Who is the best English author?

So, in no particular order, here is our pick of the ten most famous English authors of all time:
  • Jane Austen 1775 – 1817.
  • William Blake 1757-1827.
  • Geoffrey Chaucer 1343-1400.
  • John Donne 1572-1631.
  • George Eliot 1819-1880.
  • John Milton 1608-1674.
  • George Orwell 1903-1950.
  • Harold Pinter 1930-2008.
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Who is World No 1 author?

James Patterson is the world's highest-paid author by a wide margin, and has been the world's best-selling author since 2001. He has sold more than 350 million books worldwide, and is most famous for the "Alex Cross" crime novel series.
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Who is most famous author?

The Top Ten Famous Authors
  1. William Shakespeare. Ah, The Bard. ...
  2. George Orwell. True, Orwell (whose real name was Eric Arthur Blair) isn't everyone's taste, especially those who do not share his views on totalitarianism. ...
  3. J.K. Rowling. Like her or not, Ms. ...
  4. Kurt Vonnegut. ...
  5. Virginia Woolf. ...
  6. Ernest Hemingway. ...
  7. William Faulkner. ...
  8. Ayn Rand.
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Who is the best author in the world?

TOP TEN AUTHORS BY NUMBER OF BOOKS SELECTED
  • William Shakespeare — 11.
  • William Faulkner — 6.
  • Henry James — 6.
  • Jane Austen — 5.
  • Charles Dickens — 5.
  • Fyodor Dostoevsky — 5.
  • Ernest Hemingway — 5.
  • Franz Kafka — 5.
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Who is the best author now?

The 10 best living American novelists
  • Jonathan Franzen. Getty Images. ...
  • Michael Chabon. Getty Images. ...
  • Bret Easton Ellis. Alamy. ...
  • George Saunders. Getty Images. ...
  • Rachel Kushner. Getty Images. ...
  • Anne Tyler. Getty Images. ...
  • Stephen King. Getty Images. ...
  • Percival Everett. Alamy.
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Top 10 Classic English Language Authors



Who is the most popular male author?

popularity is the % of people who have a positive opinion of a contemporary fiction writer. Find out more
  • 1 Stephen King62%
  • 2 Stan Lee54%
  • 3 J. K. Rowling54%
  • 4 John Grisham50%
  • 5 James Patterson44%
  • 6 Dean Koontz41%
  • 7 R. L. Stine40%
  • 8 Anne Rice39%
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Who is the father of English literature?

Geoffrey Chaucer (/ˈtʃɔːsər/; c. 1340s – 25 October 1400) was an English poet, author, and civil servant best known for The Canterbury Tales. He has been called the "father of English literature", or, alternatively, the "father of English poetry".
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Who are the top 5 authors of all time?

Top 10 Authors by Number of Books Selected
  • William Shakespeare – 11.
  • William Faulkner – 6.
  • Henry James – 6.
  • Jane Austen – 5.
  • Charles Dickens – 5.
  • Fyodor Dostoevsky – 5.
  • Ernest Hemingway – 5.
  • Franz Kafka – 5.
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Who is the best author 2020?

20 Amazing Authors and Their Books To Read in 2020
  • The Daughter's Tale. by Armando Lucas Correa. ...
  • Himself. by Jess Kidd. ...
  • Gorgeous Lies. by Martha McPhee. ...
  • All the Missing Girls. by Megan Miranda. ...
  • The Beautiful Bureaucrat. by Helen Phillips. ...
  • The Winemaker's Wife. by Kristin Harmel. ...
  • Love Story. by Karen Kingsbury. ...
  • The Dinner List.
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Who is the best writer in the world 2021?

Quick View of the Top 10 best authors in India 2021
  • Shashi Tharoor.
  • Aravind Adiga.
  • Kiran Desai.
  • Devdutt Pattanaik.
  • Amish Tripathi.
  • Chetan Bhagat.
  • Amrita Pritam.
  • Rabindranath Tagore.
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Who is the richest writer?

FAQs on Richest Writers

J.K. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter series, is the richest writer in the world with a net worth of $1 billion.
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Who is the most famous book?

10 Most Popular Books of All Time
  • Don Quixote. By Miguel de Cervantes. ...
  • Lord of the Rings. By J.R.R. Tolkien. ...
  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. By J.K. Rowling. ...
  • And Then There Were None. By Agatha Christie. ...
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. By Lewis Carroll. ...
  • The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. ...
  • Pinocchio. ...
  • Catcher in the Rye.
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Who is the richest female author?

Nora Roberts is the queen of romance novels, and the prolific author has an estimated net worth of $400 million. She began her career in the late 1970s, and has since written over 230 books.
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Who is the best author 2022?

Best authors of 2022 so far
  1. Honorée Fanonne Jeffers. (Image credit: Honoree Jeffers) ...
  2. Janice Hallett. (Image credit: Janice Hallett) ...
  3. Diane Chamberlain. (Image credit: John Pagliuca) ...
  4. Danya Kukafka. (Image credit: Danya Kukafka) ...
  5. Sarah Vaughan. (Image credit: Johnny Ring) ...
  6. Lucy Caldwell. ...
  7. Julie Owen Moylan. ...
  8. Lizzie Pook.
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Who is the most famous female author?

10 Famous Women Writers
  • Enheduanna—The Poetic Trailblazer. ...
  • Maya Angelou—The Outspoken Activist. ...
  • Beverly Cleary—The Patron Saint of Emotional Honesty. ...
  • Willa Cather—The Frontier Pioneer. ...
  • Sandra Cisneros—The Chicano Literature Champion. ...
  • Virginia Woolf—The Modernist Maverick. ...
  • Louisa May Alcott—The Abolitionist Author.
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What is the name of 10 famous book?

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
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Who is father of novel?

Sir Walter Scott called Henry Fielding the “father of the English novel,” and the phrase still indicates Fielding's place in the history of literature.
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Who is founder of English language?

English is a West Germanic language that originated from Anglo-Frisian languages brought to Britain in the mid 5th to 7th centuries AD by Anglo-Saxon migrants from what is now northwest Germany, southern Denmark and the Netherlands.
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What book shall I read?

30 Best Books to Read
  1. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee. ...
  2. 1984, by George Orwell. ...
  3. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, by J.K. Rowling. ...
  4. The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien. ...
  5. The Great Gatsby, by F. ...
  6. Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen. ...
  7. The Diary Of A Young Girl, by Anne Frank. ...
  8. The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak.
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Who wrote most books?

The most published works by one author is 1,084 by L. Ron Hubbard (USA) whose first work was published in February 1934 and the last in March 2006. Comments below may relate to previous holders of this record.
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Who is the best 21st century writer?

  1. J. K. Rowling. J. K. Rowling is the penname for Joanne Rowling, the British author who is responsible for the Harry Potter series of books. ...
  2. Zadie Smith. ...
  3. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. ...
  4. Cormac McCarthy. ...
  5. Elena Ferrante. ...
  6. George Saunders. ...
  7. Hilary Mantel. ...
  8. Ian McEwan.
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