Gertrude Stein
American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector
Creator
Sei Shonagon
Japanese author, poet, and a court lady who served the Empress Teishi around the year 1000 during the middle Heian period
Dava Sobel
American writer of popular expositions of scientific topics
John Steinbeck
American author and the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature winner “for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception.” He has been called “a giant of American letters.”During his writing career, he authored 33 books, with one book coauthored alongside Edward Ricketts, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and two collections of short stories
Ignazio Silone
Italian political leader, novelist, and short-story writer, world-famous during World War II for his powerful anti-Fascist novels
Rebecca Solnit
American writer
Clifford D. Simak
American science fiction writer
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Russian novelist, philosopher, historian, short story writer, and political prisoner
Georges Simenon
Belgian writer
Sophocles
One of three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived