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ShortList's 50 Coolest Authors

Everyone's got a book in them, right? Problem is, it's likely to be an absolute turkey.
Face facts, writing a runaway literary hit is incredibly hard, and doing it with aching volumes of cool (which is how we'd all want to do it, given the chance) is nigh on impossible. These 50 managed it. Talented swines...
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Chuck Palahniuk
Chuck Palahniuk
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Bret Easton Ellis
Bret Easton Ellis
3
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood
4
Richard Yates
Richard Yates
5
F Scott Fitzgerald
F Scott Fitzgerald
6
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
7
Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter S. Thompson
8
Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac
9
Philip K. Dick
Philip K. Dick
10
J.G. Ballard
J.G. Ballard
11
Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess
12
Erica Jong
Erica Jong
13
Iain Banks
Iain Banks
14
Irvine Welsh
Irvine Welsh
15
Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami
16
Tom Wolfe
Tom Wolfe
17
Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut
18
Truman Capote
Truman Capote
19
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
20
JD Salinger
JD Salinger
21
Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley
22
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison
23
Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
24
Ken Kesey
Ken Kesey
25
Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl
26
Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams
27
Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg
28
William S. Burroughs
William S. Burroughs
29
Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy
30
Stephen King
Stephen King
31
Joseph Heller
Joseph Heller
32
Douglas Coupland
Douglas Coupland
33
Martin Amis
Martin Amis
34
John Le Carré
John Le Carré
35
Ian Fleming
Ian Fleming
36
Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski
37
George Orwell
George Orwell
38
Graham Greene
Graham Greene
39
James Ellroy
James Ellroy
40
John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck
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