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100 Greatest Authors

A random list of 100 of the greatest ever authors (in no particular order).
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
1
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
2
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky
3
J.R.R. Tolkien
J.R.R. Tolkien
4
Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
5
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
6
Jane Austen
Jane Austen
7
George Orwell
George Orwell
8
John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck
9
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
10
James Joyce
James Joyce
11
C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis
12
Alexander Dumas
Alexander Dumas
13
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
14
F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald
15
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
16
Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut
17
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
18
J K Rowling
J K Rowling
19
William Faulkner
William Faulkner
20
Stephen King
Stephen King
21
Gabriel Garcia Marqez
Gabriel Garcia Marqez
22
J.D. Sallinger
J.D. Sallinger
23
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
24
Homer
Homer
25
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
26
Charlotte Brontë
Charlotte Brontë
27
Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie
28
Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand
29
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
30
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
31
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
32
Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams
33
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy
34
Herman Melville
Herman Melville
35
Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri
36
Harper Lee
Harper Lee
37
Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad
38
Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac
39
Emily Bronte
Emily Bronte
40
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