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Top 101 Writers of All Time

The list in the source is a meta-list compiled out of various lists that are based on the factors critical assessments of the writer's work, readers' assessments, and readers' voting by virtue of purchasing the writers' work. Longevity was also taken into account, so if an author is well known and read 300 years after his/her lifetime, it counts more than if he/she has been read much during a short period of time.
Plays and poetry were weighed less in the list than novels, which is the reason why Shakespeare isn't No. 1.
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James Joyce
James Joyce
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William Faulkner
William Faulkner
3
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
4
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
5
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
6
Henry James
Henry James
7
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
8
George Orwell
George Orwell
9
John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck
10
F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald
11
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
12
Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad
13
Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
14
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky
15
Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust
16
William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats
17
Miguel De Cervantes
Miguel De Cervantes
18
William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth
19
Herman Melville
Herman Melville
20
William Blake
William Blake
21
Ralph Ellison
Ralph Ellison
22
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
23
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
24
Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman
25
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
26
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison
27
John Keats
John Keats
28
Joseph Heller
Joseph Heller
29
Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut
30
E.M. Forster
E.M. Forster
31
Willa Cather
Willa Cather
32
Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
33
Homer
Homer
34
John Milton
John Milton
35
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
36
Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri
37
Jane Austen
Jane Austen
38
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
39
Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert
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Stendhal
Stendhal
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