City Louisa Emily Dobrée (fl. ca. 1877–1917), French-Irish writer Eleanor C. Donnelly – American poet, short story writer and biographer Anna Hanson Dorsey – American novelist and writer for young people Ella Loraine Dorsey – American author, journalist, and translator Maureen Dowd – American columnist and author, graduate of The Catholic University of America and practicing, but holds positions at variance with the church. Ernest Dowson – English decadent poet; converted to Catholicism John Dryden – poet of Restoration England; converted to Catholicism in his fifties; his long poem The Hind and the Panther (1687) explains the reasons for his conversion to the Church from Anglicanism Eileen Duggan – New Zealand journalist and poet Alice Thomas Ellis – English novelist and convert from Positivism; became a conservative Roman Catholic critic of the Second Vatican Council and a regular columnist at The Catholic Herald newspaper John Martin Finlay – American poet and writer, converted to Catholicism a year before his death in 1991 Mitch Finley – contemporary American writer of more than 30 nonfiction books on Catholic topics F. Scott Fitzgerald – American author, raised Catholic, married in a Catholic church, and categorised as Catholic, though he was not a practicing one for most of his life Joseph Fitzmyer – American priest and writer Robert J. Fox – American author of religious works; director and founder of the Fatima Family Apostolate Sinéad Flanagan – Irish writer and poet (husband was Éamon de Valera) Michael F. Flynn – American science fiction novelist, author of Eifelheim Lady Antonia Fraser – English author, Roman Catholic (converted with her parents as a child); caused a public scandal in 1977 by leaving her Catholic husband for Harold Pinter Brian Friel – Irish dramatist, some pre-Christian Celtic elements are in his writing too though Maggie Gallagher – American socially conservative writer and commentator; has campaigned against abortion and gay marriage Mary Onahan Gallery – American writer, editor and critic Florence Magruder Gilmore (1881-1945) – American religious writer, novelist, and translator Dana Gioia – American poet and critic; wrote Can Poetry Matter?; recipient of the Laetare Medal award Robert Girardi – American author. His novels, especially A Vaudeville of Devils: Seven Moral Tales, examine ethical and religious themes Rumer Godden – English writer. After her conversion, she wrote about the mystical aspects of the faith Caroline Gordon – American author and short-story writer, convert Clotilde Graves – Irish