List Of BDSM Authors

This is a list of notable authors of fiction and/or non-fiction works about BDSM. For other notable people associated with BDSM, see List of people associated with BDSM. *

Solace Ames Solace Ames is an American writer specializing in erotic fiction. She has also written under the pen name Violetta Vane. Career Ames is a self-taught writer. Her short story "Tomorrow's Much Too Long" placed third in Hyphen's first Erotic Writ ...

, American author of erotic fiction *

Laura Antoniou Laura Antoniou (born 1963) is an American novelist. She is the author of ''The Marketplace'' series of BDSM-themed novels, which were originally published under the pen name of Sara Adamson. Antoniou is also known for her work as an editor and pi ...

, writing as Sara Adamson, author of ''The Marketplace'' series of novels *

Pablo Neruda Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto (12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973), better known by his pen name and, later, legal name Pablo Neruda (; ), was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. Nerud ...

* Go Arisue, Japanese bondage artist and author * Guy Baldwin, psychotherapist and author known for his work on BDSM and sexual related issues * Violet Blue, American journalist, author, editor, advisor, and educator * Gloria Brame, American sexologist, writer and sex therapist *

Rachel Kramer Bussel Rachel Kramer Bussel (born 1975) is an author, columnist, and editor, specializing in erotica. She previously studied at the New York University School of Law and earned her bachelor's degree in political science and women's studies from the U ...

, American author, columnist, and editor, specializing in erotica * Patrick Califia, American writer of non-fiction essays about sexuality and of erotic fiction and poetry * Casey Calvert, American pornographic actress and film director * Greta Christina, American atheist, blogger, speaker, and author * David Aaron Clark, American author, musician, pornographic actor, and pornographic video director * John Cleland, English novelist best known for his fictional '' Fanny Hill: or, the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure'' * Oniroku Dan, Japanese author of popular SM novels * Tess Danesi, American sex educator, blogger, and writer of BDSM erotica * Tony DeBlase, American leatherman and zoologist, sometimes writing as Fledermaus * Samuel R. Delany, American author and literary critic * Anne Desclos, Franch writer also writing as Dominique Aury and Pauline Réage, author of ''

Story of O ''Story of O'' (french: Histoire d'O, link=no, ) is an erotic novel published in 1954 by French author Anne Desclos under the pen name Pauline Réage, and published in French by Jean-Jacques Pauvert. Desclos did not reveal herself as the autho ...

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Vanessa Duriès Vanessa Duriès, also known as Katia Lamara (1972 – 13 December 1993), was a French novelist. Biography She was the author of the French BDSM novel '' Le lien'' (translated into English as '' The Ties that Bind'') allegedly based on her own ...

, French novelist, author of '' The Ties That Bind'' * Dossie Easton, American author and family therapist, author of ''

The Ethical Slut ''The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities'' is an English language non-fiction book by Dossie Easton and Janet Hardy (given as pseudonym Catherine A. Liszt for the book's first edition in 1997). Content The authors define th ...

'' * Stephen Elliott, author of ''My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up'' * Melissa Febos, American writer, professor and former dominatrix, author of the memoir ''Whip Smart'' * Bob Flanagan, American performance artist and writer known for his work on sadomasochism * Maîtresse Françoise, also writing as Annick Foucault, French dominatrix and author * Mary Gaitskill * Jeff Gord, real name Jeffrey E. Owen, British bondage photographer and writer of erotic fiction * Tilly Greene *

Matthias T. J. Grimme Matthias T. J. Grimme (born 24. June 1953, in Hamburg, Germany), stage name , is a German author, publisher of Sadism and masochism in fiction, sadomasochistic literature and magazines, a photographer and a bondage rigger, rope artist in Japan ...

, German author and publisher of sadomasochistic literature. author of ''Das SM-Handbuch'' * Andrei Gusev, Russian writer and journalist * Hardy Haberman, American author, filmmaker, educator, and activist *

Laurell K. Hamilton Laurell Kaye Hamilton (born February 19, 1963) is an American fantasy and romance writer. She is best known as the author of two series of stories. Her The New York Times Best Seller list, ''New York Times''-bestselling ''Anita Blake: Vampire H ...

Janet Hardy Janet W. Hardy is an American writer and sex educator, and founder of Greenery Press. She has also been published as ''Catherine A. Liszt'' and ''Lady Green''. She is the author or co-author of eleven books, and frequently collaborates with Dossi ...

, American writer and sex educator, and founder of Greenery Press * Lee Harrington, American sexuality and spirituality educator, author, and artist * Emma Holly, American author who specializes in writing erotic romance novels *

Trevor Jacques Trevor H. Jacques (24 July 1956 – 22 May 2021) was a Canadian author, activist, sex researcher, and IT consultant based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. His research and writing were in the area of consensual BDSM, sexual fetishism and sexual h ...

, Canadian author, activist, sex researcher, and IT consultant, author of ''On The Safe Edge: A Manual for SM Play'' * Maxim Jakubowski * Elfriede Jelinek *

V. M. Johnson V. M. Johnson, also known as Viola Johnson, born in 1950, is a leatherwoman, leather activist and author.- Life Johnson claims that when she was seventeen years old a vampire gave her some of his own blood to drink and thus she became a vampire. ...

, American leatherwoman, leather activist and author *

E.L. James EL, El or el may refer to: Religion * El (deity), a Semitic word for "God" People * EL (rapper) (born 1983), stage name of Elorm Adablah, a Ghanaian rapper and sound engineer * El DeBarge, music artist * El Franco Lee (1949–2016), American po ...

, real name Erika Leonard, British author writing as E.L. James, author of '' Fifty Shades of Grey'' novels *

Alan Mac Clyde (1930s novelist) Alan Mac Clyde, Edith Kindler, Joan Spanking and Jean de La Beuque fils are pseudonyms for the author of several French-language pornographic novels published in the 1930s by the Librairie Générale (84, Boulevard Diderot, Paris) and Librairie ...

, pseudonym of unknown author *

Alan Mac Clyde (1950s novelist) Alan Mac Clyde or Alan McClyde is the name used in the 1950s by the Paris-based publishers of some English-language erotica: Patrick Garnot of ''Pall Mall Press'' and Bronislaw Kaminsky, aka Bruno Durocher, of ''Week End Books'' both located in 5, ...

, pseudonym of unknown author * Mistress Matisse, American dominatrix *

Malcolm McKesson Malcolm McKesson (July 24, 1909 – February 5, 1999) was an American outsider artist known for his ballpoint pen drawings and his erotic fiction. He was the husband of poet Madeline Mason-Manheim. Biography Malcolm McKesson was born in Monmo ...

, American author and outsider artist * Midori, American bondage artist * Lord Morpheous, Canadian sex educator, author and photographer * Charles Allen Moser, American physician, clinical sexologist, sex therapist, and sex educator * John Norman, real name , John Frederick Lange, Jr., American academic and novelist writing as John Norman, author of the ''

Gor Gor () is the fictional setting for a series of sword and planet novels written by philosophy professor John Lange, writing as John Norman. The setting was first described in the 1966 novel ''Tarnsman of Gor''. The series is inspired by science f ...

'' series of novels * Betty Paërl, Dutch mathematician, socialist and transgender rights activist *

John Preston John Preston may refer to: Politicians * John Preston (died 1434), Member of Parliament (MP) for Sussex * John Preston (c. 1578 – c. 1642), MP for Lancaster * John Preston (alderman) (1611–1686), mayor of Dublin in 1654 * John Preston (died ...

, American author and editor of gay erotica * Carol Queen, American author, editor, sociologist and sexologist * Anne Rice, writing as A. N. Roquelaure, author of ''

The Sleeping Beauty Quartet ''The Sleeping Beauty Quartet'' is a series of four novels written by American author Anne Rice under the pseudonym of A. N. Roquelaure. The quartet comprises ''The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty'', ''Beauty's Punishment'', ''Beauty's Release'', an ...

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Catherine Robbe-Grillet Catherine Robbe-Grillet (; ''née'' Rstakian; born 24 September 1930) is a French writer, dominatrix, photographer, theatre and film actress of Armenian descent who has published sadomasochistic writings under the pseudonyms Jean de Berg and J ...

, writing as Jean de Berg and Jeanne de Berg, author of '' The Image'' *

Pam Rosenthal Pam Rosenthal is a Brooklyn-born author of erotic historical romance novels. Under the pseudonym Molly Weatherfield, she has written erotic novels in the BDSM genre ("bondage, domination and sadomasochism"). She and her husband Michael Rosenthal ...

, writing as Molly Weatherfield, American author of erotic historical romance novels *

Robert J. Rubel Robert J. Rubel (born Robert Jack Rubel II, October 5, 1944) also known as "Dr. Bob", is an American author and educational speaker. He specializes in the area of alternative sexuality, focusing on the fields of BDSM (Bondage, Discipline, Sado- ...

, American author and educational speaker in the field of alternative sexuality * Gayle Rubin, American cultural anthropologist * Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian nobleman, writer and journalist, author of '' Venus in Furs'' *

Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade (; 2 June 1740 – 2 December 1814), was a French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer famous for his literary depictions of a libertine human sexuality, sexuality as well as n ...

, French nobleman, author of '' Justine, or the Misfortunes of Virtue''; ''

Juliette Juliette is a feminine personal name of French origin. It is a diminutive of Julie. Notable people *Juliette (Canadian singer) (1926-2017), full name Juliette Augustina Sysak Cavazzi, Canadian singer and TV personality of the 1950s-1970s. known ...

'', '' The 120 Days of Sodom'' and ''

Philosophy in the Bedroom ''Philosophy in the Bedroom'' (french: La philosophie dans le boudoir, link=no) is a 1795 book by the Marquis de Sade written in the form of a dramatic dialogue. Though initially considered a work of pornography, the book has come to be conside ...

'' * Ariel Sands, pseudonymous author of the sadomasochistic novel ''Never the Face'' *

Terence Sellers Terence Sellers (1952–2016), also known as Mistress Angel Stern, was a New York-based writer and dominatrix involved in the New York Downtown Arts Scene. Her papers have been collected by New York University's Fales Library Downtown Collectio ...

, American dominatrix and writer, author of ''The Correct Sadist: The Memoirs of Angel Stern'' * Elf Sternberg, author of online erotic fiction * Gengoroh Tagame, pseudonymous Japanese manga artist * Cecilia Tan, writer, editor, sexuality activist, and founder of Circlet Press *

Bernard J. Taylor Bernard J. Taylor is a writer and composer of musicals and stage plays. His stage works have been produced around the world and translated into German, Romanian, Polish, Hungarian, Spanish and Italian. He is also the writer of 14 novels and thre ...

* Claire Thompson * Larry Townsend, American author and activist *

Kitty Tsui Kitty Tsui (born 1952) is an American author, poet, actor, and bodybuilder. She was the first known Asian American lesbian to publish a book (''Words of a Woman who Breathes Fire'', published in 1983). Personal life Tsui was born in Hong Kon ...

, American author, poet, actor, and bodybuilder *

Alison Tyler Alison Tyler (born 1969) is the pseudonym of an American author, editor and publisher of erotica living in Northern California. She has authored over 20 explicit novels, hundreds of short stories and has edited more than 60 erotic anthologies. S ...

, pseudonymous American author, editor and publisher of erotica * Mollena Williams-Haas, American writer, BDSM educator, actress, and former International Ms. Leather * Jay Wiseman, American BDSM author, educator, and expert witness {{BDSM BDSM