Rex Stout
American writer noted for his detective fiction
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Peter Straub
American novelist and poet
William Styron
American novelist and essayist who won major literary awards for his work.Styron was best known for his novels, including:
Lie Down in Darkness , his acclaimed first work, published when he was 26;
The Confessions of Nat Turner , narrated by Nat Turner, the leader of an 1831 Virginia slave revolt;
Sophie’s Choice , a story “told through the eyes of a young aspiring writer from the South, about a Polish Catholic survivor of Auschwitz and her brilliant but psychotic Jewish lover in postwar Brooklyn”.In 1985, he suffered from his first serious bout with depression
Paul Theroux
American novelist and travel writer who has written numerous books, including the travelogue, The Great Railway Bazaar . Some of his works of fiction have been adapted as feature films
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Polish-born Jewish-American writer who wrote and published first in Yiddish and later translated himself into English with the help of editors and collaborators
Martin Cruz Smith
American mystery novelist
Thorne Smith
American writer of humorous supernatural fantasy fiction under the byline Thorne Smith
Francis Steegmuller
American biographer, translator and fiction writer, who was known chiefly as a Flaubert scholar.
Wallace Stegner
American novelist, short story writer, environmentalist, and historian, often called “The Dean of Western Writers”. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972 and the U.S. National Book Award in 1977.
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