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WHO ARE THE GREATEST AUTHORS OF ALL TIME?


[+] ballot by FiddleFaddleOnLSD
created Thu Oct 13, 05
Who do you think are the greatest authors of all time? Who has had the biggest impact on the world, who is your favorite.

Please list those people who you think are the greatest authors of all time.

William Shakespeare 77
Fyodor Dostoevsky 43
Charles Dickens 27
George Orwell 25
J.R.R.Tolkien 24
Stephen King 24
Leo Tolstoy 16
Ernest Hemingway 16
James Joyce 15
Kurt Vonnegut 15
J.K. Rowling 12
Jane Austen 10
Mark Twain 10
F. Scott Fitzgerald 10
Homer (Odyssey) 9
Edgar Allen Poe 9
Jack Kerouac 9
C.S. Lewis 9
William Faulkner 9
Hunter S. Thompson 8
DANTE Alighieri 8
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 8
Albert Camus 7
H.G. Wells 7
Dr. Seuss 7
Oscar Wilde 6
Zane Grey 6
Agatha Christie 5
Jules Verne 5
Ray Bradbury 5
Arthur Conan Doyle 4
Aldous Huxley 4
Jack London 4
Joseph Conrad 4
Graham Greene 4
James Baldwin 3
Truman Capote 3
William James 3
J. K. Rowling 3
Roger Zelazny 3
Charlotte Bronte 3
Anton Chekhov 3
William Burroughs 2
Edmund White 2
Isaac Asimov 2
Joseph Heller 2
Judy Blume 2
Salman Rushdie 2
J.D. Salinger 2
Henry Miller 2
Premchand (INDIA) 2
Max Lucado 2
Proust 2
Bryce Courtney 2
Jonathon Swift 1
Harper Lee 1
Christopher Isherwood 1
Virginia Woolf 1
john steinbeck 1
alex haley 1
Evelyn Waugh 1
machado de assis 1
homer 1
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1
Goethe 1
J.G. Ballard 0
Arthur C. Clarke 0
William Gibson 0
E.M. Forster 0
T.H. White 0
H.P. Lovecraft 0
robert penn warren 0
Edgar Rice Burroughs 0
W.Somerset Maugham 0
Douglas Adams 0
chuck palahniuk 0
Wallace Stegner 0
Paulo coelho 0
PG Wodehouse 0
Harlan Ellison 0
Michael Crichton 0
Gabriel Garcia Marquez 0

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COMMENTS:
Sorry about dumbing this list down a bit, but I had to lighten the load a bit.

by ceejjj on Fri Oct 14, 05 7:27am [+]

My choice is doubled on here because I didn't see it come up and chose it again.
by ceejjj on Fri Oct 14, 05 9:43am [+]

All Suckers... Imagine not considering J.R.R.Tolkien.
by xxxxxxxx on Fri Oct 14, 05 11:07am [+]

Tolkien is a great choice too.
by ceejjj on Fri Oct 14, 05 3:04pm [+]

Most of these choices adorn the books on the shelves we place in our homes to demonstrate that we are well read.

If you want to know what sort of books a person really likes, reach under his pillow.
by xxxxxxxx on Sat Oct 15, 05 4:07am [+]

Voted : Fyodor Dostoevsky
No other fiction author comes even close.....
by Guest User from [202.56.234.54] on Fri Dec 22, 06 11:52pm [+]

Voted : Fyodor Dostoevsky
There are alot of great writers on this list, and it is impossible to objectively state who the best wrtier of all time is. So i chose Fyodor Dostoyevsky, becuase he certainly is one of the greatest.
by Guest User from [24.215.71.118] on Tue Sep 25, 07 7:07pm [+]

Voted : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
How could you forget Goethe in this list. The man who influenced everything and everyone in the centuries after him.
by Guest User from [87.176.84.83] on Mon May 05, 08 4:11pm [+]

Voted : Charles Dickens
I think his character development and portrayal is amazing, as is his conviction against deceipt, treachery, corruption and all forms of cruelty. Also, his sympathy to the down-trodden brings life to his books. Plus, the plots are intricate and full of adventure, and he was not limited by his scope of expertise.
by Guest User from [205.237.170.176] on Sat May 24, 08 8:17am [+]

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