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List of authors of erotic works

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This is a list of notable authors of erotic literature.

Contents

Sex manuals

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

    • Fiction

  • 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
  • Anne Tourney also published as Alaine Hood
  • Arabella Knight, author of Let's Play Anal Twister
  • Aran Ashe
  • Arelis,author of Erotonomicon
  • 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.

    • Chinese erotica

  • Li Yu, author of The Carnal Prayer Mat
  • Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng, author of Jin Ping Mei
  • Zhang Chunfan, Tang dynasty author of The Turtle with Nine Tails

    • Poetry

  • 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

    • Autobiography

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

    • References

    List of authors of erotic works Wikipedia
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