Last Updated on 3 January 2026

  1. Kristijonas Donelaitis (1714), Maria Edgeworth (1768), Mariano Azuela (1873), E.M. Forster (1879), J.D. Salinger (1919), Ousmane Sembène (1923), Jean Ure (1943), Kevin Stein (1954), Christopher Moore (1957)
  2. Philip Freneau (1752), Abdülhak Hâmid Tarhan (1852), Robert Nathan (1894), John Hope Franklin (1915), Isaac Asimov (1920), Jan Slepian (1921), Charles Beaumont (1929), Leonard Michaels (1933)
  3. Cicero (106 BC), Douglas William Jerrold (1803), J.R.R. Tolkien (1892), Pierre Drieu La Rochelle (1893), Grace F. Edwards (1933), Patricia Lee Gauch (1934), Erik Larson (1954)
  4. Jacob Grimm (1785), Marsden Hartley (1877), A.E. Coppard (1878), Max Eastman (1883), C.L.R. James (1901), Gao Xingjian (1940), Ramsey Campbell (1946), Seth Grahame-Smith (1976)
  5. Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921), W.D. Snodgrass (1926), Robert K. Massie (1929), Umberto Eco (1932), Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (1938), Terenci Moix (1942), Drew Daywalt (1970), John Hornor Jacobs (1971), Seanan McGuire (1978)
  6. Carl Sandburg (1878), Tómas Guðmundsson (1901), Benedict Wallet Vilakazi (1906), Wright Morris (1910), E.L. Doctorow (1931), Barry Lopez (1945)
  7. Charles Péguy (1873), Zora Neale Hurston (1891), Gerald Durrell (1925), William Peter Blatty (1928), J.D. Barker (1971)
  8. Su Shi (1037), Baltasar Gracián (1601), Wilkie Collins (1824), Storm Jameson (1891), Dennis Wheatley (1897), Alexandra Ripley (1934), Stephen Hawking (1942), Terry Brooks (1944)
  9. Thomas Warton (1728), T.W. Robertson (1829), Henry Blake Fuller (1857), Simone de Beauvoir (1908), Anne Rivers Siddons (1936), Philippa Gregory (1954)
  10. Ozaki Kōyō (1868), Robinson Jeffers (1887), Vicente Huidobro (1893), Philip Levine (1928), Jared Carter (1939), Dorianne Laux (1952)
  11. William James (1842), Alice Hegan Rice (1870), Bernard DeVoto (1897), Alan Paton (1903), Janet Campbell Hale (1946), Terry Goodkind (1948), Diana Gabaldon (1952), Jasper Fforde (1961), Brigid Kemmerer (1978)
  12. Charles Perrault (1628), Edmund Burke (1729), Jack London (1876), Margaret Danner (1915), Haruki Murakami (1949), Walter Mosley (1952), Celia S. Friedman (1957), David Mitchell (1969)
  13. Eduard von Bauernfeld (1802), Horatio Alger (1832), Carolyn Gold Heilbrun (1926), Michael Bond (1926), Flora Nwapa (1931), Ron Goulart (1933), Edmund White (1940), Jay McInerney (1955), Lorrie Moore (1957)
  14. Zachris Topelius (1818), Thornton W. Burgess (1874), Hugh Lofting (1886), John Dos Passos (1896), Tillie Olsen (1912), Dudley Randall (1914), John Oliver Killens (1916), Yukio Mishima (1925), Mahasweta Devi (1926), Tom Tryon (1926), Richard Laymon (1947), Mary Robison (1949)
  15. Molière (1622), Franz Grillparzer (1791), Ivor Cutler (1923), Ernest J. Gaines (1933), Robert Silverberg (1935)
  16. Anthony Hecht (1923), Norman Podhoretz (1930), Susan Sontag (1933), Inger Christensen (1935), Rebecca Stead (1968)
  17. Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600), Benjamin Franklin (1706), Charles Brockden Brown (1771), Anne Brontë (1820), Ronald Firbank (1886), Nevil Shute (1899), William Stafford (1914), Sebastian Junger (1962), Emily M. Danforth (1980)
  18. Rubén Darío (1867), A.A. Milne (1882), William Sansom (1912), Binyavanga Wainaina (1971)
  19. Edgar Allan Poe (1809), Alexander Woollcott (1887), Patricia Highsmith (1921), George MacBeth (1932), Julian Barnes (1946), David Belbin (1958)
  20. Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806), Johannes V. Jensen (1873), Abram Hill (1910), Joy Adamson (1910), Sawako Ariyoshi (1931), Roo Borson (1952), Vanessa Diffenbaugh (1978)
  21. Davíð Stefánsson (1895), Gretel Ehrlich (1946), Cherith Baldry (1947), Casey McQuiston (1991)
  22. René-Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt (1773), Lord Byron (1788), August Strindberg (1849), Robert E. Howard (1906), Howard Moss (1922), Joseph Wambaugh (1937), Stephen Graham Jones (1972)
  23. Stendhal (1783), Freda Utley (1898), Louis Zukofsky (1904), Derek Walcott (1930)
  24. William Congreve (1670), Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais (1732), E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776), Edith Wharton (1862), Charles Boardman Hawes (1889), Desmond Morris (1928)
  25. Robert Burns (1759), W. Somerset Maugham (1874), Virginia Woolf (1882), D.M. Thomas (1935), Gloria Naylor (1950), David Grossman (1954), Peter Watts (1958), Ryan C. Thomas (1975)
  26. Eugène Sue (1804), Mary Mapes Dodge (1831), Philip José Farmer (1918), Christopher Hampton (1946), Shannon Hale (1974)
  27. Lewis Carroll (1832), Jules Archer (1915), Harry Allard (1928), Mordecai Richler (1931), David Yallop (1937), Julius Lester (1939), Darrin Bell (1975)
  28. Colette (1873), Valentin Kataev (1897), David Lodge (1935), Pierce Brown (1988)
  29. Anton Chekhov (1860), Romain Rolland (1866), Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867), Edward Abbey (1927), Germaine Greer (1939)
  30. George Villiers (1628), Gelett Burgess (1866), Barbara W. Tuchman (1912), Lloyd Alexander (1924), Shirley Hazzard (1931), Richard Brautigan (1935), Michael Dorris (1945)
  31. Zane Grey (1872), John O’Hara (1905), Thomas Merton (1915), Norman Mailer (1923), Gene DeWeese (1934), Kenzaburō Ōe (1935), Steven Amsterdam (1966)

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