Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer
novelist
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
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist and pioneering aviator
J. D. Salinger
American writer best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye
James Salter
American novelist and short-story writer