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- Donald Jack (1924–2003), novelist, playwright and scriptwriter
- Catherine Jackson (1824–1891), history writer and editor
- Mick Jackson (born 1960), novelist
- Anna Jacobs (born 1941), novelist
- Joseph Jacobs (1854–1916), folklorist, historian and compiler
- W. W. Jacobs (1863–1943), novelist and story writer, The Monkey's Paw
- Howard Jacobson (born 1942), novelist and journalist,
- Brian Jacques (born 1939), novelist
- Frances Jacson (1754–1842), novelist
- Richard Jago (1715–1781), poet and cleric
- Christopher James (born 1975), poet
- Elinor James (1644–1719), polemicist and printer
- G. P. R. James (1799–1860), novelist and Historiographer Royal, The King's Highway
- M. R. James (1862–1936), writer and medievalist, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
- P. D. James (born 1920), novelist
- Robert Rhodes James (1933–1999), biographer, historian and politician
- Thomas James (1573–1629), librarian and poet
- William Milbourne James (1881–1973), naval writer, poet and admiral
- Anna Brownell Jameson (1794–1860), writer on travel and art
- Storm Jameson (1891–1986), novelist and autobiographer
- James Janeway (1636–1674), children's writer
- Rosemary Hawley Jarman (born 1935), novelist and story writer
- Claude Scudamore Jarvis (1879–1953), writer, colonial administrator and naturalist
- Tim Jeal (born 1945), novelist and biographer, Baden-Powell
- James Hopwood Jeans (1877–1946), writer, astronomer and physicist, The Mysterious Universe
- Samuel Jebb (c. 1694–1772), scholar, editor and physician
- Richard Jefferies (1848–1887), nature writer and essayist
- Agnes Jekyll (1861–1937), writer
- Gertrude Jekyll (1843–1932), garden writer
- Alan Jenkins (born 1955), poet
- Amy Jenkins (born 1966), novelist and screenwriter
- Peter Jenkins (1934–1992), journalist and screenwriter
- Elizabeth Jennings (1926–2001), poet
- Humphrey Jennings (1907–1950), writer and film maker, Mass-Observation project
- Soame Jenyns (1704–1787), poet and essayist
- Edgar Jepson (pen name R. Edison Page, 1863–1938), writer and genre novelist
- Selwyn Jepson (1899–1989), crime writer
- Douglas William Jerrold (1803–1857), playwright, humourist and novelist
- Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927), humorist and playwright, Three Men in a Boat
- Douglas William Jerrold (1803–1857), playwright, novelist and essayist, Black-Ey'd Susan
- John Heneage Jesse (1809–1874), historian and poet
- William Stanley Jevons (1840–1882), economist and logician
- Geraldine Jewsbury (1812–1880), novelist and critic
- Maria Jane Jewsbury (1800–1833), writer, poet and reviewer
- C. E. M. Joad (1891–1953), philosopher and broadcaster
- Rowan Joffé (born 1973), screenwriter
- W. E. Johns (1893–1968), novelist and pilot, Biggles
- B. S. Johnson (1933–1973), novelist and editor, Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry
- Lionel Johnson, (1867–1902), poet and essayist
- Pamela Hansford Johnson (1912–1981), novelist, playwright and critic
- Richard Johnson (1573 – c. 1659), writer
- Samuel Johnson (1649–1703), religious pamphleteer and cleric
- Samuel Johnson, (1709–1784) writer, poet and lexicographer, Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets
- Brian Jones (1938–2009), poet
- Charlotte Jones (living), playwright and actress
- David Jones (1895–1974), poet, writer and artist
- Daniel Jones (1881–1967), phonetician
- Diana Wynne Jones (born 1934), novelist
- Ebenezer Jones (1820–1860), poet
- Ernest Charles Jones (1819–1869), poet, novelist and Chartist
- Henry Arthur Jones (1851–1929), playwright
- Sadie Jones (born 1967), novelist
- Tobias Jones (born c. 1970s), writer
- William Jones (1726–1800), theologian and cleric
- William Jones (1746–1794), philologist, polyglot and poet
- Ben Jonson (1573–1637), poet and dramatist, Bartholomew Fair
- John Jortin (1698–1770), biographer and church historian
- Jenny Joseph (born 1932), poet and novelist
- Gabriel Josipovici (born 1940), novelist and critic
- John Josselyn (fl. 1638–1675), writer and traveler
- Benjamin Jowett (1817–1893), scholar, theologian and translator
- Graham Joyce (born 1954), novelist and YA writer
- Alan Judd (born 1946), novelist, biographer and journalist, The Kaiser's Last Kiss
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