Eva Wilder McGlasson Brodhead (1870-1915) was a nineteenth-century American novelist, author and contributor to Harper's Magazine. She is best known for her 1891 book Diana's Livery, which is set in a hypothetical Shaker community and discusses themes of utopianism, gender separation and all-woman spheres.

Evaleen Stein was an American writer and poet as well as a limner. She was the author of eleven volumes of stories and three books of verse. In addition, she translated two volumes of poetry, one from the Japanese and another from Italian. An ardent lover of nature, Stein reflected this tendency in most of her poems and stories. Among her children's literature works, all written between 1903 and 1925, are Troubadour Tales, Gabriel and the Hour Book, A Little Shepherd of Provence, The Little Count of Normandy; Or, The Story of Raoul, The Christmas Porringer, Our little Norman cousin of long ago, being a story of Normandy in the time of William the Conqueror, Our Little Frankish Cousin of Long Ago, Child songs of cheer, Our Little Celtic Cousin of Long Ago, Pepin: A Tale of Twelfth Night, and Little Poems from Japanese Anthologies. She lived all her life with her mother in Lafayette, Indiana, where Stein was the center of a large circle of cultured persons.

Evan Hunter, born Salvatore Albert Lombino, was an American author and screenwriter best known for his 87th Precinct novels, written under his Ed McBain pen name, and the novel upon which the film Blackboard Jungle was based.

Evelyn Beatrice Hall, who wrote under the pseudonym S[tephen] G. Tallentyre, was an English writer best known for her biography of Voltaire entitled The Life of Voltaire, first published in 1903. She also wrote The Friends of Voltaire, which she completed in 1906.

Evelyn E. Smith was an American writer of science fiction and mysteries, as well as a compiler of crossword puzzles.

Evelyn Underhill was an English Anglo-Catholic writer and pacifist known for her numerous works on religion and spiritual practice, in particular Christian mysticism. Her best-known is Mysticism, published in 1911.

Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh was an English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books; he was also a prolific journalist and book reviewer. His most famous works include the early satires Decline and Fall (1928) and A Handful of Dust (1934), the novel Brideshead Revisited (1945), and the Second World War trilogy Sword of Honour (1952–1961). He is recognised as one of the great prose stylists of the English language in the 20th century.

Evelyn Whitaker (1844–1929) was an English children's writer, whose work was described as charming, pure and wholesome. She displays strong sensitivity to poverty and to illness. Her books were published anonymously.

Everett B. Cole (1910-2001) was an American writer of science fiction short stories and a professional soldier. He fought at Omaha Beach during World War II and worked as a signal maintenance and property officer at Fort Douglas, Utah, retiring in 1960. He got a bachelor's degree in Math and Physics and became a Math, Physics, and Chemistry teacher at Yorktown High School in Texas. His first science fiction story, "Philosophical Corps" was published in the magazine Astounding in 1951. His fix-up of that story and two others, The Philosophical Corps, was published by Gnome Press in 1962. A second novel, The Best Made Plans, was serialized in Astounding in 1959, but never published in book form. He also co-authored historical books about the south Texas region.

Derviş Mehmed Zillî, known as Evliya Çelebi, was an Ottoman explorer who travelled through the territory of the Ottoman Empire and neighboring lands during the empire's cultural zenith. He travelled for over a period of forty years, recording his commentary in a travelogue called the Seyahatnâme. The name Çelebi is an honorific meaning "gentleman" or "man of God".