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Saki
Saki, pen name of Hector Hugh Munro (1870–1916), Burma-born British satirical short-story writer of Reginald, The Chronicles of Clovis, and Beasts and Super-Beasts, killed by a sniper in France in 1916.
Samuel Butler (novelist)
Samuel Butler (1835–1902), English novelist and satirist, author of Erewhon (1872) and The Way of All Flesh (1903), New Zealand sheep farmer, critic of Darwin, and posthumous Victorian iconoclast.
Samuel Richardson
Samuel Richardson (1689–1761), English printer and novelist, pioneer of the epistolary novel; wrote Pamela (1740), Clarissa (1747–48), and Sir Charles Grandison (1753–54), and rivaled Henry Fielding as a founder of the modern English novel.
Somerville and Ross
Somerville and Ross was the joint pen name of Irish cousins Edith Somerville and Violet Martin, who wrote The Real Charlotte and the Irish R.M. stories.
Stella Gibbons
Stella Gibbons (Stella Dorothea Gibbons, 1902–1989) was a British journalist, poet, and novelist best known for Cold Comfort Farm (1932), her comic parody of rural novels.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893–1978), English novelist, poet, and translator; author of Lolly Willowes, Summer Will Show, and Kingdoms of Elfin; Communist Party member, partner of Valentine Ackland, New Yorker short-story writer.
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy (1840–1928), English novelist and poet, author of Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Far from the Madding Crowd, and Jude the Obscure, set in fictional Wessex; after 1895 he wrote nearly a thousand poems.
Thomas Love Peacock
Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866) was an English novelist, poet, and satirist whose seven satirical novels caricatured Romantic-era figures at dinner tables; his essay The Four Ages of Poetry prompted Shelley's Defence of Poetry.
Tobias Smollett
Tobias Smollett (1721–1771) was a Scottish novelist, surgeon, and editor best known for Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, and Humphry Clinker, published in the year of his death.
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf (Adeline Virginia Stephen, 1882–1941), English modernist novelist, essayist, and Hogarth Press co-founder; author of Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and A Room of One's Own; pioneer of stream-of-consciousness and free indirect discourse.
Vita Sackville-West
Vita Sackville-West (Victoria Mary Sackville-West, 1892–1962), English poet, novelist, and gardener; winner of the Hawthornden Prize twice (The Land, Collected Poems); author of The Edwardians and All Passion Spent, model for Woolf's Orlando, creator of Sissinghurst garden; distinguishable from other Sackville-West family members by her Knole inheritance and Virginia Woolf relationship.
W. Somerset Maugham
W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965), British playwright, novelist, and short-story writer; author of Of Human Bondage, The Moon and Sixpence, and The Razor's Edge; four plays ran simultaneously in the West End in 1908; bequeathed copyrights to the Royal Literary Fund.
William Carleton
William Carleton (1794–1869) was an Irish novelist and short-story writer, born to a Catholic tenant farmer in Prillisk, County Tyrone, best known for Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry.
William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863), English novelist born in Calcutta, author of Vanity Fair (1848), Barry Lyndon, and Henry Esmond; Dickens's great Victorian rival, first editor of Cornhill Magazine, died of a stroke in London.
William Plomer
William Plomer (1903–1973) was a South African-born British novelist, poet, and librettist whose debut novel Turbott Wolfe scandalized white South Africa; he later shaped London publishing at Jonathan Cape.