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- William Carleton (1794-1869)
- Caleb Carr (born 1955)
- John Dickson Carr (1906–1977)
- Philippa Carr (1906–1993), pseudonym of Eleanor Hibbert
- Jimmy Carter (born 1924)
- Willa Cather (1873–1947)
- Aleksey Chapygin (1870-1937)
- Winston Churchill (1871–1947) (American)
- Alys Clare (born 1944)
- Susanna Clarke (born 1959)
- James Clavell (1924–1994)
- Brian Cleeve (1921–2003)
- Michael Clynes, pseudonym of P. C. Doherty
- Ioan Mihai Cochinescu (born 1951)
- Jonathan Coe (born 1961)
- Wilkie Collins (1824-1889)
- Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)
- Judith Cook (1933-2004)
- Bernard Cornwell (born 1944)
- Thomas B. Costain (1885–1965)
- Andrew Crumey (born 1961)
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