), writer
* Henry Kirke White (1785–1806), poet and hymnist
* Michael White (writes as Sam Fisher, living), writer
* T. H. White, (1906–1964), children's writer and poet, The Once and Future King
* Thomas White (also as Blackloe, 1593–1676), theologian and RC priest
* Tony White (born 1964), novelist and travel writer
* George Whitefield (1714–1770), theologian and preacher
* Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947), mathematician and philosopher
* Charles Whitehead (1804–1862), poet and novelist
* George Whitehead (1636–1723), Quaker preacher and writer
* William Whitehead (1715–1785), Poet Laureate and playwright
* Richard Whiteing (wrote as Whyte Thorne, 1840–1928), novelist and journalist
* Dorothy Whitelock (1901–1982), historian
* Bulstrode Whitelocke (1605–1675), chronicler
* Hugh Whitemore (1936–2018), playwright and screenwriter
* Charles Whiting (1926–2007), novelist and military historian
* David Whitley (born 1985), YA novelist
* Geoffrey Whitney (c. 1548 – c. 1601), poet
* Isabella Whitney (fl. 1567–1573), poet
* James Pounder Whitney (1857–1939), historian
* Gerald James Whitrow (1912–2000), cosmologist
* Crispin Whittell (born 1969), playwright
* Ian Whybrow (born 1941), children's writer
* Thomas Whythorne (1528–1595), poet, autobiographer and composer
* Frederick Wicks (1840–1910), novelist and inventor
* Susan Wicks (born 1947), poet and novelist
* Ally Wilkes (living), novelist and short story writer
* Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen (1792–1836), poet and scholar
* Clare Wigfall (born 1976), story writer
* William Wilberforce (1759–1833), religious writer and reformer
* John Wilbye (1574–1638), madrigalist
* Patrick Wilde (living), playwright and screenwriter
* Peter Wildeblood (1923–1999), writer and journalist
* John Wilkes (1725–1797), radical
* Charles Wilkins (1749–1836), orientalist and translator
* George Wilkins (fl. 1607), playwright and pamphleteer
* Harold T. Wilkins (1891–1960), writer and historian
* John Wilkins (1614–1672), natural philosopher, writer and bishop
* Vaughan Wilkins (1890–1959), novelist and journalist
* John Wilkinson (born 1953), poet
* John Gardner Wilkinson (1797–1875), writer, traveller and scholar
* Paul Wilkinson (1937–2011), political writer
* Geoffrey Willans (1911–1958), writer and journalist, (with Ronald Searle) Nigel Molesworth
* Barbara Willard (1909–1994), children's writer and novelist
* Aeneas Francon Williams (1886–1971), writer, poet, missionary, chaplain
* Alfred Williams (1877–1930), poet
* Anna Williams (1706–1783), poet
* Bernard Williams (1929–2003), philosopher
* Charles Williams (1886–1945), novelist, poet and scholar
* Charlie Williams (born 1971), novelist
* Eric Williams (1911–1983) WW2 writer
* Frederick Smeeton Williams (1829–1886), railway writer
* Helen Maria Williams (1761/1762–1827), poet, translator and radical
* Hugo Williams (born 1942), poet and travel writer
* Isaac Williams (1802–1865), writer, poet and cleric
* John Francon Williams (1854–1911), writer, geographer, historian, journalist, editor
* John Williams (1761–1818), poet and satirist
* John Hartley Williams (1942–2014), poet
* Jules Williams writer, director and producer
* Nicholas Williams (born 1942), philologist
* Nigel Williams (born 1948), novelist, playwright and screenwriter
* Paul Williams (born 1967), writer on subcultures
* Paul Andrew Williams (born 1973), screenwriter and film director
* Robina Williams (living), novelist
* Rowan Williams (born 1950), writer and archbishop
* Sarah Williams (1837–1868), poet
* Timothy Williams (born 1946), crime novelist
* William Mattieu Williams (1820–1892), writer on science, education and politics
* Alice Muriel Williamson (1869–1933), novelist
* Charles Norris Williamson (1859–1920), novelist and motoring writer
* Henry Williamson (1895–1977), novelist, Tarka the Otter
* Kenneth Williamson (1914–1977), ornithologist
* Timothy Williamson (born 1955), philosopher
* Browne Willis (1682–1760), writer and antiquary
* Paul Willis (living), sociologist
* Robert Willis (engineer) (1800–1875), architectural writer and cleric
* Ted Willis (1914–1992), playwright and screenwriter
* Tim Willocks (living), novelist, screenwriter and psychiatrist
* Francis Willughby or Willoughby (1635–1672), ornithologist
* Clive Wilmer (1945–2025), poet
* Val Wilmer (born 1941), music writer and photographer
* John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647–1680), satirical poet
* A. N. Wilson (born 1950), novelist and biographer
* Andrew Wilson (born 1961), history and current affairs writer
* Angus Wilson (1913–1991), novelist
* Bryan R. Wilson (1926–2004), sociologist
* Colin Wilson (1931–2013), novelist and philosopher
* Harriette Wilson (1786–1845), courtesan and memoirist
* Herbert Wrigley Wilson (1866–1940) naval historian
* Horace Hayman Wilson (1786–1860), orientalist and translator
* Ian Wilson (born 1941), religious and science writer
* J. Dover Wilson (1881–1969), Shakespearean and critic
* Jacqueline Wilson (born 1945), children's writer
* John Wilson (1527–1596), playwright and translator
* Leslie Wilson (living), novelist and children's writer
* Richard Wilson (born 1950), Shakespearean scholar
* Robert Wilson (fl. 1572–1600), playwright
* Robert Wilson (born 1957), novelist
* Sandy Wilson (1924–2014), lyricist and composer, The Boy Friend
* T. P. Cameron Wilson (1888–1918), poet
* Thomas Wilson (1524–1581), rhetorician and diplomat
* Thomas Wilson (1773–1858), dialect poet
* Jane Wilson-Howarth (aka Jane Wilson, b. 1954) travel and health writer
* R. D. Wingfield (1928–2007), novelist and radio dramatist
* Catherine Winkworth (1827–1878), translator and hymnist
* Jacqueline Winspear (born 1955), novelist
* Gerrard Winstanley (1609–1676), pamphleteer
* Stephen Winsten (real name Samuel Weinstein, 1893–1991), writer
* John Strange Winter (real name Henrietta Eliza Vaughan Stannard 1856–1911), novelist
* Jeanette Winterson (born 1959), novelist
* Jane Wiseman (c. 1682–1717), poet and playwright
* George Wither (1588–1667), poet and satirist
* P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975), novelist and playwright, Jeeves
* John Wolcot (wrote as Peter Pindar, 1738–1819), poet and satirist
* Lucien Wolf (1857–1930), historian
* Humbert Wolfe (1885–1940), poet and translator
* Ronald Wolfe (1922–2011), TV scriptwriter
* Jonathan Wolff (born 1959), philosopher
* Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797), polemicist and novelist, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
* Philip Womack (living), novelist
* Anthony Wood (1632–1695), antiquary
* Christopher Wood (wrote as Timothy Lea, 1935–2015), novelist and screenwriter
* David Wood (born 1944), children's playwright, screenwriter and actor
* Ellen Wood (Mrs. Henry Wood, 1814–1887), novelist
* Robert Wood (c. 1622–1685), mathematician and translator
* Sara Wood (living), novelist and story writer
* Thomas Wood (1892–1950), writer and composer
* George Woodcock (1912–1995), poet and thinker
* James Woodforde (1740–1803), diarist and cleric
* Walter Bradford Woodgate (wrote as Wat Bradwood, 1841–1920), writer on rowing, oarsman and barrister
* Cecil Woodham-Smith (1896–1977), historian and biographer
* Martin Woodhouse (1932–2011), novelist and screenwriter
* Richard Woodman (born 1944), novelist and mariner
* Charles Woodmason (c. 1720–1789), diarist, poet and cleric
* Margaret Louisa Woods (1856–1945), novelist and poet
* Anthony Woodville or Wydeville, Earl Rivers (c. 1440–1483) translator
* Gerard Woodward (born 1961), novelist and poet
* John Woodward (1665–1728), naturalist and antiquary
* Emily Woof (born 1967), playwright, screenwriter and actress
* Leonard Woolf (1880–1969), writer and editor
* Virginia Woolf (1882–1941), novelist and biographer, To the Lighthouse
* Thomas Woolner (1825–1892) poet and sculptor
* Christopher Wordsworth (1807–1885), poet, classicist and bishop
* Dorothy Wordsworth (1771–1855), diarist and poet,
* William Wordsworth (1770–1850), poet, The Prelude
* Frank Worrall (living), sports writer
* Philip Stanhope Worsley (1835–1866), poet, translator and cleric
* T.C. Worsley (1907–1977), writer and critic
* Henry Wotton (1568–1639), poet and translator
* Nathaniel Wraxall (1751–1831), memoirist and political writer
* P. C. Wren (1875–1941), novelist
* Chandos Wren-Hoskyns (1812–1876), agricultural writer and landowner
* Crispin Wright (born 1942), philosopher
* David Wright (1920–1994), poet, translator and biographer
* Derrick Wright (born 1928), military historian
* Edward Wright (1561–1615), mathematician
* Fred Wright (born 1947), historian and theologian
* Joseph Wright (1855–1930), philologist and lexicographer
* Kit Wright (born 1944), poet, children's writer and anthologist
* N. T. Wright (also as Tom Wright, b. 1948), writer and bishop
* Patrick Wright (living), historian and broadcaster
* Richard Wright (Unitarian) (1764–1836), writer and Unitarian minister
* Thomas Wright (1810–1877), writer and antiquary
* William Aldis Wright (1831–1914), writer and editor
* Mary Wroth (1587–1651/1653), writer and poet
* Andrea Wulf (born 1972), biographer and garden writer
* Arthur Wyatt (living), writer and editor
* George Wyatt (1550–1623), writer and biographer
* Stephen Wyatt (born 1948), playwright and adapter
* Thomas Wyatt (1503–1542), poet and translator
* Woodrow Wyatt (1918–1997), diarist and politician
* William Wycherley (c. 1640–1715), playwright, The Country Wife
* Robert Wydow (c. 1446–1505), poet, musician and cleric
* John Wycliffe (mid–1320s – 1384), theologian and Bible translator
* John Wyndham (also as John Beynon, 1903–1969), novelist, The Day of the Triffids
* D. B. Wyndham-Lewis (wrote as Timothy Shy, 1891–1969), humorist
* Peter Wynne-Thomas (1934–2021), cricket writer
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* Jane Yardley (living), novelist
* William Yarrell (1784–1856), naturalist
* Dornford Yates (real name Cecil William Mercer, 1885–1960), novelist
* Edmund Yates (1831–1894), novelist and playwright
* Ann Yearsley (1753–1806), poet, playwright and novelist
* Victor Maslin Yeates (1897–1934), writer and pilot
* R. J. Yeatman (1897–1968), humorist, 1066 and All That (with W. C. Sellar)
* Tamar Yellin (living), novelist and story writer
* Theresa Yelverton (originally Maria Theresa Longworth, 1833–1881), travel writer
* Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823–1901), novelist
* Walter Yonge of Colyton (1579–1649), diarist and lawyer
* Edward of York (c. 1373–1415), translator and courtier
* Barbara Yorke (born 1951), historian
* Margaret Yorke (1924–2012), crime writer
* Matthew Yorke (born 1958), novelist and editor
* Arthur Young (1741–1820), writer and economist
* E. H. Young (1880–1949), novelist and children's writer
* Edward Young (1683–1765), poet
* F. E. Mills Young (1875–1954), novelist
* Francis Brett Young (1884–1954), novelist
* G. M. Young (1882–1959), historian
* Gary Young (living), screenwriter
* Gavin Young (1928–2001), travel writer and journalist
* Hilton Young, Lord Kennet (1879–1960), writer and politician
* Robert J. C. Young (born 1950), thinker and historian
* Thomas Young (1773–1829), polymath
* Toby Young (born 1963), journalist and playwright
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* Helen Zahavi (born 1966), novelist
* Adam Zamoyski (born 1949), biographer and historian
* Israel Zangwill (1864–1926), novelist and playwright
* Louis Zangwill (1869–1938), novelist
* Oliver Zangwill (1913–1987), psychologist
* Benjamin Zephaniah (born 1958), dub poet
* Philip Ziegler (1929–2023), biographer and historian
* Alfred Eckhard Zimmern (1879–1957), classicist and historian
* Alice Zimmern (1855–1939), writer and translator
* Helen Zimmern (1846–1934), writer and translator
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