List of authors of erotic works
This is a list of notable authors of erotic literature.
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Sex manuals
- Vatsayana -- famous for the Kama Sutra
- Ovid -- Roman author famous for the Ars Amatoria
Fiction
- Li Yu -- author of The Carnal Prayer Mat
- Laura Antoniou -- author of The Marketplace
- Aran Ashe
- Georges Bataille
- Penny Birch
- Patrick (Pat) Califia -- author of Macho Sluts
- John Cleland -- author of Fanny Hill
- James Joyce
- Arabella Knight
- D. H. Lawrence -- author of Lady Chatterley's Lover
- William Levy
- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch -- author of Venus in Furs
- Barry N. Malzberg--author of Screen and writer/editor for Olympia Press
- Henry Miller -- author of Tropic of Cancer
- Anais Nin
- Pauline Réage -- author of Histoire d'O
- Anne Rice, also writing as A. N. Roquelaure
- Catherine Robbe-Grillet
- the Marquis de Sade -- author of Justine, or the Misfortunes of Virtue
- Wendy Swanscombe
- Alexander Trocchi
- Mark Twain -- author of 1601
- Zane
Poetry
- Catullus -- Roman erotic poet
- Sextus Propertius -- Roman poet
- Sappho -- Greek poetess from the island of Lesbos who wrote love poetry to young women.
Autobiography
- Vanessa Duriès
- Lisa B. Falour
- Nancy Friday
- "Aaron Gyes", author of My Secret Life
- Frank Harris
- Catherine Millet, author of The Sexual Life of Catherine M.
- Georges Simenon