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List of English writers is an incomplete alphabetical list of writers from England. It includes writers in all genres and in any language. This is a subsidiary list to the List of English people.

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Contents:		A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z See also

A

Douglas Adams, (1952-2001), comic novelist
Cyril Alington, (1872-1955), crime novelist and non-fiction writer
Kingsley Amis, (1922-1995), poet and novelist
Martin Amis, (born 1949), novelist
Matthew Arnold, (1822-1888), poet
David Attenborough, (born 1926), naturalist and broadcaster
W. H. Auden, (1907-1973), poet
Jane Austen, (1775-1817), novelist
Alan Ayckbourn, (born 1939), playwright
Pam Ayres, (born 1947), poet

B

Francis Bacon, (1561-1626), essayist
Julian Barnes, (born 1946), novelist
Leslie Barringer, (1895-1968), editor, fantasy and historical novelist
Max Beerbohm, (1872-1956), comic writer and caricaturist
Aphra Behn, a writer
Hilaire Belloc, (1870-1953), writer and poet
Alan Bennett, (born 1934), playwright
Arnold Bennett, (1867-1931), novelist
E. F. Benson, (1867-1940), novelist and short story writer. Author of the Mapp and Lucia series.
John Betjeman, (1906-1984), Poet Laureate
Robert Black, (1829-1915), fiction writer, translator and journalist
William Blake, (1757-1827), artist and poet
Enid Blyton, (1897-1968), children's author
Robert Bolt, (1924-1995), dramatist and screenwriter. Wrote A Man For All Seasons
Ernle Bradford, (1922-1986), historian and writer
Anne Brontë, (1820-1849), novelist
Charlotte Brontë, (1816-1855), novelist
Emily Brontë, (1818-1848), novelist and poet
Rupert Brooke, (1887-1915), poet
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, (1806-1861), poet
Robert Browning, (1812-1889), poet
Anthony Buckeridge, (1912-2004) children's author
John Bunyan, (1628-1688), author
Anthony Burgess, (1917-1993), novelist
Fanny Burney, (1752-1840), writer
Samuel Butler (1612-1680), poet and satirist
Samuel Butler (1835-1902), writer and satirist

C

Sir Hall Caine, (1853-1931), romantic novelist and playwright
Lewis Carroll, (pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), (1832-1898), author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Angela Carter, (1940-1992), novelist
Geoffrey Chaucer, (c. 1343-1400), poet, author of The Canterbury Tales
G. K. Chesterton, (1874-1936), novelist, poet and essayist
Agatha Christie, (1891-1976), mystery writer
Winston Churchill, (1874-1965), British prime minister, author and Nobel prizewinner
John Clare, (1793-1864), poet
Brian Cleeve, (1921-2003), novelist
Jonathan Coe, (born 1961), novelist
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, (1772-1834), poet
Wilkie Collins, (1824-1889), novelist
William Congreve, (1670-1729), playwright and poet
Joseph Connolly, (born 1950), journalist and novelist
Joseph Conrad, (1857-1924), novelist
Noel Coward, (1899-1973), playwright

D

Richard Dawkins, an Atheist novelist, known for The God Delusion,
Daniel Defoe, a novelist and author of famous Robinson Crusoe,
Walter de la Mare (1873-1956)
Thomas de Quincey, (1785-1859)
Charles Dickens, (1812-1870), a novelist
John Donne, poet (1572-1631)
Lord Alfred Douglas, (1870-1945)
John Dryden, poet (1631-1700)
Carol Ann Duffy, (born 1955)
Daphne du Maurier (1907-1989)
Arthur Conan Doyle, (1859-1930)

E

Maria Edgeworth, (1767-1849), Anglo-Irish novelist
George Eliot, (pen name of Mary Ann Evans) (1819-1880), novelist
T. S. Eliot, (1888-1965), poet, playwright, literary critic and Nobel prizewinner
Warren Ellis, (born 1968), comic book/graphic novel writer
Alfred Elwes, (1819-1888), author of children's literature and translator
George Etheridge, (1635?-1692), playwright

F

Henry Fielding, (1707-1754), novelist
Ian Fleming, (1908-1964), author, creator of James Bond
C. S. Forester, (1899-1966), author
Helen Forrester, (born 1919), author
E. M. Forster, (1879-1970), author
Frederick Forsyth, (born 1938), author and political commentator
Christopher Fry, (1907-2005), dramatist
Stephen Fry, (born 1957), novelist and comedian
David Forrest, novelist, a pseudonym of R.Forrest-Webb & David Eliades.
[[Robert(Bob)Forrest-Webb or Forrest Webb (pseudonyms:Roberta Forrest, Robert Trevelyan, David Forrest),(born 1929), author, playwright/scriptwriter, lyricist. Literary award recipient.

G

John Galsworthy, (1867-1933), author and dramatist
Elizabeth Gaskell, (1810-1865), novelist
William Golding, (1911-1993), novelist, poet and Nobel prizewinner
Elizabeth Goudge, (1900-1984), novelist and children's writer
Kenneth Grahame, (1859-1931), author
Robert Graves, (1895-1985), poet, scholar and novelist
Thomas Gray, (1716-1771), poet
Henry Green, (pen name of Henry Vincent Yorke), (1905-1973), novelist
Graham Greene, (1904-1991), author

H

Thomas Hardy, (1840-1928), novelist and poet
Eliza Haywood, (1793-1756), novelist, playwright and poet
William Hazlitt, (1778-1830), essayist and literary critic
Robert Herrick, (1591-1674), poet
James Herriot, (pen name of James Alfred Wight),(1916-1995), writer
Jack Higgins, (pen name of Harry Patterson) (1929 - Present)
Barry Hines, (born 1939), novelist
Gerard Manley Hopkins, (1844-1889), poet
Nick Hornby, (born 1957), novelist
A. E. Housman, (1859-1936), poet and scholar
Laurence Housman, (1865-1959), playwright
Hartley Howard, (1908-1979), (pen name of Leopold Horace Ognall), crime novelist
Ted Hughes, 1930-1998), Poet Laureate
Leigh Hunt, (1784-1859), poet
Aldous Huxley, (1884-1963), writer
Thomas Henry Huxley, (1825-1895), scientific essayist, coiner of the term agnosticism
Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, (1899-1980), Artist, director

I

David Icke, (born 1952), conspiracy theorist
William Ralph Inge, (1860-1954), clergyman, writer and mysticist
Christopher Isherwood, (1904-1986), novelist

J

Richard Jefferies, (1848-1887), nature writer and essayist
Jerome K. Jerome, (1859-1927), humorist and playwright
Samuel Johnson, (1709-1784), poet
Ben Jonson, (1573-1637), poet and dramatist
John Josselyn, (dates unknown; seventeenth century), author of books about New England

K

John Keats, (1795-1821), poet
Lena Kennedy, (1914-1986), novelist
Charles Kingsley, (1819-1875), novelist
Rudyard Kipling, (1865-1936), author
Hanif Kureishi, (born 1954), novelist and playwright
Thomas Kyd, (1558-1595), playwright - The Spanish Tragedy

L

Charles Lamb, (1775-1834), essayist
Philip Larkin, (1922-1985), poet
Hugh Laurie, (born 1959), actor, comedian and novelist
D. H. Lawrence, (1885-1930), poet
Edward Lear, (1812-1888), artist, humorist and poet
John Lennon, (1940-1980), author of In His Own Write & A Spaniard In The Works
Archibald Low, (1888-1956), science writer

M

Lord Macaulay, (1800-1859), essayist, historian and poet
Colin MacInnes, (1914-1976), novelist
Thomas Malory, (c. 1430-c. 1471), author of Le Morte d'Arthur
Andrew Mango, (born 1926), author
Christopher Marlowe, (1564-1593), playwright
Eric Maschwitz, (1901-1969), writer, lyricist and entertainer
John Masefield, (1878-1967), Poet Laureate and novelist
Steve Matchett, (born 1962), broadcaster & writer
William Somerset Maugham, (1874-1965), writer
Ian McEwan, (born 1948), novelist
Andy McNab, (born 1959), novelist and ex-soldier
A. A. Milne, (1882-1956), author and poet
John Milton, (1608-1674), poet
Nancy Mitford, (1904-1973), novelist
Alan Moore, (born 1953), comic book/graphic novel writer
Thomas More, (1478-1535), author and scholar
William Morris, (1834-1896), author, artist and poet
Margaret Murphy, (born ?), crime novelist

N

Beverley Nichols, (1898-1983), author
Kim Richard Nossal, (born ?), professor and author

O

Joe Orton, (1933-1967), dramatist
George Orwell, (pen name of Eric Blair), (1903-1950), journalist and novelist
Martin Orwin, (born 1963), poet, educator, writer
John Osborne, (1929-1994), dramatist, wrote Look Back in Anger
Wilfred Owen, (1893-1918), war poet

P

Walter Pater, (1839-1894), essayist and novelist
Hesketh Pearson, (1887-1964), biographer
Samuel Pepys, (1633-1703), diarist
Harold Pinter, (born 1930), playwright and Nobel prize winner
Alexander Pope, (1688-1744), poet
Beatrix Potter, (1866-1943), author and illustrator
Terry Pratchett, (born 1948), fantasy author
Nancy Price, (1880-1970), dramatist, novelist, poet and diarist
J. B. Priestley, (1894-1984), dramatist and novelist
Philip Pullman, (born 1946), author
C. B. Purdom, (1883-1965), drama critic, author, biographer

Q

Arthur Quiller-Couch a.k.a. Q, (1863-1944), novelist and literary critic

R

Ann Radcliffe, (1764-1823), writer (gothic novel)
Arthur Ransome, (1884-1967), author and journalist
Rony Robinson, (born 1940), author
Christina Rossetti, (1830-1894), poet
J. K. Rowling, (born 1965), author of the Harry Potter books
John Ruskin, (1819-1900), essayist, poet and art critic

S

Vita Sackville-West, (1892-1962), poet and novelist
Saki (pen name of Hector Hugh Munro), (1870-1916), short story writer and satirist
Siegfried Sassoon, (1886-1967), poet and novelist
Dorothy L. Sayers, (1893-1957), mystery author, scholar, translator and religious writer
George Bazeley Scurfield, (1920-1991), poet, novelist, author, and politician
William Shakespeare, (c. 1564-1616), poet and playwright
Mary Shelley, (1797-1851), author
Percy Bysshe Shelley, (1792-1822), poet
Philip Sidney, (1554-1586), poet and soldier
Joe Simpson, (born 1960), mountaineer and author of many books including Touching the Void
John Skelton, (c.1460-1529), poet
George Edward MacKenzie Skues, (1858-1949), inventor of fly fishing with nymphs
Edmund Spenser, (c. 1552-1599), poet, wrote The Faerie Queene
Nevil Shute, (1899-1960), aeronautical engineer and author
Stevie Smith, (1902-1971), poet and novelist
Dodie Smith, (1896-1990), novelist and playwright
Robert Southey, (1774-1843), Poet Laureate
Stephen Spender, (1909-1995), poet
Algernon Swinburne, (1837-1909), poet

T

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, (1809-1892), Poet Laureate
William Makepeace Thackeray, (1811-1863), novelist
Francis Thompson, (1859-1907), poet
H. E. Todd, (died 1988), children's writer
Kay Thorpe, romantic novelist (debut 1968, The Last of the Mallorys)
J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973), author of The Lord of the Rings
Doreen Tovey (1918-2008), cat writer
Anthony Trollope, (1815-1882), novelist
Robert Trevelyan; four historical novels; a pseudonym of author Robert Forrest-Webb

W

Hugh Walpole, (1884-1941), novelist
Evelyn Waugh, (1903-1966), novelist
John Webster, (died 1630), poet
H. G. Wells, (1866-1946), novelist and social critic
Charles Williams, (1886-1945), novelist and scholar
Gilbert White, (1720-1795), naturalist
P. G. Wodehouse, (1881-1975), humorous author, playwright and lyricist
Mary Wollstonecraft, (1759-1797), pioneer feminist known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Virginia Woolf, (1882-1941), author and feminist
William Wordsworth, (1770-1850), Romantic poet
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, (1647–1680), satirical poet
Derrick Wright, (1928- ), military history author

Y

Charlotte Mary Yonge,(1823-1901), novelist

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