Francis Steegmuller
American biographer, translator and fiction writer, who was known chiefly as a Flaubert scholar.
Wallace Stegner
American novelist, short story writer, environmentalist, and historian, often called “The Dean of Western Writers”. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972 and the U.S. National Book Award in 1977.
William Steig
American cartoonist, illustrator and writer of children’s books, best known for the picture book Shrek!, which inspired the film series of the same name, as well as others that included Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, Abel’s Island, and Doctor De Soto
Gertrude Stein
American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector
John Steinbeck
American author and the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature winner “for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception.” He has been called “a giant of American letters.”During his writing career, he authored 33 books, with one book coauthored alongside Edward Ricketts, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and two collections of short stories
Michael Shaara
American author of science fiction, sports fiction, and historical fiction
William Shakespeare
English playwright, poet and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s greatest dramatist
George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus , which is considered an early example of science fiction
Carol Shields
American-born Canadian novelist and short story writer