List of English writers (A–C)

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, also as = also wrote/writes as, c. = circa; century, cc. = centuries; cleric = Anglican priest, fl. = floruit, RC = Roman Catholic, SF = science fiction, YA = young adult fiction

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A

A. W. (fl. 1602), poet
Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838–1926), theologian and novelist
Gilbert Abbott à Beckett (1811–1856), humorist
George Abbot (1562–1633), writer, AV translator and cleric
Kia Abdullah (born 1982), novelist and feature writer
Lascelles Abercrombie (1881–1938), poet and critic
Paul Ableman (1927–2006), playwright and novelist
J. R. Ackerley (1896–1967), autobiographer, novelist and playwright
Rodney Ackland (1908–1991), playwright, actor and screenwriter
Peter Ackroyd (born 1949), novelist and biographer
Eliza Acton (1799–1859), poet and cookery writer
Harold Acton (1904–1994), writer and scholar
Hazel Adair (1900–1990), novelist
Paul Adam (born 1958), novelist
Ruth Adam (1907–1977), novelist and non-fiction writer
Charles Warren Adams (also as Charles Felix, 1833–1903), novelist and lawyer
Douglas Adams (1952–2001), novelist and scriptwriter
Francis Adams (1862–1893), essayist and dramatist
John Adams, (pre–1670–1738), cartographer and gazetteer compiler
Poppy Adams (living), novelist and TV screenwriter
Richard Adams (1920–2016), novelist, Watership Down
Sarah Flower Adams (1805–1848), poet and hymnist
Donald Adamson (born 1939), writer and historian
John Adamson (1787–1855), antiquary, poet and translator
Arthur St. John Adcock (1864–1930), novelist and editor
Fleur Adcock (born 1934), poet
Joseph Addison (1672–1719), essayist and poet, The Spectator'
Percy Addleshaw (wrote as Percy Hemingway, 1866–1916), writer and poet
Diran Adebayo (born 1968), novelist and broadcaster
Mark Adlard (born 1932), novelist
James Agate (1877–1947), diarist and critic
Bola Agbaje (living), playwright
John Aglionby (died 1609/1610), scholar, AV translator and cleric
Grace Aguilar (1816–1847), novelist and writer
Allan Ahlberg (born 1939), children's writer
Robert Aickman (1914–1981), novelist and conservationist
Joan Aiken (1924–2004), novelist
Arthur Aikin (1783–1854), science writer
Lucy Aikin (1781–1864), children's writer, biographer and historian
John Aikin (1747–1822), writer and physician
Alfred Ainger (1837–1904), biographer and critic
Ruth Ainsworth (1908–1984), children's writer
William Harrison Ainsworth (1805–1882), novelist
Catherine Aird (Kinn Hamilton McIntosh, living), crime fiction writer
Mark Akenside (1721–1770), poet
William Alabaster (1567–1640), poet, playwright and cleric
James Albery (1838–1889), playwright
Alice Albinia (born 1976), travel writer
Mary Alcock (c. 1742–1798), poet and essayist
Naomi Alderman (born 1974), novelist and game writer
Thomas Aldham or Aldam, (c. 1616–1660), writer and Quaker
Richard Aldington (1892–1962), novelist and poet
Brian Aldiss (born 1925), novelist
Henry Aldrich (1647–1710), poet and theologian
Horace Alexander (1889–1989), writer on India, ornithologist and Quaker
Miriam Alexander (born 1879), historical novelist
Alan F. Alford (born 1961), writer on mythology
Monica Ali (born 1967), novelist
Cyril Alington (1872–1955), novelist and writer
Nicholas Allan (living), children's writer
Rupert Allason (also as Nigel West, b. 1951), historian and thriller writer
James Allen (1864–1912), self-help writer and poet
Walter Allen (1911–1995), novelist and critic
Margery Allingham (1904–1966), novelist, Albert Campion
Drummond Allison (1921–1943), poet
Kenneth Allott (1912–1973), poet and anthologist
Kenneth Allsop (1920–1973), writer and broadcaster
E. M. Almedingen (1898–1971), novelist, biographer and children's writer
John Almon (1737–1804), journalist and anthologist
David Almond (born 1951), novelist and children's writer
Vincent Alsop (c. 1630–1703), writer and dissenting minister
Al Alvarez (born 1929), poet and writer
Moniza Alvi (born 1968), poet and writer
Eric Ambler (1909–1998), novelist and screenwriter
Isaac Ambrose (1604–1663/1664), writer, diarist and cleric
Elizabeth Amherst (c. 1716–1779), poet and naturalist
Kingsley Amis (1922–1995), poet and novelist, Lucky Jim
Martin Amis (born 1949), novelist
Thomas Amory (c. 1691–1788), novelist and miscellanist
Thomas Amory (1701–1774), poet and dissenting cleric
Valerie Anand (also as Flora Buckley, b. 1937), novelist
Patrick Anderson (1915–1979), poet
Rachel Anderson (born 1943), children's writer
Verily Anderson (1915–2010), writer
Lancelot Andrewes (1555–1626), scholar, AV translator and cleric
Roger Andrewes (fl. 1610s), scholar, AV translator and cleric
Julie Andrews (born 1935), children's writer and actress
Miles Peter Andrews (1742–1814), playwright and poet
Norman Angell (1872–1967), Nobel Prize winner, political writer and economist
Jane Anger (fl. 1589), pamphleteer
Charlotte Anley (1796–1893), didactic novelist and writer
George Anson, 1st Baron Anson (1697–1762), writer, explorer and admiral
Christopher Anstey (1724–1805), writer and poet
Evelyn Anthony (1926–2018) historical novelist and thriller writer
Charles James Apperley (wrote as Nimrod, 1777–1843), hunting and racing writer
Lisa Appignanesi (born 1946), writer and historian
Roy Apps (born 1951), children's writer
Arthur John Arberry (1905–1969), orientalist and translator
Harriet Arbuthnot (1793–1834), political diarist
John Arbuthnot (1667–1735), satirist and polymath
Fred Archer (1915–1999), countryside writer
Jeffrey Archer (born 1940), novelist and politician
Philip Ardagh (born 1961), children's writer
John Arden (born 1930), playwright and novelist
Edward Ardizzone (1900–1979), children's writer and illustrator
Reginald Arkell (1882–1959), novelist, playwright and screenwriter
Michael Arlen (originally Dikran Kouyoumdjian, 1895–1956), essayist, playwright and novelist
John Arlott (1914–1991), cricket writer and commentator
Robert Armin (c. 1563–1615), playwright and actor
Simon Armitage (born 1963), poet, playwright and novelist
Annie Armitt (1850–1933), novelist, poet and essayist
Martin Armstrong (1882–1974), novelist and poet
Peter Armstrong (born 1957), poet and psychotherapist
Richard Armstrong (1903–1986), novelist, historian and children's writer
Elizabeth von Arnim (also as Alice Cholmondeley, 1866–1941), novelist
Edwin Arnold (1832–1904), poet and journalist
Edwin Lester Arnold (1857–1935), writer and novelist
Elizabeth Arnold (born 1944), children's writer
Matthew Arnold (1822–1888), poet, Dover Beach
Richard Arnold (died c. 1521), chronicler and merchant
Thomas Arnold (1795–1842), educator and historian
Thomas Walker Arnold (1864–1930), Islamist scholar
William Delafield Arnold (1828–1859), novelist and colonial administrator
Pat Arrowsmith (born 1930), novelist, poet and non-fiction writer
Anthony Ascham (c. 1614–1650), scholar and politician
Roger Ascham (c. 1515–1568), writer and scholar
John Ash (1724–1779), lexicographer and Baptist minister
John Ash (born 1948), poet and travel writer
Maurice Ash (1917–2003), writer on environment and planning
Russell Ash (1946–2010), writer
Timothy Garton Ash (born 1955), historian
Elizabeth Ashbridge (1713–1755), autobiographer and Quaker
Joseph Ashby-Sterry (1836 or 1838–1917), poet, novelist and journalist
Geoffrey Ashe (born 1923), cultural historian
Thomas Ashe or Ash (fl. 1600–1618), legal writer
Thomas Ashe (1770–1835), novelist and miscellanist
Thomas Ashe (1836–1889), poet
Daisy Ashford (1881–1972), child author, The Young Visiters
Lindsay Ashford (born 1959), crime novelist and journalist
Elias Ashmole (1617–1692), antiquary and patron
Carl Ashmore (born 1968), children's writer
Will Ashon (born 1969), novelist and music writer
Francis Leslie Ashton (1904–1994), novelist
Andrea Ashworth (born 1969), writer and scholar
Anne Askew (1521–1546), poet, writer and martyr
Nadeem Aslam (born 1966), novelist
Cynthia Asquith (1887–1960), novelist and diarist
Herbert Asquith (1881–1947), poet and novelist
Margot Asquith (1864–1935), memoirist
Nicholas Assheton (1590–1625), diarist
Mary Astell (1666–1731), poet and writer
Judy Astley (living), novelist and illustrator
Edwin Atherstone (1788–1872), poet and novelist
Diana Athill (born 1917), editor, novelist and memoirist
Blanche Atkinson (1847–1911), novelist and children's writer
James Atkinson (1780–1852), scholar
Kate Atkinson (born 1952), novelist
William Atkinson (died 1509), translator
David Attenborough (born 1926), writer, naturalist and broadcaster
Francis Atterbury (1663–1732), writer and bishop
Mabel Lucie Attwell (1879–1964), children's writer and illustrator
Penelope Aubin (1679–1738), poet, novelist and translator
John Aubrey (1626–1697), writer and antiquary, Brief Lives
John Audelay or Awdelay, (died c. 1426), poet and cleric
W. H. Auden (1907–1973), poet
Stacy Aumonier (1877–1928), novelist, story writer and essayist
Jane Austen (1775–1817), novelist, Pride and Prejudice
Katherine Austen (1629 – c. 1683), diarist and poet
Alfred Austin (1835–1913), Poet Laureate
John Austin (1790–1859), legal philosopher
John Langshaw Austin (1911–1960), philosopher and translator
Sarah Austin (1793–1867), translator
Edward Aveling (1849–1898), writer, pamphleteer and translator
Peter Avery (1923–2008), scholar and translator
Jack Avon (born 1967), financial writer and consultant
Tash Aw (born 1971), novelist and non-fiction writer
Christopher Awdry (born 1940), children's writer
Wilbert Awdry (Rev. W. Awdry, 1911–1997), children's writer and cleric, Thomas the Tank Engine
Alan Ayckbourn (born 1939), playwright
A. J. Ayer (1910–1989), philosopher
Pam Ayres (born 1947), poet and songwriter
Michael Ayrton (1921–1975), writer and artist
Shamim Azad, (born 1952), writer and translator
Trezza Azzopardi, (born 1961), novelist

B

Charles Babbage (1791–1871), polymath
Gervase Babington (1549/1550–1610), theologian and bishop
David Baddiel (born 1964), novelist and comedian
Robert Baden-Powell (1857–1941), writer and army officer, Scouting for Boys
Edmund Backhouse (1873–1944), orientalist and autobiographer
Anne Bacon (c. 1528–1610), translator and correspondent
Francis Bacon (1561–1626), essayist, New Atlantis
Phanuel Bacon (1699–1783), playwright and poet
John F. Baddeley (1854–1940), travel writer and journalist
Robert Bage (1730–1801), novelist and radical
Walter Bagehot (1826–1877), economist and essayist
Desmond Bagley (1923–1983), horror novelist
Enid Bagnold (1889–1981), novelist and playwright, National Velvet
Richard Bagot (1860–1921), novelist and essayist
David Bailey (living), story writer
H. C. Bailey (1878–1961), novelist
Hilary Bailey (born 1936), biographer and editor
Nathan Bailey (died 1742), philologist
Paul Bailey (born 1937), novelist and dramatist
Philip James Bailey (1816–1902), poet
Samuel Bailey (1791–1870), philosopher and economist
Beryl Bainbridge (born 1932), novelist
Denys Val Baker (1917–1984), novelist and story writer
Henry Baker (1698–1774), naturalist and poet
Samuel Baker (1821–1893), writer and explorer
Rajeev Balasubramanyam (born 1974), novelist
Nigel Balchin (1908–1970), novelist and screenwriter
John Bale (1495–1563), playwright and bishop
J. G. Ballard (1930–2009), novelist
Dacre Balsdon (1901–1977), novelist and historian
Samuel Bamford (1788–1872), writer and dialect poet
John Codrington Bampfylde (1764–1796/1797), poet
Richard Bancroft (1544–1610), AV translator and archbishop
Isabella Banks (1821–1897), novelist and poet
Lynne Reid Banks (born 1929), novelist
Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743–1825), poet and children's writer
W. N. P. Barbellion (real name Bruce Frederick Cummings, 1889–1919), diarist
Margaret Barber (Michael Fairless, 1869–1901), novelist and children's writer
Alexander Barclay (c. 1476–1552), poet and translator
Florence L. Barclay (1862–1921), novelist
James Barclay (born 1965), novelist
John Baret (died c. 1580), lexicographer
Owen Barfield (1898–1997), novelist, poet and philosopher
Richard Harris Barham (wrote as Thomas Ingoldsby, 1788–1845), novelist and poet, The Ingoldsby Legends
Maurice Baring (1874–1945), playwright, novelist and poet
Sabine Baring-Gould (1834–1924), novelist, hymnist and cleric
A. L. Barker (1918–2002), novelist
Cicely Mary Barker (1895–1973), children's and religious writer and illustrator
Clive Barker (born 1952), writer, film director and visual artist
Elspeth Barker (born 1940), novelist
George Granville Barker (1913–1991), poet and novelist
Jane Barker (1652–1732), poet and novelist
Mary Anne Barker (1831–1911), writer and poet
Nicola Barker (born 1966), novelist
Pat Barker (born 1943), novelist
Raffaella Barker (born 1964), novelist and journalist
Sebastian Barker (born 1945), poet
George Barlow (wrote as James Hinton, 1837–1913/1914), poet
William Barlow (died 1613), scholar, AV translator and bishop
Mordaunt Roger Barnard (1828–1906), translator and cleric
Kitty Barne (1883–1961), children's writer
Barnabe Barnes (1568 or 1569–1609), poet and playwright
Ambrose Barnes (1627–1710), nonconformist and mayor
Jonathan Barnes (born 1942), philosopher
Julian Barnes (born 1946), novelist, Flaubert's Parrot
William Barnes (1801–1886), dialect poet
Correlli Barnett (born 1927), historian
Richard Barnfield (1574–1620), poet
Alexander Baron (1917–1999), novelist and screenwriter
Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (1831–1919), novelist
Geoffrey Barraclough (1908–1984), historian
John Barret (1631–1713), writer and Presbyterian minister
Joseph Barret (1665–1699), theological writer and merchant
Leslie Barringer (1895–1968), editor and novelist
Isaac Barrow (1630–1677), scholar and cleric
John Barrow (fl. 1735–1774), lexicographer and historian
William Barrow (1754–1836), writer and cleric
Stan Barstow (born 1928), novelist and dramatist
William Bartholomew (1793–1867), librettist and composer
Mike Bartlett (born 1980), playwright and director
Bernard Barton (1784–1849), poet and Quaker
Henry Howarth Bashford (1880–1961), novelist and physician
William Basse (c. 1583–1653/1654), poet
Jonathan Bate (born 1958), biographer and editor
James Bateman (1811–1897), garden writer
H. E. Bates (1905–1974), novelist, The Darling Buds of May
Henry Walter Bates (1825–1892), naturalist and explorer
Ralph Bates (1899–2000), novelist
Elizabeth Bath (1772–1856), poet
Richard Baxter (1615–1691), poet, hymnist and theologian
Stephen Baxter (born 1957), novelist
Basil Al Bayati (born 1946), writer and architect
John Bayley (born 1925), critic and novelist
Peter Bayley (c. 1778–1883), poet and playwright
Ada Ellen Bayly (wrote as Edna Lyall, 1857–1903), novelist
Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797–1830), poet and playwright
Martin Baynton (born 1953), children's writer and illustrator
Jeremy John Beadle (1958–1995), critic
John Beadle (died 1667), diarist and cleric
Anne Beale (1816–1900), novelist and poet
Richard Bean (born 1956), playwright
Francis Beaumont (1584–1616), playwright
John Beaumont (1583–1627), poet
Joseph Beaumont (1616–1699), poet and cleric
Aubrey Beardsley (1872–1898), writer and illustrator
Laura Beatty (living), biographer and novelist
Samuel Beazley (1786–1851), novelist, playwright and architect
William Beckford (1760–1844), novelist and patron
Lillian Beckwith (born Lillian Comber, 1916–2004), novelist
Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849), poet
William Bedwell (1561–1632), scholar, AV translator and cleric
Henry Charles Beeching (1859–1919), poet and anthologist
Patricia Beer (1919–1999), poet and critic
Constance Beerbohm (1811–1892), writer
Julius Beerbohm (1854–1906), travel writer and explorer
Max Beerbohm (1872–1956), novelist and caricaturist, Zuleika Dobson
Alfred Beesley (1800–1847), poet and topographer
Mrs Beeton (born Isabella Mary Mayson, 1836–1865), cookery writer
Antony Beevor (born 1946), historian and novelist
Aphra Behn (1640–1689), novelist and playwright
Daubridgecourt Belchier (1580–1621), dramatist
Adrian Bell (1901–1980), countryside writer
Clive Bell (1881–1964), art critic
Florence Bell (1851–1930), playwright and editor
Gertrude Bell (1868–1926), writer and traveller
Josephine Bell (also as David Wintringham, 1897–1987), novelist
Julian Bell (1908–1937), poet
Mary Hayley Bell (1911–2005), novelist, playwright and actress
Quentin Bell (1910–1996), critic and biographer
Thomas Bell (1792–1880), zoologist and writer
John Bellers (1654–1725), writer and Quaker
Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953), writer and poet
Thomas Belt (1832–1878), naturalist and geologist
Elizabeth Benger (1775–1827), poet, novelist and biographer
Edward Benlowes (1603–1676), poet
Alan Bennett (born 1934), playwright and broadcaster
Anna Maria Bennett (c. 1760–1808), novelist
Arnold Bennett (1867–1931), novelist
Edwin Keppel Bennett (wrote as Francis Bennett, 1887–1958), writer, poet and scholar
A. C. Benson (1862–1925), poet and diarist
E. F. Benson (1867–1940), novelist and story writer
Peter Benson (born 1956), novelist
Robert Hugh Benson (1871–1914), novelist, writer and cleric
Stella Benson (1892–1933), novelist, poet and travel writer
George Bentham (1800–1884), botanist
Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832), philosopher
Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875–1956), novelist, humorist and poet
Elizabeth Bentley (1767–1839), poet
Nicolas Bentley (1907–1978), writer and illustrator
Phyllis Bentley (1894–1977), novelist and biographer
Richard Bentley (1662–1742), theologian and poet
Edward Berdoe (1836–1916), critic, novelist and physician
Richard Berengarten (born 1943), poet
Elisabeth Beresford (born 1928), children's writer, the Wombles
J. D. Beresford (1873–1947), novelist
James Beresford (1764–1840), satirist, translator and cleric
Leila Berg (1917–2012), children's writer
John Berger (born 1926), novelist, G.
Reginald Berkeley (1890–1935), playwright and screenwriter
John Berkenhout (1726–1791), naturalist
Steven Berkoff (born 1937), playwright and actor
William Bayle Bernard (1807–1875), playwright, critic and novelist
John Bourchier Berners (1467–1533), translator and statesman
Juliana Berners (Bernes, b. c. 1388), writer on heraldry, hawking etc., The Book of Saint Albans
Elizabeth Berridge (1919–2009), English novelist
Francis Berry (1915–2006), poet and critic
Mary Berry (1763–1852), writer and editor
Mary Berry (born 1935), cookery writer
Charles Bertram (1723–1765), literary forger
Annie Besant (1847–1933), writer and campaigner
Walter Besant (1836–1901), novelist and historian
Charles Best (1570–1627), poet
Alfred Bestall (1892–1986), children's writer and illustrator, Rupert Bear
Henry Digby Beste (1768–1836), religious writer
Matilda Betham-Edwards (1836–1919), novelist, poet and travel writer
Nicholas Bethell (1938–2007), writer, translator and politician
John Betjeman (1906–1984), Poet Laureate and writer
Thomas Betterton (1635–1710), playwright and actor
Edwyn Bevan (1870–1943), philosopher and historian
Elizabeth Beverley (fl. 1815–30), pamphleteer and actress
L. S. Bevington (1845–1895), essayist, anarchist and poet
Elizabeth Bibesco (1897–1945), novelist and poet
Tessa Biddington (born 1954), poet
Hester Biddle (c. 1629–1697), Quaker pamphleteer and preacher
John Stanyan Bigg (1828–1865), poet
Mark Billingham (born 1961), novelist
William Billington (1825–1884), poet
Thomas Bilson(1547–1616), theologian, AV translator and bishop
Andrew Bing (1574–1652), scholar, AV translator and cleric
Margaret Bingham (1740–1814), poet and painter
Laurence Binyon (1869–1943), poet and art historian
T.J. Binyon (1936–2004), novelist, translator and biographer
Carol Birch (born 1951), novelist and critic
Thomas Birch (1705–1766), historian
Caroline Bird (born 1986), poet and playwright
Isabella Bird (1831–1904), travel writer and naturalist
Dea Birkett (born 1958), writer
John Birtwhistle (born 1946), poet and librettist
Samuel Bishop (1731–1795), poet and essayist
Clementina Black (1853–1922), novelist and political writer
Robert Black (1829–1915), novelist, story writer and translator
Sarah Blackborow (fl. 1650s – 1660s), Quaker writer and preacher
John Blackburn (born 1923), novelist
Thomas Blackburn (1916–1977), poet
Malorie Blackman (born 1962), children's writer and screenwriter
R. D. Blackmore (1825–1900), novelist, Lorna Doone
Richard Blackmore (1654–1729), poet and religious writer
William Blackstone (1723–1780), legal writer
Algernon Blackwood (1869–1951), novelist and story writer
Caroline Blackwood (1931–1996), novelist and critic
Helen Blackwood, Lady Dufferin (1807–1867), poet and songwriter
Max Blagg (living), poet and writer
Quentin Blake (born 1932), children's writer and illustrator
William Blake (1757–1827), poet and artist, Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Helen Blakeman (born 1971), playwright and screenwriter
Susanna Blamire (1747–1794), poet
Edward Blanchard (1820–1899), playwright and songwriter
Samuel Laman Blanchard (1804–1845), writer, journalist and poet
Robert Blatchford (wrote as Nunquam, 1851–1943), journalist, writer and campaigner
Barbara Blaugdone (c. 1609–1705), Quaker autobiographer
Nicholas Blincoe (born 1965), novelist and screenwriter
Mathilde Blind (1841–1896), poet and biographer
Edward Blishen (1920–1996), writer and broadcaster
Eliot Bliss (Emily Bliss, 1903–1990), novelist and poet
Walter Blith (1605–1654), writer on husbandry
Robert Bloomfield (1766–1823), poet
Charles Blount (1654–1693), polemicist
Elizabeth Blower (c. 1757/1763 – post–1816), novelist, poet and actress
Evelyn, Princess Blücher (1876–1960), diarist and memoirist
Nicholas Blundell (1669–1737), diarist
Edmund Blunden (1896–1974), poet, author and critic
Anthony Blunt (1907–1983), art historian and spy
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840–1922), poet and author
Ronald Blythe (born 1922), writer and editor,
Enid Blyton (1897–1968), children's writer, Noddy
James Boaden (1762–1839), biographer, playwright and journalist
Frederick S. Boas (1862–1957), literary historian
John Ernest Bode (1816–1874), poet, hymnist and cleric
John Bodenham (1569–1610), anthologist
Barbara Bodichon (1827–1891), educator and feminist
John Bois (1560–1643), scholar, AV translator and cleric
Osbern Bokenam (c. 1393 – c. 1463), literary historian and cleric
Robert Bolt (1924–1995), dramatist and screenwriter, A Man For All Seasons
Sharon Bolton, mystery fiction writer
Michael Bond (born 1926), children's writer, Paddington Bear
Elizabeth Bonhôte (1744–1818), novelist
Christopher Booker (born 1937), writer and journalist
Luke Booker (1762–1835), poet, antiquary and cleric
George Boole (1815–1864), mathematician and logician
Mary Everest Boole (1832–1916), schoolbook writer
Barton Booth (1681–1733), actor and poet
Charles Booth (1840–1916), social researcher, Life and Labour of the People in London
Martin Booth (1944–2004), novelist, poet and editor
Stephen Booth (born 1952), novelist
Brooke Boothby (1744–1824), scholar and poet
Frances Boothby (fl. 1669–70), playwright
Basil Boothroyd (1910–1988), writer and humorist
George Borrow (1803–1881), novelist and travel writer, Romany Rye
Lucy M. Boston (1892–1990), children's writer
Clifford Edmund Bosworth (born 1928), historian and Arabist
Joseph Bosworth (1789–1876), lexicographer and Anglo-Saxon scholar
Phyllis Bottome (1884–1963), novelist and psychoanalyst
Gordon Bottomley (1874–1948), poet and dramatist
Ronald Bottrall (1906–1989), poet and academic
Marjorie Boulton (born 1924), writer and Esperantist
Francis William Bourdillon (1852–1921), poet
Thomas Edward Bowdich (1791–1824), traveller and writer
Henrietta Maria Bowdler ("Harriet", 1750–1830), religious writer and expurgator
Jane Bowdler (1743–1784), poet and essayist
John Bowdler (1746–1823), religious writer and pamphleteer
John Bowdler (1783–1815), writer and poet
Thomas Bowdler (1754–1825), writer and expurgator
Thomas Bowdler 1782–1856), writer and cleric
Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973), novelist and story writer
John Griffith Bowen (born 1924), novelist and screenwriter
Marjorie Bowen (real name Gabrielle Margaret Vere Long, 1885–1952), novelist and writer
Emily Bowes (1806–1857), religious poet and artist
Mary Bowes (1749–1800), playwright and botanist
Tim Bowler (living), children's writer
William Lisle Bowles (1762–1850), poet and critic
Maurice Bowra (1898–1971), scholar and wit
Frank Cottrell Boyce (born 1959), children's writer and screenwriter
William Binnington Boyce (1804–1889), philologist and Methodist minister
Abel Boyer (c. 1667–1729), journalist, miscellanist and translator
Charles Boyle (1674–1731), writer and playwright
Charles Boyle (born 1951), poet
John Boyle (1707–1762), writer and translator
Roger Boyle (1621–1679), playwright and statesman
Charles Vernon Boys (1855–1944), physicist and polymath
Ernest Franklin Bozman (1895–1968), writer and editor
Michael Bracewell (born 1958), writer and novelist
Alison Brackenbury (born 1953), poet
Paula Brackston (living), genre novelist
Jason Bradbury (living), children's writer and TV presenter
Malcolm Bradbury (1932–2000), novelist
Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1837–1915), novelist, Lady Audley's Secret
Henry J. Bradfield (1805–1852), poet, writer and colonial officer
Barbara Taylor Bradford (born 1933), novelist
Ernle Bradford (1922–1986), historian and writer
Charles Bradlaugh (1833–1891), writer and freethinker
A. C. Bradley (1851–1935), literary critic
Charles Bradley (1789–1871), writer and preacher
Edward Bradley (wrote as Cuthbert M. Bede, BA, 1827–1889), novelist and cleric
F. H. Bradley (1846–1924), philosopher
Henry Bradley (1845–1923), philologist and lexicographer
Henry Bradshaw (c. 1450–1513), poet and monk
Hilary Bradt (born 1941), travel writer and publisher
John Brady (died 1814), miscellanist
Melvyn Bragg (born 1939), novelist, biographer and broadcaster
John Braine (1922–1986), novelist, Room at the Top
Richard Braithwaite or Brathwait, (1588–1673), poet
Ernest Bramah (born Ernest Bramah Smith, 1868–1942), novelist and humorist
James Bramston (1694–1744), poet and satirist
Barbarina Brand Lady Dacre, (1768–1854), poet, playwright and translator
Christianna Brand (real name Mary Christianna Milne, 1907–1988), novelist and children's writer
Hannah Brand (1754–1821), playwright, poet and actress
Jo Brand (born 1957), writer and comedian
William Branthwaite (died 1620), scholar, AV translator and cleric
Anna Brassey (1839–1887), travel writer
Anna Eliza Bray (1790–1883), novelist and topographer
Charles Bray (1811–1884), philosopher and phrenologist
Angela Brazil (1868–1947), novelist
Wallace Breem (1926–1990), novelist and librarian
John Brent (1808–1882), novelist and antiquary
Elinor Brent-Dyer (1894–1969), children's writer, Chalet School
Frederick Sadleir Brereton (1852–1957), writer for boys
John Brereton (1571 or 1572 – c. 1632), travel writer and explorer
Nicholas Breton (c. 1545 – c. 1626), poet and tractarian
Richard Brett (1567–1637), scholar, AV translator and cleric
Simon Brett (born 1945), novelist and playwright
E. Cobham Brewer (1810–1897), writer and cleric, Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
George Brewer (born 1766), miscellanist
James Norris Brewer (fl. 1799–1829), topographer and novelist
John Brewster (1753–1842), writer and cleric
Shane Briant (born 1946), novelist and actor
John Bridges (1536–1618), tractarian and bishop
Robert Bridges (1844–1930), Poet Laureate
Victor Bridges (1878–1972), novelist and playwright
Katharine Mary Briggs (1898–1980), folklore writer
Raymond Briggs (born 1934), children's writer and illustrator
John Bright (1811–1889), orator and politician
Joanna Briscoe (born 1963), novelist and journalist
Sophia Briscoe (fl. 1770s), novelist
Vera Brittain (1893–1970), writer and pacifist
Edwin Brock (1927–1997), poet
William Brock (1807–1875), biographer and Baptist minister
Alexander Brome (1620–1666), poet
Richard Brome (c. 1590 – c. 1653), playwright
Vincent Brome (1910–2004), biographer and novelist
Eliza Bromley (fl. 1784–1803), novelist and translator
Eleanor Bron (born 1938), writer and actress
Anne Brontë (1820–1849), novelist, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855), novelist, Jane Eyre
Emily Brontë (1818–1848), novelist and poet, Wuthering Heights
Patrick Brontë (originally Brunty, 1777–1861), poet, writer and cleric
Rhidian Brook (born 1964), novelist and screenwriter
Arthur de Capell Brooke (1791–1858), travel writer
Christopher N. L. Brooke (living), historian
Frances Brooke (1724–1789), novelist and playwright
Jocelyn Brooke (1908–1966), novelist, poet and biographer
Rupert Brooke (1887–1915), poet
Anita Brookner (1928–2016), novelist
Kevin Brooks (born 1959), children's writer
Shirley Brooks (1816–1874), novelist, playwright and poet
Ralph Broome (1742–1835), pamphleteer and poet
William Broome (1689–1745), poet and translator
Robert Barnabas Brough (1828–1864), writer and poet
George Brown (1835–1917), ethnographer and diarist
John Brown (1715–1766), essayist and cleric
Pamela Brown (1924–1989), children's writer
Pete Brown (born 1940), performance poet and songwriter
Pete Brown (born 1968), beer writer and columnist
Stewart Brown (born 1951), poet and scholar
Tom Brown (1663–1704), satirist and translator
Anthony Browne (born 1946), children's writer and illustrator
Edward Browne (1862–1926), orientalist and writer
Isaac Hawkins Browne (1705–1760), poet
Moses Browne (1704–1787), poet and cleric
Thomas Browne (1705–1782), polymath, Religio Medici
William Browne (c. 1590 – c. 1645), poet
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861), poet
Oscar Browning (1837–1923), writer and scholar
Robert Browning (1812–1889), poet
Alan Brownjohn (born 1931), poet and novelist
Dorita Fairlie Bruce (1885–1970), children's writer
Henry James Bruce (1880–1951), autobiographer and diplomat
Francis Bryan (c. 1490–1550), poet and courtier
Arthur Bryant (1899–1985), historian
Samuel Egerton Brydges (1762–1836), bibliographer and editor
Bryher (real name Annie Winifred Ellerman, 1894–1983), novelist, poet and memoirist
Charles Bucke (1781–1846), writer and poet
Anthony Buckeridge (1912–2004), children's writer, Jennings
James Silk Buckingham (1786–1855), journalist and travel writer
Leicester Silk Buckingham (1825–1867), playwright and historian
Francis Trevelyan Buckland (1826–1880), natural historian
Raymond Buckland (born 1934), occultist
William Buckland (1784–1856), geologist, palaeontologist and cleric
Henry Thomas Buckle (1821–1862), historian
Maria Elizabeth Budden (c. 1780–1832), children's writer
Eustace Budgell (1686–1737), writer and politician
Frank Thomas Bullen (1857–1915), novelist and autobiographer
A. H. Bullen (1857–1920), scholar
J. B. Bullen (living), critic
Gerald Bullett (1893–1958), novelist, critic and poet
Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873), novelist, poet and playwright
Robert Bulwer-Lytton (wrote as Owen Meredith, 1831–1891), poet
Basil Bunting (1900–1985), poet
John Bunyan (1628–1688), writer, The Pilgrim's Progress
Josiah Burchett (c. 1666–1746), naval historian
George Burges (1786–1864), classicist
Anthony Burgess (originally John Burgess Wilson, 1917–1993), novelist, A Clockwork Orange
Melvin Burgess (born 1954), children's writer
John William Burgon (1813–1888), poet and theologian
John Burgoyne (1722–1792), playwright and army officer
Thomas Burke (1886–1945), novelist and writer
William Burke (died 1798), pamphleteer and official
Francis Burleigh (fl. 1590–1610), AV translator and cleric
Michael Burleigh (born 1955), historian
Andrew Burnaby (1732–1812), travel writer and cleric
Francis Burnand (1836–1917), humorist and dramatist
Thomas Burnet (c. 1635–1715), theologian
Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849–1924), children's writer, The Secret Garden
Caroline Burney (fl. early 19th century), novelist
Charles Burney (1726–1814), music scholar and composer
Charles Burney (1757–1817), scholar, educator and cleric
Fanny Burney (also as Frances, Mme d'Arblay, 1752–1840), novelist and diarist, Evelina
Frances Burney (1776–1828), dramatist
James Burney (1750–1821), travel writer and admiral
Sarah Burney (1772–1844), novelist
Myles Burnyeat, (born 1939), philosopher and classicist
James Burr (born 1971), fiction writer
Sophia Burrell (1753–1802), poet and playwright
James Burrow (1701–1782), scholar, scientist and lawyer
Montagu Burrows (1819–1905), naval historian and officer
Hester Burton (1913–2000), historical novelist and children's writer
Maurice Burton (1898–1992), science writer and zoologist
Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890), writer, translator and explorer
Robert Burton (1577–1640), polymath, The Anatomy of Melancholy
Charlotte Bury (1775–1861), novelist and poet
Elizabeth Bury (1644–1720), diarist and polymath
Alban Butler (1710–1773), writer and cleric
Catherine Butler (earlier Charles Butler, born 1963), children's writer and academic
Gwendoline Butler (born 1922), novelist
Joseph Butler (1692–1752), theologian and bishop
Josephine Butler (1828–1906), writer and campaigner
Samuel Butler (1612–1680), poet and satirist, Hudibras
Samuel Butler (1835–1902), writer and satirist, Erewhon
Herbert Butterfield (1900–1979), historian
Jez Butterworth (born 1969), playwright
Mary Butts (1890–1937), writer and poet
Bertha Henry Buxton (1844–1881), novelist and children's writer
Nigel Buxton (born 1924), travel writer and wine critic
Thomas Buxton (1786–1845), political writer
A. S. Byatt (born 1936), novelist
John Byrom (1692–1763), poet
John Byron (1723–1786), memoirist and admiral
Lord Byron (1788–1824), poet, Don Juan
Robert Byron (1905–1941), travel writer
Ingram Bywater (1840–1914), scholar and editor
Michael Bywater (born 1953), writer and broadcaster

C

Florence Caddy (1837–1923), writer
Hall Caine (1853–1931), novelist and playwright
Mona Caird (1854–1932), essayist, novelist and feminist
John Caius the Elder or Kay (fl. 1480), narrative poet
Maria Callcott (1785–1842), children's writer, travel writer, and illustrator
Brian Callison (born 1932), novelist
Charles Stuart Calverley (1831–1884), poet and translator
Roland Camberton (real name Henry Cohen, 1921–1965), novelist
Ada Cambridge (1844–1926), novelist and poet
William Camden (1551–1623), historian and antiquary
Richard Cameron (living), playwright
Thomas Campion (1567–1620), poet and composer
Bruce Campbell (1912–1993), ornithologist
W. H. Canaway (1925–1988), novelist
Hugh Candidus (c. 1095 – c. 1160), historian in Latin and monk
Denis Cannan (born 1919), playwright and screenwriter
Gilbert Cannan (1884–1955), novelist and translator
Joanna Cannan (1898–1961), novelist and children's writer
May Wedderburn Cannan (1893–1973), poet and autobiographer
Dorothy Cannell (born 1943), novelist
Victor Canning (1911–1986), novelist, essayist and children's writer
William Canton (1845–1926), poet and children's writer
Edward Capell (1713–1781), Shakespearean
Edward Capern (1819–1894), poet and postman
John Capgrave (1393–1464), theologian and historian
Neville Cardus (1888–1975), cricket writer and music critic
Thomas Carew (1595–1640), poet
Henry Carey (1687–1743), poet, playwright and song-writer
Mary Carey, Lady Carey (c. 1609 – c. 1680), poet
Rosa Nouchette Carey (1840–1909), novelist and children's writer
Robert Carliell (died c. 1622), poet
John Carne (1789–1844), travel writer and biographer
Edward Carpenter (1844–1929), poet and philosopher
Humphrey Carpenter (1946–2005), biographer, broadcaster and children's writer
Barbara Comyns Carr (1907–1992), novelist and artist
J. L. Carr (1912–1994), novelist and schoolbook writer
Lewis Carroll (real name Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, 1832–1898), children's writer and mathematician, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Angela Carter (1940–1992), novelist
Elizabeth Carter (17171806), poet, translator and bluestocking
Barbara Cartland (1901–2000), novelist
George Cartwright (1739–1819), diarist and explorer
Justin Cartwright (born 1945), novelist
William Cartwright (1611–1643), playwright
Elizabeth Cary (1585–1639), poet and playwright, The Tragedy of Mariam
Henry Francis Cary (1772–1844), translator and critic
Lucius Cary (Lord Falkland, 1610–1643), poet, writer and politician
Patrick Cary or Carey, (c. 1624–1658), poet
John Caryll (1625–1711), poet, playwright and diplomat
Juanita Casey (1925–2012), poet and novelist
Cathy Cassidy (born 1962), children's writer
Egerton Castle (1858–1920), novelist (with wife Agnes)
Helen Castor (living), historian and broadcaster
Sarah Caudwell (real name Sarah Cockburn, 1939–2000), novelist
Charles Causley (1917–2003), poet and editor
David Caute (born 1936), novelist and historian
Tiberius Cavallo (1749–1809), natural philosopher
George Cavendish (1494 – c. 1652), biographer and poet
Jane Cavendish (later Jane Cheyne, 1621–1669), poet and playwright
Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle, (1623–1673), poet, novelist and playwright
William Cavendish (1592–1676), polymath
William Caxton (c. 1415/1422 – c. 1492), printer and translator
Lord David Cecil (1902–1986), scholar and biographer
Dorothea Celesia (originally Mallet, 1738–1790), poet and translator
Susanna Centlivre (also as Susanna Carroll, c. 1667–1723), playwright, poet and actress
Mark Chadbourn (born 1960), genre novelist
Laurence Chaderton (c. 1536–1640), theologian, AV translator and cleric
Henry Chadwick (1920–2008), theologian, historian and cleric
John Chalkhill (fl. c. 1600), poet
Thomas Chaloner (1521–1565), poet, translator and statesman
Edward Chamberlayne (1616–1703), writer, historian and translator
William Chamberlayne (1619–1689), poet
Shaun Chamberlin (living), author and activist
Aidan Chambers (born 1934), children's writer
Ephraim Chambers (c. 1680–1740), writer and encyclopedist
Frederick Chamier (1796–1870), novelist and sea captain
Meira Chand (living), novelist
Mary Chandler (1687–1745), poet
Raymond Chandler (1888–1959), crime writer
Samuel Chandler (1693–1766), theologian and Presbyterian minister
Henry Channon ("Chips", 1897–1958), writer and diarist
George Chapman (1559–1634), poet, playwright and translator
Guy Chapman (1889–1972), writer and historian
Pat Chapman (born 1940), food writer
Hester Chapone (1727–1801), writer and bluestocking
Charlotte Charke (originally Cibber, 1713–1760), writer and actress
Elizabeth Charles (1828–1896), novelist and religious writer
Gerda Charles (real name Edna Lipson, 1914–1996), novelist and anthologist
Maria Louisa Charlesworth (1819–1880), children's writer
Leslie Charteris (born Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin, 1907–1993), novelist, Simon Templar
James Hadley Chase, b. Rene Brabazon Raymond, also as James L. Docherty, Ambrose Grant, etc., (1906–1985), novelist
Debjani Chatterjee (born 1952), poet, translator and children's writer
Georgiana Chatterton (1806–1876), travel writer, novelist and poet
Thomas Chatterton (wrote as Thomas Rowley, 1752–1770), poet
Beth Chatto (born 1923), garden writer
William Andrew Chatto (also as Stephen Oliver, 1799–1864), travel and general writer
Bruce Chatwin (1940–1989), novelist and travel writer
Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343–1400), poet, The Canterbury Tales
Cris Cheek (born 1955), poet and performer
Mavis Cheek (living), novelist
John Cheke (1514–1557), classicist and translator
George Tomkyns Chesney (1830–1895), novelist and army officer
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936), novelist, poet and essayist, Father Brown
Henry Chettle (c. 1564 – c. 1607), playwright
William Rufus Chetwood (died 1766), playwright, novelist and publisher
Peter Cheyney (1896–1951), novelist
Josiah Child (1630–1699), political economist and merchant
Lee Child (real name Jim Grant, b. 1954), thriller writer
Wilfred Rowland Childe (1890–1952), poet
Erskine Childers (1870–1922), novelist and politician
William Chillingworth (1602–1644), religious writer
Mary Cholmondeley (1859–1925), novelist
Charles Chorley (c. 1810–1874), man of letters
Agatha Christie (1891–1976), mystery writer
Mary Chudleigh (1656–1710), poet and polemicist
Alfred John Church (1829–1912, scholar, poet and translator
Richard Church (1893–1972), poet
Richard William Church (1815–1890), biographer, historian and cleric
Caryl Churchill (born 1938), playwright and translator
Charles Churchill (1731–1764), poet and satirist
Winston Churchill (1874–1965), writer, prime minister and Nobel Prize winner
Thomas Churchyard (c. 1520–1604), poet and soldier
Colley Cibber (1671–1757), Poet Laureate, playwright and bowdlerizer
Horatio Clare (born 1973), writer
John Clare (1793–1864), poet
Emily Clark (fl. 1798–1819), novelist and poet
Amy Clarke (1892–1980), poet and school historian
Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008), SF novelist
Bob Clarke (born 1964), archaeologist and historian
Charles Cowden Clarke (1787–1877), writer and scholar
Mrs. Henry Clarke (Amy, 1853–1908), historical novelist and children's writer
Lindsay Clarke (born 1939), novelist and poet
Mary Cowden Clarke ((originally Novello, 1809–1898), writer and scholar
Pauline Clarke (born 1921), children's writer
Richard Clarke (died 1634), scholar, AV translator and cleric
Roy Clarke (born 1930), screenwriter and playwright
Samuel Clarke (1675–1729), philosopher and cleric
Susanna Clarke (born 1959), novelist, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
T. E. B. Clarke (1907–1989), screenwriter and novelist
Laurence Clarkson or Claxton (1615–1667), writer and theologian
John Clavell (1601–1643), writer, playwright and highwayman
Chris Cleave (born 1973), novelist and journalist
Brian Cleeve (1921–2003), novelist
Lucas Cleeve (also as Mrs Howard Kingscote, 1868–1908), novelist
John Cleland (1709–1789), novelist, Fanny Hill
Dick Clement (born 1937), scriptwriter
Jack Clemo (1916–1994), poet and novelist
John Cleveland (1613–1658), poet
Anne Clifford (1590–1676), diarist
Lucy Clifford (wrote as Mrs. W. K. Clifford, 1846–1929), novelist, playwright and children's writer
William Kingdon Clifford (1846–1879), philosopher and children's writer
Caroline Clive (wrote as "V", 1801–1872), novelist and poet
John Clive (1933–2012), novelist and actor
Kitty Clive (born Catherine Raftor, 1711–1785), playwright and actress
Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861), poet
Bryan Clough (born 1932), writer
William Cobbett (1763–1835), writer and pamphleteer, Rural Rides
Bob Cobbing (1920–2002), poet and artist
Richard Cobbold (1797–1877), novelist and writer
Richard Cobden (1804–1865), pamphleteer
Aston Cockayne (1605–1684), poet and playwright
Catherine Trotter Cockburn (1679–1749), novelist and playwright
Edward Cocker (1631–1676), writer and engraver
Richard Cocks (1566–1624), diarist
Henry Cockton (1807–1853), novelist
Jonathan Coe (born 1961), novelist
Lady Mary Coke (1727–1811), correspondent and diarist
Barry Cole (born 1936), poet and novelist
G. D. H. Cole (1889–1959), economist, historian and novelist
Margaret Cole (1893–1980), politician and novelist
Olivia Cole (born 1982), poet
John William Colenso (1814–1883), writer and bishop
Christabel Rose Coleridge (1843–1921), novelist and editor
Derwent Coleridge (1800–1883), writer, scholar and cleric
Ernest Hartley Coleridge (1846–1920), critic, editor and poet
Hartley Coleridge (1796–1849), poet and critic
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861–1907), novelist and poet
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834), poet, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
Sara Coleridge (1802–1852), author and translator
Stephen Coleridge (1854–1936), writer, poet and campaigner
Jane Collier (1714–1755), satirist
Jeremy Collier (1650–1726), pamphleteer and cleric
John Collier (wrote as Tim Bobbin, 1708–1786), dialect poet and caricaturist
John Collier (1901–1980), story writer and screenwriter
John Payne Collier (1789–1883), literary critic, editor and forger
Mary Collier (c. 1688–1762), poet
R. G. Collingwood (1889–1943), philosopher and historian
W. G. Collingwood (1854–1932), writer and artist
An Collins (fl. 1653), poet
Anthony Collins (1676–1729), philosopher
Charles James Collins (1820–1864), novelist and journalist
Jackie Collins (1937–2015), novelist
John Collins (1625–1683), mathematician
John Collins (1742–1808), poet and lyricist
John Churton Collins (1848–1908), literary critic
Mortimer Collins (1827–1876), novelist and poet
Norman Collins (1907–1982), novelist
Warwick Collins (born 1948), novelist and screenwriter
Wilkie Collins (1824–1889), novelist, The Moonstone
William Collins (1721–1759), poet
John Stewart Collis (1900–1984), biographer and countryside writer
Maurice Collis (1889–1973), writer and biographer
Mary Collyer (c. 1716–1762), translator and novelist.
George Colman (1732–1794), playwright
George Colman (1762–1836), playwright and poet
Jock Colville (1915–1987), diarist and civil servant
Howard Colvin (1919–2007), architectural historian
William Combe (1741–1823), miscellanist and poet
Alex Comfort (1920–2000), novelist, poet and writer
Jack Common (1903–1968), novelist
Ivy Compton-Burnett (1884–1969), novelist
William Congreve (1670–1729), playwright and poet, Erewhon
Thomas Coningsby (died 1625), diarist, soldier and politician
Paul Conneally (born 1959), poet, artist and musician
Charlie Connelly (born 1970), football and travel writer
Cyril Connolly (1903–1974), writer and critic
Joseph Connolly (born 1950), writer and novelist
Tony Connor (born 1930), poet and playwright
Robert Conquest (born 1917), historian and poet
Henry Constable (1562–1613), poet
Hugh Conway (real name Frederick John Fargus, 1847–1885), novelist
Robert Seymour Conway (1864–1933), classicist
John Conybeare (1692–1755), theologian and bishop
John Josias Conybeare (1779–1824), scholar, translator and cleric
William Daniel Conybeare (1787–1857), writer and cleric
William John Conybeare (1815–1857), writer, novelist and cleric
David Cook (born 1940), novelist and screenwriter
Edward Dutton Cook (1829–1883), novelist and critic
Eliza Cook (1818–1889), poet
James Cook (1728–1779), travel writer and mariner
Judith Cook (1933–2004), novelist
Dorian Cooke (1916–2005), poet and intelligence officer
Thomas Cooke (1703–1756), poet, playwright and translator
Catherine Cookson (1906–1998), novelist
William Henry Coombes (1767–1850), writer and RC priest
Artemis Cooper (born 1953), writer and editor
Duff Cooper (1890–1954), writer, diarist and politician
Jilly Cooper (born 1937), writer and novelist
Lettice Cooper (1897–1994), novelist and critic
Thomas Cooper (1805–1892), poet and novelist
William Cooper (real name H. S. Hoff, 1910–2002), novelist
Isabel Cooper-Oakley (1853/1854–1914), theosophist
Wendy Cope (born 1945), poet
Esther Copley (1786–1851) children's and housekeeping writer
A. E. Coppard (1878–1957) poet and story writer
Abiezer Coppe (1619–1672) religious writer
Richard Corbet or Corbett (1582–1635), poet and bishop
Jim Corbett (1875–1955), writer and conservationist
Julian Corbett (1854–1922), naval historian
Michael Cordy (living), novelist
Marie Corelli (1855–1924), novelist
Alan Coren (1938–2007), writer, satirist and broadcaster
Hilary Corke (1921–2001), poet
Adam Cornford (born 1950), poet and essayist
Frances Cornford (1886–1960), poet
Francis M. Cornford (1874–1943), scholar and poet
John Cornford (1915–1936), poet
Caroline Cornwallis (1786–1858), writer and polyglot
Jane Cornwallis (1581–1659), correspondent
Bernard Cornwell (born 1944), novelist
William Cornysh or Cornish (1465–1523), dramatist, poet and composer
Felicitas Corrigan (1908–2003), writer and nun
Annie Sophie Cory (wrote as Victoria Cross, 1868–1952), novelist
William Johnson Cory (1823–1892), poet and educator
Thomas Coryat or Coryate (c. 1577–1617), travel writer and poet
Louisa Stuart Costello (1799–1870), travel writer, novelist and poet
John Cosin (1594–1672), polemicist and bishop
Randle Cotgrave (died 1634 or 1652), lexicographer
Joseph Cottle (1770–1853), poet and essayist
Charles Cotton (1630–1687), poet and writer
Robert Bruce Cotton (1570/1571 – 1631), antiquary and political writer
Oswald Couldrey (1882–1958), poet and artist
Stephen Coulter (also as James Mayo, b. 1914), novelist
G. G. Coulton (1858–1947), historian and polemicist
William John Courthope (1842–1917), critic and poet
Polly Courtney (living), novelist
Francis Coventry (1725–1754 or 1759), novelist
Miles Coverdale (c. 1488–1569), Bible translator
Noël Coward (1899–1973), playwright, Blithe Spirit
Abraham Cowley (1618–1667), poet
Hannah Cowley (1743–1809), playwright
Dorothy Cowlin (1911–2010), novelist and poet
William Cowper (1731–1800), poet, John Gilpin
Anthony Berkeley Cox (also as Anthony Berkeley, etc., 1893–1971), novelist
Edward Coxere (1633–1694), autobiographer and seaman
George Crabbe (1754–1832), poet and naturalist
Jim Crace (born 1946), novelist
Hubert Crackanthorpe (originally Cookson, 1870–1896), essayist and story writer
Nicholas Crafts (born 1949), economic historian
Albert Craig (the Surrey Poet, 1849–1909), sports poet
Amanda Craig (born 1959), novelist
Dinah Craik (also as Miss Mulock, 1826–1887), novelist and poet
Edward Crankshaw (1909–1984), writer, historian and translator
Richard Crashaw (1613–1649), poet
Elizabeth Craven (1750–1828), travel writer and playwright
John Creasey (1908–1973), novelist
Edward Shepherd Creasy (1812–1878), historian
Thomas Creech (1659–1700), translator
Thomas Creevey (1768–1838), diarist and politician
Mandell Creighton (1843–1901), historian and bishop
Helen Cresswell (1934–2005), children's writer and screenwriter
Jasmine Cresswell (born 1941), novelist
Nicholas Cresswell (1750–1804), diarist and farmer
Bernard Crick (1929–2008), political scientist
Martin Crimp (born 1956), playwright
Arthur Shearly Cripps (1869–1952), story writer and poet
Quentin Crisp (born Denis Charles Pratt, 1908–1999), writer and raconteur
Ann Batten Cristall (1769–1848), poet
Herbert Croft (1751–1815), novelist
Rupert Croft-Cooke (wrote as Leo Bruce, 1903–1979), novelist
Andrew Crofts (born 1953), ghost writer
Bithia Mary Croker (1849–1920), novelist
Thomas Francis Dillon Croker (wrote as T. F. Dillon Croker, 1831–1912), antiquary and poet
Richmal Crompton (real name Richmal Crompton Lamburn, 1890–1969), novelist, Just William
Vincent Cronin (1924–2011), historian and biographer
Camilla Dufour Crosland (1812–1895), poet, novelist and historical writer
A. F. Cross (1863–1940), poet, playwright and journalist
Gillian Cross (born 1945), children's writer
Kevin Crossley-Holland (born 1941), children's writer, poet and editor
Catherine Crowe (1790–1872), novelist and playwright
William Crowe (1745–1829), poet
Aleister Crowley (1875–1947), writer, mystic and occultist
John Crowne (1641–1712), playwright
Andrew Crozier (1943–2008), poet and scholar
Andrew Crumey (born 1961), novelist
J. A. Cuddon (1928–1996), novelist, playwright and lexicographer
Annie Hall Cudlip (1838–1918), novelist
Pender Hodge Cudlip (1834–1911), writer and cleric
John Cullum (1733–1785), antiquary, historian and cleric
Hannah Cullwick ((1833–1909), diarist and servant
Nathanael Culverwel (1619–1651), philosopher and theologian
Nigel Cumberland (born 1967), self-help and leadership non-fiction author
Richard Cumberland (1631–1718), philosopher and bishop
Richard Cumberland (1732–1811), playwright, poet and novelist
Nancy Cunard (1896–1965), poet and memoirist
Joseph Cundall (wrote as Stephen Percy, 1818–1895), children's writer and publisher
John Cunliffe (1933–2018), children's writer
Roland Curram (born 1932), novelist and actor
R. N. Currey (1907–2001), poet
Lionel George Curtis (1872–1955), writer on world government
William Curtis (1746–1799), botanist
Alice Curwen (c. 1619–1679), Quaker writer and preacher
Henry Cust (1861–1917), writer and editor
Catherine Cuthbertson (pre–1780 – post–1830), novelist
Judith Cutler (born 1946), novelist
John Cutts (1661–1707), poet, writer and soldier

gollark: It was fine for those 2ish hours.

gollark: You will not win the election. APPLICABLE PLASTICITY has seen to that.

gollark: baidicoot for backup hactar?

gollark: So *Hactar* will take over?

gollark: Oh, I mean yours, but that works too.

List of English writers (A–C)

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