Writer/journalist Famous Names Starting with Letter R

Was a writer, poet and performer.Calvert moved to England when he was 2, and after schooling in Lond

Was a writer, poet and performer.Calvert moved to England when he was 2, and after schooling in London and Margate, began his career by writing poetry and in 1967 formed a Street Theatre group Street Dada Nihilismus.

Was a musician and composer.The son of a musician, he was able to play the flute and piano by the ag

Was a musician and composer.The son of a musician, he was able to play the flute and piano by the age of seven. In 1807 he went to study at the Paris Conservatoire. He was appointed harpist to the Imperial Orchestra in 1813, and began writing operas for the Opéra-Comique. However, in 1817 he became entangled in counterfeiting, fraud, and forgery, and fled to London to avoid prosecution. He was convicted in absentia, and sentenced to branding and hard labour).

Is an American fiction writer.Butler served in Vietnam from 1969 to 1971, first as a counter-intelli

Is an American fiction writer.Butler served in Vietnam from 1969 to 1971, first as a counter-intelligence special agent for the Army and later as a translator. He rose to the rank of sergeant in the Army Military Intelligence Corps

Was an English playwright and a two-time Oscar winning screenwriter.Bolt was known for dramatic work

Was an English playwright and a two-time Oscar winning screenwriter.Bolt was known for dramatic works that placed their protagonists in tension with the prevailing society. He won great renown for A Man for All Seasons, his first iteration of this theme, but he developed it in his existential script for Lawrence of Arabia (1962). In Lawrence, he succeeded where several before him had failed, at turning T. E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom into a cogent screenplay by turning the entire book on its head and making it a search for the identity of its author. Lawrence, by Bolt, is presented as a misfit both in English and Arab society.

Was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic, and was one of the founders of New Criticism. H

Was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic, and was one of the founders of New Criticism. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers.

Is an American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator. From 1997

Is an American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator. From 1997

Is a Canadian poet and children's author.In his alias as Dr. Poetry he wrote and performed thirteen

Is a Canadian poet and children's author.In his alias as Dr. Poetry he wrote and performed thirteen segments for CBC radio's spoken-word show Wordbeat.

Is a writer, and lecturer on topics related to nursing and health care in his home country. Prijarjo

Is a writer, and lecturer on topics related to nursing and health care in his home country. Prijarjo was a pioneer of nursing books in the Indonesian language. After completed his diploma in nursing, he was employed by the Indonesian Ministry of Health (Departemen Kesehatan RI) and worked as a lecturer for Academy of Nursing and some private nursing academies in Yogyakarta. He completed his English diploma from Sanata Dharma University in Yogyakarta.

Is a Polish polyglot, writer, poet, translator and editor.His scholarly activities have also spanned

Is a Polish polyglot, writer, poet, translator and editor.His scholarly activities have also spanned English, German, Russian, Polynesian, Jewish and Scandinavian literatures. As a literary critic he has specialized in the arts of translation and editorship. He has himself been an editor at several journals and publishing houses.Most of Stiller's publications, including some 300 books, are translations of prose and poetry from thirty-odd languages, chiefly English, German, Russian and Malay, as well as French, Spanish, Middle High German, Old English, Old Norse, Icelandic, Swedish, Dutch, Yiddish, Hebrew, Latin, Czech, Slovak, Ukrainian, Lusatian, Sanskrit, Chinese and others. His translations are often accompanied by extensive critical essays and commentaries.

A German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is one of the most famous Romantic comp

A German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is one of the most famous Romantic composers of the 19th century.

Was an English poet, and poet laureate from 1913 to 1930.Bridges' literary work started long before

Was an English poet, and poet laureate from 1913 to 1930.Bridges' literary work started long before his retirement, his first collection of poems having been published in 1873. In 1884 he married Monica Waterhouse, daughter of Alfred Waterhouse R.A., and

Was an American author. First published in the science fiction magazines of the 1950s, his numerous

Was an American author. First published in the science fiction magazines of the 1950s, his numerous quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist and broadly comical.

Was an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the so-called "Lake Poets", and Poet Laureate for

Was an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the so-called "Lake Poets", and Poet Laureate for 30 years from 1813 to his death in 1843. Although his fame tends to be eclipsed by that of his contemporaries and friends William Wordsworth and Samuel Ta

Was an English Jesuit priest and poet. He was hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn, and became a Ca

Was an English Jesuit priest and poet. He was hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn, and became a Catholic martyr. He was born at Horsham St. Faith in Norfolk, England.

Often known as Stephen Hawker, was a Anglican clergyman, poet, antiquarian of Cornwall, and reputed

Often known as Stephen Hawker, was a Anglican clergyman, poet, antiquarian of Cornwall, and reputed eccentric. He is best known as the writer of The Song of the Western Men, that includes the chorus line, And shall Trelawny die? There's 20,000 Cornish men

Is among the most critically well regarded of living American novelists. His work is typically chara

Is among the most critically well regarded of living American novelists. His work is typically characterized by psychological complexity, political concerns, and dark humor.

Was a poet, critic and translator whose renderings of the Greek classics "became standard works for

Was a poet, critic and translator whose renderings of the Greek classics "became standard works for a generation of scholars and students."He was best known as a translator of ancient Greek and Latin. In addition, he also composed several books of his own poetry.

Is an American and Canadian poet and novelist. Jack Foley, in his Introduction to Sward's Collected

Is an American and Canadian poet and novelist. Jack Foley, in his Introduction to Sward's Collected Poems, 1957-2004 (Black Moss Press, 2004) calls him, "in truth, a citizen, at heart, of both countries. At once a Canadian and American poet, one with a fo

Is an American composer.Ward was one of five children of the owner of a moving and storage company.

Is an American composer.Ward was one of five children of the owner of a moving and storage company. He sang in church choirs and local opera theaters when he was a boy. His earliest extant compositions date to 1934, at a time he was attending John Adams High School, from which he graduated in 1935. After that, Ward attended the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, where his composition teachers were Bernard Rogers, Howard Hanson, and Edward Royce. Ward received a fellowship and attended the Juilliard School of Music in New York from 1939 to 1942, where he studied composition with Frederick Jacobi, orchestration with Bernard Wagenaar, and conducting with Albert Stoessel and Edgar Schenkman. In the summer of 1941 he studied under Aaron Copland at the Berkshire Music Center in Massachusetts.

Was a poet and writer, sometimes referred to as "the Bard of the Yukon". He is best-known for his wr

Was a poet and writer, sometimes referred to as "the Bard of the Yukon". He is best-known for his writings on the Canadian North, including the poems "The Shooting of Dan McGrew", "The Law of the Yukon", and "The Cremation of Sam McGee". His writing was s

Is a composer and producer of new Chinese music. He is known as Lao Luo (Chinese: ??; pinyin: Lao Lu

Is a composer and producer of new Chinese music. He is known as Lao Luo (Chinese: ??; pinyin: Lao Luó, literally "Old Gong") in China, and established himself as an expert of traditional Asian music and a very important composer of contemporary Chinese art music. Robert Zollitsch grew up with the Folk music of his home region, Munich, Germany, learning early in his childhood a classical Bavarian folk music instrument, the Bavarian zither.

Was a French composer and singer. He was a member of a prominent French musical family, and best kno

Was a French composer and singer. He was a member of a prominent French musical family, and best known today as the father of the famous classical pianist Robert Casadesus. He was the brother of Henri Casadesus and Marius Casadesus, and grandfather of Jean Casadesus. He composed several songs, instrumental pieces, and operettas, including La Ribaude and La Reine de l'Or.

An Australian poet and author. Although she is the daughter of a white Australian mother and an Afri

An Australian poet and author. Although she is the daughter of a white Australian mother and an African-American father, she has always identified as, and until recently was accepted as, an indigenous Australian. She has been a life-long campaigner for indigenous land rights, as well as human rights and women's rights.Born Roberta Barkley Patterson in Townsville, Queensland, Sykes was raised by her mother and proportedly never knew her father. Sykes says in her autobiography that his identity is unknown, but her mother, Rachel Patterson, told a reporter in 1973 that Sykes's "father was a Negro soldier... His name was Master Sergeant Robert Barkley of the US Army," presumably one of many African-American servicemen stationed in Townsville during World War II.

Is a Brazilian guitarist, record producer, composer born in 1965, in the city of Recife, Brazil. His

Is a Brazilian guitarist, record producer, composer born in 1965, in the city of Recife, Brazil. His first contact with the guitar was at the age of 10. After he was run over by a car, he had to stay long periods of time at home and had to watch a lot of tv. In one of these tv programs he met The Beatles and fell in love with the guitar. He got his first guitar as a gift from his grandfather. At the age of 12 he was already playing with bands in Recife. He had very good technique and later was invited to play with bands like: Watch Pocket, Chicago and Quiet Riot. He played a little of everything: from music for children, to heavy metal and neoclassical. At the end of the 80´s he played with the Brazilian band Yahoo, when they played a cover of "Love Bites", song from the British band Def Leppard. He´s currently working as a music producer in his own studio in Rio de janeiro.

Was an Argentine cartoonist and writer. He was born in Rosario, province of Santa Fe, and he lived a

Was an Argentine cartoonist and writer. He was born in Rosario, province of Santa Fe, and he lived and worked there until his death. He was widely known by the affectionate nickname El Negro.