Stacy Schiff
American former editor, essayist, and author of five biographies; her biography of Vera Nabokov, the wife and muse of the Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov, won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in biography
Diane Schoemperlen
Canadian novelist and short story writer.
Andre Schwarz-Bart
French novelist of Polish-Jewish origins
W. G. Sebald
German writer and academic
Vikram Seth
Indian novelist and poet
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