Stendhal
19th-century French writer
biographer
Jean Strouse
American biographer, cultural administrator, and critic
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
Gertrude Stein
American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector
Jean-Paul Sartre
French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic
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
Carol Shields
American-born Canadian novelist and short story writer
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer
Carl Sandburg
American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor
Gwen Raverat
English wood engraver who was a founder member of the Society of Wood Engravers