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Ronald Himler
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Ronald J. Ebert
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Ronald Koertge
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Ron Rash
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Ron Suskind
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Roseanne Thong
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Rose Levy Beranbaum
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Rosemary Badger
Rosemary Badger was born in Canada. At school she had a teacher who read to the class every day. Her reading was sheer magic. If the story was sad, the whole class sobbed. If it was funny, everyone roared. Rosemary had always loved reading but this teacher made her yearn to Write! Rosemary now lives with her husband and four children in the beautiful town of Bundaberg, in Queensland, Australia, surrounded by glorious beaches and savoring the Warm subtropical climate.
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Rosemary Kirstein
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Rosemary Pollock
Rosemary Pollock was born on 1944 in England, UK, daugther of Ida Pollock (1908-2013), writer and painter, and Hugh Alexander Pollock (1888–1971), editor, veteran of World War I and assistant to Winston Churchill. Her father had been married three times. In 1913, he married Marion Atkinson, with whom he had two sons, William Cecil Alexander (1914–1916) and Edward Alistair (1915–1969); they divorced after World War I. In 1924, he married the children's writer Enid Blyton (1897–1968), with whom he had two daughters, Gillian Mary (1931–2007) and Imogen Mary (b. 1935), they divorced in 1943, to get a quick divorce, Hugh blamed himself for adultery at divorce petition. Immediately Enyd married her lover, Kenneth Fraser Darrell Waters, and six days after Hugh married Ida Crowe, and the the following year they had her only child. Enid changed the name of their daughters and Hugh did not see them again. After Enid's death Rosemary was put in touch with her half-sisters. After World War II, George Newnes, Hugh's old firm, decided not to work with him anymore. They also represented Enid Blyton and were not willing to let her go. After this the marriage experienced financial problems and, in 1950, her husband had to declare bankruptcy while he struggled with alcoholism and her mother decided to write popular contemporary romances. During her childhood the family travelled widely and lived in many parts of England, and her asthma brought they to Cornwall. The family also lived in Ireland, France, Italy, Malta and Switzerland, where they successfully obtained a lasting cure for her debilitating condition. Her father died on 8 November 1971 in Malta, where he is buried in the British military cemetery. After her father's death, her mother returned with her to England and they lived for several years in Wiltshire, before moving to Lanreath in 1986. Rosemary worked as editor, and also wrote nine romance novels from 1969 to 1981. During years she helped her mother with some of her many projects. In 2009, her mother published her autobiography, Starlight. Retired, she helped her mother to transcribe her latest romance novels, which her mother became the world's oldest novelist who was still active. Her mother died at 105, on 3 December 2013 in Lanreath.
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Rose Tremain
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Rose Wilder Lane
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Ross King
Ross King is a Canadian novelist and non-fiction writer. He began his career by writing two works of historical fiction in the 1990s, later turning to non-fiction, and has since written several critically acclaimed and best-selling historical works. - Wikipedia
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Ross Rocklynne
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Ross Welford
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Roszak, Theodore
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Roxanne St. Claire
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Roz Denny Fox
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Rudolf Arnheim
Rudolf Arnheim (July 15, 1904 – June 9, 2007) was a German-born author, art and film theorist, and perceptual psychologist. He learned Gestalt psychology from studying under Max Wertheimer and Wolfgang Köhler at the University of Berlin and applied it to art. His magnum opus was his book Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye (1954). Other major books by Arnheim have included Visual Thinking (1969), and The Power of the Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts (1982). Source.
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Rujuta Diwekar
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Russell Barkley
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Russell Brunson
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Russell Kirk
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Ruta Sepetys
Ruta Sepetys (Rūta Šepetys) is an internationally acclaimed author of historical fiction published in over fifty countries and thirty-six languages. Sepetys is considered a “crossover” novelist as her books are read by both students and adults worldwide. Her novels, Between Shades of Gray and Out of the Easy are both New York Times bestsellers and international bestsellers. Her latest novel, Salt to the Sea, is a #1 New York Times bestseller and winner of the Carnegie Medal. Her books have won or been shortlisted for over forty book prizes, are included on over twenty state reading lists, and are currently in development for film and television. Ruta is the daughter of a Lithuanian refugee. Born in Michigan, she was raised in a family of artists, readers, and music lovers. Ruta attended college to study opera but instead graduated with a degree in International Finance. Prior to publishing her first novel, she spent twenty years in the music industry helping artists and songwriters distill story through song. Sepetys is the first American crossover novelist to address both European Parliament and Library of Congress. She was awarded The Rockefeller Foundation’s prestigious Bellagio Resident Fellowship for Salt to the Sea. Ruta was recently bestowed the Cross of the Knight of the Order by the President of Lithuania for her contributions to education and memory preservation. She is intensely proud to be Lithuanian, even if that means she has a name no one can pronounce. Ruta lives in a treehouse in the hills of Tennessee. Source: http://rutasepetys.com/about/
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Ruta Sepetys
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Ruth Glick
Ruth Day Burtnick was born on 27 April 1942 in Lexington, Kentucky, USA, the daughter of Lester Leon Burtnick, a psychiatrist, and Beverly Miller Burtnick, a middle-school science teacher. She was raised in Washington D.C., and obtained a B.A. in American Thought and Civilization from George Washington University and an M.A. in American Studies from the University of Maryland. In 30 June 1963, she married Norman S. Glick, a mathematician for the Defense Department. They have two children: Elissa, a librarian, and Ethan, a Foreign Service Officer. Ruth and her friend Nancy Baggett began to write magazine articles. In this time, Ruth's daughter was a preschooler wanted a dollhouse. A family friend built it and Ruth she began designing miniature furniture. They decided to sold a book on making dollhouse furniture. They wrote two books together, and Ruth a third book alone. With Nancy, she also wrote some cookbooks focusing on healthy eating. Ruth first fiction book was a collaborative effort with three friends Eileen Buckholtz, Louise Titchener, and Carolyn Males, the result was a romance novel Love is Elected, published in 1982 by Silhouette under the pseudonym Alyssa Howard, their first work "Love is Elected" was nominee for Romantic Times Best Romance. Her first alone book was Invasion of the Blue Lights, a young adult's novel published in 1983. In the 1980s, she wrote under her married name young adult's fiction with Eileen Buckholtz, with whom she also wrote romance novels under the pseudonyms: Amanda Lee, Samantha Chase and Rebecca York. With Louise Titchener, she wrote under the pseudonym: Alexis Hill, Alexis Hill Jordan, and Tess Marlowe. A late 1990s, her friend Eileen Buckholtz decided to stop writing under the pseudonym Rebecca York, and Ruth continued alone. She has continued to write novels of suspense and now also paranormal novels. Ruth lives with her husband in Columbia, Maryland, their children have grown, and they are grandparents of two boys, Jesse and Leo.
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Ruth L. Ozeki
Ruth Ozeki was born and raised in Connecticut by an American father and a Japanese mother. She is a novelist, filmmaker and Zen Buddhist priest whose books have garnered international acclaim. Her first two novels, My Year of Meats (1998) and All Over Creation (2003), have been translated into eleven languages and published in fourteen countries. Her third novel, A Tale for the Time Being (2013), won the LA Times Book Prize, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and has been published in over thirty countries. Photo By Latrippi - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=32116034
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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, CBE was a German-born British and American Booker prize-winning novelist, short story writer and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter. Source: wikipedia
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Ruth Sawyer
Ruth Sawyer was an American storyteller and a writer of fiction and non-fiction for children and adults. She may be best known as the author of Roller Skates, which won the 1937 Newbery Medal. She received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award in 1965 for her lifetime achievement in children's literature. Source: wikipedia
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Ruth Stiles Gannett
Ruth Stiles Gannett Kahn (born August 12, 1923) is an American children's writer best known for My Father's Dragon and its two sequels—collectively sometimes called the My Father's Dragon or the Elmer and the Dragons series or trilogy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Stiles_Gannett
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R. V. Cassill
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Ryan Graudin
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Ryan T. Higgins
Ryan T. Higgins is a New York Times Bestselling author/illustrator residing in Southern Maine. He lives with his two dogs, two cats, one gecko, one tortoise, one son, one daughter, and one wife. As a child, he lived on a diet of cartoons, cheese sandwiches, and climbing trees. At the age of four he decided to become a cartoonist and he’s been making his own cartoons ever since. (source)
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Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Japanese writer active in the Taishō period in Japan. He is regarded as the "father of the Japanese short story", and Japan's premier literary award, the Akutagawa Prize, is named after him.[
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S. A. Cosby
A "Southern noir" crime fiction writer
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Sally Cook
Susan Griffin was born on 14 May 1952 in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England, daugther of Maureen McGinnity and Norman Griffin. She obtained a Bachelor in English at University Sussex on 1973. On 1976, she married Tim Curran, and they divorced on 1980. On 1980, she remarried Ray Curnow, and they divorced on 1988. On 1997, she remarried Paul Frederick Simmonds, and they live between in central Norwich, England and in the Loire valley, France. She has two children: Rufus and Evan. She is a professional writer since 1979, and has since written or co-written more than 30 published books, including a wide range of non-fiction books and novels for Collins and Constable, she also wrote under the pseudonym of Sally Cook for Mills & Boon. She researches the life of real people to her novels, and now also to write biographies. During the course of her researches she visited many of the places in both England and France. In the 1990s Susan set up with a group of writer friends and ran a small fiction publisher, Rampant Horse. Since 1997 she has run Curran Publishing Services Ltd, www.curranpublishing.com, which specializes in preparing mostly non-fiction books for press under subcontract from major publishers. In this capacity she has copy edited, typeset and indexed hundreds of books. For eight years until 2009, CPS had its offices in a redundant medieval church in Norwich, St Mary Coslany. Susan has been also a trustee of the Norwich Historic Churches Trust, which oversees many of Norwich’s redundant churches, since the early 1990s.
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Sally Fallon
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Sally M. Walker
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Sally Thorne
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Salvador Dalí
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Samanta Schweblin
Samanta Schweblin es una escritora argentina aclamada por sus inquietantes cuentos y novelas que combinan la vida cotidiana con giros misteriosos. Sus obras, como Little Eyes, Pájaros en la Boca y Fever Dream, han recibido importantes premios, entre ellos el Premio Nacional del Libro de Literatura Traducida 2022 y el Premio Aena 2026. Traducida a más de 40 idiomas, su ficción explora con frecuencia la maternidad, la intimidad y el peligro latente.
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Samantha Day
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Samantha Hunt
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Samantha Irby
Samantha Irby is an American comedian, writer and actor.
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Samantha Young
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Sam Tsoutsouvas
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Sana Takeda
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Sandra Ingerman
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Sangu Mandanna
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Santiago García Fernández
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