Authors of Historical NovelsX-Y-ZXinran is the pen name of Xue Xinran, a British-Chinese journalist and author who has written a variety of books, both fiction and nonfiction, including a historical novel, Sky Burial. Cao Xueqin was a Chinese author of the eighteenth century whose novel Dream of the Red Chamber (variously translated) was set in his own time, and therefore is not a historical novel, but is considered by many to be the greatest of Chinese novels.
Mo Yan is the pen name of Chinese author Guan Moye, who writes contemporary and historical novels. Chelsea Quinn Yarbro is an American author who writes a series of historical fantasy novels featuring vampires. Inoue Yasushi was a Japanese author of award-winning historical fiction; he died in 1991. V.M. Yeates was a World War I fighter pilot who wrote an autobiographical novel about his experiences; since he wrote about his own lifetime, the novel is not historical fiction. Abraham B. Yehoshua is an Israeli author of fiction, nonfiction and plays whose work includes a historical novel set in the Middle Ages, A Journey to the End of the Millennium. Peter Yeldham is an Australian novelist and screenwriter who wrote Barbed Wire and Roses, a historical novel set during World War I. Frank Yerby wrote historical novels set in various times and places, including the post-Civil War South, Dark Age Europe and ancient Greece; he died in 1991. Hong Ying is a Chinese author who writes contemporary and historical novels. Alissa York is an award-winning Canadian author of historical novels set in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Eiji Yoshikawa was a Japanese author of historical novels; he died in 1962. Peter Youds is a self-published historical novelist who writes a series set during the Napoleonic Wars. Marly Youmans is an American poet and novelist whose work includes historical fiction. Robyn Young writes series novels set in the Middle Ages. Sara Young is the author of My Enemy's Cradle, set during the World War II period, as well as contemporary children's fiction under the pen name Sara Pennypacker. Sean Young is a self-published author whose novel Violent Sands is about the Jewish zealot Barabbas. Simon Young is a British historian and novelist who wrote Farewell, Britannia, a family saga set in Roman Britain. Stark Young was an American author of fiction and nonfiction whose novel So Red the Rose was set during the American Civil War; he died in 1963. Marguerite Yourcenar was a Belgian-born literary author of contemporary and historical fiction, best known for her novel Memoirs of Hadrian, set in ancient Rome; she died in 1987.
Simone Zelitch is an American novelist who has written about the English Peasants' Revolt of 1381 and Hungarians during the World War II period. Ye Zhaoyan is the Chinese author of Nanjing 1937, a novel about the brutal Japanese invasion of China on the eve of World War II. Sally Zigmond has written two novels set in nineteenth-century Europe. Richard Zimler is an American author residing in Portugal who has written award-winning novels exploring the history of Sephardic Jews. Norman Zollinger was an American author of historical novels set in Mexico and the American Southwest who received the Owen Wister Award from Western Writers of America in 1999; he died in 2000. Burt Zollo is the author of Prisoners, a 2003 novel set during the World War II period. Marcus Zusak is an Australian author of contemporary and historical novels for teens; his 2005 novel The Book Thief, set in Nazi Germany, has won numerous awards and is appreciated by many adult readers as well as teens. Back to W
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