List of Sailors - Writers and Publishers

Writers and Publishers

• John Arthur Barry, Australian journalist and author
• John Blackburn (author), British novelist
• Peter Baynham, Welsh screenwriter, Academy Award-nominated. Co-writer of Borat
• Nathaniel Bowditch, author, The American Practical Navigator
• E. S. Campbell, American author, broadcaster and radio officer
• A. Bertram Chandler, Australian science fiction author of over 40 novels and 200 works of short fiction
• Brian Cleeve, English writer and popular TV broadcaster
• Richard Henry Dana, Jr., American author, Two Years Before the Mast
• Clare Francis, British novelist
• Allen Ginsberg, poet, Howl, Kaddish
• David Hackworth, retired United States Army colonel and prominent military journalist
• Kevin McClory, Irish screenwriter, producer, and director, Never Say Never Again,
• Herbert Huncke, American beat generation figure
• John L. Hess, prominent American journalist
• Bob Kaufman, American Beat poet and surrealist
• Jack Kerouac, American author, On The Road
• James Lennox Kerr, Scottish socialist author noted for his children's stories
• Jack London, American author, Call of the Wild
• Veeresh Malik, Indian businessman and writer
• John Masefield O.M., LL.D. Poet Laureate, sailing ship Apprentice
• Herman Melville, American author, Moby Dick
• Charles Muñoz, American poet, novelist, publisher, and radio officer
• Alun Owen, a British screenwriter, noted for writing The Beatles's film A Hard Day's Night
• Donn Pearce, author of Cool Hand Luke
• Dudley Pope, British writer of both nautical fiction and history
• Richard Scott Prather, American mystery novelist
• Otto Scott, American journalist and author
• Hubert Selby, Jr., American author
• James Sites, American novelist
• Joshua Slocum (1848-1909?), first single-handed circumnavigation of the world 1895 - 1898
• Gary Snyder, American poet
• Lyle Stuart, controversial American publisher
• Derek Turner, Irish magazine editor and freelance journalist
• Nedd Willard (1928– ), writer and journalist
• Charles Williams (U.S. author), writer of hardboiled crime fiction
• Robin Wilson (author), American science fiction author and university president
• Bernard Wolfe, American fiction writer
• Nikos Kavvadias, Greek poet
• Altaf Shaikh, Pakistani Travelogue Writer and Novelist, Tamgha-e-Imtiaz.