Gertrude Stein
American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector
Creator
Sei Shonagon
Japanese author, poet, and a court lady who served the Empress Teishi around the year 1000 during the middle Heian period
Dava Sobel
American writer of popular expositions of scientific topics
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
Jean-Paul Sartre
French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic
Siegfried Sassoon
English war poet, writer, and soldier
Marjane Satrapi
Iranian-born French graphic novelist, cartoonist, illustrator, film director, and children’s book author
Simon Schama
English historian specialising in art history, Dutch history, Jewish history, and French history
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.