J. D. Salinger
American writer best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye
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James Salter
American novelist and short-story writer
Marilynne Robinson
American novelist and essayist
Richard Rodriguez
American writer who became famous as the author of Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez , a narrative about his intellectual development.
Ron Rosenbaum
American literary journalist, literary critic, and novelist.
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.
Philip Roth
American novelist and short story writer
Berton Roueche
American medical writer who wrote for The New Yorker magazine for almost fifty years
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