BBC Literary Archive A-Z of Featured Authors

Dannie Abse
Chinua Achebe
Douglas Adams
Richard Adams and David Parkins
Aesop
David Almond
Maya Angelou
Anonymous
Raymond Antrobus
Fatimah Asghar
Margaret Atwood
Jane Austen
Jim Aylesworth

Iain Banks
Pat Barker
JM Barrie
Samuel Beckett
Alan Bennett
George Bernard Shaw
Malorie Blackman
William Blake
Alecky Blythe
Enid Blyton
Malika Booker
John Boyne
Harold Brighouse 
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Vera Brittain
Anne Bronte
Charlotte Bronte
Emily Bronte
Robert Browning
Bill Bryson
Jan Burchett and Sara Vogler
Melvin Burgess
Octavia E Butler
Jez Butterworth

Truman Capote
Lewis Carroll
Angela Carter
Geoffrey Chaucer
Hans Christian Andersen
Agatha Christie
Caryl Churchill
Gillian Clarke
Jonathan Coe
Wilkie Collins
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
William Congreve
Joseph Conrad
Helen Cooper
Frank Cottrell-Boyce
Douglas Coupland
Noel Coward
Jim Crace
Richmal Crompton
Gillian Cross
Richard Curtis and Ben Elton

Roald Dahl
Shelagh Delaney
Kit de Waal
Charles Dickens
Julia Donaldson
Rita Dove
Roddy Doyle
Daphne Du Maurier

Dorothy Edwards
George Eliot
TS Eliot
Inua Ellams
Bernardine Evaristo

Sebastian Faulks
F.Scott Fitzgerald
Ken Follett
E.M. Forster
Anne Frank
Dan Freedman
Michael Freeman
Brian Friel

Elizabeth Gaskell
Jamila Gavin
The Brothers Grimm
William Golding 
Oliver Goldsmith
Kenneth Grahame
Robert Graves
Kes Gray
Graham Greene
Tanika Gupta
Abdulrazak Gurnah

Mark Haddon
James Halliwell-Phillipps
Mohsin Hamid
Thomas Hardy
Mairi Hedderwick
Joseph Heller
Zoe Heller
Ernest Hemingway
Susan Hill
Ian Hislop
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Anne Holm
Homer
Nick Hornby
Anthony Horowitz
Khaled Hosseini
Ted Hughes

Henrik Ibsen
Kazuo Ishiguro

Joseph Jacobs
Henry James
P.D. James
Anita Jeram
Jennifer Johnston 
James Joyce

Charlotte Keatley
Stephen Kelman
Clive King

Derek Landy
Nella Larsen
Harper Lee
Alun Lewis
CS Lewis
Andrea Levy
Astrid Lindgren
Joan Littlewood
Attica Locke
Robert Louis Stevenson

Charlie Mackesy
Michelle Magorian
William Makepeace Thackeray
Joseph Martin Kronheim
Andrew Marvell
Christopher Marlowe
Louisa May Alcott
Sam McBratney
Cormac McCarthy
Ian McEwan
Ian McMillan
Arthur Miller
Bryan Mealer and William Kamkwamba
A.A. Milne
Jørgen Moe and Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
Elaine Morgan
Toni Morrison
Michael Morpurgo
Jill Murphy

Edith Nesbit
Patrick Ness
Mary Norton

Sean O’Casey 
George Orwell
Ovid

Chuck Palahniuk
Philippa Pearce
Charles Perrault
Winsome Pinnock
Harold Pinter
Alan Plater
Dennis Potter
J.B. Priestley
Philip Pullman

Erich Maria Remarque
Nina Raine
Jean Rhys
Michael Rosen
Tony Ross
Arundhati Roy
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Willy Russell 

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
J.D. Salinger
Sam Selvon
Maurice Sendak
Dr. Seuss
William Shakespeare
Mary Shelley
Owen Sheers
R.C. Sherriff
Joe Simpson
Zadie Smith
Sophocles
John Steinbeck
Bram Stoker
Tom Stoppard
Graham Swift
Robert Swindells
Meera Syal

Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Chidiock Tichborne
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Leslie Thomas
Di Toft
Paul Torday

Martin Waddell
Alice Walker
Edmund Waller
David Walliams
Sarah Waters
Vernon Watkins
Evelyn Waugh
John Webster
H.G. Wells
Timberlake Wertenbaker
E.B. White
Amanda Whittington 
Oscar Wilde
Thornton Wilder 
Tennessee Williams
Jacqueline Wilson
Jeanette Winterson
Virginia Woolf
William Wordsworth
William Wycherley

Richard Yates
WB Yeats

Benjamin Zephaniah
Markus Zusak