Simon Schama
English historian specialising in art history, Dutch history, Jewish history, and French history
Creator
Stacy Schiff
American former editor, essayist, and author of five biographies; her biography of Vera Nabokov, the wife and muse of the Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov, won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in biography
Diane Schoemperlen
Canadian novelist and short story writer.
Elizabeth Romer
Works by Elizabeth Romer: The Tuscan Year Book by Elizabeth Romer
Oliver Sacks
British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and writer
Henriette Roosenburg
Dutch journalist and resistance fighter in World War II. She is perhaps best known for her memoir The Walls Came Tumbling Down, about her return to the Netherlands from Germany after being released as a political prisoner at the end of the war
Vita Sackville-West
English author and garden designer
Ron Rosenbaum
American literary journalist, literary critic, and novelist.
Carl Sagan
American astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, and science communicator
Henry Roth
American novelist and short story writer who found success later in life after his 1934 novel Call It Sleep was reissued in paperback in 1964.