Authors of Historical Novels

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Diana Gabaldon is the author of romantic series novels about a woman who time-travels into eighteenth century Scotland. Website

Elizabeth Gaffney is a literary author whose debut novel, Metropolis is set in late nineteenth century New York. Website

Ernest J. Gaines is the author of contemporary and historical novels about black life in the American South. Webpage at Random House

Nicole Galland writes novels set in medieval Europe. Website

George Garrett is a poet and literary novelist who writes in a variety of genres but is best known for his historical novels set in Elizabethan England.

Alicia Gaspar de Alba writes poetry, nonfiction and contemporary and historical fiction about Chicano culture. Website

W. Michael Gear writes novels about life in prehistoric North America and on other subjects, with his wife Kathleen O'Neal Gear and as a sole author. See Kathleen O'Neal Gear listing for their website.

Pauline Gedge is a Canadian author; most of her novels are set in ancient Egypt.

Sophie Gee is the author of The Scandal of the Season, set in eighteenth century London. Website

Roberta Gellis is the author of novels in a variety of genres, including science fiction and historical mysteries. Website

David Gemmell wrote fantasy novels, including a trilogy set during the Trojan War; he died in 2006.

Margaret George is the author of novels set in various historical periods, including ancient Egypt and Tudor England. Website

Amitav Ghosh is an Indian author of nonfiction and contemporary and historical fiction. Website

David Gibbins is an archaeologist and author of novels about fictional archaeological discoveries from time periods ranging from prehistoric to medieval. Website

Kaye Gibbons writes contemporary and historical literary novels set in the American South.

Charles Gidley is a pen name of Charles Gidley Wheeler.

Ellen Gilchrist is a Mississippi poet and author of contemporary and historical literary fiction. Mississippi Writers Webpage

Janice Holt Giles wrote historical novels set in Kentucky; she died in 1979. Giles Society Website

Anton Gill writes nonfiction history and a series of mystery novels set in ancient Egypt.

Donna Gillespie is the author of two novels about a woman warrior in Germany during the time of ancient Rome. Website

Jane Gillespie is the author of novels inspired by Jane Austen's Emma and Pride and Prejudice.

Newt Gingrich is a Republican politician and the co-author (with William Forstchen) of an alternative history trilogy about the Battle of Gettysburg. Forstchen's Website

Kathleen Givens writes historical fiction set in Scotland. Website

Molly Gloss writes contemporary and historical literary fiction set in the U.S. Pacific Northwest. Website

Robert Goddard is a British author of historical thrillers.

Parke Godwin writes fantasy novels and straight historical novels.

Glen David Gold is a literary author whose debut novel is set in the 1920s and features a stage magician.

Arthur Golden is the author of the bestselling novel Memoirs of a Geisha, set in Japan between the World Wars.

Anne Golon (whose novels were previously published under the pen name Sergeanne Golon) is a French author who writes the Angelique series. Website

Jason Goodwin writes mystery novels set in nineteenth century Istanbul. Website

Noah Gordon writes historical novels set in a variety of times and places. Website

Christopher Gortner writes novels set in the royal courts of Renaissance Europe. Website

Winston Graham wrote suspense novels, one of which became the Hitchcock film Marnie, but was best known for his series of Poldark novels set in Cornwall and turned into a BBC television series; he died in 2003. Poldark Literary Society Website

Amanda Grange writes novels inspired by Jane Austen's novels. Website

Robert Graves was a British author best known for his novels about the Roman Emperor Claudius and for The White Goddess, a nonfiction book about his theories on Celtic symbolism.

Peter Green writes novels set in ancient Greece and Rome.

Philippa Gregory writes historical novels set in Tudor and Elizabethan England. Website

Susanna Gregory writes a mystery series set in medieval Cambridge and another set in Restoration England. Website

Zane Grey wrote over 50 adventure novels between 1908 and his death in 1939, which were set in a romanticized Old American West. Website

Nicholas Griffin writes historical fiction about British travelers set in various centuries from the eighteenth to the twentieth. Website

Michael Gruber writes contemporary thrillers; the plots of his most recent books are linked to historical people and places. Website

Sara Gruen writes contemporary and historical novels about human relationships with animals; her historical novel Water for Elephants is about Depression-era circus performers. Website

Jane Guill is the author of a novel about a woman in medieval Wales. Website

Sandra Gulland writes historical novels set in France, including a trilogy about Napoleon's wife Josephine and a novel about the mistress of Louis XIV. Website

Allan Gurganus is the author of literary short stories and a bestselling novel about the Civil War's corrosive effects on the people who lived through it.

David Guterson is a literary author of contemporary and historical fiction set in the U.S. Pacific Northwest.

A.B. Guthrie Jr. was a journalist and author who wrote novels set in the American West; he died in 1991.

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