List of English Writers - E

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• Rae Earl (born 1971), writer and broadcaster
• John Earle (1601–1665), writer and bishop
• Anthony Earnshaw (1924–2001), writer and illustrator
• Edward Backhouse Eastwick (1814–1883), orientalist and diplomat
• Mary Emma Ebsworth (1794–1881), playwright and translator
• Laurence Echard (1670–1730), historian and translator
• Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882–1944), astrophysicist and science writer
• E. R. Eddison (1882–1945), novelist, poet and translator, the Zimiamvian Trilogy
• Emily Eden (1797–1869), novelist
• Frederick Morton Eden (1766–1809), social researcher
• Richard Edes (1555–1604), religious writer, AV translator and cleric
• David Edgar (born 1948), playwright
• Maria Edgeworth (1767–1849), novelist, Castle Rackrent
• Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1744–1817), writer and politician
• James Edmeston (1791–1867), hymn writer and architect
• Robert Edric (real name Gary Edric Armitage, born 1956), novelist
• J. T. Edson (born 1928), novelist
• Richard Edwardes (c. 1523–1566), poet and playwright, Damon and Pythias
• Amelia Edwards (1831–1892), novelist, travel writer and Egyptologist
• Monica Edwards (1912–1998), children's writer, The White Riders
• Thomas Edwards (died 1599), poet
• Pierce Egan (1772–1849), journalist and sports writer, Boxiana
• Pierce Egan the younger (1814–1880), novelist
• Elizabeth Egerton (born Cavendish, 1626–1663), poet and dramatist
• George Egerton (real name Mary Chavelita Bright, 1859–1945), writer, translator and feminist
• Rowland Egerton-Warburton (1804–1891), poet and landowner
• Sarah Fyge Egerton (1670–1723), poet
• Thomas Egerton, Lord Ellesmere, later Lord Brackley (1540–1617), statesman and patron
• Stephen Elboz (born 1956), children's writer
• Josephine Elder (real name Olive Gwendoline Potter, 1895–1988), children's writer
• Peter Berresford Ellis (writes as Peter Tremayne and Peter MacAlan, born 1943), novelist
• Charles Eliot (1862–1931), travel writer and diplomat
• George Eliot (real name Mary Ann Evans, 1819–1880), novelist, Middlemarch
• T. S. Eliot (1888–1965), poet, playwright and critic, Nobel prizewinner, The Waste Land
• Frances Minto Elliot (1820–1898), historical writer and novelist
• Ebenezer Elliott (the "Corn Law Rhymer", 1781–1849), poet
• Edith Ellis (1861–1916), writer and anthologist
• Edwin John Ellis (1848–1916), poet, editor and illustrator
• H. F. Ellis (1907–2000), humorous writer and novelist. A. J. Wentworth, B. A.
• Havelock Ellis (1859–1939), sexologist, social reformer and literary editor
• Royston Ellis (born 1941), novelist and poet
• Sarah Stickney Ellis (1799–1872), Quaker writer on women's education
• Warren Ellis (born 1968), graphic novelist and comic book writer
• R. J. Ellory (born 1965), novelist
• Thomas Ellwood (1639–1713), poet and religious writer
• Elizabeth Elstob (1683–1756), scholar and translator
• Ben Elton (born 1959), novelist, playwright and comedian
• Oliver Elton (1861–1945), scholar and translator,
• Alfred Elwes (1819–1888), children's writer and translator
• Thomas Elyot (c. 1490–1536), scholar and diplomat
• Sally Emerson (born 1954), novelist and anthologist
• William Empson (1906–1984), critic and poet, Seven Types of Ambiguity
• William Enfield (1741–1797), elocutionist and Unitarian minister
• Barry England (1932–2009), novelist
• Isobel English (real name June Guesdon Braybrooke, 1920–1994), novelist
• D. J. Enright (1920–2002), poet and critic
• Sam Enthoven (born 1975), children's writer
• Ephelia (fl. 1679, real name probably Mary Stewart, Duchess of Richmond), poet
• Barbara Erskine (born 1944), novelist
• Thomas Erskine (1750–1823), lawyer, politician and political writer
• Susan Ertz (1894–1985), novelist
• George Etherege (c. 1635 – c. 1692), playwright, The Man of Mode
• Abel Evans (1679–1737), poet and cleric
• Arthur Evans (1851–1941), archaeologist
• Arthur Benoni Evans (1781–1854), poet, scholar and cleric
• John Evans (1823–1908), archaeologist
• Margiad Evans (real name Peggy Eileen Williams, 1909–1958), novelist, poet and illustrator
• Nicholas Evans (born 1950), novelist, The Horse Whisperer
• Paul Evans (1945–1991), poet
• John Evelyn (1620–1706), writer and diarist, Sylva, A Discourse of Forest Trees
• Peter Everett (1931–1999), novelist
• Evelyn Everett-Green (1856–1932), novelist and children's writer
• George Every (1909–2003), theologian and poet
• Gavin Ewart (1916–1995), poet and anthologist
• Barbara Ewing (born 1944), novelist and playwright
• Juliana Horatia Ewing (1841–1885), children's writer, Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances
• Vincent Eyre (1811–1881), military writer and general