Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Russian novelist, philosopher, historian, short story writer, and political prisoner
philosopher
Wole Soyinka
Nigerian playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist in the English language
Madame de Stael
French woman of letters and political theorist, the daughter of banker and French finance minister Jacques Necker
Jean-Paul Sartre
French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer
John Ruskin
English writer, philosopher, art critic and polymath of the Victorian era
John Cowper Powys
English philosopher, lecturer, novelist, critic and poet born in Shirley, Derbyshire, where his father was vicar of the parish church in 18711879. Powys appeared with a volume of verse in 1896 and a first novel in 1915, but gained success only with his novel Wolf Solent in 1929. He has been seen as a successor to Thomas Hardy, and Wolf Solent, A Glastonbury Romance , Weymouth Sands , and Maiden Castle have been called his Wessex novels
Richard Price
Welsh moral philosopher, Nonconformist minister and mathematician
Marcel Proust
French novelist, critic, and essayist who wrote the monumental novel In Search of Lost Time , originally published in French in seven volumes between 1913 and 1927. He is considered by critics and writers to be one of the most influential authors of the 20th century.
Philip Pullman
English author of high-selling books, including the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials and a fictionalised biography of Jesus, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ