Last Updated on 7 January 2026

  1. George Sand (1804), James M. Cain (1892), Walter White (1893), Juan Carlos Onetti (1909), Jean Stafford (1915), Lisa Scottoline (1955), Gary A. Braunbeck (1960)
  2. Hermann Hesse (1877), Wisława Szymborska (1923), Francis Wyndham (1924), Cherie Dimaline (1975)
  3. Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860), Franz Kafka (1883), Francis Steegmuller (1906), Tom Stoppard (1937), Dave Barry (1947), Charlie Higson (1958), Matt Haig (1975)
  4. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804), Mao Dun (1896), Neil Simon (1927), Tomaž Šalamun (1941)
  5. George Borrow (1803), Jean Cocteau (1889), Naomi Long Madgett (1923), Jean Raspail (1925), Mia Couto (1955), Bill Watterson (1958)
  6. Verner von Heidenstam (1859), Bessie Head (1937), Hilary Mantel (1952), John Langan (1969)
  7. Robert A. Heinlein (1907), Margaret Walker (1915), David Eddings (1931), Eric Jerome Dickey (1961), Jeff VanderMeer (1968), Renée Ahdieh (1983), V.E. Schwab (1987)
  8. Jean de La Fontaine (1621), Fitz-Greene Halleck (1790), Veikko Antero Koskenniemi (1885), Alec Waugh (1898), Shirley Ann Grau (1929), Erin Morgenstern (1978), Stephanie Garber (1981)
  9. Ann Radcliffe (1764), Barbara Cartland (1901), June Jordan (1936), Nancy Farmer (1941), Glen Cook (1944), Dean Koontz (1945), Thomas Ligotti (1953)
  10. Jan Neruda (1834), Marcel Proust (1871), John Wyndham (1903), Jean Kerr (1922), Alice Munro (1931), Jennifer A. Nielsen (1971), Erin Entrada Kelly (1976)
  11. Susan Warner (1819), E.B. White (1899), Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (1938), Marie Lu (1984)
  12. Henry David Thoreau (1817), Lucy Fitch Perkins (1865), Pablo Neruda (1904), Doris Grumbach (1918), Donald E. Westlake (1933), Gwenda Bond (1976), Amanda Hocking (1984)
  13. Isaac Babel (1894), David Storey (1933), Wole Soyinka (1934), Jane Hamilton (1957)
  14. Owen Wister (1860), Natalia Ginzburg (1916), Peggy Parish (1927), Laura Numeroff (1953), Brian Selznick (1966), Aiden Thomas (1989)
  15. Clement Clarke Moore (1779), Hammond Innes (1913), Iris Murdoch (1919), Driss Chraïbi (1926), Jacques Derrida (1930), Clive Cussler (1931), Christopher Golden (1967)
  16. Shirley Hughes (1927), Anita Brookner (1928), Reinaldo Arenas (1943), Linda Hogan (1947)
  17. Christina Stead (1902), Christiane Rochefort (1917), Chris Crutcher (1946), Robert R. McCammon (1952), Brian K. Vaughan (1976)
  18. William Makepeace Thackeray (1811), Nathalie Sarraute (1900), Jessamyn West (1902), Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1933)
  19. Gottfried Keller (1819), Alice Dunbar Nelson (1875), Stephen Coonts (1946), Jayne Anne Phillips (1952), Garth Nix (1963)
  20. Erik Axel Karlfeldt (1864), Frantz Fanon (1925), Cormac McCarthy (1933), Henry Dumas (1934), Jess Walter (1965)
  21. Frances Parkinson Keyes (1885), Ernest Hemingway (1899), Marshall McLuhan (1911), Mohammed Dib (1920), Buchi Emecheta (1944), William S. Burroughs Jr. (1947)
  22. Margery Williams (1881), Tom Robbins (1932), Bartholomew Gill (1943), Carolivia Herron (1947), S.E._Hinton (1948), David Shields (1956)
  23. Raymond Chandler (1888), Ashley Bryan (1923), Hubert Selby Jr. (1928), John Nichols (1940), Lisa Alther (1944)
  24. Alexandre Dumas (1802), Henrik Pontoppidan (1857), Lord Dunsany (1878), Robert Graves (1895), John D. MacDonald (1916), Madeline Miller (1978)
  25. Elias Canetti (1905), Midge Decter (1927), Robyn Carr (1951), Melissa Marr (1972)
  26. George Bernard Shaw (1856), Aldous Huxley (1894), Jean Shepherd (1921), Jan Berenstain (1923), Lawrence Watt-Evans (1954), Michael Grant (1954), Julia Armfield (1990)
  27. Hilaire Belloc (1870), Elizabeth Hardwick (1916), Cassandra Clare (1973), Victoria Aveyard (1990)
  28. Beatrix Potter (1866), Kenneth Fearing (1902), Malcolm Lowry (1909), John Ashbery (1927), Natalie Babbitt (1932), Jon J Muth (1960), Tim Lebbon (1969)
  29. Alexis de Tocqueville (1805), Booth Tarkington (1869), Eyvind Johnson (1900), Chester Himes (1909), Chang-Rae Lee (1965), Renée Watson (1978)
  30. Emily Brontë (1818), José Antonio Villarreal (1924), Archer Mayor (1950), Marcus Pfister (1960)
  31. Primo Levi (1919), Lynne Reid Banks (1929), Kim Newman (1959), Junji Ito (1963), J.K. Rowling (1965), John Joseph Adams (1976), Tui T. Sutherland (1978)

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