List of English Writers - G

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• Neil Gaiman (born 1960), novelist and screenwriter
• Winifred Gales (1761–1839), novelist and memoirist
• Norman Gale (1862–1942), poet
• John Galsworthy (1867–1933), novelist and dramatist, The Forsyte Saga
• Francis Galton (1822–1911), polymath
• Jane Gardam (born 1928), novelist and children's writer
• Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1829–1902), historian
• Gerald Gardner (1884–1964), writer on witchcraft
• Helen Gardner (1908–1986), critic and scholar
• John Gardner (1926–2007), novelist, The Liquidator
• Leon Garfield (1921–1996), novelist and children's writer
• Simon Garfield (born 1960), writer
• Alex Garland (born 1970), novelist and screenwriter
• Alan Garner (born 1934), children's writer, The Owl Service
• William Garner (1920–2005), novelist
• Constance Garnett (1861–1946), translator
• David Garnett (1892–1981), novelist and playwright, Lady into Fox
• Edward Garnett (1868–1937), author and critic
• Eve Garnett (1900–1991), children's writer and illustrator, The Family from One End Street
• Richard Garnett (1835–1906), scholar and poet
• David Garrick (1717–1779), actor, playwright and poet
• Samuel Garth (1661–1719), poet and physician
• Charles Garvice (also wrote as Caroline Hart, 1850–1920), novelist
• George Gascoigne (1535–1577), poet and translator
• David Gascoyne (1916–2001), poet
• Norman Gash (1912–2009), historian
• Elizabeth Gaskell (Mrs. Gaskell, 1810–1865), novelist, Cranford
• Jane Gaskell (born 1941), fantasy novelist
• Thomas Gaspey (1788–1871), novelist and journalist
• Francis Aidan Gasquet (1846–1929), historian and cardinal
• Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy (born 1933), biographer and social historian
• Robert Gathorne-Hardy (1902–1973), garden writer
• Alfred Gatty, (1813–1903) writer and cleric
• Margaret Gatty (wrote as Mrs. Alfred Gatty, 1809–1873), children's writer
• John Gauden (1605–1662), writer and bishop, Eikon Basilike (attributed)
• William Gaunt (1900–1980), art historian
• Jamila Gavin (born 1941), novelist
• John Gay (1685–1732), poet and playwright, The Beggar's Opera
• John Gay (1699–1745), moral philosopher and cleric
• Maggie Gee (born 1948), novelist, The Ice People
• Pam Gems (born 1925), playwright
• Emily Gerard (1849–1905), novelist
• John Gerard (1545–1611/12), botanical writer and herbalist
• William Gerhardie (born Gerhardi, 1895–1977), novelist
• Karen Gershon (1923–1993), poet, writer and novelist
• Edward Gibbon (1737–1794), history, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• Stella Gibbons (1902–1989), novelist and poet, Cold Comfort Farm
• Philip Gibbs (1877–1962), writer and journalist
• Miles Gibson (born 1947), novelist and poet
• Wilfred Wilson Gibson (1878–1962), poet
• John Gifford (1758–1818), historical and political writer, Anti-Jacobin Review
• William Gifford (1756–1826), poet and satirist
• Harriet Gilbert (born 1948), novelist, critic and broadcaster
• Joseph Gilbert (1779–1852), religious writer and Congregational minister
• Michael Gilbert (1912–2006), novelist
• W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911), playwright and poet, The Mikado
• William Gilbert or Gilberd (1544–1603), scientist, De Magnete...
• William Gilbert (1804–1890), novelist and naval surgeon
• Alexander Gilchrist (1828–1861), biographer and critic
• Anne Gilchrist (born Burrows, 1828–1885), writer
• Robert Murray Gilchrist (1867–1917), novelist and topographical writer
• Penelope Gilliatt (1932–1993), novelist, screenwriter and film critic
• Morris Ginsberg (1879–1970), sociologist
• George Gissing (1857–1903), novelist, New Grub Street
• Mary Gladstone (1847–1927), diarist and secretary
• William Gladstone (1809–1898), statesman and writer
• Lesley Glaister (born 1956), novelist and playwright
• Joseph Glanvill (1636–1680), writer, philosopher and cleric
• Brian Glanville (born 1931), football writer and novelist
• Rodge Glass (born 1978), novelist and biographer
• Hannah Glasse (1708–1770), writer on cookery and housekeeping, The Art of Cookery
• Victoria Glendinning (born 1937), biographer and novelist
• Richard Glover (1712–1785), poet and playwright
• Elinor Glyn (1864–1943), novelist
• Robert Goddard (born 1954), novelist
• Rumer Godden (1907–1998), novelist, children's writer and biographer, The Diddakoi
• A. D. Godley (1856–1925), comic poet
• Sidney Godolphin (1610–1643), poet
• William Godwin (1756–1836), novelist and philosopher
• Louis Golding (1895–1958), novelist and poet
• William Golding (1911–1993), Nobel Prize winning novelist and poet The Lord of the Flies
• Douglas Goldring (1887–1960), poet, travel writer and novelist
• Laurence Gomme (1853–1916), writer on folklore and public servant
• Jason Goodwin (born 1964), novelist and travel writer
• Barnabe Googe or Gooche (1540–1594), poet and translator
• Catherine Gore (1799–1861), novelist and playwright
• Charles Gore (1853–1932), theologian and bishop
• Geoffrey Gorer (1905–1985), writer and anthropologist
• Arthur Gorges (c. 1569–1625), poet and sea captain
• Ray Gosling (born 1939), writer, journalist and broadcaster
• Edmund Gosse (1849–1928), novelist, poet and critic, Father and Son
• Philip Henry Gosse (1810–1888), writer on science and natural history
• Stephen Gosson (1554–1624), satirist and playwright
• Elizabeth Goudge (1900–1984), novelist and children's writer
• William Gouge (1575–1653), religious writer and cleric
• Thomas Gouge (1609–1681), religious writer and Presbyterian minister
• Gerald Gould (1885–1936), poet and journalist
• Nathaniel Gould (1857–1919), novelist
• John Gower (c. 1330–1408), poet
• Posie Graeme-Evans (living), novelist and TV director
• Eleanor Graham (1896–1984), children's writer, editor and anthologist
• Harry Graham (1874–1936), humorist and poet
• Laurie Graham (born 1947), novelist and journalist
• Stephen Graham (1884–1975), travel writer and novelist
• Kenneth Grahame (1859–1931), writer, The Wind in the Willows
• Sarah Grand (real name Mrs. David C. M'Fall, born Frances Elizabeth Clarke, 1854–1943), novelist and suffragist
• Clive Granger (1934–2009), Nobel Prize winning economist and econometrician
• Andrew Grant (born 1968), novelist
• John Grant (also wrote as Jonathan Gash and Graham Gaunt, born 1933), novelist and physician
• Linda Grant (born 1951), novelist and writer
• Michael Grant (1914–2004), historian and writer on ancient history
• George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne (1666–1735), playwright and poet
• Harley Granville-Barker (1877–1946), playwright and actor
• Richard Graves (1715–1804), novelist, poet and cleric
• Robert Graves (1895–1985), poet, scholar and novelist, I, Claudius
• John Gray (1866–1934), poet and translator
• John N. Gray (born 1948), political philosopher
• Patience Gray (1917–2005), cookery writer
• Simon Gray (1936–2008) playwright, novelist and memoirist.
• Thomas Gray (1716–1771), poet, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
• Eliza S. Craven Green (1803–1866), poet
• Candida Lycett Green (born 1942), writer and journalist
• Henry Green (real name Henry Vincent Yorke), (1905–1973), novelist
• John Richard Green (1837–1883), historian
• Matthew Green (1696–1737), poet
• Roger Lancelyn Green (1918–1987), biographer and children's writer
• Sarah Green (fl. 1790–1825), novelist
• Thomas Hill Green (1836–1882), philosopher and radical
• Vivian H. H. Green (1915–2005), historian and cleric
• Kate Greenaway (1846–1901), children's writer and illustrator
• Graham Greene (1904–1991), novelist and playwright, Our Man in Havana
• Robert Greene (1558–1592), playwright and pamphleteer
• Chris Greenhalgh (born 1963), novelist, screenwriter and poet
• Lavinia Greenlaw (born 1962), poet and novelist
• Frederick Greenwood (1830–1909), man of letters
• James Greenwood (c. 1830/35 – 1929), children's writer and journalist
• Walter Greenwood (1903–1974), novelist, Love on the Dole
• Walter Wilson Greg (1875–1959), bibliographer and editor
• Richard Gregory (1864–1952), science writer and astronomer
• Joyce Grenfell (1910–1979), writer and comedian
• Julian Grenfell (1888–1915), poet
• Charles Greville (1794–1865), diarist and cricketer
• Frances Greville (c. 1724–1789), poet
• Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke (1554–1628), poet and playwright
• Bill Griffiths (1948–2007), poet, scholar and translator
• Jane Griffiths (born 1970), poet and lecturer
• Paul Griffiths (born 1947), novelist, librettist and music critic
• John Grigg (1924–2001), biographer and journalist
• Geoffrey Grigson (1905–1985), poet and editor
• Arthur Grimble (1888–1956), writer, anthropologist and colonial governor
• Francis Grose (1731–1791), antiquary and lexicographer
• John Gross (born 1935), critic, writer and anthologist
• Philip Gross (born 1952), poet, novelist and playwright
• George Grossmith (1847–1912), writer and entertainer, co-author of Diary of a Nobody
• Weedon Grossmith (1854–1919), writer, artist and actor, co-author of Diary of a Nobody
• George Grote (1794–1871), classical historian and reformer
• Charlotte Grove (1773–1860), diarist
• George Grove (1820–1900), editor and writer on music, Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians
• Edward Grubb (1854–1939), Quaker religious writer
• Sydney Grundy (1848–1914), playwright and librettist
• Philip Guedalla (1889–1944), historian, biographer and travel writer
• Harry Guest (born 1932), poet
• Thom Gunn (1929–2004), poet
• Elizabeth Gunning (1769–1823), novelist and translator
• Peter Gunning (1614–1684), religious writer and bishop
• Suresh and Jyoti Guptara (born 1988), writers, Insanity Saga
• Edmund Gurney (1847–1888), writer and psychologist
• Ivor Gurney (1890–1937), poet and composer
• Thomas Anstey Guthrie (wrote as F. Anstey, 1856–1934), novelist and journalist, Vice Versa
• Bernard Gutteridge (1916–1985), poet
• Emma Jane Guyton or Worboise (1825–1887), novelist
• Brion Gysin (1916–1986), sound poet, novelist and painter