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

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
• Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé (born 1998), novelist
• 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 (1925–2017), novelist
• Henry Aldrich (1647–1710), poet and theologian
• Horace Alexander (1889–1989), writer on India, ornithologist and Quaker
• Miriam Alexander (1879-19??), 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 (1929–2019), 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 (1949–2023), 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 (1930–2012), 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 (1948–2019), 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 (1923–2022), cultural historian
• Thomas Ashe or Ash (fl. 1600–1618), legal writer
• Thomas Ashe (1770–1835), novelist and miscellanist
• Thomas Ashe (1836–1889), poet
• Michael Asher (born 1953) author and explorer
• 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
• Elizabeth Mary Aslin (1926–1989), art historian
• 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 (1917–2019), 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 (1936–2017), 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 (1932–2010), 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 (1940–2022), 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 (1945–2014), poet
• Clement Barksdale (1609–1687), poet and cleric
• 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 (1927–2022), 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 (1928–2011), 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 (1925–2015), 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
• Peter Beckford (1740–1811), writer and landowner
• 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 (1928–2010), 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 (1926–2017), 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
• Tess Berry-Hart (born 1978), playwright and novelist
• 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
• Elizabeth Biddulph, Baroness Biddulph (1834-1916), biographer and Woman of the Bedchamber to Queen Victoria
• 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 (1923–1993), 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 (1922–2023), 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 (1926–2017), children's writer, Paddington Bear
• Elizabeth Bonhôte (1744–1818), novelist
• Christopher Booker (1937–2019), 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 (1928–2015), 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 (1924–2017), 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 (1924–2019), 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
• Walter Bradick (1706-1794)
• 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
• Nicholas Bradshawe (c. 1635), writer
• 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. 1545–1626), 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 (1766–18??), miscellanist
• James Norris Brewer (fl. 1799–1829), topographer and novelist
• John Brewster (1753–1842), writer and cleric
• Shane Briant (1946–2021), 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 (1934–2022), 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
• John Brooke (died 1582), religious writer and translator
• 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 (1940–2023), 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 (1934–2017), occultist
• William Buckland (1784–1856), geologist, palaeontologist and cleric
• Henry Thomas Buckle (1821–1862), historian
• Catherine Mary Buckton (1826-1904), campaigner and writer
• 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 (1939–2019), 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 (1922–2013), 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 (1924–2015), 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
• James Cancellar, (fl. 1564), English theological writer
• Hugh Candidus (c. 1095 – c. 1160), historian in Latin and monk
• Denis Cannan (1919–2011), 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 (1945–2018), 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
• Annie Emma Challice (1821–1875), author
• 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 (1940–2022), 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 (1923–2018), 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
• Jane Clarke, biochemist and academic
• Jane E. Clarke (born 1954), children's writer
• Lindsay Clarke (born 1939), novelist and poet
• Mary Cowden Clarke (originally Novello, 1809–1898), writer and scholar
• Pauline Clarke (1921–2013), 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
• Barbara Cleverly (born 1940), novelist
• 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 (1936–2014), 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), religious 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 (1948–2013), 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 (1917–2015), 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 (1940–2015), 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
• Colin Cotterill (born 1952), author and cartoonist
• 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
• E. E. Cowper (1859–1933), novelist
• Frank Cowper (1849–1930), yachtsman and author
• 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
• Barry Cryer (1935–2022), writer
• 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
• Nathaniel Culverwell (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

References

• English literature
• English novel
• List of children's literature authors
• List of children's non-fiction writers
• List of English-language poets
• List of English novelists
• Lists of writers