Last Updated on 16 February 2026

  1. Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874), Langston Hughes (1901), S.J. Perelman (1904), Muriel Spark (1918), Galway Kinnell (1927), Reynolds Price (1933), Jerry Spinelli (1941)
  2. Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr. (1861), James Joyce (1882), Rebecca Caudill (1899), Ayn Rand (1905), James Dickey (1923), Judith Viorst (1931)
  3. Horace Greeley (1811), Gertrude Stein (1874), Clarence E. Mulford (1883), Herman Charles Bosman (1905), John D. Fitzgerald (1906), James A. Michener (1907), Simone Weil (1909), Becca Fitzpatrick (1979), Ransom Riggs (1979)
  4. MacKinlay Kantor (1904), Uys Krige (1910), Betty Friedan (1921), Russell Hoban (1925), Tsitsi Dangarembga (1959), Siobhan Dowd (1960)
  5. Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804), Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848), William S. Burroughs (1914), Margaret Millar (1915), Elizabeth Swados (1951)
  6. Ugo Foscolo (1778), Melvin B. Tolson (1898), Louis Nizer (1902), Leonard Carpenter (1948)
  7. Charles Dickens (1812), Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867), Sinclair Lewis (1885), Milton Krims (1904), Gay Talese (1932)
  8. Robert Burton (1577), Jules Verne (1828), Kate Chopin (1850), Elizabeth Bishop (1911), Philip Appleman (1926), John Grisham (1955), Malorie Blackman (1962), Peter V. Brett (1973)
  9. George Ade (1866), Hilda van Stockum (1908), Thomas Bernhard (1931), J.M. Coetzee (1940), Alice Walker (1944), Matt de la Peña (1974)
  10. Charles Lamb (1775), Boris Pasternak (1890), Bertolt Brecht (1898), E.L. Konigsburg (1930), Richard Schickel (1933), Fleur Adcock (1934), Heather Gladney (1957)
  11. Lydia Maria Child (1802), Roy Fuller (1912), Sidney Sheldon (1917), Jane Yolen (1939)
  12. Thomas Campion (1567), Charles Darwin (1809), George Meredith (1828), Judy Blume (1938), David Small (1945), Jacqueline Woodson (1963)
  13. Joseph C. Lincoln (1870), Sarojini Naidu (1879), Eleanor Farjeon (1881), Ricardo Güiraldes (1886), Georges Simenon (1903), Friedrich Christian Delius (1943)
  14. Frederick Douglass (1818), Frank Harris (1856), Israel Zangwill (1864), George Jean Nathan (1882), Carl Bernstein (1944), Paul O. Zelinsky (1953), Lucinda Riley (1965), Adam Gidwitz (1980)
  15. Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (1811), Joseph Hergesheimer (1880), Sax Rohmer (1883), Norman Bridwell (1928), Susan Brownmiller (1935), Douglas Hofstadter (1945)
  16. Johann Jakob Wilhelm Heinse (1746), Octave Mirbeau (1848), G.M. Trevelyan (1876), Hal Porter (1911), Richard Ford (1944), Iain Banks (1954), Maureen Johnson (1973)
  17. Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (1836), Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879), Andre Norton (1912), Virginia Sorensen (1912), Margaret Truman (1924), Chaim Potok (1929), Ruth Rendell (1930), Meena Alexander (1951), Boyd Morrison (1967)
  18. Wendell Willkie (1892), Wallace Stegner (1909), Helen Gurley Brown (1922), Len Deighton (1929), Toni Morrison (1931), Audre Lorde (1934), Jean M. Auel (1936), Bebe Moore Campbell (1950)
  19. Élie Ducommun (1833), José Eustasio Rivera (1888), André Breton (1896), Kay Boyle (1902), Carson McCullers (1917), Amy Tan (1952), Marissa Meyer (1984)
  20. Naoya Shiga (1883), Georges Bernanos (1888), Russel Crouse (1893), Pierre Boulle (1912), Alex La Guma (1924), Richard Matheson (1926), Diana L. Paxson (1943), Sally Rooney (1991)
  21. Anaïs Nin (1903), W.H. Auden (1907), Erma Bombeck (1927), Chuck Palahniuk (1962), David Foster Wallace (1962)
  22. Arthur Schopenhauer (1788), James Russell Lowell (1819), Jules Renard (1864), Norman Lindsay (1879), Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892), Morley Callaghan (1903), François Cavanna (1923), Edward Gorey (1925), Ishmael Reed (1938), Terry Eagleton (1943), Philip Kerr (1956)
  23. Samuel Pepys (1633), W.E.B. Du Bois (1868), Erich Kästner (1899), William L. Shirer (1904), Haki R. Madhubuti (1942), John Sandford (1944), Francesca Simon (1955)
  24. Wilhelm Grimm (1786), George Moore (1852), Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski (1885), Mary Ellen Chase (1887), August Derleth (1909), Gillian Flynn (1971), Angie Cruz (1972), Rainbow Rowell (1973)
  25. George Schuyler (1895), Frank G. Slaughter (1908), Anthony Burgess (1917), Shiva Naipaul (1945), Neil Jordan (1950)
  26. Christopher Marlowe (1564), Victor Hugo (1802), Jean Bruller (Vercors) (1902), Elizabeth George (1949), Michel Houellebecq (1956)
  27. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807), Angelina Weld Grimké (1880), Seán Ó Faoláin (1900), John Steinbeck (1902), Lawrence Durrell (1912), Irwin Shaw (1913), N. Scott Momaday (1934), Alexander Gordon Smith (1979), Alexandra Bracken (1987)
  28. Michel de Montaigne (1533), Vyacheslav Ivanov (1866), Ben Hecht (1894), Don Coldsmith (1926), Daniel Handler (1970)
  29. Howard Nemerov (1920), Patricia A. McKillip (1948)

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