List of English novelists - Definition

List of novelists from England

(See also: English novel, English literature)

• J. R. Ackerley
• Peter Ackroyd, (born 1949)
• Douglas Adams, (1952 - 2001), author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• Richard Adams, (born 1920), author of Watership Down
• Kingsley Amis, (1922-1995), novelist and poet, young author of Lucky Jim and old author of The Old Devils.
• Martin Amis, (born 1949), son of Kingsley, author of Dead Babies, Money, and The Information
• Lisa Appignanesi (born 1946)
• Jeffrey Archer
• Elizabeth von Arnim, (1866-1941)
• Jane Austen, (1775-1817)
• Robert Bage, (1728-1801)
• Beryl Bainbridge, (born 1934)
• James Ballantine, (1808-1877)
• J. G. Ballard, (born 1930), author of Crash, Empire of the Sun and Concrete Island
• Julian Barnes, (born 1946), author of England, England
• Nicola Barker (born 1966)
• Ada Ellen Bayly, (1857-1903)
• Arnold Bennett, (1867-1931)
• Anthony Berkeley, mystery writer (The Poisoned Chocolates Case)
• Walter Besant (1836-1901)
• Alain de Botton (born 1969)
• Marjorie Boulton (born 1924) writes both in English and Esperanto
• Malcolm Bradbury, author of The History Man
• Mary Elizabeth Braddon, (1837-1915)
• Edward Bradley, (1827 - 1889)
• John Braine, author of Room at the Top and The Jealous God
• Anna Eliza Bray, (1790-1883)
• Wallace Breem, (1926–1990), author of Eagle in the Snow
• Simon Brett, (born 1945), (whodunnits)
• Anne Brontë, (1820-1849)
• Charlotte Brontë, (1816-1855)
• Emily Brontë, (1818-1848)
• Anita Brookner
• Henry Brooke, (1703-1783)
• Rhoda Broughton, (1840-1920)
• George Douglas Brown, (1869-1902)
• Mary Brunton, (1778-1818)
• Anthony Buckeridge
• Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, (1803-1873), the annual bad writing contest is named after him.
• John Bunyan, (1628-1688)
• Anthony Burgess, (1917-1993), composer, essayist, author of A Clockwork Orange
• Richard Francis Burton, (1821-1890)
• Charlotte Bury, (1775-1861)
• Samuel Butler, (1612 - 1680), author of Hudibras
• Samuel Butler, (1835 - 1902), author of Erewhon
• Hall Caine, (1853-1931)
• Angela Carter (1940-1992), post-feminist, wrote magical realism
• Dame Barbara Cartland, (1901-2000)
• G. K. Chesterton, (1874-1936), mystery writer and Christian apologist
• Mary Cholmondeley, (1859-1925) author of Red Pottage (1899)
• Agatha Christie, (1890-1976)
• Henry Cockton, (1807-1852)
• Jonathan Coe
• Mortimer Collins, (1827-1876)
• Wilkie Collins, (1824-1889), author of The Moonstone and The Woman in White
• Ivy Compton-Burnett, author of novels about dysfunctional families
• William Cooper, twentieth century
• Joseph Conrad, (1857-1924), Polish-born mariner, author of Heart of Darkness
• Marie Corelli, (1855-1924), best-selling novelist
• Bernard Cornwell, author of the Sharpe novels
• Amanda Craig, author of A Vicious Circle and In a Dark Wood
• Daniel Defoe, journalist, author of Robinson Crusoe (1719), Moll Flanders
• Thomas Deloney, (1543-1600)
• Charles Dickens, (1812-1870), master of the novel, wrote for serial publication
• Louise Doughty
• Margaret Drabble, (born 1939)
• Daphne Du Maurier, (1907-1989),, author of Rebecca and Jamaica Inn
• George Du Maurier, (1834-1896), author of Trilby
• Lawrence Durrell, (1912-1990), author of The Alexandria Quartet
• Edward Eggleston, (1837-1902)
• George Eliot, (1819-1880)
• Ben Elton, (born 1959)
• Susan Edmonstoune Ferrier, (1782-1854)
• Henry Fielding, (1707-1754)
• Ford Madox Ford, author of The Good Soldier (1914), promoter of many other writers.
• E. M. Forster, (1879-1970)
• Frederick Forsyth, (born 1938), author of The Day of the Jackal
• John Fowles, author of The French Lieutenant's Woman
• Stephen Fry, (born 1957)
• Neil Gaiman, (born 1960), author of The Sandman comics,American Gods and the BBC series Neverwhere
• Alex Garland, author of The Beach
• Elizabeth Gaskell, (1810-1865), author of North and South
• Stella Gibbons, author of Cold Comfort Farm, found something nasty in Mary Webb's woodshed.
• George Gissing, (1857-1903), author of New Grub Street
• William G. Golding, (1911-1993), author of The Lord of the Flies
• Oliver Goldsmith, (1730-1774), The Vicar of Wakefield
• Robert Graves, (1895-1985), The White Goddess and the autobiographical Goodbye to all That
• Henry Green, (1905-1973)
• Graham Greene, (1904-1991)
• H. Rider Haggard, (1856-1925), adventure novels set in exotic locations, such as King Solomon's Mines, She
• Thomas Hardy, (1840-1928)
• Joanne Harris, (born 1964), author of Chocolat, Five Quarters of the Orange
• Josephine Hart, author of Damage
• Carole Hayman
• James Herbert, Horror writer
• Stewart Home, (born 1962), his 1999 novel
• Nick Hornby, author of About a Boy (1998)
• William Horwood
• Fergus Hume, (1859-1932)
• Aldous Huxley, (1884-1963), author of Brave New World
• Hammond Innes, (1914-1998)
• Christopher Isherwood, (1904-1986)
• Kazuo Ishiguro, author of The Remains of the Day
• P.D. James, author of crime fiction but also the dystopian novel The Children of Men (1992)
• Jerome K. Jerome, (1859-1927), author of Three Men in a Boat
• Henry Kingsley, (1830-1876)
• Rudyard Kipling, author of Kim (1904)
• C. H. B. Kitchin
• Arthur Koestler, (1905-1983)
• D. H. Lawrence, (1885-1930), author of Lady Chatterley's Lover
• Doris Lessing, (born 1919), author of The Grass is Singing The Golden Notebook and
• C. S. Lewis, (1898-1963), Christian, author of The Chronicles of Narnia, wrote a book called Surprised by Joy, years of English bachelorhood later, married an American fan named Joy
• Nell Leyshon
• David Lodge, author of Thinks ... (2001)
• Hilary Mantel
• Frederick Marryat, (1792-1848), Mr Midshipman Easy and other sea stories
• A.E.W. Mason, author of The Four Feathers
• William Somerset Maugham, (1874-1965), author of Liza of Lambeth and The Razor's Edge and creator of Sadie Thompson in Rain
• Ian McEwan
• George Meredith, (1828-1909)
• A. A. Milne, (1882-1956), The Red House Mystery and Mr. Pim Passes By (a novelization of his own play)
• Nancy Mitford, (1904-1973)
• George A. Moore, (1852-1933)
• Iris Murdoch, (1919-1999), author of A Severed Head
• Patrick O'Brian, (1914-2000), author of the Aubrey/Maturin naval historical novels (Master and Commander is the first in the series)
• George Orwell, pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, journalist, volunteer soldier in the Spanish Civil War, author of Animal Farm (1945), 1984 (1949)
• Ouida, (1839-1908)
• Thomas Love Peacock, (1785-1866)
• Terry Pratchett, (born 1948)
• J. B. Priestley
• Barbara Pym
• Ruth Rendell (aka Barbara Vine), author of King Solomon's Carpet
• Samuel Richardson, printer, contender for the title of "first English novelist", author of Pamela (1740)
• Sax Rohmer, (1883-1959), creator of Dr. Fu Manchu, "the yellow peril incarnate in one man".
• Dorothy L. Sayers, (1893-1957), mystery writer (creator of Lord Peter Wimsey), playwright, translator of Dante
• Will Self
• Tom Sharpe, author of Wilt
• C. P. Snow, (1905-1980)
• Muriel Spark, (born 1918)
• Graham Swift won the Booker Prize in 1996 for Last Orders; also known for an earlier novel Waterland (1984).
• William Makepeace Thackeray, (1811-1863), author of Vanity Fair
• J. R. R. Tolkien, (1892-1973), author of The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit
• Sue Townsend, Adrian Mole books
• Anthony Trollope, (1815-1882), prolific documentor of life in Victorian England
• Mary Augusta Ward, (1851-1920)
• Evelyn Waugh, (1903-1966), comic novelist (Scoop), tragic novelist (Brideshead Revisited), sometimes in the same book.
• Mary Webb, tales of rural life
• Fay Weldon
• H. G. Wells, (1866-1946), author and essayist, early writer of science fiction, author of The War of the Worlds and The Invisible Man
• Mary Wesley, (1912-2002), author of The Camomile Lawn
• T. H. White, author of The Sword in the Stone and The Once and Future King
• Henry Williamson, (1895-1977), author
• Angus Wilson, (1913-1991)
• P. G. Wodehouse, (1881-1975), creator of Jeeves and Wooster
• Virginia Woolf, (1882-1941), feminist, modernist, author of To the Lighthouse
• Dornford Yates, (1885-1960), escapist adventure stories
• Edmund Yates, (1831–1894)
• Helen Zahavi, author of Dirty Weekend (1991), a modern-day picaresque novel

See also: List of novelists by country