Famous English Authors in Chronological Order

This is a list of popular writers in English Literature with their period of living. This gives you a outlook of which author belongs to which period. This post is a recap of the history in a single list, hope this will be helpful for students, beginners and those who prepare for UGC NET. 

1. Geoffrey Chaucer (1343 - 1400)
2. Sir Thomas More(1478 - 1535)
3. Edmund Spenser(1552 - 1599)
4. John Donne(1573 - 1631)
5. Francis Bacon(1561 - 1626)
6. Christopher Marlowe (1564 - 1593)
7. William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
8. James I King of England (1566 - 1625)
9. Ben Jonson(1573 - 1637)
10. John Milton (1608 - 1674)
11. John Dryden (1631 - 1700)
12. Daniel Defoe (1660 - 1731)
13. Jonathan Swift(1667- 1745)
14. Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
15. Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754)
16. Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
17. Oliver Goldsmith (1730 - 1774)
18. Fanny Burney (1752 - 1840)
19. William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)                                           
20. Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832)
21. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
22. Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
23. Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)
24. Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822)
25. John Keats (1795 - 1821)
26. Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
27. Mary Shelley (1797 - 1817)
28. William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 - 1863)
29. Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
30. Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882)
31. Charlotte Brontë (1816 - 1855)
32. Emily Brontë (1818 - 1848)
33. George Eliot Mary Ann (Marian) Evans (1819 - 1880)
34. Anne Brontë (1820 - 1849)
35. Samuel Butler(1835 - 1902)
36. Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928)
37. Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889)
38. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1895)
39. Oscar Wilde(1856 - 1900)
    
    
40. Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)
41. Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1907
42. H.G. (Herbert George) Wells (1866 - 1946)
43. John Galsworthy (1867 - 1933) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1932
44. Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1950
45. Ford Madox Ford (1873 - 1939)
46. Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1953
47. William Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
48. E.M. Forster (1879 - 1970)
49. Sir P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975)
50. Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941)
51. D.H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930)
52. T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1948
53. J.R.R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973)
54. Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
55. Robert Graves (1895 - 1985)
56. George Orwell ( 1903 - 1950)
57. Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966)
58. Graham Greene (1904 - 1991)
59. Richard Llewellyn (1906 - 1983)
60. Sir William Golding (1911 - 1993) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1983
61. Lawrence Durrell (1912 - 1990)
62. Patrick White (1912 - 1990) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1973
63. Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953)
64. Denton Welch (1915 - 1948)
65. Anthony Burgess (1917 - 1993)
66. Dame Iris Murdoch (1919)
67. Doris Lessing (1919)
68. Philip Larkin (1922 - 1985)
69. Sir Kingsley Amis (1922 - 1995)
70. Tom Sharpe (1928)
71. Ted Hughes (1930 - 1998)
72. J.G. Ballard (1930)
73. Harold Pinter (1930)
74. John Le Carre (1931)
75. Sir V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad) Naipaul (1932) Nobel Prize in Literature, 2001
76. Salman Rushdie (1947)
77. Ian McEwan (1948)
78. Martin Amis (1949)
79. Samuel Beckett
80. John Osborne