Last Updated on 7 January 2026

  1. Rex Stout (1886), Jan Brett (1949), Frances Vernon (1963)
  2. Joseph P. Lash (1909), Brian Lumley (1937), Elizabeth Berg (1948), T.C. Boyle (1948), Benjamin Stora (1950), Ann Patchett (1963), John Ajvide Lindqvist (1968)
  3. Ludvig Holberg (1684), Joseph Conrad (1857), F. Sionil José (1924), Mark Salzman (1959), Francesca Lia Block (1962), Alyson Noël (1965)
  4. Samuel Butler (1835), Rainer Maria Rilke (1875), Herbert Read (1893), Cornell Woolrich (1903)
  5. Vladimir Tendryakov (1923), John A. Williams (1925), Joan Didion (1934), Calvin Trillin (1935)
  6. Cornelia Meigs (1884), Peter Handke (1942), Jason Reynolds (1983)
  7. Johan Huizinga (1872), Willa Cather (1873), Joyce Cary (1888), Leigh Brackett (1915), Noam Chomsky (1928), S.A. Chakraborty (1985)
  8. Horace (65 BCE), Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1832), Norman Douglas (1868), Padraic Colum (1881), Kenneth Roberts (1885), Hervey Allen (1889), Richard Llewellyn (1906), Mary Gordon (1949)
  9. John Milton (1608), Joel Chandler Harris (1848), Jean de Brunhoff (1899), Eloise Jarvis McGraw (1915), Sarah E. Wright (1928)
  10. George MacDonald (1824), Emily Dickinson (1830), Mary Norton (1903), William Plomer (1903), Rumer Godden (1907), Clarice Lispector (1920), Philip R. Craig (1933), Cornelia Funke (1958)
  11. Naguib Mahfouz (1911), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918), Grace Paley (1922), Jim Harrison (1937), Thomas McGuane (1939), Colleen Hoover (1979)
  12. Gustave Flaubert (1821), Karl Edward Wagner (1945)
  13. Kenneth Patchen (1911), Ross Macdonald (1915), Tamora Pierce (1954), Amal El-Mohtar (1984)
  14. Shirley Jackson (1916), Tove Ditlevsen (1917), Amy Hempel (1951), Kelley Armstrong (1968)
  15. Betty Smith (1896), Edna O’Brien (1930), Donald Goines (1936)
  16. Jane Austen (1775), V.S. Pritchett (1900), Arthur C. Clarke (1917), Philip K. Dick (1928)
  17. Jules de Goncourt (1830), Ford Madox Ford (1873), Aroj Ali Matubbar (1900), Erskine Caldwell (1903), Es’kia Mphahlele (1919), Jack L. Chalker (1944)
  18. Saki (1870), Alfred Bester (1913), Ossie Davis (1917), Sterling E. Lanier (1927), Michael Moorcock (1939)
  19. Italo Svevo (1861), Oliver La Farge (1901), Jean Genet (1910), Eve Bunting (1928), Brandon Sanderson (1975)
  20. T.F. Powys (1875), Hortense Calisher (1911), 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. Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869), Jerry Pinkney (1939), Mick Inkpen (1952), Laini Taylor (1971)
  23. Samuel Smiles (1812), Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1896), Avi (1937), Donald Ray Pollock (1954), Carol Ann Duffy (1955), Yukito Ayatsuji (1960)
  24. Fritz Leiber (1910), Mary Higgins Clark (1927), Stephenie Meyer (1973)
  25. William Demby (1922), Rod Serling (1924), Carlos Castaneda (1925), Christopher Rowe (1969)
  26. Henry Miller (1891), Jean Toomer (1894), Alejo Carpentier (1904), David Sedaris (1956), Elizabeth Kostova (1964), Matt de la Peña (1975)
  27. Louis Bromfield (1896), Wilfrid Sheed (1930)
  28. Pío Baroja (1872), Mortimer J. Adler (1902), Manuel Puig (1932), Charles Portis (1933), Alasdair Gray (1934)
  29. Richard Atwater (1892), Robert Ruark (1915)
  30. Theodor Fontane (1819), Rudyard Kipling (1865), Paul Bowles (1910), Mercer Mayer (1943)
  31. Clarence Major (1936), Roy Porter (1946), Nathan Ballingrud (1970), Joe Abercrombie (1974)

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