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Novelists Poets and Playwrights Non-fiction |
| Adams, Douglas | 1952-2001 | website | Studied at St John's college |
| Allingham, Margaret | 1904-1966 | website | Educated at Perse School for girls - one of her detective stories was based in Cambridge |
| Archer, Jeffrey | 1940- | website | Lives at Grantchester |
| Ball, Sarah | 1973- | website | Lives in Milton. |
| Boston L M | 1892-1990 | website | Wrote the Green Knowe children's books about her house at Hemingford Grey |
| Byatt, A S | 1936- | website | Studied at Newnham college |
| Clarke, Susanna | 1959- | website | Lives in Cambridge |
| Drabble, Margaret | 1939- | website | Studied at Newnham college |
| Forster, E M | 1879-1970 | website | Studied at King's college |
| Greenland, Colin | 1954- | website | Lives in Cambridge |
| Gregory, Susanna | website | Writes a detective series set in 14th Century Cambridge | |
| Hornby, Nick | 1957- | website | Taught at Parkside Community College |
| James, Clive | 1939- | website | Studied at Pembroke college |
| James, P D | 1920- | website | Educated at Cambridge Girls' High School |
| Kingsley, Charles | 1819-1875 | website | Studied at Magdalene college |
| Lewis, C S | 1898-1963 | website | At Magdalene college |
| Lynch, Fiona | website | Born in Cambridge and lives in King Hedges area of Cambridge | |
| Malliet, G.M. | website | Detective series features St. Just of the Cambridgeshire Constabulary. | |
| Masters, Alexander | website | Wrote Stuart: A Life Backwards. | |
| Milne, A A | 1882-1956 | website | Studied at Trinity college - wrote Winnie the Pooh |
| Paton Walsh, Jill | 1937- | website | Lives in Cambridge |
| Pearce, Philippa | 1920- | website | childhood in Great Shelford and went to the Perse |
| Rushdie, Salman | 1947- | website | Studied at King's college |
| Searle, Ronald | 1920- | website | Born in Cambridge - worked for Cambridge Daily News |
| Smith, Ali | 1962- | website | Lives in Cambridge |
| Snow, C P | 1905-1980 | website | Studied at Christ's college |
| Sharpe, Tom | 1928- | website | Studied at Pembroke college and lectured at Cambridge College of Arts and Technology |
| Sterne, Laurence | 1713-1768 | website | Studied at Jesus College - wrote Tristram Shandy |
| Thackeray, William | 1811-1868 | website | Studied at Trinity college and lost a poetry prize to Tennyson |
| White, T H | 1906-1964 | website | Studied at Queens' College |
| Woolf, Virginia | 1882-1941 | website | Friend of Rupert Brooke & took tea at 'The Orchard' |
| Brooke, Rupert | 1887-1915 | website | Studied at King's college - wrote Granchester |
| Byron (Lord) | 1788-1824 | website | Studied at Trinity college - reputed to have been sent down for having a bear in his room |
| Calverley, C S | 1831-1884 | website | Wrote Ode to Tobacco which is inscribed on the corner of Rose Crescent |
| Coleridge, Samuel | 1772-1834 | website | Studied at Jesus college |
| Dryden, John | 1631-1700 | website | Studied at Trinity college |
| FitzGerald, Edward | 1809-1883 | website | Studied at Trinity college - translated the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám |
| Fletcher, John | 1579-1625 | website | Studied at Corpus Christi college |
| Gray, Thomas | 1716-1771 | website | Studied at Pembroke college |
| Housman, A E | 1859-1936 | website | Studied at Trinity college - wrote A Shropshire Lad |
| Hughes, Ted | 1930-1998 | website | Studied at Pembroke college |
| Marlowe, Christopher | 1564-1593 | website | Studied at Corpus Christi college |
| Milton, John | 1608-1674 | website | Studied at Christ's college |
| Plath, Sylvia | 1932-1963 | website | Studied at Newnham college |
| Sassoon, Siegfried | 1886-1967 | website | Studied at Clare college - anti-war poet |
| Spenser, Edmund | 1552-1599 | website | Studied at Pembroke college - write The Faerie Queen |
| Tennyson, Alfred | 1809-1892 | website | Studied at Trinity college - statue in Trinity chapel |
| Wordsworth, William | 1770-1850 | website | Studied at St John's college |
| Bacon, Francis | 1561-1626 | website | Studied at Trinity College |
| Darwin, Charles | 1809-1882 | website | Studied at Christ's college - wrote The Voyage of the Beagle |
| Frazer, James | 1854-1941 | website | Studied at Trinity college - wrote The Golden Bough |
| Greer, Germaine | 1939- | website | Studied at Newnham college - wrote The Female Eunuch |
| Hawking, Stephen | 1942- | website | Wrote Brief History of Time |
| Newton, Isaac | 1642-1727 | website | Studied at Trinity college - wrote Principia Mathematica |
| Pepys, Samuel | 1633-1703 | website | Studied at Magdalene college - wrote his Diary |
| Raverat, Gwen | 1885-1957 | website | Grand-daughter of Chareles Darwin - wrote Period Piece - a Cambridge childhood |
| Russell, Bertrand | 1872-1970 | website | Wrote A History of Western Philosophy |
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