A list of authors that are from (or associated with) the United Kingdom. This includes authors from England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
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- Ben Aaronovitch
- Douglas Adams
- Richard Adams
- Brian W. Aldiss
- Margery Allingham
- Eric Ambler
- Kingsley Amis
- Martin Amis
- Jeffrey Archer
- Matthew Arnold
- Kate Atkinson
- W. H. Auden
- Jane Austen
- Wilbert Awdry
- Alan Ayckbourn
- David Baddiel
- Pip and Jane Baker
- J. G. Ballard
- Iain Banks
- Lynne Reid Banks
- Clive Barker
- Eric Barker
- Stephen Baxter
- Francis Beaumont
- James Becker
- Alasdair Beckett King
- Hilaire Belloc
- Alan Bennett
- Manda Benson
- Robert Hugh Benson
- John Berger
- Malorie Blackman
- Algernon Blackwood
- William Blake
- Lionel Blue
- Enid Blyton
- Bruce Boa (born in Canada)
- Robert Bolt
- Chris Boucher
- Madeleine Brent
- Raymond Briggs
- Charlotte Brontë
- Emily Brontë
- Anne Brontë
- Christopher Brookmyre
- D. K. Broster
- Robert Browning
- John Brunner
- John Buchan
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- Eleanor Alice Burford
- Anthony Burgess
- Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Fanny Burney
- Robert Burns
- Lord Byron
- Alastair Campbell
- Thomas Carlyle
- Lewis Carroll
- Angela Carter
- Andrew Cartmel
- Raymond Chandler (Born in the US, raised in the UK)
- K.J. Charles
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- G. K. Chesterton
- R. Chetwynd-Hayes
- Lee Child
- Agatha Christie
- John Christopher
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Susanna Clarke
- Ann Cleeves
- John Clive
- Babette Cole
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Jackie Collins
- Wilkie Collins
- William Congreve
- Joseph Conrad
- Storm Constantine
- Jilly Cooper
- Susan Cooper
- Paul Cornell
- Bernard Cornwell
- Judy Cornwell
- Ben Counter
- Noël Coward
- Samuel Rutherford Crockett
- Sara Crowe
- Aleister Crowley
- Charles Cumming
- Robert Daborne
- Roald Dahl
- Andrew Davies
- Candy Davis
- Richard Dawkins
- Louis de Bernières
- Daniel Defoe
- Len Deighton
- Thomas Dekker (Playwright)
- Jamie Delano
- Colin Dexter
- Charles Dickens
- Peter Dickinson
- Terrance Dicks
- Benjamin Disraeli
- Dougal Dixon
- Michael Dobbs
- John Donne
- Angela Douglas
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- John Dryden
- Anton Du Beke
- Daphne du Maurier
- Gerald Durrell
- J.T. Edson
- George Eliot
- Warren Ellis
- Garth Ennis
- Norman Eshley
- Julian Fellowes
- Shana Festa
- Jasper Fforde
- Henry Fielding
- Nicholas Fisk
- Ian Fleming
- John Fletcher
- Ken Follett
- Ford Madox Ford
- John Ford (Playwright)
- C. S. Forester
- E. M. Forster
- Frederick Forsyth
- Dick Francis
- George MacDonald Fraser
- John Fraser
- Nicci French
- Neil Gaiman
- Alex Garland
- Alan Garner
- Elizabeth Gaskell
- David Gemmell
- Mary Gentle
- Eileen Gibb
- Robert Graves
- Simon R. Green
- Graham Greene (Author)
- Hubert Gregg
- Philippa Gregory
- H. Rider Haggard
- Alexis Hall
- Janice Hallet
- Peter F. Hamilton
- Irene Handl
- Sophie Hannah
- Juliet Harmer
- Frances Hardinge
- Thomas Hardy
- Robert Harris
- L.P. Hartley
- Paula Hawkins
- James Herbert
- James Herriot
- Georgette Heyer
- Jack Higgins
- Christopher Hitchens
- James Hogg
- Robert Holmes
- William Hope Hodgson
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Tom Holt
- Victoria Holt
- Nick Hornby
- Anthony Horowitz
- Norman Hudis
- Sam Hughes
- Malcolm Hulke
- Stephen Hunt
- Erin Hunter (House Pseudonym used by several authors; all are British except Tui Sutherland)
- Aldous Huxley
- David Icke
- Elizabeth Inchbald
- Kazuo Ishiguro (born in Japan, but has lived in the UK since childhood)
- Joseph Jacobs
- Brian Jacques
- E. L. James
- Montague Rhodes James
- P. D. James
- Robin Jarvis
- Allan Frewin Jones
- Diana Wynne Jones
- Ben Jonson
- Sarah Kane
- Dennis Kelly
- Mark Kermode
- Garry Kilworth
- Charles Kingsley
- Dick King-Smith
- Sophie Kinsella (also published as Madeleine Wickham)
- Rudyard Kipling (born in India, moved to the UK later)
- Jennifer Kirk
- Zoe Kirk-Robinson
- George Knight
- Ronald Knox
- Lynda La Plante
- Andrew Lang
- David Langford
- Philip Larkin
- D. H. Lawrence
- Nigella Lawson
- John le Carré
- Edward Lear
- Tanith Lee
- Doris Lessing
- C. S. Lewis
- Brian Lumley
- George MacDonald
- Arthur Machen
- Alistair MacLean
- Ken MacLeod
- Christopher Marlowe
- Frederick Marryat
- Ian Marter
- Simon AC Martin
- John Masefield
- Philip Massinger
- Phil Masters
- Graham Masterton
- W. Somerset Maugham
- Ian McDonald
- Amanda McKittrick Ros
- Pauline McLynn
- Robert McNair Wilson
- Graham McNeill
- Elle McNicoll
- Tamzin Merchant
- Thomas Middleton
- China Miéville
- Martin Millar
- A. A. Milne
- John Milton
- David Mitchell
- Sandy Mitchell
- Nancy Mitford
- Nicholas Monsarrat
- Thomas More
- Richard K. Morgan
- Michael Morpurgo
- William Morris
- Michael Moorcock
- Alan Moore
- Hector Hugh Munro (Saki)
- E. Nesbit
- Patrick Ness (born in the US, moved to England)
- John Henry Newman
- Kim Newman
- Maureen O'Brien
- Ardal O'Hanlon
- Margaret Oliphant
- George Orwell
- John Osborne
- Alice Oseman
- Ouida
- K. J. Parker
- Michelle Paver (born in Nyasaland, has lived in England since childhood)
- Bill Pertwee
- Ellis Peters
- Harold Pinter
- Jean Plaidy
- Alan Plater
- John William Polidori
- Alexander Pope
- Beatrix Potter
- John Preston
- Anthony Price
- Christopher Priest (novelist)
- Terry Pratchett
- Philip Pullman
- Ann Radcliffe
- Ian Rankin
- Robert Rankin
- Julian Rathbone
- Philip Reeve
- Linda Regan
- Mary Renault
- Ruth Rendell
- Alastair Reynolds
- Derek Robinson
- Michael Rosen
- Christina Rossetti
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- Talbot Rothwell (screenwriter who wrote many comedic scripts for British movies and television)
- William Rowley
- J. K. Rowling
- Rosie Rushton
- John Ruskin
- Eric Frank Russell
- Edward Rutherfurd
- Chris Ryan
- Rafael Sabatini
- Saki
- Siegfried Sassoon
- Dorothy L. Sayers
- Simon Scarrow
- Walter Scott
- Peter Shaffer
- William Shakespeare
- Tom Sharpe (born in the UK, moved to South Africa)
- Robert Shearman
- Michael Sheen
- Mary Shelley
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Nevil Shute
- Frederick E Smith
- Michael Marshall Smith
- Tobias Smollett
- Olaf Stapledon
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Mary Stewart
- Tom Stoppard
- Noel Streatfeild
- Jeremy Strong
- Charles Stross
- Paul Sussman
- Rosemary Sutcliff
- James Swallow
- Algernon Charles Swinburne
- Robert Swindells
- Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Josephine Tey
- Dylan Thomas
- Gav Thorpe
- J. R. R. Tolkien (born in Orange Free State, moved to England as a child)
- Cyril Tourneur
- Sue Townsend
- Karen Traviss
- Elleston Trevor
- Anthony Trollope
- David Walliams
- Jo Walton
- Sarah Waters
- Evelyn Waugh
- Catherine Webb
- David Whitaker
- John Webster
- Elizabeth Wein
- Irvine Welsh
- Dennis Wheatley
- H. G. Wells
- GMW Wemyss
- Charles Williams
- Colin Wilson
- Jacqueline Wilson
- Mark P Witton
- T. H. White
- P. G. Wodehouse
- William Wordsworth
- Virginia Woolf
- John Wyndham