Last Updated on 11 October 2025

  1. Jan Brett (1949), Frances Vernon (1963)
  2. Benjamin Stora (1950, John Ajvide Lindqvist (1968)
  3. Joseph Conrad (1857), Alyson Noël (1965)
  4. Rainer Maria Rilke (1875), Herbert Read (1893)
  5. Vladimir Tendryakov (1923), Joan Didion (1934)
  6. Cornelia Meigs (1884), Peter Handke (1942)
  7. Willa Cather (1873), Leigh Brackett (1915), S.A. Chakraborty (1985)
  8. Norman Douglas (1868)
  9. John Milton (1608), Jean de Brunhoff (1899), Eloise Jarvis McGraw (1915)
  10. George MacDonald (1824), Mary Norton (1903), Clarice Lispector (1920), Cornelia Funke (1958)
  11. Naguib Mahfouz (1911), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918), Colleen Hoover (1979)
  12. Gustave Flaubert (1821), Karl Edward Wagner (1945)
  13. Tamora Pierce (1954), Amal El-Mohtar (1984)
  14. Shirley Jackson (1916), Kelley Armstrong (1968)
  15. Betty Smith (1896), Donald Goines (1936)
  16. Jane Austen (1775), Arthur C. Clarke (1917), Philip K. Dick (1928)
  17. Ford Madox Ford (1873), Aroj Ali Matubbar (1900)
  18. Saki (1870), Alfred Bester (1913)
  19. Italo Svevo (1861), Brandon Sanderson (1975)
  20. Aziz Nesin (1915), Kate Atkinson (1951), David Wong Louie (1954)
  21. Rebecca West (1892), Anthony Powell (1905), Heinrich Böll (1917), Raymond E. Feist (1945)
  22. Jerry Pinkney (1939), Laini Taylor (1971)
  23. Donald Ray Pollock (1954), Carol Ann Duffy (1955), Yukito Ayatsuji (1960)
  24. Fritz Leiber (1910), Stephenie Meyer (1973)
  25. Christopher Rowe (1969)
  26. Henry Miller (1891), Alejo Carpentier (1904), David Sedaris (1956), Elizabeth Kostova (1964)
  27. Louis Bromfield (1896), Wilfrid Sheed (1930)
  28. Mortimer J. Adler (1902)
  29. Richard Atwater (1892)
  30. Theodor Fontane (1819), Rudyard Kipling (1865), Mercer Mayer (1943)
  31. Nathan Ballingrud (1970), Joe Abercrombie (1974)

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