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.
novelist
Philip Roth
American novelist and short story writer
Berton Roueche
American medical writer who wrote for The New Yorker magazine for almost fifty years
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer
J. K. Rowling
British author, philanthropist, film producer, and screenwriter
Arundhati Roy
Indian author best known for her novel The God of Small Things , which won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and became the best-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author
Salman Rushdie
British-American novelist and essayist of Indian descent
Rafael Sabatini
Italian-English writer of romance and adventure novels.He is best known for his worldwide bestsellers: The Sea Hawk , Scaramouche , Captain Blood , and Bellarion the Fortunate .
In all, Sabatini produced 34 novels, eight short story collections, six non-fiction books, numerous uncollected short stories, and several plays.
Carl Sagan
American astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, and science communicator
Carl Sandburg
American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor