Where are the right-wing writers?

It's a common supposition on both left and right that everyone in the arts is a liberal, lefty, communist, or fellow traveller; at most there's one or two exceptions writing from a conservative position. Thus, Tony Kushner in Only We Who Guard The Mystery Shall Be Unhappy has Laura Bush say:

The liberals may have nearly all the poets and painters and everybody else but WE have Dostoevsky and he obliterates the whole kitandkaboodle, we have Dostoevsky and so we win.

But is this the full story? For your consideration, I present the following. From libertarians to upper-class high-church snobs, with a smattering of one-nation tories, Nazi sympathisers, and the unprincipled rich, here's a list of notable novelists, poets, and a few other literary types of a rightist persuasion.

1. Kingsley Amis - despite early socialism, he moved rightwards through his life to become a curmudgeonly conservative
2. Martin Amis - in recent years has followed his father's path, with his views on Islam condemned by many left-wingers; also anti-communist, writing books about Stalin
3. Jeffrey Archer - popular novelist and former Conservative Party MP; also convicted perjurer
4. Honoré de Balzac - royalist and chronicler of a society in decline
5. Hilaire Belloc - the poet and writer, known for his verse for children, was an admirer of fascism and especially Mussolini; he was a devout Catholic and has been accused of anti-semitism
6. Saul Bellow - a youthful leftist he moved to the right, was culturally conservative, opposing political correctness and multiculturalism
7. John Betjeman - a small-c conservative: an admirer of the English upper classes, a campaigner to preserve disappearing aspects of England, scornful of mass culture, and a Catholic
8. William Peter Blatty - the Exorcist writer is a donor to the US Republican party
9. Robert Brasillach - French novelist and journalist who collaborated with the Nazis
10. Rupert Brooke - upper-middle-class poet known for his patriotic World War One verse, although he also moved in liberal circles
11. John Buchan - the author of the 39 Steps was an MP for the Unionist Party in Scotland (which later merged with the Conservative Party), a keen imperialist, and has been accused of racism
12. Jorge Luis Borges - the Argentinian postmodernist was an admirer of Latin American dictators, including Pinochet
13. William F. Buckley, Jr - writer, tv presenter, and occasional novelist, a leading intellectual of US Republicanism from the 1960s to the 2000s
14. Roy Campbell - South African poet and Catholic, he moved to Spain in the 1930s and supported Franco (unlike most writers who went to Spain); turned against the Bloomsbury group after his wife had an affair with Vita Sackville-West
15. Orson Scott Card - best known for science fiction novels such as Ender's Game, he is also a pro-Republican commentator and a Mormon
16. Thomas Carlyle - Scottish historian, satirist, and essayist who distrusted democracy and modernity, and believed nations needed great men to lead them, writing an admiring biography of Frederick the Great
17. Willa Cather - a novelist who was conservative both in aesthetics and politics
18. Louis-Ferdinand Céline - the modernist novelist was an anti-semite and supporter of Vichy France
19. François-René de Chateaubriand - French royalist and a devout Catholic
20. GK Chesterton - humorist and Christian apologist, converted to Catholicism; George Orwell accused him of writing "endless tirades against Jews"
21. Agatha Christie - reactionary conservative who portrayed a bygone England, her early books included various racial caricatures
22. Winston Churchill - winner of Nobel prize for literature for his non-fiction, and Conservative prime minister
23. EM Cioran - Romanian philosopher and essayist, a pupil and follower of far-right philosopher Nae Ionescu
24. Tom Clancy - popular spy novelist, has donated large amounts of money to the US Republican party
25. Robin Cook - the thriller writer, not the deceased British Labour politician, is a Republican donor
26. James Fenimore Cooper - wrote widely on political matters, influenced by Jefferson, notably supporting the landowners in the New York Anti-Rent Wars in the 1840s and 50s
27. Patricia Cornwell - crime writer and Jack the Ripper enthusiast who has made large donations to the US Republican party, despite being a lesbian who has spoken out for equal rights
28. Noel Coward - naturally conservative, author of comedies about the upper middle classes, although he was an agnostic
29. Michael Crichton - climate-change denialist who satirised political correctness and accused liberal magazine editor Michael Crowley of being a small-dicked paedophile
30. Ian Curteis - British writer whose play about the Falklands war was allegedly a victim of censorship by the left-wing BBC
31. Robertson Davies - Canadian novelist with old-fashioned literary style and reactionary politics
32. Benjamin Disraeli - Conservative prime minister and novelist, the father of moderate one-nation conservatism
33. Michael Dobbs - conservative politician and prolific novelist, best known for Francis Urquhart books
34. John Dos Passos - modernist novelist, initially a communist, he moved all the way across the political spectrum to become an admirer of Joe McCarthy
35. Feodor Dostoyevsky - a reformer in his youth, he later moved to the right, seeking to defend the traditional Russian spirit
36. Mircea Eliade - Romanian fiction writer and philosopher of religion, a fascist in the 1930s
37. TS Eliot - former banker, socially and politically conservative, also accused of anti-semitism, said: "I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics"
38. James Ellroy - critically acclaimed crime novelist has expressed right-wing authoritarian viewpoints, e.g. defending the LAPD over the Rodney King beating, but elsewhere claims this was just controversialist nonsense
39. William Faulkner - although a liberal in his attitudes to race, the Southern US novelist is generally judged to be overall conservative
40. Julian Fellowes - a writer whose subject is the English upper classes, his Conservative politics are no great surprise, and he's often on lists of celebrity Tory supporters
41. Fillià - Italian futurist writer and painter known for his religious art, had links with fascists
42. Frederick Forsyth - the British thriller writer has long been a supporter of the Conservative Party
43. George MacDonald Fraser - the author of the humorous Flashman novels was a military man and a traditionalist in many areas of life, prominently campaigning against the metric system
44. Robert Frost - American poet of conservative political views who became a national treasure and spoke at Kennedy's inauguration; he played at being a farmer but earned his money from teaching
45. JW von Goethe - romantic conservative, admired the upper classes, and opposed the numerous revolutions of the late 18th/early 19th centuries
46. Terry Goodkind - Ayn Rand-influenced sword and sorcery writer with enormous sales
47. Knut Hamsun - Norwegian Nobel laureate (Hunger) and later a Nazi sympathiser
48. Robert Heinlein - right-wing libertarian militaristic writer of (mostly) intelligent science fiction
49. Hergé - Belgian comic-book writer of conservative politics, accused of racism and collaborating with the Nazis
50. Michel Houellebecq - anti-political correctness, anti-Islam, anti-women, for his admirers he offers a critique of modern liberal humanism
51. Ted Hughes - misanthropic violence-loving nature poet who detested modern life and became poet laureate and friends with the Queen Mother
52. JK Huysmans - in his early life, a writer of Zola-influenced liberalism, he dallied briefly with fin de siecle decadence but converted to Catholicism and became a conservative
53. PD James - English crime novelist and a Conservative peer in the House of Lords
54. Antony Jay - Thatcherite writer of satirical sitcom Yes Minister
55. Ernst Jünger - German writer who glorified the military following World War I and opposed democracy
56. Jack Kerouac - the beat novelist moved right in the 1960s, supporting the Vietnam war, becoming friends with William F Buckley, and returning to the Catholic faith he was raised in
57. Rudyard Kipling - poet of British patriotism and imperialism, defender of the British soldier
58. Dean Koontz - thriller writer and supporter of US Republican party
59. Philip Larkin - his posthumously-published letters revealed a racist, misogynistic, right-wing private man, while his poetry showed a kindlier backward-looking conservatism
60. DH Lawrence - novelist and poet had liberal views early in his life but later moved towards fascism
61. CS Lewis - Christian apologist and a moderate conservative, though he avoided political association and refused a CBE from Churchill
62. Wyndham Lewis - influenced by the Futurists, he was briefly a supporter of Hitler, and often anti-semitic
63. Liu Xiaobo - the Chinese writer, poet, and Nobel Peace Prize-winner was an admirer of George W Bush and a defender of American imperialism who criticised John Kerry for being insufficiently right-wing; also anti-Islam
64. Mario Vargas Llosa - once a supporter of Castro, he became a free-market centre-right politician, while defending human rights, and ran unsuccessfully for the presidency of Peru
65. André Malraux - the novelist, art historian and resistance fighter fought for the Republican side in the Spanish civil war, but in the 1960s he served as Charles de Gaulle's Minister of Cultural Affairs
66. Thomas Mann - a supporter of the Kaiser in his youth, he moved in a liberal direction during the Weimar republic
67. FT Marinetti - Italian proto-fascist poet, active as both an artistic and political leader; he split with Mussolini because he felt the Fascist party was too backward-looking
68. Allan Massie - Scottish conservative historical novelist and journalist
69. HL Mencken - satirist who opposed the New Deal and hated Franklin Roosevelt
70. Stephenie Meyer - Mormon vampire novelist of conservative views
71. Yukio Mishima - right-wing anti-democratic Japanese novelist and playwright who attempted a military coup
72. Marianne Moore - like many in Pound and Eliot's circles, she was right-wing, a defender of American capitalism
73. Iris Murdoch - a youthful communist and populariser of Sartre, she seemed to move rightwards, and like Ayn Rand was a fan of strong-willed almost demonic men; her philosophy focused on topics such as moral virtue; she opposed literary experimentalism, and demanded striking miners be shot
74. Vladimir Nabokov - a conservative aesthete who fled Stalin's Russia
75. VS Naipaul - Indo-Trinidadian Nobel laureate, conservative, accused of disliking the third world and Muslims
76. Flannery O'Connor - Catholic moralist who mocked the godlessness of modern life in grotesque fiction
77. Alexander Pope - conservative satirist
78. PJ O'Rourke - satirist of right-wing sympathies
79. John Osborne - angry young man who turned into a cantankerous old man
80. Luigi Pirandello - experimental playwright allied himself with Mussolini, although his supporters claim it was purely from self-interest
81. Ezra Pound - sophisticated and erudite aesthete, accused of being sympathetic to Mussolini in World War Two and imprisoned
82. Anthony Powell - his Dance to the Music of Time chronicled rich English bohemians and he was an upper-class conservative
83. Marcel Proust - upper-class aesthete, although homosexual, came from a conservative background; he avoided politics and his political position is contested
84. Ayn Rand - popular philosopher and author of very long novels, known for her defence of entrepreneurs and for championing reason over emotions
85. John Crowe Ransom - conservative US Southerner, involved with the Southern Agrarians (backward-looking pro-Confederate grouping) for a time
86. Tim Rice - the lyricist, writer, and TV personality has supported the Conservative party for ages; he also does a lot of good work for charity
87. Walter Scott - Scottish historical novelist of Tory sympathies, active in conservation but condemned by Mark Twain for romanticising war and chivalry; while pro-Jacobite and romantic about Scottish history he also defended the union with England
88. Moshe Shamir - Israeli novelist, playwright, and politician, moved from early socialism to right-wing Likud and Tehiya parties
89. Alexander Solzhenitsyn - the Soviet dissident had an understandable hatred of communism; on his arrival in the USA he allied himself with the neo-conservatives who believed the Soviet Union was the gravest threat to the USA's existence, and called for its destruction
90. Nicholas Sparks - the author of drippy romantic fantasies donated to Republican senator Elizabeth Dole
91. Gertrude Stein - collaborated with Vichy France; claims that she called for Hitler to be given the Nobel Peace Prize were probably a joke
92. Wallace Stevens - insurance company executive who wrote abtruse modernist poetry
93. Tom Stoppard - playwright is generally reckoned to be slightly right of centre despite his human rights work; an anti-communist long-associated with east European dissidents
94. Jonathan Swift - conservative, devout Anglican satirist, converted from Whig to Tory
95. Allen Tate - American agrarian poet, who later became a Roman Catholic and a legendary womaniser
96. Alfred Lord Tennyson - the poet laureate was a traditional English gentleman who celebrated military virtue and the chivalrous middle ages, but was more liberal on some causes - he refused a baronetcy from Disraeli and was agnostic
97. Hunter S Thompson - a libertarian and great believer in gun rights, although he hated most Republicans (despite a grudging respect for Nixon)
98. JRR Tolkien - deeply conservative and strongly Catholic throughout his life, he supported Franco in the Spanish civil war, although he hated Hitler for perverting northern-European myths and traditions
99. John Updike - novelist who wrote about suburbia with a conservative viewpoint
100. Robert Penn Warren - poet, critic, and novelist (political satire All the King's Men), who had links with the Southern Agrarians but moved left and later became a father figure of American liberalism
101. Keith Waterhouse - the author of Billy Liar was a Daily Mail columnist for decades until his death
102. Evelyn Waugh - satirist of the British upper classes and author of Brideshead Revisited, a right-wing Catholic
103. AN Wilson - British novelist, biographer, and newspaper columnist for the right-wing press, of firmly Conservative views
104. PG Wodehouse - although he satirised British fascism in the 1930s, he did broadcasts from Nazi Germany in World War Two, and has been condemned as a collaborator; certainly a small-c conservative
105. Tom Wolfe - satirist, journalist, and winner of the Literary Review's Bad Sex in Fiction Prize, an admirer of George W Bush and long-time Republican
106. William Wordsworth - a radical in his youth, he became more conservative as he got older, repudiating his initial support for the French Revolution and eventually becoming a member of the establishment
107. WB Yeats - Irish nationalist and mystic, a Nobel laureate for his poetry, who became increasingly conservative and eccentric and even flirted with fascism

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