Stephen King, 77
Novelist
1
Ed Warren (1926-2006)
2
Franz Kafka (1883-1924)
3
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
4
Jose Rizal (1861-1896)
5
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
6
Daniel Handler, 55
7
Barry Hannah (1942-2010)
8
Thomas Sowell, 94
9
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)
10
Haruki Murakami, 76
11
J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973)
12
George RR Martin, 76
13
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
14
Tom Clancy (1947-2013)
15
William Hanson, 35
16
James Patterson, 78
17
George Orwell (1903-1950)
18
Harper Lee (1926-2016)
19
Herman Melville (1819-1891)
20
Frank Norris (1870-1902)
21
Neil Gaiman, 64
22
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
23
William Kennedy, 97
24
Female Novelists
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Herman Wouk (1915-2019)
25
William Golding (1911-1993)
26
Ben Ames Williams (1889-1953)
27
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
28
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
29
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
30
Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852)
31
Stuart Gibbs, 56
32
Nicholas Sparks, 59
33
Jason Reynolds, 41
34
James Baldwin (1924-1987)
35
John Steinbeck (1902-1968)
36
Ian Fleming (1908-1964)
37
Ray Bradbury (1920-2012)
38
James Norman Hall (1887-1951)
39
HP Lovecraft (1890-1937)
40
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
41
Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
42
Bram Stoker (1847-1912)
43
Edmund White (1940-2025)
44
Wilbert Awdry (1911-1997)
45
Malcolm Gladwell, 61
46
Albert Camus (1913-1960)
47
Truman Capote (1924-1984)
48
