• Lord Acton - Nineteenth-century British historian from a Catholic Recusant family; disagreed with ultramontanism and had Old Catholic Church sympathies, but never left the Church; known best for the aphorism that "power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely".
• John L. Allen, Jr. - Journalist who has written on Opus Dei and Pope Benedict XVI.
• James K Baxter (1926 - 1972) - New Zealand poet, also dramatist, literary critic and social commentator. He was a convert to Catholicism.
• Hilaire Belloc - Strongly-held, orthodox Catholic views; wrote apologetics, famous comic verse, historical, political and economic works and well-known account of a pilgrimage he took on foot, "The Path to Rome"; French-born but became a British subject and politician.
• Robert Hugh Benson - Convert and priest who wrote Lord of the World and apologetics.
• William Peter Blatty - Screenwriter and novelist. Best known for the novel The Exorcist and Oscar winning screenplay adapting same.
• Christopher Buckley - Political satirist who wrote Thank You for Smoking, he is also the son of William F. Buckley, Jr..
• William F. Buckley, Jr. - Conservative, Anglophile founder of National Review; author of God and Man at Yale.
• Morley Callaghan - Canadian novelist and short story writer.
• Geoffrey Chaucer - The greatest English poet of the Middle Ages and author of "The Canterbury Tales", he mocks corrupt clergy, but also presents an ideal priest who teaches sound Catholic doctrine in "The Parson's Tale".
• G. K. Chesterton - English convert, wrote apologetics such as "Orthodoxy (book)", novels such as "The Man Who Was Thursday", poetry, biographies and literary studies, and lighter works like the "Father Brown" detective stories.
• Brian Coffey - Irish writer of 'The Notion of Order According to St. Thomas Aquinas' and a Catholic poet.
• Ronan Coghlan - Irish writer on mythology and author of a Sherlock Holmes pastiche.
• Felicitas Corrigan - Nun and author.
• Richard Crashaw - 17th century metaphysical poet and convert to Catholicism; his religious poetry includes the famous "Hymn to St. Teresa".
• Dorothy Day - American convert, co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement.
• Christopher Dawson - A British historian and convert to Roman Catholicism who proposed that the medieval Catholic Church was an essential factor in the rise of European civilisation.
• E. J. Dionne - Noted for coverage of Vatican City.
• Maureen Dowd - Graduate of The Catholic University of America and practicing, but holds positions at variance with the Church.
• Ernest Dowson - Decadent poet who converted to Catholicism
• John Dryden - The leading poet of Restoration England, who converted to Catholicism in his fifties. His long poem The Hind and the Panther, written in 1687, explains the reasons for his conversion to the Church from Anglicanism.
• Alice Thomas Ellis - A novelist and convert from Positivism who became a conservative Roman Catholic critic of the Second Vatican Council and a regular columnist at the Catholic Herald newspaper.
• F. Scott Fitzgerald - Raised Catholic, married in a Catholic Church, and categorised as Catholic, though he was not a practicing one for most of his life.
• Robert J. Fox (priest) - He writes religious works, director and founder of the Fatima Family Apostolate.
• Lady Antonia Fraser - A Roman Catholic (converted with her parents as a child), Lady Antonia caused a public scandal in 1977 by leaving her Catholic husband for Harold Pinter.
• Brian Friel - Some pre-Christian Celtic elements are in his writing too though.
• Maggie Gallagher - Neoconservative Catholic; opposed to abortion and gay marriage.
• Robert Girardi - His novels, but especially A Vaudeville of Devils: Seven Moral Tales examine ethical and religious themes.
• Rumer Godden - After her conversion she wrote about the mystical aspects of the faith.
• Graham Greene - The English novelist, a convert who wrote The Power and the Glory and focussed on themes of human sin and divine mercy. Other of his books in which Catholicism plays a central role are "Brighton Rock", "The Heart of the Matter" and "The End of the Affair".
• Andrew Greeley - Irish-American Roman Catholic priest and novelist.
• Ron Hansen - Contemporary American author of Mariette in Ecstasy and The Assination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.
• Gerard Manley Hopkins - 19th century convert who became a Jesuit priest and a great poet, famous for poems such as "The Wreck of the Deutschland", "God's Grandeur", etc.
• Paul Johnson - Historian and journalist - wrote A History of Christianity, Pope John Paul II And The Catholic Restoration, and others books.
• James Joyce - Irish novelist from a middle-class Catholic family; Jesuit-educated. One of the leading modernist writers of the 20th century, author of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, Joyce rejected the Church as an adult; nonetheless, his novels are permeated by Catholic themes and concepts.
• Jane Lane - wrote historical novels and biographies from a Catholic perspective.
• Penny Lernoux - Writer for the National Catholic Reporter, former nun and noted Catholic critic of the hierarchy; died of lung cancer at age 49.
• Sandra Miesel - Co-writer of The Da Vinci Hoax.
• St. Thomas More - the statesman, lawyer, and martyr of Henry VIII's reign was also an author renowned across Europe. Most of his works were written in Latin, but later devotional writings, e.g. his "Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation", were in English.
• Alexander Pope - Great English poet who was a Roman Catholic in a period when that was potentially unsafe in England (the early 1700s).
• St. Robert Southwell - Sixteenth-century Jesuit who was martyred during the persecutions of Elizabeth I. He wrote great religious poetry, i.e. "The Burning Babe", and Catholic tracts.
• Francis Thompson - 19th century poet; author of the famous devotional poem "The Hound of Heaven".
• J. R. R. Tolkien - Author of The Lord of the Rings; a devout and practicing Catholic
• Evelyn Waugh - the novelist. In 1930 he converted to Roman Catholicism, and his religious ideas are manifest, either explicitly or implicitly, in all of his later work; strongly orthodox and conservative Roman Catholic.