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
• Kenzaburo Oe, 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 poetess 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 poetess

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