journalist

Henriette Roosenburg

Dutch journalist and resistance fighter in World War II. She is perhaps best known for her memoir The Walls Came Tumbling Down, about her return to the Netherlands from Germany after being released as a political prisoner at the end of the war

Frederic Raphael

American-born, British BAFTA and Academy Award winning screenwriter, biographer, nonfiction writer, novelist and journalist.

Ishmael Reed

American poet, novelist, essayist, songwriter, playwright, editor and publisher known for his satirical works challenging American political culture

Ruth Reichl

American chef, food writer, co-producer of PBS’s Gourmet’s Diary of a Foodie, culinary editor for the Modern Library, host of PBS’s Gourmet’s Adventures With Ruth, and the last editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine

Dorothy Parker

American poet, writer, critic, and satirist based in New York; she was best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles

George Plimpton

American journalist, writer, literary editor, actor and occasional amateur sportsman