290 authors,
one library.

Charles Reade was an English novelist and dramatist who campaigned in fiction against the abuses of his day — private asylums, brutal prisons, trade union violence — and kept vast notebooks

Arthur B. Reeve was an American writer who created Craig Kennedy, the scientific detective — a Columbia professor who solved crimes with lie detectors, seismographs and portable X-rays years

Grace S. Richmond was a Congregational minister's daughter from upstate New York who wrote some thirty novels of domestic life and one enduring hero: Red Pepper Burns, the red-haired surgeon

Mary Roberts Rinehart was an American writer who trained as a nurse, took up fiction at twenty-seven after a stock crash wiped out her family, and became known as the American Agatha Christi

Edward Payson Roe was a Presbyterian minister who had served as a chaplain at Gettysburg and turned novelist after the Chicago fire of 1871 moved him to write about it.

Sax Rohmer was the pen name of Arthur Henry Ward, an English writer who created Fu Manchu and made a fortune from him across some forty books, films and radio serials.

Susanna Rowson was an English-born American novelist, actress and educator whose Charlotte Temple (1791) was the best-selling novel in America until Uncle Tom's Cabin, and stayed in print fo

Steele Rudd was the pen name of Arthur Hoey Davis, a Queensland selector's son who turned the family's losing struggle with drought, scrub and bad soil into the comic sketches that gave Aust