1 - 100 of239 famous, important and notable authors ranked by their popularity onOn This Day.
1. Giacomo Casanova
2. Spike Milligan
3. Helen Keller
4. Zitkála-Šá
5. Mary Wollstonecraft
6. Mario Vargas Llosa
7. Gabriel García Márquez
8. Selma Lagerlöf
9. Roger Hargreaves
10. Sylvia Plath
11. Samuel Pepys
12. Graham Greene
13. Dodie Smith
14. Marquis de Sade
15. Stephenie Meyer
16. Pattie Boyd
17. Hunter S. Thompson
18. Pauline Johnson
19. Charles Perrault
20. Jack Kirby
21. Douglas Adams
22. Brandon Sanderson
23. T. E. Lawrence
24. Miguel de Cervantes
25. Arthur C. Clarke
26. Shirley Jackson
27. Niccolò Machiavelli
28. Ken Follett
29. Harper Lee
30. Jordan Peterson
31. Johanna Spyri
32. Enid Blyton
33. Gertrude Bell
34. Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont
35. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
36. Joseph Priestley
37. Anne Frank
38. Mary Shelley
39. Frederick Law Olmsted
40. Ariel Durant
41. Joy Adamson
42. J. J. Abrams
43. Margaret Atwood
44. A. A. Milne
45. Doris Kearns Goodwin
46. Richard Steele
47. Ray Kurzweil
48. Anne Rice
49. Isabel Allende
50. Edgar Allan Poe
51. Ira Levin
52. Tom Brokaw
53. Elie Wiesel
54. N. K. Jemisin
55. Anne McCaffrey
56. H. G. Wells
57. Wilhelm Grimm
58. John Grisham
59. Penn Jillette
60. John Steinbeck
61. Roald Dahl
62. Susan Sontag
63. Larry David
64. Thomas Paine
65. Bob Woodward
66. Tove Jansson
67. Mark Twain
68. R. L. Stine
69. Carl Sagan
70. Stephen King
71. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
72. Lewis Carroll
73. T. S. Eliot
74. Aldous Huxley
75. Jacob Grimm
76. Margaret Mitchell
77. P. L. Travers
78. James Weldon Johnson
79. Dr. Seuss
80. Arthur Conan Doyle
81. Anton Chekhov
82. Noam Chomsky
83. Dorothy Parker
84. J. R. R. Tolkien
85. Arianna Huffington
86. Seth Rogen
87. C. S. Lewis
88. Jill Soloway
89. Astrid Lindgren
90. Harriet Beecher Stowe
91. Guy de Maupassant
92. Ina Garten
93. René Goscinny
94. George Childress
95. John Mulaney
96. Ambrose Bierce
97. James Patterson
98. Dan Brown
99. Virginia Woolf
100. E. B. White