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Top 50 Greatest Writers of All Time

A List About Greatest Writers Of All Time. Most Influential Authors And Playwrights. Most Popular Writers.
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
1
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky
2
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
3
Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
4
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
5
George Orwell
George Orwell
6
James Joyce
James Joyce
7
Miguel De Cervantes
Miguel De Cervantes
8
Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri
9
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
10
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
11
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
12
Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov
13
Jane Austen
Jane Austen
14
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
15
Jules Verne
Jules Verne
16
Herman Melville
Herman Melville
17
William Faulkner
William Faulkner
18
Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen
19
Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust
20
Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges
21
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
22
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
23
Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer
24
Gabriel Garcia Marqez
Gabriel Garcia Marqez
25
Virgil
Virgil
26
J. R. R. Tolkien
J. R. R. Tolkien
27
T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot
28
Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie
29
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
30
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
31
Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Pushkin
32
Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert
33
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
34
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Ibsen
35
Lord Byron
Lord Byron
36
Honoré De Balzac
Honoré De Balzac
37
Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Gogol
38
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett
39
Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht
40
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