Last Updated on 3 January 2026

  1. Sterling Allen Brown (1901), Joseph Heller (1923), Terry Southern (1924), Bobbie Ann Mason (1940), Joel Rosenberg (1954), Freida McFadden (1980)
  2. Ichiyō Higuchi (1872), Satyajit Ray (1921), Martha Grimes (1931)
  3. Jacob Riis (1849), Dodie Smith (1896), May Sarton (1912), Anthony Holten (1945)
  4. Horace Mann (1796), Thomas Henry Huxley (1825), Clara Ingram Judson (1879), Thomas Kinsella (1928), Amos Oz (1939), Rod Campbell (1945), Graham Swift (1949), David Guterson (1956), Kim Edwards (1958), Gail Carriger (1976)
  5. Søren Kierkegaard (1813), Karl Marx (1818), Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846), Leo Lionni (1910), Catherynne M. Valente (1979)
  6. Sigmund Freud (1856), Harry Golden (1902), Randall Jarrell (1914), Theodore H. White (1915), Ariel Dorfman (1942)
  7. David Hume (1711), Robert Browning (1812), Rabindranath Tagore (1861), Willem Elsschot (1882), Archibald MacLeish (1892), Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1927), Darwin T. Turner (1931), Gene Wolfe (1931), Angela Carter (1940), Michael Rosen (1946)
  8. Edward Gibbon (1737), Edmund Wilson (1895), Louise Meriwether (1923), Gary Snyder (1930), Thomas Pynchon (1937), Peter Benchley (1940)
  9. J.M. Barrie (1860), Rudolph Fisher (1897), Eleanor Estes (1906), William Pène du Bois (1916), Mona Van Duyn (1921), Charles Simic (1938), Joy Harjo (1951)
  10. Benito Pérez Galdós (1843), Bel Kaufman (1911), Richard Adams (1920), Caroline B. Cooney (1947), Christopher Paul Curtis (1953), John Scalzi (1969)
  11. Mari Sandoz (1896), Sheila Burnford (1916), Rubem Fonseca (1925), Zilpha Keatley Snyder (1927), Kamau Brathwaite (1930), Stanley Elkin (1930)
  12. Edward Lear (1812), Leslie Charteris (1907), Albert Murray (1916), Farley Mowat (1921), Rosellen Brown (1939)
  13. Daphne du Maurier (1907), Francine Pascal (1932), Margot Peters (1933), Roger Zelazny (1937), Norma Klein (1938), Rachel Ingalls (1940), Stephen R. Donaldson (1947)
  14. Hal Borland (1900), Eoin Colfer (1965)
  15. L. Frank Baum (1856), Katherine Anne Porter (1890), Mikhail Bulgakov (1891), Max Frisch (1911), Peter Shaffer (1926), Norma Fox Mazer (1931), Paul Zindel (1936), David Almond (1951), Laura Hillenbrand (1967)
  16. Douglas Southall Freeman (1886), H.E. Bates (1905), Juan Rulfo (1917), Bruce Coville (1950)
  17. Anna Brownell Jameson (1794), Dorothy Richardson (1873), Alfonso Reyes (1889), Frederic Prokosch (1906), Eloise Greenfield (1929), Gary Paulsen (1939), F. Paul Wilson (1946), Peter Høeg (1957)
  18. Bertrand Russell (1872), Gunnar Gunnarsson (1889), Irene Hunt (1903), Diane Duane (1952), Lionel Shriver (1957), Jonathan Maberry (1958), Allie Brosh (1985)
  19. Lorraine Hansberry (1930), Paul Erdman (1932), Kiera Cass (1981)
  20. Honoré de Balzac (1799), John Stuart Mill (1806), Sigrid Undset (1882), Margery Allingham (1904), Elisabeth Ogilvie (1917), TJ Klune (1982)
  21. Alexander Pope (1688), Harold Robbins (1916), Eugene Ehrlich (1922), Dorothy Hewett (1923), Robert Creeley (1926), Shelby Mahurin (1992)
  22. Gérard de Nerval (1808), Arthur Conan Doyle (1859), Peter Matthiessen (1927), Arnold Lobel (1933), John Flanagan (1944), Max Brooks (1972)
  23. Pär Lagerkvist (1891), Scott O’Dell (1898), Sheila Wingfield (1906), Margaret Wise Brown (1910), Susan Cooper (1935), Sean Williams (1967), Sarah Beth Durst (1974)
  24. Maurice F. Egan (1852), Arthur Wing Pinero (1855), Mikhail Sholokhov (1905), William Trevor (1928), Joseph Brodsky (1940), Michael Chabon (1963)
  25. Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803), Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803), Robert Ludlum (1927), W.P. Kinsella (1935), Raymond Carver (1938), Jamaica Kincaid (1949)
  26. Maxwell Bodenheim (1892), Caitlín R. Kiernan (1964), Alex Garland (1970)
  27. Arnold Bennett (1867), Dashiell Hammett (1894), Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894), John Cheever (1912), Herman Wouk (1915), Tony Hillerman (1925), Marijane Meaker (1927), John Barth (1930), Harlan Ellison (1934), Edmund Morris (1940), Simon J. Ortiz (1941), Thomas Piccirilli (1965), Chris Colfer (1990)
  28. Johann David Wyss (1743), Ian Fleming (1908), Patrick White (1912), Walker Percy (1916), Maeve Binchy (1939), Ursula Vernon (1977), Max Gladstone (1984)
  29. G.K. Chesterton (1874), T.H. White (1906), André Brink (1935), Andrew Clements (1949), R.F. Kuang (1996)
  30. Cornelia Otis Skinner (1899), Countee Cullen (1903), Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes (1919), Vizma Belševica (1931), Ray Cooney (1932), Colm Tóibín (1955)
  31. Walt Whitman (1819), Saint-John Perse (1887), Elizabeth Coatsworth (1893), George R. Stewart (1895), Al Young (1939), Svetlana Alexievich (1948), Douglas Preston (1956), Peter Clines (1969)

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