List of non-fiction writers

The term non-fiction author encompasses 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:

• Category:Writers by non-fiction subject area
• List of biographers
• List of critics
• List of essayists
• List of historians
• List of philosophers
• List of political authors

Non-Fiction Authors

• Susan Alcorn
• Stephen Ambrose, (1936-2002)
• Gabriele Amorth
• Thomas Amory, (c. 1691-1788)
• John Asgill, (1659-1738)
• Anastasia Ashman
• Isaac Asimov, (1920-1992)
• John Austin, (1790-1859)
• Richard Bannatyne, (died 1605)
• Antony Beevor
• Betty Berzon
• T.J. Binyon
• John Bodenham
• Jeff Bollow
• Eric Borgman (b. 1957)
• James Boswell
• John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, (1467-1553)
• William Brandon (1914–2002)
• Po Bronson
• James Bruce, (1730-1794)
• Jacob Bryant, (1715-1804)
• Francis Trevelyan Buckland, (1826-1880)
• James Burke, (born 1936)
• Anthony Burgess (1917-1993)
• Richard James Burgess
• Robert Forrest Burgess, (b. 1927)
• Michael Burleigh
• Butrus al-Bustani (1819-1883)
• David Cairns
• Richard Carew, (1555-1620)
• Elizabeth Carter, (1717-1806)
• Hester Chapone, (1727-1801)
• Walter Charleton, (1619-1707)
• Lars Lindberg Christensen
• Brian Cleeve, (1921-2003)
• Frances Power Cobbe, (1822-1904)
• George Combe (1788-1858)
• George Lillie Craik (1798-1866)
• Francis Douce, (1757-1834)
• David G. Dalin
• John Davies (c. 1565-1618)
• William Arthur Deacon
• Jared Diamond
• John Diamond
• William Hepworth Dixon, (1821-1879)
• John Doran, (1807-1878)
• Andrew Dornenburg
• John E. Douglas
• Eagle Druhan
• Eamon Duffy
• Gerina Dunwich, (born 1959)
• Martin Ebon, (born 1917)
• Filip Erceg
• Wayne Federman, (born 1959)
• William Fiennes
• Orlando Figes
• Timothy Fish
• Aminatta Forna
• Richard Fortey
• Ian Frazier (born 1951)
• D.A. Fulton (born 1984)
• Tyler Gentry, (born 1939)
• Edward Gibbon, (1737-1794)
• Stephen Jay Gould, (1941-2002)
• Jeffrey Guterman
• Bruce Barrymore Halpenny
• Richard Hamblyn
• Herodotus
• Jean Henry-Mead
• John Cam Hobhouse, (1786-1869)
• Eric Hobsbawm
• Susie Hodge
• Richard Holmes (biographer)
• Richard Holmes (military historian)
• Christine Howser, (born 1965)
• Allan Janus
• Roy Jenkins, (1920-2003)
• Irving Johnson, (1905-1991)
• Olivia Judson
• Pål Johan Karlsen, (b. 1975)
• Elizabeth Keckley
• John Keegan, (born 1934)
• Jim Keith (1949-1999)
• Ian Kershaw
• Charles H. Kraft
• James Howard Kunstler
• David Landes
• Louisa Leaman (b. 1976)
• James J. LeBar
• Norma Lehmeier Hartie, (b.1961)
• Neal Lozano
• Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1836-1870)
• Scott MacGillivray, (b.1957)
• Margaret MacMillan, (born 1943)
• Brenda Maddox
• Harvey Manning, (b. 1925)
• C.L. Mareydt, (b. 1948)
• Joyce Maynard
• DeBarra Mayo (b.1953)
• Vladimir Megre
• Fulvio Melia (b. 1956)
• Catherine Merridale
• Jack Miles
• Joseph Mitchell (1908-1996)
• Simon Sebag Montefiore
• Stephen L. Nelson, (b. 1959)
• Alexander T. Newport, (b. 1964)
• Jamie O'Keefe, (b. 1961)
• Tadeusz Pacholczyk, (b. 1965)
• Karen A. Page
• Robert Palmer (1945-1997)
• Caroline Paul
• Susan Lynn Peterson, (b. 1957)
• Robert Georges Picard, (b. 1951)
• George Piccard
• Melissa Holbrook Pierson, (born 1957)
• Libby Rees (born 1995)
• Simon Reeve
• Richard Rhodes
• Matt Ridley, (born 1958)
• Heshmatoll Riazi
• Graham Robb, (born 1958)
• Jason Roberts
• Keith Rosier
• Don Rossignol, (born 1962)
• Anneli Rufus
• Ann Rule
• Carl Sagan, (1934-1996)
• Michael Scanlan
• Sven Seljom
• William Shawcross
• Brendan Simms
• James Sites, (born 1924)
• Robert Skidelsky
• Jean Edward Smith, (born 1932)
• Jerry E. Smith
• Dr. E. Lee Spence, (born 1947)
• Ingo Sundmacher, (born 1965)
• Stefan Thiesen, (born 1967)
• Felix Thijssen, (born 1937)
• Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
• Alvin Toffler, (born 1928)
• Claire Tomalin, (born 1933)
• Michelle Tullier, (born 1962)
• Michael J. Varhola, (born 1966)
• Edgar Vincent
• Voltaire, (1694-1778)
• Alan Whiticker, (born 1958)
• Francis Wheen
• Carl Wickland, (born 1861)
• Eric Williams, (1911-1981)
• Charles F. Winslow, (1811-1877)
• Ann Wroe
• Barun Roy
• John Zaffis, (born 1955)
• Phillip O'Donnell, (born 1991)

See also: List of authors