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
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
Ayn Rand
Russian-American writer and philosopher