Francis Bacon (22 Jan 1561 - 09 Apr 1626)
Henry Baerlein (1875 - 1960)
Richard Bagot (08 Nov 1860 - 11 Dec 1921)
Philip James Bailey (22 Apr 1816 - 06 Sep 1902)
Sarah Lord Bailey (09 Sep 1856 - 09 Jul 1922)
Joanna Baillie (11 Sep 1762 - 23 Feb 1851)
Alexander Bain (11 Jun 1818 - 18 Sep 1903)
F.W. (Francis William) Bain (29 Apr 1863 - 24 Feb 1940)
Thomas Blackburn Baines (03 Feb 1832 - 03 Aug 1891)
Louisa Alice Baker (13 Jan 1856 - 22 Mar 1926)
Wolcott Balestier (13 Dec 1861 - 06 Dec 1891)
May Baldwin (08 May 1882 - 03 Jan 1950)
Catherine Ball (Baroness de Calabrella; ## ### #### - 1856)
R.M. Ballantyne (24 Apr 1825 - 08 Feb 1894)
Honoré de Balzac (20 May 1799 - 18 Aug 1850)
John Kendrick Bangs (27 May 1862 - 21 Jan 1922)
Anna Laetitia Barbauld (20 Jun 1743 - 09 Mar 1825)
W.T.A. Barber (1860 - 1943)
Armiger Barclay (?? - ??)
Florence L. Barclay (02 Dec 1862 - 10 Mar 1921)
Eliza Ashurst Bardonneau (08 Jul 1813 - 25 Nov 1850)
Richard Harris Barham (06 Dec 1788 - 17 Jun 1845)
Sabine Baring-Gould (28 Jan 1834 - 02 Jan 1924)
George Barlow (19 Jun 1847 - 26 Dec 1913)
James Barnes (19 Sep 1866 - 30 Apr 1936)
Alfred Wilson Barrett (1870 - 16 Nov 1945)
Wilson Barrett (18 Feb 1846 - 22 Jul 1904)
J.M. Barrie (09 May 1860 - 19 Jun 1937)
F. Clinton Barrington, see Joseph Holt Ingraham.
Dr. Barthez (Antoine Barthez; 06 Aug 1811 - 11 Dec 1891)
Ann Charlotte Bartholomew (20 Mar 1800 - 18 Aug 1862)
Margaret Batchelor (24 Sep 1876 - 08 May 1955)
Charles T. Bateman (29 Apr 1852 - 16 Jan 1927)
Beatrice Batty (30 Aug 1833 - 30 Apr 1933)
L. Frank Baum (15 May 1856 - 06 May 1919)
Rex E. Beach (01 Sep 1877 - 07 Dec 1949)
C.E.W. Bean (18 Nov 1879 - 30 Aug 1968)
Aubrey Beardsley (21 Aug 1872 - 16 Mar 1898)
Pierre Beaumarchais (24 Jan 1732 - 18 May 1799)
Johann Matthäus Bechstein (11 Jul 1757 - 23 Feb 1822)
Christopher Beck, see F.G. Aflalo.
Ruth M. Bedford (02 Aug 1882 - 24 Jul 1963)
William Beckford (29 Sep 1760 - 02 May 1844)
Max Beerbohm (24 Aug 1872 - 20 May 1956)
John Hay Beith, see Ian Hay.
R.S. Warren Bell (1871 - 26 Sep 1921)
Robert Bell (16 Jan 1800 - 12 Apr 1867)
Walter George Bell (20 Jul 1867 - 2 May 1942)
Edward Bellamy (26 Mar 1850 - 22 May 1898)
Gerard Bendall (1853 - 24 Feb 1917)
Elizabeth Benger (bapt. 15 Jun 1775 - 09 Jan 1827)
Edward Brown Bennett (1842- 1927)
A.C. Benson (24 Apr 1862 - 17 Jun 1925)
E.F. (Edward Frederic) Benson (24 Jul 1867 - 29 Feb 1940)
Samuel Levy Bensusan (29 Sep 1872 - 11 Dec 1958)
Richard Bentley (24 Oct 1794 - 10 Sep 1871)
Pierre-Jean de Béranger (19 Aug 1780 - 16 Jul 1857)
Jule Bernat (30 Jan 1827 - 27 Oct 1912)
Edmund William Berridge (1843 - 1923)
Algernon Edward Berriman (19 Dec 1883 - 19 Nov 1959)
Matilda Betham-Edwards (04 Mar 1836 - 04 Jan 1919)
Edwyn Bevan (15 Feb 1870 - 18 Oct 1943)
Tom Bevan (1868 - 09 Nov 1937)
Isaac Bickerstaff, see Jonathan Swift.
Harold Edward Bindloss (06 Apr 1866 - 30 Dec 1945)
Clifton Bingham (1859 - 28 Mar 1913)
George A. Birmingham (James Owen Hannay; 16 Jul 1865 - 02 Feb 1950)
Ladbroke Black (21 Jun 1877 - 27 Jul 1940)
Richard Harrison Black (? - ?)
William Black (13 Nov 1841 - 10 Dec 1898)
John Blackie (27 Oct 1782 - 16 Jun 1874)
John Blackie Jr. (27 Sep 1805 - 12 Feb 1873)
John Alexander Blackie (07 Mar 1850 - 17 Nov 1918)
Walter Wilfrid Blackie (31 Jul 1860 - 14 Feb 1953)
R.D. Blackmore (07 Jun 1825 - 20 Jan 1900)
Algernon Blackwood (14 Mar 1869 - 10 Dec 1951)
William Blackwood (20 Nov 1776 - 16 Sep 1834)
William Blake (28 Nov 1757 - 12 Aug 1827)
Trevor Blakemore (13 Oct 1879 - 08 Jul 1953)
Laman Blanchard (15 May 1804 - 15 Feb 1845)
Marguerite Blessington (01 Sep 1789 - 04 Jun 1849)
Henry Bliss (UK author; 1797 - 1873)
Henry Bliss (Canadian; 24 Aug 1797 - 31 Jul 1875)
Ursula Bloom (11 Dec 1892 - 29 Oct 1984)
Giovanni Boccaccio (16 Jun 1313 - 21 Dec 1375)
Guillaume Louis Bocquillon-Wilhem (18 Dec 1781 - 26 Apr 1842)
David Bogue (16 Oct 1808 - Nov 1856)
Charles Bold (? - ?)
Florence Bone (26 Jan 1875 - 17 Feb 1971)
A.E. Bonser (c.1850 - 19 Oct 1930)
Guy Boothby (13 Oct 1867 - 26 Feb 1905)
Edmund Bosanquet (??)
George Borrow (05 Jul 1803 - 26 Jul 1881)
Dorothy Boulger (30 May 1846 - 22 Jul 1923) aka Theo Gift.
Marjorie Bowen (Gabrielle Margaret Vere Campbell Long; 01 Nov 1885 - 23 Dec 1952)
Percy Boyd (1828 - 01 Jan 1876)
Violet Bradby (1886 - ?)
Mary Elizabeth Braddon (aka Babington White; 04 Oct 1835 - 04 Feb 1915)
William Brailsford (15 Oct 1823 - 23 Apr 1884)
Sheila E. Braine (Emma Sheila Braine; 1859 - 1943)
Angela Brazil (30 Nov 1868 - 13 Mar 1947)
Harry Chase Brearley (02 Oct 1870 - 10 Feb 1940)
Fredrika Bremer (17 Aug 1801 - 31 Dec 1865)
Brenda, see Georgina Castle Smith.
Captain F.S. Brereton (05 Aug 1872 - 12 Aug 1957)
Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (02 May 1810 - 06 Mar 1897)
John Twells Brex (05 Jun 1873 - 07 Jan 1920)
William Bridgen, see Fred W. Leigh.
James B. Bridge (??)
Florence Bright (??)
Frances Freeling Broderip (née Hood; 11 Sep 1830 - 03 Nov 1878)
Anne Brontë (17 Jan 1820 - 28 May 1849)
Charlotte Brontë (21 Apr 1816 - 31 Mar 1855)
Emily Brontë (30 Jul 1818 - 19 Dec 1848)
Charles William Shirley Brooks (29 Apr 1816 - 23 Feb 1874)
Rhoda Broughton (29 Nov 1840 - 05 Jun 1920)
Alice Brown (05 Dec 1857 - 21 Jun 1848)
Dr. Samuel Brown (23 Jan 1817 - 21 Sep 1856) Samuel Morison Brown.
Porter Emerson Browne (22 Jun 1879 - 20 Sep 1934)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (06 Mar 1806 - 29 Jun 1861)
Robert Browning (07 May 1812 - 12 Dec 1889)
David Bryce (1845 - 1923)
Egerton Brydges (30 Nov 1762 - 08 Sep 1837)
John Buchan (26 Aug 1875 - 11 Feb 1940)
Emily Handasyde Buchanan, see Handasyde.
Robert Buchanan (18 Aug 1841 - 10 Jun 1901)
A.R. Buckland (18 Apr 1857 - 08 Apr 1942)
Ada Buisson (26 Mar 1839 - 27 Dec 1866)
Shan F. Bullock (17 May 1865 - 27 Feb 1935)
Edward Bulwer-Lytton (25 May 1803 - 18 Jan 1873)
Edward Robert Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (08 Nov 1831 - 24 Nov 1891)
Ned Buntline, see Edward Judson.
John Bunyan (1628 - 31 Aug 1688)
G.B. Burgin (George Brown Burgin; 15 Jan 1856 - 20 Jun 1944)
F.C. Burnand (29 Nov 1836 - 21 Apr 1917)
Frances Hodgson Burnett (24 Nov 1849 - 29 Oct 1924)
Frances Burney (13 Jun 1752 - 06 Jan 1840)
Clara Louise Burnham (25 May 1854 - 20 Jun 1927)
Robert Burns (25 Jan 1759 - 21 Jul 1796)
Isabel Burton (20 Mar 1831 - 22 Mar 1896)
John Wear Burton (08 Mar 1875 - 22 May 1970)
Richard Francis Burton (19 Mar 1821 - 20 Oct 1890)
Samuel Butler (04 Dec 1835 - 18 Jun 1902)
George Gordon Byron (22 Jan 1788 - 19 Apr 1824)
May Byron (1861 - 05 Nov 1936)
Enoch E. Byrum (13 Oct 1861 - 05 Jan 1942)