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Richard Laymon
Richard Laymon (1947-2001), American horror novelist also published as Carl Laymon and Richard Kelly, author of The Cellar and the Beast House Chronicles, president of the Horror Writers Association, posthumous Bram Stoker winner.
Richard Ligon
Richard Ligon (c. 1585–1662) was an English royalist and writer whose 1657 book on Barbados became a principal source on its sugar economy and plantation slavery.
Richard Lovelace
Richard Lovelace (1617 or 1618–1657) was an English poet and army officer, the archetypal cavalier poet, remembered for 'To Lucasta, going to the Wars' and 'To Althea, from Prison'.
Richard Matheson
Richard Burton Matheson (1926–2013), American horror, fantasy, and science fiction author and screenwriter; author of I Am Legend, The Shrinking Man, and Hell House, and writer of sixteen original Twilight Zone episodes and Spielberg's Duel.
Richard O'Rawe
Richard O'Rawe, Belfast-born former IRA prisoner and PRO for the 1981 hunger strikers in the Maze H-Blocks; author of Blanketmen (2005) and Afterlives (2010) alleging the IRA leadership vetoed a deal to end the strike, plus crime novels and Gerry Conlon biography.
Richard Powers
Richard Powers is an American novelist who fuses scientific and technical subject matter with literary narrative. He is best known for The Overstory, the 2019 Pulitzer Prize winner.
Richard Preston
Richard Preston (born 1954) is an American author and New Yorker contributor known for The Hot Zone, The Demon in the Freezer, and The Cobra Event, narrative nonfiction on Ebola, smallpox, and bioterrorism that influenced U.S. biodefense policy.
Richard Price (writer)
Richard Price, who also writes as Harry Brandt, is an American novelist and screenwriter born in New York in 1949, known for Clockers, Lush Life, and The Wire.
Richard Rive
Richard Moore Rive was a South African short-story writer and teacher in Cape Town who wrote against apartheid and authored the 1986 novel 'Buckingham Palace', District Six.
Richard Scarry
Richard Scarry (1919-1994), American children's author and illustrator of Busytown books with Lowly Worm and Huckle Cat; Best Word Book Ever (1963) sold 7 million copies; over 100 million books sold worldwide.
Richard Steele
Sir Richard Steele (1672–1729) was an Irish writer, soldier, and politician who, with Joseph Addison, created the English periodical essay through The Tatler and The Spectator.
Richard Swan (author)
Richard Swan is a British author of fantasy and science fiction, best known for the Sunday Times bestselling Empire of the Wolf trilogy published by Orbit Books.
Richard Wagamese
Richard Wagamese (1955–2017) was an Ojibway Canadian novelist, journalist, and storyteller from the Wabaseemoong First Nation in Ontario, best known for his 2012 novel Indian Horse.
Richard Wilbur
Richard Wilbur (1921–2017) was an American poet and translator who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry twice, served as the second US Poet Laureate, and was the celebrated English translator of Molière.
Richard Wright (author)
Richard Nathaniel Wright (1908–1960), American author of Native Son, Black Boy, and Uncle Tom's Children; Mississippi-born, Communist Party milieu, Paris exile, Spingarn Medal 1941.
Richard Yates (novelist)
Richard Yates (1926–1992), American realist novelist and short story writer from Yonkers, New York, author of Revolutionary Road (1961), a National Book Award finalist; also The Easter Parade, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness; a writers' writer with modest sales.
Richmond Lattimore
Richmond Alexander Lattimore (1906–1984) was an American poet, classicist, and Bryn Mawr professor of Greek, known for his line-for-line verse translations of Homer's Iliad (1951) and Odyssey (1967) and the Complete Greek Tragedies.
Rick Moody
Rick Moody (Hiram F. Moody III, born 1961), American novelist of Garden State, The Ice Storm, and Purple America, plus The Black Veil memoir; Pushcart, Guggenheim, Bonderman Professor at Brown; also records with the Wingdale Community Singers.
Rick Riordan
Rick Riordan (born 1964, San Antonio) is the American author of Percy Jackson & the Olympians, the Kane Chronicles, Heroes of Olympus, and Magnus Chase; former teacher, Edgar/Anthony/Shamus-winning mystery writer, over 190 million copies sold.
Riddhi Bahadur Malla
Riddhi Bahadur Malla (ऋद्धिबहादुर मल्ल; 1898–1968) was a Nepali writer, editor, and publisher who founded and edited Sharda, the literary magazine that carried modern Nepali literature to a wide readership during the Rana period.
Rieko Matsuura
Rieko Matsuura (松浦理英子, born 1958) is a Japanese novelist from Matsuyama known for fiction about sex, the body, and gender, including The Apprenticeship of Big Toe P.
Rieko Nakagawa
Rieko Nakagawa (中川李枝子) was a Japanese children's author best known for the picture-book series Guri and Gura and for writing the lyrics of the My Neighbor Totoro theme song.
Rigas Feraios
Rigas Feraios, more properly Rigas Velestinlis, was a Greek writer and revolutionary who planned an uprising against Ottoman rule and was executed in Belgrade in 1798.
Ring Lardner
Ring Lardner (Ringgold Wilmer Lardner, 1885-1933), American sportswriter, columnist, and satirical short-story writer, author of You Know Me Al and the Jack Keefe baseball letters, famed for his ear for American vernacular speech.
Rita Dove
Rita Dove is an American poet who won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Thomas and Beulah and served as US Poet Laureate from 1993 to 1995.
Rita Mae Brown
Rita Mae Brown (born 1944) is an American poet, novelist, and screenwriter, author of Rubyfruit Jungle (1973), a foundational lesbian coming-of-age novel, the Mrs. Murphy mysteries co-written with cat Sneaky Pie Brown, and the Sister Jane foxhunting series.
Rıfat Ilgaz
Rıfat Ilgaz (full name Mehmet Rıfat Ilgaz; 1911–1993) was a Turkish poet, novelist, short-story writer, and teacher, best known for the humorous school novel Hababam Sınıfı.
Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl (1916–1990), British author born in Wales to Norwegian parents, wrote 19 children's books including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, and The BFG, plus dark adult short stories; his legacy includes 300 million sales, 2023 Puffin revisions, and acknowledged antisemitism.
Roald Dahl bibliography
The Roald Dahl bibliography lists the works of the British author Roald Dahl, 58 works including children's books like Matilda and The BFG, from 1943 to 1991.
Robert A. Heinlein
Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988), American science fiction writer of the Golden Age; author of Starship Troopers, Stranger in a Strange Land, and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress; first SFWA Grand Master.