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- Ken Babstock
- D.F. Bailey
- R. Scott Bakker
- Himani Bannerji
- Volodimir Barabash ( 1900 - 1989 ), poet
- Bruce Barber
- Steve Bareham
- Gary Barwin (born 1964 ) novelist and children's author
- Ronald Bates
- Bill Bauer
- Nancy Bauer
- Henry Beissel , (born 1929 )
- Ken Belford
- William E. Bell (author)
- Nigel Bennett
- Pierre Berton ( 1920 - 2004 ) prolific author of Canadian History, journalist and TV personality
- Dennison Berwick (born 1956 ), literary travel author now working in fiction
- Gerard Bessette (born 1920 ), ''Québécois'' author
- Navtej Bharati Indo-Canadian poet
- Carol Biberstein , children's book Great Grandma's Rocking Chair
- Sandra Birdsell , (born 1942 ), has published 3 works of short fiction and 3 novels
- Earle Birney ( 1904 - 1995 ) anti-conventional poet, also wrote novels, short stories, drama
- Bill Bissett (born 1939 ) poet, famous for incorporating sound and the visual into poetry
- Lise Bissonnette
- Neil Bissoondath (born 1955 )
- Marie-Claire Blais (born 1939 )
- Clark Blaise (born 1940 )
- Lance Blomgren (born 1970 )
- Christian Bök (born 1966 ), poet, author of '' Eunoia ''
- Stephanie Bolster
- Roo Borson , (born 1952 )
- Hédi Bouraoui
- Nicholas Boving
- George Bowering (born 1935 )
- Marilyn Bowering (born 1949 ), poet and novelist
- David Boyd
- George Elroy Boyd
- Harry J. Boyle
- Catherine Bradford
- Karleen Bradford
- Max Braithwaite ( 1911 - 1995 ) prairie depression era fiction
- Dionne Brand ( 1953 - ) poet born in Trinidad And Tobago
- Di Brandt ( 1952 - ) Manitoba poet and literary critic
- Jacques Brault ( 1933 - )
- Nathan Braun , ''Good News for All Creation'' (co-author) and ''The History and Philosophy of Marriage'' (4th ed., editor)
- Brian Brett
- Robert Bringhurst ( 1946 - ) poet, author, and typographer
- David Bromige ( 1944 - ) poet
- Barry Broadfoot ( 1926 - 2003 ) interviewer, author
- Bertram Brooker theosophist painter
- Nicole Brossard ( 1943 - ) Formalist Poet
- Andy Brown fiction writer and publisher of Conundrum Press
- Nick Brune
- Ernest Buckler (1908-1984), novelist
- Robert Budde ( 1966 - ) poet and novelist
- Margaret Buffie
- Bonnie Burnard ( 1945 - ) novelist, ''The Good House''
- Mick Burrs
- Sharon Butala ( 1940 - )
- Juan Butler
- Anthony M. Buzzelli
- Steven Cain
- Barry Callaghan (born 1937 ) novelist and journalist
- Morley Callaghan ( 1903 - 1990 ) novelist and writer of short fiction, wrote ''A Fine and Private Place''
- Elspeth Cameron , (born 1943 ) biographer
- Silver Donald Cameron (born 1937 )
- James Cameron (born 1910 ) poet and critic
- Phil Campagna
- Natalee Caple
- Bliss Carman ( 1861 - 1929 ) poet, wrote ''Low Tide on Grand Pre''
- David Carpenter
- Roch Carrier (born 1937 ) French-Canadian novelist and writer of short fiction, wrote ''La Guerre, Yes Sir!'', as well as the children's story ''The Hockey Sweater'' (''Le chandail de hockey'')
- Anne Carson , (born 1950 )
- Gillian Chan
- Chris Chambers
- Pierre Francois Xavier De Charlevoix ( 1682 - 1761 ), first historian of New France .
- Wayson Choy (born 1939 )
- Lesley Choyce (born 1951 )
- Margaret Christakos
- Greg Clark ( 1892 - 1977 ), humorist
- Austin Clarke (born 1934 )
- George Elliott Clarke (born 1960 ) poet, U Of T professor
- Lynn Coady (born 1970 )
- Leonard Cohen , (born 1934 ), poet and singer
- Matt Cohen (born 1942 )
- Samuel Nathan Cohen ( 1923 - 1971 ) drama critic
- Helena Coleman
- John Robert Columbo (born 1936 ), poet and compiler of reference books
- Jan Conn (born 1952 ), poet and insect geneticist
- Karen Connelly (born 1969 )
- Ralph Conner (also known as Charles William Gordon), ''The Man from Glengarry'', ''Glengarry School Days''.
- George Ramsay Cook (born 1931 ), historian
- Hugh Cook (born 1942 )
- Michael Cook
- Dennis Cooley (born 1944 )
- Douglas Cooper , novelist
- John Paul Copeland
- Thomas B. Costain ( 1885 - 1965 ), historical fiction
- Douglas Coupland , (born 1961 ), ''Generation X'', ''Girlfriend in a Coma''
- Isabella Valancy Crawford
- Donald Creighton ( 1902 - 1979 ), historian
- Octave Crémazie ( 1827 - 1879 ), French-Canadian poet
- Connie Brummel Crook writes historical fiction for young adults
- Lynn Crosbie daring prose stylist
- Lorna Crozier (born 1948 )
- Michael Crummey
- Peter Cummings
- Alan Cumyn (born 1960 )
- Richard Cumyn
- Herb Curtis
- Leona Czwartkowski (born 1949 ), author, poet, and eMedia artist
- Chris Eaton (1971-), novelist
- Eaton, Edith Maude (1865-1914), author
- Eaton, Winnifred (1875-1954), author
- Louis Emond (born 1969 )
- Howard Engel ( 1931 - ), mystery writer
- Marian Engel ( 1933 - 1985 ), novelist
- Yves Engler political writer and activist
- Jon Evans (born 1973 ), novelist
- C. J. Everon , (born 1971 ), historian and novelist
- Emil Ludwig Fackenheim ( 1916 - 2003 ), historian, philosopher
- Edmundo Farolan
- Brian Fawcett
- Trevor Ferguson ( 1947 - )
- Jacques Ferron ( 1921 - 1985 ), playwright
- Joy Fielding ( 1945 - ), novelist
- B.K. Filson
- Timothy Findley , ( 1930 - 2002 ), ''The Wars'', ''Pilgrim''
- Ken Finney , ( 1959 -), "3D Game Programming All In One", "Advanced 3D Game Programming All In One"
- Sheree Fitch
- Judith Fitzgerald
- Barbara Fletcher
- Helen Forrester ( 1919 - ), novelist
- Cecil Foster
- Tess Fragoulis
- Brad Fraser
- John Anderson Fraser ( 1944 - ), author former editor of '' Saturday Night Magazine ''
- Raymond Fraser author of "Rum River", Costa Blanca", etc.
- Sylvia Fraser ( 1935 - ), novelist
- Louis Fréchette , ( 1839 - 1908 ), poet, essayist, journalist, dramatist
- David French ( 1939 - ), playwright
- Patrick Friesen
- Robert Froetsch
- Corey Frost
- Northrop Frye ( 1912 - 1991 ), influential critic, Shakespeare and Blake scholar
- Robert Fulford autodictat, journalist
- Nicola Furlong
- James V. Fusco
- Grover Gall
- Mavis Gallant (born 1922 )
- Francois Xavier Garneau ( 1809 - 1866 ), writer and historian
- Saint-Denys Garneau ( 1912 - 1943 ), poet
- Hugh Garner ( 1913 - 1979 ), novelist
- Pauline Gedge (born 1945 ), novelist
- Camilla Gibb (born 1968 ), novelist
- Graem C. Gibson (born 1934 ), novelist
- Margaret Gibson
- William Gibson (born 1948 ) Pioneering Cyberpunk author, ''Neuromancer'', ''All Tomorrow's Parties''
- Sky Gilbert
- John Patrick Gillese
- Joanna Glass
- Jacques Godbout
- David Godfrey
- Robert Goldsmith ( 1794 - 1861 ), first English-language Canadian poet
- Leona Gom
- Phyllis Gotlieb (born 1926 ), poet and science-fiction writer
- Sondra Gotlieb (born 1936 ), newspaper columnist
- Hiromi Goto
- Katherine Govier (born 1948 )
- Lee Gowan
- Barbara Gowdy (born 1950 ) ''The Romantic''; ''The White Bone'' and short stories
- Neile Graham
- George Grant ( 1918 - 1988 ), historian
- Ed Greenwood , fantasy novelist and Forgotten Realms creator
- Grey Owl ( 1888 - 1938 ), conservationist
- John Grey
- Frederick Phillip Grove ( 1879 - 1948 )
- Richard Grove
- Genni Gunn (born 1949 )
- Kristjana Gunnars
- Ralph Gustafson ( 1909 - 1995 ), poet
- Sandra Gwyn (born 1935 ), novelist
- Joan Haggerty
- Roderick Haig-Brown ( 1941 - )
- Arthur Hailey ( 1920 - 2004 ), indefatigable researcher, author of ''Hotel'' ( 1965 ), ''Airport'' ( 1968 )
- Thomas Chandler Haliburton One of Canada's first authors, writer of ''The Clockmaker'' series
- Jane Hamilton
- Claire Harris ( 1937 - )
- Marjorie Harris
- Wayne Arthur Harris Author of ''Rewind To Ancient Times'' (2002), ''Replay To Ancient Days'' (2005)
- Jill Hartman
- Kristen Den Hartog
- Elisabeth Harvor
- Barbara Haworth-Attard ( 1953 - )
- Anne Hébert , Acadian author, educator ''Kamouraska''
- Steven Heighton
- David Helwig
- Louis Hémon ( 1880 - 1913 ), novelist and journalist, ''Maria Chapdelaine''
- John Herbert
- Sheila Heti
- Tomson Highway ( 1951 - ) native playwright ''Dry Lips Moved to Kapuskasing''
- Robert Hilles ( 1951 - )
- Jack Hodgins ( 1938 - )
- Greg Hollingshead ( 1947 - )
- Michael Honeth ( 1970 - )
- Hugh Hood ( 1928 - 2000 ), Master work is 12 volume novel-series (The New Age).
- Cornelia Hoogland ( 1952 - )
- Nalo Hopkinson
- Jan Horner
- Harold Horwood ( 1923 - )
- Tanya Huff
- Matt Hughes
- Bruce Hunter
- Catherine Hunter
- Maureen Hunter
- Nancy Huston (born 1953 )
- Hazel Hutchins
- Bruce Hutchison
- Agnes Maule Machar
- Ann-Marie MacDonald
- Bernell MacDonald , (born 1950 )
- Hugh MacDonald
- Jake MacDonald
- Maggie MacDonald
- Gwendolyn MacEwen ( 1941 - 1987 )
- Isabel Ecclestone Mackay
- Hugh MacLennan ( 1907 - 1990 ) novelist and essayist, wrote ''Two Solitudes'' and ''Barometer Rising''
- Michael MacLennan
- Alistair MacLeod , (born 1936 )
- Elizabeth Macleod , biographer
- Antonine Maillet (born 1929 ), Acadian author, educator
- Kevin Major (born 1949 )
- Eli Mandel
- Miriam Mandel
- David Manicom (born 1960 ) poet, novelist, diplomat.
- Lee Maracle (born 1950 ) poet/novelist from the Squamish First Nation . She was one of the first Aboriginal People to be published in the early 1970s.
- Daphne Marlatt (born 1942 )
- John Marlyn , ( 1912 - 1985 )
- David Margoshes (born 1941 )
- Nicole Markotic
- Yann Martel , (born 1963 ), 2002 Booker Prize Winner
- Carol Matas (born 1949 )
- Shirlee Smith Matheson
- Steve McCaffery
- Nellie McClung , crusading journalist, MP
- John McCrae , ( 1872 - 1918 ), (" In Flanders' Fields ")
- David McFadden
- James McIntyre , ( 1827 - 1906 ), the "Cheese Poet," known as the worst poet in Canadian history
- Don McKay poet
- Rhonda McLean
- Marshall McLuhan , ( 1911 - 1980 ), English professor and media studies author
- Susan McMaster
- Robert McNeil
- Sylvia McNicoll
- John Metcalf (born 1938 )
- Anne Michaels
- Christine Michels
- Roy Miki
- Rohinton Mistry , (born 1952 ), ''Such a Long Journet'', ''A Fine Balance''
- Jane Mitchell
- Jared Mitchell
- W.O. Mitchell ( 1914 - 1998 ), ''Who has Seen the Wind''
- Lucy Maud Montgomery , ( 1874 - 1942 ), ''Anne of Green Gables''
- Susanna Moodie (nee Strickland), ( 1803 - 1885 ), ''Roughing it in the Bush''
- Brian Moore ( 1921 - 1999 )
- Jeffrey Moore (born 1952)
- Lisa Moore
- Keith Moreau , (born 1951 ), writer and illustrator of children's books like ABC Fun Things Book
- Edythe Morahan De Lauzon , poet
- Pierre Morency (born 1942 ), poet and playwright
- Bernice Morgan
- Donna Morrissey
- Kim Morrissey
- Colin Morton
- Daniel David Moses , Aboriginal poet and playwright
- Tara Moss (born 1973 ) - ''wrote Fetish''
- Erin Moure
- Farley Mowat , (born 1921 ) ''Never Cry Wolf'', ''My Discovery of America''
- Karen Mulholland
- Robert Munsch (born 1945 ), American born writer of children's stories
- Allison Muri
- Alice Munro , (born 1931 )
- Jim Munroe
- John Murrell
- Jai Murugan
- Susan Musgrave (born 1951 ), poet and novelist
- Thomas Raddall ( 1903 - 1994 ), historical novelist
- Mark A. Rayner
- Gurcharan Rampuri
- Angela Rawlings
- Wayne Ray short stories
- Michael Redhill
- Nino Ricci (born 1959 )
- David Adams Richards , ( 1950 - )
- Mordecai Richler , ( 1931 - 2001 ) ''The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz'' ( 1959 )
- Gwen Pharis Ringwood ( 1910 - 1984 ), Western Canadian playwright
- Ringuet (Phllipe Panneton) ( 1895 - 1960 )
- Sir Charles G.D. Roberts ( 1860 - 1943 ) author of a number of "animal stories"
- Ken Roberts
- Paul William Roberts
- Eden Robinson
- Peter Robinson (1950-), English-born Canadian-based detective novelist
- Ajmer Rode Indo-Canadian writer, bilingual, poet, playwright, translator
- Spider Robinson American born Science-Fiction/humour writer, "Callahan's Crosstime Saloon"
- Don Rogalski
- Richard Rohmer (born 1924 )
- Linda Rogers
- Leon Rooke (born 1934 )
- Patrick Roscoe
- Sinclair Ross 1908 - 1996 , renowned short story author
- Gabrielle Roy , ( 1909 - 1983 )''The Tin Flute''
- Jane Rule (born 1931 )
- George Ryga ( 1932 - 1987 ), playwright and novelist
- Robert Rohloff (1949) Winnipeg Canada {Link without Title}
- Michelle Sagara West , fantasy author
- Dorianne Sager
- Rick Salutin (born 1942 ), political writer, essayist editor
- John Ralston Saul , (born 1947 ) businessman, essayist, diplomat
- Robert J. Sawyer , (born 1960 )
- Andreas Schroeder
- Alvin Schwartz
- Duncan Scott ( 1862 - 1947 ), poet
- Frank Scott ( 1899 - 1985 ), poet
- Patricia L. Scott
- Djanet Sears , playwright and actor
- Benjamin Sehene (born 1959 in Rwanda novelist, essayist, and political writer
- Shyam Selvadurai
- Robert W. Service ( 1874 - 1958 ), poet of the Yukon
- Ernest Thompson Seton ( 1860 - 1946 )
- Mark Shainblum
- Murphy O. Shewchuk
- Carol Shields , ( 1935 - 2003 )
- Maggie Siggins
- Jaspreet Singh
- Marsha Skrypuch
- Josef Skvorecky (born 1924 in Czechoslovakia , professor of English in Canada since 1969 , but still writing his Fiction In Czech ), novelist, essayist, ''The Engineer of Human Souls'' (1984 Governor General's Award )
- Joshua Slocum ( 1844 - 1909 ), sailor and author
- Beverly Slopen
- Elizabeth Smart , ( 1913 - 1986 )
- Jean Edward Smith
- Russell Smith
- Taylor Smith
- Evan Solomon
- Raymond Souster (born 1921 ), poet
- Esta Spalding
- Adrian Speyer ( 1977 -), poet and author
- Birk Sproxton ( 1943 - )
- Richard Stevenson
- Walter Stewart (1941-2004)
- Kathy Stinson
- Anne Stone
- Robert Sward
- Mark Swartz
- George Swede
- Alastair Sweeny
- Caitlin Sweet
- Scott Symons
- Fred Wah
- Bronwen Wallace
- Ted Warnell
- David Watmough
- Sheila Watson ( 1909 - 1998 ),
- Alison Wearing
- John Weier
- Marc Weisblott ( 1971 -), Canada's first professional Blogger
- Elizabeth Wellburn
- Frank Westcott
- Mavis West
- Dawud Wharnsby Ali ( 1972 - ), poet, songwriter
- Thomas Wharton
- Rudy Wiebe ( 1934 - ), novelist
- Diana Wieler , ''Bad Boy'', ''Drive''
- Ethel Wilson ( 1888 - 1980 ), ''Swamp Angel'', ''Hettie Dorval'', "The Window"
- Rob Winger
- Michael Winter
- Adele Wiseman ( 1928 - 1992 ), novelist and poet
- Beverly Wood
- George Woodcock ( 1912 - 1995 ), poet, critic and Anarchist , author of ''Anarchism''
- Patrick Woodcock
- Marnie Woodrow
- Lance Woolaver
- Eric Wright ( 1929 - ), mystery writer
- L.R. Wright
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