Writers and literary biographies

Stephen Humphrey Bogart

Stephen Humphrey Bogart (born 1949), also Stephen Bogart, is the son of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, author of Bogart: In Search of My Father (1995) and the R.J. Brooks mysteries, a Court TV producer, and co-manager of his father's estate.

Stephen Hunter

Stephen Hunter (born 1946) is an American thriller novelist and retired Washington Post chief film critic who won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism; creator of the Bob Lee Swagger sniper series beginning with Point of Impact (1993), adapted as Shooter.

Stephen King

Stephen King, born in Portland, Maine in 1947, is an American novelist known for horror and supernatural fiction, with more than 50 books including Carrie.

Stephen R. Lawhead

Stephen R. Lawhead (Stephen Ray Lawhead, born 1950, Kearney, Nebraska) is an American historical and Christian fantasy writer, author of the Pendragon Cycle, Dragon King trilogy, and King Raven trilogy, long resident in Oxford, England.

Stephen Spender

Stephen Spender (1909–1995), English poet of the 1930s Oxford Poets with Auden and Isherwood; author of Poems (1933), Vienna, and World Within World; Communist Party member turned disillusioned; editor of Horizon and Encounter.

Stephenie Meyer

Stephenie Meyer, born Stephanie Morgan in 1973, is an American novelist whose Twilight Saga vampire romance series has sold over 160 million copies and spawned a five-film franchise.

Sterling Allen Brown

Sterling Allen Brown (1901-1989), American poet, Howard University professor, folklorist, and critic; author of Southern Road (1932) and The Negro Caravan (1941); Lenore Marshall Prize 1982, D.C. poet laureate 1984.

Stesichorus

Stesichorus (Στησίχορος), traditionally named Teisias, was a Greek lyric poet from Himera in Sicily, active c. 600–550 BC, who retold Trojan and Heraclean myths on an epic scale.

Steve Mosby

Steve Mosby (born 1976, Leeds) is a British crime writer of ten psychological thrillers including The 50/50 Killer, winner of the 2012 CWA Dagger in the Library, who also writes as Alex North, author of The Whisper Man.

Steven Callahan

Steven Callahan (born 1952), American sailor and naval architect, survived 76 days adrift in the Atlantic in 1982 after his sloop Napoleon Solo sank; author of Adrift and Life of Pi consultant.

Steven Erikson

Steven Erikson, pen name of Canadian Steve Rune Lundin (born 1959), archaeologist-anthropologist and Iowa Writers' Workshop graduate, author of the ten-volume Malazan Book of the Fallen epic fantasy, co-created with Ian Cameron Esslemont from a GURPS campaign.

Stevie Smith

Stevie Smith, pen name of Florence Margaret Smith (1902–1971), was an English poet and novelist who wrote three novels and eight poetry collections, best known for "Not Waving but Drowning."

Stieg Larsson

Stieg Larsson (1954–2004), Swedish journalist and author of the Millennium trilogy starring Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist; co-founder of Expo, died before publication, 100 million copies sold.

Stig Dagerman

Stig Dagerman was a Swedish writer and journalist, a leading figure of the 1940s literary generation. He wrote four novels and over 1,350 daily satirical verses.

Stijn Streuvels

Stijn Streuvels, pseudonym of Frank Lateur (1871–1969), was a Belgian naturalistic novelist of Flemish farming life, whose masterpiece De vlaschaard (1907) is his best-known book.

Storm Constantine

Storm Constantine (1956–2021) was a British fantasy author, creator of the Wraeththu trilogy about androgynous post-humans, and founder of Immanion Press in 2003, also writing the Grigori and Magravandias series.

Stoyan Mihaylovski

Stoyan Mihaylovski (Стоян Михайловски), 1856–1927, was a Bulgarian writer, satirical poet, teacher, and political figure, author of "Varvi, narode vazrodeni," the hymn sung every 24 May.

Stratis Myrivilis

Stratis Myrivilis was the pseudonym of Evstratios Stamatopoulos, a Greek novelist born on Lesbos in 1892, best known for the anti-war novel Life in the Tomb.

Štúr generation

The Štúr generation (Slovak: Štúrovci) was a group of Slovak Romantic writers of the 1830s and 1840s, led by Ľudovít Štúr, who codified the modern Slovak literary language.

Su Qing (writer)

Su Qing (苏青, born Feng Heyi, 1914 or 1917 – 1982) was a Chinese novelist and essayist ranked alongside Zhang Ailing among the best-selling women writers of 1940s occupied Shanghai.

Su Shi's circle

Su Shi's circle (蘇門, the Su gate) was the literary group around Northern Song poet Su Shi, centered on the Four Scholars and peaking in the Yuanyou era (1086–1094).

Su Tong

Su Tong (苏童) is the pen name of Chinese writer Tong Zhonggui, born in 1963, whose novella Wives and Concubines was adapted into Raise the Red Lantern.

Su Xuelin

Su Xuelin (蘇雪林) was a Chinese writer and scholar, among the first generation of modern Chinese women writers, known for the novel Jixin and Qu Yuan studies.

Suad al-Sabah

Suad al-Sabah (سعاد الصباح), born in 1942, is a Kuwaiti poet of the ruling Al Sabah family and a leading woman poet of the Arabian Gulf.

Subhadra Kumari Chauhan

Subhadra Kumari Chauhan (सुभद्रा कुमारी चौहान, 1904-1948), Hindi poet and freedom fighter from Nihalpur, Prayagraj, author of the poem Jhansi Ki Rani, jailed twice in the independence movement, first woman satyagrahi arrested in Nagpur.

Subhash Mukhopadhyay

Subhash Mukhopadhyay (সুভাষ মুখোপাধ্যায়), 1919 to 2003, was a Bengali poet, novelist, and translator known as a "poet of the people" who brought social struggle into Bengali verse.

Subhata

Subhata (सुभट) was a Sanskrit dramatist whose only known work, the Dūtāṅgada, is a chāyā-nāṭaka on the Rāma and Rāvaṇa story, conventionally dated to 1243.

Subodh Ghosh

Subodh Ghosh (সুবোধ ঘোষ; 1909–1980) was a Bengali short-story writer, novelist, and journalist at Anandabazar Patrika, best known for "Ajantrik" and the 1944 novel Tilanjali.

Subramania Bharati (சி. சுப்பிரமணிய பாரதி)

C. Subramania Bharati (சி. சுப்பிரமணிய பாரதி), also Bharathiyar or Mahakavi Bharati (1882–1921), Tamil poet, journalist and nationalist from Ettayapuram; father of the modern Tamil literary style, editor of India, Pondicherry exile 1908–1918.