List of non-fiction writers
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A–C
- Tomoji Abe (阿部 知二, 1903–1973)
- Aemilius Asper (1st or 2nd c. AD)
- Shimon Agassi (1852–1914)
- Susan Alcorn (born 1953)
- Nelson W. Aldrich (1841–1915)
- Mor Altshuler (born 1957)
- Stephen Ambrose (1936–2002)
- Gabriele Amorth (born 1925)
- Thomas Amory (c. 1691 – 1788)
- Charlotte Anley (1796–1893)
- Sulpicius Apollinaris (2nd c. AD)
- John Asgill (1659–1738)
- Russell Ash (1946–2010)
- Anastasia M. Ashman (born 1964)
- Isaac Asimov (1920–1992)
- Marcus Aurelius (AD 121–180)
- John Austin (1790–1859)
- Richard Bannatyne (died 1605)
- Bill Barich (born 1943)
- Cassiodorus (Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator (c. 485 – c. 585)
- Carol S. Batey (born 1955)
- Antony Beevor (born 1946)
- Elizabeth Beverley (19th c.)
- L. S. Bevington (1845–1895)
- William J. Bernstein (born 1948)
- Betty Berzon (1928–2006)
- Dennison Berwick (born 1956)
- Hester Biddle (c. 1629 – 1697)
- T. J. Binyon (1936–2004)
- Clementina Black (1853–1922)
- Sarah Blackborow (17th c.)
- Yaakov Blau (1929–2013)
- Barbara Blaugdone (c. 1609 – 1704)
- Walter Blith (1605–1654)
- Cornelius Bocchus (1st c. AD)
- John Bodenham (c. 1559 – 1610)
- Boethius (Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius, c. 480–524)
- Jeff Bollow (born 1971)
- Henry Bond (born 1966)
- Eric Borgman (born 1957)
- James Boswell (1740–1795)
- John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners (1467–1553)
- Gerald Warner Brace (1901–1978)
- William Bragge (1823–1884)
- William Brandon (1914–2002)
- Ian Bremmer (born 1969)
- Leslie Brody (born 1952)
- Po Bronson (born 1964)
- Ralph Broome (1742–1805)
- James Bruce (1730–1794)
- Jacob Bryant (1715–1804)
- Francis Trevelyan Buckland (1826–1880)
- Anthony Burgess (1917–1993)
- Richard James Burgess (born 1949)
- Robert Forrest Burgess (born 1927)
- James Burke (born 1936)
- Michael Burke (living)
- Michael Burleigh (born 1955)
- Butrus al-Bustani (1819–1883)
- Jane Butel (living)
- Rhonda Byrne (born 1951)
- Sylvia Brown (1936–2013)
- David Cairns (born 1926)
- Jack Canfield (born 1944)
- Flavius Caper (2nd c. AD)
- Richard Carew (1555–1620)
- Nicholas G. Carr (born 1959)
- Brian Carter (living)
- Elizabeth Carter (1717–1806)
- Cato the Elder (Marcus Porcius Cato, 234–149 BC)
- Aulus Cornelius Celsus (c. 25 BC – c. AD 50)
- Hester Chapone (1727–1801)
- Walter Charleton (1619–1707)
- Marjorie Chibnall (1915–2012)
- Peter Chrisp (born 1958)
- Lars Lindberg Christensen
- Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106–46 BC)
- Brian Cleeve (1921–2003)
- Frances Power Cobbe (1822–1904)
- Sneed B. Collard III (born 1959)
- Columella (Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella, AD 4 – c. 70)
- George Combe (1788–1858)
- Ann Weiser Cornell (born 1949)
- Quintus Cornificius (1st c. BC)
- Richard Cornuelle (1927–2011)
- George Lillie Craik (1798–1866)
- A. J. Cronin (1896–1981)
- Vincent Cronin (born 1924)
- Stephen Covey (1932–2012)
- Sean Covey (born 1964)
- Alice Curwen (c. 1619 – 1679)
- John Cutting (born 1952)
D–H
- David G. Dalin (living)
- Chris Daly (born 1972)
- John Davies (c. 1565 – 1618)
- Paul Davies (born 1946)
- Elizabeth Dawbarn (died 1839)
- Richard Dawkins (born 1941)
- Ellen Dean (living)
- Mary Deverell (1731–1805)
- Anita Diamant (born 1951)
- Graham Diamond (born 1947)
- Jared Diamond (born 1937)
- John Diamond (1953–2001)
- Cedric Charles Dickens (1916-2006)
- William Hepworth Dixon (1821–1879)
- Daniel Dennett (born 1942)
- John Doran (1807–1878)
- Andrew Dornenburg (born 1958)
- Francis Douce (1757–1834)
- John E. Douglas (living)
- Eamon Duffy (born 1947)
- John Gregory Dunne (1932–2003)
- Gerina Dunwich (born 1959)
- Joan Didion (born 1934)
- Martin Ebon (born 1917)
- Jun Eto (江藤 淳, 1932–1999)
- Filip Erceg (born 1979)
- John Edward (born 1969)
- Timothy Egan (born 1954)
- Anthony Faramus (1920–1990)
- Wayne Federman (born 1959)
- Orlando Figes (born 1959)
- Margery Fish (1892–1969)
- Timothy Fish (living)
- Verrius Flaccus (c. 55 BC – AD 20)
- Antony Flew (1922–2010)
- Robert Newton Flew (1886–1962)
- Richard Fortey (born 1946)
- Anne Frank (1929–1945)
- Ian Frazier (born 1951)
- Joseph Friedenson (1922–2013)
- Frontinus (Sextus Julius Frontinus (c. AD 40–103)
- Sadakazu Fujii (藤井 貞和, born 1942)
- Sadayoshi Fukuda (福田 定良, 1917–2002)
- Fujiwara no Teika (藤原定家, 1162–1241)
- Hideko Fukuda (福田 英子, 1865–1927)
- Yukichi Fukuzawa (福澤 諭吉, 1835–1901)
- Futabatei Shimei (二葉亭 四迷, 1864–1909)
- Vivian Hunter Galbraith (1889–1976)
- Aulus Gellius (AD 125 – after 180)
- Benjamin Genocchio (born 1969)
- Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)
- Malcolm Gladwell (born 1963)
- Daniel Goleman (born 1946)
- Doris Kearns Goodwin (born 1943)
- Ben Goto (五島 勉, born 1929)
- Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002)
- Alec Greven (living)
- Aubrey de Grey (born 1963)
- Jeffrey Guterman (born 1958)
- Arai Hakuseki (新井 白石, 1657–1725)
- Ian Halperin (born 1964)
- Kiyoteru Hanada (花田 清輝, 1909–1974)
- Tamiki Hara (原 民喜, 1905–1951)
- Jonathan Harr (living)
- Sam Harris (born 1967)
- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1934–2002)
- Nyozekan Hasegawa (長谷川 如是閑, 1875–1969)
- Shinkichi Hashimoto (橋本 進吉, 1882–1945)
- Stephen Hawking (born 1942)
- Meshullam Feivush Heller (c. 1742–1794)
- Mark D. Herber (living)
- Herodotus (5th century BC)
- Kazuo Hirotsu (広津 和郎, 1891–1968)
- Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011)
- Louisa Gurney Hoare (1784–1836)
- John Cam Hobhouse (1786–1869)
- Eric Hobsbawm (1917–2012)
- Adam Hochschild (born 1942)
- Susie Hodge (living)
- Richard Holmes (born 1945)
- Richard Holmes (military historian) (1946–2011)
- Kazushi Hosaka (保坂 和志, born 1956)
- Shinichi Hoshi (星 新, 1926–1997)
- Anna Mary Howitt (1824–1884)
- William Howitt (1792–1879)
- Christine Howser (born 1965)
- Gaius Julius Hyginus (c. 64 BC – AD 17)
J–P
- Ada Jafarey (1924–2015)
- Roy Jenkins (1920–2003)
- Saurav Jha (living)
- Irving Johnson (1905–1991)
- Olivia Judson (born 1970)
- Justin (2nd century AD)
- Elizabeth Keckley (1818–1907)
- John Keegan (born 1934)
- Jim Keith (1949–1999)
- Richard Kemp (born 1959)
- Ian Kershaw (born 1943)
- Tracy Kidder (born 1945)
- Alfie Kohn (born 1957)
- János Kornai (born 1928)
- Charles H. Kraft (born 1932)
- Zundel Kroizer (1924–2014)
- Corby Kummer (born c. 1956)
- James Howard Kunstler (born 1948)
- Ray Kurzweil (born 1948)
- Arnold Kutzinski (1879–1956)
- Marcus Antistius Labeo (died AD 10 or 11)
- David Landes (1924–2013)
- James Laxer (born 1941)
- Louisa Leaman (born 1976)
- James J. LeBar (1936–2008)
- Robert Leckie (1920–2001)
- Daniel Levitin (born 1957)
- Livy (Titus Livius, 64 or 59 BC – AD 17)
- Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1836–1870)
- Johanan Luria (15th–16th cc.)
- Scott MacGillivray (born 1957)
- Margaret MacMillan (born 1943)
- Brenda Maddox (born 1932)
- Chalda Maloff (born 1946)
- Harvey Manning (born 1925)
- Steve Matchett (born 1962)
- Joyce Maynard (born 1953)
- DeBarra Mayo (born 1953)
- Fulvio Melia (born 1956)
- Jack Miles (born 1942)
- Joseph Mitchell (1908–1996)
- Messenger Monsey (1694–1788)
- Simon Sebag Montefiore (born 1965)
- Julia Moulden (born 1956)
- Stephen L. Nelson (born 1959)
- Cornelius Nepos (110–25 BC)
- Edward A. Nolfi (born 1958)
- Julius Obsequens (mid-4th c. AD)
- Daniel Okrent (born 1948)
- Nick Ortner (living)
- Gerard K. O'Neill (1927–1992)
- Tadeusz Pacholczyk (born 1965)
- Karen A. Page (born 1962)
- Robert Palmer (1945–1997)
- Isaac Pardo (18th c.)
- Jacob Pardo (18th c.)
- Jacob Vita Pardo (1822–1843)
- Joseph Pardo (c. 1624 – 1677)
- Moses Pardo (died 1888)
- Caroline Paul (born 1963)
- Gaius Suetonius Paulinus (1st c. AD)
- Hugh Pearman (living)
- F. David Peat (born 1938)
- Eleanor Perenyi (1918–2009)
- Neal Petersen (living)
- Robert Georges Picard (born 1951)
- Charles P. Pierce (born 1953)
- Melissa Holbrook Pierson (born 1957)
- Steven Pinker (born 1954)
- Pliny the Elder (Gaius Plinius Secundus, AD 23–79)
- Pliny the Younger (Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, AD 61 – c. 113)
- Gary Pomerantz (born 1960)
- Christopher Potter (born 1959)
- Dennis M. Powers (born 1942)
- James Van Praagh (born 1958)
- Annie Proulx (born 1935)
R–Z
- Libby Rees (born 1995)
- Simon Reeve (born 1972)
- Richard Rhodes (born 1937)
- Mrs. Riazuddin (born 1928)
- Matt Ridley (born 1958)
- Graham Robb (born 1958)
- Jason Roberts (living)
- Wayne Roberts (born 1944)
- Mark Roeder (born 1957)
- John K. Rollinson (1884–1948)
- Isabella Frances Romer (1798–1852)
- Yechezkel Roth (living)
- Barun Roy (born 1977)
- Anneli Rufus (living)
- Gaius Musonius Rufus (1st c. AD)
- Ann Rule (1931–2015)
- Tim Russert (1950–2008)
- Carl Sagan (1934–1996)
- Curt Sampson (born 1952)
- Paul Schneider (born 1962)
- Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca, c. 4 BC – AD 65)
- Ruchoma Shain (1914–2013)
- William Shawcross (born 1946)
- Brendan Simms (born 1967)
- James Sites (born 1924)
- Robert Skidelsky (born 1939)
- Eugene Sledge (1923–2001)
- Jean Edward Smith (born 1932)
- Jerry E. Smith (1950–2010)
- Jon Smith (born 1975)
- Walter Shaw Sparrow (1862–1940)
- Dr. E. Lee Spence (born 1947)
- Tom Stevenson (born 1941)
- Bill Stilwell (living)
- Suzanne Strempek Shea (living)
- Suetonius (Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, AD 69 – after 122)
- Alexander Süsskind of Grodno (died 1794)
- Tacitus (Publius Cornelius Tacitus, c. 56 – c. 120)
- Barbara Tate (1927–2009)
- Ty Taylor (living)
- Felix Thijssen (born 1937)
- Neal Thompson (living)
- Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
- Deborah Todd (living)
- Alvin Toffler (born 1928)
- Lynn Toler (1928–2016)
- Claire Tomalin (born 1933)
- Thomas Toughill (living)
- Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus (1st century AD)
- Hayyim Tyrer (died 1813)
- Neil DeGrasse Tyson (born 1958)
- Henrik Valeur (born 1966)
- Michael J. Varhola (born 1966)
- Lizzie Velásquez (born 1989)
- Ric Viers (born 1949)
- Edgar Vincent (1857–1941)
- Vitruvius (c. 80–70 BC – after 15 BC)
- Voltaire (1694–1778)
- Neale Donald Walsch (born 1943)
- Xavier Waterkeyn (born 1965)
- Francis Wheen (born 1957)
- Dorothy White (c. 1630 – 1686)
- Alan Whiticker (born 1958)
- Douglas Whynott (born 1950)
- Carl Wickland (born 1861)
- Eric Williams (1911–1981)
- Rowan Williams (born 1950)
- Richard T. Williamson (born 1958)
- Brandon Wilson (born 1953)
- Charles F. Winslow (1811–1877)
- Forbes Benignus Winslow (1810-1874)
- Garrison W. Wynn (living)
- Lydia Zimmermann (born 1966)
- Alice Zimmern (1855–1939)
See also
- List of biographers
- List of critics
- List of essayists
- List of historians
- List of philosophers
- List of political authors
- List of non-fiction environmental writers
- Lists of writers
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