Editing Newark-on-Trent (section)

===Literature===
*[[George Allen (publisher)|George Allen]] (1832–1907) – engraver and publisher born in Newark
*[[John Barnard (biographer)|John Barnard]] (died 1683) – biographer and religious writer, who died in Newark
*[[Cornelius Brown]] (1852–1907) – journalist and historian, ''[[Newark Advertiser]]''<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/Brown1896/brown.htm |title=Nottinghamshire history > A History of Nottinghamshire, (1896) |website=nottshistory.org.uk |access-date=5 May 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160303184943/http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/Brown1896/brown.htm |archive-date=3 March 2016}}</ref>
*[[Henry Constable]] (1562–1613) – poet (early [[sonnet]]eer) born in Newark<ref>{{Cite book |title = Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, ed. Kimball G. Everingham |last=Richardson |first=Douglas |location=Salt Lake City |year=2011 |edition=2nd |volume=I |isbn=978-1449966379}}</ref><ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Constable, Henry |volume= 6 |last= Gosse |first= Edmund William |author-link= Edmund William Gosse| page = 982 |short= 1}}</ref>
*[[Winifred Gales]] (1761–1839) – novelist and memoirist<ref>R. B. Elliot (1986) and Winifred Marshall Gales, ''Dictionary of North Carolina Biography'' (Vol. 2, pp. 270). Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press</ref>
*[[Matt Haig]] (born 1975) - author and journalist grew up in the town<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jul/14/matt-haig-made-in-newark-on-trent | title=Matt Haig on Newark-on-Trent: 'I didn't know where I wanted to escape to. Anywhere would do' | newspaper=The Guardian | date=14 July 2018 | last1=Haig | first1=Matt }}</ref>
*[[Thomas William Robertson|T. W. Robertson]] (1829–1871) – playwright and innovative stage director<ref>ODNB entry: [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/23814 Retrieved 9 September 2011. Subscription required.]</ref>