Peter Ransley has written extensively for television. His BBC adaptation of Sarah Waters’s ‘Fingersmith’ was... Read more »
Belinda Rathbone is a photography historian who has written widely on modern and contemporary photographers.... Read more »
Joan Rice was born in 1919. Leaving school at seventeen, she worked as a secretary... Read more »
Andrew Roberts took a first in modern history from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. His... Read more »
Roxana Robinson is the author of four novels and three short-story collections, as well as... Read more »
David Rose, who now writes for the Observer and Vanity Fair, has worked at Time... Read more »
Matt Rudd is senior writer at the Sunday Times. In the name of journalism, he... Read more »
Matt Ruff is the author of Sewer, Gas & Electric and Fool on the Hill.... Read more »
‘The Autobiography of a Flea’ was first published anonymously – but was later revealed to... Read more »
Dominic was born and raised in Buckinghamshire. He studied law at Oxford and for a... Read more »
Tim Radford is a freelance journalist. He was born in New Zealand in 1940 and... Read more »
Lucian Randall is a music writer and researcher who lives in London. He and co-author... Read more »
Richard Rayner was born in Bradford. His previous books include the memoir The Blue Suit,... Read more »
Wallace Reyburn has written 25 books including novels, biography, humour, sports writing and military history.... Read more »
Mark Reynolds is a freelance copy-writer and designer in television and publishing and is a... Read more »
Dan Rhodes was included on Granta’s ‘Best of Young British Novellists’ list in 2003, and... Read more »
Steve Richards has been chief political commentator at the Independent since 2000, before which he... Read more »
Emma Richler was born in London and grew up in London and Montreal. She trained... Read more »
Keith Ridgway is the author of The Long Falling which won both the 2001 Prix... Read more »
Matt Ridley received his BA and DPhil at Oxford researching the evolution of behaviour. He... Read more »
Jim Riordan has been a double bassist, hotel porter, railway clerk, barman, postman, unbreakable tea-set... Read more »
Gianni Riotta is a novelist and journalist. He has had two novels translated into English:... Read more »
Shy, retiring Linda Robertson is technically Scottish, but spent twenty-three years honing her English accent... Read more »
Robin Robertson is an editor and an award-winning poet. He lives in London.
James Robertson (born 1958) is a Scottish writer who grew up in Bridge of Allan,... Read more »
Andrea di Robilant lives in Rome and writes for La Stampa. He is the author... Read more »
Bruce Robinson is the director and screenwriter of Withnail and I, How to Get Ahead... Read more »
Charlotte Roche was born in 1978 in High Wycombe, but was brought up and lives... Read more »
Jody Rosen lives in New York and is a regular contributor to Salon.com and The... Read more »
Scott Mitchell Rosenberg is a film and television producer, comic book publisher, and the chairman... Read more »
Alex graduated from Harvard in 1990. He wrote for the New York Times from 1992... Read more »
Jacob Ross was born in Grenada and studied at the University of Grenoble and has... Read more »
Christopher Ross travelled to Japan in 1991 and ended up staying for nearly five years.... Read more »
A former creative director at J. Walter Thompson in Manhattan, Howard Roughan lives in Connecticut... Read more »
Lee Rourke is the author of the short-story collection ‘Everyday’, the novel ‘The Canal’ (winner... Read more »
Lee Rourke is the author of the short-story collection ‘Everyday’, the novel ‘The Canal’ (winner... Read more »
Paul Routledge is political correspondent for the ‘Independent on Sunday’ and has covered the events... Read more »
For over thirty years therapist and teacher Dorothy Rowe has brought her outstanding qualities of... Read more »
Arundhati Roy is an award-winning filmmaker and a trained architect. Her novel The God of... Read more »
Christian Rudder is co-founder of OkCupid and now serves as chief data analyst and author... Read more »
Jonathan Rutherford teaches Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Middlesex. A former community... Read more »
Geoff Ryman was born in Canada, to a journalist mother and a father in science.... Read more »
David Van Reybrouck is an award-winning author, acclaimed playwright, reporter, and poet who studied in... Read more »