- Bernard Cornwell
Bernard Cornwell OBE (born February 23, 1944) is a prolific and popular English historical novelist. Bernard Cornwell was adopted by a family by the name of Wiggins. After he left them he changed his name to his mother's maiden name, Cornwell. Cornwell was born in London in 1944. His father was a Canadian airman. His mother was English, a member of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force. He was adopted and brought up in Essex by the Wiggins family, … - William Harrison Ainsworth
William Harrison Ainsworth (February 4 1805 - January 3 1882) was an English historical novelist. He was born in Manchester, the son of a solicitor. He went to the Manchester Grammar School before becoming trained in the law. However the legal profession had no attraction for him, and going to London to complete his studies he made the acquaintance of John Ebers, publisher, and at that time manager of the Opera House, … - Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens FRSA (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870), pen-name "Boz", was the foremost English novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous social campaigner. Considered one of the English language's greatest writers, he was acclaimed for his rich storytelling and memorable characters, and achieved massive worldwide popularity in his lifetime. Later critics, beginning with George Gissing and G. K. Chesterton, championed his mastery of prose, … - Alfred Duggan
Alfred Duggan (1903 - 1964) was an English historian, archeologist and best-selling historical novelist during the 1950s. Although he was raised in England, Duggan was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina to a family of wealthy landowners of British and American descent, his family moving to England when he was two years old. His novels are known for being grounded on meticulous historical research. - Dudley Pope
Dudley Bernard Egerton Pope (29 December 1925 - 25 April 1997) was a British writer of both nautical fiction and history, most notable for his Lord Ramage series of historical novels. He was born in Ashford, Kent, and at age 16 joined the merchant navy as a midshipman. His ship was torpedoed the next year (1942), and he was invalided out. Pope then went to work for a Kentish newspaper, then in 1944 moved to "The Evening News" in London, … - John Henry Cardinal Newman
The Venerable John Henry Cardinal Newman, JHCN. (February 21 1801 - August 11 1890) was an English convert to Roman Catholicism, later made a cardinal, and in 1991 proclaimed 'Venerable'. In early life he was a major figure in the Oxford Movement to bring the Church of England back to its Catholic roots. Eventually his studies in history persuaded him to become a Roman Catholic. Both before and after his conversion he wrote a number of influential books, … - T. H. White
Terence Hanbury White (May 29, 1906 - January 17, 1964) was an English writer, born in Bombay (now Mumbai), India. After graduating from Queens' College, Cambridge with a first-class degree in English, he spent some time teaching at Stowe, before becoming a full-time writer. He was interested in hunting, flying, hawking and fishing. He was an intensely-involved naturalist, which influenced many of the chapters in "The Sword in the Stone". - C. S. Forester
Cecil Scott Forester was the pen name of Cecil Louis Troughton Smith, an English novelist who rose to fame with tales of adventure with military themes. His most notable works were the 11-book Horatio Hornblower series, about naval warfare during the Napoleonic era, and "The African Queen" (1935; filmed in 1951 by John Huston). Born in Cairo, Forester had a complicated life, including imaginary parents, a secret marriage, a murder charge, … - Peter Ackroyd
Peter Ackroyd (born October 5 1949, London) is an English author. Ackroyd's mother worked in the personnel department of an engineering firm and his father had left home when Ackroyd was a baby. He was reading newspapers at the age of 5 and wrote a play about Guy Fawkes when he was 9. He also first realised he was gay at the age of 7. Ackroyd was educated at St. Benedict's, Ealing and at Clare College, Cambridge, … - Robert Graves
Robert von Ranke Graves (24 July, 1895 - 7 December, 1985) was an English poet, scholar, and novelist. During his long life, he produced more than 140 works. He was the son of the Anglo-Irish writer Alfred Perceval Graves and Amalie von Ranke. The historian Leopold von Ranke was his mother's uncle. He was the brother of the author Charles Patrick Graves. Graves considered himself a poet first and foremost. - Lindsey Davis
Lindsey Davis, historical novelist, was born in Birmingham, England in 1949. Having taken a degree in English literature at Oxford University (Lady Margaret Hall), she became a civil servant. She left the civil service after 13 years, and when a romantic novel she had written was runner up for the 1985 "Georgette Heyer Historical Novel Prize", she decided to become a writer, writing at first romantic serials for the UK women's magazine "Woman's Realm". - Mary Renault
Mary Renault (pronounced Ren-olt) (4 September 1905 – 13 December 1983) born Mary Challans, was an English writer best known for her historical novels set in Ancient Greece. In addition to vivid fictional portrayals of Theseus, Socrates, Plato and Alexander the Great, she wrote a non-fiction biography of Alexander. - Robert Harris
Robert Dennis Harris (born March 7, 1957 in Nottingham) was an English TV reporter and journalist and is currently a novelist. - Mary Stewart
Mary Stewart, maiden name Mary Florence Elinor Rainbow, (born 12 September 1916 in Sunderland, County Durham) is a popular English novelist, best known for her series about Merlin, which straddles the boundary between the historical novel and the fantasy genre. She graduated from Durham University. She was a lecturer in English Language and Literature there until her marriage in 1945 to Sir Frederick Stewart, … - Patrick O'Brian
Patrick O'Brian was an English novelist and translator, best known for his "Aubrey–Maturin series" of novels set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars and centered on the friendship of Captain Jack Aubrey and the Irish-Catalan physician Stephen Maturin. The 20-novel series is known for its well-researched and highly detailed portrayal of early 19th century life, as well as its authentic and evocative language. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton 1st Baron Lytton
Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton was an English novelist, playwright, and politician. Lord Lytton was a florid, popular writer of his day, who coined such phrases as "the great unwashed", "pursuit of the almighty dollar", "the pen is mightier than the sword", and the infamous incipit "It was a dark and stormy night." Despite his popularity in his heyday, today his name is known as a byword for bad writing. - David Gemmell
David Andrew Gemmell (August 1, 1948-July 28, 2006) was a popular UK fantasy writer and occasional historical fictionalist. - Simon Scarrow
Simon Scarrow is a UK-based author, born in Nigeria and now based in Norfolk. He completed a master's degree at the University of East Anglia after working at the Inland Revenue, and then went into teaching as a lecturer at Norwich City College. He is best known for his "Eagle" series of Roman Military fiction set in Britain, covering the second invasion of Britain and the subsequent prolonged campaign undertaken by the rump of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. - Tim Severin
Tim Severin was born in India in 1940. While still a student of Geography and History at Tonbridge School and Oxford University he embarked on the Marco Polo Expedition with Stanley Johnson and Michael de Larrabeiti. This was the start of his career as an explorer and writer. Severin has recreated a number of legendary voyages and journeys in order to determine how much of the legends are based on factual experience. He currently lives in Ireland. - Catherine Webb
Catherine Webb (born 1986) is a British author, educated at the Godolphin and Latymer School, London, and the London School of Economics. Catherine Webb was just fourteen years old when she completed "Mirror Dreams", written during her school summer holidays. The book was published in 2002, and Webb was soon named "Young Trailblazer of the Year" by the magazine Cosmo Girl. - Sarah Dunant
Sarah Dunant (born Linda Dunant 8 August, 1950, in London, England) is the author of many international bestsellers, most recently "The Birth of Venus" and "In the Company of the Courtesan". She attended Godolphin and Latymer School in Hammersmith, London and read history at Newnham College, Cambridge and has worked in theatre, radio and television. "The Birth of Venus" is now being made into a film. - D. K. Broster
Dorothy Kathleen Broster (1877- February 7, 1950) was a British novelist and short-story writer, born in Garston, Liverpool on the Lancashire coast. Educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College and St. Hilda's College, Oxford (where she was one of the first students), she served as a Red Cross nurse during World War I with a voluntary Franco-American hospital. - Charles Kingsley
Charles Kingsley (June 12 1819 - January 23 1875) was an English novelist, particularly associated with the West Country and North East Hampshire. - Frederick Marryat
Captain Frederick Marryat (July 10, 1792 - August 9, 1848) was an English novelist, a contemporary and acquaintance of Charles Dickens, noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story. He is now known particularly for the semi-autobiographical novel "Mr Midshipman Easy" and his children's novel "The Children of the New Forest". - Geoffrey Trease
Geoffrey Trease (August 11 1909 - January 27, 1998), full name Robert Geoffrey Trease, was a prolific writer, publishing 113 books between 1934 ("Bows Against the Barons") and 1997 ("Cloak for a Spy"). His work has been translated into 20 languages. He is best known for writing children's historical novels, whose content reflects his insistence on historically correct backgrounds, which he meticulously researched. - Candace Robb
Candace Robb (born 1950) is an English historical novelist, with works centered around the Medieval Age. Robb has read and researched medieval history for many years, having studied for a Ph.D. in Medieval and Anglo-Saxon literature. She divides her time between Seattle and the UK, frequently spending time in Scotland and York to research her books. - Catherine Cookson
Dame Catherine Ann Cookson DBE (27 June 1906 – 11 June 1998) was an English author. Cookson became Britain's most widely read novelist, while remaining a relatively low-profile figure in the world of celebrity writers. Her books were inspired by her deprived youth in North East England, the setting for her novels. - Henry Treece
Henry Treece was a British poet and writer, who worked also as a teacher, and editor. He is perhaps best remembered now as a historical novelist, with series of books both for adult readers and children. His five Volumes of poetry were: "38 Poems" Fortune Press nd.; then by Faber & Faber, "Invitation and Warning" 1942, "The Black Seasons" 1945, "The Haunted Garden" 1947 and "The Exiles" 1952. - Kenneth Bulmer
Henry Kenneth Bulmer, born in London, England, was a British author, primarily of science fiction. He married Pamela Buckmaster March 7, 1953. They had one son and two daughters, and were divorced in 1981. Bulmer lived in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England. An extraordinarily prolific writer, Bulmer penned over 160 novels and innumerable short stories, both under his real name and numerous pseudonyms. - Pat Barker
Pat Barker (born May 8, 1943) is an English writer and historian. She published her first novel, "Union Street", in 1982 and has since won critical acclaim for her First World War series, the "Regeneration" trilogy, a fictionalised account of the wartime experiences of the poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, the psychiatrist W. H. R. Rivers, and the fictional protagonist, Lt. Billy Prior. The final book in the trilogy, "The Ghost Road", … - Frederick Rolfe
Frederick William Rolfe, better known as Baron Corvo, and also calling himself 'Frederick William Serafino Austin Lewis Mary Rolfe', (July 22, 1860 - October 25 1913), was an English writer, novelist, artist, fantasist and eccentric. - Richard Woodman
Richard Woodman (1944 -) is an English novelist and naval historian who retired in 1997 from a 37 year nautical career, mainly working for Trinity House, to write full time. His main work is 14 volumes about the career of Nathaniel Drinkwater, and shorter series about James Dunbar and William Kite, but he also written a range of factual books about 18th century and WW2 history. These include a trilogy of studies of convoys in the Second World War. - Norah Lofts
Norah Lofts, "née" Norah Robinson was a 20th century best-selling British author. She wrote over fifty books specialising in historical fiction, but she also wrote non-fiction and short stories. Many of her novels follow the history of a specific house and the residents that lived in it. Lofts was born in Shipham, Norfolk in England. She also wrote under the pen names Peter Curtis and Juliet Ashley. - Rosemary Sutcliff
Rosemary Sutcliff (December 14, 1920 - July 23, 1992) was a British novelist, best known as a writer of highly acclaimed historical fiction. Although primarily a children's author, the quality and depth of her writing also appeals to adults, she herself once commenting that she wrote "for children of all ages from nine to ninety." Born in Surrey, Sutcliff spent her early youth in Malta where her father was stationed as a naval officer. - Alys Clare
Alys Clare (born 1944) as Elizabeth Harris is an English historical novelist of whodunnits set in the Medieval times, featuring the character of Abbess Helewise. Brought up in the countryside close to where the Hawkenlye Novels are set, she went to school in Tonbridge and later studied archaeology at the University of Kent. She lives for part of the year in Brittany, … - Margaret Frazer
Margaret Frazer is a pen name of a duo historical novelists known for their series of mediaeval mysteries featuring the Benedictine nun Dame Frevisse. The first six "Sister Frevisse" books were written as a collaborative effort between Mary Monica Pulver Kuhfeld and Gail Frazer. The remainder are written by Gail Frazer alone. - William Samuel Symonds
William Samuel Symonds (1818 - September 15, 1887), English geologist, was born in Hereford. He was educated at Cheltenham and Christ's College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA in 1842. Having taken holy orders he was appointed curate of Offenham, near Evesham in 1843, and two years later he was presented to the living of Pendock in Worcestershire, where he remained until 1877. - Keith Miles
Keith Miles (born 1940) is an English author, who writes under his own name and also historical fiction and mystery novels under the pseudonym Edward Marston. He is known for his mysteries set in the world of Elizabethan theater. He has also written a series of novels based on events in the Domesday Book. The latter series' two protagonists are the Norman soldier Ralph Dechard and the former novitiate turned lawyer Gervase Bret, … - Edith Pargeter
Edith Mary Pargeter, BEM (September 28, 1913 in Horsehay, Shropshire, England -October 14, 1995) was a prolific author of works in many categories, especially history and historical fiction, and was also honoured for her translations of Czech classics; she is probably best known for her murder mysteries, both historical and modern. Born in the village of Horsehay (Shropshire, England), she had Welsh ancestry, … - Michael Jecks
Michael Jecks (born 1960, Surrey) is a writer of historical mystery novels. He worked in the computer industry before studying medieval history and becoming a novelist. He, his wife, daughter and son live in northern Dartmoor. Jecks has written a series of novels featuring Sir Baldwin Furnshill, a former Knight Templar, and his friend Simon Puttock. Recently he has joined up with Bernard Knight, Ian Morsen, …
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