Antoine de Saint-Exupery
French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist and pioneering aviator
novelist
J. D. Salinger
American writer best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye
James Salter
American novelist and short-story writer
Marilynne Robinson
American novelist and essayist
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.
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