Discover historical fiction authors, their complete bibliographies, and series.
Patrick O’Brian wrote the Aubrey-Maturin novels, twenty completed books and one unfinished, about a Royal Navy captain and his ship’s surgeon during the Napoleonic Wars. Richard Snow, writing in The New York Times Book Review in 1991, called them “the…
James Clavell stands as one of the most influential historical fiction authors of the 20th century, bringing Asian history and culture to Western readers through epic, meticulously researched novels. His Asian Saga series, spanning four centuries across Japan, Hong Kong,…
Alison Weir is one of the best-known popular historians writing in Britain today, and one of the few who moves between history and historical fiction with equal success. Her biographies of Henry VIII’s wives, Eleanor of Aquitaine and the medieval…
S.J. Parris is the pen name of British novelist and journalist Stephanie Merritt, and the author of the Giordano Bruno novels, one of the best-loved Elizabethan spy thriller series in print. Her books take a real Renaissance philosopher, a fugitive…
Lindsey Davis is the leading name in Roman historical mysteries. For more than 35 years, she has brought first-century Rome to life through two linked detective series, a handful of ambitious standalone novels, and a narrative voice that makes the…
Ben Kane is one of historical fiction’s most versatile authors, known for his meticulously researched military adventures that span Ancient Rome, Hannibal’s campaigns, Viking Ireland, the Crusades, and the Napoleonic Wars. With 11 Sunday Times bestsellers and over 2.25 million…
Wilbur Smith was one of the most successful adventure novelists of all time, with over 140 million books sold worldwide in more than 30 languages. His sweeping sagas of adventure, treasure, and survival across Africa and ancient Egypt captivated readers…
Steven Pressfield has earned a reputation as one of the finest writers of ancient warfare fiction, bringing battles such as Thermopylae and the Peloponnesian War to vivid life through meticulous research and gripping storytelling. His debut historical novel, Gates of…
Madeline Miller has published only two novels, and both changed what readers expect from a Greek myth retelling. She takes figures who are minor or silent in Homer and gives them a full inner life, in prose that is clear,…
C.J. Sansom was a British master of historical crime fiction who brought Tudor England to vivid, authentic life through his Matthew Shardlake series. With a PhD in history and meticulous research, Sansom created gripping murder mysteries set against the dangerous…