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References for the information here appear on the linked Wikipedia pages. The list is incomplete \u2013 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 fictionA. W. (fl. 1602), poetEdwin Abbott Abbott (1838\u20131926), theologian and novelistGilbert Abbott \u00e0 Beckett (1811\u20131856), humoristGeorge Abbot (1562\u20131633), writer, AV translator and clericKia Abdullah (born 1982), novelist and feature writerLascelles Abercrombie (1881\u20131938), poet and criticFaridah \u00c0b\u00edk\u00e9-\u00cdy\u00edm\u00edd\u00e9 (born 1998), novelistPaul Ableman (1927\u20132006), playwright and novelistJ. R. Ackerley (1896\u20131967), autobiographer, novelist and playwrightRodney Ackland (1908\u20131991), playwright, actor and screenwriterPeter Ackroyd (born 1949), novelist and biographerEliza Acton (1799\u20131859), poet and cookery writerHarold Acton (1904\u20131994), writer and scholarHazel Adair (1900\u20131990), novelistPaul Adam (born 1958), novelistRuth Adam (1907\u20131977), novelist and non-fiction writerCharles Warren Adams (also as Charles Felix, 1833\u20131903), novelist and lawyerDouglas Adams (1952\u20132001), novelist and scriptwriterFrancis Adams (1862\u20131893), essayist and dramatistJohn Adams, (pre-1670\u20131738), cartographer and gazetteer compilerPoppy Adams (living), novelist and TV screenwriterRichard Adams (1920\u20132016), novelist, Watership DownSarah Flower Adams (1805\u20131848), poet and hymnistDonald Adamson (born 1939), writer and historianJohn Adamson (1787\u20131855), antiquary, poet and translatorArthur St. John Adcock (1864\u20131930), novelist and editorFleur Adcock (born 1934), poetJoseph Addison (1672\u20131719), essayist and poet, The Spectator’Percy Addleshaw (wrote as Percy Hemingway, 1866\u20131916), writer and poetDiran Adebayo (born 1968), novelist and broadcasterMark Adlard (born 1932), novelistJames Agate (1877\u20131947), diarist and criticBola Agbaje (living), playwrightJohn Aglionby (died 1609\/1610), scholar, AV translator and clericGrace Aguilar (1816\u20131847), novelist and writerAllan Ahlberg (born 1939), children’s writerRobert Aickman (1914\u20131981), novelist and conservationistJoan Aiken (1924\u20132004), novelistArthur Aikin (1783\u20131854), science writerLucy Aikin (1781\u20131864), children’s writer, biographer and historianJohn Aikin (1747\u20131822), writer and physicianAlfred Ainger (1837\u20131904), biographer and criticRuth Ainsworth (1908\u20131984), children’s writerWilliam Harrison Ainsworth (1805\u20131882), novelistCatherine Aird (Kinn Hamilton McIntosh, living), crime fiction writerMark Akenside (1721\u20131770), poetWilliam Alabaster (1567\u20131640), poet, playwright and clericJames Albery (1838\u20131889), playwrightAlice Albinia (born 1976), travel writerMary Alcock (c. 1742\u20131798), poet and essayistNaomi Alderman (born 1974), novelist and game writerThomas Aldham or Aldam, (c. 1616\u20131660), writer and QuakerRichard Aldington (1892\u20131962), novelist and poetBrian Aldiss (1925\u20132017), novelistHenry Aldrich (1647\u20131710), poet and theologianHorace Alexander (1889\u20131989), writer on India, ornithologist and QuakerMiriam Alexander (born 1879), historical novelistAlan F. Alford (born 1961), writer on mythologyMonica Ali (born 1967), novelistCyril Alington (1872\u20131955), novelist and writerNicholas Allan (living), children’s writerRupert Allason (also as Nigel West, b. 1951), historian and thriller writerJames Allen (1864\u20131912), self-help writer and poetWalter Allen (1911\u20131995), novelist and criticMargery Allingham (1904\u20131966), novelist, Albert CampionDrummond Allison (1921\u20131943), poetKenneth Allott (1912\u20131973), poet and anthologistKenneth Allsop (1920\u20131973), writer and broadcasterE. M. Almedingen (1898\u20131971), novelist, biographer and children’s writerJohn Almon (1737\u20131804), journalist and anthologistDavid Almond (born 1951), novelist and children’s writerVincent Alsop (c. 1630\u20131703), writer and dissenting ministerAl Alvarez (1929\u20132019), poet and writerMoniza Alvi (born 1968), poet and writerEric Ambler (1909\u20131998), novelist and screenwriterIsaac Ambrose (1604\u20131663\/1664), writer, diarist and clericElizabeth Amherst (c. 1716\u20131779), poet and naturalistKingsley Amis (1922\u20131995), poet and novelist, Lucky JimMartin Amis (born 1949), novelistThomas Amory (c. 1691\u20131788), novelist and miscellanistThomas Amory (1701\u20131774), poet and dissenting clericValerie Anand (also as Flora Buckley, b. 1937), novelistPatrick Anderson (1915\u20131979), poetRachel Anderson (born 1943), children’s writerVerily Anderson (1915\u20132010), writerLancelot Andrewes (1555\u20131626), scholar, AV translator and clericRoger Andrewes (fl. 1610s), scholar, AV translator and clericJulie Andrews (born 1935), children’s writer and actressMiles Peter Andrews (1742\u20131814), playwright and poetNorman Angell (1872\u20131967), Nobel Prize winner, political writer and economistJane Anger (fl. 1589), pamphleteerCharlotte Anley (1796\u20131893), didactic novelist and writerGeorge Anson, 1st Baron Anson (1697\u20131762), writer, explorer and admiralChristopher Anstey (1724\u20131805), writer and poetEvelyn Anthony (1926\u20132018) historical novelist and thriller writerCharles James Apperley (wrote as Nimrod, 1777\u20131843), hunting and racing writerLisa Appignanesi (born 1946), writer and historianRoy Apps (born 1951), children’s writerArthur John Arberry (1905\u20131969), orientalist and translatorHarriet Arbuthnot (1793\u20131834), political diaristJohn Arbuthnot (1667\u20131735), satirist and polymathFred Archer (1915\u20131999), countryside writerJeffrey Archer (born 1940), novelist and politicianPhilip Ardagh (born 1961), children’s writerJohn Arden (born 1930), playwright and novelistEdward Ardizzone (1900\u20131979), children’s writer and illustratorReginald Arkell (1882\u20131959), novelist, playwright and screenwriterMichael Arlen (originally Dikran Kouyoumdjian, 1895\u20131956), essayist, playwright and novelistJohn Arlott (1914\u20131991), cricket writer and commentatorRobert Armin (c. 1563\u20131615), playwright and actorSimon Armitage (born 1963), poet, playwright and novelistAnnie Armitt (1850\u20131933), novelist, poet and essayistMartin Armstrong (1882\u20131974), novelist and poetPeter Armstrong (born 1957), poet and psychotherapistRichard Armstrong (1903\u20131986), novelist, historian and children’s writerElizabeth von Arnim (also as Alice Cholmondeley, 1866\u20131941), novelistEdwin Arnold (1832\u20131904), poet and journalistEdwin Lester Arnold (1857\u20131935), writer and novelistElizabeth Arnold (born 1944), children’s writerMatthew Arnold (1822\u20131888), poet, Dover BeachRichard Arnold (died c. 1521), chronicler and merchantThomas Arnold (1795\u20131842), educator and historianThomas Walker Arnold (1864\u20131930), Islamist scholarWilliam Delafield Arnold (1828\u20131859), novelist and colonial administratorPat Arrowsmith (born 1930), novelist, poet and non-fiction writerAnthony Ascham (c. 1614\u20131650), scholar and politicianRoger Ascham (c. 1515\u20131568), writer and scholarJohn Ash (1724\u20131779), lexicographer and Baptist ministerJohn Ash (born 1948), poet and travel writerMaurice Ash (1917\u20132003), writer on environment and planningRussell Ash (1946\u20132010), writerTimothy Garton Ash (born 1955), historianElizabeth Ashbridge (1713\u20131755), autobiographer and QuakerJoseph Ashby-Sterry (1836 or 1838\u20131917), poet, novelist and journalistGeoffrey Ashe (born 1923), cultural historianThomas Ashe or Ash (fl. 1600\u20131618), legal writerThomas Ashe (1770\u20131835), novelist and miscellanistThomas Ashe (1836\u20131889), poetMichael Asher (born 1953) author and explorerDaisy Ashford (1881\u20131972), child author, The Young VisitersLindsay Ashford (born 1959), crime novelist and journalistElias Ashmole (1617\u20131692), antiquary and patronCarl Ashmore (born 1968), children’s writerWill Ashon (born 1969), novelist and music writerFrancis Leslie Ashton (1904\u20131994), novelistAndrea Ashworth (born 1969), writer and scholarAnne Askew (1521\u20131546), poet, writer and martyrNadeem Aslam (born 1966), novelistElizabeth Mary Aslin (1926\u20131989), art historianCynthia Asquith (1887\u20131960), novelist and diaristHerbert Asquith (1881\u20131947), poet and novelistMargot Asquith (1864\u20131935), memoiristNicholas Assheton (1590\u20131625), diaristMary Astell (1666\u20131731), poet and writerJudy Astley (living), novelist and illustratorEdwin Atherstone (1788\u20131872), poet and novelistDiana Athill (1917\u20132019), editor, novelist and memoiristBlanche Atkinson (1847\u20131911), novelist and children’s writerJames Atkinson (1780\u20131852), scholarKate Atkinson (born 1952), novelistWilliam Atkinson (died 1509), translatorDavid Attenborough (born 1926), writer, naturalist and broadcasterFrancis Atterbury (1663\u20131732), writer and bishopMabel Lucie Attwell (1879\u20131964), children’s writer and illustratorPenelope Aubin (1679\u20131738), poet, novelist and translatorJohn Aubrey (1626\u20131697), writer and antiquary, Brief LivesJohn Audelay or Awdelay, (died c. 1426), poet and clericW. H. Auden (1907\u20131973), poetStacy Aumonier (1877\u20131928), novelist, story writer and essayistJane Austen (1775\u20131817), novelist, Pride and PrejudiceKatherine Austen (1629 \u2013 c. 1683), diarist and poetAlfred Austin (1835\u20131913), Poet LaureateJohn Austin (1790\u20131859), legal philosopherJohn Langshaw Austin (1911\u20131960), philosopher and translatorSarah Austin (1793\u20131867), translatorEdward Aveling (1849\u20131898), writer, pamphleteer and translatorPeter Avery (1923\u20132008), scholar and translatorJack Avon (born 1967), financial writer and consultantTash Aw (born 1971), novelist and non-fiction writerChristopher Awdry (born 1940), children’s writerWilbert Awdry (Rev. W. Awdry, 1911\u20131997), children’s writer and cleric, Thomas the Tank EngineAlan Ayckbourn (born 1939), playwrightA. J. Ayer (1910\u20131989), philosopherPam Ayres (born 1947), poet and songwriterMichael Ayrton (1921\u20131975), writer and artistShamim Azad, (born 1952), writer and translatorTrezza Azzopardi, (born 1961), novelistCharles Babbage (1791\u20131871), polymathGervase Babington (1549\/1550\u20131610), theologian and bishopDavid Baddiel (born 1964), novelist and comedianRobert Baden-Powell (1857\u20131941), writer and army officer, Scouting for BoysEdmund Backhouse (1873\u20131944), orientalist and autobiographerAnne Bacon (c. 1528\u20131610), translator and correspondentFrancis Bacon (1561\u20131626), essayist, New AtlantisPhanuel Bacon (1699\u20131783), playwright and poetJohn F. Baddeley (1854\u20131940), travel writer and journalistRobert Bage (1730\u20131801), novelist and radicalWalter Bagehot (1826\u20131877), economist and essayistDesmond Bagley (1923\u20131983), horror novelistEnid Bagnold (1889\u20131981), novelist and playwright, National VelvetRichard Bagot (1860\u20131921), novelist and essayistDavid Bailey (living), story writerH. C. Bailey (1878\u20131961), novelistHilary Bailey (1936\u20132017), biographer and editorNathan Bailey (died 1742), philologistPaul Bailey (born 1937), novelist and dramatistPhilip James Bailey (1816\u20131902), poetSamuel Bailey (1791\u20131870), philosopher and economistBeryl Bainbridge (1932\u20132010), novelistDenys Val Baker (1917\u20131984), novelist and story writerHenry Baker (1698\u20131774), naturalist and poetSamuel Baker (1821\u20131893), writer and explorerRajeev Balasubramanyam (born 1974), novelistNigel Balchin (1908\u20131970), novelist and screenwriterJohn Bale (1495\u20131563), playwright and bishopJ. G. Ballard (1930\u20132009), novelistDacre Balsdon (1901\u20131977), novelist and historianSamuel Bamford (1788\u20131872), writer and dialect poetJohn Codrington Bampfylde (1764\u20131796\/1797), poetRichard Bancroft (1544\u20131610), AV translator and archbishopIsabella Banks (1821\u20131897), novelist and poetLynne Reid Banks (born 1929), novelistAnna Laetitia Barbauld (1743\u20131825), poet and children’s writerW. N. P. Barbellion (real name Bruce Frederick Cummings, 1889\u20131919), diaristMargaret Barber (Michael Fairless, 1869\u20131901), novelist and children’s writerAlexander Barclay (c. 1476\u20131552), poet and translatorFlorence L. Barclay (1862\u20131921), novelistJames Barclay (born 1965), novelistJohn Baret (died c. 1580), lexicographerOwen Barfield (1898\u20131997), novelist, poet and philosopherRichard Harris Barham (wrote as Thomas Ingoldsby, 1788\u20131845), novelist and poet, The Ingoldsby LegendsMaurice Baring (1874\u20131945), playwright, novelist and poetSabine Baring-Gould (1834\u20131924), novelist, hymnist and clericA. L. Barker (1918\u20132002), novelistCicely Mary Barker (1895\u20131973), children’s and religious writer and illustratorClive Barker (born 1952), writer, film director and visual artistElspeth Barker (born 1940), novelistGeorge Granville Barker (1913\u20131991), poet and novelistJane Barker (1652\u20131732), poet and novelistMary Anne Barker (1831\u20131911), writer and poetNicola Barker (born 1966), novelistPat Barker (born 1943), novelistRaffaella Barker (born 1964), novelist and journalistSebastian Barker (born 1945), poetClement Barksdale (1609\u20131687), poet and clericGeorge Barlow (wrote as James Hinton, 1837\u20131913\/1914), poetWilliam Barlow (died 1613), scholar, AV translator and bishopMordaunt Roger Barnard (1828\u20131906), translator and clericKitty Barne (1883\u20131961), children’s writerBarnabe Barnes (1568 or 1569\u20131609), poet and playwrightAmbrose Barnes (1627\u20131710), nonconformist and mayorJonathan Barnes (born 1942), philosopherJulian Barnes (born 1946), novelist, Flaubert’s ParrotWilliam Barnes (1801\u20131886), dialect poetCorrelli Barnett (born 1927), historianRichard Barnfield (1574\u20131620), poetAlexander Baron (1917\u20131999), novelist and screenwriterAmelia Edith Huddleston Barr (1831\u20131919), novelistGeoffrey Barraclough (1908\u20131984), historianJohn Barret (1631\u20131713), writer and Presbyterian ministerJoseph Barret (1665\u20131699), theological writer and merchantLeslie Barringer (1895\u20131968), editor and novelistIsaac Barrow (1630\u20131677), scholar and clericJohn Barrow (fl. 1735\u20131774), lexicographer and historianWilliam Barrow (1754\u20131836), writer and clericStan Barstow (1928\u20132011), novelist and dramatistWilliam Bartholomew (1793\u20131867), librettist and composerMike Bartlett (born 1980), playwright and directorBernard Barton (1784\u20131849), poet and QuakerHenry Howarth Bashford (1880\u20131961), novelist and physicianWilliam Basse (c. 1583\u20131653\/1654), poetJonathan Bate (born 1958), biographer and editorJames Bateman (1811\u20131897), garden writerH. E. Bates (1905\u20131974), novelist, The Darling Buds of MayHenry Walter Bates (1825\u20131892), naturalist and explorerRalph Bates (1899\u20132000), novelistElizabeth Bath (1772\u20131856), poetRichard Baxter (1615\u20131691), poet, hymnist and theologianStephen Baxter (born 1957), novelistBasil Al Bayati (born 1946), writer and architectJohn Bayley (1925\u20132015), critic and novelistPeter Bayley (c. 1778\u20131883), poet and playwrightAda Ellen Bayly (wrote as Edna Lyall, 1857\u20131903), novelistThomas Haynes Bayly (1797\u20131830), poet and playwrightMartin Baynton (born 1953), children’s writer and illustratorJeremy John Beadle (1958\u20131995), criticJohn Beadle (died 1667), diarist and clericAnne Beale (1816\u20131900), novelist and poetRichard Bean (born 1956), playwrightFrancis Beaumont (1584\u20131616), playwrightJohn Beaumont (1583\u20131627), poetJoseph Beaumont (1616\u20131699), poet and clericAubrey Beardsley (1872\u20131898), writer and illustratorLaura Beatty (living), biographer and novelistSamuel Beazley (1786\u20131851), novelist, playwright and architectPeter Beckford (1740\u20131811), writer and landownerWilliam Beckford (1760\u20131844), novelist and patronLillian Beckwith (born Lillian Comber, 1916\u20132004), novelistThomas Lovell Beddoes (1803\u20131849), poetWilliam Bedwell (1561\u20131632), scholar, AV translator and clericHenry Charles Beeching (1859\u20131919), poet and anthologistPatricia Beer (1919\u20131999), poet and criticConstance Beerbohm (1811\u20131892), writerJulius Beerbohm (1854\u20131906), travel writer and explorerMax Beerbohm (1872\u20131956), novelist and caricaturist, Zuleika DobsonAlfred Beesley (1800\u20131847), poet and topographerMrs Beeton (born Isabella Mary Mayson, 1836\u20131865), cookery writerAntony Beevor (born 1946), historian and novelistAphra Behn (1640\u20131689), novelist and playwrightDaubridgecourt Belchier (1580\u20131621), dramatistAdrian Bell (1901\u20131980), countryside writerClive Bell (1881\u20131964), art criticFlorence Bell (1851\u20131930), playwright and editorGertrude Bell (1868\u20131926), writer and travellerJosephine Bell (also as David Wintringham, 1897\u20131987), novelistJulian Bell (1908\u20131937), poetMary Hayley Bell (1911\u20132005), novelist, playwright and actressQuentin Bell (1910\u20131996), critic and biographerThomas Bell (1792\u20131880), zoologist and writerJohn Bellers (1654\u20131725), writer and QuakerHilaire Belloc (1870\u20131953), writer and poetThomas Belt (1832\u20131878), naturalist and geologistElizabeth Benger (1775\u20131827), poet, novelist and biographerEdward Benlowes (1603\u20131676), poetAlan Bennett (born 1934), playwright and broadcasterAnna Maria Bennett (c. 1760\u20131808), novelistArnold Bennett (1867\u20131931), novelistEdwin Keppel Bennett (wrote as Francis Bennett, 1887\u20131958), writer, poet and scholarA. C. Benson (1862\u20131925), poet and diaristE. F. Benson (1867\u20131940), novelist and story writerPeter Benson (born 1956), novelistRobert Hugh Benson (1871\u20131914), novelist, writer and clericStella Benson (1892\u20131933), novelist, poet and travel writerGeorge Bentham (1800\u20131884), botanistJeremy Bentham (1748\u20131832), philosopherEdmund Clerihew Bentley (1875\u20131956), novelist, humorist and poetElizabeth Bentley (1767\u20131839), poetNicolas Bentley (1907\u20131978), writer and illustratorPhyllis Bentley (1894\u20131977), novelist and biographerRichard Bentley (1662\u20131742), theologian and poetEdward Berdoe (1836\u20131916), critic, novelist and physicianRichard Berengarten (born 1943), poetElisabeth Beresford (1928\u20132010), children’s writer, the WomblesJ. D. Beresford (1873\u20131947), novelistJames Beresford (1764\u20131840), satirist, translator and clericLeila Berg (1917\u20132012), children’s writerJohn Berger (1926\u20132017), novelist, G.Reginald Berkeley (1890\u20131935), playwright and screenwriterJohn Berkenhout (1726\u20131791), naturalistSteven Berkoff (born 1937), playwright and actorWilliam Bayle Bernard (1807\u20131875), playwright, critic and novelistJohn Bourchier Berners (1467\u20131533), translator and statesmanJuliana Berners (Bernes, b. c. 1388), writer on heraldry, hawking etc., The Book of Saint AlbansElizabeth Berridge (1919\u20132009), English novelistFrancis Berry (1915\u20132006), poet and criticMary Berry (1763\u20131852), writer and editorMary Berry (born 1935), cookery writerTess Berry-Hart (born 1978), playwright and novelistCharles Bertram (1723\u20131765), literary forgerAnnie Besant (1847\u20131933), writer and campaignerWalter Besant (1836\u20131901), novelist and historianCharles Best (1570\u20131627), poetAlfred Bestall (1892\u20131986), children’s writer and illustrator, Rupert BearHenry Digby Beste (1768\u20131836), religious writerMatilda Betham-Edwards (1836\u20131919), novelist, poet and travel writerNicholas Bethell (1938\u20132007), writer, translator and politicianJohn Betjeman (1906\u20131984), Poet Laureate and writerThomas Betterton (1635\u20131710), playwright and actorEdwyn Bevan (1870\u20131943), philosopher and historianElizabeth Beverley (fl. 1815\u201330), pamphleteer and actressL. S. Bevington (1845\u20131895), essayist, anarchist and poetElizabeth Bibesco (1897\u20131945), novelist and poetTessa Biddington (born 1954), poetHester Biddle (c. 1629\u20131697), Quaker pamphleteer and preacherLady Elizabeth Philippa Biddulph (1834-1916), biographer and Woman of the Bedchamber to Queen VictoriaJohn Stanyan Bigg (1828\u20131865), poetMark Billingham (born 1961), novelistWilliam Billington (1825\u20131884), poetThomas Bilson(1547\u20131616), theologian, AV translator and bishopAndrew Bing (1574\u20131652), scholar, AV translator and clericMargaret Bingham (1740\u20131814), poet and painterLaurence Binyon (1869\u20131943), poet and art historianT.J. Binyon (1936\u20132004), novelist, translator and biographerCarol Birch (born 1951), novelist and criticThomas Birch (1705\u20131766), historianCaroline Bird (born 1986), poet and playwrightIsabella Bird (1831\u20131904), travel writer and naturalistDea Birkett (born 1958), writerJohn Birtwhistle (born 1946), poet and librettistSamuel Bishop (1731\u20131795), poet and essayistClementina Black (1853\u20131922), novelist and political writerRobert Black (1829\u20131915), novelist, story writer and translatorSarah Blackborow (fl. 1650s \u2013 1660s), Quaker writer and preacherJohn Blackburn (1923\u20131993), novelistThomas Blackburn (1916\u20131977), poetMalorie Blackman (born 1962), children’s writer and screenwriterR. D. Blackmore (1825\u20131900), novelist, Lorna DooneRichard Blackmore (1654\u20131729), poet and religious writerWilliam Blackstone (1723\u20131780), legal writerAlgernon Blackwood (1869\u20131951), novelist and story writerCaroline Blackwood (1931\u20131996), novelist and criticHelen Blackwood, Lady Dufferin (1807\u20131867), poet and songwriterMax Blagg (living), poet and writerQuentin Blake (born 1932), children’s writer and illustratorWilliam Blake (1757\u20131827), poet and artist, Songs of Innocence and of ExperienceHelen Blakeman (born 1971), playwright and screenwriterSusanna Blamire (1747\u20131794), poetEdward Blanchard (1820\u20131899), playwright and songwriterSamuel Laman Blanchard (1804\u20131845), writer, journalist and poetRobert Blatchford (wrote as Nunquam, 1851\u20131943), journalist, writer and campaignerBarbara Blaugdone (c. 1609\u20131705), Quaker autobiographerNicholas Blincoe (born 1965), novelist and screenwriterMathilde Blind (1841\u20131896), poet and biographerEdward Blishen (1920\u20131996), writer and broadcasterEliot Bliss (Emily Bliss, 1903\u20131990), novelist and poetWalter Blith (1605\u20131654), writer on husbandryRobert Bloomfield (1766\u20131823), poetCharles Blount (1654\u20131693), polemicistElizabeth Blower (c. 1757\/1763 \u2013 post\u20131816), novelist, poet and actressEvelyn, Princess Bl\u00fccher (1876\u20131960), diarist and memoiristNicholas Blundell (1669\u20131737), diaristEdmund Blunden (1896\u20131974), poet, author and criticAnthony Blunt (1907\u20131983), art historian and spyWilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840\u20131922), poet and authorRonald Blythe (1922\u20132023), writer and editor,Enid Blyton (1897\u20131968), children’s writer, NoddyJames Boaden (1762\u20131839), biographer, playwright and journalistFrederick S. Boas (1862\u20131957), literary historianJohn Ernest Bode (1816\u20131874), poet, hymnist and clericJohn Bodenham (1569\u20131610), anthologistBarbara Bodichon (1827\u20131891), educator and feministJohn Bois (1560\u20131643), scholar, AV translator and clericOsbern Bokenam (c. 1393 \u2013 c. 1463), literary historian and clericRobert Bolt (1924\u20131995), dramatist and screenwriter, A Man For All SeasonsSharon Bolton, mystery fiction writerMichael Bond (1926\u20132017), children’s writer, Paddington BearElizabeth Bonh\u00f4te (1744\u20131818), novelistChristopher Booker (1937\u20132019), writer and journalistLuke Booker (1762\u20131835), poet, antiquary and clericGeorge Boole (1815\u20131864), mathematician and logicianMary Everest Boole (1832\u20131916), schoolbook writerBarton Booth (1681\u20131733), actor and poetCharles Booth (1840\u20131916), social researcher, Life and Labour of the People in LondonMartin Booth (1944\u20132004), novelist, poet and editorStephen Booth (born 1952), novelistBrooke Boothby (1744\u20131824), scholar and poetFrances Boothby (fl. 1669\u201370), playwrightBasil Boothroyd (1910\u20131988), writer and humoristGeorge Borrow (1803\u20131881), novelist and travel writer, Romany RyeLucy M. 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Collingwood (1854\u20131932), writer and artistAn Collins (fl. 1653), religious poetAnthony Collins (1676\u20131729), philosopherCharles James Collins (1820\u20131864), novelist and journalistJackie Collins (1937\u20132015), novelistJohn Collins (1625\u20131683), mathematicianJohn Collins (1742\u20131808), poet and lyricistJohn Churton Collins (1848\u20131908), literary criticMortimer Collins (1827\u20131876), novelist and poetNorman Collins (1907\u20131982), novelistWarwick Collins (born 1948), novelist and screenwriterWilkie Collins (1824\u20131889), novelist, The MoonstoneWilliam Collins (1721\u20131759), poetJohn Stewart Collis (1900\u20131984), biographer and countryside writerMaurice Collis (1889\u20131973), writer and biographerMary Collyer (c. 1716\u20131762), translator and novelist.George Colman (1732\u20131794), playwrightGeorge Colman (1762\u20131836), playwright and poetJock Colville (1915\u20131987), diarist and civil servantHoward Colvin (1919\u20132007), architectural historianWilliam Combe (1741\u20131823), miscellanist and poetAlex Comfort (1920\u20132000), novelist, poet and writerJack Common (1903\u20131968), novelistIvy Compton-Burnett (1884\u20131969), novelistWilliam Congreve (1670\u20131729), playwright and poet, ErewhonThomas Coningsby (died 1625), diarist, soldier and politicianPaul Conneally (born 1959), poet, artist and musicianCharlie Connelly (born 1970), football and travel writerCyril Connolly (1903\u20131974), writer and criticJoseph Connolly (born 1950), writer and novelistTony Connor (born 1930), poet and playwrightRobert Conquest (1917\u20132015), historian and poetHenry Constable (1562\u20131613), poetHugh Conway (real name Frederick John Fargus, 1847\u20131885), novelistRobert Seymour Conway (1864\u20131933), classicistJohn Conybeare (1692\u20131755), theologian and bishopJohn Josias Conybeare (1779\u20131824), scholar, translator and clericWilliam Daniel Conybeare (1787\u20131857), writer and clericWilliam John Conybeare (1815\u20131857), writer, novelist and clericDavid Cook (1940\u20132015), novelist and screenwriterEdward Dutton Cook (1829\u20131883), novelist and criticEliza Cook (1818\u20131889), poetJames Cook (1728\u20131779), travel writer and marinerJudith Cook (1933\u20132004), novelistDorian Cooke (1916\u20132005), poet and intelligence officerThomas Cooke (1703\u20131756), poet, playwright and translatorCatherine Cookson (1906\u20131998), novelistWilliam Henry Coombes (1767\u20131850), writer and RC priestArtemis Cooper (born 1953), writer and editorDuff Cooper (1890\u20131954), writer, diarist and politicianJilly Cooper (born 1937), writer and novelistLettice Cooper (1897\u20131994), novelist and criticThomas Cooper (1805\u20131892), poet and novelistWilliam Cooper (real name H. S. Hoff, 1910\u20132002), novelistIsabel Cooper-Oakley (1853\/1854\u20131914), theosophistWendy Cope (born 1945), poetEsther Copley (1786\u20131851) children’s and housekeeping writerA. E. Coppard (1878\u20131957) poet and story writerAbiezer Coppe (1619\u20131672) religious writerRichard Corbet or Corbett (1582\u20131635), poet and bishopJim Corbett (1875\u20131955), writer and conservationistJulian Corbett (1854\u20131922), naval historianMichael Cordy (living), novelistMarie Corelli (1855\u20131924), novelistAlan Coren (1938\u20132007), writer, satirist and broadcasterHilary Corke (1921\u20132001), poetAdam Cornford (born 1950), poet and essayistFrances Cornford (1886\u20131960), poetFrancis M. Cornford (1874\u20131943), scholar and poetJohn Cornford (1915\u20131936), poetCaroline Cornwallis (1786\u20131858), writer and polyglotJane Cornwallis (1581\u20131659), correspondentBernard Cornwell (born 1944), novelistWilliam Cornysh or Cornish (1465\u20131523), dramatist, poet and composerFelicitas Corrigan (1908\u20132003), writer and nunAnnie Sophie Cory (wrote as Victoria Cross, 1868\u20131952), novelistWilliam Johnson Cory (1823\u20131892), poet and educatorThomas Coryat or Coryate (c. 1577\u20131617), travel writer and poetLouisa Stuart Costello (1799\u20131870), travel writer, novelist and poetJohn Cosin (1594\u20131672), polemicist and bishopRandle Cotgrave (died 1634 or 1652), lexicographerJoseph Cottle (1770\u20131853), poet and essayistColin Cotterill (born 1952), author and cartoonistCharles Cotton (1630\u20131687), poet and writerRobert Bruce Cotton (1570\/1571 \u2013 1631), antiquary and political writerOswald Couldrey (1882\u20131958), poet and artistStephen Coulter (also as James Mayo, b. 1914), novelistG. G. Coulton (1858\u20131947), historian and polemicistWilliam John Courthope (1842\u20131917), critic and poetPolly Courtney (living), novelistFrancis Coventry (1725\u20131754 or 1759), novelistMiles Coverdale (c. 1488\u20131569), Bible translatorNo\u00ebl Coward (1899\u20131973), playwright, Blithe SpiritAbraham Cowley (1618\u20131667), poetHannah Cowley (1743\u20131809), playwrightDorothy Cowlin (1911\u20132010), novelist and poetWilliam Cowper (1731\u20131800), poet, John GilpinAnthony Berkeley Cox (also as Anthony Berkeley, etc., 1893\u20131971), novelistEdward Coxere (1633\u20131694), autobiographer and seamanGeorge Crabbe (1754\u20131832), poet and naturalistJim Crace (born 1946), novelistHubert Crackanthorpe (originally Cookson, 1870\u20131896), essayist and story writerNicholas Crafts (born 1949), economic historianAlbert Craig (the Surrey Poet, 1849\u20131909), sports poetAmanda Craig (born 1959), novelistDinah Craik (also as Miss Mulock, 1826\u20131887), novelist and poetEdward Crankshaw (1909\u20131984), writer, historian and translatorRichard Crashaw (1613\u20131649), poetElizabeth Craven (1750\u20131828), travel writer and playwrightJohn Creasey (1908\u20131973), novelistEdward Shepherd Creasy (1812\u20131878), historianThomas Creech (1659\u20131700), translatorThomas Creevey (1768\u20131838), diarist and politicianMandell Creighton (1843\u20131901), historian and bishopHelen Cresswell (1934\u20132005), children’s writer and screenwriterJasmine Cresswell (born 1941), novelistNicholas Cresswell (1750\u20131804), diarist and farmerBernard Crick (1929\u20132008), political scientistMartin Crimp (born 1956), playwrightArthur Shearly Cripps (1869\u20131952), story writer and poetQuentin Crisp (born Denis Charles Pratt, 1908\u20131999), writer and raconteurAnn Batten Cristall (1769\u20131848), poetHerbert Croft (1751\u20131815), novelistRupert Croft-Cooke (wrote as Leo Bruce, 1903\u20131979), novelistAndrew Crofts (born 1953), ghost writerBithia Mary Croker (1849\u20131920), novelistThomas Francis Dillon Croker (wrote as T. F. Dillon Croker, 1831\u20131912), antiquary and poetRichmal Crompton (real name Richmal Crompton Lamburn, 1890\u20131969), novelist, Just WilliamVincent Cronin (1924\u20132011), historian and biographerCamilla Dufour Crosland (1812\u20131895), poet, novelist and historical writerA. F. Cross (1863\u20131940), poet, playwright and journalistGillian Cross (born 1945), children’s writerKevin Crossley-Holland (born 1941), children’s writer, poet and editorCatherine Crowe (1790\u20131872), novelist and playwrightWilliam Crowe (1745\u20131829), poetAleister Crowley (1875\u20131947), writer, mystic and occultistJohn Crowne (1641\u20131712), playwrightAndrew Crozier (1943\u20132008), poet and scholarAndrew Crumey (born 1961), novelistBarry Cryer (1935\u20132022), writerJ. A. Cuddon (1928\u20131996), novelist, playwright and lexicographerAnnie Hall Cudlip (1838\u20131918), novelistPender Hodge Cudlip (1834\u20131911), writer and clericJohn Cullum (1733\u20131785), antiquary, historian and clericHannah Cullwick (1833\u20131909), diarist and servantNathaniel Culverwell (1619\u20131651), philosopher and theologianNigel Cumberland (born 1967), self-help and leadership non-fiction authorRichard Cumberland (1631\u20131718), philosopher and bishopRichard Cumberland (1732\u20131811), playwright, poet and novelistNancy Cunard (1896\u20131965), poet and memoiristJoseph Cundall (wrote as Stephen Percy, 1818\u20131895), children’s writer and publisherJohn Cunliffe (1933\u20132018), children’s writerRoland Curram (born 1932), novelist and actorR. N. Currey (1907\u20132001), poetLionel George Curtis (1872\u20131955), writer on world governmentWilliam Curtis (1746\u20131799), botanistAlice Curwen (c. 1619\u20131679), Quaker writer and preacherHenry Cust (1861\u20131917), writer and editorCatherine Cuthbertson (pre\u20131780 \u2013 post\u20131830), novelistJudith Cutler (born 1946), novelistJohn Cutts (1661\u20131707), poet, writer and soldierSee also[edit]References[edit]"},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki43\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki43\/list-of-english-writers-a-c\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"List of English writers (A\u2013C)"}}]}]