Shelby Foote
American writer, historian and journalist
novelist
Esther Forbes
American novelist, historian and children’s writer who received the Pulitzer Prize and the Newbery Medal
Ford Maddox Ford
English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals The English Review and The Transatlantic Review were instrumental in the development of early 20th-century English and American literature
Richard Ford
American novelist and short story writer
E. M. Forster
English fiction writer, essayist and librettist
Frederick Forsyth
English novelist and journalist
Elena Ferrante
Pseudonymous Italian novelist
Bruce Duffy
American author
Alexandre Dumas
French writer
Ross E. Dunn
American historian and writer, the author of several books including The Adventures of Ibn Battuta, and coauthor of the highly cited History on Trial: Culture Wars and the Teaching of the Past