NOVELISTS

African-novelist
1. Mary Renault
author
1. Francois LaRochefoucauld
2. F Scott Fitzgerald
3. Anatole France
4. Henry James, Jr
5. Marcel Proust
6. Dorothy L Sayers
7. Charles Simmons
8. Pearl Buck
9. Elizabeth Bowen
10. Annie Dillard
11. Katherine Mansfield
12. Anais Nin
13. Ayn Rand
14. Gertrude Stein
15. George Sand
16. Flannery O'Connor
17. Iris Murdoch
18. Colette
19. Natalia Ginzburg
20. Ellen Glasgow
21. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
22. Harriet Beecher Stowe
23. Alice Walker
24. Jessamyn West
25. Lewis Carroll
26. Max Eastman
27. Jerome K Jerome
28. Sarah Orne Jewett
29. Maxine Hong Kingston
30. William McFee
31. Ralph Ellison
32. Ernest J Gaines
33. Ishmael Reed
34. Anthony Trollope
35. Mary Wortley Montagu
36. Alvin Toffler
37. Carolyn Wells
38. Osbert Sitwell
39. Mickey Spillane
40. Robert Fulghum
41. Robert Stone
42. Homer
43. Honore de Balzac
44. Charles Buxton
45. Louis L'Amour
46. Samuel Smiles
47. Ariel Durant
48. Natalie Clifford Barney
49. Lydia M Child
50. Eudora Welty
51. Elias Canetti
52. Ian Fleming
53. Beatrix Potter
54. Aesop
55. Sholom Aleichem
56. Margot Asquith
57. Fawn M Brodie
58. Kenneth Grahame
59. Daniel Defoe
60. Francois Rabelais
61. Robertson Davies
62. R S Surtees
author-dramatist
1. Agatha Christie
2. John Galsworthy
3. Richard Hughes
author-editor
1. E L Doctorow
author-illustrator
1. Dr Seuss
author-journalist
1. Emile Zola
author-physician
1. Arthur Conan Doyle
author-poet
1. Erica Jong
2. Jean Toomer
3. Franz Kafka
4. Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco
author-poet-dramatist
1. George Moore
author-screenwriter
1. Nora Ephron
children-s-author
1. E L Konigsburg
2. Maria Edgeworth
3. Rachel Field
4. Mary Martha Sherwood
children-s-writer
1. Katherine Paterson
children-s-writer-illustrator
1. Kate Seredy
clergyman-writer
1. Charles Kingsley
comic-novelist-historian
1. Tom Sharpe
detective-story-writer
1. Margery Allingham
dramatist-author
1. Jean Genet
2. Max Frisch
dramatist-novelist
1. J P Donleavy
editor-novelist-humorist-essayist
1. Edgar Watson Howe
essayist-novelist-journalist-poet
1. G K Chesterton
fiction-writer-cultural-commentator
1. Douglas Coupland
humorist
1. Artemus Ward
2. Stephen Potter
3. S J Perelman
4. Channing Pollock
humorist-children-s-author
1. A A Milne
humorist-essayist-novelist
1. E B White
humorist-playwright
1. George Ade
humorous-writer
1. Ernest Bramah
journalist-novelist
1. Edmund Clerihew Bentley
journalist-novelist-short-story-writer
1. Ernest Hemingway
journalist-short-story-writer-novelist
1. Italo Calvino
Latin-writer
1. Publilius Syrus
lecturer-author
1. Frederick Douglass
mystery-novelist
1. P D James
2. Dorothy Gilman
novelist
1. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
2. William Faulkner
3. E M Forster
4. William Golding
5. Madeleine L'Engle
6. Herman Melville
7. Jack London
8. Jean Paul Richter
9. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
10. Louisa May Alcott
11. Margaret Halsey
12. Mary Webb
13. Arnold Bennett
14. James Fenimore Cooper
15. Gustave Flaubert
16. Joseph Heller
17. Hermann Hesse
18. George Eliot
19. Harper Lee
20. Thomas Mann
21. James Michener
22. Henry Miller
23. Stendhal
24. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
25. Upton Sinclair
26. Sholem Asch
27. Frank Norris
28. Henry Fielding
29. Thomas Wolfe
30. George MacDonald
31. Laurence Sterne
32. William Makepeace Thackeray
33. Jane Austen
34. Edna Ferber
35. Douglas Adams
36. Peter Abrahams
37. Chinua Achebe
38. Elie Wiesel
39. Nelson Algren
40. James Allen
41. Vicki Baum
42. Knut Hamsun
43. Joyce Cary
44. Leo Rosten
45. Margaret Mitchell
46. Lisa Alther
47. Emily Bronte
48. Ivy Compton-Burnett
49. Dinah Mulock Craik
50. Nadine Gordimer
51. Toni Morrison
52. Kathleen Norris
53. Tillie Olsen
54. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
55. Jean Rhys
56. Alexandra Ripley
57. Anna Sewell
58. Amy Tan
59. Fay Weldon
60. Anzia Yezierska
61. Daphne DuMaurier
62. Malcolm Bradbury
63. Faith Baldwin
64. Vance Palmer
65. Mary Stewart
66. Paul Theroux
67. John LeCarre
68. Shirley Jackson
69. Judith Guest
70. Tama Janowitz
71. Judith Krantz
72. Dorothy Miller Richardson
73. Susan Warner
74. Anne Rice
75. Eleanor H Porter
76. Grace Metalious
77. Barbara Cartland
78. Daisy Ashford
79. Louis Auchincloss
80. J G Ballard
81. John Barth
82. Augusto Roa Bastos
83. John Steinbeck
84. Salman Rushdie
85. Herman Wouk
86. Charles Reade
87. Nancy Mitford
88. Anthony Powell
89. Michael Crichton
90. Taylor Caldwell
91. Naomi Mitchison
92. Wilkie Collins
93. Betty Smith
94. Johanna Spyri
95. Judith Rossner
96. Marion Zimmer Bradley
97. Jean Ingelow
98. Evelyn Waugh
99. Francoise Sagan
100. Emmuska Orczy
101. Shirley Hazzard
102. Barbara Kingsolver
103. Mario Puzo
104. Nella Larsen
105. Tom Clancy
106. William Styron
107. Charles Morgan
108. Wilfrid Sheed
109. Don Delillo
110. Norman Douglas
111. Lawrence Durrell
112. Alan Paton
113. Harry Crews
114. Brian Moore
115. William Gilmore Simms
116. Ken Kesey
117. Mordecai Richler
118. Patrick White
119. Ronald Firbank
120. Rumer Godden
121. Sloan Wilson
122. John Fowles
123. Umberto Eco
124. Marquis de Sade
125. Graham Henry Greene
126. Angus Wilson
127. Martin Amis
128. Clive Barker
129. Robert Ludlum
130. Margaret Truman
131. Lawana Blackwell
132. Lois McMaster Bujold
novelist-art-historian-public-official
1. Andre Malraux
novelist-author
1. Saul Bellow
2. Richard Bach
novelist-aviator
1. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
novelist-banker
1. Edward Westcott
novelist-critic
1. Aldous Huxley
2. Mary McCarthy
3. Margaret Drabble
4. Jane Rule
5. George Orwell
6. Guillaume Apollinaire
7. Edward Dahlberg
novelist-critic-actor
1. Alexander Woollcott
novelist-critic-dramatist
1. Hugh Walpole
novelist-critic-man-of-letters
1. Anthony Burgess
novelist-critic-public-speaker-essayist-and-columnist
1. Orson Scott Card
novelist-dramatist
1. Charles Dickens
2. Alexandre Dumas, p?re
3. Erich Segal
4. Booth Tarkington
novelist-dramatist-critic
1. Gore Vidal
novelist-editor
1. Theodore Dreiser
2. Peter De Vries
novelist-educator
1. Lillian Smith
2. Gloria Naylor
novelist-essayist
1. Andre Gide
2. Arthur Koestler
3. Marguerite Yourcenar
novelist-essayist-nature-writer
1. Edward Hoagland
novelist-essayist-poet-playwright
1. Francois Mauriac
novelist-feminist
1. Olive Schreiner
novelist-historian
1. Sir Walter Besant
novelist-humorist
1. P G Wodehouse
2. Jean Paul
novelist-humorist-cartoonist
1. James Thurber
novelist-journalist
1. Christopher Morley
2. Alex Haley
3. V S Naipaul
4. Gay Talese
novelist-journalist-critic
1. Alan Brien
novelist-journalist-river-pilot
1. Mark Twain
novelist-lawyer
1. Charles W Chesnutt
2. John Oliver Killens
novelist-letter-writer
1. Horace Walpole
novelist-mystic-dramatist-essayist
1. Romain Rolland
novelist-pacifist
1. Edna O'Brien
novelist-philosopher
1. Leo Tolstoy
novelist-philosopher-literary-critic
1. William H Gass
novelist-physician
1. Rudolph Fisher
novelist-playwright
1. Sinclair Lewis
2. Enid Bagnold
3. Rose Tremain
4. Mary Roberts Rinehart
5. Marguerite Duras
6. Anthony Hope
novelist-playwright-barrister
1. John Mortimer
novelist-playwright-critic-diplomat
1. Carlos Fuentes
novelist-playwright-dramatist
1. Eden Phillpotts
novelist-playwright-poet
1. Milan Kundera
novelist-playwright-screenwriter
1. Ben Hecht
novelist-poet
1. Thomas Hardy
2. Margaret Atwood
3. Sylvia Plath
4. Judith Viorst
5. James Agee
6. Anne Bronte
7. George Meredith
8. Jack Kerouac
9. John Sterling
10. Thomas Love Peacock
11. Robert Nathan
12. Boris Pasternak
novelist-poet-critic-teacher
1. Kingsley Amis
2. Robert Penn Warren
novelist-poet-educator
1. Joyce Carol Oates
novelist-poet-essayist
1. Helen Hunt Jackson
novelist-poet-historian-biographer
1. Sir Walter Scott
novelist-poet-illustrator-dramatist
1. Djuna Barnes
novelist-poet-playwright
1. James Joyce
novelist-poet-short-story-writer
1. Stephen Crane
novelist-poet-writer
1. Robert Graves
novelist-polemical-writer
1. Georges Bernanos
novelist-satirist
1. Muriel Spark
novelist-scholar
1. J R R Tolkien
novelist-scientist-government-official
1. C P Snow
novelist-screenwriter
1. Frederic Raphael
novelist-screenwriter-dramatist-author
1. Anita Loos
novelist-short-story-writer
1. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
novelist-short-story-writer
1. Edith Wharton
2. Willa Cather
3. Nathaniel Hawthorne
4. Isaac Singer
5. Truman Capote
6. Joseph Conrad
7. Ivan Turgenev
8. Elizabeth Gaskell
9. Richard Wright
10. Carson McCullers
11. Stephen King
12. Cynthia Ozick
13. Katherine Anne Porter
14. Anne Tyler