Lit Net Top Author?

You can still vote.

There seems to be some confusion about whether the voting is closed or not - but here is goes anyway.

1) Jack London
2) John Steinbeck
3) Herman Hesse
4) Charles Dickens
5) Saul Bellow

Fictions and classics are dominating the vote.

-Thomas Hardy
- C.S. Lewis
- Umberto Eco
- Oscar Wilde
- Thorton Wilder

My nominations is now closed!

C.S. Lewis or G.K. Chesterton. Both are incredible--I can't believe how many genres they excelled in.

I'll vote for Faulkner

I can't go past Henrik Ibsen and, at the risk of seeming parochial, Patrick White. Followed by Dostoevsky, Emily Bronte and Shakespeare.

Camus
Dostoevsky
Tolstoy
Nabokov
Gogol

1. Dostoevksy
2. Turgenev
3. Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
4. Kurt Vonnegut
5. J.D Salinger (So what if he hardly published anything.)

Virginia Woolf
Thomas Hardy
Elizabeth Gaskell
George Orwell
James Joyce

Cliche I know, but I guess you could say that the bigger writers are the most effective and influential ones and thus the better ones?

I will nominate the authors whose works I can read without any complaint:

Shaw
Faulkner
Steinbeck
Wilde

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Originally Posted by Scheherazade

I will nominate the authors whose works I can read without any complaint:

Wilde

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Has anyone nominate Kafka?

Hello! Friends This is Shruti From India

1.Shakespeare (both for his sonnets and dramas)
2.Jane Austen
3.Bamkinchandra chatterjee(Bengali writer)
4.John keats
5.Amarnath (Maithili writer) Maithili is my regional language.



Being a lover of literature I very well know that literature is so must vast and varied that its creators cannot be confounded in a list.Here I am writings the name of those artists who have touched me beyond my soul.In English only from spenser ,shakespeare to shelly and wordsworth,from swift and pope to austen and eliot there is neverending series of writers . It is very difficult to judge and decide the best among them.I am here only giving name of those with whom I feel linked.
I am from India and in India there are a large number of language.And every language has its own literature.But most of the good works remains hidden.I feel that these writings are nice .They are interesting
and present the life and culture with beautiful craftmanship.But unfortunately most of the lovers of literature are unable to relish its taste .Anyway it is very nice writing to u guys.I feel u should also write me and advice me.

I vote for my personal beloved ones authors:

Brontes (I know I am cheating here ;), but if I had to choose Charlotte is my all time favorite author)
Steinbeck
Austen
Hardy
Marques

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Originally Posted by subterranean

Has anyone nominate Kafka?

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Ah! He slipped my mind.

Yes, Kafka is nominated.

Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky

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Originally Posted by bazarov

So, for people to stop arguing about unfair list because Flaubert is better then Dostoevsky; how come Crime and Punishment is above Madame Bovary ; name your top 5 authors. I will count it this time; so Dark Muse can rest a little bit :D Poet, novelist or drama - they all count.

The deadline is...one month, so it's Valentine's Day!

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i know i am way past february 14th but id say:

1. charles dickens
2. james fenimore cooper
3. robert louis stevenson
4. mark twain
5. tie between john steinbeck and arthur conan doyle

and i pick them, not so much because im intimately knowledgeable about what it means to be a "great author" or the "best writer", but rather, that i enjoy their books so much.

As am I-- yet:

1. James Joyce - the accomplishments of Ulysses and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man are extremely difficult to ignore-- despite finnegans wake. I've already rambled on about him enough...

2. Dostoevsky - objectively the BEST writer I have ever seen. His styles range hugely from The Brothers Karamazov (my personal favorite work of his) to Notes from the Underground to everything in between (Crime and Punishment and a slew of others); yet he isn't #1 in my mind because he doesn't have the sheen, the polish that Joyce does in his writing. I could spend weeks upon weeks dissecting any point in Brothers Karamazov yet I could spend the entirety of my life studying Joyce and still not entirely understand it.

3. Marcel Proust - by FAR the most philosophical and in-depth writer I have ever seen, yet he doesn't make too much of a point in his entire series of novels (perhaps that's the point; it's so incredibly long that you end up right back where you started), hence why he's not higher.

4. Walt Whitman - you may hate me for picking a rather obscure (well, by top 5 standards) author but to me he represents poetry in its own true, unbridled form. Unimpeded by laws of poetry and or reason, his style just seems to intrinsically flow from page to page: a style I envy.

5. Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita is a fabulous work that is often misunderstood by idiotic professors who focus on how manipulative HH is rather than how inherently sad his entire situation is (lover dying at such an earlier age, etc...).

huh, who woulda known: three of my picks are in the 20th century...

1. F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. Shakespeare
3. Ernest Hemingway
4. Sinclair Lewis
5. Frank Norris

My five picks in no order:

F. Dostoevsky
E. Hemmingway
L. Tolstoy
P. Roth
H. Murakami

Was I too late?

I'm too late too, but:

1. Marcel Proust
2. Shakespeare
3. D.H. Lawrence
4. Thomas Hardy
5. Jane Austen

You're not late; just keep posting.

When are you going to post the final List baz? :) I'm quite excited:D

James Joyce

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Originally Posted by dodoshady

James Joyce

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Having just read 'The Dead' from 'Dubliners', I can appreciate your nomination.

I got tired of waiting for Bazarov to post the scores; so I went and tallied them myself. As of right now, here is how things stand.

1.Dostoyevski (25)
2.Shakespeare (24)
3.Dickens (12)
4.Tolstoy (9)
5.Steinbeck (9)
6.Hemingway (7)
7.Austen (7)
8.Proust (7)
9.Hardy (6)
10.Nabokov (6)
11.Joyce (6)
12.Hugo (5)
13.Dante (5)
14.Kafka (5)
15.Tolkien (5)
16.Faulkner (5)
17.Bronte, Charlotte (4)
18.Homer (4)
19.Wilde (4)
20.Pushkin (4)
21.Eliot (3)
22.Fitzgerald (3)
23.Salinger (3)
24.Marquez (3)
25.Selimovic (2)
26.Krleza (2)
27.Doyle (2)
28.Keats (2)
29.Poe (2)
30.Lawrence (2)
31.Eco (2)
32.Milton (2)
33.Ellis (2)
34.Vonnegut (2)
35.Stevenson (2)
36.Ibsen (2)
37.Conrad (2)
38.Turgenev (2)
39.Gogol (2)
40.Murakami (2)
41.Beckett (2)
42.Goethe (2)
43.Camus (2)
44.Woolf (2)
45.Hesse (2)
46.Gaskell (2)
47.Orwell (2)
48.Twain (2)
49.Racine (1)
50.Ovid (1)

Wow, that was uninteresting :p Thanks for the work though.

Unbelievable. Mortal, you were the one who wanted this thread to stay opened for months; remember?

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