Last Updated on 3 January 2026

  1. Stephen Crane (1871), Sholem Asch (1880), Hermann Broch (1886), Gordon R. Dickson (1923), Lee Smith (1944), Susanna Clarke (1959), Karen Marie Moning (1964)
  2. Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly (1808), Odysseas Elytis (1911), Michelle Cliff (1946), Lois McMaster Bujold (1949), Thomas Mallon (1951), Ally Condie (1978)
  3. William Cullen Bryant (1794), André Malraux (1901), Oodgeroo Noonuccal (1920), Joe Queenan (1950), Massimo Mongai (1950)
  4. Eden Phillpotts (1862), Klabund (1890), Ciro Alegría (1909), Kate Cary (1967)
  5. Philippe de Mornay (1549), Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850), Will Durant (1885), Thomas Flanagan (1923), Christopher Wood (1935), Joyce Maynard (1953)
  6. Jonas Lie (1833), Robert Musil (1880), James Jones (1921), Michael Cunningham (1952), Colson Whitehead (1969), Jamie McGuire (1978)
  7. Albert Camus (1913), R.A. Lafferty (1914), Stephen Greenblatt (1943), Guy Gavriel Kay (1954)
  8. Sarah Fielding (1710), Bram Stoker (1847), Margaret Mitchell (1900), Martha Gellhorn (1908), Kazuo Ishiguro (1954), Lauren Oliver (1982), Samantha Shannon (1991)
  9. Ivan Turgenev (1818), Émile Gaboriau (1832), Imre Kertész (1929), Carl Sagan (1934), Lois Ehlert (1934), Roger McGough (1937), Alix E. Harrow (1989)
  10. Oliver Goldsmith (1728), Friedrich Schiller (1759), John P. Marquand (1893), Kate Seredy (1899), Jack Ketchum (1946), James Chapman (1955), Neil Gaiman (1960), Holly Black (1971), Caroline Kepnes (1976), Tahereh Mafi (1988)
  11. Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821), F. Van Wyck Mason (1901), Isaac Bashevis Singer (1903), Howard Fast (1914), Kurt Vonnegut (1922), Carlos Fuentes (1928), Jay Kristoff (1973)
  12. Anne Parrish (1888), Michael Ende (1929), Michael Bishop (1945), Tracy Kidder (1945), Neal Shusterman (1962), Greg F. Gifune (1963), Richelle Mead (1976)
  13. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850), George V. Higgins (1939)
  14. Astrid Lindgren (1907), William Steig (1907), Harrison Salisbury (1908)
  15. Gerhart Hauptmann (1862), William Hope Hodgson (1877), J.G. Ballard (1930), Red Jordan Arobateau (1943), Tim Pears (1956), Tibor Fischer (1959)
  16. Watts Phillips (1825), Michael Arlen (1895), Colin Thiele (1920), José Saramago (1922), Chinua Achebe (1930), Robin McKinley (1952)
  17. Shelby Foote (1916), Becky Albertalli (1982), Christopher Paolini (1983)
  18. Clarence Day (1874), Margaret Atwood (1939), James Welch (1940), Alan Dean Foster (1946), Michael Swanwick (1950), Alan Moore (1953), Maggie Stiefvater (1981)
  19. Allen Tate (1899), David Moody (1970)
  20. Selma Lagerlöf (1858), Nadine Gordimer (1923), Don DeLillo (1936)
  21. Voltaire (1694), Elizabeth George Speare (1908), Marilyn French (1929), Beryl Bainbridge (1932), Megan Whalen Turner (1965)
  22. George Eliot (1819), George Gissing (1857), André Gide (1869), William Kotzwinkle (1938)
  23. Gayl Jones (1949), Rachel Hawkins (1979)
  24. Baruch Spinoza (1632), Laurence Sterne (1713), Carlo Collodi (1826), Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849), Forrest J Ackerman (1916)
  25. Helen Hooven Santmyer (1895), P.D. Eastman (1909), Poul Anderson (1926), Charlaine Harris (1951), Jandy Nelson (1965)
  26. Frederik Pohl (1919), Tracy Hickman (1955), James Dashner (1972)
  27. Harivansh Rai Bachchan (1907), L. Sprague de Camp (1907), James Agee (1909), Gail Sheehy (1936), Kevin Henkes (1960), Han Kang (1970)
  28. Stefan Zweig (1881), Alberto Moravia (1907), Owen Dodson (1914), Rita Mae Brown (1944)
  29. Louisa May Alcott (1832), C.S. Lewis (1898), Madeleine L’Engle (1918), Sue Miller (1943), Alma Katsu (1959)
  30. Jonathan Swift (1667), Mark Twain (1835), Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874), Winston Churchill (1874), Jeanette Eaton (1886), John Dickson Carr (1906), Jacques Barzun (1907), Keith Giffen (1952), Robert Kirkman (1978)

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