Sappho
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- Saberhagen, Fred
- Sackett, Jeffrey
- Sage, Victor
- Saint-Exupery, Antoine de
- Saiz, Prospero
- Salinger, J.D.
- Salmonson, Jessica Amanda
- Salter, James
- Salter, Mary Jo
- Salutin, Rick
- Sams, Ferrol
- Sanchez, Carol Lee
- Sanchez, Ricardo
- Sand, George
- Sandburg, Carl
- Sanford, William
- Sapphire
- Sappho
- Saramago, Jose
- Saro-Wiwa, Ken
- Saroyan, William
- Sarrantonio, Al
- Sarton, May
- Sartre, Jean-Paul
- Sassoon, Siegfried
- Saul, John
- Saunders, Susan
- Schick, Alice
- Schiff, Stuart David
- Schimel, Lawrence
- Schmidt, Bill
- Schoell, William
- Schoemperlen, Diane
- Schow, David
- Schroeder, Howard
- Schulman, Sarah
- Schulyer, James
- Schwartz, Delmore
- Schweitzer, Darrel
- Scott, Beth
- Scott, Michael
- Scott, Richard
- Scott, Sir Walter
- Seignolle, Claude
- Self, Will
- Service, Robert W.
- Seth, Vikram
- Sexton, Anne
- Shahan, Sherry
- Shakespeare, William
- Shange, Ntozake
- Shapiro, David
- Shaw, George Bernard
- Shaw, Irwin
- Sheldon, Sidney
- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe
- Shepard, Leslie
- Shepard, Sam
- Shields, Carol
- Shirley, John
- Shreve, Anita
- Shusterman, Neal
- Siciliano, Sam
- Siddons, Anne Rivers
- Siegel, Scott
- Siembreda, Kevin
- Silliman, Ron
- Sillitoe, Alan
- Silva, David
- Silver, Alain
- Silverberg, Robert
- Simic, Charles
- Simmons, Dan
- Simon, Jean
- Simon, Neil
- Sinclair, Upton
- Singer, Isaac Bashevis
- Sizemore, Susan
- Skal, David J.
- Skemp, Ethan
- Skipp, John
- Skvorecky, Josef
- Slade, Michael
- Sleator, William
- Slung, Michele
- Smiley, Jane
- Smith, Anna Deavere
- Smith, Clark Ashton
- Smith, David C.
- Smith, Guy
- Smith, James
- Smith, Lee
- Smith, Robert Arthur
- Smith, Russell
- Smith, Sinclair
- Snyder, Gary
- Snyder, Zilpha Keatley
- Sommer Bodenburg, Angela
- Somtow, S. P.
- Sondheim, Stephen
- Sontag, Susan
- Sophocles
- Sorrentino, Gilbert
- Souster, Raymond
- Southey, Robert
- Soyinka, Wole
- Spalding, Linda
- Spark, Muriel
- Sparks, Nicholas
- Spender, Stephen
- Spenser, Edmund
- Springer, Nancy
- Stableford, Brian
- Stadler, Matthew
- Stafford, Jean
- Stafford, William
- Stamper, J. B.
- Stanley, G. E.
- Staub, Wendy Corsi
- Steadman, Broeck
- Steakley, John
- Stegner, Wallace
- Steiber, Ellen
- Stein, Gertrude
- Steinbeck, John
- Steiner, Barbara
- Stendhal
- Stephens, John Richard
- Stevens, Wallace
- Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Stine, Megan
- Stine, R. L.
- Stoker, Bram
- Stone, Robert
- Stone, Tom B.
- Stoppard, Tom
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher
- Straczynski, J. Michael
- Straub, Peter
- Strickland, Brad
- Strieber, Whitley
- Strindberg, August
- Styron, William
- Sumner, M. C.
- Sutton, David
- Swift, Graham
- Swinburne, Algernon Charles
- Szymborska, Wislawa