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19th-century French writer
novelist
Paul Theroux
American novelist and travel writer who has written numerous books, including the travelogue, The Great Railway Bazaar . Some of his works of fiction have been adapted as feature films
Neal Stephenson
American writer known for his works of speculative fiction
Laurence Sterne
Laurence Sterne (24 November 1713 18 March 1768), an Anglo-Irish novelist and Anglican cleric, wrote the novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, published sermons and memoirs, and indulged in local politics. He grew up in a military family travelling mainly in Ireland but briefly …
Robert Louis Stevenson
Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer
Bram Stoker
Irish author, best known today for his 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula
Rex Stout
American writer noted for his detective fiction
Peter Straub
American novelist and poet
William Styron
American novelist and essayist who won major literary awards for his work.Styron was best known for his novels, including:
Lie Down in Darkness , his acclaimed first work, published when he was 26;
The Confessions of Nat Turner , narrated by Nat Turner, the leader of an 1831 Virginia slave revolt;
Sophie’s Choice , a story “told through the eyes of a young aspiring writer from the South, about a Polish Catholic survivor of Auschwitz and her brilliant but psychotic Jewish lover in postwar Brooklyn”.In 1985, he suffered from his first serious bout with depression
Italo Svevo
Italian writer, businessman, novelist, playwright, and short story writer.A close friend of Irish novelist and poet James Joyce, Svevo was considered a pioneer of the psychological novel in Italy and is best known for his classic modernist novel La coscienza di Zeno , a work that had a profound effect on the movement.