List of People From Kent - Writers

Writers

• John Gower (c. 1330–1408) – poet
• Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343–1400) – diplomat and author of The Canterbury Tales
• Thomas Wyatt (poet) (1503–1400) – poet and diplomat
• William Painter (1540–1594) – author
• John Lyly (c. 1553–1606) – writer and originator of the linguistic style Euphuism
• Philip Sidney (1554–1606) – poet and military general
• Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) – dramatist, poet and translator
• Phineas Fletcher (1582–1650) – poet
• Richard Lovelace (1618–1659) – poet and Royalist
• Aphra Behn (1640–1689) – dramatist and one of the first English professional female writers
• Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661–1720) – poet
• Elizabeth Carter (1717–1806) – linguist
• Christopher Smart (1722–1771) – poet
• Thomas Turner (diarist and shopkeeper) (1729–1793) – diarist
• William Hazlitt (1778–1830) – essayist and literary critic
• Caroline Cornwallis (1786–1858)
• Caroline Fry (1787–1846) – Christian writer
• Charles Dickens (1812–1870) – foremost English novelist of the Victorian era
• George W. M. Reynolds (1814–1879) – author
• James Parton (1822–1891) – American biographer
• Edwin Arnold (1832–1904) – poet and journalist
• Alfred Austin (1835–1913) – Poet Laureate
• Robert Bridges (1844–1930) – Poet Laureate
• Robert Blatchford (1851–1943) – socialist author
• William Pett Ridge (1857–1930) – author
• Edwin Lester Linden Arnold (1857–1935) – author
• Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) – novelist
• E. Nesbit (1858–1924) – children's author and poet
• Rachel Beer (1858–1927) – editor of The Observer and The Sunday Times newspapers
• M. R. James (1862–1936) – mediaeval scholar and author
• Robert Smythe Hichens (1864–1950) – journalist and novelist
• H. G. Wells (1866–1946) - writer
• Lionel Johnson (1867–1902) – poet, essayist and critic
• Arthur Shearly Cripps (1869–1952) – poet, writer and Anglican priest
• W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) – playwright and novelist
• Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany (1878–1957) – writer and dramatist
• Winifred Mary Letts (1882–1972) – novelist and poet
• Gilbert Waterhouse (1883–1916) – war poet
• Russell Thorndike (1885–1972) – novelist and actor
• Dornford Yates (1885–1960) – novelist
• Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967) – war poet
• Enid Bagnold (1889–1981) – author and playwright
• Thomas Head Raddall (1903–1994) – historical fiction writer
• Peter Quennell (1905–1993) – poet and literary historian
• Mervyn Peake (1911–1968) – author of the Gormenghast books
• Ronald James Marsh (1914–1987) – novelist
• Keith Douglas (1920–1944) – poet
• Sidney Keyes (1922–1943) – war poet
• John Gillespie Magee, Jr. (1922–1943) – Air Force pilot and poet
• Dudley Pope (1925–1997) – author of nautical fiction
• Norman Worker (1927–2005) – comic book writer
• Thom Gunn (1929–2004) – Anglo-American poet
• U. A. Fanthorpe (born 1929) – poet and recipient of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry
• Michael Busselle (1935–2006) - writer and photographer
• John Wells (satirist) (1936–1998) – satirical writer and comedy performer
• John Fuller (poet) (born 1937) – poet and author
• John Russell Taylor (born 1938) – film critic
• Frederick Forsyth (born 1938) – author of thiller novels such as The Day of the Jackal and The Odessa File
• Robert Fisk (born 1946) – journalist
• Bruce Robinson (born 1946) – BAFTA award winning screenwriter
• Robert Holdstock (born 1948) – fantasy author
• William Nicholson (writer) (born 1948) – Academy Award nominated screenwriter, playwright, and novelist
• John Lloyd (writer) (born 1951) – comedy writer, and TV producer for Blackadder, Spitting Image and Not the Nine O'Clock News
• David Hewson (author) (born 1953)- Crime and mystery novelist
• Rob Tindall (born 1954) (children's author)
• Sarah Sands (born 1961) – editor of The Sunday Telegraph newspaper
• David Edwards (journalist) (born 1962) – political journalist
• Daniel Blythe (born 1969) – author
• Stel Pavlou (born 1970) – author and screenwriter
• Rana Dasgupta (born 1971) – writer
• David Lee Stone (born 1978) – fantasy author