The Royal Society of Literature has some 500 Fellows. They include most of the very best novelists, short-story writers, poets, playwrights, biographers, historians, travel writers, literary critics and scriptwriters at work today.

  • Craig Raine
  • Nicholas Rankin
  • Frederic Raphael
  • Piers Paul Read
  • Anne Redmon
  • Joan Rees
  • Christopher Reid
  • Ruth Rendell (Baroness Rendell of Babergh CBE)
  • Christopher Ricks FBA
  • Jane Ridley
  • Matt Ridley DL FMedSci
  • William Rivière
  • Graham Robb
  • Andrew Roberts
  • Michèle Roberts
  • Robin Robertson
  • Jane Rogers
  • Stephen Romer
  • Kenneth Rose CBE
  • Jacob Ross
  • J.K. Rowling OBE
  • Anthony Rudolf
  • Carol Rumens
  • Sir Salman Rushdie