Best 100 Authors

Top 100 authors of all time voted by regular people

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1. William Shakespeare
2. Fyodor Dostoevsky
3. Charles Dickens
4. Leo Tolstoy
5. J.R.R. Tolkien
6. Jane Austen
7. Ernest Hemingway
8. John Steinbeck
9. George Orwell
10. James Joyce
11. Mark Twain
12. William Faulkner
13. Franz Kafka
14. Alexandre Dumas
15. Vladimir Nabokov
16. J.D. Salinger
17. F. Scott Fitzgerald
18. Kurt Vonnegut
19. Oscar Wilde
20. C.S. Lewis
21. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
22. Victor Hugo
23. J.K. Rowling
24. Edgar Allan Poe
25. Virginia Woolf
26. Agatha Christie
27. George Eliot
28. Marcel Proust
29. Joseph Conrad
30. Albert Camus
31. Ayn Rand
32. Ray Bradbury
33. Homer
34. Herman Melville
35. Thomas Hardy
36. Joseph Heller
37. Salman Rushdie
38. Anton Chekhov
39. Charlotte Bronte
40. Douglas Adams
41. Ian McEwan
42. Emily Bronte
43. W. Somerset Maugham
44. Cormac McCarthy
45. Honore de Balzac
46. D. H. Lawrence
47. Khalid Hosseini
48. Toni Morrison
49. Miguel de Cervantes
50. Phillip Roth
51. Evely Waugh
52. Stephen King
53. John Updike
54. Dante Alighieri
55. Edith Wharton
56. Henry Miller
57. Chuck Palahniuk
58. John Milton
59. Aldous Huxley
60. Saul Bellow
61. Paulo Coelho
62. Thomas Pynchon
63. Anthony Burgess
64. Jorge Luis Borges
65. Jodi Picoult
66. Jack London
67. Harper Lee
68. John Irving
69. Thomas Mann
70. Dr. Seuss
71. Graham Greene
72. Virgil
73. Mikhail Bulgakov
74. William Wordsworth
75. Jules Verne
76. Jack Kerouac
77. Philip Pullman
78. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
79. Willa Cather
80. Jean Paul Sarte
81. Sylvia Plath
82. Robert Heinlein
83. William Butler Yeats
84. Hunter S. Thompson
85. Philip K. Dick
86. Nathaniel Hawthorne
87. Henry David Thoreau
88. Tennessee Williams
89. H.P. Lovecraft
90. John Keats
91. Bram Stoker
92. Flannery O'Connor
93. Orson Scott Card
94. Robert Louis Stevenson
95. Rudyard Kipling
96. Robert Frost
97. E. M. Forster
98. Emily Dickinson
99. Raymond Chandler
100. Plato

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Best 100 Authors updated 08-24-2009