Writer/journalist Famous Names Starting with Letter R

Is the author of many books, mostly fiction for children, though also for adults, and non-fiction. M

Is the author of many books, mostly fiction for children, though also for adults, and non-fiction. Many of his novels while supposedly aimed at a teenage audience deal with many complex, dark and in many ways adult themes. Westall's novel "The Wheatstone Pond" was adapted for BBC radio 4 in 2002. Is, in parts, particularly black and is, in this manner, entirely indistinguishable from an adult novel. His children's fiction includes The Machine Gunners (1975), set during the Second World War, where a group of children living in North Shields, England try to retrieve a machine gun from the turret of a felled German aircraft. It was his first novel for children, winning the Carnegie Medal; it was made into a BBC television serial in 1983. In its sequel, Fathom Five (1979), many of the same characters believe there to be a German spy in their home town of Garmouth

Is a mystery writer, critic and lecturer. His first crime novel, A Little Local Murder, was publishe

Is a mystery writer, critic and lecturer. His first crime novel, A Little Local Murder, was published in 1976. The novel was written while he was a lecturer at University of Tromsø in Norway. He has gone on to write more than 40 other books and numerous short stories.

Was born on 5 March 1948 in Alexandria, Egypt to parents of Belgian origin. He attended the British

Was born on 5 March 1948 in Alexandria, Egypt to parents of Belgian origin. He attended the British Boys' School in Alexandria and the Franciscan College in Buckinghamshire, England. He was expelled from Egypt during the reign of Gamal Nasser. He has spent most of his life living and working in the Middle East and Africa as a construction engineer.

Was a French writer and journalist. He was married twice, to Gisèle Parry and Ginette Garcin. Among

Was a French writer and journalist. He was married twice, to Gisèle Parry and Ginette Garcin. Among his friends were Guy des Cars, Jacques Rueff, Maurice Boitel, and Françoise Sagan. Some of his works were later adapted by Jean Yanne. Beauvais is buried in the village of Audresselles.

Is a South African author and editor.From 1989 to 1999 Berold edited the poetry journal New Coin, pu

Is a South African author and editor.From 1989 to 1999 Berold edited the poetry journal New Coin, publishing much of the groundbreaking new poetry being written in South Africa in the 1990s. His anthology from New Coin was published in 2002 as It All Begins : poems from postliberation South Africa, and followed in 2003 by a compilation of interviews with poets titled South African Poets on Poetry.

Is an American poet, author, activist and leader of the Mythopoetic Men's Movement in the United Sta

Is an American poet, author, activist and leader of the Mythopoetic Men's Movement in the United States.Robert Bly was born in Madison, Minnesota to parents of Norwegian stock. Following graduation from Madison High School in 1944, he enlisted in the United States Navy, serving two years. After one year at St. Olaf College in Minnesota, he transferred to Harvard University, joining the later famous group of writers who were undergraduates at that time, including Donald Hall, Adrienne Rich, Kenneth Koch, Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Harold Brodkey, George Plimpton, and John Hawkes. He graduated in 1950 and spent the next few years in New York.

Is the premier Ukrainian-Canadian folklorist. Educated at the University of Toronto (Russian, 1957),

Is the premier Ukrainian-Canadian folklorist. Educated at the University of Toronto (Russian, 1957), the University of Manitoba (MA in Slavic Studies, under Jaroslav Rudnyckyj, 1960), Harvard University (1960–62), and Indiana University (PhD in Folklore S

Was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues,

Was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets.Browning was born in Camberwell,[1] a suburb of London, England, on 7 May 1812, the first son of Robert and Sa

Was a poet and a lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, and is celebrated

Was a poet and a lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, and is celebrated worldwide. He is the best known of the poets who have written in the Scots language, although much of his writing is also in English and a 'light' Scots d

Was a French composer principally of opera. His opera Pomone was the first actual opera in French. I

Was a French composer principally of opera. His opera Pomone was the first actual opera in French. In 1669 Perrin founded the «Academie Royale de Musique», under the auspices of the French King, Cambert was invited to join him in the administration of the project which is considered today to be one of the founding influences of grand opera. However, both Perrin and Cambert were eventually replaced at the academy by Lully. Cambert, furious at the perceived insult, and at the lack of interest in his work shown by the French court, left France in 1673 to pursue his career in England.

Worked for the French post office until becoming a full-time writer of fiction in the early 1940s. H

Worked for the French post office until becoming a full-time writer of fiction in the early 1940s. He also wrote the scripts for a French comic strip, Atomas, about an atomic-powered superhero, appearing in the weekly magazine Mon Journal in the late 1940s. For the same magazine Charroux wrote a science fiction adventure in serial form, "Prof. Barthelemy's Flying Island." Charroux was a pioneer of the pseudoscience of ancient astronauts, publishing at least six non-fiction works in this genre in the last decade of his life, including One Hundred Thousand Years of Man's Unknown History (1963, 1970), Forgotten Worlds (1973), Masters of the World (1974), The Gods Unknown (1974) and Legacy of the Gods (1974).

Was an Australian poet.Crawford was son of Robert Crawford, born in Doonside, New South Wales, in 18

Was an Australian poet.Crawford was son of Robert Crawford, born in Doonside, New South Wales, in 1868, was educated at The King's School, Parramatta, and the university of Sydney. He settled on a farm as his forefathers had done before him, but not succeeding, became a clerk in Sydney and afterwards had a typewriting business. Some of his poems were published in the Bulletin and other periodicals, and in 1904 a small collection of them, Lyric Moods, was published at Sydney. An enlarged edition was published in Melbourne in 1909 under the same title. In 1921 another volume, The Leafy Bliss, was published, and an enlarged edition appeared three years later. Crawford died suddenly at Lindfield, Sydney, on 13 January 1930.

Was an American poet and author of more than sixty books. He is usually associated with the Black Mo

Was an American poet and author of more than sixty books. He is usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, though his verse aesthetic diverged from that school's. He was close with Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, John Wieners and Ed D

Was a French Catholic intellectual, scholar of German culture and anti-Nazi polemicist. Robert d'Har

Was a French Catholic intellectual, scholar of German culture and anti-Nazi polemicist. Robert d'Harcourt was a member of the aristocratic Norman House of Harcourt. He was born at Lumigny-Nesles-Ormeaux in Seine-et-Marne, the second son and fourth child of Count Pierre d'Harcourt and Adelaide-Alix de Mun. He was the nephew of Albert de Mun, half-brother of his mother.

Was an Australian poet.FitzGerald was born in Hunters Hill, New South Wales, a third-generation Aust

Was an Australian poet.FitzGerald was born in Hunters Hill, New South Wales, a third-generation Australian of Irish extraction, and studied science at the University of Sydney. He left before graduating, however, and followed in the footsteps of both his father and grandfather Robert D. FitzGerald by taking up a post as a surveyor. In the 1930s he travelled to Fiji where he worked the Native Lands Commission, surveying tribal boundaries, and experience important to his poetry. [1] He spent World War II doing engineering surveys in New South Wales and working for the Australian Department of the Interior (from 1939 to 1965).

Was a French playwright, opera librettist, and journalist.[1] He entered the Lycée Condorcet in 188

Was a French playwright, opera librettist, and journalist.[1] He entered the Lycée Condorcet in 1888 where he studied law with the initial ambition of entering diplomatic service. He met and befriended fellow student and writer Marcel Proust, and that relationship had a great influence upon him. Proust exposed Flers to art, literature, and music and his interests soon switched from law to writing, journalism, and literature. The two men enjoyed a lifelong friendship.[1]

Was a French surrealist poet who played a key role in the surrealistic movement of his day.Desnos’

Was a French surrealist poet who played a key role in the surrealistic movement of his day.Desnos’ poems were first published in 1917 in La Tribune des Jeunes (Youth's Tribune) and in 1919 in the avant-garde review, Le Trait d’union (The hyphen), and also the same year in the Dadaist magazine Littérature. In 1922 he published his first book, a collection of surrealistic aphorisms, with the title Rrose Selavy (based upon the name (pseudonym) of the popular French artist Marcel Duchamp).

Was an American poet and a student of H.D. and the Western esoteric tradition who spent most of his

Was an American poet and a student of H.D. and the Western esoteric tradition who spent most of his career in and around San Francisco. Though associated with any number of literary traditions and schools, Duncan is often identified with the New American

An Australian journalist, novelist and short story writer.Drewe was born in Melbourne, Victoria, but

An Australian journalist, novelist and short story writer.Drewe was born in Melbourne, Victoria, but moved with his family to Perth, Western Australia at the age of 6. He was educated at Hale School, and in his final year was appointed School Captain. He stayed in Perth and had a job as a junior reporter with The West Australian from his late teens until his early twenties, when he got a job with The Age and moved back to Melbourne. He went on to be literary editor at The Australian before he turned to writing fiction.

Was an American pulp writer of fantasy, horror, historical adventure, boxing, western, and detective

Was an American pulp writer of fantasy, horror, historical adventure, boxing, western, and detective fiction. Howard wrote "over three-hundred stories and seven-hundred poems of raw power and unbridled emotion" and is especially noted for his memorable depictions of "a sombre universe of swashbuckling adventure and darkling horror."

Was an American poet who lived much of his life in Amherst, Massachusetts. He lived in a small house

Was an American poet who lived much of his life in Amherst, Massachusetts. He lived in a small house he built himself which he called Fort Juniper. Francis won the Shelley Memorial Award in 1939. One of his poetic mentors was Robert Frost, and indeed Fran

Was a German composer, mainly of lieder. One of the most gifted of German song writers, he suffered

Was a German composer, mainly of lieder. One of the most gifted of German song writers, he suffered in early life, as many musicians have suffered, from the hostility of his parents to a musical career. He was twenty years old when his father's animosity was conquered, and he was allowed to live in Dessau to study organ playing under Schneider. The two years of dry study under that famous teacher were advantageous chiefly in making him uncommonly intimate with the works of Bach and Händel, his knowledge of which be showed in his editions of the St Matthew Passion, Magnificat, ten cantatas, and of the Messiah and L'Allegro, though some of these editions have long been a subject of controversy among musicians.

Was a Czech composer.He was deemed to be very talented, but he lived beyond his means.[citation need

Was a Czech composer.He was deemed to be very talented, but he lived beyond his means.[citation needed] To support his extravagant lifestyle he sold a valuable Stradivarius violin which was owned by the dome.[citation needed] This fact was discovered in 1845, when he was dismissed for the crime. Without a church to call home he wandered through several different towns and villages, but never stayed in any one place for too long. During this period he had to support himself from sales of his church music compositions.

Was an English poet, translator and novelist. During his long life, he produced more than 140 works.

Was an English poet, translator and novelist. During his long life, he produced more than 140 works. He was the son of the Anglo-Irish writer Alfred Perceval Graves and Amalie von Ranke, a niece of the famous German historian Leopold von Ranke.[1] He was

Was an English author best known today for his pamphlet Greene's Groats-Worth of Wit, containing a p

Was an English author best known today for his pamphlet Greene's Groats-Worth of Wit, containing a polemic attack on William Shakespeare. He was born in Norwich and attended Cambridge University, receiving a BA in 1580, and a MA in 1583 before moving to L