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- Sir Francis Bacon (1561–1626), English author
- James Robert Baker (1946–1997), American author
- James Baldwin (1924–1987), African American author, wrote Giovanni's Room (1956)
- José Balza (b. 1939), Venezuelan author
- Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), French writer
- Ann Bannon (b. 1932), American author, wrote Beebo Brinker (1962)
- Porfirio Barba Jacob (pseudonym, Miguel Angel Osorio, 1883–1942), Colombian author
- Djuna Barnes (1892–1982), American author, wrote Ladies Almanack (1928) and Nightwood (1936)
- Natalie Clifford Barney (1876–1972), American poet, memoirist
- Richard Barnfield (1574–1627), English poet
- Roland Barthes (1915–1980), French semiotician
- Jaime Bayly (b. 1965), Peruvian writer
- Neil Bartlett (b. 1958), English author and performer
- Sylvia Beach (1887–1962), American author, founder of Shakespeare and Company (bookshop), editor
- Joseph F. Beam (1954–1988), African-American writer and editor
- William Beckford (1760–1844), English author
- Aphra Behn (ca 1640–1689), English dramatist, poet and novelist
- Bruce Benderson (b. 1946), American author
- E. F. Benson (1867–1940), prolific English author
- Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832), English philosopher
- Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, American author
- José Bianco (1909–1986), Argentine author
- Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979), American author
- Persimmon Blackbridge (b. 1951), American author, wrote Sunnybrook: A True Story With Lies (1996) (winner of the 1996 Ferro-Grumley lesbian fiction award); Prozac Highway (1997)
- Marie-Claire Blais (b. 1939), French Canadian author
- José Joaquín Blanco (b. 1951), Mexican author
- A. Scott Boddie (b. 1967), American gay author
- Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973), Irish writer
- Jane Bowles (1917–1973), American author
- Paul Bowles (1910–1999), American author
- Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956), German dramatist
- Poppy Z. Brite (b. 1967), American author
- Lynn Breedlove, American musician, writer, and performer
- Brigid Brophy (b. 1929), English author
- Nicole Brossard (b. 1943), French Canadian author
- Olga Broumas (b. 1949), Greek-American author
- Rita Mae Brown (b. 1944), American author, wrote Rubyfruit Jungle (1973)
- James Buchanan
- John Horne Burns (1916–1953), American author
- William S. Burroughs (1914–1997), American author, wrote Naked Lunch (1959), Queer (1985)
- Aldo Busi (b. 1948) Italian writer
- Lady Eleanor Butler (1739–1829) Anglo-Irish writer
- Samuel Butler (1835–1902), English writer
- Lord Byron (1788–1824), English poet
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