This is a list of Sierra Leonean writers. * John Akar (1927–1975), broadcaster, playwright and diplomat * Gaston Bart-Williams (1938–1990), exiled writer and journalist * Ishmael Beah (1980– ), child soldier and memoirist * Edward Wilmot Blyden (1832–1912), pan-Africanist, born in the Virgin Islands (see also Liberia) * Adelaide Casely-Hayford (1868–1960), short story writer and educator * Gladys Casely-Hayford (1904–1950), poet also associated with Ghana * Syl Cheney-Coker (1945/47– ), poet, journalist and novelist * Robert Wellesley-Cole (1907–1995), surgeon and autobiographical writer * William Conton (1925– ), educator, historian, and novelist also associated with The Gambia * R. Sarif Easmon (1913– ), doctor, playwright and novelist * Aminatta Forna (1964– ), memoiris