Arthur Ransome
English author and journalist
british
Frederic Raphael
American-born, British BAFTA and Academy Award winning screenwriter, biographer, nonfiction writer, novelist and journalist.
Gwen Raverat
English wood engraver who was a founder member of the Society of Wood Engravers
Miss Read
English novelist, by profession a schoolmistress
Ruth Rendell
English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries.Rendell is best known for creating Chief Inspector Wexford
Jean Rhys
British novelist who was born and grew up in the Caribbean island of Dominica
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
Mario Praz
Italian-born critic of art and literature, and a scholar of English literature
Richard Price
Welsh moral philosopher, Nonconformist minister and mathematician
Philip Pullman
English author of high-selling books, including the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials and a fictionalised biography of Jesus, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ