List of authors of erotic works
This is a list of notable authors of erotic literature.
Sex manuals
- Vatsayana -- famous for the Kama Sutra
- Yasodhara -- author of the Jayamangala
- Kokkoka -- author of the Ratirahasya
- Kalyanamalla -- author of the Ananga Ranga
- Praudha Devaraya -- author of the Ratiratna Pradipika
- Ovid -- Roman author famous for the Ars Amatoria
- Ge Hong-- Jin dynasty author of Pao-Pu Zhi
- Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Nafzawi -- author of The Perfumed Garden
- Hua Tuo-- author of On Venereal disease.
- Sun Simiao-- author of On the Loss and Gain of The Chamber Art
- Wan Quan-- author of Essentials for Extending Posterity
- Gao Lian-- author of On Abstinence in Sex
Fiction
- [Ciana Stone] - award winning author of erotic fiction, including Wyatt's Chance and Chase'n'Ana
- Al Steiner -- prolific author of erotic novels
- Alexander Pushkin -- author of the Gabriliad
- Alexander Trocchi
- Anaïs Nin -- author of Delta of Venus
- Anne Rice, also writing as A. N. Roquelaure
- Anne Tourney also published as Alaine Hood
- Arabella Knight -- author of Let's Play Anal Twister
- Aran Ashe
- Barry N. Malzberg--author of Screen and writer/editor for Olympia Press
- Catherine Robbe-Grillet, writing as Jean de Berg and Jeanne de Berg
- D. H. Lawrence -- author of Lady Chatterley's Lover
- Emmanuelle Arsan -- author of the novel Emmanuelle and various other works
- Georges Bataille -- author of Story of the Eye
- Giovanni Boccaccio -- Italian author contemporary and friend of Petrarch; wrote Decameron a collection of 100 short stories, some of which are erotic, considered masterpieces of the genre.
- Günter Grass -- author of The Tin Drum and Cat and Mouse
- Henry Miller -- author of Tropic of Cancer
- Ivan Barkov
- John Cleland -- author of Fanny Hill
- Jun'ichirō Tanizaki -- author of The Key, Naomi, and Quicksand
- Kathy Acker -- postmodern pornographer, author of I Dreamt I Was A Nymphomaniac
- Kenzaburo Oe -- author of Seventeen, J, and A Personal Matter
- Laura Antoniou -- author of The Marketplace
- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch -- author of Venus in Furs
- [[Madeline Moore] -- author of [[Wild Card] and [[Amanda's Young Men]and [Sarah's Education]]
- Mark Twain -- author of 1601
- Matthew Miller -- author of Secrets and Lies and The Dark Lives of Men
- Mitzi Szereto -- author of Getting Even: Revenge Stories; The New Black Lace Book of Women’s Sexual Fantasies among others.
- Nicolas Chorier – author of L'académie des dames
- Patrick (Pat) Califia -- author of Macho Sluts
- Pauline Réage -- author of Story of O
- Penny Birch
- Shadow Parker -- author of The Unleashing of Sara Miller
- Susie Bright
- Sylvia Day
- Tamara Thorne -- author of the Sorority series
- Tobsha Learner -- author of 2 erotica short story collections, namely "Tremble" and "Quiver"
- Vladimir Nabokov -- Russian-born English-language writer, author of Lolita
- Wendy Swanscombe
- William Levy
- William Simpson Potter -- author of Romance of Lust
- Yasunari Kawabata -- author of Beauty and Sadness
- Yukio Mishima -- author of the homoerotic novels Forbidden Colors and Confessions of a Mask
- Zane
- the Marquis de Sade -- author of Justine, or the Misfortunes of Virtue
- Caitlín R. Kiernan — author of Frog Toes and Tentacles, Tales from the Woeful Platypus, and Sirenia Digest.
Chinese erotica
- Li Yu -- author of The Carnal Prayer Mat
- Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng -- author of Jin Ping Mei
- Zhang Chunfan - Tang dynasty author of The Turtle with Nine Tails
- Lu Tiancheng (b. 1580) -- Ming dynasty author of The Embroidered Couch (Arsenal Pulp Press) link
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- Ling Mengchu -- Ming dynasty author of In the Inner Quarters: Erotic Stories From Ling Mengchu's Two Slaps (Arsenal Pulp Press) link
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Poetry
- Ovid -- Roman erotic poet
- Catullus -- Roman erotic poet
- Sextus Propertius -- Roman poet
- Sappho -- Greek poetess from the island of Lesbos who wrote love poetry to young women.
- Petrarch -- Italian poet, considered, together with Dante, the father of Renaissance. His love sonnets dedicated to Laura are masterpieces of erotic poetry
- Bai Juyi-- Romatic poet of Tang dynasty
- King Solomon--Author, according to Judeo-Christian tradition, of the Song of Songs.
- John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester -- British 17th Century libertine
Autobiography
- Emmanuelle Arsan, author of Emmanuelle
- Vanessa Duriès, author of Le lien
- Nancy Friday
- Henry Spencer Ashbee, author of My Secret Life
- Frank Harris, multiple-volume memoir My Life and Loves
- Catherine Millet, author of The Sexual Life of Catherine M.
- Georges Simenon
- Xaviera Hollander, author of The Happy Hooker
- Eric Van
Photography
- Edison Chen, author of Edison Chen photo scandal