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 = flourished, RC = Roman Catholic , SF = science fiction , YA = young adult fiction
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Jonathan Raban (1942–2023), travel writerMichael Rabbet (c. 1562–1630), AV translator and clericAnn Radcliffe (1764–1823), novelist, The Mysteries of Udolpho Jeremiah Radcliffe (died 1612 or c. 1620), scholar, AV translator and clericDollie Radford (real name Caroline Maitland, 1858–1920), poet and writerSimon Rae (living), poet and cricket writerElizabeth Raffald (1833–1881), cookery writerShahida Rahman (born 1971), writer and publisherBali Rai (born 1971), YA novelistCraig Raine (born 1944) poet and criticKathleen Raine (1908–2003), poet and translatorNina Raine (living), playwright and directorJohn Rainolds (1549–1607), AV translator and clericRoss Raisin (born 1979), novelistArthur Raistrick (1896–1991), polymathWalter Raleigh or Ralegh (1552–1618), poet and navigatorWalter Raleigh (1861–1922), scholar and poetLobsang Rampa (real name Cyril Henry Hoskin, 1910–1981), novelistLeonard G. G. Ramsey (1913–1990), writer, editor and encyclopaedistThomas Randolph (1605–1635), poetWilliam Brighty Rands (wrote as Henry Holbeach and Matthew Browne, 1823–1882), children's writer and hymnistCharles Rangeley-Wilson (living), novelist and poetNicholas Rankin (born 1950), biographer, historian and broadcasterArthur Ransome (1884–1967), children's writer, Swallows and Amazons Ellen Henrietta Ranyard (1810–1879), religious writerHastings Rashdall (1858–1924), philosopher and clericJohn Rastell or Rastall (c. 1475–1536) chronicler and playwrightJulian Rathbone (1935–2008), novelistTerence Rattigan (1911–1977), playwright and screenwriter The Winslow Boy Simon Raven (1927–2001), novelist, screenwriter and playwrightRalph Ravens (c. 1553–1615), scholar, AV translator and clericEdward Ravenscroft (c. 1654–1707), playwrightGwen Raverat (1885–1957), memoirist and illustratorThomas Ravis (c. 1560–1609), scholar, AV translator and bishopGeorge Rawlinson (1812–1902), scholar, historian and clericHardwicke Rawnsley (1851–1920), poet and hymnistTom Raworth (1938–2017), poetJohn Ray (1627–1705), naturalist and lexicographerDerek Raymond (real name R. W. A. Cook, 1931–1994), novelistClaire Rayner (1931–2010), novelist and broadcasterJay Rayner (born 1966), novelist and food writerShoo Rayner (originally Hugh Rayner, 1956), children's writer and illustratorBenedict Read (1945–2016), art criticHerbert Read (1893–1968), poet, critic and novelistMiss Read (real name Dora Jessie Saint, 1913–2012), novelist, autobiographer and children's writerPiers Paul Read (born 1941), novelist and writerCharles Reade (1814–1884), novelist, The Cloister and the Hearth Hazel Alden Reason (1901–1976), writer on science for childrenJohn Redford (died 1547), poet, playwright and composerPeter Redgrove (1932–2003), poet, novelist and editorPatrick Redmond (born 1966), thriller writerHenry Reed (1914–1986), poet and translatorIsaac Reed (1742–1807), biographer and ShakespeareanJeremy Reed (born 1951), poet, novelist and criticTalbot Baines Reed (1852–1893), children's novelistDouglas Reeman (wrote as Alexander Kent, 1924–2017), novelistDavid Rees (1936–1993), children's writerTerence Reese (1913–1996), bridge writerClara Reeve (1729–1807), novelist, The Old English Baron John Reeve (1608–1658), religious writerPhilip Reeve (born 1966), children's writer and illustratorAmber Reeves (1887–1981), novelist and writerJames Reeves (originally John Morris Reeves, 1909–1978), poet and children's writerChristopher Reid (born 1949), poet and essayistJonathan Rendall (born 1964), novelistRuth Rendell (also as Barbara Vine, 1930–2015), novelistLouise Rennison (1951–2016), children's writer and comicJohn Reresby (1634–1689), politician and diaristFrederic Reynolds (1764–1841), playwrightGeorge W. M. Reynolds (1814–1879, novelist and journalistHenry Reynolds (1564–1632), poet, translator and criticJohn Hamilton Reynolds (1794–1852), poetDan Rhodes (born 1972), novelist and story writerPam Rhodes (born 1950), novelist and broadcasterWilliam Barnes Rhodes (1772–1826), playwrightErnest Rhys (1859–1946), writer, poet and editorDavid Ricardo (1772–1823), political economistBen Rice (born 1972), novelistJames Rice (1843–1882), novelistBarnabe Rich (c. 1540–1617), writer and soldierAlfred Bate Richards (1820–1876), playwright, poet and essayistI. A. Richards (1893–1979), criticJustin Richards (born 1961), novelistVernon Richards (originally Vero Recchioni, 1915–2001), anarchist writerDorothy Richardson (1873–1957), novelist and translatorElizabeth Richardson (1576/1577–1651), religious writerJohn Richardson (died 1625), scholar, AV translator and clericJohn Richardson (1657–1753), Quaker preacher and memoiristSamuel Richardson (1689–1761), novelist, Pamela Christopher Ricks (born 1933), critic and anthologistEdgell Rickword (1898–1982), poet, critic and editorAnne Ridler (1912–2001), poet and editorJames Ridley (wrote as Charles Morell, 1736–1765), novelist and story writerMark Ridley (1560 – c. 1624), lexicographer of RussianNicholas Ridley (1500–1555), theologian and bishopPhilip Ridley (born 1964), playwright and children's writerD. C. H. Rieu (1916–2008), scholar and translatorE. V. Rieu (1887–1972), scholar, translator and poetDenise Riley (born 1948), poet and scholarGwendoline Riley (born 1979), novelistPeter Riley (born 1940), poet and essayistStella Rimington (born 1935), novelist and intelligence officerJames Riordan (1936–2012), children's writer and footballerJonathan Ripley , writer, director and producerAnne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie (1837–1919), novelist and essayistJames Ewing Ritchie (1820–1898), travel writer and political biographerJoseph Ritson (1752–1803), antiquary and editorGraham Robb (born 1958), biographer and criticAndrew Roberts (born 1963), historian and biographerDavid Roberts (living), novelist and editorEmma Roberts (1794–1840), travel writer and poetKatherine Roberts (born 1962), children's writerKeith Roberts (1935–2000), novelist and story writerLynette Roberts (born Evelyn Beatrice Roberts, 1909–1995), poetMichael Roberts (1902–1948), poet and criticMichael Symmons Roberts (born 1963), poet and librettistMichèle Roberts (born 1949), novelist and poetMorley Roberts (1857–1942), novelistJoseph Clinton Robertson (wrote as Sholto Percy, 1788–1852), writer and editorThomas William Robertson (1829–1871), playwrightDenise Robins (several pen names, 1897–1985), novelistPatricia Robins (also as Claire Lorrimer, 1921–2016), novelistAustin Robinson (1897–1993), economistDerek Robinson (born 1932), novelistHenry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867), man of lettersHilary Robinson (born 1962), children's writerJoan Robinson (1903–1983), economistJohn Robinson (1919–1983), writer and bishop Honest to God Mary Robinson (1757–1800), poet and novelistNigel Robinson (living), writer and editorPeter Robinson (born 1953), poet and translatorRony Robinson (born 1940), novelist and playwrightJohn Roby (1793–1850), poet and writerPaul Roche (1916–2007), poet, novelist and criticRegina Maria Roche (1764–1845), Gothic novelistRennell Rodd (1858–1941), poet and politicianJohn Rodker (1894–1955), writer and poetJane Rogers (born 1952), novelistSamuel Rogers (1763–1855), poetThorold Rogers (1823–1890), political economistWoodes Rogers (died 1732), travel writer and marinerPeter Mark Roget (1779–1869), philologist, Roget's Thesaurus Sax Rohmer (real name A. H. S. Ward, 1883–1959), novelistFrederick Rolfe (1860–1913), novelist and artistRichard Rolle (1290–1349), writer and Bible translatorL. T. C. Rolt (1910–1974), transport writerIsabella Frances Romer (1798–1852), travel writerStephen Romer (born 1957), poet and criticWilliam Roscoe (1753–1831), scholar and poetElizabeth and Gerald Rose (latter b. 1935), children's writers and illustratorsPaul Rose (1935–2015), writer and politicianMichael Rosen (born 1946), children's writer and poetIsaac Rosenberg (1890–1918), poet and playwrightJack Rosenthal (1931–2004), screenwriterAlan Ross (1922–2001), poet, writer and editorChristina Rossetti (1830–1894), poetDante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882), poet and painterMaria Francesca Rossetti (1827–1876), writer and translatorWilliam Michael Rossetti (1829–1919), writer and criticJohn Horace Round (1854–1928), historian and genealogistW. H. D. Rouse (1863–1950), classicist and editorMartin Routh (1755–1854), classicistAlick Rowe (1939–2009), scriptwriter and novelistElizabeth Singer Rowe (1674–1737), poet and novelistNicholas Rowe (1674–1718), Poet Laureate Richard Rowlands (c. 1550–1640), historian and antiquarySamuel Rowlands (c. 1573–1630), poet and pamphleteerSamuel Rowley (died c. 1633), playwright and actorWilliam Rowley (c. 1585–1626), playwright and actorJ. K. Rowling (born 1965), children's writer, Harry Potter Lucinda Roy (born 1955), novelist and poetGillian Rubinstein (also as Lian Hearn, born 1942), children's writer and playwrightCarol Rumens (born 1944), poet and scholarKatherine Rundell (born 1987), children's writer, playwright and academicPeter Rushforth (1945–2005), novelistJohn Ruskin (1819–1900), essayist, poet and art criticBertrand Russell (1872–1970), philosopher What I Believe Lord John Russell (1792–1878), biographer and prime ministerWilliam Clark Russell (1844–1911), novelistWilliam Howard Russell (1820–1907), travel writer and war correspondentJohn D. Rutherford (born 1941), scholar and translatorEdward Rutherfurd (born 1948), historical fiction authorCecil Bernard Rutley , (1888–1956), children's and science fictionChris Ryan (born 1961), novelist and soldierAmy Louisa Rye (1851–unknown), children's writer and social reformerGilbert Ryle (1900–1976), philosopherThomas Rymer (c. 1643–1713), Historiographer Royal and poetRoyce Ryton (1924–2009), playwright
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Suhayl Saadi (born 1961), novelist, playwright and physicianOliver Sacks (1933–2015), writer and neurologistCharles Sackville, Earl of Dorset (1638–1706), poetLady Margaret Sackville (1881–1963), poet and children's writerThomas Sackville, Earl of Dorset (1536–1608), poet and statesmanVita Sackville-West (1892–1962), poet and novelist All Passion Spent Lorna Sage (1943–2001), critic and scholarLawrence Sail (born 1942), poet and editorGeorge Saintsbury (1845–1933), criticSaki (real name Hector Hugh Munro) (1870–1916), story writer and satiristAnbara Salam , historical fiction writerHenry Stephens Salt (1851–1939), writer and campaignerJohn Saltmarsh (died 1647), writer and clericFiona Sampson (born 1968), poet and editorKevin Sampson (born 1961), novelistIgnatius Sancho (c. 1729–1780), writer and domestic servantNicholas Sanders (c. 1530–1581), polemicist and RC priestRobert Sanderson (1587–1663), theologianEdwin Sandys (1519–1588), Bishops' Bible translator and bishopGeorge Sandys (1577–1644), poet and travellerPeter Sanger (born 1943), poet and scholarC. J. Sansom (born 1952), novelistClive Sansom (1910–1981), poet, playwright and educatorWilliam Sansom (1912–1976), novelist and travel writerSiegfried Sassoon (1886–1967), poet and novelist Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man Hilary Saint George Saunders (wrote as Francis Beeding, etc., 1898–1951), novelistJames Savage (1767–1845), writer and antiquaryRichard Savage (c. 1697–1743), poet and satiristHenry Savile (1549–1622), scholar and AV translatorMichael Saward (1932–2015), hymnistDorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957), novelist, Lord Peter Wimsey Frank Sayers (1763–1817), poet and metaphysicianArthur Scaife (c. 1855-1934), writer and editorFrancis Scarfe (1911–1986), poet and novelistVernon Scannell (1922–2007), poetAlex Scarrow (living), novelist and screenwriterSimon Scarrow (born 1962), historical novelistSimon Schama (born 1945), historianAnn Schlee (born 1934), novelistCaroline Lucy Scott (1784–1857), novelist and religious writerCatherine Amy Dawson Scott (1865–1934), poet, playwright and novelistGeoffrey Scott (1884–1929), writer and poetHardiman Scott (1920–1999), writer and poetHugh Stowell Scott (wrote as Henry Seton Merriman, c. 1863–1903), novelistJane Scott (1779–1839), playwrightJohn Scott (1783–1821), editor and writerJohn Scott of Amwell (1731–1783), poetJohn A. Scott (born 1948), poet and novelistMary Scott (1751/1752–1793), poetPaul Mark Scott (1920–1978), novelist, playwright and poetSarah Scott (1720–1795), novelist and translatorWilliam Bell Scott (1811–1890), poet and artistWill Scott (1893−1964), crime writer and playwrightAnne Scott-James (1913–2009), novelist, editor and garden writerE. J. Scovell (1907–1999), poetJames Scudamore (born 1976), novelistGeorge Bazeley Scurfield (1920–1991), poet, novelist and politicianMarcus Sedgwick (born 1968), children's writerCharles Sedley (1639–1701), poet and rakeKate Sedley (real name Brenda Clarke, 1926–2022), novelistStephen Sedley (b. 1939), writer on lawFrederic Seebohm (1833–1912), economic historianJohn Robert Seeley (1834–1895), historian and essayistRachel Seiffert (born 1971), novelistDavid Selbourne (born 1937), philosopher and playwrightCatherine Selden (fl. 1797–1817), novelistJohn Selden (1584–1654), polymathWill Self (born 1961), novelist and columnistCharles Seltman (1886–1957), art historianGeorge Selwyn (1719–1791), correspondent and witNassau William Senior (1790–1864), economistSepharial (real name Walter Gorn Old, 1864–1929), astrologer and numerologistGitta Sereny (1921–2012), biographer and historianIan Serraillier (1912–1994), novelist and poetRobert Service (born 1947), historian and scholarDiane Setterfield (born 1964), novelistElkanah Settle (1648–1724), playwright and poetTim Severin (1940–2020), writer, historian and explorerAnna Seward ("Swan of Lichfield", 1747–1809), poet and biographerThomas Seward (1708–1790), writerWilliam Seward (1747–1799), anecdotistAnna Sewell (1820–1878), novelist, Black Beauty Elizabeth Missing Sewell (1815–1906), novelist and religious writerMary Wright Sewell (1797–1884), children's writerWilliam Sewell (1804–1874), writer, translator and clericMiranda Seymour (born 1948), biographer, novelist and children's writerMartin Seymour-Smith (1928–1998), poet and criticThomas Shadwell (c. 1642–1692), Poet Laureate , Historiographer Royal and playwrightAnthony Shaffer (1926–2001), playwright and novelistPeter Shaffer (1926–2016), playwright Amadeus Eddy Shah (born 1944), novelist and newspaper ownerSaira Shah (born 1964), writer and film-makerTahir Shah (born 1966), travel writer and criticOlivia Shakespear (1863–1938), novelist and playwrightNicholas Shakespeare (born 1957), novelist and biographerWilliam Shakespeare (c. 1564–1616), poet and playwright Hamlet Edward Shanks (1892–1953), poet and criticJo Shapcott (born 1953), poet and scholarEvelyn Sharp (1869–1955), journalist, children's writer and suffragistJane Sharp (born c. 1641), writer on midwiferyMargery Sharp (1905–1991), novelist, children's writer and playwrightRichard Sharp (1759–1835), polemicist and hatterThomas Wilfred Sharp (1901–1978), writer on planningKevin Sharpe (1949–2011), historianRichard Sharpe (living), historianRichard Bowdler Sharpe (1847–1909), ornithologist and editorTom Sharpe (1928–2013), novelistGeorge Shaw (1751–1813), botanist and zoologistPete Shaw (born 1966), writer and producerPeter Shaw (1694–1763), physician, medical writer and translatorRobert Shaw (1927–1978), actor and novelistWatkins Shaw (1911–1996), musicologistJohn Shebbeare (1709–1788), novelist and satiristWilfrid Sheed (1930–2011), writer, novelist and essayistJohn Sheffield (also as Mulgrave, then Buckingham, 1647–1721) poet and essayistEdward Sheldon (1599–1687), religious translatorMary Shelley (1797–1851), author, Frankenstein Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822), poet Ode to the West Wind George Shelvocke (1675–1742), travel writerWilliam Shenstone (1714–1763), poetStav Sherez (born 1970), novelistClare Sheridan (1885–1970), writer and sculptorRichard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816), playwright, The Rivals William Sherlock (1641–1707), theologian and clericPhilip Sherrard (1922–1995), classicist, translator and religious writerR. 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Sherriff (1890–1975), playwright, novelist and screenwriter Journey's End Charles Scott Sherrington (1857–1952), science writer and Nobel Prize winnerNorman Sherry (1935–2016), novelist and biographerMary Martha Sherwood (1775–1851), children's writer and tractarianJames Shirley (1596–1666), playwrightJoseph Henry Shorthouse (1834–1903), novelistFredegond Shove (1889–1949), poetNevil Shute (1899–1960), novelist and aviation engineer A Town Like Alice Penelope Shuttle (born 1947), poet and novelistGareth Sibson (born 1977), novelist and broadcasterElizabeth Siddal (1829–1862), artist and poetMary Sidney (later Mary Herbert, countess of Pembroke, 1561–1621), poet and translatorPhilip Sidney (1554–1586), poet and soldierRobert Sidney , earl of Leicester (1563–1626) poet and statesmanUna Lucy Silberrad (1872–1955), novelistJon Silkin (1930–1997), poet, editor and criticAlan Sillitoe (1928–2010), novelist, poet and translator Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Elizabeth Simcoe (1762–1850), diaristGeorge Augustus Simcox (1841–1905), poet and scholarKathryn Simmonds (born 1972), poet and story writerJack Simmons (1915–2000), historianBrian Simon (1915–2002), educatorDavid Simpson (1745–1799), writer and clericDorothy Simpson (born 1933), novelistHelen Simpson (born 1959), novelist and story writerJoe Simpson (born 1960), writer and mountaineerJohn Simpson (1746–1812), writer and Unitarian ministerJohn Simpson (born 1953), lexicographerJohn Palgrave Simpson (1807–1887), playwrightN. F. Simpson (1919–2011), playwrightGeorge Robert Sims (1847–1922), writer, poet and journalistAndrew Sinclair (1935–2019), novelist, historian and biographerClive Sinclair (1940–2021), novelistIan Sinclair writer, poet and film-makerMay Sinclair (real name Mary Amelia St. Clair, 1863–1946), novelist, poet and criticC. H. Sisson (1914–2003), poet, translator and writerEdith Sitwell (1887–1964), poetOsbert Sitwell (1892–1969), writerSacheverell Sitwell (1897–1988), poet and writerWalter William Skeat (1835–1912), philologistBarbara Skelton (1916–1996), novelist and memoiristJohn Skelton (c. 1460–1529), poet and satiristRobert Skidelsky (born 1939), economic historian and biographerJoseph Skipsey (1832–1903), poet and editorG. E. M. Skues (1858–1949), fishing writerEleanor Sleath (1770–1847), Gothic novelistBarbara Sleigh (1906–1982), children's writer Carbonel series Edward Slow (1841–1925), dialect poetCarolyn Smart (born 1952), poetChristopher Smart (1722–1771), poetFrancis Edward Smedley (1818–1864), novelistMenella Bute Smedley (1819–1877), novelist, poet and translatorAlbert Richard Smith (1816–1860), writer and mountaineerC. Fox Smith (1882–1954), poet and nautical and children's writerCharlotte Smith (1749–1806), poet and novelistCharlotte Fell Smith (1851–1937) historian and biographerDavid Smith (born 1963), historianDodie Smith (1896–1990), novelist and playwright, The Hundred and One Dalmatians Edmund Smith (1672–1710), poet and translatorEleanor Smith (1902–1945), novelistEmma Smith (1923–2018), novelist and children's writerGeorgina Castle Smith (1845–1933), children's writer and novelistHorace Smith (originally Horatio Smith, 1779–1849), novelist and poetJoan Smith (born 1953), novelist and journalistJohn Frederick Smith (1806–1890), novelistKen Smith (1938–2003), poetMichael Marshall Smith (born 1965), novelist and screenwriterMiles Smith (1554–1624), scholar, AV translator and clericSid Smith (born 1949), novelist and journalistStevie Smith (1902–1971), poet and novelistSydney Smith (1771–1845), writer and clericThomas Smith (fl. 1600–1627), writer and soldierTom Rob Smith (born 1979), novelistWentworth Smith (1571 – c. 1623), playwrightWilliam Smith (fl. 1590s), poetWilliam Smith (1769–1839), geologistWilliam Smith (1813–1893), lexicographerZadie Smith (born 1975), novelistFrank Smythe (1900–1949), writer and mountaineerPercy Smythe (1826–1869), man of lettersC. P. Snow (1905–1980), novelist and physicist Strangers and Brothers John Snow (born 1941), poet, autobiographer and first-class cricketerWilliam Somervile (1675–1742), poetCharles Sorley (1895–1915), poetWilliam Sotheby (1757–1833), poet and translatorAhdaf Soueif (born 1950), novelist and translatorRobert South (1634–1716), theologian and clericJoanna Southcott (1750–1814), religious writerR. W. Southern (1912–2001), historianCaroline Anne Southey (1786–1854), poetRobert Southey (1774–1843), Poet Laureate Robert Southwell (1561–1595), poet, tractarian and martyrStephen Southwold (1887–1964), novelist and children's writerNancy Spain (1917–1964), novelist, biographer and journalistRobert Spaulding (fl. 1610s), scholar, AV translator and clericRachel Speght (1596-16??), poet and polemicistHenry Spelman (c. 1562–1641), historian and antiquaryBernard Spencer (1909–1963), poetColin Spencer (born 1933), writer, artist and broadcasterHerbert Spencer (1820–1903), philosopherJohn Spencer (1630–1693), scholar and clericWilliam Robert Spencer (1769–1834), poet and witEmily Spender (1841–1922), novelist and suffragetteLillian Spender (1835–1895), novelist and essayistStephen Spender (1909–1995), poet, novelist and travel writerEdmund Spenser (c. 1552–1599), poet, The Faerie Queene John Spenser (1559–1614), scholar, AV translator and clericDennis Spooner (1932–1986), TV screenwriterWilliam Archibald Spooner (1844–1930), scholar, spoonerisms Jean Sprackland (born 1962), poetFrancis Spufford (born 1964), writerCharles Spurgeon (1834–1892), writer and Baptist ministerJ. C. Squire (1884–1958), poet and historianEdward St Aubyn (born 1960), novelist and journalistBayle St. John (1822–1859), travel writer and biographerHenry St John , Lord Bolingbroke (1678–1751) politician and philosopherJames Augustus St. John (born James John, 1795–1875), journalist, writer and travellerSpenser St. John (1825–1910), biographer, travel writer and diplomatBrian Stableford (born 1948), SF writerTom Stacey (1930–2022), novelist, writer and publisherDavid A. T. Stafford (born 1942), historianJulian Stallabrass (living), art historianJon Stallworthy (1935–2014), scholar and poetJohn Stammers (born 1954), poetJosiah Stamp (1880–1941), economist and bankerDerek Stanford (1918–2008), biographer and poetLouisa Stanhope (fl. 1806–1827), novelistPhilip Stanhope , Lord Chesterfield, (1694–1773) politician and writerArthur Stanley (1815–1881), theologian and clericThomas Stanley (1625–1678), poet and philosopherAndy Stanton (living), children's writer,Olaf Stapledon (1886–1950), philosopher and novelistRobert Stapylton (died 1669), playwright, poet and translatorFreya Stark (1893–1993), travel writerMariana Starke (1761/1762–1838), travel writer, poet and playwrightDavid Starkey (b. 1945), historianBoris Starling (living), novelist and screenwriterWilliam Thomas Stead (1849–1912), campaignerMichael Steed (born 1940), political scientist and broadcasterWickham Steed (1871–1856), journalist and historianAnne Steele (wrote as Theodosia, 1717–1778), hymnistDavid Ramsay Steele (living), philosopherJonathan Steele (living), writer and journalistMarguerite Steen (1894–1975), novelist and biographerGeorge Steevens (1736–1800), Shakespearean scholarJames Kenneth Stephen (1859–1892), poetLeslie Stephen (1832–1904), writer and mountaineerFrederic George Stephens (1828–1907), art criticHenry Pottinger Stephens (1851–1903), playwright and novelistJames Francis Stephens (1792–1852), entomologistRobert Stephens (1665–1732), Historiographer Royal Simon Stephens (born 1971), playwrightG. 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Stern (1890–1973), novelist, playwright and biographerLaurence Sterne (1713–1768), novelist and cleric, Tristram Shandy George Alexander Stevens (1710–1780), playwright, poet and actorMatthew Stevenson (died 1654), poetWilliam Stevenson (1530–1575), poet and playwrightAngus Stewart (1936–1998) novelist, diarist and poetJohn "Walking" Stewart (1747–1822), philosopher and travellerMary Stewart (1916–2014), novelistWilliam Stobbs (1914–2000), children's writer and illustratorJulian Stockwin (born 1944), novelistSewell Stokes (1902–1979), novelist, biographer and playwrightNick Stone (born 1966), novelistSamuel John Stone (1839–1900), hymnist and clericDavid Lee Stone (born 1978), children's writerDavid Storey (1933–2017), novelist and playwrightCatherine Storr (1913–2001), children's writerThomas Story (c. 1670–1742), writer and QuakerJohn Stow (c. 1525–1605), historian and antiquaryHerbert Strang (pseudonym of George Herbert Ely, 1866–1958, and Charles James L'Estrange, 1867–1947), children's writersAlix Strachey (1892–1973), psychoanalyst and translatorJames Strachey (1887–1967), psychoanalyst and editorJulia Strachey (1901–1979), novelistLytton Strachey (1880–1932), biographer and critic, Eminent Victorians Ray Strachey (originally Rachel Costelloe, 1887–1940), biographer and campaignerPaul Strathern (born 1940), novelist and scholarNoel Streatfeild (1895–1986), children's writer Ballet Shoes A. G. Street (1892–1966), writer and broadcasterCecil Street (also as John Rhode, Miles Burton etc., 1884–1965), novelistJoe Stretch (born 1982), novelistHesba Stretton (real name Sarah Smith, 1832–1911), novelist and children's writerAgnes Strickland (1796–1874), historian, poet and children's writerWilliam Strode (1600–1643), poetLeonard Strong (wrote as L. A. G. Strong, 1896–1958), novelist, poet and children's writerJan Struther (real name Joyce Anstruther, (1901–1953), novelist and hymnistJohn Strype (1643–1737), historian, biographer and clericAlexander Stuart (living), novelist and screenwriterMuriel Stuart (1885–1967), poet and garden writerJohn Stubbs or Stubbe (c. 1543–1591), pamphleteerJohn Studley (c. 1545 – c. 1590), translatorJoseph Sturge (1793–1859) abolitionist writer and campaignerHoward Sturgis (1855–1920), novelistJulian Sturgis (1848–1904), novelist and poetGeorge Sturt (also as George Bourne, 1863–1927), country writerJohn Strype (1643–1737), historian and biographerShowell Styles (1908–2005), novelist and children's writerJohn Suckling (1609–1642), poetJ. W. N. Sullivan (1886–1937), science writerMontague Summers (1880–1948), writer and occultistKate Summerscale (born 1965), writer and journalistRobert Smith Surtees (1805–1864), novelistAlice Sutcliffe (fl. 1624–1634), religious writerWilliam Sutcliffe (born 1971), novelistAlfred Sutro (1863–1933), playwright and translatorE. W. Swanton (1907–2000), cricket writer and broadcasterGraham Swift (born 1949), novelistAlgernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909), poetRobert Swindells (born 1939), children's writerRandall Swingler (1909–1967), poetFrank Swinnerton (1884–1982), novelist and editorChristopher Sykes (1907–1986), travel writer and biographerPercy Sykes (1867–1945), travel writer and historianJoshua Sylvester (1563–1618), poetJohn Addington Symonds (1840–1893), poet and criticA. J. A. Symons (1900–1941), writer and bibliographerArthur Symons (1865–1945), poet and essayistJulian Symons (1912–1994), crime writer and poetMitchell Symons (born 1957), writer and journalistGeorge Szirtes (born 1948), poet and translator
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Thomas Noon Talfourd (1795–1854), writer, playwright and lawyerDerek Tangye (1912–1996), writerNigel Tangye (1909–1988), writer and flying instructorHeather Tanner (1903–1993), countryside writerJames T. Tanner (1858–1915), playwright and directorThomas Tanner (1630–1682), writer and clericThomas Tanner (1674–1735), antiquary and bishopTheaurau John Tany (originally Thomas Totney, 1608–1659), religious writerEmma Tatham (1829–1855), poetJohn Tatham (fl. 1632–64), playwright and poetJemima von Tautphoeus (born Jemima Montgomery, 1807–1893), novelistR. H. Tawney (1880–1962), economic historianA. J. P. Taylor (1906–1990), historianAndrew Taylor (born 1951), novelistAnn Taylor (1782–1866), poet and children's writerD. J. Taylor (born 1960), novelist and biographerEdgar Taylor (1793–1839), writer and translatorElizabeth Taylor (1912–1975), novelistEmily Taylor (1795–1872), writer, poet and hymnistG. P. 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N. Wilson (born 1950), novelist and biographerAndrew Wilson (born 1961), history and current affairs writerAngus Wilson (1913–1991), novelistBryan R. Wilson (1926–2004), sociologistColin Wilson (1931–2013), novelist and philosopherHarriette Wilson (1786–1845), courtesan and memoiristHerbert Wrigley Wilson (1866–1940) naval historianHorace Hayman Wilson (1786–1860), orientalist and translatorIan Wilson (born 1941), religious and science writerJ. Dover Wilson (1881–1969), Shakespearean and criticJacqueline Wilson (born 1945), children's writerJohn Wilson (1527–1596), playwright and translatorLeslie Wilson (living), novelist and children's writerRichard Wilson (born 1950), Shakespearean scholarRobert Wilson (fl. 1572–1600), playwrightRobert Wilson (born 1957), novelistSandy Wilson (1924–2014), lyricist and composer, The Boy Friend T. P. Cameron Wilson (1888–1918), poetThomas Wilson (1524–1581), rhetorician and diplomatThomas Wilson (1773–1858), dialect poetJane Wilson-Howarth (aka Jane Wilson, b. 1954) travel and health writerR. D. Wingfield (1928–2007), novelist and radio dramatistCatherine Winkworth (1827–1878), translator and hymnistJacqueline Winspear (born 1955), novelistGerrard Winstanley (1609–1676), pamphleteerStephen Winsten (real name Samuel Weinstein, 1893–1991), writerJohn Strange Winter (real name Henrietta Eliza Vaughan Stannard 1856–1911), novelistJeanette Winterson (born 1959), novelistJane Wiseman (c. 1682–1717), poet and playwrightGeorge Wither (1588–1667), poet and satiristP.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975), novelist and playwright, Jeeves John Wolcot (wrote as Peter Pindar, 1738–1819), poet and satiristLucien Wolf (1857–1930), historianHumbert Wolfe (1885–1940), poet and translatorRonald Wolfe (1922–2011), TV scriptwriterJonathan Wolff (born 1959), philosopherMary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797), polemicist and novelist, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Philip Womack (living), novelistAnthony Wood (1632–1695), antiquaryChristopher Wood (wrote as Timothy Lea, 1935–2015), novelist and screenwriterDavid Wood (born 1944), children's playwright, screenwriter and actorEllen Wood (Mrs. Henry Wood, 1814–1887), novelistRobert Wood (c. 1622–1685), mathematician and translatorSara Wood (living), novelist and story writerThomas Wood (1892–1950), writer and composerGeorge Woodcock (1912–1995), poet and thinkerJames Woodforde (1740–1803), diarist and clericWalter Bradford Woodgate (wrote as Wat Bradwood, 1841–1920), writer on rowing, oarsman and barristerCecil Woodham-Smith (1896–1977), historian and biographerMartin Woodhouse (1932–2011), novelist and screenwriterRichard Woodman (born 1944), novelist and marinerCharles Woodmason (c. 1720–1789), diarist, poet and clericMargaret Louisa Woods (1856–1945), novelist and poetAnthony Woodville or Wydeville, Earl Rivers (c. 1440–1483) translatorGerard Woodward (born 1961), novelist and poetJohn Woodward (1665–1728), naturalist and antiquaryEmily Woof (born 1967), playwright, screenwriter and actressLeonard Woolf (1880–1969), writer and editorVirginia Woolf (1882–1941), novelist and biographer, To the Lighthouse Thomas Woolner (1825–1892) poet and sculptorChristopher Wordsworth (1807–1885), poet, classicist and bishopDorothy Wordsworth (1771–1855), diarist and poet,William Wordsworth (1770–1850), poet, The Prelude Frank Worrall (living), sports writerPhilip Stanhope Worsley (1835–1866), poet, translator and clericT.C. Worsley (1907–1977), writer and criticHenry Wotton (1568–1639), poet and translatorNathaniel Wraxall (1751–1831), memoirist and political writerP. C. Wren (1875–1941), novelistChandos Wren-Hoskyns (1812–1876), agricultural writer and landownerCrispin Wright (born 1942), philosopherDavid Wright (1920–1994), poet, translator and biographerDerrick Wright (born 1928), military historianEdward Wright (1561–1615), mathematicianFred Wright (born 1947), historian and theologianJoseph Wright (1855–1930), philologist and lexicographerKit Wright (born 1944), poet, children's writer and anthologistN. T. Wright (also as Tom Wright, b. 1948), writer and bishopPatrick Wright (living), historian and broadcasterRichard Wright (Unitarian) (1764–1836), writer and Unitarian ministerThomas Wright (1810–1877), writer and antiquaryWilliam Aldis Wright (1831–1914), writer and editorMary Wroth (1587–1651/1653), writer and poetAndrea Wulf (born 1972), biographer and garden writerArthur Wyatt (living), writer and editorGeorge Wyatt (1550–1623), writer and biographerStephen Wyatt (born 1948), playwright and adapterThomas Wyatt (1503–1542), poet and translatorWoodrow Wyatt (1918–1997), diarist and politicianWilliam Wycherley (c. 1640–1715), playwright, The Country Wife Robert Wydow (c. 1446–1505), poet, musician and clericJohn Wycliffe (mid–1320s – 1384), theologian and Bible translatorJohn Wyndham (also as John Beynon, 1903–1969), novelist, The Day of the Triffids D. B. Wyndham-Lewis (wrote as Timothy Shy, 1891–1969), humoristPeter Wynne-Thomas (1934–2021), cricket writer
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Jane Yardley (living), novelistWilliam Yarrell (1784–1856), naturalistDornford Yates (real name Cecil William Mercer, 1885–1960), novelistEdmund Yates (1831–1894), novelist and playwrightAnn Yearsley (1753–1806), poet, playwright and novelistVictor Maslin Yeates (1897–1934), writer and pilotR. J. Yeatman (1897–1968), humorist, 1066 and All That W. C. Sellar )Tamar Yellin (living), novelist and story writerTheresa Yelverton (originally Maria Theresa Longworth, 1833–1881), travel writerCharlotte Mary Yonge (1823–1901), novelistWalter Yonge of Colyton (1579–1649), diarist and lawyerEdward of York (c. 1373–1415), translator and courtierBarbara Yorke (born 1951), historianMargaret Yorke (1924–2012), crime writerMatthew Yorke (born 1958), novelist and editorArthur Young (1741–1820), writer and economistE. H. Young (1880–1949), novelist and children's writerEdward Young (1683–1765), poetF. E. Mills Young (1875–1954), novelistFrancis Brett Young (1884–1954), novelistG. M. Young (1882–1959), historianGary Young (living), screenwriterGavin Young (1928–2001), travel writer and journalistHilton Young, Lord Kennet (1879–1960), writer and politicianRobert J. C. Young (born 1950), thinker and historianThomas Young (1773–1829), polymathToby Young (born 1963), journalist and playwright
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Helen Zahavi (born 1966), novelistAdam Zamoyski (born 1949), biographer and historianIsrael Zangwill (1864–1926), novelist and playwrightLouis Zangwill (1869–1938), novelistOliver Zangwill (1913–1987), psychologistBenjamin Zephaniah (born 1958), dub poetPhilip Ziegler (1929–2023), biographer and historianAlfred Eckhard Zimmern (1879–1957), classicist and historianAlice Zimmern (1855–1939), writer and translatorHelen Zimmern (1846–1934), writer and translator
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