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Top 101 Writers of All Time - Page 2

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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Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
41
J.D. Sallinger
J.D. Sallinger
42
Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser
43
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett
44
Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac
45
Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton
46
George Eliot
George Eliot
47
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
48
Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Waugh
49
Laurence Sterne
Laurence Sterne
50
John Donne
John Donne
51
Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer
52
J.R.R. Tolkien
J.R.R. Tolkien
53
Emily Bronte
Emily Bronte
54
Murasaki Shikibu
Murasaki Shikibu
55
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
56
Charlotte Bronte
Charlotte Bronte
57
William Golding
William Golding
58
Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov
59
Malcolm Lowry
Malcolm Lowry
60
Richard Wright
Richard Wright
61
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
62
Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann
63
Euripides
Euripides
64
Virgil
Virgil
65
Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda
66
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
67
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy
68
Gabriel Garcia Marqez
Gabriel Garcia Marqez
69
Henry Miller
Henry Miller
70
Robert Musil
Robert Musil
71
Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Pynchon
72
William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams
73
Ovid
Ovid
74
Harper Lee
Harper Lee
75
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
76
Jack London
Jack London
77
Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow
78
Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor
79
Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand
80
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