Authors by Era

Early Church

Clement of Rome, Ignatius of Antioch, Polycarp of Smyrna fl. c. 96–155 (Clement d. c. 99; Ignatius d. c. 107–117; Polycarp d. c. 155–156)
Macarius the Egyptian (Macarius the Great) c. 300–391

Sixteenth Century

John Foxe 1516/17–1587
Juan de Ávila 1499–1569
Niccolò Balbani (Caracciolus); William Gilpin (Gilpin) Balbani d. 1587; William Gilpin 1724–1804

Seventeenth Century

Abraham Cowley 1618–1667
Anonymous (the work is sometimes ascribed to George Bull, Bishop of St David's) first published 1680
Anonymous compiler of Scots-Presbyterian worthies' lives, drawing on the tradition of John Howie's Scots Worthies and the memoirs of the Covenanting ministers Subjects flourished c. 1590–1640; principal figures: Robert Bruce of Kinnaird, 1554–1631; John Welsh of Ayr, c. 1568–1622; Robert Blair, 1593–1666
Anthony Horneck 1641–1697
Antoinette Bourignon 1616–1680
Benjamin Calamy 1642–1686
Benjamin Jenks 1646–1724
Blaise Pascal 1623–1662
Cotton Mather 1663–1728
Edmund Calamy 1671–1732
Edward Reyner 1600–1668
Edward Reynolds 1599–1676
Edward Young 1642–1705
Ezekiel Hopkins 1634–1690
Francis Rous 1581–1659
Francisco Losa 1536–1624
François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon 1651–1715
François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon; Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection (Nicolas Herman) Fénelon, 1651–1715; Brother Lawrence, c. 1614–1691
George Trosse (with an anonymous continuator) 1631–1713
Gilbert Burnet 1643–1715
Henry More 1614–1687
Henry Scougal 1650–1678
Herbert Palmer 1601–1647
Hugh Binning 1627–1653
Isaac Ambrose 1604–1664
Isaac Barrow 1630–1677
Izaak Walton 1593–1683
James Fraser of Brea 1639–1698
James Garden 1645–1726
Jean-Baptiste de Saint-Jure 1588–1657
Jeremy Taylor 1613–1667
Johann Arndt 1555–1621
John Austin 1613–1669
John Brown of Wamphray c. 1610–1679
John Bunyan 1628–1688
John Fell (Life of Hammond); Francisco Losa (Life of Gregory Lopez) Fell 1625–1686; Losa 1530–1599
John Flavel 1627–1691
John Goodman c. 1625/6–1690
John Howe 1630–1705
John Kitchin and Matthew Poole Kitchin (d. 1662); Poole (1624–1679)
John Norris of Bemerton 1657–1711
John Owen 1616–1683
John Preston 1587–1628
John Smith 1618–1652
John Tillotson 1630–1694
John Worthington 1618–1671
Joseph Alleine 1634–1668
Joseph Hall 1574–1656
Lewis Stuckley 1621/2–1687
Mary Henrics (Maria Henrics); François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon Henrics, fl. late 17th c.; Fénelon, 1651–1715
Matthew Henry 1662–1714
Miguel de Molinos c. 1628–1696
Nathaniel Culverwell c. 1619–1651
Nicholas Bernard d. 1661
Ralph Cudworth 1617–1688
Richard Alleine 1611–1681
Richard Allestree 1621/22–1681
Richard Baxter 1615–1691
Richard Lucas 1648–1715
Richard Sibbes 1577–1635
Robert Bolton 1572–1631
Robert Leighton 1611–1684
Robert Sanderson 1587–1663
Robert South 1634–1716
Samuel Annesley c. 1620–1696
Samuel Bolton 1606–1654
Samuel Clarke 1599–1682
Samuel Rutherford c. 1600–1661
Samuel Shaw 1635–1696
Seth Ward 1617–1689
Simon Patrick 1626–1707
Sir Matthew Hale 1609–1676
Stephen Charnock 1628–1680
The Westminster Assembly of Divines 1643–1649
Thomas Goodwin 1600–1680
Thomas Hooker 1586–1647
Thomas Ken 1637–1711
Thomas Manton 1620–1677
Thomas Wadsworth 1630–1676
Various (compiled lives of Reformed divines and worthies) subjects fl. 1583–1669
Various lives; the principal narrative is the autobiography of James Fraser of Brea James Fraser of Brea, 1639–1698; Thomas Wilson of Otham, 1601–1653
William Beveridge 1637-1708
William Cave 1637–1713
William Dell d. 1669
William Whately 1583–1639

Eighteenth Century

August Hermann Francke 1663–1727
Charles Bonnet; Jonathan Edwards 1720–1793; 1703–1758
John Howe (of Gloucestershire) 1661–1745
Jonathan Edwards 1703–1758