The Royal Society of Literature has some 500 Fellows. They include most of the very best novelists, short-story writers, poets, playwrights, biographers, historians, travel writers, literary critics and scriptwriters at work today.
- Paul Bailey
- Michael Baldwin
- Iain Banks
- John Banville
- Richard Barber
- Juliet Barker
- Pat Barker CBE
- Sebastian Barker
- Frank Barlow CBE FBA FRHistS
- Correlli Barnett CBE
- Sebastian Barry
- Jacques Barzun
- Susan Bassnett
- Jonathan Bate CBE FBA
- Nina Bawden CBE
- Martin Bax
- John Bayley CBE FBA
- C.A. Bayly FBA FRHistS
- Dame Gillian Beer DBE FBA
- Antony Beevor
- Rosalind Belben
- Anne Olivier Bell
- Bernard Bergonzi
- Christopher Bigsby
- Dea Birkett
- Julia Blackburn
- Malorie Blackman
- Ronald Blythe, Benson Medallist
- James T. Boulton FBA
- William Boyd CBE
- Melvyn Bragg (Lord Bragg)
- Piers Brendon
- Raymond Briggs
- Robin Briggs
- Michael Brock CBE FRHistS
- Hugh Brogan
- Anita Brookner CBE
- Alan Brownjohn
- James Buchan
- Brian Burland
- John Burnside
- Marilyn Butler FBA
- A.S. Byatt (Dame Antonia Duffy DBE)