Best 100 Authors

Top 100 authors of all time voted by regular people

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

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Best 100 Authors updated 08-16-2010