Berthe-Sultana Bénichou-Aboulker was a Jewish-Algerian poet and playwright who wrote in French. Her play La Kahena, reine berbière (1933) was the "first work published by a Jewish woman in Algeria".

Berthold Auerbach was a German poet and author. He was the founder of the German "tendency novel", in which fiction is used as a means of influencing public opinion on social, political, moral, and religious questions.

Berthold Fernow was a German-born American historian, author and librarian.

Berthold Litzmann was a professor of German studies and a literature historian. He was a professor at the University of Bonn and the founder of the Society for Literature History, which also included Thomas Mann.

Bertil Frans Harald Malmberg was a Swedish writer, poet, and actor. He

Roberto Tiberio "Berto" Barbarani was an Italian poet. He wrote many poems in the Veronese dialect of Northern Italy.

Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht, known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet. Coming of age during the Weimar Republic, he had his first successes as a playwright in Munich and moved to Berlin in 1924, where he wrote The Threepenny Opera with Kurt Weill and began a life-long collaboration with the composer Hanns Eisler. Immersed in Marxist thought during this period, he wrote didactic Lehrstücke and became a leading theoretician of epic theatre and the Verfremdungseffekt.

Berton Braley was an American poet. His best-known poem is "The Will to Win", written in a motivational tone.

Bertram Benedict was an American author and editor. He was a partial owner of the Editorial Research Reports, and a book reviewer for The New York Times Magazine. His 1921 book, The Larger Socialism, was a critique of socialism in the United States.

Bertram Dobell was an English bookseller, literary scholar, editor, poet, essayist and publisher.