Marilynne Robinson
American novelist and essayist
Creator
Witold Rybczynski
Canadian American architect, professor and writer
Richard Rodriguez
American writer who became famous as the author of Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez , a narrative about his intellectual development.
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.
Elizabeth Romer
Works by Elizabeth Romer: The Tuscan Year Book by Elizabeth Romer
Oliver Sacks
British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and writer
Henriette Roosenburg
Dutch journalist and resistance fighter in World War II. She is perhaps best known for her memoir The Walls Came Tumbling Down, about her return to the Netherlands from Germany after being released as a political prisoner at the end of the war
Vita Sackville-West
English author and garden designer
William H. Prescott
American historian and Hispanist, who is widely recognized by historiographers to have been the first American scientific historian
Slavomir Rawicz
Polish Army lieutenant who was imprisoned by the NKVD after the German-Soviet invasion of Poland