1

Stephen King, 73

2

Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

3

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

4

Daniel Handler, 50

5

Anna Todd, 31

6

Ed Warren (1926-2006)

7

James Patterson, 73

8

Agatha Christie (1890-1976)

9

Harper Lee (1926-2016)

10

Jane Austen (1775-1817)

11

J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973)

12

R.J. Palacio, 57

13

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

14

Jose Rizal (1861-1896)

15

Tom Clancy (1947-2013)

16

George RR Martin, 72

17

Kate Cary, 53

18

Lauren Tarshis, 57

19

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

20

Herman Melville (1819-1891)

21

Jason Reynolds, 36

22

Laura Esquivel, 70

23

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

24

Mary Shelley (1797-1851)

25

Sarah Maas, 34

26

Justin Torres, 40

27

Nicholas Sparks, 54

28

Erlend Loe, 51

29

Joyce Meyer, 77

30

Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)

31

Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)

32

Neil Gaiman, 60

33

George Orwell (1903-1950)

34

Washington Irving (1783-1859)

35

Toni Morrison (1931-2019)

36

John Steinbeck (1902-1968)

37

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)

38

HG Wells (1866-1946)

39

Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934)

40

Ray Bradbury (1920-2012)

41

Cecelia Ahern, 39

42

Sara Shepard, 43

43

James Baldwin (1924-1987)

44

Sally Green, 59

45

Anthony Horowitz, 65

46

Mary Jane Holmes (1825-1907)

47

Kate Thompson, 61

48

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)