Edward Gibbon
English historian, writer, and Member of Parliament
english male non-fiction writers
Alain de Botton
Swiss-born British philosopher and author
Charles Dickens
English writer and social critic
John Donne
English poet, scholar, soldier and secretary born into a recusant family, who later became a cleric in the Church of England
John Stewart Collis
Irish biographer, rural author, and pioneer of the ecology movement
Cyril Connolly
English literary critic and writer
Bruce Chatwin
English travel writer, novelist and journalist
Sir Thomas Browne
English polymath and author of varied works which reveal his wide learning in diverse fields including science and medicine, religion and the esoteric
Robert Burton
English writer and fellow of Oxford University, best known for his encyclopedic book The Anatomy of Melancholy
J. G. Ballard
English novelist, short story writer, satirist, and essayist who first became associated with the New Wave of science fiction for his post-apocalyptic novels such as The Drowned World . In the late 1960s, he produced a variety of experimental short stories , such as those collected in the controversial The Atrocity Exhibition . In the mid-1970s, Ballard published several novels, among them the highly controversial Crash , a story about car crash fetishism, and High-Rise , a depiction of a luxury apartment building’s descent into violent chaos