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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Who is the most successful female authors of all time?

Here are 10 of the most mentioned authors, in no particular order, and what our readers had to say about them:
  1. Doris Lessing (1919 - 2013) ...
  2. Toni Morrison (born 1931) ...
  3. Ursula K Le Guin (born 1929) ...
  4. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) ...
  5. Clarice Lispector (1920 - 1977) ...
  6. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (born 1977) ...
  7. Margaret Atwood (born 1939)
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Who are some famous female writers?

15 Famous Female Writers in History
  • Jane Austen (1775 – 1817) ...
  • Mary Shelley (1797 – 1851) ...
  • Emily Brontë (1818 – 1848) ...
  • Charlotte Brontë (1816 – 1855) ...
  • Louisa May Alcott (1832 – 1888) ...
  • Gertrude Stein (1874 – 1946) ...
  • Virginia Woolf (1882 – 1941) ...
  • Agatha Christie (1890 – 1976)
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Who is the #1 best-selling 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 the biggest selling female author of all time?

Dame Agatha Christie currently holds the title of the world's best-selling novelist, according to Guiness World Records, as well as the most-translated author in history.
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Female Authors Who Made History | Biography



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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What is the hottest book right now?

The 23 most popular books right now, according to Goodreads members:
  • "The Midnight Library" by Matt Haig. ...
  • "The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue" by V.E. ...
  • "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo" by Taylor Jenkins Reid. ...
  • "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee. ...
  • "The Great Gatsby" by F. ...
  • "Where the Crawdads Sing" by Delia Owens.
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What is the most popular book right now?

The 10 Most Popular Books Right Now
  • It Starts with Us: A Novel. Paperback $13.99 $17.99. ...
  • It Ends with Us. Paperback $12.99 $16.99. ...
  • The Hotel Nantucket (Signed Book) ...
  • Book Lovers. ...
  • Her Majesty's Royal Coven. ...
  • The Summer I Turned Pretty (Summer I Turned Pretty Series #1) ...
  • The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present. ...
  • Love on the Brain.
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Who is the first female author?

Sappho. A archaic Greek poet from the 6th century BCE, Sappho is considered to be by many the first female writer. Not only is her work celebrated today, in antiquity she was a celebrated artist.
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Who is the oldest female author alive?

Louise Delany's second book, The Delany Sisters' Book of Everyday Wisdom, was published by Kodansha America in October 1994, when she was 105 years old. Her sister and co-author, A.
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What female author wrote the most books?

Barbara Cartland

Cartland holds the Guinness Book of World records for the most written novels in one year. She wrote roughly 23 novels each year and had a total of 723 published pieces.
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What is female author called?

An authoress is a female author. Most people object to this word, and prefer to be called authors.
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Who was the famous feminist author?

1. Mary Wollstonecraft: The first feminist writer.
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Who is the best romance author?

Top 10 Greatest Romance Authors of All Time
  • Jane Austen (1775-1817) ...
  • Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) ...
  • Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949) ...
  • Audrey Niffenegger (1963 – ) ...
  • Nicholas Sparks (1965 – ) ...
  • Nora Roberts (1950- ) ...
  • Jude Deveraux (1947 – ) ...
  • Julie Garwood (1944 – )
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Who is the best-selling author 2021?

2021 was a pretty good year for author Dav Pilkey. Not only is his children's book "Dog Man: Mothering Heights" USA TODAY's bestselling book of the year, but he also followed up the achievement with four more of his books landing in the Top 100 for 2021, more than any other author.
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What's a really good book to read?

Classic Novels to Read
  • 1984 by George Orwell. ...
  • The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien. ...
  • The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. ...
  • Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling. ...
  • Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut. ...
  • The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. ...
  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
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What should I read in 2021?

The Best Books to Read in 2021
  • Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters (January)
  • Nora by Nuala O'Connor (January)
  • Aftershocks by Nadia Owusu.
  • Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion (January)
  • Milk Fed by Melissa Broder (February)
  • My Year Abroad by Chang Rae Lee (February)
  • Gay Bar by Jeremy Atherton Lin (February)
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Who Wrote the Bible?

Even after nearly 2,000 years of its existence, and centuries of investigation by biblical scholars, we still don't know with certainty who wrote its various texts, when they were written or under what circumstances.
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What is the most read book?

The most read book in the world is the Bible. Writer James Chapman created a list of the most read books in the world based on the number of copies each book sold over the last 50 years. He found that the Bible far outsold any other book, with a whopping 3.9 billion copies sold over the last 50 years.
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Who is the best author alive?

The 10 best living American novelists
  1. Alice Walker. Getty Images. ...
  2. Marilynne Robinson. ...
  3. Jonathan Franzen. ...
  4. Michael Chabon. ...
  5. Bret Easton Ellis. ...
  6. George Saunders. ...
  7. Rachel Kushner. ...
  8. Anne Tyler.
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What is the #1 best-selling book of all time?

According to Guinness World Records as of 1995, the Bible is the best-selling book of all time with an estimated 5 billion copies sold and distributed.
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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 richest author?

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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