List of English Writers - H

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• William Habington (1605–1654), poet
• Alan Hackney (1924–2009), novelist and screenwriter, I'm All Right Jack
• Jen Hadfield (born 1978), poet
• Mark Haddon (born 1962), novelist, children's writer and poet, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
• Henry Rider Haggard (1856–1925), novelist and story writer, King Solomon's Mines
• Richard Hakluyt (c. 1552/53–1616), travel writer, translator and cleric, Discourse Concerning Western Planting
• J. B. S. Haldane (1892–1964), scientist, philosopher and children's writer, On Being the Right Size
• Kathleen Hale (1898–2000), children's writer and illustrator, Orlando the Marmalade Cat
• Anne Halkett (1623–1699), memoirist and religious writer
• Edward Hall or Halle (c. 1498–1547), chronicler
• Evelyn Beatrice Hall (wrote as S. G. Tallentyre, 1868–1919), biographer and translator
• Henry Hall (c. 1656–1707), poet and composer
• Joseph Hall (1574–1656), satirist, moralist and bishop
• Radclyffe Hall (1880–1943), novelist and poet, The Well of Loneliness
• Sarah Hall (born 1974), novelist and poet
• Simon Hall (born 1969), novelist and broadcaster
• Steven Hall (born 1975), novelist and playwright
• Tarquin Hall (born 1969), writer and journalist
• Thomas Hall (1610–1665), religious writer and cleric
• Arthur Hallam (1811–1833), poet
• Henry Hallam (1777–1859), historian
• Leslie Halliwell (1929–1989), film critic and encyclopaedist
• James Halliwell-Phillipps (1820–1889), Shakespearean scholar and biographer
• Bruce Barrymore Halpenny (born early 20th c.), writer and military historian
• A. H. Halsey (born 1923), sociologist
• Alan Halsey (born 1947), poet
• Michael Hamburger (1924–2007), writer, poet and translator
• Philip Gilbert Hamerton (wrote as Adolphus Segrave, 1834–1894), writer and artist
• Andy Hamilton (author) (born 1974), non-fiction writer and journalist
• Ann Mary Hamilton (fl. 1806–13), novelist
• Charles Hamilton (25 pen names including Frank Richards, 1876–1961), children's writer, Billy Bunter
• Cicely Mary Hamilton (1872–1952), writer, playwright and feminist
• Cosmo Hamilton (1870–1942), playwright and novelist
• Edward Walter Hamilton (1847–1908), political diarist and civil servant
• Ian Hamilton (1938–2001), critic, biographer and poet
• Patrick Hamilton (1904–1962), playwright and novelist
• Peter F. Hamilton (born 1960), SF novelist
• James Hamilton-Paterson (born 1941), novelist, poet and non-fiction writer
• Edward Bruce Hamley (1824–1893), military theorist and novelist
• Edward Hamley (1764–1834), poet and cleric
• James Hammond (1710–1742), poet and politician
• Stuart Hampshire (1914–2004), philosopher and literary critic
• Christopher Hampton (born 1946), playwright, screenwriter and translator
• William Hampton (born 1959), poet
• Marika Hanbury-Tenison (1938–1982), cookery and travel writer
• Irene Handl (1901–1987), novelist and actress
• St. John Hankin (1869–1909), playwright
• James Hanley (1897–1985), novelist and screenwriter
• Sophie Hannah (born 1971), poet and novelist
• Derek Hansen (born 1944), novelist
• Jonas Hanway (1712–1786), travel writer and pamphleteer
• Michael Hardcastle (born 1933), children's writer
• John Harding (died 1610), scholar, AV translator and cleric
• Frances Hardinge (born 1973), children's writer
• Mollie Hardwick (1916–2003), novelist and writer of TV spinoffs
• Ronald Hardy (born 1919), novelist
• Thomas Hardy (1840–1928), novelist and poet, The Mayor of Casterbridge
• Augustus Hare (1834–1903), travel writer and raconteur
• Augustus William Hare (1792–1834), essayist and cleric
• Cyril Hare (real name A. A. G. Clark, 1900–1958), novelist
• David Hare (born 1947), playwright, Racing Demon
• Julius Charles Hare (1795–1855), religious writer
• Roger Hargreaves (1935–1988), children's writer and illustrator, Mr. Men series
• John Harington (1561–1612), poet, translator and courtier
• John Harmar (c. 1555–1613), scholar, AV translator and cleric
• Cynthia Harnett (1893–1981), children's writer
• Charles George Harper (1863–1943), travel writer and illustrator
• Beatrice Harraden (1864–1936), novelist, lexicographer and suffragist
• James Harington (1611–1677), political writer
• Thomas Harriot (1560–1621), astronomer, mathematician and translator
• Frank Harris (1856–1931), writer, editor and autobiographer
• James Harris (1709–1780), philosopher and grammarian
• Joanne Harris (born 1964), novelist, Chocolat
• Robert Harris (born 1957), novelist, writer and screenplay writer
• Rosemary Harris (born 1923), children's writer, The Moon in the Cloud
• Austin Harrison (1873–1928), editor and writer
• Jane Ellen Harrison (1850–1928), classical scholar
• Sarah Harrison (born 1946), novelist and children's writer
• Thomas Harrison (1555–1631), scholar, AV translator and cleric
• Tony Harrison (born 1938), poet and playwright
• William Harrison (1534–1593), writer and cleric
• Tom Harrisson (also wrote as T. H. Harrisson, 1911–1976), conservationist and polymath, Mass-Observation with Humphrey Jennings and Charles Madge
• David Harsent (wrote as Jack Curtis and David Lawrence, born 1942), novelist, poet and scriptwriter
• B. H. Liddell Hart (1895–1970), military historian and army officer
• Christopher Hart (also writes as William Napier, born 1965), novelist and journalist
• Adam Hart-Davis (born 1943), writer, scientist and broadcaster
• Duff Hart-Davis (born 1936), biographer and naturalist
• Walter Harte (1709–1774), poet and historian
• David Hartley (1705–1757), philosopher and psychologist
• John Hartley (1839–1915), Yorkshire dialect poet and writer
• L. P. Hartley (1895–1972), novelist, The Go-Between
• Frederick William Harvey (1888–1957), poet
• Gabriel Harvey (c. 1545–1630), poet and writer
• John Harvey (born 1938), novelist
• William Harvey (1578–1657), physician
• W. F. Harvey ((1885–1937), story writer
• Lee Harwood (born 1939), poet
• Christopher Hassall (1912–1963), playwright, actor and poet
• Edward Hasted (1732–1812), local historian
• Michael Hastings (born 1938), playwright, novelist and screenwriter
• Richard Hathwaye, (fl. 1597–1603) playwright
• Ann Hatton (wrote as Ann of Swansea, 1764–1838), novelist
• Joseph Hatton (1841–1907), novelist and editor
• William Haughton (died 1605), playwright
• Frances Ridley Havergal (1836–1879), poet and hymn writer
• Stephen Hawes (c. 1474–1523), poet
• Robert Stephen Hawker (1803–1875), poet and cleric, The Song of the Western Men
• John Hawkesworth (1715–1773), writer, editor and dramatist
• John Hawkins (1719–1789), writer and biographer
• Laetitia Matilda Hawkins (1759–1835), novelist
• Spike Hawkins (born 1943), poet and performer
• Thomas Hawkins (1575 – c. 1640), poet and translator
• Roy Hay (1910–1989), garden writer, journalist and broadcaster
• Anna Haycraft (wrote as Alice Thomas Ellis, 1932–2005), novelist
• William Hayley (1745–1820), poet, playwright and biographer
• Carole Hayman (living), novelist, screenwriter and actor
• Robert Hayman (1575–1629), poet and colonist
• Mary Hays (1759–1843), novelist
• Alethea Hayter (1911–2006), biographer and writer on history
• William Hayter (diplomat) (1906–1995), political writer and diplomat
• Abraham Hayward (1801–1884), essayist
• John Hayward (c. 1560–1627), historian
• Eliza Haywood (1793–1756), novelist, playwright and poet
• C. H. Hazlewood (1823–1875), playwright
• William Hazlitt (1778–1830), essayist and literary critic
• Mary Hearne (fl. 1718), novelist
• Thomas Hearne or Hearn (1678–1735), antiquary and scholar
• Ambrose Heath (born Francis Geoffrey Miller, 1891–1969), cookery writer and translator
• John Heath-Stubbs (1918–2006), poet, translator and anthologist
• Reginald Heber (1783–1826), poet, hymn writer and bishop, The Son of God Goes Forth to War
• Richard Heber (1773–1833), classical scholar and editor
• Zoë Heller (born 1965), novelist and journalist
• Elizabeth Helme (c. 1753 – c. 1812), novelist and translator
• Arthur Helps (1813–1875), writer and biographer
• Racey Helps (1913–1970), children's writer
• Felicia Hemans (1793–1835), poet
• Maggie Hemingway (1946–1993), novelist
• John Henley (1692–1756), poet, writer and cleric
• Samuel Henley (1740–1815), poet and writer
• William Ernest Henley (1849–1903), poet
• Charles Frederick Henningsen (1815–1877), writer and mercenary soldier
• Robert Henriques (1905–1967), novelist and biographer
• Matthew Henry (1662–1714), biblical commentator and cleric
• Philip Henry (1631–1696), diarist and cleric
• John Stevens Henslow (1796–1861), botanist, geologist and cleric
• Philip Henslowe, (c. 1550–1616), diarist and theatre manager
• G. A. Henty, (1832–1902), novelist, The Dragon and the Raven, or The Days of King Alfred
• Philip Hensher (born 1965), novelist and critic
• Rayner Heppenstall (1911–1981), novelist and poet
• John Abraham Heraud (1799–1887), poet, playwright and critic
• A. P. Herbert (1890–1971), humorist, novelist and playwright, Holy Deadlock
• Edward Herbert, Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1583–1648), poet and soldier
• George Herbert (1593–1633), poet
• James Herbert (born 1943), novelist, The Rats
• Mary Herbert, countess of Pembroke (1561–1621), poet and translator, The Countesse of Pembroke's Arcadia
• William Herbert (1718–1795), bibliographer
• William Herbert (1771–1851), antiquary and librarian
• William Herbert (1778–1847), poet, cleric and botanist
• Edward Heron-Allen (1861–1943), novelist, historian and translator
• Robert Herrick (1591–1674), poet and cleric
• James Herriot (pen name of James Alfred Wight, 1916–1995), writer
• Elizabeth Hervey (1759–1824), novelist
• John Hervey (1696–1743), political writer, memoirist and courtier
• Thomas Kibble Hervey (1799–1859), poet and critic
• D. G. Hessayon (born 1928), garden writer
• Maurice Hewlett (1861–1923), historical novelist and poet
• Christopher Heydon (1561–1623), writer on astrology
• John Heydon (1629 – c. 1667), occult philosopher, astrologer and Rosicrucian
• Georgette Heyer (1902–1974), novelist
• Peter Heylin or Heylyn (1600–1662), controversialist and cleric
• Jasper Heywood (1535–1598), poet and translator
• John Heywood (c. 1497 – c. 1580), playwright and poet
• Thomas Heywood (early 1570s – 1641), playwright, A Woman Killed with Kindness
• Eleanor Hibbert (born Eleanor Alice Burford, wrote as Jean Plaidy, Victoria Holt, etc., 1906–1993), novelist
• Robert Smythe Hichens (1864–1950), novelist and journalist
• William Hickey (1749–1830), memoirist
• Jack Higgins (wrote as Harry Patterson, born 1929), novelist
• Susanna Highmore (1690–1750), poet
• Aaron Hill (1685–1750), playwright and writer
• Christopher Hill (1912–2003), historian
• Eric Hill (born 1927), children's writer and illustrator, Spot the Dog series
• Geoffrey Hill (born 1932), poet and academic
• John Hill (c. 1716–1775), novelist, journalist and botanist
• Justin Hill (born 1971), novelist, biographer and translator
• Lorna Hill (1902–1991), children's writer and novelist
• Reginald Hill (born 1936), novelist, Dalziel and Pascoe stories
• Selima Hill (born 1945), poet
• Susan Hill (born 1942), novelist and author, The Woman in Black
• Tobias Hill (born 1970), novelist and poet
• Mischa Hiller (born 1962), novelist
• Lawrence D. Hills (1911–1991), garden writer
• Jeff Hilson (born 1966), poet
• James Hilton (1900–1954), novelist, Lost Horizon
• Walter Hilton (1340–1396), mystic
• Barry Hines (born 1939), novelist
• Nigel Hinton (born 1941), novelist and children's writer
• William Henry Hitchener (fl. 1813), travel writer
• Henry Hitchings (born 1974), writer and scholar
• Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980), screenwriter and director
• Christopher Eric Hitchens (1949–2011), author and journalist
• Benjamin Hoadly (1676–1761), controversialist and bishop
• Louisa Gurney Hoare (1784–1836), diarist and writer on education
• Richard Colt Hoare (1758–1838), diarist, travel writer and antiquary
• Thomas Hobbes, (1588–1679) political philosopher, Leviathan
• Peter Hobbs (born 1973), novelist
• Eric Hobsbawm (1917–2012), historian, The Age of Extremes
• Margaret Hoby (1571–1633), diarist
• Joseph Hocking (1860–1937), novelist and cleric
• Silas Hocking (1850–1935), novelist and cleric
• Jane Aiken Hodge (1917–2009), novelist
• C. Walter Hodges (1909–2004), children's writer and illustrator
• Ralph Hodgson (1871–1962), poet and translator
• Shadworth Hodgson (1832–1912), philosopher
• W. N. Hodgson (wrote as Edward Melbourne, 1893–1916), poet
• Barbara Hofland (1770–1844), children's writer
• Thomas Jefferson Hogg (1792–1862), biographer
• Pete Hoida (born 1944), poet and painter
• Fanny Holcroft (1780–1844), novelist and poet
• Thomas Holcroft (1745–1809), playwright and miscellanist
• Molly Holden (1927–1981), poet
• William Holder (1616–1698), music scholar and cleric
• Robert Holdstock (1948–2009), novelist
• Raphael Holinshed (1529–1580), chronicler, translator and cleric
• Jane Holland (born 1966), poet, performance poet and novelist
• John Holland (1794–1872), poet and journalist
• Philemon Holland (1552–1637), translator
• Sarah Holland (born 1961), writer and actress
• Thomas Holland (1539–1612), scholar, AV translator and cleric
• William Holland (1746–1819), diarist and cleric
• Helen Hollick (born 1953), novelist
• Alan Hollinghurst (born 1954), novelist and translator
• John Holloway (1920–1999), poet and scholar
• Constance Holme (1880–1955), novelist and playwright
• John Holmes (1703–1760), educational writer
• Richard Holmes (born 1945), biographer
• Robert Holmes (1926–1986), TV scriptwriter, Doctor Who
• Emily Sarah Holt (1836–1893), novelist and children's writer
• Hazel Holt (born 1928), novelist
• Winifred Holtby (1898–1935), novelist, South Riding
• Stewart Home (born 1962), novelist, writer and artist
• Joseph Hone (born 1937), novelist
• William Hone (1780–1842), satirist and bookseller
• Thomas Hood (1799–1845), poet and humorist
• Tom Hood (1835–1874), humorist, playwright and poet
• Theodore Hook (1788–1841), writer and prankster
• Jeremy Hooker (born 1941), poet, critic and broadcaster
• Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911), botanist and explorer
• Richard Hooker (1554–1600), theologian
• William Jackson Hooker (1785–1865), botanist
• John Hoole (1727–1803), translator and poet
• Alexander Beresford Hope (1820–1887), writer
• Anthony Hope, (real name Anthony Hope Hawkins, 1863–1933) novelist, The Prisoner of Zenda
• Thomas Hope (1769–1831), writer and novelist
• Bill Hopkins (1928–2011), novelist
• Cathy Hopkins (born 1953), children's novelist, Mates, Dates series
• Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889), poet, The Windhover: To Christ our Lord
• Simon Hopkinson (born 1954), food writer and chef
• Sydney Horler (1888–1954), novelist
• Alfred Aloysius Horn (1861–1931), travel writer
• Nick Hornby (born 1957), novelist
• Alistair Horne (born 1925), historian and biographer
• Richard Henry Horne (1802–1884), poet and critic
• Roy Horniman (1874–1930), novelist and playwright
• E. W. Hornung (1866–1921), author, Raffles stories
• Frances Horovitz (1938–1983), poet and broadcaster
• Michael Horovitz (born 1935), poet and translator
• Anthony Horowitz (born 1956), novelist, children's writer and screenwriter
• William Horwood (born 1944), novelist and children's writer, Duncton Wood
• John Hoskins or Hoskyns (1566–1638), poet and politician
• Stanley Houghton (1881–1913), playwright
• Geoffrey Household (1900–1988), novelist, Rogue Male
• A. E. Housman (1859–1936), poet and scholar, A Shropshire Lad
• Laurence Housman (1865–1959), playwright
• Anne Howard (c. 1696–1764), poet
• Brian Howard (1905–1958), poet
• Edward Howard (1624 – c. 1700), playwright and poet
• Elizabeth Jane Howard (born 1923), novelist
• Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle, Earl of Carlisle (1748–1825), poet, playwright and pamphleteer
• Hartley Howard (wrote as Leopold Horace Ognall, 1908–1979), crime novelist
• Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517–1547), poet
• Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton (1540–1614), writer and courtier
• John Howard (1726–1790), philanthropist and reformer
• Robert Howard (1626–1698), playwright
• Sandra Howard (born 1940), novelist
• David Armine Howarth (1912–1991), historian and writer
• James Howell (1594–1666), Historiographer Royal and poet
• Francis Howgill (1618–1668), Quaker writer and preacher
• Anna Mary Howitt (1824–1884), poet, writer and painter
• Mary Howitt (1799–1888), poet and translator, The Spider and the Fly
• Richard Howitt (1799–1869), poet
• William Howitt (1792–1879), writer and traveller
• Edmond Hoyle (1672–1769), writer on games and gaming
• Fred Hoyle (1915–2001), astronomer and science fiction writer
• Geoffrey Hoyle (born 1942), SF writer
• Sisley Huddleston (1883–1952), writer and journalist
• Stephen Hudson (real name Sydney Schiff, 1868–1944), novelist and translator
• David Hughes (1930–2005), novelist and biographer, The Pork Butcher
• Frieda Hughes (born 1960), children's writer, poet and painter
• Molly Hughes (1866–1956), writer and educationalist
• Richard Hughes (1900–1976), poet, novelist and playwright, A High Wind in Jamaica
• Shirley Hughes (born 1927), children's writer and illustrator
• Ted Hughes (1930–1998), Poet Laureate, translator and anthologist, Birthday Letters
• Thomas Hughes (1822–1896), writer and novelist, Tom Brown's Schooldays
• E. M. Hull (real name Edith Maude Winstanley, 1880–1947), novelist, The Sheik
• Katharine Hull (1921–1977) and Pamela Whitlock (1920–1982), children's writers, The Far-Distant Oxus
• T. E. Hulme (1883–1917), critic and poet
• Michael Hulse (born 1955), translator, critic and poet
• Fergus Hume (1859–1932), novelist
• Tobias Hume (c. 1590–1645), musician and poet
• Helen Humphreys (born 1961), poet and novelist
• Neil Humphreys (born 1974), writer on Singapore
• Leigh Hunt (1784–1859), poet and essayist
• Violet Hunt (1862–1942), novelist and biographer
• John Hunter (1737–1821), explorer, travel writer and naval officer
• Norman Hunter (1899–1995), children's novelist, Professor Branestawm series
• Rachel Hunter (c. 1754–1813), novelist
• Richard Hurd, (1720–1808), writer, translator and bishop
• James Hurdis (1763–1801), poet and cleric
• Hyman Hurwitz (1770–1844), writer and scholar
• Dyneley Hussey (1893–1972), poet and music critic
• A. S. M. Hutchinson (1880–1971), novelist
• John Hutchinson (1674–1737), theologian
• Lucy Hutchinson (1620–1681), biographer and translator
• R. C. Hutchinson (1907–1975), novelist
• Ralph Hutchinson (c. 1553–1606), scholar, AV translator and cleric
• Angela Huth (born 1938), novelist and playwright
• Leonard Hutten (c. 1557–1632), scholar, AV translator and cleric
• Catherine Hutton (1756–1846), novelist and letter writer
• William Hutton (1723–1815), poet and historian
• Richard Holt Hutton (1826–1897), writer and theologian
• Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), novelist and essayist, Brave New World
• Julian Huxley (1887–1975), zoologist, philosopher and science writer
• Leonard Huxley (1860–1933), writer, biographer and editor
• Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895), scientist and essayist, "Darwin's bulldog"
• Edward Hyde, Lord Clarendon (1609–1774), historian and statesman
• Timothy Hyman (born 1946), art writer
• Henry Hyndman (1842–1921), writer and politician
• C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne (wrote as Weatherby Chesney, 1866–1944), novelist, The Lost Continent: The Story of Atlantis