Last Updated on 2 January 2026

  1. Nikolai Gogol (1809), Edmond Rostand (1868), Anne McCaffrey (1926), Milan Kundera (1929), Samuel R. Delany (1942)
  2. Hans Christian Andersen (1805), Émile Zola (1840), Nicholas Rinaldi (1934), Sue Townsend (1946), Scott Lynch (1978)
  3. Washington Irving (1783), Sandra Boynton (1953)
  4. Remy de Gourmont (1858), Robert E. Sherwood (1896), Marguerite Duras (1914), Maya Angelou (1928), Dan Simmons (1948), Gemma Files (1968)
  5. Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837), Booker T. Washington (1856), Richard Eberhart (1904), Robert Bloch (1917), Anthony Horowitz (1955)
  6. Leonora Carrington (1917), Leigh Bardugo (1975)
  7. William Wordsworth (1770), Donald Barthelme (1931)
  8. Charles Baudelaire (1821), John Fante (1909), Glendon Swarthout (1918), Barbara Kingsolver (1955), Nnedi Okorafor (1974), Kazu Kibuishi (1978)
  9. Charles Baudelaire (1821), Jacques Futrelle (1875), Joseph Krumgold (1908), Paule Marshall (1929), Paul Krassner (1932), Sam Harris (1967)
  10. William Hazlitt (1778), Horace Gregory (1898), Paul Theroux (1941), John M. Ford (1957)
  11. Glenway Wescott (1901), Leo Rosten (1908), Mark Strand (1934), Dorothy Allison (1949)
  12. Samuel Beckett (1906), Eudora Welty (1909), Beverly Cleary (1916), Alan Ayckbourn (1939), Tom Clancy (1947), Christopher Hitchens (1949), Scott Turow (1949), Seth Andrews (1968)
  13. Thomas Jefferson (1743), Nella Larsen (1891), Genevieve Foster (1893), Marguerite Henry (1902), Jon Stone (1931), Jack McDevitt (1935), Seamus Heaney (1939), Michel Faber (1960), Rebecca Yarros (1981)
  14. James Branch Cabell (1879), Arnold J. Toynbee (1889), Chuck Dixon (1954)
  15. Henry James (1843), Anatole France (1844), Kingsley Amis (1922), Jeffrey Archer (1940), Benjamin Zephaniah (1958), Maria V. Snyder (1973)
  16. Gertrude Chandler Warner (1890), Thornton Wilder (1897), Kingsley Amis (1922), Thomas Olde Heuvelt (1983), Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (1984)
  17. Karen Blixen (1885), Thornton Wilder (1897), Cynthia Ozick (1928), Catherine Ryan Hyde (1955), Nick Hornby (1957)
  18. George Henry Lewes (1817), Richard Harding Davis (1864), Philip Carlo (1949)
  19. John Uri Lloyd (1849), Etheridge Knight (1931), Sean A. Moore (1964)
  20. Michel Leiris (1901), Peter S. Beagle (1939)
  21. Charlotte Brontë (1816), Alistair MacLean (1922), Kole Omotoso (1943), Thomas A. McMahon (1943)
  22. Henry Fielding (1707), Ellen Glasgow (1873), James Norman Hall (1887), Vladimir Nabokov (1899), Paula Fox (1923), Ron Koertge (1940)
  23. William Shakespeare (c. 1564), Anthony Trollope (1815), Ngaio Marsh (1895), Halldór Laxness (1902), Victoria Glendinning (1937), Charles R. Johnson (1948)
  24. Anthony Trollope (1815), Robert Penn Warren (1905), Gabriel Okara (1921), Sue Grafton (1940), Thomas King (1943)
  25. Walter de la Mare (1873), Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889), J. Anthony Lukas (1933), Ted Kooser (1939), James Fenton (1949), Silvia Moreno-Garcia (1981)
  26. Marcus Aurelius (121), Bernard Malamud (1914), Marilyn Nelson (1946), Natasha Trethewey (1966), Lisa Unger (1970)
  27. Jessie R. Fauset (1882), Ludwig Bemelmans (1898), Cecil Day-Lewis (1904), Jean Valentine (1934), August Wilson (1945), Rachel Caine (1962)
  28. Robert Anderson (1917), Bill Blackbeard (1926), Harper Lee (1926), Lois Duncan (1934), Terry Pratchett (1948)
  29. Yusef Komunyakaa (1941), Gilbert La Rocque (1943), Humphrey Carpenter (1946)
  30. Larry Niven (1938), Annie Dillard (1945), P.C. Cast (1960), Naomi Novik (1973)

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