List of historical novelists
This list may include any author who has written historical novels as defined in the relevant article.
- Peter Ackroyd
- Pat Barker
- John Buchan
- Jonathan Coe
- Thomas B. Costain
- Lindsey Davis
- P.C.Doherty
- Alexandre Dumas
- Daphne Du Maurier
- Dorothy Dunnett
- George Eliot
- Elizabeth Eyre
- Sebastian Faulks
- Margaret George
- Susanna Gregory
- Paul Harding
- Georgette Heyer
- Tom Holt
- Victor Hugo
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- Rosemary Hawley Jarman
- Michael Jecks
- Alexander Kent
- Bernard Knight
- Ian Morson
- Edith Pargeter
- Elizabeth Peters
- Ellis Peters
- Sharon Penman
- Jean Plaidy
- Mary Renault
- Martha Rofheart
- Anya Seton
- Sir Walter Scott
- Samuel Shellabarger
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Mary Stewart
- Rosemary Sutcliff
- Geoffrey Trease
- Henry Treece
- Peter Tremayne
- Jill Paton Walsh
- Richard Woodman