# List of BDSM authors

This is a list of notable authors of fiction and/or non-fiction works about BDSM. For other notable people associated with BDSM, see List of people associated with BDSM.
* Solace Ames, American author of erotic fiction
* Laura Antoniou, writing as Sara Adamson, author of The Marketplace series of novels
* Pablo Neruda
* Go Arisue, Japanese bondage artist and author
* Guy Baldwin, psychotherapist and author known for his work on BDSM and sexual related issues
* Violet Blue, American journalist, author, editor, advisor, and educator
* Gloria Brame, American sexologist, writer and sex therapist
* Rachel Kramer Bussel, American author, columnist, and editor, specializing in erotica
* Patrick Califia, American writer of non-fiction essays about sexuality and of erotic fiction and poetry
* Casey Calvert, American pornographic actress and film director
* Greta Christina, American atheist, blogger, speaker, and author
* David Aaron Clark, American author, musician, pornographic actor, and pornographic video director
* John Cleland, English novelist best known for his fictional Fanny Hill: or, the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
* Oniroku Dan, Japanese author of popular SM novels
* Tess Danesi, American sex educator, blogger, and writer of BDSM erotica
* Tony DeBlase, American leatherman and zoologist, sometimes writing as Fledermaus
* Samuel R. Delany, American author and literary critic
* Anne Desclos, French writer also writing as Dominique Aury and Pauline Réage, author of Story of O
* Vanessa Duriès, French novelist, author of The Ties That Bind
* Dossie Easton, American author and family therapist, author of The Ethical Slut
* Stephen Elliott, author of My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up
* Melissa Febos, American writer, professor and former dominatrix, author of the memoir Whip Smart
* Bob Flanagan, American performance artist and writer known for his work on sadomasochism
* Maîtresse Françoise, also writing as Annick Foucault, French dominatrix and author
* Mary Gaitskill
* Stefani Goerlich, American Sexologist and author of The Leather Couch: Clinical Practice with Kinky Clients, The Leather Chair: Culturally Competent Therapy from The Leather Chair, BDSM and Kink: The Basics (with Elyssa Helfer) and With Sprinkles On Top: Everything Vanilla People and Their Kinky Partners Need to Know to Communicate, Explore, and Connect
* Jeff Gord, real name Jeffrey E. Owen, British bondage photographer and writer of erotic fiction
* Tilly Greene
* Matthias T. J. Grimme, German author and publisher of sadomasochistic literature. author of Das SM-Handbuch
* Andrei Gusev, Russian writer and journalist
* Hardy Haberman, American author, filmmaker, educator, and activist
* Laurell K. Hamilton
* Janet Hardy, American writer and sex educator, and founder of Greenery Press
* Lee Harrington, American sexuality and spirituality educator, author, and artist
* Emma Holly, American author who specializes in writing erotic romance novels
* Trevor Jacques, Canadian author, activist, sex researcher, and IT consultant, author of On The Safe Edge: A Manual for SM Play
* Maxim Jakubowski
* Elfriede Jelinek
* V. M. Johnson, American leatherwoman, leather activist and author
* E.L. James, real name Erika Leonard, British author writing as E.L. James, author of Fifty Shades of Grey novels
* Alan Mac Clyde (1930s novelist), pseudonym of unknown author
* Alan Mac Clyde (1950s novelist), pseudonym of unknown author
* Mistress Matisse, American dominatrix
* Malcolm McKesson, American author and outsider artist
* Midori, American bondage artist
* Lord Morpheous, Canadian sex educator, author and photographer
* Charles Allen Moser, American physician, clinical sexologist, sex therapist, and sex educator
* John Norman, real name |John Frederick Lange, Jr., American academic and novelist writing as John Norman, author of the Gor series of novels
* Betty Paërl, Dutch mathematician, socialist and transgender rights activist
* John Preston, American author and editor of gay erotica
* Carol Queen, American author, editor, sociologist and sexologist
* Anne Rice, writing as A. N. Roquelaure, author of The Sleeping Beauty Quartet
* Catherine Robbe-Grillet, writing as Jean de Berg and Jeanne de Berg, author of The Image
* Pam Rosenthal, writing as Molly Weatherfield, American author of erotic historical romance novels
* Robert J. Rubel, American author and educational speaker in the field of alternative sexuality
* Gayle Rubin, American cultural anthropologist
* Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian nobleman, writer and journalist, author of Venus in Furs
* Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade, French nobleman, author of Justine, or the Misfortunes of Virtue; Juliette, The 120 Days of Sodom and Philosophy in the Bedroom
* Ariel Sands, pseudonymous author of the sadomasochistic novel Never the Face
* Terence Sellers, American dominatrix and writer, author of The Correct Sadist: The Memoirs of Angel Stern
* Elf Sternberg, author of online erotic fiction
* Gengoroh Tagame, pseudonymous Japanese manga artist
* Cecilia Tan, writer, editor, sexuality activist, and founder of Circlet Press
* Bernard J. Taylor
* Claire Thompson
* Larry Townsend, American author and activist
* Kitty Tsui, American author, poet, actor, and bodybuilder
* Alison Tyler, pseudonymous American author, editor and publisher of erotica
* Mollena Williams-Haas, American writer, BDSM educator, actress, and former International Ms. Leather
* Jay Wiseman, American BDSM author, educator, and expert witness