| Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) |
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| George Darley (1795–1846) |
| Flora Darling Adams (1840–1910) |
| William Darlington (1782–1863) |
| James Darmesteter (1849–1894) |
| Pierre Antoine Noël Bruno, Comte Daru (1767–1829) |
| Frances Wright (1795–1852) |
| Charles Darwin (1809–1882) |
| Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802) |
| Sir George Webbe Dasent (1817–1896) |
| Countess Dash (1804–1872) |
| Charles Dassoucy (1605–1677) |
| Jean-Henri Merle d’Aubigné (1794–1872) |
| Alphonse Daudet (1840–1897) |
| Ernest Daudet (1837–1921) |
| Georg Friedrich Daumer (1800–1875) |
| Sir William Davenant (1606–1668) |
| John Davenport (1597–1670) |
| Robert Davenport (fl. 1623) |
| Thomas William Rhys Davids (1843–1922) |
| John Davidson (1857–1909) |
| Lucretia Maria Davidson (1808–1825) |
| Thomas Davidson (1840–1900) |
| Sir John Davies (1570–1626) |
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| Enrico Caterino Davila (1576–1631) |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) |
| Andrew Jackson Davis (1826–1910) |
| Henry Winter Davis (1817–1865) |
| Jefferson Davis (1808–1889) |
| John Chandler Bancroft Davis (1822–1907) |
| Mary Evelyn Moore Davis (1852–1909) |
| Rebecca Harding Davis (1831–1910) |
| Richard Harding Davis (1864–1916) |
| Thomas Osborne Davis (1814–1845) |
| Michael Davitt (1846–1896) |
| Sir Humphry Davy (1778–1829) |
| Denis Davydov (1784–1839) |
| Anna Laurens Dawes (1851–1938) |
| Rufus Dawes (1803–1859) |
| Alec John Dawson (1872–1952) |
| Coningsby Dawson (1883–1959) |
| Sir John William Dawson (1820–1899) |
| William James Dawson (1854–1928) |
| Holman Francis Day (1865–1935) |
| John Day (1574–1640?) |
| Richard Edwin Day (b. 1852) |
| Thomas Day (1748–1789) |
| Edmondo De Amicis (1846–1908) |
| John Ward Dean (1815–1902) |
| Silas Deane (1737–1789) |
| Paul Émile Debraux (1796–1831) |
| Decken, Auguste Meyer von der (1828–1908) |
| Jeremias de Decker (1609–1666) |
| Frans de Cort (1834–1878) |
| Benjamin Franklin DeCosta (1831–1904) |
| Charles Théodore Henri De Coster (1827–1879) |
| Pierre Decourcelle (1856–1926) |
| Friedrich Dedekind (1525–1598) |
| Charles Force Deems (1820–1893) |
| Daniel Defoe (1661?–1731) |
| Felix Gregory De Fontaine (1832–1896) |
| John William De Forest (1826–1906) |
| Angelo De Gubernatis (1840–1913) |
| José-Maria de Heredia (1842–1905) |
| Richard Dehmel (1863–1920) |
| Charles de Kay (1848–1935) |
| Eduard Douwes Dekker (Multatuli) (1820–1887) |
| Thomas Dekker (c. 1570–1632) |
| Edward Floyd De Lancey (1821–1905) |
| Jan Jacob Alfried de Laet (1815–1891) |
| Ellen Douglass Deland (1860–1923) |
| Margaret Deland (1857–1945) |
| Michel Delaporte (1806–1872) |
| Casimir Delavigne (1793–1843) |
| Edwin De Leon (1818–1891) |
| François Charles Deléry (1815–1880) |
| Franz Delitzsch (1813–1890) |
| Thomas Deloney (c. 1543–1600) |
| Taxile Delord (1815–1877) |
| Albert Delpit (1849–1893) |
| Alfred Delvau (1825–1867) |
| Anton Antónovich, Baron Delwig (1798–1831) |
| Dimitrije Demeter (1811–1872) |
| Henry Churchill De Mille (1850–1893) |
| James De Mille (1833–1880) |
| Philander Deming (1829–1915) |
| Jacques Claude Demogeot (1808–1894) |
| William De Morgan (1839–1917) |
| Demosthenes (384–322 B.C.) |
| Charlotte Louisa Hawkins Dempster (1835–1913) |
| Sir John Denham (1615–1669) |
| Ferdinand Denis (1798–1890) |
| Charles Wheeler Denison (1809–1881) |
| Mary Andrews Denison (1826–1911) |
| Henry Denne (1606/7–1660?) |
| Pierre Jacques René Denne-Baron (1780–1854) |
| Joseph Dennie (1768–1812) |
| John Dennis (1657–1734) |
| Chauncey Mitchell Depew (1834–1928) |
| John Watts De Peyster (1821–1907) |
| Henry Walter De Puy (1820–1876) |
| Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859) |
| George Horatio Derby (1823–1861) |
| James Cephas Derby (1818–1892) |
| Friedrich Dernburg (1833–1911) |
| Paul Déroulède (1846–1914) |
| Gavrila Derzhavin (1743–1816) |
| Francesco De Sanctis (1817–1883) |
| Marc-Antoine Désaugiers (1772–1827) |
| Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786–1859) |
| René Descartes (1596–1650) |
| Eustache Deschamps (1346?–1406) |
| Antoni Deschamps (1800–1869) |
| Émile Deschamps (1791–1871) |
| Emile Deschanel (1819–1904) |
| Paul Deschanel (1856–1922) |
| Antoinette Deshoulières (1638–1694) |
| Paul Desjardins (1859–1940) |
| Charles Deslys (1821–1885) |
| Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin (1595–1676) |
| Gustave Desnoiresterres (1817–1892) |
| Louis Desnoyers (1805–1868) |
| Bonaventure Des Périers (1500?–1544?) |
| Philippe Desportes (1546–1606) |
| Madame de Staël (1766–1817) |
| Philippe Néricault Destouches (1680–1754) |
| Antoine Louis Claude, Comte Destutt de Tracy (1754–1836) |
| Lord de Tabley (John Byrne Leicester Warren) (1835–1895) |
| João de Deus (1830–1896) |
| Sir Aubrey de Vere (1788–1846) |
| Aubrey Thomas de Vere (1814–1902) |
| Thomas Blaides De Walden (1811–1873) |
| John Dewey (1859–1952) |
| Orville Dewey (1794–1882) |
| Juan Bautista Diamante (1625?–1687) |
| Antonio Gonçalves Dias (1823–1864) |
| Abby Morton Diaz (1821–1904) |
| Leopoldo Diaz (1862–1947) |
| Narciso Díaz de Escovar (1860–1935) |
| Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1496–1584) |
| Charles Dibdin (1745–1814) |
| Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776–1847) |
| Thomas Dibdin (1771–1841) |
| Edward Dicey (1832–1911) |
| Charles Dickens (1812–1870) |
| Charles Dickens, Jr. (1837–1896) |
| Mary Angela Dickens (1838–1896) |
| Anna Elizabeth Dickinson (1842–1932) |
| Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) |
| Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson (1862–1932) |
| John Dickinson (1732–1808) |
| Denis Diderot (1713–1784) |
| Charles Didier (1805–1864) |
| Christian Dieffenbach (1822–1901) |
| Léon Dierx (1838–1912) |
| Lorents Henrick Segelcke Dietrichson (1834–1917) |
| Friedrich Christian Diez (1794–1876) |
| Katharina Diez (1809–1882) |
| Charles Wentworth Dilke (1789–1864) |
| Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke (1843–1911) |
| Emilia Francis Strong, Lady Dilke (1840–1904) |
| Emmy von Dincklage-Campe (1825–1891) |
| Franz von Dingelstedt (1814–1881) |
| Júlio Diniz (1839–1871) |
| António Diniz da Cruz e Silva (1731–1799) |
| Anna Peyre Shackelford Dinnies (1816–1886) |
| Diogenes Laertius (Third Century A.D.) |
| Isaac Disraeli (1766–1848) |
| Beulah Marie Dix (1876–1970) |
| Dorothea Lynde Dix (1802–1887) |
| John Adams Dix (1798–1879) |
| Morgan Dix (1827–1908) |
| Richard Watson Dixon (1833–1900) |
| Thomas Dixon, Jr. (1864–1946) |
| William Hepworth Dixon (1821–1879) |
| Ivan Dmitriev (1760–1837) |
| George Washington Doane (1799–1859) |
| Sydney Dobell (1824–1874) |
| Gabriel Döbrentey (1785–1851) |
| Nicolai Dobroliubov (1836–1861) |
| Josef Dobrovský (1753–1829) |
| Henry Austin Dobson (1840–1921) |
| Ludwig von Dóczi (1845–1918) |
| Philip Doddridge (1702–1751) |
| Mary Abigail Dodge (Gail Hamilton) (1833–1896) |
| Mary Mapes Dodge (1831–1905) |
| Richard Irving Dodge (1827–1895) |
| Theodore Ayrault Dodge (1842–1909) |
| Walter Phelps Dodge (1869–1931) |
| Robert Dodsley (1704–1764) |
| Q. K. Philander Doesticks (1831–1875) |
| Ernst Dohm (1819–1883) |
| Lodovico Dolce (1508–1568) |
| Charles Fletcher Dole (1845–1927) |
| Nathan Haskell Dole (1852–1935) |
| James Bernard Dollard (1872–1946) |
| Ignaz von Döllinger (1799–1890) |
| Alfred Domett (1811–1887) |
| Maurice Donnay (1859–1945) |
| John Donne (1572–1631) |
| Eleanor Cecilia Donnelly (1838–1917) |
| Ignatius Donnelly (1831–1901) |
| John Doran (1807–1878) |
| Julia C. R. Dorr (1825–1913) |
| Eduard Dorsch (1822–1887) |
| Anna Hanson Dorsey (1815–1896) |
| Sarah Anne Dorsey (1829–1879) |
| Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881) |
| Camille Doucet (1812–1895) |
| Sarah Doudney (1843–1926) |
| Alice May Douglas (1865–1943) |
| Amanda M. Douglas (1831–1916) |
| Gawain Douglas (c. 1474–1522) |
| Frederick Douglass (c. 1818–1895) |
| Charles Dovalle (1807–1830) |
| Edward Dowden (1843–1913) |
| William Howe Downes (1854–1941) |
| Andrew Jackson Downing (1815–1852) |
| Fanny Murdaugh Downing (1835–1894) |
| Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) |
| Sir Francis Hastings Doyle (1810–1888) |
| Holger Drachmann (1846–1908) |
| Benjamin Drake (1794–1841) |
| Francis Samuel Drake (1828–1885) |
| Joseph Rodman Drake (1795–1820) |
| Samuel Gardner Drake (1798–1875) |
| John William Draper (1811–1882) |
| Lyman Copeland Draper (1815–1891) |
| Carl Ferdinand Dräxler (1806–1879) |
| Michael Drayton (1563–1631) |
| Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945) |
| Horatio Willis Dresser (1866–1954) |
| Abraham Dreyfus (1847–1926) |
| Henry Drisler (1818–1897) |
| Samuel Rolles Driver (1846–1914) |
| Gustav Theodor Drobisch (1811–1882) |
| Will Allen Dromgoole (1860–1934) |
| Geōrgios Drossinēs (1859–1951) |
| Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1797–1848) |
| Johann Gustav Droysen (1808–1884) |
| Gustave Droz (1832–1895) |
| Henry Drummond (1851–1897) |
| William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585–1649) |
| William Henry Drummond (1854–1907) |
| Alexander Druzhinin (1824–1864) |
| John Dryden (1631–1700) |
| William Drysdale (1852–1901) |
| Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544–1590) |
| Joachim du Bellay (1552–1560) |
| Madame Du Boccage (1710–1802) |
| Jean Baptiste Dubos (1670–1742) |
| Maxime Du Camp (1822–1894) |
| Charles Du Fresne, Sieur Du Cange (1610–1688) |
| Victor Henri Joseph Brahain Ducange (1783–1833) |
| Paul Belloni Du Chaillu (1835–1903) |
| Jean-François Ducis (1733–1816) |
| Charles Pinot Duclos (1704–1772) |
| Madame du Deffand (Marie de Vichy-Chamrond) (1697–1780) |
| Frederick Temple Blackwood, Marquis of Dufferin and Ava (1826–1902) |
| Helen Selina, Lady Dufferin Sheridan (1807–1867) |
| Samuel Willoughby Duffield (1843–1887) |
| Charles Rivière Dufresny (1657–1724) |
| Augustine Joseph Hickey Duganne (1823–1884) |
| Sir William Dugdale (1605–1686) |
| Henri-Joseph Du Laurens (1719–1797) |
| Eduard Duller (1809–1853) |
| John Welch Dulles (1823–1887) |
| Philippe Dumanoir (1806–1865) |
| Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) |
| Alexandre Dumas, Jr. (1824–1895) |
| George du Maurier (1834–1896) |
| Théophile Marion Dumersan (1780–1849) |
| Julia Louisa Dumont (1794–1857) |
| Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906) |
| William Dunbar (1460?–1520?) |
| Norman Duncan (1871–1916) |
| Sara Jeanette Duncan (1861–1922) |
| Max Wolfgang Duncker (1811–1886) |
| William Dunlap (1766–1839) |
| John Dunlop (1755–1820) |
| John Colin Dunlop (1785–1842) |
| Finley Peter Dunne (1867–1936) |
| Wyndham Thomas Wyndham-Quin, Earl of Dunraven (1841–1926) |
| Joannes Duns Scotus (c. 1265–1308) |
| Lord Dunsany (1878–1957) |
| Emmanuel Dupaty (1775–1851) |
| Pierre Dupont (1821–1870) |
| Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours (1739–1817) |
| Eliza Ann Dupuy (1814?–1881) |
| Agustín Durán (1789–1862) |
| Jacopo Durandi (1739–1817) |
| Gilles Durant (1554–1615?) |
| Durante Duranti (1718–1780) |
| Claire Lechat de Kersaint, Duchess of Duras (1777–1828) |
| Ignaz Durdevic (1675–1737) |
| Thomas D’Urfey (1653–1723) |
| Ida von Düringsfeld (1815–1876) |
| Victor Duruy (1811–1894) |
| Antônio Francisco Dutra e Melo (1823–1846) |
| Toru Dutt (1856–1877) |
| Alexandre Duval (1767–1842) |
| Prosper Duvergier de Hauranne (1798–1881) |
| Charles Duveyrier (1803–1866) |
| Adolf Dux (1822–1881) |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck (1816–1878) |
| John Sullivan Dwight (1813–1893) |
| Theodore Dwight (1764–1846) |
| Theodore Dwight (1796–1866) |
| Timothy Dwight (1752–1817) |
| Timothy Dwight (1828–1916) |
| Alexander Dyce (1798–1869) |
| Sir Edward Dyer (1543–1607) |
| John Dyer (1700?–1758) |
| Sidney Dyer (1814–1898) |
| Thomas Henry Dyer (1804–1888) |
| Adolf Dygasinski (1839–1902) |
| George Freiherr von Dyherrn (1848–1878) |
| Józef Dzierzkowski (1807–1865) |
| John Eadie (1810–1876) |
| Eadmer (d. 1124?) |
| John Eagles (1783–1855) |
| Alice Morse Earle (1851–1911) |
| John Earle (1601?–1665) |
| Sir Charles Lock Eastlake (1793–1865) |
| Charles Alexander Eastman (1858–1939) |
| Charles Gamage Eastman (1816–1860) |
| Elaine Goodale Eastman (1863–1953) |
| Julia Arabella Eastman (1837–1911) |
| Max Eastman (1883–1969) |
| Edward Backhouse Eastwick (1814–1883) |
| Walter Prichard Eaton (1878–1957) |
| Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton (1849–1937) |
| Adolf Ebeling (1827–1896) |
| Christoph Daniel Ebeling (1741–1817) |
| Christian August Gottlob Eberhard (1769–1845) |
| Johann August Eberhard (1739–1809) |
| Georg Ebers (1837–1898) |
| Johann Arnold Ebert (1723–1795) |
| Karl Egon Ebert (1801–1882) |
| Baroness Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916) |
| Johannes Heinrich August Ebrard (1818–1888) |
| Joseph Ebsworth (1788–1868) |
| José Maria Eça de Queirós (1845–1900) |
| José Echegaray (1832–1916) |
| Esteban Echeverría (1805–1851) |
| Ludwig Eckardt (1827–1871) |
| Johann Peter Eckermann (1792–1854) |
| Ernst Eckstein (1845–1900) |
| Pieter Ecrevisse (1804–1879) |
| Arthur Jerome Eddy (1859–1920) |
| Daniel Clarke Eddy (1823–1896) |
| Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910) |
| Emily Eden (1797–1869) |
| Sir Frederick Morton Eden (1766–1809) |
| Alfred Edersheim (1825–1889) |
| John George Edgar (1834–1864) |
| Richard Edgcumbe (1716–1761) |
| Maria Edgeworth (1768–1849) |
| Anne Charlotte Edgren-Leffler (1849–1892) |
| Sir Archibald Edmonstone (1795–1871) |
| Edward VI. (1537–1553) |
| Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards (1831–1892) |
| Edward Edwards (1812–1886) |
| George Edwards (1752–1823) |
| Harry Stillwell Edwards (1855–1938) |
| Henry Sutherland Edwards (1828–1906) |
| John Edwards (1806–1887) |
| John Edwards (1747–1792) |
| John Edwards (c. 1700–1776) |
| Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) |
| Frederik van Eeden (1860–1932) |
| Georges Eekhoud (1854–1927) |
| Justus van Effen (1684–1735) |
| Maurice Francis Egan (1852–1924) |
| Pierce Egan, the Elder (1772–1849) |
| Pierce Egan, the Younger (1814–1880) |
| Peter Egge (1869–1959) |
| Émile Egger (1813–1885) |
| Edward Eggleston (1837–1902) |
| George Cary Eggleston (1839–1911) |
| Egill Skallagrímsson (Tenth Century) |
| Sveinbjörn Egilsson (1791–1852) |
| Eginhard (c. 770–840) |
| Luis de Eguílaz (1830–1874) |
| Louis Ehlert (1825–1884) |
| Joseph von Eichendorff (1788–1857) |
| Johann Gottfried Eichhorn (1752–1827) |
| Ludwig Eichrodt (1827–1892) |
| Gustave d’Eichtal (1804–1886) |
| William Elder (1806–1885) |
| Charles William Eliot (1834–1926) |
