English poet; a convert Robert Smith – American Catholic priest, author and educator Joseph Sobran – wrote for The Wanderer, an orthodox Roman Catholic journal St. Robert Southwell – 16th-century Jesuit; martyred during the persecutions of Elizabeth I; wrote religious poetry, i.e., "The Burning Babe", and Catholic tracts Dame Muriel Spark – Scottish novelist; decided to join the Roman Catholic Church in 1954 and considered it crucial in her becoming a novelist in the tradition of Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene; novels often focus on human evil and sin Robert Spencer – writer and commentator on Islam and jihad Karl Stern – German-Jewish convert and psychiatrist Francis Stuart – Australian-born Irish-nationalist Catholic convert; son-in-law of Maud Gonne; accused of anti-Semitism in his later years by Maire McEntee O'Brien and Kevin Myers Jon M. Sweeney – American author of many books on religion, popular history, and memoir; convert Susie Forrest Swift (later, Sister M. Imelda Teresa, 1862–1916), American Dominican nun, magazine editor, writer Harry Sylvester – American journalist, short story writer, and novelist; most famous books were the Catholic novels Dayspring and Moon Gaffney Ellen Tarry – writer of young-adult literature and The Third Door: The Autobiography of an American Negro Woman Allen Tate – convert; poet and essayist Mrs. Bartle Teeling - convert; articles, biographical sketches, books Francis Thompson – 19th-century poet; wrote the devotional poem "The Hound of Heaven" Colm Toibin – Irish actor and writer; wrote The Sign of the Cross J. R. R. Tolkien – writer of The Lord of the Rings; devout and practicing Catholic John Kennedy Toole – Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of A Confederacy of Dunces. F. X. Toole (born Jerry Boyd) – Irish-American Catholic Meriol Trevor – convert; author of historical novels, biographies, and children's stories Lizzie Velásquez – writer of self-help, autobiographical, and young adult non-fiction Elena Maria Vidal – historical novelist Louie Verrecchio – Italian-American columnist for Catholic News Agency and author of Catholic faith formation materials and related books. Christopher Villiers – British Catholic theologian and poet; author of Sonnets From the Spirit. Maurice Walsh – one of the most popular Irish writers of the 1930s and 1940s, now chiefly remembered for the Hollywood film of his short story 'The Quiet Man;' wrote for the Irish Catholic magazine the Capuchin Annual and listed in the 1948 publication 'Catholic Authors: Contemporary Biographical Sketches, 1930–1952, Volume 1;' Auberon Waugh – comic novelist and