Ali Smith
Scottish author, playwright, academic and journalist
journalist
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
William L. Shirer
American journalist and war correspondent
Ron Rosenbaum
American literary journalist, literary critic, and novelist.
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
John Ruskin
English writer, philosopher, art critic and polymath of the Victorian era
Cornelius Ryan
Irish-American journalist and author known mainly for writing popular military history
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist and pioneering aviator
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.