S: (n) Beckett, Samuel Beckett (a playwright and novelist (born in Ireland) who lived in France; wrote plays for the theater of the absurd (1906-1989))
S: (n) Bellow, Saul Bellow, Solomon Bellow (United States author (born in Canada) whose novels influenced American literature after World War II (1915-2005))
S: (n) Chesterton, G. K. Chesterton, Gilbert Keith Chesterton (conservative English writer of the Roman Catholic persuasion; in addition to volumes of criticism and polemics he wrote detective novels featuring Father Brown (1874-1936))
S: (n) Franklin, Benjamin Franklin (printer whose success as an author led him to take up politics; he helped draw up the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution; he played a major role in the American Revolution and negotiated French support for the colonists; as a scientist he is remembered particularly for his research in electricity (1706-1790))
S: (n) Grey, Zane Grey (United States writer of western adventure novels (1875-1939))
S: (n) Grimm, Jakob Grimm, Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm (the older of the two Grimm brothers remembered best for their fairy stories; also author of Grimm's law describing consonant changes in Germanic languages (1785-1863))
S: (n) Haley, Alex Haley (United States writer and Afro-American who wrote a fictionalized account of tracing his family roots back to Africa (1921-1992))
S: (n) Heller, Joseph Heller (United States novelist whose best known work was a black comedy inspired by his experiences in the Air Force during World War II (1923-1999))
S: (n) Huxley, Aldous Huxley, Aldous Leonard Huxley (English writer; grandson of Thomas Huxley who is remembered mainly for his depiction of a scientifically controlled utopia (1894-1963))
S: (n) Kafka, Franz Kafka (Czech novelist who wrote in German about a nightmarish world of isolated and troubled individuals (1883-1924))
S: (n) Keller, Helen Keller, Helen Adams Keller (United States lecturer and writer who was blind and deaf from the age of 19 months; Anne Sullivan taught her to read and write and speak; Helen Keller graduated from college and went on to champion the cause of blind and deaf people (1880-1968))
S: (n) Kesey, Ken Kesey, Ken Elton Kesey (United States writer whose best-known novel was based on his experiences as an attendant in a mental hospital (1935-2001))
S: (n) Malory, Thomas Malory, Sir Thomas Malory (English writer who published a translation of romances about King Arthur taken from French and other sources (died in 1471))
S: (n) More, Thomas More, Sir Thomas More (English statesman who opposed Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon and was imprisoned and beheaded; recalled for his concept of Utopia, the ideal state)
S: (n) Pound, Ezra Pound, Ezra Loomis Pound (United States writer who lived in Europe; strongly influenced the development of modern literature (1885-1972))
S: (n) Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Rousseau (French philosopher and writer born in Switzerland; believed that the natural goodness of man was warped by society; ideas influenced the French Revolution (1712-1778))
S: (n) Rushdie, Salman Rushdie, Ahmed Salman Rushdie (British writer of novels who was born in India; one of his novels is regarded as blasphemous by Muslims and a fatwa was issued condemning him to death (born in 1947))
S: (n) Sandburg, Carl Sandburg (United States writer remembered for his poetry in free verse and his six volume biography of Abraham Lincoln (1878-1967))
S: (n) Vonnegut, Kurt Vonnegut (United States writer whose novels and short stories are a mixture of realism and satire and science fiction (born in 1922))
S: (n) Wells, H. G. Wells, Herbert George Wells (prolific English writer best known for his science-fiction novels; he also wrote on contemporary social problems and wrote popular accounts of history and science (1866-1946))
S: (n) Wiesel, Elie Wiesel, Eliezer Wiesel (United States writer (born in Romania) who survived Nazi concentration camps and is dedicated to keeping alive the memory of the Holocaust (born in 1928))