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
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Michael Shaara
American author of science fiction, sports fiction, and historical fiction
Carol Shields
American-born Canadian novelist and short story writer
William L. Shirer
American journalist and war correspondent
Mark Salzman
American writer
Jean-Paul Sartre
French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic
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.