American Literature: Biographies
- Robert Duncan
- Robert Emmet Sherwood
- Robert Frost
- Robert Hayden
- Robert Lowell
- Robert Montgomery Bird
- Robert Penn Warren
- Robert Stone
- Robinson Jeffers
- Roland Smith
- Royall Tyler
- S J Perelman
- Sam Shepard
- Samuel Langhorne Clemens
- Samuel R. Delany
- Sarah Josepha (Buell) Hale
- Sarah Orne Jewett
- Sarah Weeks
- Saul Bellow
- Sharelle Byars Moranville