List of English Writers - Y

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• Jane Yardley (born c. 1950s), novelist
• William Yarrell (1784–1856), naturalist
• Dornford Yates (real name Cecil William Mercer, 1885–1960), novelist
• Edmund Yates (1831–1894), novelist and playwright
• Ann Yearsley (1753–1806), poet
• Victor Maslin Yeates (1897–1934), writer and fighter pilot
• R. J. Yeatman (1897–1968), humorist, 1066 and All That (with W. C. Sellar)
• Tamar Yellin (born c. 1950s), novelist and story writer
• Theresa Yelverton (born Maria Theresa Longworth, 1833–1881), travel writer
• Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823–1901), novelist
• Walter Yonge of Colyton (1579–1649), diarist and lawyer
• Barbara Yorke (born 1951), historian
• Margaret Yorke (born 1924), novelist
• Matthew Yorke (born 1958), novelist and editor
• Arthur Young (1741–1820), writer and economist
• E. H. Young (1880–1949), novelist
• Edward Young (1683–1765), poet
• Francis Brett Young (1884–1954), novelist
• G. M. Young (1882–1959), historian
• Gary Young (living), screenwriter
• Gavin Young (1928–2001), travel writer and journalist
• Hilton Young, Lord Kennet (1879–1960), writer and politician
• Robert J. C. Young (born 1950), thinker and historian
• Thomas Young (1773–1829), polymath
• Toby Young (living), writer, journalist and playwright