Claudia Rankine
American poet, essayist, playwright, and the editor of several anthologies
Creator
Thomas Powers
American author and intelligence expert
Arthur Ransome
English author and journalist
John Cowper Powys
English philosopher, lecturer, novelist, critic and poet born in Shirley, Derbyshire, where his father was vicar of the parish church in 18711879. Powys appeared with a volume of verse in 1896 and a first novel in 1915, but gained success only with his novel Wolf Solent in 1929. He has been seen as a successor to Thomas Hardy, and Wolf Solent, A Glastonbury Romance , Weymouth Sands , and Maiden Castle have been called his Wessex novels
Frederic Raphael
American-born, British BAFTA and Academy Award winning screenwriter, biographer, nonfiction writer, novelist and journalist.
Mario Praz
Italian-born critic of art and literature, and a scholar of English literature
Gwen Raverat
English wood engraver who was a founder member of the Society of Wood Engravers
William H. Prescott
American historian and Hispanist, who is widely recognized by historiographers to have been the first American scientific historian
Slavomir Rawicz
Polish Army lieutenant who was imprisoned by the NKVD after the German-Soviet invasion of Poland
Reynolds Price
American poet, novelist, dramatist, essayist and James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University