This list of Protestant authors presents a group of authors who have expressed membership in a Protestant denominational church or adherence to spiritual beliefs which are in alignment with

Protestantism Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes Justification (theology), justification of sinners Sola fide, through faith alone, the teaching that Salvation in Christianity, salvation comes by unmerited Grace in Christianity, divin ...

as a religion, culture, or identity. The list does not include authors who, while considered or thought to be Protestant in faith, have rarely expressed or declared their affiliation in a public forum. Criteria for inclusion on the list are those authors that have received worldwide recognition for their contributions in religious literature. Areas of specialty and denominations are added according to consensus, as needed. Current specialties include the following: ''The list of authors is categorized according to denomination.''

Anabaptist

* Petr Chelčický (born c. 1390–died c. 1460) – 15th century political leader from

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(now the

Czech Republic The Czech Republic, also known as Czechia, and historically known as Bohemia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the south ...

)

Alliance

Ravi Zacharias Frederick Antony Ravi Kumar Zacharias (26 March 194619 May 2020) was an Indian-born Canadian and American Christianity, Christian Evangelicalism, evangelical Pastor, minister and Christian apologetics, Christian apologist who founded Ravi Zacha ...

– evangelical writer from India

Anglican

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– author of '' Mere Christianity'' * Diana Butler Bass – author and church historian * Lancelot Andrewes (1555–1626) – English bishop and scholar, who oversaw the translation of the ''

King James Version of the Bible The King James Version (KJV), also the King James Bible (KJB) and the Authorized Version (AV), is an Early Modern English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England, which was commissioned in 1604 and published in 1611, b ...

'' * Legh Richmond – '' The Dairyman's Daughter'' * Maria Francesca Rossetti – author and nun *

James Madison James Madison (June 28, 1836) was an American statesman, diplomat, and Founding Fathers of the United States, Founding Father who served as the fourth president of the United States from 1809 to 1817. Madison was popularly acclaimed as the ...

(1751–1836) – fourth President of the United States (1809–1817), the “Father of the Constitution” and the key champion and author of the United States Bill of Rights * Jakob Abbadie – Swiss writer * Jakob Jocz – third generation Hebrew Christian * Jupiter Hammon (1711–died c. 1806) – former slave and poet from New York * Peter Heylin or Heylyn (1599–1662) – English clergyman and author of many polemical, historical, political and theological tracts * Samuel Butler (1613–1680) – author of the religious and political

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Hudibras

Baptist

* John Ankerberg (born 1945) –

apologist Apologetics (from Greek ) is the religious discipline of defending religious doctrines through systematic argumentation and discourse. Early Christian writers (c. 120–220) who defended their beliefs against critics and recommended their fa ...

from Chicago, Illinois * Alfred James Broomhall * Benjamin Broomhall (1829–1911) – missionary and administrator of the China Inland Mission from Bayswater, London * Marshall Broomhall *

John Bunyan John Bunyan (; 1628 – 31 August 1688) was an English writer and preacher. He is best remembered as the author of the Christian allegory ''The Pilgrim's Progress'', which also became an influential literary model. In addition to ''The Pilgrim' ...

(1628–1688) –

allegorical As a literary device or artistic form, an allegory is a narrative or visual representation in which a character, place, or event can be interpreted to represent a meaning with moral or political significance. Authors have used allegory throughou ...

author of ''

The Pilgrim's Progress ''The Pilgrim's Progress from This World, to That Which Is to Come'' is a 1678 Christian allegory written by John Bunyan. It is commonly regarded as one of the most significant works of Protestant devotional literature and of wider early moder ...

'' from London, England * Alice Blanchard Coleman (1858-1936) – missionary society leader; author of periodical religious literature * Bob Cornuke (born 1951) – biblical archeologist from

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* Martha Foster Crawford – writer and missionary * Thomas Dixon (1864–1946) – novelist, playwright, state legislator, and author of '' The Clansman'' from North Carolina * John Gill (1697–1771) – biblical scholar and expository author from Horsleydown,

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, England *

Billy Graham William Franklin Graham Jr. (; November 7, 1918 – February 21, 2018) was an American Evangelism, evangelist, ordained Southern Baptist minister, and Civil rights movement, civil rights advocate, whose broadcasts and world tours featuring liv ...

(1918–2018) – radio,

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, and crusade evangelist from

Charlotte, North Carolina Charlotte ( ) is the List of municipalities in North Carolina, most populous city in the U.S. state of North Carolina and the county seat of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, Mecklenburg County. The population was 874,579 at the 2020 United ...

* Marilla Baker Ingalls (1828–1902) – missionary to Burma * David Jeremiah (born 1941) – radio and television evangelist, pastor, and expository author from

El Cajon, California El Cajon ( , ; Spanish language, Spanish: El Cajón, lit. 'the box') is a city in San Diego County, California, United States, east of downtown San Diego. The city takes its name from Rancho El Cajon, Rancho El Cajón, which was named for the ...

Adoniram Judson Adoniram Judson (; August 9, 1788 – April 12, 1850) was an American Congregationalism in the United States, Congregationalist and later Particular Baptist missionary who worked in Burma for almost 40 years. At the age of 25, Judson was ...

(1788–1850) – missionary to Burma; translated the Bible from English to Burmese * Benjamin Keach (1640–1704) – author of scriptural parables and catechism from

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, England * William Garrett Lewis * John Piper *

Bernard Ramm Bernard L. Ramm (1 August 1916 in Butte, Montana – 11 August 1992 in Irvine, California) was a Baptist theologian and apologist within the broad evangelical tradition. He wrote prolifically on topics concerned with biblical hermeneutics, religio ...

– Christian apologetics * John Rippon * Charles Haddon Spurgeon *

Rick Warren Richard Duane Warren (born January 28, 1954) is an American evangelical Christian pastor and author. He is the founder of Saddleback Church, an evangelical Baptists, Baptist megachurch in Lake Forest, California. Since 2022, he serves as execut ...

* Kenneth N. Taylor – linked to

Moody Bible Institute Moody Bible Institute (MBI) is a private evangelical Christian Bible college in Chicago, Illinois. It was founded by evangelist and businessman Dwight Lyman Moody in 1886. Historically, MBI has maintained positions that have identified it as ...

* E. W. Kenyon

Brethren

* Lillian Resler Keister Harford – church organizer, editor, author *

K.V. Simon ''Mahakavi'' Kunnampurathu Varghese Simon (7 February 1883 – 20 February 1944) was a Malayalam Christian poet from Kerala, India. He was also a musician, a teacher, a reformer, a writer, a Bible scholar and apologist. Simon authored around t ...

– poet from India

Congregationalist

John Adams John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was a Founding Fathers of the United States, Founding Father and the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. Before Presidency of John Adams, his presidency, he was a leader of ...

– religious worker whose poems speak of "flaming piety" * Thomas Binney – Congregationalist theologian and poet * Samuel Dyer * Jonathan Edwards * William Ellis – missionary who wrote ''Madagascar Revisited'' * George MacDonald – Congregationalist pastor *

John Milton John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, and civil servant. His 1667 epic poem ''Paradise Lost'' was written in blank verse and included 12 books, written in a time of immense religious flux and politic ...

– ''

Paradise Lost ''Paradise Lost'' is an Epic poetry, epic poem in blank verse by the English poet John Milton (1608–1674). The poem concerns the Bible, biblical story of the fall of man: the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their ex ...

'' *

Marilynne Robinson Marilynne Summers Robinson (born November 26, 1943) is an American novelist and essayist. Across her writing career, Robinson has received numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2005, National Humanities Medal in 2012, and th ...

– ''

Gilead Gilead or Gilad (, ; ''Gilʿāḏ'', , ''Jalʻād'') is the ancient, historic, biblical name of the mountainous northern part of the region of Transjordan.''Easton's Bible Dictionary'Galeed''/ref> The region is bounded in the west by the J ...

'', 2005 Pulitzer Prize winner *

John Updike John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once (the others being Booth Tar ...

– '' Rabbit, Run'', raised Lutheran, later belonged to Congregationalist and Episcopalian congregations

Congregationalist and Puritan

* James Janeway

Lutheran

* Mikael Agricola – founding figure in Finnish literature * Marva Dawn – theological writing * Garrison Keillor – humorist * John Warwick Montgomery – Christian apologetics *

Hallgrímur Pétursson Hallgrímur Pétursson (1614 – 27 October 1674) was an Icelandic poet and a minister at Hvalsneskirkja and Saurbær in Hvalfjörður. Being one of the most prominent Icelandic poets, the Hallgrímskirkja in Reykjavík and the Hallgrímskirkja ...

– Lutheran priest, poet, and hymnodist

Methodist (inclusive of the
holiness movement The Holiness movement is a Christianity, Christian movement that emerged chiefly within 19th-century Methodism, and to a lesser extent influenced other traditions such as Quakers, Quakerism, Anabaptism, and Restorationism. Churches aligned with ...
)

William F. Albright William Foxwell Albright (May 24, 1891 – September 19, 1971) was an American archaeologist, biblical scholar, philologist, and expert on ceramics. He is considered "one of the twentieth century's most influential American biblical scholars ...

– Methodist archaeologist who writes on Bible archaeology * Esther E. Baldwin – missionary, teacher, translator, writer, editor * Julia Colman – temperance educator, activist, editor, writer * Edward Eggleston – Methodist minister and author * Arno Clemens Gaebelein – Methodist minister and writer * Annie Ryder Gracey – author and missionary * Phoebe Knapp – Methodist hymnwriter * Augustus Baldwin Longstreet – Methodist minister and humorist * Mary A. Miller – Methodist historian, editor, and publisher *

William Williams Pantycelyn William Williams, Pantycelyn (c. 11 February 1717 – 11 January 1791), also known as William Williams, Williams Pantycelyn or simply Pantycelyn, was generally seen as Wales's premier hymnwriter, hymnist. He is also rated among the great litera ...

– Methodist hymnwriter *

George Whitefield George Whitefield (; 30 September 1770), also known as George Whitfield, was an English Anglican minister and preacher who was one of the founders of Methodism and the evangelical movement. Born in Gloucester, he matriculated at Pembroke Coll ...

* Alice May Douglas – author of poetry, juvenile literature, non-fiction; newspaper editor * Daniel Sidney Warner – Church of God minister and founder of ''Gospel Trumpet Flyer''

Moravian and Hussite

* William Cornelius Reichel, historian

Pentecostal

Benny Hinn Toufik Benedictus "Benny" Hinn (born 3 December 1952) is an Israeli-born Palestinian-American-Canadian televangelist, best known for his regular "Miracle Crusades"— revival meeting or faith healing summits that are usually held in stadiums i ...

– preacher and author * Jimmy Swaggart - preacher and author

Plymouth Brethren

* Arthur Charles Gook – English to Icelandic translations of literature, poems, and hymns

Presbyterian

* Pearl S. Buck – parents were missionaries, but she later left the religion * Belle Caldwell Culbertson - foreign missionary, home missionary, author on religious matters, and philanthropist * Elisabeth Elliot – missionary * Johnny Hart – cartoonist, on the evangelical end of Presbyterianism * Emrys ap Iwan – Welsh Presbyterian minister who wrote for newspapers, etc. * Timothy Keller – Senior

pastor A pastor (abbreviated to "Ps","Pr", "Pstr.", "Ptr." or "Psa" (both singular), or "Ps" (plural)) is the leader of a Christianity, Christian congregation who also gives advice and counsel to people from the community or congregation. In Lutherani ...

of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in

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, author of '' The Reason for God''. * Catherine Marshall – author of "Christy" and "A Man Called Peter" * John Ortberg – Senior

of Menlo Park Presbyterian Church, author of '' If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat''. *

Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for works such as ''Treasure Island'', ''Strange Case of Dr Jekyll ...

– wrote on religious matters at times * Thomas Vincent *

Andrew Young Andrew Jackson Young Jr. (born March 12, 1932) is an American politician, diplomat, and activist. Beginning his career as a pastor, Young was an early leader in the civil rights movement, serving as executive director of the Southern Christia ...

– poet and botanical writer (later an Anglican priest) *

Frederick Buechner Carl Frederick Buechner ( ; July 11, 1926 – August 15, 2022) was an American author, Presbyterian Presbyterianism is a historically Reformed Protestant tradition named for its form of church government by representative assemblies ...

– novelist, theologian, and minister * Horatius Bonar – minister in the Free Church of Scotland and a poet * Alexander Campbell Cheyne – Scottish ecclesiastical historian * Henry Drummond – Free Church of Scotland writer * George Adam Smith – books concerning the Bible * Francis Schaeffer

Quaker

* Bathsheba Bowers * Esther G. Frame * Sally Nicholls * Eric Knight * William Cooper

Reformed

* Nicolaas Beets – novelist and poet *

Corrie ten Boom Cornelia Arnolda Johanna "Corrie" ten Boom (15 April 1892 – 15 April 1983) was a Dutch watchmaker and later a Christian writer and public speaker, who worked with her father, Casper ten Boom, her sister Betsie ten Boom and other family membe ...

– memoirist * Edward Tanjore Corwin – history writing * James Isaac Good – history writing * Martha Hooper Blackler Kalopothakes – missionary, journalist, translator * Andrew Murray – religious and inspirational writing

United Protestant

* Ralph Connor – Canadian clergyman and bestselling novelist

Other

* Edith Jessie Archibald – suffragist and writer * Ethel Barrett – Christian author and children's author * Mary Charlotte Ward Granniss Webster Billings – writer, activist, hymn writer, evangelist, missionary * Ted Dekker – bestselling novelist * Henry Grattan Guinness * Jerry B. Jenkins – co-author of the Left Behind books and '' Gil Thorp'' comics * Hal Lindsey – end-times author * Josh McDowell – Christian writer *

Ra'ouf Mus'ad Ra’ouf Mus'ad (sometimes known as Raouf Moussad-Basta) is a playwright, journalist and novelist who was born in Sudan to Copts in Sudan, Coptic parents from Egypt. He moved to Egypt as a teenager and lived in various countries, both in the Middl ...

– Protestant playwright of Coptic ancestry * J. Dwight Pentecost * Geraldine Taylor *

Hudson Taylor James Hudson Taylor (; 21 May 1832 – 3 June 1905) was a British Protestant Christian missionary to China and founder of the OMF International, China Inland Mission (CIM, now OMF International). Taylor spent 54 years in China. The society tha ...

* Phyllis Wheatley (1753–died c. 1784) – former slave and poet from Boston, Massachusetts and

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, Africa * Ellen G. White (1827-1915)

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