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Simone de Beauvoir

French writer and philosopher Simone de Beauvoir wrote novels, memoirs and essays examining freedom, gender and the pressures society places on individual lives.

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Sinan Antoon

Sinan Antoon is an Iraqi poet, novelist, and translator born in Baghdad in 1967. His fiction explores Iraqi memory, loss, and the aftermath of war, and his work has been translated into thirteen languages.

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Solvej Balle

Danish novelist Solvej Balle writes spare, philosophical fiction about time and attention. She is best known for the seven-volume On the Calculation of Volume, in which a bookseller wakes every day on the same 18th of November.

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Sophie Hughes

Sophie Hughes is a British literary translator from Spanish and Italian. She has rendered more than twenty novels into English, among them Fernanda Melchor's Hurricane Season and Vincenzo Latronico's Perfection.

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Stanley Corngold

Stanley Corngold is an emeritus Princeton professor of German and comparative literature and a leading Kafka scholar. He translated and edited The Metamorphosis and has written on Kafka's writing and on his day job in insurance.

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Stephen King

American author Stephen King writes horror, suspense, fantasy, science fiction and crime fiction, often placing ordinary people under extraordinary pressure.

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Steven Johnson

Steven Johnson is an American nonfiction writer whose books connect science, technology and history. He is best known for tracing how ideas, inventions and cities change everyday life.

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Steven Levitsky

Steven Levitsky is a Harvard political scientist who writes about democracy, authoritarianism, political parties and Latin America. He co-authored How Democracies Die with Daniel Ziblatt.

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Steven McLean

Steven McLean is a literary scholar of H. G. Wells. He prepared the notes for Penguin's The Time Machine and The Island of Doctor Moreau and wrote The Early Fiction of H. G. Wells (2009), a study of Wells's science romances.

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Stuart Turton

Stuart Turton is an English author of intricately plotted mysteries that mix classic whodunit structures with speculative ideas, historical settings and horror.

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Sue Monk Kidd

American novelist and memoirist Sue Monk Kidd writes about women seeking freedom, voice and spiritual selfhood, often within the constraints of history and religion.

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Susan Choi

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