List of non-fiction writers
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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 and for whom there is an article in Wikipedia. Only add names here if the person has their own article on Wikipedia, please. Anything else will be removed.
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- 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
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- Susan Alcorn
- Stephen Ambrose (1936–2002)
- Gabriele Amorth
- Thomas Amory (c. 1691 – 1788)
- John Asgill (1659–1738)
- Russell Ash (1946-2010)
- Anastasia Ashman
- Isaac Asimov (1920–1992)
- John Austin (1790–1859)
- Richard Bannatyne (died 1605)
- Carol S. Batey
- Antony Beevor
- Betty Berzon
- Dennison Berwick adventure travel writer
- T.J. Binyon
- John Bodenham
- Jeff Bollow
- Henry Bond
- Eric Borgman (born 1957)
- James Boswell
- John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners (1467–1553)
- Gerald Warner Brace (1901–1978) was an American writer, educator, sailor and boat builder.
- William Bragge
- William Brandon (1914–2002)
- Ian Bremmer (born 1969)
- 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 (born 1927)
- Michael Burleigh
- Butrus al-Bustani (1819–1883)
- Rhonda Byrne
- Sylvia Brown
- David Cairns
- Jack Canfield
- 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)
- Richard Cornuelle (1927-2011)
- George Lillie Craik (1798–1866)
- A. J. Cronin (1896-1981)
- Vincent Cronin (born 1924)
- Stephen R. Covey
- Sean Covey
- John Cutting (psychiatrist)
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- David Cairns
- Jack Canfield
- 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)
- Richard Cornuelle (1927-2011)
- George Lillie Craik (1798–1866)
- A. J. Cronin (1896-1981)
- Vincent Cronin (born 1924)
- Stephen R. Covey
- Sean Covey
- John Cutting (psychiatrist)
- Paul Davies
- Richard Dawkins
- David G. Dalin
- John Davies (c. 1565-1618)
- Graham Diamond (1947)
- Jared Diamond
- John Diamond
- William Hepworth Dixon (1821–1879)
- John Doran (1807–1878)
- Andrew Dornenburg
- Francis Douce (1757–1834)
- John E. Douglas
- Eamon Duffy
- Gerina Dunwich (born 1959)
- Joan Didion
- Martin Ebon (born 1917)
- Filip Erceg
- John Edward
- Anthony Faramus (1920 - 1990)
- Wayne Federman (born 1959)
- Orlando Figes
- Timothy Fish
- Richard Fortey
- Anne Frank
- Ian Frazier (born 1951)
- Edward Gibbon (1737 – 1794)
- Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Stephen Jay Gould (1941 – 2002)
- Alec Greven
- Jeffrey Guterman
- Bruce Barrymore Halpenny
- Ian Halperin
- Stephen Hawking
- Herodotus
- Jean Henry-Mead
- John Cam Hobhouse (1786 – 1869)
- Eric Hobsbawm
- Susie Hodge
- Richard Holmes (biographer)
- Richard Holmes (military historian)
- Christine Howser (1965 - )
- Will Hobbs
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- Mark Jacobson
- Roy Jenkins (1920 – 2003)
- Irving Johnson (1905 – 1991)
- Olivia Judson
- Elizabeth Keckley
- John Keegan (born 1934)
- Jim Keith (1949–1999)
- Richard Kemp
- Ian Kershaw
- David Kessler
- Charles H. Kraft
- James Howard Kunstler
- Arnold Kutzinski
- David Landes
- James Laxer
- Louisa Leaman (1976 - )
- James J. LeBar
- Robert Leckie (1920-2001)
- Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1836 – 1870)
- Michael MacDonald (born 1956)
- Scott MacGillivray (born 1957)
- Margaret MacMillan (born 1943)
- Marc MacYoung
- Brenda Maddox
- Harvey Manning (born 1925)
- Steve Matchett (born 1962)
- Joyce Maynard
- DeBarra Mayo (born 1953)
- Fulvio Melia (born 1956)
- Jack Miles
- Joseph Mitchell (1908–1996)
- Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Julia Moulden (born 1956)
- Stephen L. Nelson (born 1959)
- Edward A. Nolfi (born 1958)
- Gerard K. O'Neill (1927–1992)
- Tadeusz Pacholczyk (born 1965)
- Karen A. Page
- Robert Palmer (1945–1997)
- Caroline Paul
- Hugh Pearman (architecture critic)
- Neal Petersen
- Robert Georges Picard (born 1951)
- Melissa Holbrook Pierson (born 1957)
- Gary M Pomerantz
- Christopher Potter (born 1959)
- Dennis M. Powers
- James Van Praagh
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- Libby Rees (born 1995)
- Simon Reeve
- Richard Rhodes
- Matt Ridley (born 1958)
- Graham Robb (born 1958)
- Jason Roberts
- Wayne Roberts
- John K. Rollinson (1884 –1948)
- Barun Roy
- Anneli Rufus
- Ann Rule
- Tim Russert (1950-2008)
- Carl Sagan (1934–1996)
- William Shawcross
- Brendan Simms
- James Sites (born 1924)
- Robert Skidelsky
- Eugene Sledge
- Jean Edward Smith (born 1932)
- Jerry E. Smith
- Jon Smith (born 1975)
- Dr. E. Lee Spence (born 1947)
- Tom Stevenson
- Bill Stilwell
- Alvin Toffler (born 1928)
- Claire Tomalin (born 1933)*Deborah Todd
- Felix Thijssen (born 1937)
- Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
- Neal Thompson
- Thomas Toughill
- Ty Taylor (author)
- Michael J. Varhola (born 1966)
- Ric Viers
- Edgar Vincent
- Voltaire (1694–1778)
- Alan Whiticker (born 1958)
- Francis Wheen
- Carl Wickland (born 1861)
- Eric Williams (1911–1981)
- Richard T. Williamson (born 1958)
- Brandon Wilson (born 1953)
- Charles F. Winslow (1811–1877)
- Neale Donald Walsch
See also: Lists of writers
