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.
- David Dabydeen
- William Dalrymple
- Richard Davenport-Hines
- Lionel Davidson
- Andrew Davies
- Paul Davies
- Stevie Davies
- Dick Davis
- Richard Dawkins FRS
- Louis de Bernières
- Alain de Botton
- Anita Desai, Benson Medallist
- Imtiaz Dharker
- Peter Dickinson
- David Dilks FRHistS
- Jenny Diski
- Maura Dooley
- Roddy Doyle
- Dame Margaret Drabble DBE
- Carol Ann Duffy CBE
- Maureen Duffy, Benson Medallist
- Ian Duhig
- Katherine Duncan-Jones
- Helen Dunmore
- Douglas Dunn OBE
- Jane Dunn
- Nell Dunn
- Geoff Dyer