British Writers - Men

This project is a place to gather together profiles of British born men who are/were writers of all genres. Those with bold links have profiles on Geni. Links that are not bold are to other sources.

How to add a link is explained in the attached document - Adding links to Geni profiles in projects.

A

• William Alexander
• Kingsly Amis
• Martin Louis Amis
• Matthew Arnold (1822–88)
• Wystan Hugh Auden (1907 – 1973), W. H. Auden, Anglo-American poet

B

• Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
• William Barnes (1801-1886) English writer, poet, minister, and philologist
• J. M. Barrie (1860-1937)
• Sir John Barrow
• Samuel Beckett (1906–89)
• William Beckford (1760-1844)
• Francis Beaumont (1584 – 1616)
• Mark Adayre Bence-Jones (1930-2010)
• Arnold Bennett (1867-1931)
• William Blake (1757-1827)
• Robert Blair (1699-1746)
• Edmund Charles Blunden, MC (1896 –1974) English poet
• Wilfred Scawen Blunt
• Rupert Brook born 17 Aug 1840 in Petworth. Died 10 Sep 1922. Poet and Traveller
• Dion Boucicault (1820–90)
• Robert Browning (1812-1892)
• Nicholas Boson (1624–1708)
• Rupert Chawner Brooke (1887 – 1915) War Poet
• John Buchan
• John Bunyan (1628-88)
• Anthony Burgess
• Edward Burne-Jones
• Robert Burns
• George Gordon Byron

C

• Thomas Carew
• Lewis Carroll
• Edward Cave
• George Chapman (?1559-?1634)
• Leslie Charteris
• Thomas Chatterton (1752-70)
• Geoffrey Chauser
• Gilbert Keith Chesterton,(1874 – 1936) English writer
• Robert Erskine Childers DSC (1870 – 1922),
• John Clare (1793-1864)
• Arthur Clough (1819–61)
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
• Wilkie Collins
• Joseph Conrad
• William Congreve (1670-1729)
• Sir Noël Peirce Coward (1899 – 1973) English playwright
• William Cowper (1731-1800)

D

• Daniel Defoe
• Thomas Dekker
• Charles Dickens
• John Donne (1572–1631) English poet, satirist, lawyer and cleric.
• Ernest Dowson
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• John Dryden (1631-1700)

E

• T S Eliot
• John Evelyn (1620-1706)

F

• Edward Faragher (1831–1908 (Manx)
• George Farquhar (?1677-1707)
• Robert Fergusson
• Henry Fielding (1707-54)
• John Fletcher
• Ken Follett (born 5 June 1949) Welsh author of thrillers and historical novels
• E.M. Forster (1879-1970)

G

• John Galsworthy (1867-1933) (Nobel Prize in Literature, 1932)
• David Garnett (9 March 1892 – 17 February 1981) was a British writer and publisher.
• W. S. Gilbert (1836-1911)
• George Robert Gissing (1857-1903)
• William Godwin (3 March 1756 – 7 April 1836) - journalist, political philosopher and novelist,
• William Golding (1911-1993) William Golding is best known for his novel Lord of the Flies (1954).
• Oliver Goldsmith (?1730-74)
• Kenneth Grahame (1859 – 1932) Scottish writer, The Wind in the Willows
• Thomas Gray 1716-71)
• Graham Greene's (1904–91)
• Thomas Anstey Guthrie (856 - 1934)

H

• H. Rider Haggard
• Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
• Robert Herrick
• George Herbert (1593–1633)
• John Hobson
• William Hogarth (1697-1764)
• James Hogg
• Anthony Hope
• Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 – 1889) was an English poet
• John Ceiriog Hughes
• William Holman Hunt
• Alfred Edward Housman (1859 – 936), A. E. Housman, English poet - A Shropshire Lad.
• Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

I

• Christopher Isherwood (1904–86)

J

• Montague Rhodes James OM, MA (1862 – 1936), M. R. James, best remembered for his ghost stories,
• Jerome K. Jerome
• Lionel Pigot Johnson (1867 – 1902) English poet, essayist and critic
• Benjamin "Ben" Jonson (c. 11 June 1572 – 6 August 1637) was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor
• Ben Jonson
• James Joyce

K

• John Keats
• Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English poet, short-story writer, and novelist chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children

L

• D H Lawrence (1885-1930)
• Thomas Edward Lawrence CB, DSO (1888 — 1935)
• Sheridan Le Fanu
• Edward Lear
• Cecil Day-Lewis (1904–72)
• Clive Staples Lewis (1898 – 1963), commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis
• Matthew Lewis
• Sir David Lindsay
• Morgan Llwyd
• Hugh John Lofting (1886 – 1947) British author
• Richard Lovelace
• Malcolm Lowry
• W. G. Lyttle (1844–1896)

M

• George MacDonald
• Ewen MacLachlan
• Charles Macklin (?1699-1797)
• Frederick Louis MacNeice CBE 1907 – 1963) Irish poet and playwright
• H. C. McNeile
• Thomas Mallory
• Walter de la Mare
• Robert Pipon Marett (Jersey)
• Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593)
• Andrew Marvell (1621–1678)
• John Masefield
• John Mayne
• George Métivier (1790–1881) (Guernsey)
• John Everett Millais
• Henry Miller
• A A Milne
• John Milton (1608-74)
• Alexander Montgomerie
• Iolo Morganwg
• William Morris
• Arthur Murphy (1727-1805)

N

• Robert Morton Nance
• John Newbery

O

• Seán O'Casey (1880-1964)
• George Orwell - Born: Eric Arthur Blair (1903 – 1950) - English writer who penned works such as Ninteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm, and is considered one of the 20th Century's best narrators of English culture.
• Daniel Owen (Welsh)
• Wilfred Edward Salter Owen MC (1893 – 1918) English poet and soldier (war Poet)

P

• Mervyn Peake (1911–68)
• Samuel Pepys (1633-1703)
• John William Polidori
• Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
• Robert Baden-Powell
• John Cowper Powys
• Sir Terence David John "Terry" Pratchett

Q

• Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859)

R

• Allan Ramsay
• Thomas Randolph (1605 – 1635): English poet and dramatist,
• Sir Terence Rattigan (1911-1977)
• Samuel Richardson (1689-1761)
• Isaac Rosenberg (1890 – 1918) English poet considered to be one of the greatest of all English war poets.
• Dante Gabriel Rosetti (1828-1882)
• John Ruskin

S

• Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, CBE, MC (1886 – 1967) was an English poet, author and soldier
• Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
• Robert Sempill (c.1595–1665)
• William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
• George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
• Percy Shelley (1792-1822)
• Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816)
• Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) a poet, courtier and soldier
• Christopher Smart (1722-1771)
• Tobias Smollett (1721-71)
• Robert Southey (1774-1843)
• Stephen Spender (1909–95
• Edmund Spenser (1555-99)
• Laurence Sterne (1713-68)
• Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
• Bram Stoker
• Sir John Suckling
• Jonathan Swift
• Algernon Charles Swinburne (London, 5 April 1837 – London, 10 April 1909) was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic. He invented the roundel form, wrote several novels, and contributed to the famous Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.
• Arthur Symons
• Edmund John Millington Synge (1871 – 1909) Irish playwright, poet, prose writer

T

• Robert Tannahill
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
• William Makepeace Thackeray
• Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)
• Philip Edward Thomas (1878 – 1917) Anglo-Welsh writer of prose and poetry
• James Thomson (1700-48)
• John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE (1892 – 1973) was an English writer, poet
• Thomas Traherne (1636 or 1637–1674)
• Anthony Trollope (1815–82)

U

• Edward Upward (1903-2009)

V

• Henry Vaughan (1622–1695)
• Jules verne (1828-1905)

W

• Edmund Waller, FRS (3 March 1606 – 21 October 1687) was an English poet and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1624 and 1679
• Horace Walpole(1717-1797)
• Rex Warner (1905–86)
• Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966)
• H G Wells (1866-1946)
• T H White
• Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
• Henry William Williamson (1895-1977) creator of Tarka the Otter
• William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
• Thomas Wyatt - Poet

XYZ

• William Butler Yeats (1865 – 1939) Irish poet
• Edward Young (1683-1765)