The Greatest Authors of All Time

Ever wondered who the greatest authors of all time are? We've analyzed 759 diverse book lists to create this comprehensive ranking of literary masters. Our algorithm considers several key factors to determine each author's position:

Book Rankings: Each author's score starts with the sum of their books' rankings from our master list.
Number of Great Books: Authors are rewarded for having multiple highly-ranked books. The more great books an author has, the higher their overall score.
Age of Books: Older books receive a small bonus to their score, with the maximum bonus going to books over 100 years old.

This system ensures that authors with multiple enduring works are recognized, while still giving weight to the quality of individual books. The rankings are automatically calculated and updated as new lists are added to our database.

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Rank	Author	Total Score
1	Fyodor Dostoevsky	17875
2	Charles Dickens	16363
3	William Faulkner	15898
4	William Shakespeare	15167
5	Virginia Woolf	14434
6	Leo Tolstoy	13920
7	Franz Kafka	12938
8	Ernest Hemingway	12673
9	James Joyce	11729
10	Jane Austen	11575
11	Thomas Mann	11439
12	Vladimir Nabokov	11261
13	George Orwell	11213
14	F. Scott Fitzgerald	10480
15	Albert Camus	9062
16	Joseph Conrad	8935
17	Henry James	8649
18	Gustave Flaubert	8356
19	John Steinbeck	8262
20	Mark Twain	8235
21	Herman Melville	8164
22	George Eliot	7447
23	Marcel Proust	7334
24	J. R. R. Tolkien	6917
25	Homer	6786
26	Sophocles	6735
27	Gabriel García Márquez	6671
28	Samuel Beckett	6451
29	Graham Greene	6226
30	Jorge Luis Borges	5830
31	E. M. Forster	5815
32	Thomas Hardy	5792
33	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	5377
34	Edith Wharton	5119
35	Honoré de Balzac	5117
36	Anton Chekhov	5039
37	Victor Hugo	5006
38	D. H. Lawrence	4977
39	Alexandre Dumas	4909
40	Evelyn Waugh	4906
41	Hermann Hesse	4845
42	J. D. Salinger	4833
43	Agatha Christie	4660
44	Nathaniel Hawthorne	4566
45	C. S. Lewis	4528
46	Robert Louis Stevenson	4517
47	Raymond Chandler	4512
48	Lewis Carroll	4464
49	Arthur Conan Doyle	4281
50	T. S. Eliot	4262
51	Edgar Allan Poe	4078
52	Daniel Defoe	4046
53	Aldous Huxley	4021
54	H. G. Wells	3908
55	Willa Cather	3876
56	Toni Morrison	3786
57	Nikolai Gogol	3748
58	Dashiell Hammett	3684
59	Dante Alighieri	3640
60	Louis-Ferdinand Céline	3546
61	Plato	3507
62	E. B. White	3470
63	Italo Calvino	3439
64	Flannery O'Connor	3436
65	Philip Roth	3246
66	Mikhail Bulgakov	3244
67	Miguel de Cervantes	3232
68	Daphne du Maurier	3219
69	Walt Whitman	3218
70	Sigmund Freud	3202
71	Oscar Wilde	3138
72	Kurt Vonnegut	3103
73	André Gide	3077
74	Jonathan Swift	3026
75	Jean Paul Sartre	3017
76	Saul Bellow	2973
77	Bram Stoker	2970
78	Voltaire	2957
79	Émile Zola	2939
80	Doris May Lessing	2862
81	Stendhal	2853
82	William Golding	2852
83	Ray Bradbury	2819
84	Ivan Turgenev	2817
85	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	2813
86	James Baldwin	2806
87	John Updike	2791
88	Stephen King	2694
89	Erich Maria Remarque	2684
90	W. Somerset Maugham	2672
91	Wilkie Collins	2671
92	Jack London	2642
93	Theodore Dreiser	2634
94	Knut Hamsun	2633
95	Zora Neale Hurston	2629
96	Jack Kerouac	2624
97	Euripides	2620
98	Charlotte Brontë	2620
99	Chinua Achebe	2564
100	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn	2563
101	Primo Levi	2543
102	Dorothy L. Sayers	2522
103	Sir Walter Scott	2493
104	Cormac McCarthy	2457
105	Aeschylus	2447
106	Salman Rushdie	2431
107	William Makepeace Thackeray	2422
108	Sinclair Lewis	2404
109	Günter Grass	2400
110	Henry David Thoreau	2365
111	Truman Capote	2339
112	Friedrich Nietzsche	2269
113	Thomas Pynchon	2265
114	John Milton	2238
115	Rainer Maria Rilke	2191
116	Simone de Beauvoir	2185
117	H. P. Lovecraft	2177
118	Carson McCullers	2167
119	Anthony Trollope	2165
120	Patricia Highsmith	2156
121	G. K. Chesterton	2107
122	Marguerite Duras	2101
123	John Dos Passos	2092
124	Nikos Kazantzakis	2087
125	Alexander Pushkin	2056
126	P. G. Wodehouse	2050
127	Milan Kundera	2010
128	Aristotle	1969
129	Astrid Lindgren	1965
130	Rudyard Kipling	1929
131	Karl Marx	1924
132	Ursula K. Le Guin	1916
133	Gertrude Stein	1909
134	Guy de Maupassant	1907
135	William Butler Yeats	1885
136	Richard Wright	1876
137	Margaret Atwood	1872
138	Arthur Rimbaud	1858
139	Robert Penn Warren	1856
140	Stefan Zweig	1837
141	Federico García Lorca	1830
142	Robert Musil	1826
143	Antoine de Saint-Exupéry	1825
144	Marguerite Yourcenar	1788
145	Shirley Jackson	1782
146	Roald Dahl	1755
147	Jean Rhys	1741
148	Georges Perec	1729
149	Muriel Spark	1727
150	Charles Darwin	1702
151	Molière	1668
152	Ford Madox Ford	1664
153	Anthony Burgess	1659
154	Elizabeth Gaskell	1655
155	J. M. Coetzee	1655
156	John le Carré	1653
157	Kazuo Ishiguro	1649
158	Virgil	1629
159	Isaac Bashevis Singer	1604
160	Andre Malraux	1603
161	Jules Verne	1597
162	Aristophanes	1566
163	Yasunari Kawabata	1559
164	Mario Vargas Llosa	1536
165	Joan Didion	1529
166	A. A. Milne	1524
167	Hans Christian Andersen	1496
168	Hermann Broch	1495
169	Cesare Pavese	1482
170	Iris Murdoch	1481
171	Fernando Pessoa	1476
172	August Strindberg	1463
173	Emily Brontë	1463
174	V. S. Naipaul	1457
175	Rebecca West	1437
176	Henrik Ibsen	1424
177	L. M. Montgomery	1421
178	Colette	1417
179	Isaac Asimov	1413
180	Frank Herbert	1405
181	Lawrence Durrell	1392
182	Bertolt Brecht	1370
183	Tom Wolfe	1354
184	Elizabeth Bowen	1348
185	Henry Green	1337
186	Walker Percy	1319
187	Selma Lagerlöf	1308
188	Ludwig Wittgenstein	1290
189	Henry Miller	1285
190	Pablo Neruda	1283
191	Robert Graves	1283
192	Joseph Roth	1282
193	Umberto Eco	1275
194	Henry Fielding	1254
195	Sheridan Le Fanu	1253
196	Dino Buzzati	1253
197	Denis Diderot	1250
198	Robert A. Heinlein	1249
199	Upton Sinclair	1246
200	Naguib Mahfouz	1237
201	William S. Burroughs	1212
202	Don DeLillo	1211
203	Pearl S. Buck	1210
204	Theodor Fontane	1203
205	Elias Canetti	1200
206	Anthony Powell	1199
207	Ralph Waldo Emerson	1193
208	Josephine Tey	1188
209	Norman Mailer	1178
210	Fritz Leiber	1177
211	J. K. Rowling	1168
212	Alice Walker	1167
213	Yukio Mishima	1166
214	Edgar Rice Burroughs	1164
215	Clarice Lispector	1162
216	Philip K. Dick	1151
217	John Buchan	1147
218	André Breton	1147
219	Patrick White	1134
220	Willem Elsschot	1129
221	George Bernard Shaw	1124
222	Maxim Gorky	1107
223	Witold Gombrowicz	1104
224	John Galsworthy	1099
225	Ayn Rand	1099
226	Winston Churchill	1086
227	John Irving	1083
228	Max Frisch	1082
229	Alberto Moravia	1074
230	Halldor Laxness	1074
231	Thomas Bernhard	1043
232	Eudora Welty	1040
233	Algernon Blackwood	1037
234	Alejo Carpentier	1034
235	William James	1030
236	Harper Lee	1030
237	Haruki Murakami	1026
238	Robert Frost	1025
239	W. H. Auden	1022
240	Ian McEwan	1018
241	Luigi Pirandello	1010
242	Bertrand Russell	1006
243	Alice Munro	1000
244	Marilynne Robinson	997
245	James Fenimore Cooper	996
246	Heinrich Böll	993
247	J. M. Barrie	993
248	John Dickson Carr	990
249	Nathanael West	987
250	Arthur Machen	986
251	J. G. Ballard	981
252	Christopher Isherwood	974
253	William Hope Hodgson	968
254	Charles Baudelaire	960
255	Hannah Arendt	954
256	Julio Cortazar	949
257	Kingsley Amis	946
258	Ian Fleming	945
259	Douglas Adams	940
260	E. T. A. Hoffmann	937
261	Mary Shelley	927
262	Anatole France	926
263	Louis Couperus	922
264	Samuel Richardson	911
265	Madeleine L'Engle	904
266	Thornton Wilder	903
267	Juan Rulfo	901
268	Tobias Smollett	899
269	Friedrich Schiller	897
270	Joyce Carol Oates	886
271	James Branch Cabell	886
272	Natalia Ginzburg	884
273	E. L. Doctorow	883
274	Washington Irving	877
275	Louis Aragon	875
276	Ovid	872
277	Andrey Platonov	866
278	Lu Xun	866
279	François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand	863
280	Wallace Stevens	863
281	Laurence Sterne	859
282	Heinrich von Kleist	856
283	Raymond Carver	853
284	James Boswell	852
285	Machado de Assis	851
286	Oliver Goldsmith	849
287	Sylvia Plath	841
288	Harriet Beecher Stowe	835
289	Ralph Ellison	825
290	Angela Carter	821
291	Eugene O'Neill	814
292	Immanuel Kant	814
293	John Cheever	791
294	Laura Ingalls Wilder	789
295	Roberto Bolaño	789
296	David Foster Wallace	787
297	Isak Dinesen	783
298	Sylvia Townsend Warner	782
299	Nikolai Leskov	780
300	Francisco de Quevedo	762
301	Friedrich Dürrenmatt	757
302	Joseph Heller	753
303	Georges Simenon	748
304	Zadie Smith	738
305	Arthur Miller	737
306	Alain Robbe-Grillet	736
307	Dr. Seuss	734
308	Mikhail Lermontov	725
309	M. R. James	724
310	François Mauriac	723
311	James Agee	722
312	Raymond Queneau	719
313	John Stuart Mill	717
314	José Saramago	713
315	Charles Robert Maturin	712
316	Eça de Queirós	707
317	Michel de Montaigne	702
318	Benito Pérez Galdós	702
319	W. G. Sebald	700
320	Octavia E. Butler	696
321	Flann O'Brien	695
322	E. F. Benson	692
323	August Derleth	690
324	James Salter	686
325	Stanislaw Lem	685
326	Isabel Allende	683
327	Tennessee Williams	679
328	T. H. White	675
329	Maurice Sendak	671
330	Gore Vidal	668
331	William Styron	665
332	Giovanni Verga	664
333	Anna Akhmatova	663
334	Romain Gary	661
335	Jean Racine	657
336	Eric Ambler	657
337	Thomas Wolfe	653
338	Arthur Koestler	653
339	Blaise Pascal	650
340	Christopher Marlowe	644
341	Nescio	643
342	Jean Cocteau	637
343	Robert Walser	636
344	Shmuel Yosef Agnon	634
345	Martin Amis	629
346	William Morris	629
347	Rabindranath Tagore	628
348	Isaac Babel	628
349	Louisa May Alcott	623
350	Geoffrey Chaucer	615
351	Mervyn Peake	615
352	Richard Matheson	613
353	David Hume	613
354	Tove Jansson	609
355	Ross Macdonald	608
356	Roland Barthes	605
357	Boris Vian	605
358	George Meredith	599
359	Dylan Thomas	597
360	Lao She	597
361	Joost van den Vondel	592
362	John Barth	587
363	Gabriele D'Annunzio	587
364	Ernst Jünger	584
365	Elena Ferrante	583
366	Pedro Calderón de la Barca	582
367	Javier Marias	581
368	Augustine	577
369	Bohumil Hrabal	574
370	Walter Pater	572
371	Georges Bataille	571
372	Karel Čapek	570
373	Nadine Gordimer	569
374	Jean Genet	568
375	Frances Hodgson Burnett	566
376	Claude Simon	563
377	John Fowles	560
378	Hunter S. Thompson	560
379	Carl Jung	560
380	Wallace Stegner	559
381	Theodor Adorno	559
382	Michel Houellebecq	556
383	Italo Svevo	554
384	C. S. Forester	554
385	Ellery Queen	553
386	Arno Schmidt	550
387	Ann Radcliffe	548
388	Arthur C. Clarke	548
389	Jean Giono	544
390	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	543
391	Marcus Tullius Cicero	542
392	Jeanette Winterson	541
393	Ken Follett	539
394	Christa Wolf	536
395	Gene Wolfe	533
396	Samuel Johnson	530
397	Rene Descartes	529
398	Ismail Kadare	527
399	Philip Pullman	523
400	César Vallejo	523
401	Nathalie Sarraute	522
402	Mary Stewart	520
403	Camilo José Cela	514
404	Michael Chabon	514
405	James M. Cain	513
406	Par Lagerkvist	513
407	Czesław Miłosz	512
408	Stéphane Mallarmé	510
409	Anthony Berkeley	506
410	Annie Ernaux	501
411	James Thurber	499
412	Arnold Bennett	498
413	Thomas Harris	495
414	Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o	492
415	James A. Michener	492
416	L. P. Hartley	491
417	Walter de la Mare	487
418	Elsa Morante	485
419	Claude Lévi-Strauss	484
420	Niccolo Machiavelli	483
421	Edward Bulwer-Lytton	479
422	Boris Pasternak	478
423	George Seferis	477
424	Ambrose Bierce	477
425	Jorge Amado	477
426	Carlos Fuentes	476
427	Bret Easton Ellis	475
428	Richard Brautigan	475
429	Barbara Pym	475
430	Larry McMurtry	474
431	Ira Levin	474
432	Paul Auster	472
433	Simon Vestdijk	472
434	Neil Gaiman	471
435	G. Oliver Onions	470
436	Emily Dickinson	469
437	Paulo Coelho	469
438	Arthur Schopenhauer	466
439	Mihail Sadoveanu	465
440	Fanny Burney	463
441	Robert Aickman	463
442	Benjamin Franklin	462
443	Denis Johnson	458
444	Xenophon	455
445	Miguel de Unamuno	454
446	William Godwin	453
447	Henryk Sienkiewicz	450
448	P. C. Hooft	448
449	Jonathan Franzen	447
450	Hilary Mantel	447
451	Max Weber	446
452	George MacDonald	444
453	Seneca	444
454	Barbara Kingsolver	442
455	W.F. Hermans	438
456	Ingeborg Bachmann	438
457	Heinrich Heine	437
458	R. K. Narayan	435
459	Lord Dunsany	429
460	Orhan Pamuk	426
461	Horace	425
462	Clark Ashton Smith	424
463	Guillaume Apollinaire	423
464	Hergé	422
465	Marquis de Sade	421
466	P. D. James	420
467	Pier Paolo Pasolini	419
468	Terry Pratchett	419
469	Robert W. Chambers	417
470	Edmund Wilson	416
471	Matthew Lewis	414
472	Maya Angelou	413
473	Carl Sagan	413
474	Svetlana Alexievich	413
475	Cornelius Tacitus	413
476	Annie Proulx	412
477	Erich Kästner	412
478	Ezra Pound	411
479	Multatuli	410
480	Amos Oz	407
481	Edna O'Brien	405
482	Octavio Paz	402
483	Bernard Malamud	399
484	Nick Hornby	397
485	Michael Crichton	396
486	Barbara Wertheim Tuchman	395
487	Juan Ramón Jiménez	395
488	Albert Cohen	392
489	Susan Cooper	391
490	Langston Hughes	389
491	Ivan Goncharov	389
492	Anne Rice	389
493	Georgette Heyer	387
494	Heinrich Mann	386
495	Nevil Shute	385
496	Anne Tyler	385
497	Charles Brockden Brown	383
498	Julian Barnes	382
499	Ken Kesey	380
500	George Gissing	379
501	Donna Tartt	376
502	John Wyndham	375
503	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	373
504	Giacomo Leopardi	373
505	Richard P. Feynman	371
506	Kobo Abé	367
507	Giorgio Bassani	366
508	Thomas Love Peacock	365
509	Gottfried Keller	363
510	Antonio Machado	361
511	Junichiro Tanizaki	359
512	Alan Hollinghurst	358
513	Rachel Carson	358
514	Henry Handel Richardson	356
515	William Saroyan	356
516	Michael Ondaatje	354
517	John Williams	354
518	Katherine Anne Porter	353
519	William Carlos Williams	351
520	Peter Handke	351
521	Martin Heidegger	351
522	George Sand	351
523	George Saunders	349
524	David Mitchell	349
525	Paul Celan	349
526	Pierre Corneille	349
527	Ramsey Campbell	348
528	Colson Whitehead	347
529	Judy Blume	347
530	Novalis	347
531	Tove Ditlevsen	346
532	Hugo Claus	345
533	Lord Byron	344
534	Chester Himes	344
535	Iain Banks	343
536	Angus Wilson	343
537	Bruno Schulz	342
538	Arthur Schnitzler	341
539	Katherine Mansfield	341
540	Blaise Cendrars	340
541	Christina Stead	338
542	Peter Carey	338
543	John Bunyan	334
544	Samuel Butler	326
545	Francis Bacon	326
546	Charles Ferdinand Ramuz	325
547	Mircea Eliade	324
548	Vilhelm Moberg	322
549	Michael Moorcock	320
550	Leonardo Sciascia	320
551	Henry Adams	320
552	David Lindsay	320
553	Kenzaburō Ōe	318
554	Francoise Sagan	317
555	Robertson Davies	315
556	Georg Buchner	315
557	Edmund Burke	312
558	Stephen Crane	311
559	Elmore Leonard	309
560	Eugène Ionesco	309
561	Louise Erdrich	309
562	James Ellroy	307
563	Lorrie Moore	307
564	Elfriede Jelinek	305
565	Olga Tokarczuk	304
566	Brian Moore	301
567	A. S. Byatt	301
568	William Gibson	300
569	Alan Garner	299
570	John Henry Newman	299
571	Shelby Foote	299
572	Alessandro Manzoni	295
573	William Wordsworth	295
574	Luis de Góngora	294
575	Len Deighton	292
576	Robert Bloch	291
577	Gaston Leroux	289
578	Ivan Bunin	288
579	Edward St Aubyn	288
580	Lion Feuchtwanger	288
581	Robert Caro	287
582	Joyce Cary	286
583	Agota Kristof	285
584	Pat Barker	285
585	Eyvind Johnson	284
586	Max Beerbohm	284
587	F. Anstey	283
588	Janet Frame	282
589	Soren Kierkegaard	282
590	Harry Martinson	281
591	Thorne Smith	281
592	Brothers Grimm	280
593	Arundhati Roy	279
594	Sigrid Undset	278
595	Maria Edgeworth	278
596	L. Sprague de Camp	278
597	Martinus Nijhoff	278
598	Albert Einstein	276
599	China	275
600	Sherwood Anderson	275
601	Richard Ford	275
602	Baruch de Spinoza	274
603	Patrick Modiano	274
604	Yevgeny Zamyatin	274
605	Paul Bowles	272
606	Friedrich Engels	271
607	Rex Stout	271
608	Alex Haley	270
609	Allen Ginsberg	270
610	Ruth Rendell	269
611	John Berger	268
612	Martin Buber	268
613	Plutarch	267
614	Russell Kirk	267
615	L. Frank Baum	266
616	Jhumpa Lahiri	266
617	John Maynard Keynes	265
618	E. R. Eddison	264
619	William Gaddis	264
620	Peter Matthiessen	260
621	Joao Guimaraes Rosa	259
622	Sarah Waters	259
623	James Jones	258
624	Thomas Carlyle	256
625	Colm Toibin	255
626	Margaret Wise Brown	254
627	António Lobo Antunes	253
628	Manuel Puig	251
629	Norman Douglas	251
630	Elie Wiesel	251
631	Horace Walpole	249
632	Mario de Andrade	248
633	John Keats	248
634	H. Rider Haggard	247
635	Adalbert Stifter	247
636	Herman Wouk	247
637	Michel Foucault	245
638	Henning Mankell	244
639	Ann Patchett	244
640	Dorothy Dunnett	244
641	Edmund White	244
642	William Maxwell	244
643	Gwendolyn Brooks	243
644	Thomas Paine	243
645	Giacomo Casanova	241
646	Margaret Mead	241
647	Rohinton Mistry	241
648	Robert Merle	240
649	William Trevor	239
650	Jean Anouilh	239
651	Edward Gibbon	238
652	Beatrix Potter	238
653	Tom Stoppard	237
654	Hugh Walpole	237
655	Paul Theroux	236
656	Hubert Selby	236
657	Marjorie Bowen	234
658	Jeffrey Eugenides	233
659	Frederik van Eeden	233
660	Elizabeth Taylor	233
661	James Hilton	232
662	Booth Tarkington	232
663	Gerard Reve	230
664	James Madison	230
665	John Ruskin	229
666	John Crowley	229
667	László Krasznahorkai	228
668	Poul Anderson	228
669	Patrick Hamilton	226
670	Diana Gabaldon	225
671	Nella Larsen	225
672	Thomas Keneally	225
673	Tom Clancy	224
674	Juan José Saer	223
675	Harold Pinter	221
676	Amy Tan	221
677	Dan Simmons	221
678	Dawn Powell	221
679	Elizabeth Bishop	220
680	Michael Frayn	220
681	Vasily Grossman	220
682	Neal Stephenson	219
683	Curzio Malaparte	219
684	Richard Powers	218
685	J. K. Huysmans	217
686	Mario Puzo	215
687	Wolfgang Koeppen	215
688	Dale Carnegie	215
689	Rachel Cusk	215
690	Shūsaku Endō	215
691	Emil Cioran	215
692	Samuel R. Delany	213
693	Carol Shields	213
694	John Grisham	213
695	Arturo Pérez-Reverte	211
696	Gotthold Ephraim Lessing	211
697	Liviu Rebreanu	211
698	Wyndham Lewis	211
699	Clive Barker	210
700	Robert E. Howard	210
701	Gerard de Nerval	207
702	Karl Barth	207
703	Dan Brown	206
704	Guillermo Cabrera Infante	206
705	Henri Michaux	206
706	Alan Moore	204
707	Francesco Petrarca	203
708	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	203
709	Nawal El Saadawi	203
710	Mircea Cărtărescu	202
711	Michael Innes	200
712	Wole Soyinka	200
713	Alfred North Whitehead	199
714	Ivo Andrić	199
715	Marjane Satrapi	198
716	Emmanuel Carrère	197
717	John Donne	196
718	Hugo von Hofmannsthal	196
719	Seamus Heaney	196
720	John O'Hara	195
721	Percy Bysshe Shelley	195
722	Harry Mulisch	195
723	Richard Adams	193
724	Junot Diaz	193
725	Plautus	192
726	Adolfo Bioy Casares	191
727	Russell Hoban	191
728	Danilo Kiš	191
729	Audre Lorde	190
730	Johan Huizinga	189
731	Kahlil Gibran	189
732	Robert R. McCammon	188
733	Sandor Marai	187
734	O. Henry	187
735	Percival Everett	187
736	Merce Rodoreda	186
737	Adam Smith	185
738	Jesmyn Ward	185
739	Juan Goytisolo	185
740	A. Merritt	185
741	J. G. Farrell	183
742	John Locke	183
743	James Clavell	183
744	Georges Bernanos	183
745	Eden Phillpotts	183
746	A. E. Housman	182
747	Henry Roth	182
748	N. K. Jemisin	181
749	Vladimir Il’ich Lenin	181
750	Herta Müller	181
751	Oliver Sacks	181
752	W. E. B. Du Bois	180
753	Penelope Fitzgerald	180
754	Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi	180
755	Marin Preda	180
756	C. L. Moore	180
757	Géza Gárdonyi	179
758	Siegfried Lenz	179
759	Charles Williams	179
760	Odysseas Elytis	177
761	Kate Atkinson	177
762	Edmund Crispin	177
763	William Blake	176
764	May Sinclair	176
765	Cora Sandel	175
766	William F. Buckley, Jr	175
767	Tim O'Brien	174
768	Peter S. Beagle	174
769	Han Kang	174
770	James McBride	174
771	L. Ron Hubbard	173
772	Milton Friedman	173
773	Peter Straub	172
774	Stephen R. Donaldson	171
775	Margaret Laurence	170
776	Irving Stone	170
777	Donald Barthelme	170
778	Bruce Chatwin	169
779	Ryunosuke Akutagawa	169
780	Thomas Aquinas	169
781	Grace Paley	169
782	John Hersey	167
783	E. O. Wilson	167
784	Saki	167
785	Konrad Lorenz	166
786	Richard Hofstadter	165
787	Arnold J. Toynbee	165
788	Jonathan Spence	164
789	Thomas M. Disch	164
790	Brian Aldiss	164
791	Anne Carson	163
792	Douglas Southall Freeman	163
793	Marianne Fredriksson	163
794	Anna Maria Ortese	162
795	Friedrich von Hayek	162
796	Philip José Farmer	162
797	Hella S. Haasse	161
798	M. F. K. Fisher	161
799	Alfred de Musset	160
800	Annie Dillard	160
801	Enid Blyton	160
802	Dave Eggers	159
803	Charlotte Perkins Gilman	159
804	Harlan Ellison	157
805	Mulk Raj Anand	157
806	Wislawa Szymborska	157
807	Philip Larkin	156
808	Jared Diamond	155
809	Thucydides	155
810	Antonio Muñoz Molina	155
811	Montague Summers	155
812	Dorothy B. Hughes	155
813	Charles Reade	154
814	Evgeniy Petrov	154
815	Ilya Ilf	154
816	Anna Seghers	153
817	Tim Powers	153
818	Sean O'Casey	153
819	Edmund Husserl	153
820	Sir Thomas Browne	151
821	Orson Scott Card	151
822	Maxine Hong Kingston	150
823	René Barjavel	149
824	Susan Sontag	149
825	Lloyd Alexander	149
826	George R. R. Martin	149
827	Irmgard Keun	149
828	Dimitar Talev	148
829	David Lodge	148
830	Donald E. Westlake	147
831	Margaret Drabble	147
832	Laurie Lee	146
833	Dennis Cooper	146
834	Helen Garner	146
835	Theodor Storm	146
836	James Dickey	145
837	Vaclav Havel	145
838	Lope de Vega	145
839	Anaïs Nin	145
840	Jim Thompson	145
841	Michael Dibdin	144
842	Alfred Jarry	144
843	Edgar Wallace	144
844	E. E. Cummings	144
845	Cynthia Asquith	143
846	Natsume Sōseki	143
847	Randall Jarrell	143
848	Joseph A. Schumpeter	143
849	John McGahern	142
850	Karl Popper	141
851	J. L. Carr	141
852	Diana Wynne Jones	140
853	Joseph Addison	140
854	Mór Jókai	139
855	Ellen Glasgow	139
856	David McCullough	139
857	Carlo Levi	138
858	John D. MacDonald	137
859	Alfred Tennyson	137
860	John Kenneth Galbraith	137
861	Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux	137
862	Christine Campbell Thomson	136
863	Robert Browning	136
864	Aphra Behn	136
865	Jeremias Gotthelf	136
866	Benjamin Constant	135
867	Guy Gavriel Kay	135
868	St. John of the Cross	135
869	Georg Christoph Lichtenberg	133
870	Hilda Doolittle	133
871	Chrétien de Troyes	133
872	Jennifer Egan	133
873	Roger Zelazny	132
874	Hanns Heinz Ewers	132
875	Maj Sjöwall	132
876	Friedrich Holderlin	132
877	Douglas Hofstadter	131
878	Chaim Potok	131
879	Uwe Johnson	131
880	Robert Coover	131
881	Frederick Forsyth	131
882	John Cowper Powys	131
883	Hugh MacLennan	131
884	Julien Gracq	130
885	Teresa of Avila	130
886	Dodie Smith	130
887	Charlotte Dacre	130
888	Thanassis Valtinos	130
889	Roberto Arlt	130
890	Norman Rush	130
891	James Stephens	130
892	Thomas More	129
893	Frank Norris	129
894	Radclyffe Hall	128
895	Mary Wollstonecraft	128
896	Simone Weil	128
897	Osip Mandelstam	128
898	Alistair MacLean	128
899	Alexander Herzen	128
900	Martin Walser	128
901	Steven Pinker	128
902	J. B. Priestley	127
903	Peter Ackroyd	127
904	Anne McCaffrey	127
905	bell hooks	126
906	Colin Wilson	126
907	Paul Valéry	126
908	Gustav Meyrink	126
909	Christine De Pizan	126
910	Alfred de Vigny	125
911	Charles Kingsley	125
912	Margaret Sanger	125
913	Larry Niven	124
914	Erskine Caldwell	124
915	Barbara Vine	123
916	Rosamond Lehmann	123
917	Beryl Bainbridge	121
918	Alan Sillitoe	120
919	Hesiod	120
920	Edith Nesbit	120
921	Gerald Manley Hopkins	120
922	Patrick O'Brian	120
923	Sebastien Japrisot	120
924	Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu	119
925	Dionysios Solomos	119
926	Georgios Vizyinos	119
927	Edna St. Vincent Millay	119
928	Isaiah Berlin	119
929	Ta-Nehisi Coates	119
930	Grazia Deledda	119
931	Yan Mo	118
932	Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings	118
933	Imre Kertész	118
934	Ivy Compton-Burnett	118
935	Karl May	117
936	Mao	117
937	Julia Alvarez	117
938	Mordecai Richler	117
939	Theodor Herzl	117
940	Marshall McLuhan	116
941	Jack Vance	116
942	Elizabeth Strout	116
943	Roddy Doyle	115
944	Kosmas Politis	115
945	Khaled Hosseini	115
946	James Blish	115
947	Heimito von Doderer	115
948	Ali Smith	114
949	Elio Vittorini	114
950	Victor Pelevin	114
951	René Char	114
952	Hjalmar Soderberg	113
953	T. F. Powys	113
954	Rafael Sabatini	113
955	Ernest H. Gombrich	113
956	Sally Rooney	112
957	Karl Ove Knausgård	112
958	Olaf Stapledon	112
959	Nancy Mitford	112
960	W. H. Hudson	112
961	M. Karagatsis	111
962	Paula Fox	111
963	Martin Luther King	111
964	Terence	110
965	Jane Smiley	110
966	Michael M. Lewis	110
967	Juan Marsé	110
968	Jerome K. Jerome	109
969	Charles Bukowski	109
970	Richard Dawkins	109
971	Aimé Césaire	109
972	Frederick Douglass	108
973	Frederick Marryat	108
974	Chinghiz Aitmatov	108
975	Ted Hughes	107
976	Peter Taylor	107
977	Thorstein Veblen	107
978	Victor Serge	106
979	Eugène Sue	105
980	Erik Larson	105
981	Maurice Blanchot	104
982	Lytton Strachey	104
983	Peter Lovesey	104
984	Maggie Nelson	104
985	Toni Cade Bambara	104
986	Alison Bechdel	103
987	Francis Iles	103
988	Martin Cruz Smith	103
989	Andreas Embiricos	103
990	Julien Green	103
991	T. C. Boyle	103
992	Charles L. Grant	103
993	David Sedaris	103
994	Emile Durkheim	103
995	Colum McCann	102
996	Patrick Suskind	102
997	Yuval Noah Harari	102
998	Apsley Cherry-Garrard	102
999	Jamaica Kincaid	102
1000	Leo Perutz	102