Writers Directory

Meg Rosoff was born in 1956 in Boston, USA. She studied at Harvard University and left for England i...

Genres:

• Children
• Fiction
• Non-Fiction
• Young Adult

Leone Ross was born in Coventry, England, on 26 June 1969. She grew up in Jamaica, and studied at t...

Genres:

• Fiction
• Non-Fiction
• Short Stories

Tony Ross was born in London in 1938. He trained at the Liverpool School of Art and has worked as a ...

Genres:

• Children
• Graphic novels and Illustration

J. K. Rowling was born in 1965, and grew up in Chepstow, Gwent. She studied at Exeter University, wh...

Genres:

• Children
• Drama

Martin Rowson is a cartoonist and novelist. He was born in 1959 and studied English at Pembroke Coll...

Genres:

• Drama
• Fiction
• Graphic novels and Illustration

Arundhati Roy was born in 1960 in Kerala, India. She studied architecture at the Delhi School of Arc...

Genres:

• Drama
• Fiction
• Non-Fiction
• Poetry

Carol Rumens was born on 10 December 1944 in Forest Hill, South London. She won a scholarship to gra...

Genres:

• Drama
• Fiction
• Non-Fiction
• Poetry
• Translation

Salman Rushdie was born in Bombay (now Mumbai) on 19 June 1947.He went to school in Bombay and at Ru...

Genres:

• Children
• Drama
• Fiction
• Non-Fiction
• Short Stories

Willy Russell was born in Liverpool in 1947. He became a hairdresser on leaving school, then underto...

Genres:

• Drama
• Fiction

Suhayl Saadi was born in Yorkshire in 1961 of Afghan-Pakistani parents, and grew up in Glasgow, beco...

Genres:

• Drama
• Fiction
• Non-Fiction
• Poetry
• Short Stories

Sunjeev Sahota was born in 1981 and grew up in Chesterfield, Derbyshire. His background is Sikh, and...

Genres:

• Fiction

Lawrence Sail was born in London in 1942 and brought up in Exeter. He studied French and German at O...

Genres:

• Drama
• Non-Fiction
• Poetry
• Translation

Jacob Sam-La Rose is a poet, performer, educator and editor who has performed and taught internation...

Genres:

• Fiction
• Non-Fiction
• Poetry

Fiona Sampson was born in London. After a brief career as a concert violinist, she studied at Oxford...

Genres:

• Children
• Fiction
• Non-Fiction
• Poetry
• Translation
• Young Adult

Ian Sansom is the author of The Truth About Babies: From A-Z (2002) and Ring Road (2004). He is a r...

Genres:

• Drama
• Fiction
• Non-Fiction
• Short Stories

The novelist Dreda Say Mitchell was born in 1965 and was the recipient of the Crime Writers’ Associa...

Genres:

• Drama
• Fiction

Michael Schmidt was born in Mexico on 2 March 1947 and studied at the universities of Harvard and Ox...

Genres:

• Fiction
• Non-Fiction
• Poetry
• Translation

James Scudamore was born in 1976 and grew up in Japan, Brazil and the UK. He lives in London. His fi...

Genres:

• Fiction
• Graphic novels and Illustration

Marcus Sedgwick was born in 1968 in Kent, and has worked as a bookseller and inside children's publi...

Genres:

• Children
• Fiction
• Non-Fiction
• Poetry
• Young Adult

Rachel Seiffert was born in 1971 in Oxford to German and Australian parents, and was brought up bi-l...

Genres:

• Children
• Fiction
• Short Stories