| This is an index of authors whose last names begin with the letter "D". Authors whose names appear in bold are very well-known authors or authors with very well-known works. See also the category Authors-D, which is by nature a (usually) more complete but less organized list. |
Note: Romance language names like "de Gaulle" or "da Vinci" with a lower case d are alphabetized under the second element of the name.
- Dabney, Robert Lewis (1820 – 1898)
- Virginius Dabney (1835-1894)
- Virginius Dabney (1901-1995)
- Dacre, Harry (1860 – 1922)
- Dacres, James R. (1788 – 1853)
- Dadd, Richard (1817 – 1886)
- Dadullah, Mullah (1966 – 2007)
- Daladier, Édouard (1884 – 1970)
- Dale, Henry (1812-1894)
- Dalai Lama (b. 1935)
- Dalby, William Ernest (1862 - 1936)
- Dale, Robert (1812 – 1853)
- Dale, Thomas Francis (1848 - 1923)
- Daley, Victor James William Patrick (1858–1905)
- Dallas, James (1853 – 1916)
- Dallas, J. M. M. (? - ?)
- Dallet, Jr., Joseph (1907 – 1937)
- Dallinger, William Henry (1839 – 1909)
- D'Almeida, William Barrington (1841 – 1897)
- Dalrymple, Alexander (1737 – 1808)
- Dalsheimer, Alice (1845 – 1880)
- Dalton, Charles (1850 – 1913)
- Daly, Charles Patrick (1816 – 1899)
- Dalton, Moray (1882 – 1963)
- Dalton, Ormonde Maddock (1866-1945)
- Dampier, William (1651 – 1715)
- Dana, James Dwight (1813 – 1895)
- Dana, John Cotton (1856 – 1929)
- Dana, Jr., Richard Henry (1815 – 1882)
- Dana, Sr., Richard Henry (1787 – 1879)
- Daniel, George (1789 – 1864)
- Daniel, Peter Vivian (1784 – 1860)
- Daniell, John Frederic (1790 – 1845)
- Daniels, Josephus (1862 – 1948)
- Danilov, Yuri (1866 – 1937)
- Dannreuther, Edward George (1844 – 1905)
- Dargan, Edmund Strother (1805 – 1879)
- Darío, Rubén (1867 – 1916)
- Darley, Felix Octavius Carr (1821 – 1888)
- Darling, Flora Adams (1840 – 1910)
- Darlow, Rev. Thomas Herbert (1858-1927)
- Darmesteter, James (1849 – 1894)
- Darton, Nelson Horatio (1865 – 1948)
- Darwall, John (1788 – 1833)
- Darwin, Charles (1809 – 1882)
- Darwin, Erasmus (1759 – 1838)
- Darwin, George Howard (1845 – 1912)
- Darwin, Leonard (1850 – 1943)
- Darwin, Sir Francis (1848 – 1925)
- Dasent, Arthur Irwin (1859 – 1939)
- Dasent, George Webbe (1817 – 1896)
- Daubeny, Charles Giles Bridle (1795 – 1867)
- Daubrée, Gabriel Auguste (1814 – 1896)
- Daudet, Alphonse (1840 – 1897)
- Daumas, Eugène (1803 – 1871)
- Davenport, Charles (1866 – 1944)
- Davenport, Cyril James Humphries (1848 - 1941)
- Davey, Henry (1853 – 1929)
- Davids, Thomas William Rhys (1843 - 1922) This author's last name is "Rhys Davids".
- Davidson, Colin George Watt (1878–1954)
- Davidson, John (1857 – 1909)
- Davidson, Hunter (1827 – 1913)
- Davidson, Samuel (1807 – 1898)
- Davidson, Thomas (1840 - 1900)
- Davidson, Thomas (1856 - 1923)
- Davidson, William Leslie (1850 – 1915)
- Davies, Albert Emil (1875 – 1950)
- Davies, Arthur Llewelyn (1863 - 1907)
- Davies, Hugh (1739 – 1821)
- Davies, James (1820 - 1883)
- Davies, John Llewelyn (1826 – 1916)
- Davies, William Henry (1871 – 1940)
- Davis, Andrew Jackson (1826–1910)
- Davis, Bergen (1869 – 1958)
- Davis, David (1815 – 1886)
- Davis, Henry William Carless (1874 – 1928)
- Davis, Houston (1899 – 2000)
- Davis, Jefferson (1808 – 1889)
- Davis, Maurice (1921 – 1993)
- Davis, Richard Harding (1864 – 1916)
- Davis, Robert Atkinson (1841 – 1903)
- Davis, Robert Henry (1870 – 1965)
- Davis, Thomas Osborne (1814 – 1845)
- Davis, William Morris (1850 – 1934)
- Davis, William Stearns (1877 – 1930)
- Davison, James William (1813 – 1885)
- Dawkins, Sir Clinton Edward (1859 – 1905)
- Dawkins, William Boyd (1837 – 1929)
- Dawson, George Mercer (1849 - 1901)
- Dawson, John William (1820 – 1899)
- Day, Dorothy (1897 – 1980)
- Day, Frank Parker (1880 – 1950)
- Day, George E (1863 – 1949)
- Day, Lewis F. (1845 – 1910)
- Day, Sandra O’Conner (b. 1930)
- Day, William Rufus (1849 – 1923)
- Day-Lewis, Cecil (1904–1972)
- De Amicis, Edmondo (1846 – 1908)
- De la Beche, Henry Thomas (1796 – 1855)
- De Leon, Daniel (1852 – 1914)
- Deacon, George Frederick (1843-1909)
- Deane, Sidney Norton (1878 – 1943)
- Dearmer, Percy (1867 – 1936)
- Debord, Guy (1931 – 1994)
- Debs, Eugene V. (1855 – 1923)
- Decaisne, Joseph (1807 – 1882)
- DeCosta, Benjamin Franklin (1831 – 1904)
- Decourdemanche, Jean-Adolphe (1844–1916)
- Deeley, Richard Mountford (1855 - 1944)
- Deems, Charles Force (1820 – 1893)
- Deeping, Warwick (1877 – 1950)
- Deer, Lewis (1867–1948)
- Defoe, Daniel (1660 – 1731)
- Defoort, Eric (1943 – )
- De Garmo, Charles (1849 – 1934)
- Dekker, Thomas (1572 – 1632)
- Deland, Margaret (1857 – 1945)
- Delbœuf, Joseph Rémi Léopold (1831 – 1896)
- Delchev, Gotse (1872 – 1903)
- Delehaye, Hippolyte (1859 – 1941)
- Delile, Alire Raffeneau (1778 – 1850)
- Dell, Floyd (1887 – 1969)
- DeLong, George Washington (1844 – 1881)
- Dendy, Arthur (1865-1925)
- Deniehy, Daniel (1828 – 1865)
- Denison, Robert Howland (1911–1985)
- Denning, William Frederick (1848 – 1931)
- Dennis, Clarence Michael James Stanislaus (1876 – 1938)
- Denny, J.T. ( – )
- Dent, Edward Joseph (1876-1957)
- Deploige, Simon (1868–1927)
- Depping, Guillaume (1829 – 1901)
- De Quincey, Thomas (1785 – 1859)
- Derby, Charles Henry (1829 – 1897)
- Derleth, August William (1909 – 1971)
- Derwinski, Edward Joseph (1926 – 2012)
- Derzhavin, Gavrila Romanovich (1743 – 1816)
- Desai, Mahadev (1892 – 1942)
- De Salvio, Alfonso (1873 – 1938)
- de Stein, Edward (1887-1965)
- Descartes, René (1596 – 1650)
- DeSylva, Buddy (1895 – 1950)
- Destréhan, Jean Noël(1754–1823)
- Deutsch, Solomon (1816-1897)
- Devanter, Willis Van (1859 – 1941)
- Devens, Charles (1820 – 1891)
- Devereux, Robert, 2nd Earl of Essex (1565-1601)
- De Vinne, Theodore Low (1828 – 1914)
- Dewar, James (1842-1923)
- Dewey, John (1859 – 1952)
- DeWitt, John L. (1880-1962)
- Dewey, Melville Louis Kossuth (1851 – 1931)
- Diaconus Paulus (720–799)
- Diaz, Armando (1861 – 1928)
- Díaz del Castillo, Bernal (1492 – 1585)
- Dibblee, George Binney (1868 – 1952)
- Dibdin, Charles (1745 – 1814)
- Dibdin, Charles (1849 - 1910)
- Dibdin, James Caxton (1856 – 1901)
- Dibdin, Lewis Tonna (1852-1938)
- Dick, Philip K. (1928 – 1982)
- Dickens, Charles (1812 – 1870)
- Dickey, Donald Ryder (1887 – 1932)
- Dickey, James L. (1923 – 1997)
- Dickins, Frederick Victor (1838 - 1915)
- Dickinson, Emily (1830 – 1886)
- Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes (1862 – 1932)
- Dickson, James (1738 – 1822)
- Dickinson, John (1732 – 1808)
- Dickinson, Robert L. (1861 – 1950)
- Dickinson, Thomas Herbert (1877 – 1961)
- Dicksee, Lawrence Robert (1864 - 1932)
- Dickson, David (1583 – 1662)
- Dickson, Henry Newton (1866 – 1922)
- Diderot, Denis (1713 – 1784)
- Diefenbaker, John (1895 – 1979)
- Diggs, Charles Coles (1922 – 1998)
- Dilke, Sir Charles Wentworth (1843 – 1911)
- Lady Dilke, Emilia (1840 - 1904)
- Dillenius, Johann Jakob (1687 – 1747)
- de Dillmont, Thérèse (1846 – 1890)
- Dillwyn, Lewis Weston (1778 – 1855)
- Dimitry of Rostov (1651 – 1709)
- Dinarchus (c. 361 BCE – c. 291 BCE)
- Dines, William Henry (1855 – 1927)
- Dionne, Narcisse Eutrope (1848 - 1917)
- Dioscorides, Pedanius (40 – 90)
- Disraeli, Benjamin (1804 – 1881)
- Ditton, Humphry (1675 – 1715)
- Dix, William Chatterton (1837 – 1898)
- Dixon, Frank Haigh (1869 - 1944)
- Dixon, Franklin W., Stratemeyer Syndicate pseudonym
- Dixon, James (1814 – 1896)
- Dixon, John Whitly (1847 - 1932)
- Dixon, Richard Watson (1833 – 1900)
- Dixon, William Adam (1841–1917)
- Dobell, Bertram (1842 – 1914)
- Dobson, George (1850 - 1938)
- Dobson, George Edward (1848 - 1895)
- Dobson, Henry Austin (1840 – 1929)
- Doctorow, Cory (b. 1971)
- Dodd, Christopher (b. 1944)
- Dodd, William Edward (1869 – 1940)
- Doddridge, Philip (1702 – 1751)
- Dodge, Mary Mapes (1831 – 1905)
- Dodgson, Campbell (1867 – 1948)
- Dods, Marcus (1834 – 1909)
- Doesburg, Theo van (1883 – 1931)
- Dohrn, Bernardine (b. 1942)
- Doke, Joseph J. (1861 – 1913)
- Dole, Bob (b. 1923)
- Dole, Elizabeth (b. 1936)
- Dole, Nathan Haskell (1852 – 1935)
- Dolmage, Cecil Goodrich Julius (1870–1908)
- Dolson, Grace Neal (1874 – 1961)
- Domett, Alfred (1811 – 1887)
- Domville, James (1842 – 1921)
- Donaldson, James (1831 – 1915)
- Donaldson, Walter (1893 – 1947)
- Donkin, Edward Hawtrey (1853 – 1927)
- Donkin, William Fishburn (1814 – 1869)
- Donne, John (1572 – 1631)
- Donne, William Bodham (1807 – 1882)
- Donnelly, Charles (1914 – 1937)
- Donnelly, Ignatius (1831 – 1901)
- Doody, Samuel (1656 – 1706)
- Dorr, Julia Caroline (Ripley) (1825 – 1919)
- Đorđević, Jovan (1826 – 1900)
- Dorsey, Thomas Andrew (1899 – 1993)
- Dostoevsky, Fyodor (1821 – 1881)
- Doty, Alvah Hunt (1854 – 1934)
- Doubleday, Edward (1810 – 1849)
- Doubleday, William Elliott (1866 – 1959)
- Douce, Francis (1757 – 1834)
- Dougall, Lily (1858 – 1923)
- Doughty, Arthur George (1860 – 1936)
- Douglas, Alfred (1870 – 1945)
- Douglas, Andrew Halliday (1864 – 1902)
- Douglas, Gavin (1474 – 1522)
- Douglas, James (1867-1940)
- Douglas, Norman (1868 – 1952)
- Douglas, Robert Langton (1864 – 1951)
- Douglas, Sir Robert Kennaway (1838 – 1913)
- Douglas, William Orville (1898 – 1980)
- Douglass, Andrew Elicott (1867 – 1962)
- Douglass, Frederick (1818 – 1895)
- Douglass, William Tregarthen (1857-1913)
- Doumic, René (1860 – 1937)
- Dowden, Edward (1843 – 1913)
- Dowe, Jennie Elizabeth Tupper (1845 – 1919)
- Dowling, Levi H. (1844 – 1911)
- Dowson, Ernest Christopher (1867 – 1900)
- Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan (1859 – 1930)
- Doyle, Francis Hastings (1810 – 1888)
- Doyle, John Andrew (1844 – 1907)
- Doyle, Richard (1824 – 1883)
- Dozy, Reinhart (1820 – 1883)
- von Döllinger, Johann (1799 – 1890)
- Drake, Joseph Rodman (1795 – 1820)
- Drake, Leah Bodine (1914 – 1964)
- Drake, Samuel Adams (1833 – 1905)
- Draper, Daniel (1841 – 1931)
- Draper, John William (1811 – 1882)
- Drechsel, Edmund (1843 – 1897)
- Dredge, James (1840 – 1906)
- Dreier, Thomas (1884 – 1976)
- Dreiser, Theodore Herman Albert (1871 – 1945)
- Drenova, Aleksander Stavre (1872 – 1947)
- Drew, Arthur (1865 – 1935)
- Drew, George A. (1894 – 1973)
- Dreyer, John Louis Emil (1852-1926)
- Driesch, Hans Adolf Eduard (1867 - 1941)
- Drinker, Henry Sturgis (1850 – 1937)
- Drinkwater, John (1882 – 1937)
- Driver, Samuel Rolles (1846 – 1914)
- Dromgoole, Will Allen (1860 – 1934)
- Drone, Eaton Sylvester (1842 – 1917)
- Drum, Walter (1870 – 1921)
- Drummond, Francis Maurice Drummond (1839 - 1921)
- Drummond, James (1787 – 1863)
- Drummond, William (1585 – 1649)
- Drummond, William Henry (1854-1907)
- Dryander, Jonas Carlsson (1748 – 1810)
- Dryden, John (1631 – 1700)
- Drygalski, Erich Dagobert von (1865 – 1949)
- Držić, Džore (1461 – 1501)
- Držić, Marin (1508 – 1567)
- Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt (1868 – 1963)
- Duchesne, Louis Marie Olivier (1843 – 1922)
- Duckworth, Dyce (1840 – 1928)
- Duckworth, Wynfrid Laurence Henry (1870-1956)
- Duclaux, Agnes Mary Frances (1857 – 1944)
- Duclaux, Émile (1840 – 1904)
- Dudden, Frederick Homes (1874 – 1955)
- Dudgeon, Robert Ellis (1820 – 1904)
- Duff, Edward Gordon (1863 – 1924)
- Duff, James Duff (1860 – 1940)
- Duff, Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant (1829 – 1906)
- Duffield, William Bartlett (1861-1918)
- Duffield, Walter Geoffrey (1879 – 1929)
- Duggan, Stephen Pierce (1870 – 1950)
- Du Hamel, Jean-Baptiste (1624 – 1706)
- Duhem, Pierre Maurice Marie (1861 - 1916)
- Dumas, Alexander (1802 – 1870)
- Dumas, Alexandre (1824 – 1895)
- Dumas, Alexandre (1802 – 1870)
- Dumont, Léon (1837 – 1877)
- Dumrath, Oskar Henrik (or Oscar Heinrich) (1844 -1929)
- Dunbar, Agnes Baillie Cunninghame (1830 – 1920)
- Dunbar, Paul Laurence (1872 – 1906)
- Dunbar-Nelson, Alice (1875 – 1935)
- Duncan, George Martin (1857 – 1928)
- Duncan, Louis (1861 - 1916)
- Duncan, Peter Martin (1824 – 1891)
- Duncan, Sara Jeannette (1861 – 1922)
- Duncan, Silas (1788 – 1834)
- Duncan, William J.
- Duniway, Clyde Augustus (1866 – 1944)
- Dunlap, Knight (1875 – 1949)
- Dunlap, Orrin Elmer, Jr. (1896 – 1970)
- Dunlap, William (1766 – 1839)
- Dunlop, Robert (1861 – 1930)
- Dunn, Henry (1800 – 1878)
- Dunn, Jennifer Blackburn (1941 – 2007)
- Dunn, Joseph (1872 – 1951)
- Dunn, Stephen Troyte (1868 – 1938)
- Dunn, Waldo Hilary (1882 – 1969)
- Dunning, William A. (1857 – 1922)
- Dunstan, William Rowland (1861-1949)
- Duquesne, Fritz Joubert (1877 – 1956)
- Durand, John (1822 – 1908)
- Dürer, Albrecht (1471 – 1528)
- Durfee, Ann Glenday ( – )
- Durkheim, Émile (1858 – 1917)
- Dury, John (1596 – 1680)
- Duthie, George (1865 - ?)
- Dutt, Rajani Palme (1896 – 1974)
- Dutt, Romesh Chunder (1848 – 1909)
- Duvall, Gabriel (1752 – 1844)
- Dyer, Edward (1545 - 1607)
- Dyer, John (1699 – 1757)
- Dyer, Samuel (1804 – 1843)
- Dyer, Thomas Henry (1804 – 1888)
- Dyer, Thomas Firminger Thiselton (1848 – 1923)
- Dyke, Henry van (1852 – 1933)
- Dyke, John Charles Van (1856 – 1932)
- Dykes, John Bacchus (1823 – 1876)
- Dysart, Allison (1880 – 1962)
- Dyson, Edward (1865 – 1931)