Last Updated on 7 January 2026

  1. Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875), Rosa Guy (1922), Scott Spencer (1945), Kirby Wright (1955), Martha Wells (1964)
  2. Eugene Field (1850), Joseph Roth (1894), Allen Drury (1918), Roland J. Green (1944)
  3. Sarah Orne Jewett (1849), Alison Lurie (1926), Jenny Han (1980)
  4. Mary Renault (1905), Richard Wright (1908), Syd Hoff (1912), Joan Aiken (1924)
  5. Frank Yerby (1916), Ward Just (1935), Paul Fleischman (1952)
  6. Robert M. Pirsig (1928), Alice Sebold (1963), China Miéville (1972)
  7. Edith Sitwell (1887), Martin Booth (1944), Michelle Paver (1960), Melissa de la Cruz (1971)
  8. Marilyn Durham (1930), Ann Beattie (1947), Jon Scieszka (1954)
  9. Leo Tolstoy (1828), Bharatendu Harishchandra (1850), Mary Hunter Austin (1868), Ralph Hodgson (1871), Phyllis A. Whitney (1903), Cesare Pavese (1908), Ivan Klíma (1931), Sonia Sanchez (1934), Michael Rowe (1962)
  10. Georgia Douglas Johnson (1880), H.D. (1886), Franz Werfel (1890), Mary Oliver (1935), Andreï Makine (1957)
  11. O. Henry (1862), D.H. Lawrence (1885), Robin Jenkins (1912), Leon Rooke (1934)
  12. H.L. Mencken (1880), Stanisław Lem (1921), Kristin Hunter (1931), Michael Ondaatje (1943), James Frey (1969)
  13. J.B. Priestley (1894), Florence Atwater (1896), Roald Dahl (1916), Else Holmelund Minarik (1920), Adrienne Kennedy (1931)
  14. Hamlin Garland (1860), Bernard MacLaverty (1942), John Steptoe (1950), Geraldine Brooks (1955)
  15. James Fenimore Cooper (1789), Agatha Christie (1890), Claude McKay (1890), Robert McCloskey (1914), Fawn M. Brodie (1915), Tomie dePaola (1934), Elizabeth Acevedo (1988)
  16. Alfred Noyes (1880), Frans Eemil Sillanpää (1888), H.A. Rey (1898), John Knowles (1926), James Alan McPherson (1943), Julia Donaldson (1948), Mark Cotta Vaz (1954)
  17. John Creasey (1908), Jean-Claude Carrière (1931), Ken Kesey (1935), Gail Carson Levine (1947)
  18. Samuel Johnson (1709), Noel Perrin (1927)
  19. Mika Waltari (1908), William Golding (1911), Thomas H. Cook (1947), N.K. Jemisin (1972), Kacen Callender (1989)
  20. Upton Sinclair (1878), Donald Hall (1928), George R.R. Martin (1948), Javier Marías (1951), Angie Thomas (1988)
  21. H.G. Wells (1866), Fannie Flagg (1944), Marsha Norman (1947), Stephen King (1947)
  22. Rosamunde Pilcher (1924), Ann Grifalconi (1929), Fay Weldon (1931), Thomas Harris (1940), Brian Keene (1967)
  23. Edgar Lee Masters (1868), Brian McNaughton (1935), Rebecca Roanhorse (1971)
  24. Horace Walpole (1717), Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825), F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896), Wilson Rawls (1913), John Brunner (1934), Alexis De Veaux (1948)
  25. Lu Xun (1881), William Faulkner (1897), Shel Silverstein (1930), Kristin Hannah (1960), Carlos Ruiz Zafón (1964)
  26. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (1820), Charles Bradlaugh (1833), T.S. Eliot (1888), Jane Smiley (1949), Mark Haddon (1962), Joey Comeau (1980)
  27. Grazia Deledda (1871), Louis Auchincloss (1917), Josef Škvorecký (1924), Jonathan Evison (1968), Michael West (), Tara Westover (1986)
  28. Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856), James Edwin Campbell (1867), Elmer Rice (1892), Simon Winchester (1944), Michael Scott (1959), Tendai Huchu (1982)
  29. Miguel de Cervantes (1547), William Beckford (1760), Elizabeth Gaskell (1810), Stan Berenstain (1923)
  30. J.I.M. Stewart (1906), Truman Capote (1924), Shamsur Rahman Faruqi (1935), Ta-Nehisi Coates (1975)

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