List of authors of erotic works
This is a list of notable authors of erotic literature.
Sex manuals
- Vatsayana, famous for the Kama Sutra
- Yasodhara, author of the Jayamangala
- Kokkoka, author of the Ratirahasya
- Kalyanamalla, author of the Ananga Ranga
- Praudha Devaraya, author of the Ratiratna Pradipika
- Ovid, Roman author famous for the Ars Amatoria
- Ge Hong, Jin dynasty author of Pao-Pu Zhi
- Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Nafzawi, author of The Perfumed Garden
- Hua Tuo, author of On Venereal disease.
- Sun Simiao, author of On the Loss and Gain of The Chamber Art
- Wan Quan, author of Essentials for Extending Posterity
- Gao Lian, author of On Abstinence in Sex
- Alex Comfort, author of The Joy of Sex
Sex in fiction
- Alexander Pushkin, author of the Gabrieliad
- Alexander Trocchi
- Anaïs Nin, author of Delta of Venus
- Andreas Embirikos, author of The Great Eastern
- Anne Rice, also writing as A. N. Roquelaure
- Aran Ashe
- Barry N. Malzberg, author of Screen and writer/editor for Olympia Press
- Caitlín R. Kiernan — author of Frog Toes and Tentacles, Tales from the Woeful Platypus, and Sirenia Digest
- Catherine Robbe-Grillet, writing as Jean de Berg and Jeanne de Berg
- D. H. Lawrence, author of Lady Chatterley's Lover
- Daniel Defoe, author of Moll Flanders
- Elias Gaucher
- Emmanuelle Arsan, author of the novel Emmanuelle and various other works
- Frank Watson, author of "Chateau Noir" https://www.amazon.com/Chateau-Noir-Frank-Watson-ebook/dp/B0073YER7I/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=chateau+noir&qid=1578488701&s=digital-text&sr=1-5 and co-author of "Clitsy Weldon" https://www.amazon.com/CLITSY-WELDON-Extremely-Adventures-Detective-ebook/dp/B079L4PL2Y/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=clitsy+weldon&qid=1578488808&s=digital-text&sr=1-1.
- Georges Bataille, author of Story of the Eye
- Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian author contemporary and friend of Petrarch; wrote Decameron a collection of 100 short stories, some of which are erotic, considered masterpieces of the genre.
- Günter Grass, author of The Tin Drum and Cat and Mouse
- Guy Davenport
- Henry Miller, author of Tropic of Cancer
- Ivan Barkov
- John Cleland, author of Fanny Hill
- Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, author of The Key, Naomi, and Quicksand
- Kathy Acker, postmodern pornographer, author of I Dreamt I Was A Nymphomaniac
- Kenzaburō Ōe, author of Seventeen, J, and A Personal Matter
- Laura Antoniou, author of The Marketplace
- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, author of Venus in Furs
- Marilyn Jaye Lewis, author of Neptune and Surf and Lust: Bisexual Erotica
- Marco Vassi, author of "The Erotic Comedies", "Devil's Sperm Is Cold", and "The Stoned Apocalypse"
- Mario Vargas Llosa, author of The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto
- Mark Twain, author of 1601
- the Marquis de Sade, author of Justine, or the Misfortunes of Virtue
- Maxim Jakubowski, editor of the Mammoth Erotica series and a major erotica writer in his own right
- Merry Sparrow, author of The Plummery Collection
- M. Christian, author of The Bachelor Machine and other works
- Mitzi Szereto, author of The Wilde Passions of Dorian Gray, Pride and Prejudice: Hidden Lusts, and Phantom: The Immortal, among others.
- Myla J. Moore, author of Sweet Thing A Boundless Friendship Book 1
- Nicolas Chorier – author of L'académie des dames
- Patrick (Pat) Califia, author of Macho Sluts
- Pauline Réage, author of Story of O
- Samuel R. Delany
- Sunil Gangopadhyay, Bengali Indian author who wrote maximum number of erotic novels in Bengali literature
- Susie Bright
- Sylvia Day
- Tamara Thorne, author of the Sorority series
- Taslima Nasrin, Bangladeshi author who wrote "Lajja" in 1993, an explicit sexual book.
- Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-born English-language writer, author of Lolita
- William Levy
- William Simpson Potter, author of Romance of Lust
- Yasunari Kawabata, author of Beauty and Sadness
- Yukio Mishima, author of the homoerotic novels Forbidden Colors and Confessions of a Mask
- Zane.
Chinese erotica
- Li Yu, author of The Carnal Prayer Mat
- Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng, author of Jin Ping Mei
- David Tod Roy, translator and editor of The Plum in the Garden Vase
Poetry
- Ovid, Roman erotic poet
- Catullus, Roman erotic poet
- Sextus Propertius, Roman poet
- Sappho, Greek poet from the island of Lesbos who wrote love poetry to young women.
- Petrarch, Italian poet, considered, together with Dante, the father of Renaissance. His love sonnets dedicated to Laura are masterpieces of erotic poetry
- Bai Juyi, Romantic poet of Tang dynasty
- King Solomon, Author, according to Judeo-Christian tradition, of the Song of Songs.
- John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, British 17th Century libertine
- Hồ Xuân Hương, 18th-19th century Vietnamese poet
- Pietro Aretino, Italian poet. Books: "The School of Whoredom", "The Secret Life of Nuns", "Sonetti Lussuriosi e Dubbi Amorosi", "The Secret Life of Wives", "La Cortigiana", "Ragionamenti".
- Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage, Portuguese poet. Books: "Poesias Eróticas, Burlescas e Satíricas", "Os Amores", "Opera Omnia".
- Pierre Louys, Belgian poet. Books: "Poesies Erotiques: la femme, les vulves legendaires", "Les soeurs à l'envers", "Oeuvre Erotique", "Le nom de la femme", "Le femme et le Pantin", "Trois filles de leur mére", "Les cahiers de la Nrf", "Les chansons de Bilitis", "Manual da Civilidade Destinado às Meninas para uso nas Escolas".
- Gregório de Mattos, Brazilian poet. Books: "Poemas Satíricos", "Para que todos entendais poesia", "Desenganos da vida humana e outros poema".
- Hilda Hilst, Brazilian poet. Books: "Fico Besta Quando me Entendem", "Da Poesia", "Porno Chic", "De Amor Tenho Vivido", "Cantares", "Baladas", "A Obscena Senhora D", "Obscenica", "O Caderno Rosa de Lori Lamby", "Tu Não Te Moves de Ti", "Contos D'Escárnio/Textos Grotescos", "Fluxo Floema", "Cartas de um Sedutor", "Kadosh", "Como Meus Olhos de Cão", "Poemas Malditos, Gozosos e Devotos", "Do Desejo", "Rutilos", "Exercícios".
Autobiography
- Emmanuelle Arsan, author of Emmanuelle
- Vanessa Duriès, author of Le lien
- Nancy Friday
- Henry Spencer Ashbee, author of My Secret Life
- Frank Harris, multiple-volume memoir My Life and Loves
- Catherine Millet, author of The Sexual Life of Catherine M.
- Georges Simenon
- Edward Avery, editor of The Autobiography of a Flea
- Xaviera Hollander, author of The Happy Hooker
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