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J. R. R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was an English writer and philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954–55).
Jonathan Swift
Anglo-Irish satirist and essayist (1667–1745)
Lewis Carroll
British author and scholar (1832–1898)
Emily Brontë
Emily Jane Brontë was an English writer best known for her 1847 novel Wuthering Heights. She also co-authored a book of poetry with her sisters Charlotte and Anne entitled Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell.
G. K. Chesterton
English author and Christian apologist (1874–1936)
John Ruskin
English writer and art critic (1819–1900)
Terry Pratchett
English fantasy author (1948–2015)
William Makepeace Thackeray
British novelist (1811–1863)
Neil Gaiman
English writer (born 1960)
William Morris
British textile artist, author, and socialist (1834-1896)
Philip Pullman
English author
Frances Hodgson Burnett
English-American playwright and author (1849–1924)
H. Rider Haggard
English adventure novelist (1856–1925)
Christina Rossetti
English poet (1830–1894)
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1846–1852 and 1865–1866 (1792–1878)
George Meredith
British novelist and poet (1828–1909)
Edward Lear
British artist, illustrator, author and poet (1812-1888)
J. G. Ballard
British novelist (1930–2009)
Clive Barker
English author, film director, and visual artist (born 1952)
Diana Wynne Jones
English children's fantasy writer (1934–2011)
Ben Okri
Nigerian-born British poet and novelist (1959-)
Richard Adams
English novelist best known as the author of Watership Down
Edith Nesbit
English author and poet (1858–1924)
Michael Moorcock
English writer, editor, critic (born 1939)
William Beckford
English slaver, art collector, and novelist (1760–1844)
China Miéville
English writer, critic, and activist (born 1972)
Susanna Clarke
British author (1959-)
T. H. White
English author (1906–1964)
Marie Corelli
British writer (1855-1924)
Joanne Harris
British and French author
Joe Abercrombie
British fantasy writer and film editor (born 1974)
Herbert Edward Read
English anarchist, poet, and critic of literature and art (1893-1968)
Dinah Craik
British novelist and poet (1826–1887)
Anne Perry
English author (1938–2023)
M. R. James
20th century British author, medievalist scholar and provost (1862–1936)
John Brunner
British author (1934–1995)
Walter de la Mare
English poet and fiction writer (1873–1956)
A. E. Waite
British occultist mystic, poet and writer (1857–1942)
Mervyn Peake
English author and illustrator (1911–1968)
Charles Stross
British science fiction writer and blogger
William Hope Hodgson
British writer (1877–1918)
Piers Anthony
English-American writer in the science fiction and fantasy genres
Cressida Cowell
British writer
Sabine Baring-Gould
English hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist, eclectic scholar, folk song collector (1834-1924)
Susan Cooper
English-American fantasy writer
Norman Douglas
British writer (1868–1952)
Joan Aiken
English writer (1924–2004)
Joseph Delaney
British writer (1945–2022)
Brian Jacques
British fiction writer known for Redwall animal fantasy novels (1939–2011)
Mary Stewart
English novelist (1916–2014)
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British science fiction writer & novelist
Ramsey Campbell
English author
David Garnett
British writer and publisher (1892-1981)
Rosemary Sutcliff
English novelist (1920–1992)
Susan Hill
English author
Charles Allston Collins
British painter, writer and illustrator (1828-1873)
Ian Livingstone
fantasy writer and entrepreneur
Adrian Tchaikovsky
British fantasy and science fiction author
Robert Holdstock
British fantasy and science fiction author (1948-2009)
Sylvia Townsend Warner
English writer, poet, activist (1893-1978)