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Have You Read Jim's Favorite Authors?

Novelists, poets, historians, scientists, playwrights, and humorists ; here are 100 of a retired English teacher's favorite writers. Some are literary giants, some are popular genre writers, some are engaging polymaths, and some are obscure figures known to but a few. All are, in this compiler's opinion, worth reading.
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A. A. Milne
A. A. Milne
1
Aeschylus
Aeschylus
2
Alan Furst
Alan Furst
3
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
4
Alistair MacLean
Alistair MacLean
5
Anne Sexton
Anne Sexton
6
Aristophanes
Aristophanes
7
Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle
8
Athol Fugard
Athol Fugard
9
August Wilson
August Wilson
10
Barbara W. Tuchman
Barbara W. Tuchman
11
Ben Jonson
Ben Jonson
12
Bill Bryson
Bill Bryson
13
Bram Stoker
Bram Stoker
14
Carlo Goldoni
Carlo Goldoni
15
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
16
Christopher Marlowe
Christopher Marlowe
17
Christopher Moore
Christopher Moore
18
Connie Willis
Connie Willis
19
Cornell Woolrich
Cornell Woolrich
20
Dan Simmons
Dan Simmons
21
Dashiell Hammett
Dashiell Hammett
22
Dava Sobel
Dava Sobel
23
David Storey
David Storey
24
Dorothy B. Hughes
Dorothy B. Hughes
25
Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker
26
Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams
27
E. L. Doctorow
E. L. Doctorow
28
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
29
Emily St. John Mandel
Emily St. John Mandel
30
Eric Ambler
Eric Ambler
31
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
32
Eugene Ionesco
Eugene Ionesco
33
Eugene O'Neill
Eugene O'Neill
34
Euripides
Euripides
35
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
36
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky
37
Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer
38
Georg Büchner
Georg Büchner
39
George Orwell
George Orwell
40
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