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

• Aaron Travis pen name of author Steven Saylor
• Alexander Pushkin -- author of the Gabriliad
• Alexander Trocchi
• Alison Tyler
• 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
• Caitlín R. Kiernan — author of Frog Toes and Tentacles, Tales from the Woeful Platypus, and Sirenia Digest.
• Carol Queen
• Catherine Robbe-Grillet, writing as Jean de Berg and Jeanne de Berg
• Celeste Hall -- author of both erotic and romantic fiction including the Dream Seduction series
• Dean Barrett, Mistress of the East
• Darla Phelps -- author of the Pets series.
• Denise Hall -- author of A Brief Education and Judgment.
• D. H. Lawrence -- author of Lady Chatterley's Lover
• Cynnamon Foster, AKA Nina Foxx -- author of Southern Comfort
• Emil Di Vago -- author of The Sultry Climate
• Emmanuelle Arsan -- author of the novel Emmanuelle and various other works
• Erica Jong
• Frank Watson -- author of the novel Chateau Noir
• 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
• Guy Davenport
• Henry Miller -- author of Tropic of Cancer
• Ivan Barkov
• JC Fetish
• John Cleland -- author of Fanny Hill
• John Preston
• John Updike
• 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
• Kris Cook
• Lars Eighner
• Laura Antoniou -- author of The Marketplace
• Leopold von Sacher-Masoch -- author of Venus in Furs
• Marilyn Jaye Lewis -- author of Neptune and Surf and Lust: Bisexual Erotica
• Marco Vassi -- author of "The Erotic Comedies", "Devil's Sperm Is Cold", and "The Stoned Apocalypse"
• Maren Smith prolific writer of modern spanking erotica.
• Mario Vargas Llosa -- author of The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto
• Mark Twain -- author of 1601
• the Marquis de Sade -- author of Justine, or the Misfortunes of Virtue
• Matthew Miller -- author of Secrets and Lies and The Dark Lives of Men
• Maxim Jakubowski -- editor of the Mammoth Erotica series and a major erotica writer in his own right
• 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
• Phil Andros pen name of author Samuel Steward
• R. Lee Smith -- author of Heat, Olivia, and the Lords of Arcadia Series.
• Rachel Kramer Bussel
• Samuel R. Delany
• Susie Bright
• Sylvia Day
• Tamara Thorne -- author of the Sorority series
• Tim Barrus aka Nasdijj
• 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
• Yvonne Strickland - author of many SM novels including Carnal Possession and Slaves of the Sorceress.
• Zane

Chinese erotica

• Li Yu -- author of The Carnal Prayer Mat
• Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng -- author of Jin Ping Mei

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-- Romantic 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
• Hồ Xuân Hương -- 18th-19th century Vietnamese poetess

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