Last Updated on 7 January 2026

  1. William Dean Howells (1837), Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892), Ralph Ellison (1913), Richard Wilbur (1921), Sam McBratney (1943)
  2. Sholem Aleichem (1859), John Jay Chapman (1862), Nikos Kazantzakis (1883), Dr. Seuss (1904), Tom Wolfe (1930), John Irving (1942), Peter Straub (1943), Matt Taibbi (1970)
  3. William Godwin (1756), Arthur Machen (1863), Edward Thomas (1878), Yury Olesha (1899), Manuel Gonzales (1913), Peter Abrahams (1919), James Merrill (1926), Patricia MacLachlan (1938)
  4. Meindert DeJong (1906), Alan Sillitoe (1928), Richard B. Wright (1937), Irina Ratushinskaya (1954), Khaled Hosseini (1965), Dav Pilkey (1966)
  5. Frank Norris (1870), Charles Fuller (1939), Leslie Marmon Silko (1948), Robin Hobb (1952), Mark Z. Danielewski (1966), Laird Barron (1970), Marie Rutkoski (1977), Sarah J. Maas (1986)
  6. Cyrano de Bergerac (1619), Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806), Ring Lardner (1885), Gabriel García Márquez (1927), Daniel H. Wilson (1978)
  7. Alessandro Manzoni (1785), Dan Jacobson (1929), Georges Perec (1936), Andrea Levy (1956), Bret Easton Ellis (1964), Brent Weeks (1977)
  8. Kenneth Grahame (1859), Gene Fowler (1890), Eric Linklater (1899), John McPhee (1931), Jeffrey Eugenides (1960)
  9. William Cobbett (1763), Vita Sackville-West (1892), Peter Quennell (1905), Mickey Spillane (1918), Keri Hulme (1947)
  10. Frances Milton Trollope (1779), Pedro Antonio de Alarcón (1833), Ina Coolbrith (1841), H. W. Fowler (1858), Jakob Wassermann (1873), Marilyn Yalom (1932), David Rabe (1940), Johanna Lindsey (1952), A.S. King (1970)
  11. D.J. Enright (1920), Douglas Adams (1952), Libba Bray (1964)
  12. John Aubrey (1626), Gabriele D’Annunzio (1863), Kylie Tennant (1912), Jack Kerouac (1922), John Gross (1935), Virginia Hamilton (1936), Dave Eggers (1970)
  13. Hugh Walpole (1884), L. Ron Hubbard (1911), W.O. Mitchell (1914), Ellen Raskin (1928), Thomas Rockwell (1933), Tad Williams (1957), Lisa Lutz (1970)
  14. Algernon Blackwood (1869), Marguerite de Angeli (1889), Max Shulman (1919), John Wain (1925), Tamsyn Muir (1985)
  15. Paul Heyse (1830), Lady Gregory (1852), Richard Ellmann (1918), Lynda La Plante (1943), Ben Okri (1959)
  16. Gerbrand Bredero (1585), Sully Prudhomme (1839), César Vallejo (1892), Sid Fleischman (1920), Margaret Weis (1948), Alice Hoffman (1952)
  17. Karl Gutzkow (1811), Paul Green (1894), Siegfried Lenz (1926), Penelope Lively (1933), William Gibson (1948)
  18. Richard Condon (1915), Linda Dégh (1918), John Updike (1932), Michael S. Harper (1938)
  19. Tobias Smollett (1721), William Allingham (1824), Philip Roth (1933)
  20. Ovid (43BC), Henrik Ibsen (1828), Hugh MacLennan (1907), Bill Martin Jr. (1916), David Malouf (1934), Lois Lowry (1937), Ellen Conford (1942), Louis Sachar (1954), Anna Todd (1989)
  21. Phyllis McGinley (1905), Ved Mehta (1934), Jeff Lemire (1976), Lauren Kate (1981)
  22. Louis L’Amour (1908), Gabrielle Roy (1909), Nicholas Monsarrat (1910), Billy Collins (1941), Houston A. Baker Jr. (1943), James Patterson (1947)
  23. Roger Martin du Gard (1881), H. Beam Piper (1904), Ama Ata Aidoo (1942), Winston Groom (1943)
  24. Malcolm Muggeridge (1903), Dario Fo (1926), Henry Glassie (1941)
  25. Flannery O’Connor (1925), D.C. Fontana (1939), Toni Cade Bambara (1939), Linda Sue Park (1960), Kate DiCamillo (1964), Kami Garcia (1972)
  26. Louise Otto-Peters (1819), Edward Bellamy (1850), Robert Frost (1874), Joseph Campbell (1904), Betty MacDonald (1907), Tennessee Williams (1911), Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923), Vine Deloria Jr. (1933), Richard Dawkins (1941), Erica Jong (1942), Patrick Süskind (1949)
  27. Charles Mackay (1814), Budd Schulberg (1914), Louis Simpson (1923), Julia Alvarez (1950), Dana Stabenow (1952)
  28. William Byrd II (1674), Maxim Gorky (1868), Nelson Algren (1909), Bohumil Hrabal (1914), Mario Vargas Llosa (1936)
  29. Dezső Kosztolányi (1885), Howard Lindsay (1889), Ernst Jünger (1895), Helen Yglesias (1915), Judith Guest (1936), Elizabeth Hand (1957), J. A. Konrath (1970), Ernest Cline (1972)
  30. Anna Sewell (1820), Gabriela Zapolska (1857), Agnes Hewes (1874), Seán O’Casey (1880), Milton Acorn (1923), Tom Sharpe (1928)
  31. René Descartes (1596), Edward FitzGerald (1809), Andrew Lang (1844), William Lederer (1912), Octavio Paz (1914), John Fowles (1926), John Jakes (1932), Judith Rossner (1935), Marge Piercy (1936)

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