List of English Writers - K

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• Carrie Kabak (born 1951), novelist and illustrator
• Sarah Kane (1971–1999), playwright, Blasted
• Anna Kavan (also wrote as Helen Ferguson, real name Helen Emily Woods, 1901–1968), novelist and painter
• Joanna Kavenna (born 1974), novelist and travel writer
• Sheila Kaye-Smith (1887–1956), novelist
• Judith Kazantzis (born 1940), poet and anthologist
• Annie Keary (1825–1879), novelist, poet and children's writer
• Jonathan Keates (born 1946), writer and novelist
• John Keats (1795–1821), poet, Ode to a Nightingale
• John Keble (1792–1866), poet and cleric, The Christian Year
• Ann Kelley (born 1941), children's writer and poet
• Fanny Kemble (1809–1893), actress, playwright and diarist
• Gene Kemp (born 1926), children's writer, The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler
• Margery Kempe (c. 1373 – post-1438), mystic
• Thomas Ken (1637–1711), cleric and hymn writer
• May Kendall (born Emma Goldworth Kendall, 1861 – ?1943), poet, novelist and satirist.
• Tim Kendall (born 1970), poet, editor and critic
• Luke Kennard (born 1982), poet and lecturer
• Lena Kennedy (1914–1986), novelist
• Margaret Kennedy (1896–1967), novelist and playwright, The Constant Nymph
• Ally Kennen (born 1975), children's writer and singer, Beast
• Charles Lamb Kenney (1823–1881), journalist, librettist and miscellanist
• James Kenney (1780–1849), playwright
• William Kenrick (c. 1725–1779), satirist and playwright
• Judith Kerr (born 1923), children's writer and screenwriter, The Tiger Who Came To Tea
• David Kessler (also writes as Adam Palmer, born 1957), novelist
• Sidney Keyes (1922–1943), poet
• John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946), economist, General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
• Richard Kilby (1560–1620), scholar, AV translator and cleric
• Anne Killigrew (1660–1685), poet
• Henry Killigrew (1613–1700), playwright and cleric
• Thomas Killigrew (1612–1683), playwright, The Parson's Wedding
• William Killigrew (1606–1695), playwright and courtier
• Francis Kilvert (1840–1879), diarist and cleric
• Clive King (born 1924), children's writer, Stig of the Dump
• Daren King (born 1972), novelist and children's writer
• Francis King (born 1923), novelist and story writer
• Geoffrey King (fl. 1600s), theologian, AV translator and cleric
• Henry King (1592–1669), poet and bishop
• William King (1663–1712), poet and essayist
• William King (born 1959), novelist
• Alexander William Kinglake (1809–1891), travel writer and historian
• Charles Kingsley (1819–1875), novelist, The Water Babies
• Henry Kingsley (1830–1876), novelist
• Mary Kingsley (1862–1900), ethnographer and explorer
• Peter Kingsley (living), historian of philosophy
• Hugh Kingsmill (1889–1949), novelist, humorist and biographer
• Dick King-Smith (1922–2011), children's writer, The Sheep-Pig
• W. H. G. Kingston (1814–1880), children's writer
• Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), novelist, essayist and poet, The Jungle Book
• Andrew Kippis (1725–1795), writer and Presbyterian minister, Biographia Britannica
• Geoffrey Kirk (1921–2003), classical scholar
• Francis Kirkman (1632 – c. 1680), writer and bookseller
• James Kirkup (1918–2009), poet, translator and travel writer
• C. H. B. Kitchin (1895–1967), novelist
• Flora Klickmann (1867–1958), journalist, editor and children's writer
• Matthew Kneale (born 1960), novelist, English Passengers
• Nigel Kneale (1922–2006), screenwriter and genre novelist
• Anne Knight (1792–1860), children's writer and educationalist
• Charles Knight (1791–1873), writer, encyclopaedist and publisher
• Ellis Cornelia Knight (1757–1837), novelist and painter
• Eric Knight (1897–1943), novelist and children's writer, Lassie Come-Home
• G. Wilson Knight (1897–1985), critic and scholar
• Henry Gally Knight (1786–1846), novelist and writer on architecture
• Richard Payne Knight (1750–1824), classicist and connoisseur
• Samuel Knight (1675–1746), biographer, antiquary and cleric
• Stephen Knight (1951–1985), writer
• Stephen Thomas Knight (born 1940), literary historian
• Richard Knolles (c. 1545–1610), historian and translator
• Hanserd Knollys (1599–1691), translator and Baptist minister
• Frederick Knott (1916–2002), playwright and screenwriter
• Ronald Knox (1888–1957), writer, translator and theologian
• Vicesimus Knox (1752–1821), essayist and proto-pacifist cleric
• Dorothy Koomson (born 1971), novelist,
• Bernard Kops (born 1926), playwright and novelist
• Michael Korda (born 1933), writer and editor
• Hari Kunzru (born 1969), novelist
• Hanif Kureishi (born 1954), novelist and playwright
• Thomas Kyd (1558–1595), playwright, The Spanish Tragedy
• Francis Kynaston (1587–1642), poet and translator