Authors Used In the Past

Literary Specialist Project: Authors Used in the Past

The following are arranged in no particular order:

1. Dashiell Hammett (American detective novelist)
2. Mark Twain (American 19th century novelist)
3. Louisa May Alcott (American 19th Century)
4. Edgar Allan Poe (American 19th Century)
5. Jack London (American 20th Century)
6. James Michener (American 20th Century)
7. F. Scott Fitzgerald (American 20th Century)
8. Ernest Hemingway (American 20th Century)
9. Edith Wharton (American 19th Century)
10. Jules Verne (French 19th Century)
11. Leo Tolstoy (Russian 19th Century)
12. H.G. Wells (English 19th Century)
13. Charles Dickens (English 19th Century)
14. George Eliot (English 19th Century)
15. Wilkie Collins (English 19th Century)
16. Agatha Christie (English 20th Century)
17. Dorothy Sayers (English 20th Century)
18. Colette (French 20th Century)
19. Albert Camus (French 20th Century)
20. Robert Louis Stevenson (English 19th Century)
21. William Shakespeare (English Renaissance)
22. Thomas Hardy (English 19th Century)
23. Fyodor Dostoevsky (Russian 19th Century)
24. Beatrix Potter (English 19th Century)
25. James Barrie (English 20th Century)
26. Daphne DuMaurier (English 20th Century)
27. Stephen King (American 20th Century)
28. Victor Hugo (French 19th Century)
29. Gertrude Stein (American 20th Century)
30. Rudyard Kipling (English 19th Century)
31. Sir Thomas Malory (English Renaissance)
32. Anton Chekhov (Russian 20th Century)
33. Henrik Ibsen (Swedish 19th Century)
34. Eugene O’Neill (American 20th Century)
35. Tennessee Williams (American 20th Century)
36. Arthur Miller (American 20th Century)
37. Raymond Chandler (American 20th Century)
38. Herman Melville (American 19th Century)
39. Hermann Hesse (German 20th Century)
40. Honore de Balzac (French 19th Century)
41. Robert Heinlein (American 20th Century)
42. Isaac Asimov (American 20th Century)
43. J.R.R. Tolkien (English 20th Century)
44. C.S. Lewis (English 20th Century)
45. W. Somerset Maugham (English 20th Century)
46. Willa Cather (American 20th Century)
47. H.P. Lovecraft (American 19th Century)
48. Guy de Maupassant (French 19th Century)
49. Lewis Carroll (English 19th Century)
50. George MacDonald (English 19th Century)
51. Stephen Crane (American 19th Century)
52. Theodore Dreiser (American 20th Century)
53. Sinclair Lewis (American 20th Century)
54. Thomas Wolfe (American 20th Century)
55. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (English 19th Century)
56. Oscar Wilde (English 19th Century)
57. George Bernard Shaw (English 20th Century)
58. Gustave Flaubert (French 19th Century)
59. Carson McCullers (American 20th Century)
60. Harper Lee (American 20th Century)
61. John Steinbeck (American 20th Century)
62. Aldous Huxley (British 20th Century)
63. Alexandre Dumas (French 19th Century)
64. Amy Tan (American 20th Century)
65. Phillip Pullman (British 20th Century)
66. Franz Kafka (German 19th/20th Century)
67. Madeleine L'Engle (American 20th Century)
68. Tom Clancy (American 20th Century)
69. Daniel Defoe (British 18th Century)
70. Pearl S. Buck (American 20th Century)
71. Alice Walker (American 20th Century)
72. Toni Morrison (American 20th Century)
73. Richard Wright (American 20th Century)
74. Maya Angelou (American 20th Century)
75. James Baldwin (American 20th Century)
76. Jane Austen (British 19th Century)
77. Rudolfo Anaya (American 20th Century)
78. Isabel Allende (Chilean-American 20th Century)
79. Zora Neale Hurston (American 20th Century)
80. Boris Pasternak (Russian 20th Century)
81. Henrik Ibsen (Swedish 19th Century)
82. Alexander Pushkin (Russian 19th Century)
83. Tim O'Brien (American 20th Century)
84. Erich Maria Remarque (German 20th Century)
85. Antoine St. Exupery (French 20th Century)
86. Ursula LeGuin (American 20th Century)
87. Katherine Kurtz (American 20th Century)
88. Orson Scott Card (American 20th Century)
89. Ray Bradbury (American 20th Century)
90. Anne Rice (American 20th Century)
91. George Orwell (British 20th Century)
92. Nadine Gordimer (Africa 20th Century)
93. William Golding (British 20th Century)
94. O'Henry (American 19th Century)
95. L. Frank Baum (American 20th Century)
96. Stephen Crane (American 19th Century)
97. Irving Stone (American 20th Century)
98. Roald Dahl (British 20th Century)
99. William Faulkner (American 20th Century)
100. Flannery O'Connor (American 20th Century)
101. August Wilson (American 20th Century)
102. Thornton Wilder (American 20th Century)
103. Cormac McCarthy (American 20th Century)
104. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (American 20th C)
105. Neil Simon (American 20th Century)