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Ray Nayler
Ray Nayler, Hugo and Locus Award-winning science fiction author of The Mountain in the Sea, The Tusks of Extinction, Where the Axe Is Buried, and Palaces of the Crow; former Foreign Service officer with a PhD from the University of Essex.
Ray Young Bear
Ray Young Bear, born 1950, is a Meskwaki poet, novelist, and performer who writes in English and Meskwaki and lives on the Meskwaki Settlement near Tama, Iowa.
Rayaprolu Subba Rao
Rayaprolu Subba Rao (రాయప్రోలు సుబ్బారావు; 1892–1984) was a Telugu poet regarded as a pioneer of modern Telugu literature and founder of its romantic school, Bhavakavitvam.
Raymond Benson
Raymond Benson (born 1955) is an American author and the third, and first American, official James Bond continuation novelist (1996–2002), writing six original 007 novels, three film novelizations, and the first Felix Leiter novel, The Hook and the Eye (2025).
Raymond Briggs
Raymond Redvers Briggs (1934–2022), English illustrator and author of Father Christmas, Fungus the Bogeyman, and the wordless The Snowman; twice Kate Greenaway Medalist, CBE 2017, creator of adult graphic novels When the Wind Blows and Ethel & Ernest.
Raymond Carver
Raymond Carver (1938–1988), American short-story writer and poet of minimalism and dirty realism; author of Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, and Cathedral; his spare style was heavily shaped by editor Gordon Lish.
Raymond Chandler
Raymond Thornton Chandler (1888–1959) was an American novelist and screenwriter who shaped hard-boiled crime fiction, creating the detective Philip Marlowe in The Big Sleep (1939) and earning Oscar nominations for Double Indemnity and The Blue Dahlia.
Raymond E. Feist
Raymond E. Feist (born 1945), American fantasy author of Magician (1982) and the Riftwar Cycle set in Midkemia and Kelewan; also the Empire Trilogy with Janny Wurts, the Firemane Saga, and the Dragonwar Saga.
Raymond Queneau
Raymond Queneau, a French poet, novelist, and editor, co-founded the Oulipo workshop for experimental writing in 1960 and was known for Zazie dans le métro and Exercices de style.
Raymond Radiguet
Raymond Radiguet was a French writer who died of typhoid fever at 20 in 1923, leaving the novels Le Diable au corps and Le Bal du comte d'Orgel.
Raymond Williams
Raymond Henry Williams (1921–1988), Welsh Marxist critic, novelist, and Cambridge professor of drama; founder figure of cultural studies and cultural materialism; author of Culture and Society, The Long Revolution, and Keywords.
Rebecca Godfrey
Rebecca Margot Godfrey (1967-2022), Canadian novelist and journalist, author of The Torn Skirt and the award-winning true-crime work Under the Bridge on the Reena Virk case; her final novel Peggy was completed posthumously by Leslie Jamison.
Rebecca Hazelton
Rebecca Hazelton, also publishing fiction as Rebecca Stafford, is an American poet and YA novelist, author of Fair Copy, Vow, Gloss, and Generic Husband, a Pushcart Prize winner teaching at North Central College.
Rebecca Perry
Rebecca Perry (born 1986, London) is a British poet and novelist, author of Beauty/Beauty and Stone Fruit and the debut novel May We Feed the King (2026), which won the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize and was shortlisted for the 2026 Booker Prize.
Rebecca Ross
Rebecca Ross, American fantasy author of Divine Rivals, Ruthless Vows, Wild Reverence, and the Elements of Cadence duology; #1 NYT bestselling romantasy writer, UGA English graduate, Goodreads Choice winner 2023 and 2024.
Rebecca Solnit
Rebecca Solnit (born 1961, Bridgeport, Connecticut) is an American essayist, historian, and activist in San Francisco, author of over 25 books including Wanderlust, River of Shadows, and Men Explain Things to Me, credited with identifying mansplaining.
Rebecca Yarros
Rebecca Yarros, American #1 NYT bestselling author of over twenty novels; her romantasy Empyrean series (Fourth Wing, Iron Flame, Onyx Storm) sold over 12 million copies and drove the BookTok romantasy boom.
Recaizade Mahmud Ekrem
Recaizade Mahmud Ekrem (Recâizâde Mahmud Ekrem, 1847–1914) was an Ottoman poet, playwright, novelist, critic, and civil servant, remembered as teacher of the Servet-i Fünun writers and author of Araba Sevdası, the first realist Turkish novel.
Recuerdos de provincia
Recuerdos de provincia (Memories of a Provincial Past) is an autobiography by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, published in Santiago de Chile in 1850 during his exile.
Redemption Songs
Redemption Songs: A Life of Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki is a 1995 biography by New Zealand historian Judith Binney of Te Kooti, Māori leader and Ringatū founder.
Refaat Alareer (رفعت العرعير)
Refaat Alareer (رفعت العرعير, 1979–2023), Palestinian poet and English literature professor at the Islamic University of Gaza, editor of Gaza Writes Back, founder of We Are Not Numbers, killed by an Israeli airstrike on 6 December 2023; his 2011 poem "If I Must Die" went viral worldwide.
Regīna Ezera
Regīna Ezera, real name Regīna Kindzule, born Regīna Šamreto, was a Latvian prose writer known for psychological novels and short stories such as Aka (1972) and Zemdegas (1977).
Reinaldo Arenas
Reinaldo Arenas (1943–1990) was a Cuban novelist, poet, and playwright who became a prominent critic of Fidel Castro, suffered imprisonment, and died in exile in New York in 1990.
Reiner Kunze
Reiner Kunze, born 1933 in Oelsnitz, is a German writer known for his poetry and his conflict with the East German SED regime, moving west in 1977.
Reinhold Schneider
Reinhold Schneider (1903–1958) was a German Catholic poet, novelist, and moral essayist whose wartime resistance writings earned him the epithet "the conscience of Germany"; he won the 1956 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade.
Reizei Tamesuke
Reizei Tamesuke (冷泉為相, 1263–1328) was a Japanese court noble and waka poet who founded the Reizei poetry house, son of Fujiwara no Tameie and the nun Abutsu-ni.
Remco Campert
Remco Campert (1929–2022) was a Dutch poet, novelist, and columnist known as one of the Vijftigers, whose novel Het leven is vurrukkulluk (1961) became a Dutch classic.
Remy Sylado
Remy Sylado was an Indonesian writer, poet, musician, and actor born in 1945 in Makassar, who pioneered puisi mbeling and wrote more than 50 novels.
René Avilés Fabila
René Avilés Fabila (1940–2016) was a Mexican writer, journalist, and academic known for fantastic tales and political satire, best remembered for the novel El gran solitario de Palacio.
René Bazin
René Bazin (1853–1932) was a French novelist and professor of law at Angers, elected to the Académie française in 1903, whose novels depicted rural life.