BBC Literary Archive A-Z of Featured Authors
Iain Banks
Pat Barker
JM Barrie
Luigi Bartolini
Jean-Dominique Bauby
Samuel Beckett
Floella Benjamin
Alan Bennett
George Bernard Shaw
Malorie Blackman
William Blake
Alecky Blythe
Enid Blyton
Robert Bolt
Malika Booker
Boileau-Narcejac
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
James M. Cain
Truman Capote
Lewis Carroll
Angela Carter
Geoffrey Chaucer
Hans Christian Andersen
Agatha Christie
Caryl Churchill
Arthur C. Clarke
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
Charlie Mackesy
Michelle Magorian
William Makepeace Thackeray
Sarfraz Manzoor
Andrew Marvell
Christopher Marlowe
Louisa May Alcott
Sam McBratney
Cormac McCarthy
Ian McEwan
Ian McMillan
Bryan Mealer and William Kamkwamba
Arthur Miller
A.A. Milne
Margaret Mitchell
Jørgen Moe and Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
Elaine Morgan
Toni Morrison
Michael Morpurgo
Jill Murphy
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