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.

  • V.S. Naipaul (Sir Vidia Naipaul C Lit)
  • Venetia Newall FSA
  • Charles Nicholl
  • Grace Nichols
  • Peter Nichols
  • William Nicholson
  • Adam Nicolson (Lord Carnock FSA)
  • Gerard Noel
  • John Julius Norwich (Viscount Norwich CVO FSA)
  • Robert Nye