Cornelius Ryan
Irish-American journalist and author known mainly for writing popular military history
Witold Rybczynski
Canadian American architect, professor and writer
Rafael Sabatini
Italian-English writer of romance and adventure novels.He is best known for his worldwide bestsellers: The Sea Hawk , Scaramouche , Captain Blood , and Bellarion the Fortunate .
In all, Sabatini produced 34 novels, eight short story collections, six non-fiction books, numerous uncollected short stories, and several plays.
Oliver Sacks
British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and writer
Vita Sackville-West
English author and garden designer
Carl Sagan
American astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, and science communicator
Carl Sandburg
American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist and pioneering aviator
Louis de Rouvroy
18th-century French soldier, diplomat, and memoirist
J. D. Salinger
American writer best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye