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Robert Musil
Robert Musil (1880–1942), Austrian novelist and essayist, author of the unfinished modernist masterpiece Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften (The Man without Qualities), known for its essayism, the fictional Kakania, and his Mach-based philosophical training.
Robert Partridge (writer)
Robert Partridge (born 1954) is the real name of the British novelist who writes crime fiction as Peter Grainger, author of the DC Smith Investigation series.
Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989), American poet, novelist, critic, and first U.S. poet laureate; author of All the King's Men and, with Cleanth Brooks, Understanding Poetry; only writer to win Pulitzers in both fiction and poetry.
Robert Southey
Robert Southey (1774–1843), English Lake Poet and Poet Laureate from 1813, friend and brother-in-law of Coleridge; radical author of Joan of Arc who became a conservative prose writer, historian of Brazil, and biographer of Wesley.
Robert Stone (novelist)
Robert Stone (1937-2015), American novelist of moral and political extremity, author of A Hall of Mirrors, National Book Award winner Dog Soldiers (1974), A Flag for Sunrise, Outerbridge Reach, and Damascus Gate; ex-Navy, Merry Prankster, Vietnam journalist, Pulitzer finalist for Bear and His Daughter, died in Key West.
Robert Walser
Robert Walser (1878–1956) was a Swiss writer known for the novels The Tanners, The Assistant, and Jakob von Gunten and for his microscopic pencil manuscripts.
Roberta Kray
Roberta Kray, born in Southport, England, in 1959, is a British crime novelist of London East End gangland fiction, married to the gangster Reg Kray from 1997 until his death in 2000.
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, American playwright, screenwriter, and comic book writer; Yale School of Drama graduate; Chief Creative Officer of Archie Comics; creator of Riverdale and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina; writer of Afterlife with Archie, Carrie (2013), and Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.
Roberto Arlt
Roberto Arlt (1900–1942) was an Argentine novelist, playwright, and journalist whose raw, colloquial prose portrayed alienated characters in Buenos Aires in novels like Los siete locos and El juguete rabioso.
Roberto Bolaño
Roberto Bolaño (1953-2003), Chilean novelist and poet, author of Los detectives salvajes and the posthumous 2666; co-founder of Infrarrealismo in Mexico, settled in Blanes, Catalonia, and became Latin America's foremost post-Boom literary figure.
Roberto Bracco
Roberto Bracco was an Italian playwright and journalist from Naples whose plays were performed across Europe, then banned by the fascist regime; he died in seclusion at Sorrento in 1943.
Roberto Burgos Cantor
Roberto Burgos Cantor (1948–2018) was a Colombian novelist from Cartagena, known for La ceiba de la memoria and winner of the 2018 Premio Nacional de Novela.
Roberto Echavarren
Roberto Echavarren (born 1944, Montevideo) is a Uruguayan neo-baroque poet, novelist, essayist, and translator, co-editor of the anthology Medusario (1996), NYU professor for 20 years, and author of Verde escarabajo and Russian Nights.
Roberto J. Payró
Roberto J. Payró (Roberto Jorge Payró, 1867–1928) was an Argentine writer, journalist, and playwright whose ironic fiction and La Nación reporting made him a founder of national theater.
Roberto Juarroz
Roberto Juarroz (1925–1995) was an Argentine poet and University of Buenos Aires professor known for Poesía vertical, a single continuous work in fourteen volumes published from 1958 to 1997.
Roberto Piva
Roberto Piva, full name Roberto Lopes Piva, was a Brazilian poet and translator from São Paulo (1937–2010), a central figure of the Geração 60 known for visceral, urban, experimental verse.
Roberto Saviano
Roberto Saviano (Naples, 1979), Italian writer and journalist, author of Gomorra (2006) on the Camorra, 10 million copies sold, adapted into Garrone's Cannes Grand Prix film and a Sky series; under police escort since 2006.
Roberto Schwarz
Roberto Schwarz is a Brazilian literary critic and Marxist interpreter of Brazilian literature, known for his studies of Machado de Assis and his theory of "misplaced ideas."
Robertson Davies
Robertson Davies (1913–1995), Canadian novelist, journalist, playwright, and first Master of Massey College, Toronto; author of the Salterton, Deptford, and Cornish trilogies, including Fifth Business (1970) and What's Bred in the Bone, a Booker Prize shortlistee.
Robin Cook (American novelist)
Robin Cook (born 1940) is an American physician-novelist credited with creating the medical thriller genre with Coma (1977). Author of over forty bestsellers including Outbreak, Contagion, and the Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery series.
Robin Hobb
Robin Hobb, pen name of Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden (born 1952), American fantasy author of the Farseer Trilogy and the Realm of the Elderlings sequence (1995-2017); also writes as Megan Lindholm.
Robin Hyde
Robin Hyde was the pen name of New Zealand writer Iris Guiver Wilkinson (1906–1939), a journalist, novelist, and poet known for Passport to Hell and The Godwits Fly.
Robin Klein
Robin Klein (Robin McMaugh Klein, born 28 February 1936, Kempsey, NSW) is an Australian children's and YA author of Thing, Hating Alison Ashley, and Came Back to Show You I Could Fly; CBCA award winner and 1991 Dromkeen Medal recipient.
Robinson Jeffers
Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962) was an American poet who built his fame on long narrative poems set on the Carmel–Big Sur coast of California and formulated the philosophy of Inhumanism.
Robyn Davidson
Robyn Davidson (born 1950) is an Australian writer, author of Tracks (1980) about her 1977 camel trek across 1,700 miles of Australian desert, and Unfinished Woman (2023), a memoir of her mother's suicide.
Roddy Doyle
Roddy Doyle (born 1958), Irish novelist of working-class Dublin, author of the Barrytown Trilogy, Booker Prize winner 1993 for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, and Fighting Words co-founder.
Rodolfo Teófilo
Rodolfo Teófilo, full name Rodolfo Marcos Teófilo, was a Brazilian pharmacist, novelist, and sanitarian in Ceará who led a private smallpox vaccination campaign and wrote the Naturalist novel A Fome (1890).
Rodolfo Walsh
Rodolfo Walsh (1927–1977) was an Argentine investigative journalist and writer known for Operación Masacre (1957) and for the open letter he sent Argentina's military junta a day before his murder.
Rodrigo Rey Rosa
Rodrigo Rey Rosa (born 1958, Guatemala City) is a Guatemalan novelist, short-story writer, and filmmaker, mentored by Paul Bowles and known for El material humano and Cárcel de árboles.
Rogelio Sinán
Rogelio Sinán, pen name of Bernardo Domínguez Alba (1902–1994), was a Panamanian poet, novelist, and playwright whose 1929 collection Onda introduced the avant-garde into Panamanian literature.