Louis de Rouvroy
18th-century French soldier, diplomat, and memoirist
Creator
W. N. Roughead
Well-known Scottish lawyer and amateur criminologist, as well as an editor and essayist on “matters criminous”. He was an important early practitioner of the modern “true crime” literary genre.
J. D. Salinger
American writer best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer
James Salter
American novelist and short-story writer
J. K. Rowling
British author, philanthropist, film producer, and screenwriter
Arundhati Roy
Indian author best known for her novel The God of Small Things , which won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and became the best-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author
Damon Runyon
American newspaperman and short-story writer.He was best known for his short stories celebrating the world of Broadway in New York City that grew out of the Prohibition era
Salman Rushdie
British-American novelist and essayist of Indian descent
John Ruskin
English writer, philosopher, art critic and polymath of the Victorian era