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Top 100 Authors of All Time!

As voted on by regular people, according to thebest100lists.com, an ongoing online poll. This list is as of 2/15
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Last updated: February 12, 2015
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Author
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William Shakespeare
2
Charles Dickens
3
Fyodor Dostoevsky
4
J.R.R. Tolkien
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Leo Tolstoy
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Ernest Hemingway
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Jane Austen
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George Orwell
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John Steinbeck
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Mark Twain
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James Joyce
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C.S. Lewis
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Alexandre Dumas
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Edgar Allen Poe
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Oscar Wilde
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Kurt Vonnegut
18
Franz Kafka
19
J.K. Rowling
20
William Faulkner
21
Stephen King
22
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
23
J.D. Salinger
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Vladimir Nabokov
25
Homer
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Author
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Victor Hugo
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Charlotte Brontë
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Agatha Christie
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Ayn Rand
30
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Virginia Woolf
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Albert Camus
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Douglas Adams
34
Thomas Hardy
35
Herman Melville
36
Dante Alighieri
37
Harper Lee
38
Joseph Conrad
39
Jack Kerouac
40
Emily Brontë
41
Marcel Proust
42
Jules Verne
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W. Somerset Maugham
44
Roald Dahl
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Philip Pullman
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Aldous Huxley
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Anton Chekhov
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Jack London
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H.G. Wells
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Arthur Conan Doyle
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Author
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Terry Pratchett
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Ray Bradbury
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Paulo Coelho
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John Milton
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Henry Miller
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Dr. Seuss
57
George Eliot
58
Jodi Picoult
59
Khalid Hosseini
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Hunter S. Thompson
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John Grisham
62
Henry David Thoreau
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Ian McEwan
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Joseph Heller
65
Miguel de Cervantes
66
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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John Irving
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H.P. Lovecraft
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Salman Rushdie
70
Plato
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Isaac Asimov
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Thomas Mann
73
Nicolas Sparks
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Rudyard Kipling
75
Bram Stoker
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Author
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Cormac McCarthy
77
Sylvia Plath
78
Jean Paul Sarte
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Jorge Luis Borges
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Orson Scott Card
81
Nikolai Gogol
82
Honoré de Balzac
83
Nathaniel Hawthorne
84
Graham Greene
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D.H. Lawrence
86
Charles Bukowski
87
Chuck Palahniuk
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Friedrich Nietzsche
89
Ralph Waldo Emerson
90
Dan Brown
91
Toni Morrison
92
Margaret Atwood
93
Emily Dickinson
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Gustave Flaubert
95
Mikail Bulgakov
96
Edith Wharton
97
Evelyn Waugh
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Samuel Beckett
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Sidney Sheldon
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William Blake
cpgatbyu
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Level 85
Feb 8, 2015
"Salman", not "Slaman". "Leo", not "Loe". "Sidney", not "Sydney".
lucasbeauchamp
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Level 81
Feb 9, 2015
Oops. Don't make quizzes after midnight, kids.
celebeth
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Level 70
Feb 9, 2015
The quiz is not accepting Dickens when I type it.
tomlinson666
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Level 25
Jun 27, 2016
Spelled Jean-Paul Sartre wrong. Nice quiz regardless, though.
xtremesecretary
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Level 82
Dec 20, 2017
Really fun quiz!
jdtrue
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Level 85
Feb 21, 2019
JK Rowling makes the list? Harry Potter, childrens books! What about Mario Puzo, John Le Carre and Robert Ludlum?
emersonriley94
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Level 55
May 23, 2019
Oh no, we'd better take Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and Dr Seuss off the list too! In all seriousness though, children's literature requires just as much skill to write as adult's literature.
Quagga50
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Level 81
Apr 4, 2023
Of course it takes skill, but that doesn't make Rowling the 19th best author of all-time. She's objectively a mediocre author. That's not a bad thing. She's obviously had absurd success and is probably more than happy with her career, but you can't tell me with a straight face that she's a better author than Chinua Achebe, to pick one of a thousand obvious examples.
Dennis2015
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Level 46
May 7, 2020
No type-in for Bronte?
lucasbeauchamp
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Level 81
Nov 19, 2020
There's more than one Brontë, so no.
Chelletronic
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Level 64
Dec 22, 2021
I can't take this quiz seriously when Mary Shelley isn't included! She invented the science fiction genre and was so ahead of her time. I have my degree in English literature and it makes me balk that she isn't included in this list, especially over the likes of Seuss and Rowling. At least the Brontë's were included for once.
Marla0
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Level 21
May 10, 2022
SartRe ; not Sarte

Thank you for the quizz !

ehstevejc
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Level 38
Aug 8, 2022
spelled sartre, not sarte
theblackwidow
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Level 70
Nov 11, 2022
It's still not accepting "Sartre".
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