Writer/journalist Famous Names Starting with Letter R

Was an American screenwriter, best known for his live television dramas of the 1950s and his science

Was an American screenwriter, best known for his live television dramas of the 1950s and his science fiction anthology TV series, The Twilight Zone.The second of two sons (his brother Robert J. Serling later became a novelist), Rod was born in Syracuse, New York to Samuel and Esther Serling, but was raised in Binghamton, New York, where he later graduated from Binghamton Central High School. He earned his B.A. in 1950 from Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Though brought up in a Jewish family, Serling became a Unitarian Universalist. Serling's family had a summer home on Cayuga Lake, in New York's Finger Lakes region, which inspired the name "Cayuga Productions" for his Twilight Zone production company.

An Australian writer.Hall came to Australia as a child after World War II and studied at the Univers

An Australian writer.Hall came to Australia as a child after World War II and studied at the University of Queensland (1971) [1]. In the 1960s Hall began working as a freelance writer, and a book and film reviewer. He also worked as an actor, and was often engaged by the Australian Broadcasting Commission in Brisbane. Between 1967 and 1978 he was the Poetry Editor of The Australian. [2] He began publishing poetry in the 1970s and has since published ten novels, including Just Relations and The Island in the Mind. He lived in Shanghai for a period in the late 1980s. From 1990-1993, he served as chair of the Australia Council.[3]

Was an Argentine composer.Arizaga was born in Buenos Aires, where he studied composition at the Nati

Was an Argentine composer.Arizaga was born in Buenos Aires, where he studied composition at the National Conservatory under Alberto Williams, José Gil, Luis Gianneo, and Teodoro Fuchs; he also studied philosophy at the National Universeity. After touring Spain in 1950, he went to Paris in 1954 and studied under Nadia Boulanger and Olivier Messiaen. Here he also began experimenting with the Ondes Martenot, and composed several works for the instrument. Returning to Argentina in 1960, he taught at Buenos Aires University and wrote music criticism for journals and newspapers. He died in Buenos Aires.

Who normally goes by just his surname, Fogwill, is an Argentine sociologist, short story writer, and

Who normally goes by just his surname, Fogwill, is an Argentine sociologist, short story writer, and novelist. He is distantly related to the novelist, Charles Langbridge Morgan.Fogwill was a titular professor of the University of Buenos Aires, publisher

Was an Argentine writer, considered the founder of investigative journalism in Argentina. He remains

Was an Argentine writer, considered the founder of investigative journalism in Argentina. He remains disappeared since March 25, 1977.

Was a Chilean writer, professor, and philologist.

Was a Chilean writer, professor, and philologist.

A former Argentine Senator, lawyer and former journalist.Terragno was born in Buenos Aires, Argentin

A former Argentine Senator, lawyer and former journalist.Terragno was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1943 and obtained a Law Degree from the University of Buenos Aires in 1967, founding the law firm of Terragno & Associates. He married Sonia Pascual Sánchez, with whom he had two children. He became a prestigious journalist, appointed editor-in-chief for the newsmagazine Confirmado between 1967 and 1968, was a columnist for La Opinión newspaper, and an editor in Cuestionario magazine. Terragno became Adjuct Professor of Law at his alma mater in 1973. Intimidation by the dictatorship installed in 1976 led to his exile in Caracas

Is a fiction writer and journalist.He has published Historia argentina, Vidas de santos, Trabajos ma

Is a fiction writer and journalist.He has published Historia argentina, Vidas de santos, Trabajos manuales, Esperanto, La velocidad de las cosas, Mantra and Jardines de Kensington. They have been translated into many languages.

Was a Cuban composer, violinist, pianist and orchestral director. The son of a musician, Jaime Prats

Was a Cuban composer, violinist, pianist and orchestral director. The son of a musician, Jaime Prats, Rodrigo began to study music at the age of nine. He studied at first under his father, then under Emilio Reynosa, and finished later at the Conservatorio Orbón.

Is a Guatemalan writer.

Is a Guatemalan writer.

Was a successful Dutch merchant and writer in the period often called the Dutch Golden Age.Visscher

Was a successful Dutch merchant and writer in the period often called the Dutch Golden Age.Visscher was born in and lived in Amsterdam and was an important and central figure of the cultural scene there and member of the rederijkerskamer "In liefde bloeie

Is a renowned Filipino writer, poet, playwright and columnist most famous for being one of the autho

Is a renowned Filipino writer, poet, playwright and columnist most famous for being one of the authors of the iconic Tagalog short story anthology "Mga Agos sa Disyerto" in the 60s. A former writer in the reputable but now-defunct Liwayway Magazine, he has written fictions and non-fiction articles that won distinction from different literary organizations.

Is a Filipino fictionist, playwright, translator and educator. Born and raised in San Jose, Nueva Ec

Is a Filipino fictionist, playwright, translator and educator. Born and raised in San Jose, Nueva Ecija, Philippines, Sicat graduated with a B.Litt. in Journalism from the University of Santo Tomas and an M.A. in Filipino from the University of the Philippines.

Was a French composer. His nearly 400 works span every genre, from chamber music to opera. In 1944,

Was a French composer. His nearly 400 works span every genre, from chamber music to opera. In 1944, he moved to Paris to study composition at the César Franck school, before entering the Paris conservatory and winning first prize in several classes as of Counterpoint and Fugue (Plé-Claussade Class), Aesthetic class (Oliveir Messiaen class) and Composition class (Darius Milhaud class). His training benefited also from Pierre Shaeffer's influence.

Is a French philosopher. Formerly a prominent communist author, he has converted to Islam and writte

Is a French philosopher. Formerly a prominent communist author, he has converted to Islam and written several books which have been controversial due to his anti-Zionist positions and denial of the Holocaust. In 1970, Garaudy was expelled from the Communist Party following his outspoken criticism of the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.

Is a French Holocaust denier. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s he was an important figure in Holocaust

Is a French Holocaust denier. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s he was an important figure in Holocaust Denial, and he has written over 50 books, chiefly on Marxist themes. He was the center of a public scandal in 1996-1998, when he was put on trial on a number of charges relating to his book Foundational Myths of the politics of Israel (Les Mythes fondateurs de la politique israelienne). He was convicted of aiding and abetting the denial of crimes against humanity in the chapters "The Myth of the Nuremberg Trials and The Myth of the Holocaust" in the first edition, two counts of contesting crimes against humanity in a number of passages in a successive edition, publishing racially defamatory statements defaming the Jewish community with his claims of a "myth of the six million", and publication of racially defamatory statements and incitement to racial hatred for his " the Jews deceitfully fabricated evidence of the reality and extent of the genocide for financial gain". French courts consequently banned its publication and fined Garaudy 120,000 French Francs (about $20,000) and sentenced him to a suspended jail sentence of several years. Garaudy appealed this decision to the European Court of Human Rights, but the appeal was rejected as inadmissable.

Was a French avant-garde poet and co-founder (with René Daumal, Roger Vailland and Josef Šíma) of

Was a French avant-garde poet and co-founder (with René Daumal, Roger Vailland and Josef Šíma) of the artistic group and magazine Le Grand Jeu. The group, associated with surrealists, was "excommunicated" from the movement by André Breton. Gilbert-Lecomte experimented with drugs, in particular morphine, for both artistic and sociological reasons. As was predicted in his poetry, the writers death was the result of an infection caused from dirty hypodermic needles.

Is a French writer, journalist and radio animator. He is Regent of the Collège de ’Pataphysique[2

Is a French writer, journalist and radio animator. He is Regent of the Collège de ’Pataphysique[2]. Young, he lived in Pau, where Andrélie[3] opens a glasses shop. During the war, Roger Grenier attends Gaston Bachelard classes in Sorbonne before activeley participating in 1944 at the liberation of Paris

Is a French politician, vice-president of the National Front (FN) far-right party. He is a represent

Is a French politician, vice-president of the National Front (FN) far-right party. He is a representant of the “national-conservative” tendency, opposed to the “nationalist revolutionaries” [1] (closer to Third Position ideologies). Holeindre was part of the “TSM” current (Tous sauf Mégret, Anybody But Mégret),

Was a French writer, winner of the Prix Goncourt in 1955. He was born in Paris. Of Jewish origin,[1]

Was a French writer, winner of the Prix Goncourt in 1955. He was born in Paris. Of Jewish origin,[1] he was a student and professor of literature at the Lycee Condorcet and the Lycée Pasteur in Neuilly-sur-Seine. In June 1940, he was taken prisoner of war, and was sent to Pomerania.

Is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American film critic and screenwriter.He is known for his weekly review

Is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American film critic and screenwriter.He is known for his weekly review column (appearing in the Chicago Sun-Times since 1967, and later online)[1] and for the television program Siskel & Ebert at the Movies, which he co-hosted for 23 years with Gene Siskel.

Is a well-known English performance poet. He presents the BBC Radio 4 programme Poetry Please and re

Is a well-known English performance poet. He presents the BBC Radio 4 programme Poetry Please and records voice-overs for commercials, as well as performing his own poetry regularly. He is a Fellow of Liverpool John Moores University and a member of the E

Was a Jamaican journalist, novelist, poet, and playwright. He was born to a middle-class family in K

Was a Jamaican journalist, novelist, poet, and playwright. He was born to a middle-class family in Kingston, Jamaica. By 1951, Mais had won ten first prizes in West Indian literary competitions.[1] His integral role in the development of political and cul

A French author and winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize for Literature. Trained as a paleographer and arc

A French author and winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize for Literature. Trained as a paleographer and archivist, Martin du Gard brought to his works a spirit of objectivity and a scrupulous regard for details.

The author of seven novels, two works of non-fiction, and a number of commissioned novelisations, fi

The author of seven novels, two works of non-fiction, and a number of commissioned novelisations, film and television tie-ins, photography book texts, and television scripts. His first two books were poetry, Citizens of Mist (1969) and Airship (1975), but since that time he has not published poetry.The middle son of a Presbyterian minister, Hugh Fraser McDonald, and a historian, Dr Lorna McDonald, his childhood was spent in the NSW country towns of Bribbaree, Temora, and Bourke, before the family moved to Sydney. He attended The Scots College and the University of Sydney.