English novelists

David Dabydeen (born 9 December 1955) is a Guyanese-born critic, writer, novelist and academic.

John Aubrey FRS (/ˈɔːbri/; 12 March 1626 – 7 June 1697), was an English antiquary, natural philosopher and writer.

George Norman Douglas (8 December 1868 – 7 February 1952) was a British writer, now best known for his 1917 novel South Wind.

Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke FRSA (24 April 1846 – 2 August 1881) was an English-born Australian novelist and poet, best known for his novel For the Term of His Natural Life.

James Gibbons Huneker (January 31, 1857 - February 9, 1921) was an American art, book, music, and theater critic.

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (/ˌkwɪlərˈkuːtʃ/; 21 November 1863 – 12 May 1944) was a Cornish writer who published using the pseudonym Q.

Brian O'Nolan (Irish: Brian Ó Nualláin; 5 October 1911 – 1 April 1966) was an Irish novelist, playwright and satirist, considered a major figure in twentieth century Irish literature.

Edmund Gill Swain (1861 – 29 January 1938) was an English cleric and author.

Grace Livingston Hill (April 16, 1865 – 1947) was an early 20th-century novelist and wrote both under her real name and the pseudonym Marcia Macdonald.

Yvonne Vera (September 19, 1964 – April 7, 2005) was an award-winning author from Zimbabwe.

Gavin Edmund Pretor-Pinney is a British author, known for his book The Wavewatcher's Companion.

Gary Shteyngart (born Igor Semyonovich Shteyngart; July 5, 1972) is an American writer born in Leningrad, USSR.

Hester Chapone, née Mulso (27 October 1727, Twywell, Northamptonshire – 1801), was a writer of conduct books for women.

Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás, known in English as George Santayana (/ˌsæntiˈænə/ or /-ˈɑːnə/; December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952), was a philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist.

John Brown (5 November 1715 – 23 September 1766) was an English divine and author.

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Vernon Lee was the pseudonym of the British writer Violet Paget (14 October 1856 – 13 February 1935).

Bryher (2 September 1894 – 28 January 1983) was the pen name of the English novelist, poet, memoirist, and magazine editor Annie Winifred Ellerman, of the Ellerman ship-owning family.

Charles Simmons (born 1924) is an American editor and novelist.

Though his parents are Welsh - his mother Buddug-Mair Powell (b. 1928) acted in the original stage show of Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood in the West End and on Broadway in 1956 - Maxwell was born and raised in Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire.

William Edwy Vine (1873–1949), commonly known as W.

Francis Charles Philips (3 February 1849 – 21 April 1921) was a British army officer, actor, theatre-manager, dramatist, barrister, journalist, short story writer and novelist.

Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon (c. 1633 – 18 January 1685), was an English poet.

Norman Lebrecht (born 11 July 1948 in London) is a British commentator on music and cultural affairs and a novelist.

William Bury Westall (7 February 1834 – 1903) was an English novelist born in Old Accrington, Lancashire, England.

Manly Palmer Hall (March 18, 1901 – August 29, 1990) was a Canadian-born author and mystic.

George Augustus Moore (24 February 1852 – 21 January 1933) was an Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist.

Israel Zangwill (21 January 1864 – 1 August 1926) was a British author at the forefront of cultural Zionism during the 19th century, he was a close associate of Theodor Herzl.

Sir Frederick Treves, 1st Baronet, GCVO, CH, CB (15 February 1853 – 7 December 1923) was a prominent British surgeon of the Victorian and Edwardian eras, now known for his friendship with Joseph Merrick, "the Elephant Man".

Peter Cunningham FSA (1816–1869) was a British writer born in London, son of the Scottish author Allan Cunningham and his wife Jean (née Walker, 1791–1866).

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Charles Caleb Colton (1780–1832) was an English cleric, writer and collector, well known for his eccentricities.

Sophia McDougall (born 1979) is a British novelist, playwright, and poet.

Arthur George Morrison (1 November 1863 – 4 December 1945) was an English writer and journalist known for his realistic novels and stories about working-class life in London's East End, and for his detective stories, featuring the detective Martin Hewitt.

Lucas Cleeve was the pseudonym of Adeline Georgiana Isabel Kingscote, née Wolff (1868–1908) was a novelist born in England, the author of over sixty works including The Woman Who Wouldn't in 1895.

Samuel "Sam" Selvon (20 May 1923–16 April 1994) was a Trinidad-born writer.

Justine Picardie is a British novelist, fashion writer and biographer.

Violetta Thurstan, MM (4 February 1879 – 13 April 1978) was an English nurse, weaver, and administrator whose work included help for refugees and prisoners of war.

Bessie Marchant (1862–1941) was a prolific English writer of adventure novels featuring young female heroines.

George Manville Fenn (3 January 1831, Pimlico – 26 August 1909, Isleworth) was a prolific English novelist, journalist, editor and educationalist.

Charlotte Mansfield (1881–1936) was an English novelist, poet, and traveler, known for her planned 1909 "Cape to Cairo" journey.

Shaparak "Shappi" Khorsandi (Persian: شاپرک خرسندی, born 8 June 1973) is a British comedian and author of Iranian origin.

This is a list of novelists from England.

Victor Watson (born 1936) is an English author who has written on the nature and history of children’s literature and on how children learn to read.

Alexander Gilchrist (1828 – 30 November 1861) was the biographer of William Blake.

Jacqueline Denise Welch (born 22 May 1958) is an English actress and television presenter.

Jack Sheffield (born Jack Linley, 1945 in Leeds) is a British author who wrote a series of books of fiction about the headmaster of a village school in a fictional Yorkshire village.