List of English writers (R-Z)

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, originally = originally, RC = Roman Catholic, SF = science fiction, YA = young adult fiction

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Jonathan Raban (born 1942), 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
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 (born 1938), 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 (born 1945), 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, b. 1924), novelist
David Rees (1936–1993), children's writer
Terence Reese (1913–1996), bridge writer
Clara Reeve (1729–1807), novelist
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, born 1930), novelist
Louise Rennison (born 1951), 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
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 (1576/7–1651), 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 (born 1936), 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 (born Richardson, 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, born 1921), 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
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 (born 1935), 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
Alis Rowe 21st century author
Elizabeth 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
Chris Ryan (born 1961), novelist and soldier
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 (born 1933), 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
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 (born 1932), hymnist
Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957), novelist, Lord Peter Wimsey
Frank Sayers (1763–1817), poet and metaphysician
Francis Scarfe (1911–1986), poet and novelist
Vernon Scannell (1922–2007), poet
Alex Scarrow (living), novelist and screenwriter
Simon Scarrow (living), historical novelist
Simon Schama (born 1945), historian
Ann Schlee (born 1934), novelist
Catherine Amy Dawson Scott (1865–1934), poet, playwright and novelist
Geoffrey Scott (1884–1929), 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 (1751/2–1793), 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, b. 1926), 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 (born 1921), 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
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 (born 1926), playwright and novelist
Peter Shaffer (born 1926), 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
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 (born 1928), 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 (born 1935), 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 (born 1945), novelist, historian and biographer
Clive Sinclair (born 1948), 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
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 (born 1923), 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 (1786–1954), poet
Robert Southey (1774–1843), Poet Laureate
Robert Southwell (1561–1595), poet, tractarian and martyr
Nancy Spain (1917–1964), novelist, biographer and journalist
Robert Spaulding (fl. 1610s), scholar, AV translator and cleric
Rachel Speght (born 1596), 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 (born 1930), novelist, writer and publisher
David A. T. Stafford (born 1942), historian
Julian Stallabrass (living), art historian
John Stallworthy (born 1935), 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 (1761/2–1838), 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 (born 1916), 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 Storey (born 1933), 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
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

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
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 Wyndham Tennant (1897–1916), poet
Emma Tennant (born 1937), 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
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 (born 1935), novelist, poet and translator
David St John Thomas (born 1929), 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, 1770/71–1855), novelist and poet
Hugh Thomas (born 1931), 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
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
Ann Thwaite (born 1932), biographer
Anthony Thwaite (born 1930), poet and 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 (born 1939), 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 (born 1927), poet and translator
H. M. Tomlinson, (1873–1958), travel writer, novelist and journalist
Theresa Tomlinson (born 1946), children's writer
Rosemary Tonks (born 1932), 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 (born 1946), novelist
Chris Torrance (born 1941), 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 (born 1922), children's writer and scholar
Joseph Townsend (1739–1816), economist, physician and cleric
Peter Townsend (1928–2009), sociologist and economist
Sue Townsend (born 1946), 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 (1636/7–1674), 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 (born 1923), 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 (born 1930), poet and novelist
Thomas Tryon (1634–1703), writer and vegetarian
Edwin Charles Tubb (several pen names, b. 1919), 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 (living), biographer and critic
Evelyn Underhill (1875–1941), religious writer and novelist
Peter Underwood (born 1923), 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 (born 1949), 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
Alison Uttley (1884–1976), children's writer, Little Grey Rabbit

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
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

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 (born 1937), 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
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
Seth Ward (1617–1689), polemicist, astronomer and bishop
Thomas Humphry Ward (1845–1926), writer and journalist
William George Ward (1812–1882), theologian and mathematician
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 (born 1924), 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 (born 1936), 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 (born 1923), 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 (born 1926), playwright and novelist
Colin Watson (1920–1983), novelist
E. L. Grant Watson (1885–1970), writer and biologist
James Watson (born 1936), 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 (born 1931), 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
Arnold Wesker (born 1932), 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
Paul West (born 1930), 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), writer and golfer
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 (born 1929), 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
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
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 (living), 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 (born 1936), playwright and screenwriter
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
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
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 (1761/2–1827), 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 (born 1942), 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 (born 1945), 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 (born 1931), 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
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, b. 1935), 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 (born 1932), 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 (1587–1651/3), 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 (born 1934), 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
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
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 (living), 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 (born 1929), 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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