List of non-fiction authors
The term non-fiction author ecompasses a vast number of fields and individuals. This list includes authors who primarily have written non-fiction books for publication.
For more specific lists see:
Noted Non-Fiction Authors
Stephen Ambrose , (1936-2002)
Gabriele Amorth
Thomas Amory , (c. 1691-1788)
John Asgill , (1659-1738)
Isaac Asimov , (1920-1992)
John Austin , (1790-1859)
Richard Bannatyne , (died 1605)
Antony Beevor
T.J. Binyon
John Bodenham
James Boswell
John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners , (1467-1553)
James Bruce , (1730-1794)
Jacob Bryant , (1715-1804)
Francis Trevelyan Buckland , (1826-1880)
James Burke , (born 1936)
Michael Burleigh
David Cairns
Richard Carew , (1555-1620)
Elizabeth Carter , (1717-1806)
Hester Chapone , (1727-1801)
Walter Charleton , (1619-1707)
Frances Power Cobbe , (1822-1904)
George Combe (1788-1858)
George Lillie Craik (1798-1866)
Francis Douce , (1757-1834)
John Davies (c. 1565-1618)
Jared Diamond
John Diamond
William Hepworth Dixon , (1821-1879)
John Doran , (1807-1878)
John E. Douglas
Eamon Duffy
Gerina Dunwich , (born 1959 )
Martin Ebon , (born 1917)
William Fiennes
Orlando Figes
Aminatta Forna
Richard Fortey
Ian Frazier (born 1951)
Edward Gibbon , (1737-1794)
Stephen Jay Gould , (1941-2002)
Richard Hamblyn
Herodotus
John Cam Hobhouse , (1786-1869)
Eric Hobsbawm
Richard Holmes
Roy Jenkins , (1920-2003)
Olivia Judson
John Keegan , (born 1934)
Ian Kershaw
Charles H. Kraft
James Howard Kunstler
David Landes
Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1836-1870)
Margaret Macmillan , (born 1943)
Brenda Maddox
Catherine Merridale
Joseph Mitchell (1908 -1996 )
Robert Palmer (1945 -1997 )
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Simon Reeve
Richard Rhodes
Matt Ridley , (born 1958)
Graham Robb , (born 1958)
Ann Rule
Carl Sagan , (1934-1996)
Sven Seljom
William Shawcross
Brendan Simms
Robert Skidelsky
Alvin Toffler , (born 1928)
Claire Tomalin , (born 1933)
Edgar Vincent
Voltaire , (1694-1778)
Francis Wheen
Eric Williams , (1911-1981)
Ann Wroe
See also: List of authors
