List of authors of erotic works

This is a list of notable authors of erotic literature.

Sex manuals

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.

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

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 12/1/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.