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  1. American writer (1902–1968)View profile ↗
    No. 23John Steinbeck
  2. American aviation pioneer and author (1897–1939)View profile ↗
    No. 54Amelia Earhart
  3. American novelist and writer (born 1947)View profile ↗
    No. 57Stephen King
  4. English playwright and poet (1564–1616)View profile ↗
    No. 77William Shakespeare
  5. English writer and philologist (1892–1973)View profile ↗
    No. 109J. R. R. Tolkien
  6. American writer and literary critic (1809–1849)View profile ↗
    No. 111Edgar Allan Poe
  7. author, novelist, writer (1775–1817)View profile ↗
    No. 112Jane Austen
  8. American author and journalist (1899–1961)View profile ↗
    No. 120Ernest Hemingway
  9. Russian novelist (1821–1881)View profile ↗
    No. 158Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  10. American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)View profile ↗
    No. 160Helen Keller
  11. American chef and television personality (1956-2018)View profile ↗
    No. 172Anthony Bourdain
  12. English author (born 1965)View profile ↗
    No. 197J. K. Rowling
  13. Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900)View profile ↗
    No. 245Oscar Wilde
  14. English novelist and social critic (1812–1870)View profile ↗
    No. 253Charles Dickens
  15. British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)View profile ↗
    No. 290C. S. Lewis
  16. English mystery and detective writer (1890–1976)View profile ↗
    No. 298Agatha Christie
  17. Bohemian writer from Prague (1883–1924)View profile ↗
    No. 305Franz Kafka
  18. German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim (1929–1945)View profile ↗
    No. 360Anne Frank
  19. British writer and journalist (1903–1950)View profile ↗
    No. 366George Orwell
  20. First Lady of the United States from 1961 to 1963View profile ↗
    No. 391Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
  21. British writer and poet (1916–1990)View profile ↗
    No. 396Roald Dahl
  22. British author (1908–1964)View profile ↗
    No. 398Ian Fleming
  23. American author and humorist (1835–1910)View profile ↗
    No. 460Mark Twain
  24. Canadian-Icelandic poet, academic and essayist (born 1950)View profile ↗
    No. 510Anne Carson
  25. English writer (1797–1851)View profile ↗
    No. 543Mary Shelley
  26. American writer and television producer (born 1948)View profile ↗
    No. 579George R. R. Martin
  27. American writer and editor (1890–1937)View profile ↗
    No. 584H. P. Lovecraft
  28. English modernist writer (1882–1941)View profile ↗
    No. 589Virginia Woolf
  29. Irish novelist and poet (1882–1941)View profile ↗
    No. 593James Joyce
  30. American writer, actor, and producer (born 1973)View profile ↗
    No. 608Seth MacFarlane
  31. Italian writer and journalist (1907-1990)View profile ↗
    No. 618Alberto Moravia
  32. American poet and writer (1932–1963)View profile ↗
    No. 629Sylvia Plath
  33. Russian-born American writer and public philosopher (1905–1982)View profile ↗
    No. 633Ayn Rand
  34. Russian author (1828–1910)View profile ↗
    No. 638Leo Tolstoy
  35. English Romantic poet and lyricist (1788–1824)View profile ↗
    No. 639Lord Byron
  36. American comic book writer, editor, publisher, and producer (1922–2018)View profile ↗
    No. 680Stan Lee
  37. American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)View profile ↗
    No. 686Isaac Asimov
  38. English social reformer, statistician, and founder of modern nursing (1820–1910)View profile ↗
    No. 739Florence Nightingale
  39. French writer and dramatist (1802–1870)View profile ↗
    No. 741Alexandre Dumas
  40. British novelist (born 1954)View profile ↗
    No. 787Kazuo Ishiguro
  41. Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265–1321)View profile ↗
    No. 798Dante Alighieri
  42. American writer (1924-1984)View profile ↗
    No. 841Truman Capote
  43. British writer and physician (1859–1930)View profile ↗
    No. 851Arthur Conan Doyle
  44. Japanese author (1925–1970)View profile ↗
    No. 887Yukio Mishima
  45. American writer (1896–1940)View profile ↗
    No. 894F. Scott Fitzgerald
  46. American writer and poet (1819–1891)View profile ↗
    No. 897Herman Melville
  47. English writer (born 1960)View profile ↗
    No. 932Neil Gaiman
  48. Japanese writer (born 1949)View profile ↗
    No. 951Haruki Murakami
  49. American poet, author, and civil rights activist (1928–2014)View profile ↗
    No. 954Maya Angelou
  50. French writer, historian and philosopher (1694–1778)View profile ↗
    No. 961Voltaire
  51. American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (1933–2023)View profile ↗
    No. 983Cormac McCarthy
  52. English occultist (1875–1947)View profile ↗
    No. 988Aleister Crowley
  53. American fantasy and science fiction author (1929–2018)View profile ↗
    No. 1,004Ursula K. Le Guin
  54. American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)View profile ↗
    No. 1,010Carl Sagan
  55. Spanish conquistadorView profile ↗
    No. 1,014Hernán Cortés
  56. German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)View profile ↗
    No. 1,067Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  57. Irish novelist and short story writer (1847–1912)View profile ↗
    No. 1,104Bram Stoker
  58. Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861–1941)View profile ↗
    No. 1,111Rabindranath Tagore
  59. American children's author and cartoonist (1904–1991)View profile ↗
    No. 1,155Dr. Seuss
  60. British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)View profile ↗
    No. 1,172Arthur C. Clarke