List of English Writers - F

F

• Frederick William Faber (1814–1863), hymn writer and theologian, Faith of Our Fathers
• Geoffrey Faber (1889–1961), poet and publisher
• George Stanley Faber (1773–1854), theologian and cleric
• Robert Fabyan (died 1513), diarist and chronicler
• Harry Fainlight (1935–1982), poet
• Ruth Fainlight (born 1932), poet, writer and translator
• Thomas Fairfax (1612–1671), poet and army commander-in-chief
• Margaret Fairley (1885–1968), scholar, editor and political activist
• J. Meade Falkner (1858–1932), novelist, Moonfleet
• Mildmay Fane, earl of Westmorland (1602–1666), poet and playwright
• Violet Fane (real name Mary Montgomerie Lamb, 1843–1905), novelist and poet
• Catherine Maria Fanshawe (1765–1834), poet
• Richard Fanshawe (1608–1666), poet and translator
• U. A. Fanthorpe (1929–2009), poet
• John Fardell (born 1967), children's writer and cartoonist
• Joseph Farington (1747–1821), diarist and painter
• Helen Farish (born 1962), poet
• Benjamin Farjeon (1838–1903), novelist and playwright
• Eleanor Farjeon (1881–1965), children's author and poet
• Herbert Farjeon (1887–1945), dramatist and critic
• Paul Farley (born 1965), poet
• Nigel Farndale (born 1964), novelist, biographer and journalist
• Jeffery Farnol (1878–1952), novelist
• Frederic William Farrar (known as Dean Farrar, 1831–1903), novelist, religious writer and cleric, Eric, or, Little by Little
• J. G. Farrell (1935–1979), novelist, The Siege of Krishnapur
• Sebastian Faulks (born 1953), novelist
• Joseph Fawcett (1758–1804), poet and cleric
• Francis Fawkes (1721–1777), poet and translator
• Eliza Fay (1755/56–1816), correspondent and traveller
• John Russell Fearn (1908–1960), novelist
• Daniel Featley or Fairclough (1582–1645), controversialist, AV translator and cleric
• Vicki Feaver (born 1943), poet
• Elaine Feinstein (born 1930), poet, novelist and dramatist
• John Fell (1625–1686), scholar and cleric
• Owen Feltham or Felltham (c. 1602–1668), aphorist and essayist
• George Manville Fenn (1831–1909), novelist and children's writer
• John Fenn (died 1615), religious writer and RC priest
• John Fenn (1739–1794), antiquary and editor
• Elijah Fenton (1683–1730), poet
• James Fenton (born 1949), poet and critic
• Roger Fenton (1565–1615), religious writer, AV translator and cleric
• Eliza Fenwick (1766–1840), novelist and children's writer
• Ruby Ferguson (1899–1966), novelist and children's writer
• Bernard Fergusson Lord Ballantrae, (1911–1980), military historian and army general
• Patrick Leigh Fermor (born 1915), travel writer and scholar
• Elizabeth Ferrars (1907–1995), novelist
• Jasper Fforde (born 1961), novelist
• Michael Field pen name of Katherine Harris Bradley (1846–1914) and Edith Emma Cooper (1862–1913), poets and diarists
• Richard Field (1561–1616), theologian
• Daphne Fielding (1904–1997), writer and biographer
• Helen Fielding (born 1958), novelist, screenwriter and journalist, Bridget Jones's Diary
• Henry Fielding (1707–1754), novelist and poet, Tom Jones
• Sarah Fielding (1709–1768), novelist and children's writer
• Xan Fielding (1918–1991), writer, translator and soldier
• Celia Fiennes (1662–1741), diarist and travel writer
• William Fiennes (born 1970), writer
• Eva Figes (born 1932), novelist and critic
• Robert Filmer (1588–1653), political writer
• Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661–1720), poet
• Brian Finch (1936–2007), TV scriptwriter and dramatist, Coronation Street
• William Coles Finch (1864–1944), writer on local history and landscape
• Anne Fine (born 1947), novelist and children's writer
• Cordelia Fine (born c. 1940s), academic psychologist and writer
• George Finlay (1799–1875), historian
• Ronald Firbank (1886–1926), novelist and playwright, Valmouth
• Charles Harding Firth (1857–1936), historian and biographer
• John Rupert Firth (1890–1960), linguistics scholar
• Tim Firth (born 1964), playwright, screenwriter and song writer
• Margery Fish (1892–1969), garden writer
• Tibor Fischer (born 1959), novelist
• Allen Fisher (born 1944), poet and editor
• John Fisher (1469–1535), theologian, cardinal and martyr
• Roy Fisher (born 1930), poet and jazz pianist
• Edward Fitzgerald (1809–1883), poet and translator, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
• Penelope Fitzgerald (1916–2000), novelist, poet and biographer, The Bookshop
• Judith Flanders (born 1959), history writer
• Peter Flannery (born 1951), playwright and screenwriter
• Thomas Flatman (1638–1688), poet and miniaturist
• James Elroy Flecker (1884–1915), poet, novelist and playwright
• Richard Flecknoe (c. 1600 – c. 1678), poet, playwright and writer
• Ian Fleming (1908–1964), novelist, James Bond
• Peter Fleming (1907–1971), travel writer
• Giles Fletcher (1586–1623), poet
• Giles Fletcher (c. 1548–1611), poet
• J. S. Fletcher (1863–1935) novelist and journalist
• John Fletcher (1579–1625), playwright
• Phineas Fletcher (1582–1650), poet
• Susan Fletcher (born 1979), novelist
• Thomas Fletcher (1666–1713), poet, translator and cleric
• Antony Flew (1923–2010), philosopher
• Robert Newton Flew (1886–1962), religious writer, theologian and Methodist minister
• F. S. Flint (1885–1960), poet
• John Florio (1553–1625), lexicographer and translator
• Robert Fludd (1574–1637), physician and occultist
• Giles Foden (born 1967), novelist
• Winifred Foley (1914–2009), memoirist and novelist
• Albany Fonblanque (1794–1872), journalist and editor
• Samuel Foote (1720–1777), playwright and theater manager
• Duncan Forbes (born 1947), poet
• Anne Ford, (1737–1824) writer, musician and actress
• Ford Madox Ford (original name Ford Madox Hueffer, 1873–1939), novelist and poet
• John Ford (1586–1640), playwright, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
• Mark Ford (born 1962), poet and essayist
• Richard Ford (1796–1858), travel writer, A Handbook for Travellers in Spain
• Thomas Ford or Forde (1580–1648), poet and composer
• Michael Foreman (born 1938), children's writer and illustrator
• C. S. Forester, (1899–1966) novelist, Horatio Hornblower series
• Simon Forman, (1552–1611) astrologer, occultist and herbalist
• David Forrest (pseudonym of R. Forrest-Webb and David Eliades, fl. 1969–74), novelists
• Helen Forrester (born 1919), writer
• E. M. Forster (1879–1970), author, A Passage to India
• John Forster (1812–1876), biographer and critic
• Margaret Forster, (born 1938) novelist and biographer
• Frederick Forsyth, (born 1938) novelist, The Day of the Jackal
• Richard Fortey (born 1946), palaeontologist and science writer, Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth
• John Foster (1770–1843), essayist
• Adam Foulds (born 1974), novelist and poet
• Tim Fountain (born 1967), playwright
• Edith Henrietta Fowler (1865–1944), novelist
• Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler (1860–1929), novelist
• Henry Watson Fowler (1858–1933) and Francis George Fowler (1871–1918), lexicographers and grammarians, Fowler's Modern English Usage
• John Fowles (1926–2005), novelist and essayist, The French Lieutenant's Woman
• Barclay Fox (1817–1855), diarist and gardener
• Caroline Fox (1819–1871), diarist
• Francis Fox (1675–1738), religious writer and cleric
• George Fox (16241691), diarist and Quaker
• Robin Lane Fox (born 1946), historian and garden writer
• Edgar Foxall (1906–1990), poet
• John Foxe (1517–1587, writer, Foxe's Book of Martyrs
• Samuel Foxe (1560–1630), diarist
• Dick Francis (1920–2010), novelist and jockey, Dead Cert
• Matthew Francis (born 1956), poet
• Philip Francis (1740–1818), pamphleteer and translator
• Suzanne Francis (born 1959), novelist
• Gilbert Frankau (1884–1952), novelist and poet
• Julia Frankau (wrote as Frank Danby, 1863–1916), novelist
• John Franklin (1786–1847), explorer and novelist
• Antonia Fraser (born 1932), biographer and novelist
• Caro Fraser (born 1953), novelist
• George MacDonald Fraser (1925–2008), historical novelist and screenwriter, Flashman series
• Michael Frayn (born 1933), playwright and novelist, Copenhagen
• Margaret Frazer (pseudonym, fl. 1990s onwards), novelist
• Jonathan Freedland (born 1967), writer
• Edward Augustus Freeman (1823–1892), historian
• John Freeman (1880–1929), poet
• R. Austin Freeman (1862–1943), novelist
• Elizabeth Wynne Fremantle (1779–1857), diarist
• Celia Fremlin (1914–2009), novelist
• Patrick French (born 1966), biographer and author
• John Hookham Frere (1769–1846), poet and translator
• William Powell Frith (1819–1909), autobiographer and painter
• James Anthony Froude (1818–1894), historian
• Richard Hurrell Froude (1803–1836), poet, religious writer and cleric
• C. B. Fry, (1872–1956) cricket writer and cricketer
• Caroline Fry (1787–1846), religious writer and poet
• Christopher Fry (1907–2005), dramatist
• Stephen Fry (born 1957), novelist and comedian
• Alexandra Fuller (born 1969), writer
• Andrew Fuller (1754–1815), theologian and Baptist minister
• John Fuller (born 1937), poet, novelist and anthologist
• Peter Fuller (1947–1990), writer and art critic
• Roy Fuller (1912–1991), poet and novelist
• Thomas Fuller (1608–1661), religious and historical writer and cleric
• Georgiana Fullerton (born Leverson-Gower, 1812–1885), novelist and RC religious writer
• Ulpian Fulwell (1545/6 – c. 1585), playwright, satirist and cleric
• Monica Furlong (1930–2003), religious writer, biographer and journalist
• Frederick James Furnivall (1825–1910), philologist and lexicographer