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Roger Mais
Roger Mais was a Jamaican journalist, novelist, poet, playwright, and painter, born in Kingston in 1905 and celebrated as a critic of British colonial rule in Jamaica.
Roger Martin du Gard
Roger Martin du Gard (1881–1958) was a French novelist who won the 1937 Nobel Prize in Literature for Les Thibault, a cycle about two brothers before World War I.
Roger Peyrefitte
Roger Peyrefitte (1907-2000), French diplomat-turned-novelist, Prix Renaudot winner for Les Amitiés particulières (1944), a boarding-school love story; also wrote satirical keys to the Vatican, diplomacy, and Freemasonry.
Roger Zelazny
Roger Zelazny (1937–1995), American science fiction and fantasy writer, Hugo winner for This Immortal and Lord of Light, best known for The Chronicles of Amber.
Rohinton Mistry
Rohinton Mistry (born 1952, Bombay, now Mumbai) is an Indian-born Canadian novelist whose Parsi-centered novels Such a Long Journey, A Fine Balance, and Family Matters were all Booker-shortlisted.
Roland Barthes
Roland Gérard Barthes (1915–1980), French essayist, critic and founder of semiology; author of Mythologies, S/Z, The Pleasure of the Text and Camera Lucida; Collège de France chair of literary semiology.
Rolf Dieter Brinkmann
Rolf Dieter Brinkmann (1940–1975) was a German poet, novelist, and translator who renewed German lyric poetry through American influences, best known for the novel Keiner weiß mehr.
Rolf Jacobsen
Rolf Jacobsen (1907–1994) was a Norwegian poet and journalist whose debut collection Jord og jern (1933) brought technology into Norwegian poetry as one of its first literary modernists.
Romain Gary
Romain Gary (Roman Kacew, 1914–1980), French novelist, diplomat, and Free French pilot, only author to win the Prix Goncourt twice, in 1956 as Gary and in 1975 under the pseudonym Émile Ajar.
Romain Rolland
Romain Rolland (1866–1944) was a French novelist, dramatist, and musicologist who won the 1915 Nobel Prize in Literature, known for the ten-volume novel Jean-Christophe and his wartime pacifist writings.
Ron Chernow
Ron Chernow is an American biographer and historian, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, known for critically honored works like Alexander Hamilton and The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
Ron Silliman
Ron Silliman (born 1946 in Pasco, Washington) is an American poet, critic, and editor who is one of the founders of Language poetry, known for the new sentence and the long poem Ketjak.
Roque Dalton
Roque Dalton (Roque Dalton García) was a Salvadoran poet and revolutionary, a central figure of modern Salvadoran literature, executed by his own comrades in 1975.
Rosa Chacel
Rosa Chacel (1898–1994) was a Spanish novelist, essayist, diarist, and translator of the Generation of '27 who spent roughly three decades in exile after the Spanish Civil War.
Rosalind Hicks
Rosalind Hicks (1919-2004), only child of Agatha Christie and Archie Christie, guarded her mother's literary estate from 1976, authorized Janet Morgan's 1984 biography, led the Agatha Christie Society, and lived at Greenway, Devon.
Rosamunde Pilcher
Rosamunde Pilcher (1924–2019) was a British novelist, author of The Shell Seekers and Coming Home, who wrote as Jane Fraser for Mills & Boon and became a German TV fixture via ZDF adaptations driving Cornish tourism.
Rosario Castellanos
Rosario Castellanos (1925–1974) was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat whose novels and essays addressed women and indigenous communities in Chiapas; she died while serving as ambassador to Israel.
Rosario Ferré
Rosario Ferré (1938–2016) was a Puerto Rican poet, narrator, and essayist, born in Ponce, best known for Papeles de Pandora (1976) and The House on the Lagoon.
Rose Ausländer
Rose Ausländer, born Rosalie Beatrice Scherzer (1901–1988), was a German-language poet from Czernowitz in the Bukovina who survived its ghetto and became one of the widely read postwar German lyric poets.
Rose Styron
Rose Styron (Rose Burgunder Styron), American poet, journalist, translator, and human rights activist; Wellesley 1950; founding member of Amnesty International USA; married William Styron in Rome, 1953; memoir Beyond This Harbor (2023).
Ross Macdonald
Ross Macdonald, pen name of Kenneth Millar (1915-1983), American-Canadian hardboiled crime novelist, creator of private eye Lew Archer in eighteen Southern California novels including The Chill and The Underground Man.
Rou Shi
Rou Shi, pen name of Zhao Pingfu (赵平复), was a Chinese writer, editor, and Communist Party member known for February and "A Slave Mother", secretly executed in Shanghai in 1931.
Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay (b. 1974, Omaha, Nebraska), also known as Bad Feminist author Roxanne Gay, is an American writer, professor, and editor. NYT bestsellers Bad Feminist and Hunger, Marvel's World of Wakanda, The Audacity, and Roxane Gay Books.
Roy Campbell (poet)
Roy Campbell (1901–1957), South African poet and satirist, author of The Flaming Terrapin, The Wayzgoose, and The Georgiad; Voorslag co-founder, Franco supporter, WWII King's African Rifles veteran.
Roy Thomas
Roy William Thomas Jr. (born November 22, 1940), also credited as Justin Arthur, is an American comic book writer and editor, Stan Lee's first successor as Marvel editor-in-chief (1972–74), known for The Avengers, Conan, and Star Wars.
Ruan Yu
Ruan Yu (阮瑀, c. 165–212) was a Chinese writer of the late Eastern Han, one of the Seven Masters of Jian'an, known for letters drafted for Cao Cao.
Rubem Fonseca
Rubem Fonseca (José Rubem Fonseca, 1925–2020) was a Brazilian writer from Minas Gerais, best known for crime fiction set in Rio de Janeiro, including the once-banned Feliz ano novo.
Rubén Bonifaz Nuño
Rubén Bonifaz Nuño (1923–2013) was a Mexican poet, philologist, and translator of the Greco-Roman classics who founded UNAM's Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas and won the 1974 Premio Nacional de Letras.
Rubén Darío
Rubén Darío (1867-1916), born Félix Rubén in Metapa, Nicaragua, was the leading poet of modernismo; his Azul… (1888) opened the movement, renewed Spanish-language metrics with the alejandrino and dactylic verse, and reshaped poetry in Spanish.
Ruby Langford Ginibi
Ruby Langford Ginibi, born Ruby Maude Anderson (1934–2011), was an Australian Bundjalung author and activist whose 1988 autobiography Don't Take Your Love to Town became a seminal Indigenous memoir.