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William Shakespeare. William Shakespeare (c. 23 [a] April 1564 – 23 April 1616) [b] was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. [3][4][5] He is often called England's national poet and the " Bard of Avon " (or simply "the Bard").
Charles John Huffam Dickens (/ ˈdɪkɪnz /; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. [1]
James Hilton (1900–1954), Lost Horizon. John Buxton Hilton (1921–1986), crime fiction. Thomas Hinde (1926–2014) Joanna Hines (living) Jane Aiken Hodge (1917–2009) Barbara Hofland (1770–1844), moral stories for children. Ethel Carnie Holdsworth (1886–1962) Margaret Holford (1778–1852) Jane Holland (born 1966), Girl Number One.
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.
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. This list is split into four pages due to its size: List of English writers (A–C)
Signature. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (/ ˈlʌtwɪdʒ ˈdɒdsən / LUT-wij DOD-sən; 27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, mathematician, photographer and Anglican deacon. His most notable works are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel Through the Looking ...
James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (/ ˈ b ɒ z w ɛ l,-w əl /; 29 October 1740 [1] – 19 May 1795), was a Scottish biographer, diarist, and lawyer, born in Edinburgh.He is best known for his biography of the English writer Samuel Johnson, Life of Samuel Johnson, which is commonly said to be the greatest biography written in the English language.
Charles Higham (England/US, 1931–2012) – Errol Flynn, Howard Hughes and Katharine Hepburn. Thomas Jefferson Hogg (En, 1792–1862) – Percy Bysshe Shelley. Richard Holmes (England, born 1945) – Mary Shelley, Coleridge, The Age of Wonder. Michael Holroyd (En, born 1935) – Lytton Strachey.