List of English Writers - S

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• Suhayl Saadi (born 1961), novelist, playwright and physician
• Oliver Sacks (born 1933), writer and neurologist, Awakenings
• Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset (1638–1706), poet and rake
• Lady Margaret Sackville (1881–1963), poet and children's writer
• Thomas Sackville, Earl of Dorset (1536–1608), poet and statesman
• Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962), poet and novelist
• Lawrence Sail (born 1942), poet and editor
• George Saintsbury (1845–1933), critic
• Saki (real name Hector Hugh Munro) (1870–1916), story writer and satirist
• Fiona Sampson (born 1968), poet and editor
• Kevin Sampson (born 1961), novelist
• Ignatius Sancho (c. 1729–1780), writer and domestic servant
• Nicholas Sanders (c. 1530–1581), polemicist and RC priest
• Robert Sanderson (1587–1663), theologian and logician
• George Sandys (1577–1644), poet and traveller
• Peter Sanger (born 1943), poet and scholar
• C. J. Sansom (born 1952), novelist
• Clive Sansom (1910–1981), poet, playwright and writer on education
• William Sansom (1912–1976), novelist and travel writer
• Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967), poet and novelist, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man
• Hilary Saint George Saunders (wrote as Francis Beeding, etc., 1898–1951), novelist
• James Savage (1767–1845), writer, antiquary and editor
• Richard Savage (c. 1697–1743), poet and satirist
• Henry Savile (1549–1622), scholar and AV translator
• Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957), novelist, Lord Peter Wimsey
• Frank Sayers (1763–1817), poet, scholar and metaphysician
• Francis Scarfe (1911–1986), poet and novelist
• Vernon Scannell (1922–2007), poet
• Ann Schlee (born 1934), novelist
• Catherine Amy Dawson Scott (1865–1934), poet, playwright and novelist
• Geoffrey Scott (1884–1929), writer and poet
• Hugh Stowell Scott (wrote as Henry Seton Merriman, c. 1863–1903), novelist
• Jane Scott (1779–1839), playwright and theatre manager
• John Scott (1783–1821), editor and writer
• John Scott of Amwell (1731–1783), poet and patron
• John A. Scott (born 1948), poet and novelist
• Mary Scott (1751/2–1793), poet
• Paul Mark Scott (1920–1978), novelist, playwright and poet
• Sarah Scott (1720–1795), novelist and translator, Millenium Hall (sic)
• William Bell Scott (1811–1890), poet and artist
• Will Scott (1893−1964), story writer, crime writer and playwright
• E. J. Scovell (1907–1999), poet
• James Scudamore (born 1976), novelist
• George Bazeley Scurfield (1920–1991), poet, novelist and politician
• Marcus Sedgwick (born 1968), children's writer
• Charles Sedley (1639–1701), poet, rake and politician
• Kate Sedley (real name Brenda Clarke, born 1926), novelist
• Frederic Seebohm (1833–1912), economic historian
• John Robert Seeley (1834–1895), historian and essayist
• Rachel Seiffert (born 1971), novelist
• David Selbourne (born 1937), political philosopher and playwright
• Catherine Selden (fl. 1797–1817), novelist
• John Selden (1584–1654), polymath
• Will Self (born 1961), novelist and columnist
• Charles Seltman (1886–1957), art historian
• George Selwyn (1719–1791), letter writer and wit
• Nassau William Senior (1790–1864), economist
• Sepharial (real name Walter Gorn Old, 1864–1929), astrologer and numerologist
• Gitta Sereny (born 1921), biographer and historian
• Ian Serraillier (1912–1994), novelist and poet
• Robert Service (born 1947), historian and Russian specialist
• Diane Setterfield (born 1964), novelist
• Elkanah Settle (1648–1724), playwright and poet
• Anna Seward ("Swan of Lichfield", 1747–1809), poet and biographer
• Thomas Seward (1708–1790), writer
• William Seward (1747–1799), anecdotist
• Anna Sewell (1820–1878), novelist, Black Beauty
• Elizabeth Missing Sewell (1815–1906), novelist and religious writer
• Mary Wright Sewell (1797–1884), children's writer
• William Sewell (1804–1874), writer, translator and cleric
• Miranda Seymour (born 1948), biographer, novelist and children's writer
• Thomas Shadwell (c. 1642–1692), Poet Laureate, Historiographer Royal and playwright
• Anthony Shaffer (born 1926), playwright and novelist, Sleuth
• Peter Shaffer (born 1926), playwright, Equus
• Eddy Shah (born 1944), novelist and newspaper owner
• Saira Shah (born 1964), writer and film-maker
• Tahir Shah (born 1966), travel writer and critic
• Olivia Shakespear (1863–1938), novelist and playwright
• Nicholas Shakespeare (born 1957), novelist and biographer
• William Shakespeare (c. 1564–1616), poet and playwright
• Edward Shanks (1892–1953), poet and critic
• Jo Shapcott (born 1953), poet and scholar
• Evelyn Sharp (1869–1955), journalist, children's writer and suffragist
• Margery Sharp (1905–1991), novelist, children's writer and playwright
• Richard Sharp (1759–1835), controversialist, politician and hatter
• Thomas Wilfred Sharp (1901–1978), writer on town and country planning
• Kevin Sharpe (1949–2011), historian
• Richard Sharpe (living), medieval historian
• Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1847–1909), ornithologist and editor
• Tom Sharpe (born 1928), novelist
• George Shaw (1751–1813), botanist and zoologist
• Pete Shaw (born 1966), writer and producer
• Peter Shaw (1694–1763), physician, medical writer and translator
• Robert Shaw (1927–1978), actor and novelist
• Watkins Shaw (1911–1996), musicologist
• John Shebbeare (1709–1788), novelist and satirist
• John Sheffield (known as Mulgrave, later Buckingham, 1647–1721) poet, essayist and politician
• Mary Shelley (1797–1851), author, Frankenstein
• Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822), poet
• George Shelvocke (1675–1742), travel writer and privateer
• William Shenstone (1714–1763), poet
• Stav Sherez (born 1970), novelist
• Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816), playwright, The Rivals
• William Sherlock (1641–1707), theologian and cleric
• R. C. Sherriff (1890–1975), playwright, novelist and screenwriter, Journey's End
• Charles Scott Sherrington (1857–1952), science writer, physiologist and Nobel Prize winner
• Norman Sherry (born 1935), novelist and biographer
• Mary Martha Sherwood (1775–1851), children's writer and tractarian
• James Shirley (1596–1666), playwright
• Joseph Henry Shorthouse (1834–1903), novelist
• Fredegond Shove (1889–1949), poet
• Nevil Shute (1899–1960), novelist and aviation engineer, A Town Like Alice
• Penelope Shuttle (born 1947), poet and novelist
• Gareth Sibson (born 1977), novelist and broadcaster
• Elizabeth Siddal (1829–1862), artist and poet
• Mary Sidney later Mary Herbert, countess of Pembroke, (1561–1621), poet and translator
• Philip Sidney (1554–1586), poet and soldier
• Robert Sidney, earl of Leicester (1563–1626) poet and statesman
• Una Lucy Silberrad (1872–1955), novelist
• Jon Silkin (1930–1997), poet, editor and critic
• Alan Sillitoe (1928–2010), novelist, poet and translator, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
• Elizabeth Simcoe (1762–1850), diarist
• George Augustus Simcox (1841–1905), poet and scholar
• Kathryn Simmonds (born 1972), poet and story writer
• Jack Simmons (1915–2000), historian
• Dave Simpson (living), playwright and adapter
• David Simpson (1745–1799), religious writer and cleric
• Dorothy Simpson (born 1933), novelist
• Helen Simpson (born 1959), novelist and story writer
• Joe Simpson (born 1960), mountaineer and writer, Touching the Void
• John Simpson (1746–1812), religious writer and Unitarian minister
• John Simpson (born 1953), lexicographer, Oxford English Dictionary
• John Palgrave Simpson (1807–1887), playwright
• N. F. Simpson (1919–2011), playwright and adapter
• George Robert Sims (1847–1922), writer, poet and journalist
• Andrew Sinclair (born 1945), novelist, historian and biographer
• Clive Sinclair (born 1948), novelist
• Ian Sinclair writer, poet and film-maker
• May Sinclair (real name Mary Amelia St. Clair, 1863–1946), novelist, poet and critic
• C. H. Sisson (1914–2003), poet, translator and writer
• Edith Sitwell (1887–1964), poet
• Osbert Sitwell (1892–1969), writer
• Sacheverell Sitwell (1897–1988), poet and writer
• Barbara Skelton (1916–1996), novelist and memoirist
• John Skelton (c. 1460–1529), poet and satirist
• Robert Skidelsky (born 1939), economic historian and biographer
• Joseph Skipsey (1832–1903), poet and editor
• George Edward MacKenzie Skues (1858–1949), writer on fishing
• Barbara Sleigh (1906–1982), children's writer, Jessamy
• Edward Slow (1841–1925), dialect poet and carriage maker
• Carolyn Smart (born 1952), poet
• Christopher Smart (1722–1771), poet
• Francis Edward Smedley (1818–1864), novelist
• Menella Bute Smedley (1819–1877), novelist, poet and translator
• Albert Richard Smith (1816–1860), writer, entertainer and mountaineer
• Charlotte Smith (1749–1806), poet and novelist
• Dodie Smith (1896–1990), novelist and playwright, The Hundred and One Dalmatians
• Edmund Smith (1672–1710), poet and translator
• Eleanor Smith (1902–1945), novelist
• Emma Smith (born 1923), novelist and children's writer
• Horace Smith (born Horatio Smith, 1779–1849), novelist and poet
• Joan Smith (born 1953), novelist and journalist
• John Frederick Smith (1806–1890), novelist
• Ken Smith (1938–2003), poet
• Michael Marshall Smith (born 1965), novelist and screenwriter
• Miles Smith (1554–1624), scholar, AV translator and cleric
• Sid Smith (born 1949), novelist and journalist
• Stevie Smith (1902–1971), poet and novelist
• Sydney Smith (1771–1845), writer and cleric
• Tom Rob Smith (born 1979), novelist
• Wentworth Smith (1571 – c. 1623), playwright
• William Smith (fl. 1590s), poet
• William Smith (1769–1839), geologist
• William Smith (1813–1893), lexicographer
• Zadie Smith (born 1975), novelist, White Teeth
• Frank Smythe (1900–1949), writer and mountaineer
• C. P. Snow (1905–1980), novelist and physicist
• William Somervile (1675–1742), poet
• Charles Sorley (1895–1915), poet
• William Sotheby (1757–1833), poet and translator
• Ahdaf Soueif (born 1950), novelist and translator
• Robert South (1634–1716), theologian and cleric
• R. W. Southern (1912–2001), historian
• Robert Southey (1774–1843), Poet Laureate
• Robert Southwell (1561–1595), poet, tractarian and Jesuit martyr
• Robert Spaulding (fl. 1610s), scholar, AV translator and cleric
• Rachel Speght (born 1596), poet and polemicist
• Henry Spelman (c. 1562–1641), historian and antiquary
• Bernard Spencer (1909–1963), poet
• Colin Spencer (born 1933), writer, artist and broadcaster
• Herbert Spencer (1820–1903), philosopher
• John Spencer (1630–1693), scholar, religious historian and cleric
• William Robert Spencer (1769–1834), poet and wit
• Stephen Spender (1909–1995), poet, novelist and travel writer
• Edmund Spenser (c. 1552–1599), poet, The Faerie Queene
• John Spenser (1559–1614), scholar, AV translator and cleric
• Dennis Spooner (1932–1986), TV screenwriter, Doctor Who
• William Archibald Spooner (1844–1930), scholar and perpetrator of spoonerisms
• Jean Sprackland (born 1962), poet
• Francis Spufford (born 1964), writer
• Charles Spurgeon (1834–1892), religious writer and Baptist minister
• J. C. Squire (1884–1958), poet and historian
• Edward St Aubyn (born 1960), novelist and journalist
• Bayle St. John (1822–1859), travel writer and biographer
• Henry St John, Lord Bolingbroke (1678–1751) politician and philosopher
• James Augustus St. John (born James John, 1795–1875), journalist, writer and traveler
• Spenser St. John (1825–1910), biographer, travel writer and diplomat
• Brian Stableford (born 1948), SF writer
• Tom Stacey (born 1930), novelist, writer and publisher
• Julian Stallabrass (living), art historian
• John Stallworthy (born 1935), scholar and poet
• John Stammers (born 1954), poet
• Josiah Stamp (1880–1941), economist and banker
• Derek Stanford (1918–2008), biographer and poet
• Louisa Stanhope (fl. 1806–1827), novelist
• Philip Stanhope, Lord Chesterfield, (1694–1773) politician and writer
• Arthur Stanley (1815–1881), religious writer, theologian and cleric
• Thomas Stanley (1625–1678), poet and philosopher
• Andy Stanton (living), children's writer,
• Olaf Stapledon (1886–1950), philosopher and novelist, Star Maker
• Freya Stark (1893–1993), travel writer
• Mariana Starke (1761/2–1838), travel writer, poet and playwright
• Boris Starling (born c. 1969), novelist and screenwriter
• William Thomas Stead (1849–1912), journalist and social campaigner
• Michael Steed (born 1940), political scientist and broadcaster
• Wickham Steed (1871–1856), journalist and historian
• Anne Steele (wrote as Theodosia, 1717–1778), hymn writer
• David Ramsay Steele (living), philosopher
• Jonathan Steele (living), writer and journalist
• Marguerite Steen (1894–1975), novelist and biographer
• George Steevens (1736–1800), Shakespeare scholar and editor
• James Kenneth Stephen (1859–1892), poet
• Leslie Stephen (1832–1904), writer and mountaineer
• Frederic George Stephens (1828–1907), art critic
• Henry Pottinger Stephens (1851–1903), playwright and novelist, Billee Taylor
• James Francis Stephens (1792–1852), entomologist
• Robert Stephens (1665–1732), Historiographer Royal and historian
• Simon Stephens (born 1971), playwright
• G. B. Stern (1890–1973), novelist, playwright and biographer
• Laurence Sterne (1713–1768), novelist, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
• George Alexander Stevens (1710–1780), playwright, poet and actor
• Matthew Stevenson (died 1654), poet
• William Stevenson poet and playwright, Gammer Gurton's Needle (presumed author)
• Angus Stewart (1936–1998) novelist, diarist and poet
• John "Walking" Stewart (1747–1822), philosopher and traveller
• Mary Stewart (born 1916), novelist
• William Stobbs (1914–2000), children's writer and illustrator
• Julian Stockwin (born 1944), novelist
• Sewell Stokes (1902–1979), novelist, playwright and screenwriter
• Nick Stone (born 1966), novelist
• Samuel John Stone (1839–1900), hymn writer and cleric
• David Storey (born 1933), novelist and playwright
• Catherine Storr (1913–2001), children's writer, Marianne Dreams
• Thomas Story (c. 1670–1742), religious writer and Quaker preacher
• John Stow (c. 1525–1605), historian and antiquarian
• Herbert Strang (pen name of George Herbert Ely, 1866–1958, and Charles James L'Estrange, 1867–1947), children's writers
• Alix Strachey (1892–1973), psychoanalyst and translator
• James Strachey (1887–1967), psychoanalyst, translator and editor
• Julia Strachey (1901–1979), novelist
• Lytton Strachey (1880–1932), biographer and critic, Eminent Victorians
• Ray Strachey (born Rachel Costelloe, 1887–1940), biographer and writer on women's suffrage
• Paul Strathern (born 1940), novelist and scholar
• Noel Streatfeild (1895–1986), children's writer, Ballet Shoes
• A. G. Street (1892–1966), writer and broadcaster
• Cecil Street (wrote as John Rhode, Miles Burton and Cecil Waye, 1884–1965), novelist
• Joe Stretch (born 1982), novelist
• Hesba Stretton (real name Sarah Smith, 1832–1911), novelist, story writer and children's writer
• Agnes Strickland (1796–1874), history writer, poet and children's writer
• William Strode (1600–1643), poet
• Leonard Strong (L. A. G. Strong, 1896–1958), novelist, poet and children's writer
• Jan Struther (real name Joyce Anstruther, (1901–1953), novelist and hymn writer
• Alexander Stuart (living), novelist and screenwriter
• Muriel Stuart (1885–1967), poet and garden writer
• John Stubbs or Stubbe (c. 1543–1591), pamphleteer
• John Studley (c. 1545 – c. 1590), translator
• Joseph Sturge (1793–1859) abolitionist writer and campaigner
• Howard Sturgis (1855–1920), novelist
• Julian Sturgis (1848–1904), novelist and poet
• George Sturt (wrote as George Bourne, 1863–1927), country writer
• John Strype (1643–1737), historian and biographer
• Showell Styles (1908–2005), novelist, children's writer and mountaineer
• John Suckling (1609–1642), poet
• J. W. N. Sullivan (1886–1937), science writer and journalist
• Montague Summers (1880–1948), author, translator and critic
• Kate Summerscale (born 1965), writer and journalist
• Alfred Sutro (1863–1933), playwright and translator
• Robert Smith Surtees (1805–1864), novelist
• E. W. Swanton (1907–2000), cricket writer and broadcaster
• Graham Swift (born 1949), novelist
• Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909), poet
• Robert Swindells (born 1939), children's writer
• Randall Swingler (1909–1967), poet
• Frank Swinnerton (1884–1982), novelist and editor
• Christopher Sykes (1907–1986), travel writer and biographer
• Percy Sykes (1867–1945), travel writer and historian
• Joshua Sylvester (1563–1618), poet
• John Addington Symonds (1840–1893), poet and critic
• A. J. A. Symons (1900–1941), writer and bibliographer
• Arthur Symons (1865–1945), poet and essayist
• Julian Symons (1912–1994), crime writer and poet
• Mitchell Symons (born 1957), writer and journalist
• George Szirtes (born 1948), poet and translator