List of English Writers - A

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• A. W. (fl. 1602), unidentified poet
• Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838–1926), theologian, philologist and novelist, Flatland
• Gilbert Abbott à Beckett (1811–1856), humorist
• George Abbot (1562–1633), writer, AV translator and cleric
• Kia Abdullah (born 1982), novelist
• Lascelles Abercrombie (1881–1938), poet and critic
• 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
• Paul Adam (born 1958), novelist
• Douglas Adams (1952–2001), novelist and scriptwriter, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• Richard Adams (born 1920), novelist, Watership Down
• Sarah Flower Adams (1805–1848), poet and hymn writer, "Nearer, My God, to Thee"
• 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 (born c. 1981), playwright
• John Aglionby (died 1609/10), scholar, AV translator and cleric
• Grace Aguilar (1816–1847), novelist and writer
• Allan Ahlberg (born 1939), children's writer, Burglar Bill
• Robert Aickman (1914–1981), novelist and conservationist
• Joan Aiken (1924–2004), novelist, The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
• Arthur Aikin (1783–1854), science writer
• Lucy Aikin (1781–1864), children's writer, biographer and history writer
• John Aikin (1747–1822), writer and physician
• Alfred Ainger (1837–1904), biographer and critic
• William Harrison Ainsworth (1805–1882), novelist, Old St Paul's
• 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
• Thomas Aldham or Aldam, (c. 1616–1660), writer and Quaker
• Richard Aldington (1892–1962), novelist and poet
• Brian Aldiss (born 1925), novelist
• Henry Aldrich (1647–1710), poet and theologian
• Horace Alexander (1889–1989), writer on India, ornithologist and Quaker
• Monica Ali (born 1967), novelist, Brick Lane
• Cyril Alington (1872–1955), novelist and non-fiction writer
• Kate Allan (born 1975), novelist
• Nicholas Allan (born c. 1955), children's writer
• James Allen (1864–1912), self-help writer and poet
• Walter Allen (1911–1995), novelist and critic
• Margery Allingham (1904–1966), novelist, Albert Campion series
• 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), nonconformist cleric and religious writer
• Al Alvarez (born 1929), poet and writer
• Moniza Alvi (born 1968), poet and writer
• Eric Ambler (1909–1998), novelist and screenwriter, Passage of Arms
• Isaac Ambrose (1604–1663/4), religious writer, diarist and cleric
• Elizabeth Amherst (c. 1716–1779), poet and naturalist
• Kingsley Amis (1922–1995), poet and novelist, Lucky Jim
• Martin Amis (born 1949), novelist
• Thomas Amory (c. 1691–1788), novelist and miscellanist
• Thomas Amory (1701–1774), poet and dissenting cleric
• Valerie Anand (also wrote as Flora Buckley, born 1937), novelist
• Patrick Anderson (1915–1979), poet
• Lancelot Andrewes (1555–1626), scholar, AV translator and cleric
• Roger Andrewes (fl. 1610s), scholar, AV translator and cleric
• Miles Peter Andrews (1742–1814), playwright and poet
• Norman Angell (1872–1967), Nobel Prize winner, political writer and economist, The Great Illusion
• Jane Anger (fl. 1589), pamphleteer
• Peter Anghelides (fl. 1990s), writer, Dr. Who TV serial spinoffs
• George Anson Lord Anson (1697–1762), writer, explorer and admiral
• Christopher Anstey (1724–1805), writer and poet
• Charles James Apperley (wrote as Nimrod, 1777–1843), writer on hunting and racing
• Lisa Appignanesi (born 1946), writer and historian
• Roy Apps (born 1951), screenwriter and children's writer
• Arthur John Arberry (1905–1969), orientalist and translator, The Koran Interpreted
• Harriet Arbuthnot (1793–1834), political diarist
• John Arbuthnot (1667–1735), satirist and polymath
• Fred Archer (1915–1999), writer and farmer
• Jeffrey Archer (born 1940), novelist and politician
• Philip Ardagh (born 1961), children's writer
• John Arden (born 1930), playwright and novelist
• Edward Ardizzone (1900–1979), children's writer and illustrator
• Reginald Arkell (1882–1959), novelist, playwright and screenwriter
• Michael Arlen (born 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
• Martin Armstrong (1882–1974), novelist and poet
• Peter Armstrong (born 1957), poet and psychotherapist
• Richard Armstrong (1903–1986), novelist, naval historian and children's writer, Sea Change
• Elizabeth von Arnim (also wrote as Alice Cholmondeley, 1866–1941), novelist, Elizabeth and Her German Garden
• Edwin Arnold (1832–1904), poet and journalist
• Edwin Lester Arnold (1857–1935), writer and novelist, Lieutenant Gullivar Jones: His Vacation
• 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), educationalist and historian
• Thomas Walker Arnold (1864–1930), Islamist scholar
• William Delafield Arnold (1828–1859), novelist and colonial administrator, Oakfield; or, Fellowship in the East
• 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 (born 1948), poet and travel writer
• Russell Ash (1946–2010), writer, Top 10 of Everything series
• Timothy Garton Ash (born 1955), historian
• Elizabeth Ashbridge (1713–1755), autobiographer and Quaker
• Geoffrey Ashe (born 1923), cultural historian
• Thomas Ashe or Ash (fl. 1600–1618), legal writer
• Thomas Ashe (1770–1835), novelist and miscellanist
• Thomas Ashe (1836–1889), poet
• Daisy Ashford (1881–1972), child author, The Young Visiters
• Elias Ashmole (1617–1692), antiquary and patron, the Ashmolean Museum
• Will Ashon (born 1969), novelist and music journalist
• 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
• 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
• Edwin Atherstone (1788–1872), poet and novelist
• Diana Athill (born 1917), editor, novelist and memoirist
• James Atkinson (1780–1852), scholar, artist and surgeon
• 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
• Jane Austen (1775–1817), novelist, Pride and Prejudice
• Katherine Austen (1629 – c. 1683), diarist and poet
• Alfred Austin (1835–1913), Poet Laureate
• John Langshaw Austin (1911–1960), philosopher and translator, Sense and Sensibilia
• Sarah Austin (1793–1867), translator
• Edward Aveling (1849–1898), writer, pamphleteer and translator
• Peter Avery (1923–2008), scholar and translator
• Christopher Awdry (born 1940), children's writer
• Wilbert Awdry (wrote as 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, Language, Truth and Logic
• Pam Ayres (born 1947), poet and songwriter
• Michael Ayrton (1921–1975), writer and artist
• Shamim Azad, (living), writer and translator
• Trezza Azzopardi, (born c. 1961), novelist