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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
1
Bret Easton Ellis
Bret Easton Ellis
2
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood
3
Richard Yates
Richard Yates
4
F Scott Fitzgerald
F Scott Fitzgerald
5
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
6
Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter S. Thompson
7
Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac
8
Philip K. Dick
Philip K. Dick
9
J.G. Ballard
J.G. Ballard
10
Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess
11
Erica Jong
Erica Jong
12
Iain Banks
Iain Banks
13
Irvine Welsh
Irvine Welsh
14
Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami
15
Tom Wolfe
Tom Wolfe
16
Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut
17
Truman Capote
Truman Capote
18
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
19
JD Salinger
JD Salinger
20
Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley
21
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison
22
Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
23
Ken Kesey
Ken Kesey
24
Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl
25
Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams
26
Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg
27
William S. Burroughs
William S. Burroughs
28
Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy
29
Stephen King
Stephen King
30
Joseph Heller
Joseph Heller
31
Douglas Coupland
Douglas Coupland
32
Martin Amis
Martin Amis
33
John Le Carré
John Le Carré
34
Ian Fleming
Ian Fleming
35
Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski
36
George Orwell
George Orwell
37
Graham Greene
Graham Greene
38
James Ellroy
James Ellroy
39
John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck
40
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