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- Cecil J. Sharp
- William Sharp
- Anna Howard Shaw
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- Stanley Shaw
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- Percy Simple
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- May Sinclair
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- Mabell S. C. Smith
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- Sir George Adam Smith
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- Tobias Smollett
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- Henry H. Snelling
- American Anti-Slavery Society
- The American Tract Society
- Feodor Sologub
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- Sophocles
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- Robert Louis Stevenson
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- Stanley John Weyman
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- Theodore Winthrop
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- Johanna S. Wisthaler
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- Xenophon
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- Martha Young
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- Pliny the Younger
- Tao YuanMing
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- Israel Zangwill
- Zitkala-Sa
- Émile Zola
- Sidonia Hedwig Zäunemann
Writers
The term writer has been used as a synonym of author, although the latter term has a somewhat broader meaning and is used to convey legal responsibility for a piece of writing, even if its composition is anonymous, unknown or collaborative.