List of English novelists
See also: English novel and English literature
This is a list of novelists from England.
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A
- Kia Abdullah (born 1982)
- Paul Ableman (1927–2006)
- J. R. Ackerley (1896–1967)
- Peter Ackroyd (born 1949)
- Paul Adam (born 1958)
- Ruth Adam (1907–1977)
- Douglas Adams (1952–2001), author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Poppy Adams
- Richard Adams (born 1920), author of Watership Down
- Arthur St. John Adcock (1864–1930)
- Grace Aguilar (1816–1847)
- Robert Aickman (1914–1981)
- Joan Aiken (1924–2004)
- Lucy Aikin (1781–1864)
- William Harrison Ainsworth (1805–1882)
- Catherine Aird (born 1930)
- Richard Aldington (1892–1962)
- Miriam Alexander (1879–?)
- Monica Ali (born 1967)
- Walter Allen (1911–1995)
- E. M. Almedingen (1898–1971)
- Kingsley Amis (1922–1995), author of Lucky Jim and The Old Devils
- Martin Amis (born 1949), son of Kingsley, author of Dead Babies, Money, and The Information
- Valerie Anand (1937–2007)
- Julie Andrews (born 1935)
- Peter Anghelides
- Evelyn Anthony (born 1928)
- Lisa Appignanesi (born 1946)
- Jeffrey Archer (born 1940)
- Philip Ardagh (born 1961)
- Reginald Arkell (1882–1959), known for a play based on 1066 and All That
- Simon Armitage (born 1963)
- Elizabeth von Arnim (1866–1941)
- Edwin Lester Arnold (1857–1935)
- William Delafield Arnold (1828–1859)
- Daisy Ashford (1881–1972)
- Lindsay Ashford
- Francis Leslie Ashton (1904–1994)
- Judy Astley
- Edwin Atherstone (1788–1872)
- Blanche Atkinson (1847–1911)
- Kate Atkinson (born 1951)
- Penelope Aubin (c. 1679–c. 1731)
- Jane Austen (1775–1817)
- Tash Aw (born 1973)
B
- Robert Bage (1728–1801)
- Beryl Bainbridge (1932–2010)
- J. G. Ballard (1930–2009), author of Crash, Empire of the Sun and Concrete Island
- Julian Barnes (born 1946), author of England, England
- Nicola Barker (born 1966)
- Nina Bawden (1925-2012)
- Ada Ellen Bayly (1857–1903)
- Max Beerbohm (1872–1956)
- Arnold Bennett (1867–1931)
- Anthony Berkeley (1893–1971), mystery writer (The Poisoned Chocolates Case)
- Walter Besant (1836–1901)
- Robert Black (1829–1915)
- Julia Blackburn (born 1948)
- Nicholas Blincoe (born 1965), author of Manchester Slingback
- Eliot Bliss (1903–1990), Bildungsromane
- Elizabeth Blower (c. 1757/63–post-1816)
- Enid Blyton (1897–1968), author of children's books
- Alain de Botton (born 1969)
- Marjorie Boulton (born 1924), writes in both English and Esperanto
- Malcolm Bradbury, author of The History Man
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1837–1915)
- Edward Bradley (1827–1889)
- John Braine, author of Room at the Top and The Jealous God
- Matthew Branton (born 1968)
- Wallace Breem (1926–1990), author of Eagle in the Snow
- Simon Brett (born 1945), whodunnits
- Vincent Brome (1910–2004)
- Anne Brontë (1820–1849)
- Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855), wrote Jane Eyre
- Emily Brontë (1818–1848), wrote Wuthering Heights
- Anita Brookner (1928–2016), wrote Hotel du Lac, won the Booker Prize
- Anthony Buckeridge (1912–2004), known for his Jennings and Derbyshire novels
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873), namesake of the annual bad writing contest
- John Bunyan (1628–1688)
- Anthony Burgess (1917–1993), composer, essayist, author of A Clockwork Orange and Earthly Powers
- Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849–1924), author of The Secret Garden
- Caroline Burney (fl. early 19th century, pseudonym)
- Frances Burney (1752–1840), author of Evelina
- Sarah Burney (1772–1844)
- Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890)
- Charlotte Bury (1775–1861)
- Samuel Butler (1835–1902), author of Erewhon
- A. S. Byatt (born 1936), author of Possession
C
- Hall Caine (1853–1931), romantic novelist
- Lewis Carroll (1832–1898), author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- Angela Carter (1940–1992), post-feminist, wrote magical realism
- Dame Barbara Cartland (1901–2000)
- Elizabeth Chadwick, author of historical fiction
- Mavis Cheek (born c. 1948)
- G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936), novelist and poet, mystery writer and Christian apologist
- William Rufus Chetwood (died 1766), novelist, playwright and publisher
- Mary Cholmondeley (1859–1925), author of Red Pottage
- Agatha Christie (1890–1976)
- Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008)
- Susanna Clarke (born 1959)
- Brian Cleeve (1921–2003)
- Henry Cockton (1807–1852)
- Jonathan Coe (born 1961)
- Mortimer Collins (1827–1876)
- Wilkie Collins (1824–1889), author of The Moonstone and The Woman in White
- Dorothy Cowlin (1911–2010)
- Ivy Compton-Burnett, author of novels about dysfunctional families
- Joseph Conrad (1857–1924), Polish-born, but lived in England and wrote in English
- William Cooper (20th century)
- Marie Corelli (1855–1924)
- Bernard Cornwell (born 1944), author of the Sharpe novels
- Amanda Craig (born 1959), author of A Vicious Circle and In a Dark Wood
- Andrew Crofts (born 1953), author of The Little Hero
- Bithia Mary Croker (c. 1848–1920)
- Camilla Dufour Crosland (1812–1895)
- Andrew Crumey (born 1961)
- J. A. Cuddon (1928–1996)
D
- Charlotte Dacre (1782–1841)
- Penny Dale (born 1954)
- Clemence Dane (1888–1965)
- Denise Danks
- Lionel Davidson (born 1922)
- Caitlin Davies (born 1964)
- Hugh Sykes Davies (1909–1984)
- Lindsey Davis (born 1949)
- Coningsby Dawson (1883–1959)
- Jennifer Dawson (1929–2000)
- William James Dawson (1854–?)
- Martin Day (born 1968)
- Thomas de Quincey (1785–1859)
- Walter de la Mare (1873–1956)
- Daniel Defoe (1659 or 1661–1731), journalist, author of Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders
- Len Deighton (born 1929)
- R. F. Delderfield (1912–1972)
- Thomas Deloney (1543–1600)
- Nigel Dennis (1912–1989)
- Colin Dexter (born 1930), author of the Inspector Morse novels
- Nirpal Singh Dhaliwal (born 1974)
- Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
- Monica Dickens (1915–1992)
- Peter Dickinson (born 1927)
- Alice Mangold Diehl (1844–1912)
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)
- Henry Hall Dixon (1822–1870)
- William Dodd (1729–1777)
- Berlie Doherty (born 1943)
- P. C. Doherty (born 1946)
- David Donachie (born 1944), nautical historical novelist
- Angus Donald (born 1965), historical fiction novelist
- Louise Doughty (born 1963), novelist, playwright and journalist
- Margaret Drabble (born 1939)
- Daphne du Maurier (1907–1989), author of Rebecca and Jamaica Inn
- George du Maurier (1834–1896), author of Trilby
- Ernest Dudley (1908–2006)
- Maureen Duffy (born 1933)
- Alfred Duggan (1903–1964), historian, archaeologist and best-selling historical novelist
- Sarah Dunant (born 1950)
E
- Anthony Earnshaw (1924–2001)
- Eric Rücker Eddison (1882–1945), civil servant and novelist
- Robert Edric (born 1956)
- J. T. Edson (born 1928)
- Stephen Elboz
- George Eliot (1819–1880)
- Royston Ellis (born 1941)
- Roger Jon Ellory (born 1965), thriller writer
- Ben Elton (born 1959)
- Sally Emerson (born 1954)
- Barry England
- D. J. Enright (1920–2002), academic, poet, novelist and critic
- Sam Enthoven (born 1975), children's novelist
- Nicholas Evans (born 1950)
F
- Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1782–1854)
- Henry Fielding (1707–1754)
- Ronald Firbank (1886–1926)
- Ian Fleming (1908–1964), author of the James Bond novels
- Peter Fleming (1907–1971), author of travel books, brother of Ian
- Ford Madox Ford (1873–1939), author of The Good Soldier
- C. S. Forester (1899–1966), author of the Horatio Hornblower series
- E. M. Forster (1879–1970)
- Frederick Forsyth (born 1938), author of The Day of the Jackal
- John Fowles (1926–2005), author of The French Lieutenant's Woman
- Stephen Fry (born 1957)
G
- Neil Gaiman (born 1960), author of The Sandman comics, Coraline, Stardust, The Graveyard Book and the BBC series Neverwhere
- John Galsworthy (1867–1933)
- Alex Garland (born 1970), author of The Beach
- Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865)
- Stella Gibbons (1902–1989[1]), author of Cold Comfort Farm
- George Gissing (1857–1903)
- William Golding (1911–1993)
- Robert Graves (1895–1985), I, Claudius and other historical novels
- Henry Green (1905–1973)
- Graham Greene (1904–1991)
- Philippa Gregory (born 1954), is an historical novelist
H
- H. Rider Haggard (1856–1925), author of adventure novels set in exotic locations, such as King Solomon's Mines, She
- Arthur Hailey (1920–2004)
- Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
- Joanne Harris (born 1964), author of Chocolat, Five Quarters of the Orange
- Robert Harris (born 1957)
- Josephine Hart, author of Damage
- L.P. Hartley (1895 – 1972) author of The Go-Between
- Carole Hayman
- James Herbert (born 1943), horror writer
- Georgette Heyer (1902–1974)
- Jack Higgins (born 1929)
- Reginald Hill (born 1936)
- James Hilton (1900–1954)
- Victoria Holmes
- Stewart Home (born 1962)
- Anthony Hope (1863–1933)
- Thomas Hope (1769–1831)
- Nick Hornby (born 1957), author of About a Boy
- Ernest William Hornung (1866–1921)
- Anthony Horowitz (born 1956)
- William Horwood (born 1944), author of the Duncton Wood series
- Emma Hosken (1845–1884)
- Elizabeth Jane Howard (born 1923)
- Fergus Hume (1859–1932)
- Arthur Stuart-Menteth Hutchinson (1880–1971)
- Angela Huth (born 1938)
- Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
I–J
- Conn Iggulden (born 1971)
- Hammond Innes (1914–1998)
- Christopher Isherwood (1904–1986)
- Kazuo Ishiguro (born 1954)
- Ralph Izzard (1910–1992)
- Brian Jacques (1939–2011), author of the Redwall and Castaways of the Flying Dutchman series
- G.P.R. James (1799–1860)
- Henry James (1843–1916)
- P. D. James (born 1920), author of crime fiction and the dystopian novel The Children of Men
- Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927), author of Three Men in a Boat
K
- M. M. Kaye (1908–2004), author of The Far Pavilions
- Stephen Kelman (born 1976), author of Pigeon English
- Lena Kennedy (1914–1986)
- Alexander Kent (born 1924), wrote historical fiction on the Royal Navy
- David Kessler (born 1957)
- Charles Kingsley (1819–1875)
- Henry Kingsley (1830–1876)
- Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), author of The Jungle Book
- C. H. B. Kitchin (1895–1967)
- Dorothy Koomson (born 1971)
L
- D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930), author of Lady Chatterley's Lover
- George Alfred Lawrence (1827–1876), author of Guy Livingston
- John le Carré (born 1931), author of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
- Marina Lewycka (born 1946)
- C. S. Lewis (1898–1963), author of The Chronicles of Narnia
- Nell Leyshon, dramatist and novelist
- S. E. Lister (born 1988)
- Richard Llewellyn (1906–1983)
- David Lodge (born 1935), author of Thinks ...
- John Lodwick (1916–1959)
M
- Serena Mackesy (born 1960s), The Temp
- Herman Cyril McNeile (1888–1937), writer of Bulldog Drummond
- Ian McEwan (born 1948)
- Allan Mallinson (born 1949), historical novelist
- Hilary Mantel (born 1952)
- Derek Marlowe (1938–1996), author of A Dandy in Aspic
- Frederick Marryat (1792–1848), Mr Midshipman Easy and other sea stories
- A. E. W. Mason (1865–1948), author of The Four Feathers
- William Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)
- Paul Mendelson (born 1965), The First Rule of Survival
- George Meredith (1828–1909)
- A. A. Milne (1882–1956), The Red House Mystery and Mr. Pim Passes By
- Nancy Mitford (1904–1973)
- Aly Monroe (fl. 2008–2013)
- Agustus Montrose (1830–1899)
- Iris Murdoch (1919–1999), author of A Severed Head
- Margaret Murphy (born 1959)
- John Murray (born 1950), author of Murphy's Favourite Channels
- Valerie Grosvenor Myer (1935–2007)
N
- V. S. Naipaul (born 1932)
O
- Ann Oakley (born 1944)
- Patrick O'Brian (1914–2000), author of the Aubrey/Maturin naval historical novels
- Tyne O'Connell (born 1960)
- Alfred Ollivant (1874–1927)
- Daniel O'Mahony (born 1973)
- Tony O'Neill (born 1978)
- Oliver Onions (1873–1961)
- Amelia Opie (1769–1853)
- E. Phillips Oppenheim (1866–1946)
- Emma Orczy (1865–1947)
- George Orwell (1903–1950)
- Ouida (1839–1908)
- Keith Ovenden (born 1943)
P
- Edith Pargeter (1913–1995), as Ellis Peters authored the medieval-detective series The Cadfael Chronicles
- Stel Pavlou (born 1970)
- Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866)
- Mervyn Peake (1911–1968), author of the Gormenghast books
- Margaret Pedler (died 1948)
- Harold Pinter (1930–2008)
- Dudley Pope (1925–1997), writer of nautical historical novels (Lord Ramage series)
- Beatrix Potter (1866–1943), author of The Tale of Peter Rabbit
- Anthony Powell (1905–2000), author of A Dance to the Music of Time
- John Cowper Powys (1872–1963), author of A Glastonbury Romance
- Terry Pratchett (1948–2015)
- J. B. Priestley (1894–1984), writer and broadcaster
- Barbara Pym (1913–1980)
Q
- Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863–1944)
- Ann Quin (1936–1973)
R
- Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823)
- Julian Rathbone (1935–2008)
- Douglas Reeman (born 1924), historical naval novelist
- Mary Renault (1905–1983), best known for historical novels set in ancient Greece
- Ruth Rendell (aka Barbara Vine) (born 1930), author of King Solomon's Carpet
- Dorothy Richardson (1873–1957)
- Samuel Richardson (1689–1761), printer, contender for the title of "first English novelist"
- Denise Robins (1897–1985)
- Ray Robinson (born 1971)
- Sax Rohmer (1883–1959), creator of Dr. Fu Manchu, "the yellow peril incarnate in one man"
- Frederick Rolfe (1860–1913), author of Hadrian the Seventh
- J. K. Rowling (born 1965), creator of the Harry Potter series
- Salman Rushdie (born 1947)
S
- Vita Sackville West (1892-1962), author, poet and gardener
- Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957), mystery writer (creator of Lord Peter Wimsey), playwright
- Simon Scarrow (born 1962), best known for his Eagle series of historical novels
- Will Scott (1893−1964), author of Disher, Detective
- Will Self (born 1961)
- Diane Setterfield (born 1964), author of The Thirteenth Tale
- Tom Sharpe (born 1928), author of Wilt
- Mary Shelley (1797–1851)
- Nevil Shute (1899–1960)
- Una Lucy Silberrad (1872–1955)
- C. P. Snow (1905–1980)
- Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
- Julian Stockwin (born 1944), author of the Kydd series, historical naval fiction
- Alexander Stuart (born 1955), author of The War Zone, for which the 1989 Whitbread Prize was controversially withdrawn
- Graham Swift (born 1949), won the Booker Prize in 1996 for Last Orders
- Jonathan Swift (1667–1745), satirist, author of Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, Journal to Stella, poems and pamphlets
T
- James Thackara (born 1944), author of The Book of Kings
- William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863)
- Colin Thubron (born 1939), author of A Cruel Madness
- J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973), author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
- Sue Townsend (born 1946), writer of Adrian Mole books
- Miles Tredinnick (born 1955), author of Fripp
- Anthony Trollope (1815–1882), prolific documentor of life in Victorian England
- Philip Turner (born 1925), children's novelist
U
- Evelyn Underhill (1875–1941)
- Barry Unsworth (born 1930)
- Cathi Unsworth
- Edward Upward (born 1903)
V
- John Van der Kiste (born 1954)
- R. V. Vernède (1905–2003)
- Frances Vernon (1963–1991)
- Salley Vickers (born 1948)
- Sherard Vines (1890–1974)
W
- John Wain (1925–1994)
- H. Russell Wakefield (1888–1964)
- George Walker (1772–1847)
- Edgar Wallace (1875–1932)
- Nick Wallace (born 1972)
- Leo Walmsley (1892–1966)
- Jill Paton Walsh (born 1937)
- Guy Walters (born 1971)
- Vanessa Walters (born 1978)
- Mary Augusta Ward (1851–1920)
- Rex Warner (1905–1986)
- Keith Waterhouse (born 1929)
- Auberon Waugh (1939–2001)
- Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966)
- Mary Webb (1881–1927), wrote tales of rural life
- Samantha Weinberg
- Ronald Welch (1909–1982), wrote children's historical novels
- Fay Weldon (born 1931)
- H. G. Wells (1866–1946)
- Louise Wener (born 1967)
- Mary Wesley (1912–2002), author of The Camomile Lawn
- Jane West (1758–1852)
- Rebecca West (1892–1983)
- Robert Westall (1929–1993)
- William Bury Westall (1834–1903)
- Patience Wheatcroft (born 1951)
- Dorothy Whipple (1893–1966)
- Hale White (1831–1913)
- Michael White (born 1959)
- T. H. White (1906–1964), author of The Sword in the Stone and The Once and Future King
- Tony White (born 1964)
- Richard Whiteing (1840–1928)
- Peter Wildeblood (1923–1999)
- Vaughan Wilkins (1890–1959)
- Charles Williams (1886–1945)
- Charlie Williams (born 1971)
- Nigel Williams (born 1948)
- Robina Williams
- Henry Williamson (1895–1977)
- Ted Willis (1914–1992) (Baron Willis)
- A. N. Wilson (born 1950)
- Angus Wilson (1913–1991)
- R. D. Wingfield (1928–2007)
- Jeanette Winterson (born 1959)
- P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975), creator of Jeeves and Wooster
- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)
- Christopher Wood (born 1935)
- Ellen Wood (1814–1887)
- Ramsay Wood (born 1943), Kalila and Dimna
- Martin Woodhouse (born 1932)
- Richard Woodman (born 1944)
- Paul Wootten
- Margaret Louisa Woods (1856–1945)
- Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
Y–Z
- Jane Yardley
- Dornford Yates (1885–1960), wrote escapist adventure stories and humorous ones (Berry & Co.)
- Edmund Yates (1831–1894)
- Ann Yearsley (c. 1753–1806)
- Victor Maslin Yeates (1897–1934)
- Tamar Yellin
- Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823–1901)
- E. H. Young (1880–1945)
- Robyn Young (born 1975), author of historical fiction
- Helen Zahavi, author of Dirty Weekend, a modern-day picaresque novel
- Israel Zangwill (1864–1926)
- Louis Zangwill (1869–1938)
See also
References
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