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Rita Bullwinkel

American fiction writer and editor of McSweeney's Quarterly. Author of the boxing novel Headshot, a 2025 Pulitzer finalist, and the story collection Belly Up. She edited Sam Sax's novel Yr Dead.

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Robert A. Caro

American journalist and political biographer known for The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson, deeply researched studies of how power is acquired, exercised and felt by ordinary people.

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Robert B. Cialdini

American social psychologist Robert B. Cialdini writes accessible nonfiction about persuasion, social influence and the reasons people agree to requests.

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Robert Kolker

Robert Kolker is an American journalist and author of narrative nonfiction about families, crime, mental illness and medical science. His books include Lost Girls and Hidden Valley Road.

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Robert M. Edsel with Bret Witter

Robert M. Edsel and Bret Witter are American nonfiction writers whose The Monuments Men recounts the Allied effort to protect and recover Europe’s cultural heritage during World War II.

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Robert M. Sapolsky

Robert M. Sapolsky is a Stanford neuroendocrinologist and primatologist who writes wide-ranging popular science about stress, behavior, morality and free will.

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Robert Macfarlane

British writer and Cambridge professor known for lyrical nonfiction about landscape, nature, language and the bonds between people and place.

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Robert Wright

Robert Wright is an American author and journalist who writes about evolutionary psychology, religion, meditation, politics and humanity’s technological future.

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Robin Buss

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Robin Wall Kimmerer

Robin Wall Kimmerer is a botanist, nature writer and Citizen Potawatomi Nation member whose nonfiction brings Indigenous knowledge into conversation with ecological science.

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Rohinton Mistry

Indian-born Canadian novelist who writes about Parsi life in Bombay and ordinary people caught in political upheaval. His A Fine Balance, set during India's 1975 Emergency, won the Giller Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker.

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Roswitha Quadflieg

German writer and book artist, born in Zürich in 1949. She designed and illustrated the first edition of Michael Ende's The Neverending Story, ran a fine-press workshop in Hamburg for thirty years, and has written novels, plays and radio dramas since 1985.

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