[{"n": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "u": "/e/literary-giants/robert-louis-stevenson/", "s": "Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, author of Treasure Island and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyd"}, {"n": "Rudyard Kipling", "u": "/e/literary-giants/rudyard-kipling/", "s": "English writer, Nobel laureate — best known for tales of empire."}, {"n": "Ryūnosuke Akutagawa", "u": "/e/literary-giants/ry-nosuke-akutagawa/", "s": "Father of the Japanese short story"}, {"n": "Salman Rushdie", "u": "/e/literary-giants/salman-rushdie/", "s": "A master of magical realism and historical fiction, Rushdie's works explore connections and disruptions betwee"}, {"n": "Samuel Beckett", "u": "/e/literary-giants/samuel-beckett/", "s": "Irish playwright, novelist, and poet; key figure in the Theatre of the Absurd."}, {"n": "Saul Bellow", "u": "/e/literary-giants/saul-bellow/", "s": "Author of Henderson the Rain King, a 1959 novel ranked number 21 on Modern Library's list of the 100 Best Nove"}, {"n": "Selma Lagerlöf", "u": "/e/literary-giants/selma-lagerl-f/", "s": "Swedish writer, published in Ukrainian translation by Vydavnytstvo Zhupanskogo in the Nobel Prize Laureates se"}, {"n": "Stendhal", "u": "/e/literary-giants/stendhal/", "s": "French writer and pioneer of psychological realism."}, {"n": "Stephen King", "u": "/e/literary-giants/stephen-king/", "s": "American author known for horror and other genres."}, {"n": "Stéphane Mallarmé", "u": "/e/literary-giants/st-phane-mallarm/", "s": "French Symbolist poet whose work inspired early 20th-century avant-garde movements."}, {"n": "Sylvia Plath", "u": "/e/literary-giants/sylvia-plath/", "s": "American confessional poet and novelist"}, {"n": "T. S. Eliot", "u": "/e/literary-giants/t-s-eliot/", "s": "Anglo-Catholic poet linked to the broader Catholic literary revival."}, {"n": "Toni Morrison", "u": "/e/literary-giants/toni-morrison/", "s": "Author of Beloved, winner of the NYTBR's 2006 poll for best American fiction of 1980–2005."}, {"n": "Tristan Tzara", "u": "/e/literary-giants/tristan-tzara/", "s": "Romanian-French avant-garde poet and Dada co-founder."}, {"n": "Umberto Eco", "u": "/e/literary-giants/umberto-eco/", "s": "Italian medievalist, semiotician, and novelist of The Name of the Rose."}, {"n": "Ursula K. Le Guin", "u": "/e/literary-giants/ursula-k-le-guin/", "s": "American author of speculative fiction and fantasy."}, {"n": "V. S. Naipaul", "u": "/e/literary-giants/v-s-naipaul/", "s": "Trinidad-born British writer and Nobel laureate"}, {"n": "Victor Hugo", "u": "/e/literary-giants/victor-hugo/", "s": "French Romantic author, poet, and human rights activist."}, {"n": "Virginia Woolf", "u": "/e/literary-giants/virginia-woolf/", "s": "English modernist writer, feminist essayist."}, {"n": "Vladimir Nabokov", "u": "/e/literary-giants/vladimir-nabokov/", "s": "Russian and American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist."}, {"n": "Voltaire", "u": "/e/literary-giants/voltaire/", "s": "French Enlightenment writer and advocate of civil liberties"}, {"n": "W. B. Yeats", "u": "/e/literary-giants/w-b-yeats/", "s": "Irish poet, dramatist, and Nobel laureate."}, {"n": "Walt Whitman", "u": "/e/literary-giants/walt-whitman/", "s": "American poet, author of Leaves of Grass, wrote poems on Abraham Lincoln's death."}, {"n": "Walter Scott", "u": "/e/literary-giants/walter-scott/", "s": "Scottish novelist, poet, and historian; creator of the Waverley novels."}, {"n": "William Blake", "u": "/e/literary-giants/william-blake/", "s": "English poet, painter, and printmaker of the Romantic Age"}, {"n": "William Faulkner", "u": "/e/literary-giants/william-faulkner/", "s": "American writer; winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature; considered the greatest writer of Southern lite"}, {"n": "William Golding", "u": "/e/literary-giants/william-golding/", "s": "British novelist, Nobel laureate, author of Lord of the Flies."}, {"n": "William Wordsworth", "u": "/e/literary-giants/william-wordsworth/", "s": "English Romantic poet and co-founder of the Romantic Age"}, {"n": "Wole Soyinka", "u": "/e/literary-giants/wole-soyinka/", "s": "Nigerian Nobel laureate whose works explore culture and politics."}]