List of authors of erotic works
This is a list of notable authors of erotic literature.
Sex manuals
- Vatsayana, famous for the Kama Sutra
- Yasodhara, author of the Jayamangala
- Kokkoka, author of the Ratirahasya
- Kalyanamalla, author of the Ananga Ranga
- Praudha Devaraya, author of the Ratiratna Pradipika
- Ovid, Roman author famous for the Ars Amatoria
- Ge Hong, Jin dynasty author of Pao-Pu Zhi
- Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Nafzawi, author of The Perfumed Garden
- Hua Tuo, author of On Venereal disease.
- Sun Simiao, author of On the Loss and Gain of The Chamber Art
- Wan Quan, author of Essentials for Extending Posterity
- Gao Lian, author of On Abstinence in Sex
Fiction
- Alexander Pushkin, author of the Gabrieliad
- Alexander Trocchi
- Anaïs Nin, author of Delta of Venus
- Anne Rice, also writing as A. N. Roquelaure
- Anne Tourney also published as Alaine Hood
- Arabella Knight, author of Let's Play Anal Twister
- Aran Ashe
- Barry N. Malzberg, author of Screen and writer/editor for Olympia Press
- Catherine Robbe-Grillet, writing as Jean de Berg and Jeanne de Berg
- Dean Barrett, Mistress of the East
- D. H. Lawrence, author of Lady Chatterley's Lover
- Emmanuelle Arsan, author of the novel Emmanuelle and various other works
- Georges Bataille, author of Story of the Eye
- Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian author contemporary and friend of Petrarch; wrote Decameron a collection of 100 short stories, some of which are erotic, considered masterpieces of the genre.
- Günter Grass, author of The Tin Drum and Cat and Mouse
- Guy Davenport
- Elliott Lipinsky, author of How I Saw It One Night (novel)
- Henry Miller, author of Tropic of Cancer
- Ivan Barkov
- John Cleland, author of Fanny Hill
- Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, author of The Key, Naomi, and Quicksand
- Kathy Acker, postmodern pornographer, author of I Dreamt I Was A Nymphomaniac
- Kemy Erotica Romance Novelist of (Teacher's Pet) (Moon-Lit Terrace) (Shadows of Obsession)
Kenzaburō Ōe, author of Seventeen, J, and A Personal Matter
- Laura Antoniou, author of The Marketplace
- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, author of Venus in Furs
- Marilyn Jaye Lewis, author of Neptune and Surf and Lust: Bisexual Erotica
- Marco Vassi, author of "The Erotic Comedies", "Devil's Sperm Is Cold", and "The Stoned Apocalypse"
- Mario Vargas Llosa, author of The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto
- Mark Twain, author of 1601
- Matthew Miller, author of Secrets and Lies and The Dark Lives of Men
- Maxim Jakubowski, editor of the Mammoth Erotica series and a major erotica writer in his own right
- Mitzi Szereto, author of The Wilde Passions of Dorian Gray, Pride and Prejudice: Hidden Lusts, and Phantom: The Immortal, among others.
- Nicolas Chorier – author of L'académie des dames
- Patrick (Pat) Califia, author of Macho Sluts
- Pauline Réage, author of Story of O
- Penny Birch
- Samuel R. Delany
- Susie Bright
- Sylvia Day
- Tamara Thorne, author of the Sorority series
- Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-born English-language writer, author of Lolita
- Wendy Swanscombe
- William Levy
- William Simpson Potter, author of Romance of Lust
- Yasunari Kawabata, author of Beauty and Sadness
- Yukio Mishima, author of the homoerotic novels Forbidden Colors and Confessions of a Mask
- Zane
- the Marquis de Sade, author of Justine, or the Misfortunes of Virtue
- Caitlín R. Kiernan — author of Frog Toes and Tentacles, Tales from the Woeful Platypus, and Sirenia Digest.
Chinese erotica
- Li Yu, author of The Carnal Prayer Mat
- Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng, author of Jin Ping Mei
- Zhang Chunfan, Tang dynasty author of The Turtle with Nine Tails
Poetry
- Ovid, Roman erotic poet
- Catullus, Roman erotic poet
- Sextus Propertius, Roman poet
- Sappho, Greek poet from the island of Lesbos who wrote love poetry to young women.
- Petrarch, Italian poet, considered, together with Dante, the father of Renaissance. His love sonnets dedicated to Laura are masterpieces of erotic poetry
- Bai Juyi, Romantic poet of Tang dynasty
- King Solomon, Author, according to Judeo-Christian tradition, of the Song of Songs.
- John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, British 17th Century libertine
- Hồ Xuân Hương, 18th-19th century Vietnamese poet
- Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage, portuguese poet
- Pierre Louys, belgian poet
- Gregório de Mattos, brazilian poet
- Glauco Mattoso, brazilian poet
- Hilda Hilst, brazilian poet
- Cairo Trindade, brazilian poet
- Vinni Correa, brazilian poet
Autobiography
- Emmanuelle Arsan, author of Emmanuelle
- Vanessa Duriès, author of Le lien
- Nancy Friday
- Henry Spencer Ashbee, author of My Secret Life
- Frank Harris, multiple-volume memoir My Life and Loves
- Catherine Millet, author of The Sexual Life of Catherine M.
- Georges Simenon
- Xaviera Hollander, author of The Happy Hooker
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