Last Updated on 24 January 2026

  1. Annie Besant (1847), Faith Baldwin (1893), Daniel J. Boorstin (1914), John Ridley (1964)
  2. Wallace Stevens (1879), Graham Greene (1904)
  3. Alain-Fournier (1886), Louis Aragon (1897), Thomas Wolfe (1900), James Herriot (1916), Gore Vidal (1925)
  4. Damon Runyon (1880), Jackie Collins (1937), Anne Rice (1941), Luis Sepúlveda (1949), Tochi Onyebuchi (1987)
  5. Denis Diderot (1713), Gene Zion (1913), Frederic Morton (1924), Louise Fitzhugh (1928), Marie-Claire Blais (1939), Clive Barker (1952), Bart D. Ehrman (1955), David Shannon (1959), Oliver Jeffers (1977)
  6. Caroline Gordon (1895), Elizabeth Gray Vining (1902), Mel Robbins (1968)
  7. James Whitcomb Riley (1849), Alice Dalgliesh (1893), Helen MacInnes (1907), Thomas Keneally (1935), Clive James (1939), Anita Shreve (1946), Steven Erikson (1959), Sherman Alexie (1966), Drew Magary (1976)
  8. John Cowper Powys (1872), Frank Herbert (1920), Faith Ringgold (1930), R.L. Stine (1943), Kerstin Gier (1966), Matt Farley ()
  9. Ivo Andrić (1892), Tadeusz Różewicz (1921), Jill Ker Conway (1934), Ciaran Carson (1948), Katherine Applegate (1956), Guillermo del Toro (1964)
  10. Aleksis Kivi (1834), Shivaram Karanth (1902), Claude Simon (1913), Harold Pinter (1930), Nora Roberts (1950)
  11. Steen Steensen Blicher (1782), François Mauriac (1885), Elmore Leonard (1925), Russell Freedman (1929), Louise Rennison (1951)
  12. George Washington Cable (1844), Ann Petry (1908), Alice Childress (1916), Robert Coles (1929), Andrew Crumey (1961), Julie Kagawa (1982)
  13. Conrad Richter (1890), Arna Bontemps (1902)
  14. Katherine Mansfield (1888), Lois Lenski (1893), e e cummings (1894), Dino Buzzati (1906), Hannah Arendt (1906)
  15. Virgil (70 BCE), Mikhail Lermontov (1814), Helen Hunt Jackson (1830), Friedrich Nietzsche (1844), P.G. Wodehouse (1881), Mario Puzo (1920), Italo Calvino (1923), Evan Hunter (1926), Blake Crouch (1978)
  16. Oscar Wilde (1854), Eugene O’Neill (1888), Günter Grass (1927), Joseph Bruchac (1942)
  17. Jupiter Hammon (1711), Nathanael West (1903), Arthur Miller (1915), Alan Garner (1934), Robert Jordan (1948), Patrick Ness (1971)
  18. Heinrich von Kleist (1777), Thomas Love Peacock (1785), Fannie Hurst (1889), H.L. Davis (1894), Katherine Kurtz (1944), Ntozake Shange (1948), Terry McMillan (1951), Amish Tripathi (1974)
  19. Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899), John le Carré (1931), L.E. Modesitt Jr. (1943), Philip Pullman (1946), Jennifer Lynn Barnes (1984)
  20. Daniel Owen (1836), Arthur Rimbaud (1854), Nikki Grimes (1950), Ryan North (1980)
  21. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772), Ursula K. Le Guin (1929), David Treuer (1970)
  22. Ivan Bunin (1870), Doris May Lessing (1919), Gerald Vizenor (1934)
  23. Michael Crichton (1942), Laurie Halse Anderson (1961), Gordon Korman (1963), Alex Flinn (1966), Kasie West (1976)
  24. Elaine Feinstein (1930), Stephen Covey (1932), Paula Gunn Allen (1939)
  25. Benjamin Constant (1767), Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800), Eduardo Barrios (1884), Harold Brodkey (1930), Anne Tyler (1941)
  26. John Arden (1930), Pat Conroy (1945), Robb Forman Dew (1946), Andrew Motion (1952), Jim Butcher (1971), Marisha Pessl (1977)
  27. Enid Bagnold (1889), Sylvia Plath (1932), Jonathan Stroud (1970)
  28. Evelyn Waugh (1903), Ayi Kwei Armah (1939), Ayad Akhtar (1970)
  29. Jean Giraudoux (1882), Henry Green (1905), Lee Child (1954), Ann-Marie MacDonald (1958)
  30. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751), Paul Valéry (1871), Ezra Pound (1885), Larry Woiwode (1941), Elaine M. Alphin (1955)
  31. John Evelyn (1620), John Keats (1795), Dick Francis (1920), Katherine Paterson (1932)

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