Top 50 Authors of All Time
I of chorse created a list of my favorite authors some time ago using my regular method for such things. However, as you may remember if you read this blog religously (which you don't) that this is done by reverse weighting books with my favorite book of all time being worth 100 pounds my second favorite book of all time worth 99, etc. To this I also added points based on my top 50 short stories of all time.
Anywho I was thinking of re-calculating the list because I had added so many books to the book list. And today when I added the 7 Chronicles of Narnia books, all of which made the top 100, and an entire book of short stories by Ray Bradbury, 5 or 6 of which made the top 50, I decided to finally buckle down and redo the authors list.
Before I present the list I would like to give my usual qualifier that I do not consider these to be the greatest or most talented authors of all time, merely my favorites.
So anyway, here it is:
1. Richard Matheson 791
2. Stephen King 676
3. JK Rowling 510
4. CS Lewis 407
5. Frank Miller 392
6. Kurt Vonnegut 370
7. JRR Tokien 285
8. Forest Carter 243
9. Michael Creighton 231
10. Douglas Adams 214
11. Ray Bradbury 167
12. Allan Moore 138
13. Peter Tonkin 134
14. Anthony Burgess 93
15. Joseph Heller 86
16. Jonathan Caroll 78
17. Robert Heinlin 76
18. Michael SShaara 75
19. Ayn Rand 73
20. Hunter S Thompson 70
21. Nick Hornby 70
22. Fydor Dostoevsky 69
23. Sefen Festis 66
24. Grahm Greene 59
25. Franz Kafka 57
26. Bruce Campbell 54
27. EM Nathasan 45
28. Aldous Huxley 44
29. Stephen Bloom 40
30. Earnest Hemmingway 39
31. William Golding 38
32. David Wagner 37
33. Johnny Cash 36
34. JD Salinger 35
35. Mikhail Lermontov 33
36. Summerset Maugham 32
37. James Gurney 30
38. Tobias Wolff 29
39. Wildon Rawls 29
40. Jim O’ Beor 28
41. Crystal Zevon 28
42. Greta Klein 27
43. Daniel Evan Weiss 25
44. SE Hinton 24
45. Michael J Nelson 23
46. Nikoli Gogel 22
47. Jane Austen 22
48. Esme Codell 21
49. Ivan Turgenev 20
50. Paul Shirly 19
Anywho I was thinking of re-calculating the list because I had added so many books to the book list. And today when I added the 7 Chronicles of Narnia books, all of which made the top 100, and an entire book of short stories by Ray Bradbury, 5 or 6 of which made the top 50, I decided to finally buckle down and redo the authors list.
Before I present the list I would like to give my usual qualifier that I do not consider these to be the greatest or most talented authors of all time, merely my favorites.
So anyway, here it is:
1. Richard Matheson 791
2. Stephen King 676
3. JK Rowling 510
4. CS Lewis 407
5. Frank Miller 392
6. Kurt Vonnegut 370
7. JRR Tokien 285
8. Forest Carter 243
9. Michael Creighton 231
10. Douglas Adams 214
11. Ray Bradbury 167
12. Allan Moore 138
13. Peter Tonkin 134
14. Anthony Burgess 93
15. Joseph Heller 86
16. Jonathan Caroll 78
17. Robert Heinlin 76
18. Michael SShaara 75
19. Ayn Rand 73
20. Hunter S Thompson 70
21. Nick Hornby 70
22. Fydor Dostoevsky 69
23. Sefen Festis 66
24. Grahm Greene 59
25. Franz Kafka 57
26. Bruce Campbell 54
27. EM Nathasan 45
28. Aldous Huxley 44
29. Stephen Bloom 40
30. Earnest Hemmingway 39
31. William Golding 38
32. David Wagner 37
33. Johnny Cash 36
34. JD Salinger 35
35. Mikhail Lermontov 33
36. Summerset Maugham 32
37. James Gurney 30
38. Tobias Wolff 29
39. Wildon Rawls 29
40. Jim O’ Beor 28
41. Crystal Zevon 28
42. Greta Klein 27
43. Daniel Evan Weiss 25
44. SE Hinton 24
45. Michael J Nelson 23
46. Nikoli Gogel 22
47. Jane Austen 22
48. Esme Codell 21
49. Ivan Turgenev 20
50. Paul Shirly 19
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