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The Greatest Authors of All Time

A list of some of the greatest authors in history, ranging from fiction to non-fiction authors of a wide range of topics and genres.
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky
1
Karl Marx
Karl Marx
2
Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
3
Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
4
Rene Descartes
Rene Descartes
5
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud
6
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
7
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
8
Adam Smith
Adam Smith
9
Confucius
Confucius
10
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
11
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
12
Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov
13
Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust
14
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
15
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
16
Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley
17
Homer
Homer
18
Aristotle
Aristotle
19
Ludwig Wittenstein
Ludwig Wittenstein
20
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Ibsen
21
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
22
Baruch Spinoza
Baruch Spinoza
23
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
24
George Orwell
George Orwell
25
Plato
Plato
26
Sun Tzu
Sun Tzu
27
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
28
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
29
Honoré De Balzac
Honoré De Balzac
30
David Hume
David Hume
31
W.B.Yeats
W.B.Yeats
32
John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck
33
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
34
Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut
35
William Faulkner
William Faulkner
36
Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman
37
John Milton
John Milton
38
Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Gogol
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Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
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