List of Popular Erotic Fiction Authors and Their Works

Author: Sexual Diversity
Author Contact: Sexual Diversity (SexualDiversity.org)
Published: 13th Jul 2020 - Updated: 28th Oct 2022
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Additional References: Erotic Stories Publications

Summary: List of literature written by some of the most popular authors and novelists of erotic fiction stories, books, poetry, and sex manuals.

Main Document

Listed below are some of the most popular authors and novelists of erotic fiction stories and books, poetry, and sex manuals. Erotic literature includes sex manuals as well as fictional and/or factual stories, poetry, and accounts of human sexual relationships which have the power to, or are intended to, arouse the reader sexually.

Writers of Sex Fiction Literature

• Alexander Pushkin, author of the Gabrieliad
• Alexander Trocchi
• Anaïs Nin, author of Delta of Venus
• Andreas Embirikos, author of The Great Eastern
• Anne Rice, also writing as A. N. Roquelaure
• Aran Ashe
• Barry N. Malzberg, author of Screen and writer/editor for Olympia Press
• Caitlín R. Kiernan author of Frog Toes and Tentacles, Tales from the Woeful Platypus, and Sirenia Digest
• Catherine Robbe-Grillet, writing as Jean de Berg and Jeanne de Berg
• D. H. Lawrence, author of Lady Chatterley's Lover
• Daniel Defoe, author of Moll Flanders
• Elias Gaucher
• Emmanuelle Arsan, author of the novel Emmanuelle and various other works
• Günter Grass, author of The Tin Drum and Cat and Mouse
• 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.
• Guy Davenport
• 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
• 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
• M. Christian, author of The Bachelor Machine and other works
• Marco Vassi, author of "The Erotic Comedies," "Devil's Sperm Is Cold," and "The Stoned Apocalypse"
• Marilyn Jaye Lewis, author of Neptune and Surf and Lust: Bisexual Erotica
• Mario Vargas Llosa, author of The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto
• Mark Twain, author of 1601
• 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
• Samuel R. Delany
• Sunil Gangopadhyay, Bengali Indian author who wrote the maximum number of erotic novels in Bengali literature
• Susie Bright
• Sylvia Day
• Tamara Thorne, author of the Sorority series
• Taslima Nasrin, Bangladeshi author who wrote "Lajja" in 1993, an explicit sexual book.
• Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-born English-language writer, author of Lolita
• 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

Erotic Sex Manuals

• Alex Comfort, author of The Joy of Sex
• Gao Lian, author of On Abstinence in Sex
• Ge Hong, Jin dynasty author of Pao-Pu Zhi
• Hua Tuo, author of On Venereal disease.
• Kalyanamalla, author of the Ananga Ranga
• Kokkoka, author of the Ratirahasya
• Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Nafzawi, author of The Perfumed Garden
• Ovid, Roman author famous for the Ars Amatoria
• Praudha Devaraya, author of the Ratiratna Pradipika
• Sun Simiao, author of On the Loss and Gain of The Chamber Art
• Vatsayana, famous for the Kama Sutra
• Wan Quan, author of Essentials for Extending Posterity
• Yasodhara, author of the Jayamangala

Autobiography

• Catherine Millet, author of The Sexual Life of Catherine M.
• Edward Avery, editor of The Autobiography of a Flea
• Emmanuelle Arsan, author of Emmanuelle
• Frank Harris, multiple-volume memoir My Life and Loves
• Georges Simenon
• Henry Spencer Ashbee, author of My Secret Life
• Nancy Friday
• Vanessa Duriès, author of Le lien
• Xaviera Hollander, author of The Happy Hooker

Erotic Poetry Authors

• Bai Juyi, Romantic poet of Tang dynasty
• Catullus, Roman erotic poet
• Gregório de Mattos, Brazilian poet. Books: "Poemas Satíricos", "Para que todos entendais poesia", "Desenganos da vida humana e outros poema".
• Hilda Hilst, Brazilian poet. Books: "Fico Besta Quando me Entendem", "Da Poesia", "Porno Chic", "De Amor Tenho Vivido", "Cantares", "Baladas", "A Obscena Senhora D", "Obscenica", "O Caderno Rosa de Lori Lamby", "Tu Não Te Moves de Ti", "Contos D'Escárnio/Textos Grotescos", "Fluxo Floema", "Cartas de um Sedutor", "Kadosh", "Como Meus Olhos de Cão", "Poemas Malditos, Gozosos e Devotos", "Do Desejo", "Rutilos", "Exercícios".
• Hồ Xuân Hương, 18th-19th century Vietnamese poet
• John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, British 17th Century libertine
• King Solomon, Author, according to Judeo-Christian tradition, of the Song of Songs.
• Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage, Portuguese poet. Books: "Poesias Eróticas, Burlescas e Satíricas", "Os Amores", "Opera Omnia".
• Ovid, Roman erotic poet
• Petrarch, an Italian poet, considered, together with Dante, the father of the Renaissance. His love sonnets dedicated to Laura are masterpieces of erotic poetry
• Pierre Louys, Belgian poet. Books: "Poesies Erotiques: la femme, les vulves legendaires", "Les soeurs à l'envers", "Oeuvre Erotique", "Le nom de la femme", "Le femme et le Pantin", "Trois filles de leur mère", "Les cahiers de la Nrf", "Les chansons de Bilitis", "Manual da Civilidade Destinado às Meninas para uso nas Escolas".
• Pietro Aretino, Italian poet. Books: "The School of Whoredom", "The Secret Life of Nuns", "Sonetti Lussuriosi e Dubbi Amorosi", "The Secret Life of Wives", "La Cortigiana", "Ragionamenti".
• Sappho, a Greek poet from the island of Lesbos who wrote love poetry to young women.
• Sextus Propertius, Roman poet

Chinese Erotica Authors

• David Tod Roy, translator and editor of The Plum in the Garden Vase
• Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng, author of Jin Ping Mei
• Li Yu, author of The Carnal Prayer Mat