List of English Writers - N

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• Thomas Nabbes (1605–1641), playwright
• Constance Naden (1858–1889), poet and philosopher
• Daljit Nagra (born 1966), poet
• V. S. Naipaul (born 1932), novelist and Nobel Prize winner, A House for Mr. Biswas
• Priscilla Napier (1908–1998), biographer, translator and poet
• Edward Nares (1762–1841), theologian, comic novelist and cleric
• Roger Nash (born 1942), philosopher and poet
• Thomas Nashe or Nash (1567–1601), poet and pamphleteer
• Bill Naughton (1910–1992), playwright
• John Mason Neale (1818–1866), cleric, hymn writer and translator
• Patrick Neate (born 1970), novelist and playwright
• Henry Neele (1798–1928), poet and writer on literature
• Graham Nelson (born 1968), poet and mathematician
• Robert Nelson (1656–1715), religious writer
• E. Nesbit (1858–1924), children's writer, poet and political writer, The Railway Children
• Alexander Neville (1544–1614), historian and translator
• Linda Newbery (born 1952), novelist and children's writer
• Henry Newbolt (1862–1938), poet
• P. H. Newby (1918–1997), novelist, Something to Answer For
• Bernard Newman (1897–1968), novelist and propagandist
• John Henry Newman (1801–1890), cleric, religious writer and autobiographer, Apologia Pro Vita Sua
• Isaac Newton (1642–1727), polymath
• John Newton (1725–1807), hymn writer and pamphleteer, Amazing Grace
• Thomas Newton (c. 1542–1607), poet and translator
• William Newton (1750–1830), poet
• Charles Nicholl (living), biographer
• David Nicholls (born 1966), novelist and screenwriter
• Sally Nicholls (born 1983), children's writer, Ways to Live Forever
• Beverley Nichols (1898–1983), novelist, playwright and gardening writer
• John Nichols (1745–1826), antiquary, editor and anthologist
• Bowyer Nichols (1859–1939), poet
• Peter Nichols (born 1927), playwright and screenwriter, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
• Robert Nichols (1893–1944), poet and playwright
• Geoff Nicholson (born 1953), novelist and editor
• Joseph Shield Nicholson (1850–1927), economist and novelist
• Norman Nicholson (1914–1987), poet
• Renton Nicholson (1809–1861), writer and impresario
• William Nicholson (artist) (1872–1949), children's writer, illustrator and painter
• William Nicholson (writer) (born 1948), novelist, screenwriter and playwright, Wind on Fire trilogy
• Adam Nicolson (born 1957), historian and nature writer
• Harold Nicolson (1886–1968), writer, diarist and politician
• Roden Noel (1834–1894), poet
• David Nokes (1948–2009), biographer and screenwriter
• Malcolm Nokes (1897–1986), writer on science and education
• Jeff Noon (born 1957), novelist and playwright
• Lawrence Norfolk (born 1963), novelist
• Barry Norman (born 1933), novelist and broadcaster
• Roger Norman (born 1948), children's and YA writer
• John Norris (1657–1711), philosopher and poet
• William Edward Norris, (1847–1925) novelist
• Dudley North, Lord North (1602–1677) writer and poet
• Roger North (1653–1734), lawyer and biographer
• Thomas North (1535–1604), translator
• James Northcote (1746–1831), essayist, artist and illustrator
• Caroline Norton (1808–1877), novelist, pamphleteer and poet
• Mary Norton (1903–1992), children's writer, The Borrowers
• Thomas Norton (1532–1584), poet and lawyer
• Richard Norton-Taylor (born 1944), playwright and journalist
• John Julius Norwich (born John Julius Cooper, 1929), historian and travel writer
• Julian of Norwich (1342 – c. 1416), mystic
• Alexander Nowell (1507–1602), religious writer and cleric
• Alfred Noyes (1880–1958), poet
• Geoffrey Nuttall (1911–2007), church historian and Congregational minister
• Robert Nye (born 1939), poet, novelist and editor
• John Nyren (1764–1837), cricket writer