Authors
Ordered by name. Order by date of birth
Alphabetical list
Marquis de Sade (1740 - 1814) -- notorious 18th century French writer of erotic novels.
Jerome D. Salinger (1919 - 0) -- 20th century American novelist.
Sappho (630 - 612) -- One of the great Greek lyrists and few known female poets of the ancient world..
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980) -- also a playwright, novelist, and critic, all of Sartre's work is touched by his existential worldview.
Siegfried L. Sassoon (1886 - 1967) -- remembered best for his war poems, Sasoon was also a successful novelist.
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759 - 1805) -- great German dramatist and lyric poet, who was also an accomplished philosopher and historian.
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860) -- German philosopher, famous for his pessimism.
Olive Schreiner (1855 - 1920) -- South African writer and political activist.
Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832) -- storyteller and historical novelist.
Seneca (4 - 65) -- Roman statesman, tragic poet, and Stoic philosopher; one of the leading writers in the Silver Age of Latin literature.
Sextus Empiricus (200 - 200) -- sceptic philosopher, who lived during the third century BC.
third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671 - 1713) -- originally Anthony Ashley Cooper, Shaftesbury coined the phrase 'moral sense' to describe his philosophy of emphasising the emotional component of morality.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) -- arguably the most heralded poet and dramatist of all time..
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) -- Anglo-Irish playwright and critic.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822) -- major figure in the English Romantic movement.
Mary Shelley (1797 - 1851) -- novelist of the Romantic period, best remembered for her novel Frankenstein.
Philip Sidney (1554 - 1586) -- English Renaissance writer and gentleman, whose commitment to poetry has been an inspiration to poets.
Upton Sinclair (1878 - 1968) -- American novelist, journalist, remembered for his contribution to economic reform.
Adam Smith (1723 - 1790) -- a renowned economist, Smith was originally a professor of logic and then of moral philosophy.
Socrates (470 - 399) -- Athenian philosopher who had an incalculable influence on Plato and subsequent philosophy.
Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn (1918 - 0) -- a courageous Russian political commentator during the second world war..
Sophocles (496 - 406) -- most successful Greek tragedian, producing what were considered perfect tragedies as well as reforming the performance of Greek tragedy..
Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903) -- evolutionist, an advocater of Social Darwinism, and originator of sociology.
Edmund Spenser (1552 - 1599) -- English poet of the sixteenth century.
Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677) -- [replace].
