This list may include any author who has written a
historical novel as defined in the relevant article.
- Peter Ackroyd, (born 1949)
- Harold Adams[?]
- Bruce Alexander[?]
- Valerie Anand
- Anna Apostolou
- Pat Barker[?]
- Stephanie Barron[?]
- Laura Black[?]
- Emily Brightwell[?]
- Louisa Bronte[?]
- John Buchan, (1875-1940)
- Fiona Buckley
- John Burke[?]
- John Dickson Carr, (1906-1977)
- Philippa Carr, (1906-1993)
- Alys Clare[?]
- Charles Dickens, (1812-1870)
- Michael Clynes
- Jonathan Coe
- Virginia Coffman[?]
- Judith Cook[?]
- Bernard Cornwell
- Thomas B. Costain, (1885-1965)
- Lindsey Davis
- Lillian De La Torre[?]
- P. C. Doherty
- David Donachie[?]
- Alfred Duggan[?]
- Alexandre Dumas, (1802-1870)
- Daphne Du Maurier, (1907-1989)
- Ann Dukthas
- Dorothy Dunnett, (1923-2001)
- Umberto Eco, (1932-)
- George Eliot, (1819-1880)
- Kathy Emerson[?]
- Elizabeth Eyre[?]
- Sebastian Faulks[?]
- Patricia Finney[?]
- Margaret Frazer[?]
- Dale Furutani[?]
- Diana Gabaldon[?]
- Roberta Gellis[?]
- Margaret George[?]
- C. L. Grace
- Philippa Gregory, (born 1954)
- Susanna Gregory[?]
- Robert Lee Hall[?]
- Barbara Hambly[?]
- Lauren Haney[?]
- Paul Harding
- Mollie Hardwick
- Karen Harper[?]
- Simon Hawke, (born 1951)
- Keith Heller[?]
- Georgette Heyer, (1902-1974)
- Eleanor Hibbert, (1906-1993)
- Domini Highsmith[?]
- Tom Holland[?]
- Tom Holt, (born 1961)
- Victoria Holt, (1906-1993)
- Victor Hugo, (1802-1885)
- S. L. Hunter, (born 1951)
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- Christian Jacq[?]
- Rosemary Hawley Jarman[?]
- Michael Jecks
- Alexander Kent[?]
- Kate Kingsbury[?]
- Alanna Knight[?]
- Bernard Knight[?]
- Deryn Lake[?]
- Janet Laurence[?]
- Margaret Lawrence[?]
- Stephen Lewis[?]
- Hannah March[?]
- A.E. Marston[?]
- J. D. Masters, (born 1951)
- Maan Meyers[?]
- Margaret Miles[?]
- Vivian Moore[?]
- Ian Morson[?]
- Amy Myers[?]
- Sharan Newman[?]
- Robert Nye[?]
- Robin Paige[?]
- William Palmer[?]
- Edith Pargeter, (1913-1995)
- Michael Pearce[?]
- Elizabeth Peters[?]
- Ellis Peters, (1913-1995)
- Sharon Penman, (born 1945)
- Anne Perry[?]
- Jean Plaidy
- Mary Reed[?] and Eric Mayer[?]
- Mary Renault, (1905-1983)
- Kel Richards[?]
- Candace Robb[?]
- John M. Roberts[?]
- Lynda Robinson[?]
- Caroline Roe[?]
- Martha Rofheart[?]
- Elliott Roosevelt[?]
- Rosemary Rowe[?]
- Laura Rowland[?]
- Steven Saylor[?]
- Kate Sedley[?]
- Francis Selwyn[?]
- Anya Seton, (died 1916)
- Sir Walter Scott, (1771-1832)
- Samuel Shellabarger, (1888-1954)
- Robert Louis Stevenson, (1850-1894)
- Mary Stewart, (born 1916)
- Rosemary Sutcliff, (1920-1992)
- A.C. Tassie[?]
- Victoria Thompson[?]
- Marilyn Todd[?]
- Leonard Tourney[?]
- Nigel Tranter, (1909-2000)
- Geoffrey Trease[?]
- Henry Treece[?]
- Peter Tremayne[?]
- M.J. Trow[?]
- Robert Van Gulik
- Jill Paton Walsh[?]
- Jay Williams[?]
- David Wishart[?]
- Richard Woodman[?]
- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
- Nicholas Yermakov, (born 1951)