Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/5/People/Writers and journalists#Critics

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1. {{Icon|Start}} Vishnu Sharma

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1. {{Icon|C}} Aesop
2. {{Icon|C}} Apuleius
3. {{Icon|GA}} Lucian (Level 4)
4. {{Icon|C}} Pliny the Younger

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1. {{Icon|Start}} Bāṇabhaṭṭa
2. {{Icon|Start}} Borzuya
3. {{Icon|Start}} Daṇḍin
4. {{Icon|C}} Han Yu (Level 4)
5. {{Icon|C}} Ibn al-Muqaffa'
6. {{Icon|Start}} Liu Zongyuan
7. {{Icon|Start}} Luo Guanzhong
8. {{Icon|FA}} Murasaki Shikibu (Level 3)
9. {{Icon|B}} Ouyang Xiu (Level 4)
10. {{Icon|C}} Sei Shōnagon
11. {{Icon|Start}} Shi Nai'an
12. {{Icon|B}} Su Shi (Level 4)

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1. {{Icon|C}} Giovanni Boccaccio (Level 4)
2. {{Icon|B}} Christine de Pizan (Level 4)
3. {{Icon|Start}} Ibn Tufayl
4. {{Icon|FA}} Julian of Norwich
5. {{Icon|B}} Margery Kempe

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1. {{Icon|C}} Charles Brockden Brown
2. {{Icon|Start}} William Hill Brown
3. {{Icon|Start}} J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur
4. {{Icon|B}} Juana Inés de la Cruz
5. {{Icon|C}} Mary Rowlandson

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1. {{Icon|Start}} Asai Ryōi
2. {{Icon|Start}} Cao Xueqin
3. {{Icon|Start}} Ueda Akinari
4. {{Icon|Start}} Wu Cheng'en
5. {{Icon|Stub}} Xu Zhonglin

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1. {{Icon|C}} Madame d'Aulnoy
2. {{Icon|B}} William Bolts
3. {{Icon|C}} James Boswell
4. {{Icon|C}} Thomas Browne
5. {{Icon|B}} John Bunyan
6. {{Icon|Start}} José Cadalso
7. {{Icon|B}} Giacomo Casanova (Level 4)
8. {{Icon|C}} Baldassare Castiglione
9. {{Icon|B}} Miguel de Cervantes (Level 3)
10. {{Icon|Start}} Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues
11. {{Icon|B}} John Cleland
12. {{Icon|Start}} Charles Cotton
13. {{Icon|B}} Daniel Defoe (Level 4)
14. {{Icon|C}} Henry Fielding (Level 4)
15. {{Icon|Start}} Antoine Galland
16. {{Icon|C}} Oliver Goldsmith
17. {{Icon|GA}} Johann Peter Hebel
18. {{Icon|B}} E. T. A. Hoffmann
19. {{Icon|Start}} Captain Charles Johnson
20. {{Icon|FA}} Samuel Johnson (Level 4)
21. {{Icon|Start}} Ivan Krylov
22. {{Icon|C}} Madame de La Fayette
23. {{Icon|B}} Jean de La Fontaine
24. {{Icon|C}} François de La Rochefoucauld (writer)
25. {{Icon|Start}} Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
26. {{Icon|C}} Walter Savage Landor
27. {{Icon|Start}} Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray
28. {{Icon|C}} Thomas Malory
29. {{Icon|B}} Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
30. {{Icon|B}} Michel de Montaigne (Level 4)
31. {{Icon|B}} Thomas More (Level 4)
32. {{Icon|C}} Thomas Nashe
33. {{Icon|C}} Charles Perrault (Level 4)
34. {{Icon|Start}} Johannes Pfefferkorn
35. {{Icon|B}} François Rabelais (Level 4)
36. {{Icon|Start}} Alexander Radishchev
37. {{Icon|Start}} Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne
38. {{Icon|B}} Samuel Richardson
39. {{Icon|C}} Antoine de Rivarol
40. {{Icon|C}} Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon
41. {{Icon|B}} Marquis de Sade (Level 4)
42. {{Icon|C}} Germaine de Staël
43. {{Icon|Start}} Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
44. {{Icon|GA}} Laurence Sterne
45. {{Icon|C}} Jonathan Swift (Level 4)
46. {{Icon|Start}} Honoré d'Urfé
47. {{Icon|Start}} Pêro Vaz de Caminha
48. {{Icon|B}} Voltaire (Level 3)
49. {{Icon|C}} Horace Walpole

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1. {{Icon|C}} Watkin Tench

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1. {{Icon|Start}} Muhammed Said Abdulla
2. {{Icon|FA}} Chinua Achebe (Level 4)
3. {{Icon|GA}} Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
4. {{Icon|Start}} Zamenga Batukezanga
5. {{Icon|Start}} J. E. Casely Hayford
6. {{Icon|C}} Mohamed Choukri
7. {{Icon|B}} J. M. Coetzee (Level 4)
8. {{Icon|B}} Buchi Emecheta
9. {{Icon|B}} Nuruddin Farah
10. {{Icon|B}} Nadine Gordimer (Level 4)
11. {{Icon|C}} Abdulrazak Gurnah
12. {{Icon|C}} Taha Hussein
13. {{Icon|C}} Kojo Laing
14. {{Icon|Start}} Paul Lomami-Tshibamba
15. {{Icon|C}} Naguib Mahfouz (Level 4)
16. {{Icon|Start}} Dambudzo Marechera
17. {{Icon|Start}} Léonora Miano
18. {{Icon|C}} Ahlam Mosteghanemi
19. {{Icon|C}} Ben Okri (Level 4)
20. {{Icon|Start}} Tayeb Salih
21. {{Icon|Start}} Wilbur Smith
22. {{Icon|Start}} Sony Lab'ou Tansi
23. {{Icon|C}} Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (Level 4)
24. {{Icon|C}} Kateb Yacine

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1. {{Icon|Start}} Patrick Chamoiseau
2. {{Icon|B}} Maryse Condé
3. {{Icon|B}} Marlon James (novelist)
4. {{Icon|B}} Audre Lorde
5. {{Icon|C}} Paulette Nardal

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1. {{Icon|C}} Tomi Adeyemi
2. {{Icon|C}} James Agee
3. {{Icon|B}} Louisa May Alcott
4. {{Icon|B}} Lloyd Alexander
5. {{Icon|B}} Horatio Alger
6. {{Icon|C}} Nelson Algren
7. {{Icon|Start}} Poul Anderson
8. {{Icon|C}} Sherwood Anderson
9. {{Icon|C}} V. C. Andrews
10. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|FFA}} Isaac Asimov (Level 4)
11. {{Icon|GA}} Margaret Atwood (Level 4)
12. {{Icon|C}} Paul Auster
13. {{Icon|B}} James Baldwin
14. {{Icon|B}} Djuna Barnes
15. {{Icon|B}} L. Frank Baum
16. {{Icon|Start}} Paul Beatty
17. {{Icon|C}} Saul Bellow (Level 4)
18. {{Icon|Start}} Stan and Jan Berenstain
19. {{Icon|B}} Ambrose Bierce
20. {{Icon|Start}} Earl Derr Biggers
21. {{Icon|B}} Judy Blume
22. {{Icon|B}} Ray Bradbury (Level 4)
23. {{Icon|C}} Marion Zimmer Bradley
24. {{Icon|C}} Norman Bridwell
25. {{Icon|C}} Terry Brooks
26. {{Icon|B}} Dan Brown
27. {{Icon|C}} Susan Brownmiller
28. {{Icon|B}} Pearl S. Buck
29. {{Icon|B}} Edgar Rice Burroughs
30. {{Icon|B}} William S. Burroughs (Level 4)
31. {{Icon|C}} Candace Bushnell
32. {{Icon|B}} Octavia E. Butler
33. {{Icon|C}} Meg Cabot
34. {{Icon|Start}} James M. Cain
35. {{Icon|Start}} Erskine Caldwell
36. {{Icon|B}} Truman Capote
37. {{Icon|B}} Orson Scott Card
38. {{Icon|C}} Dale Carnegie
39. {{Icon|B}} John Dickson Carr
40. {{Icon|C}} Raymond Carver
41. {{Icon|GA}} Willa Cather
42. {{Icon|C}} {{Icon|DGA}} Michael Chabon
43. {{Icon|C}} Robert W. Chambers
44. {{Icon|C}} Raymond Chandler (Level 4)
45. {{Icon|Start}} John Cheever
46. {{Icon|B}} C. J. Cherryh
47. {{Icon|B}} Kate Chopin
48. {{Icon|Start}} Winston Churchill (novelist)
49. {{Icon|C}} Tom Clancy
50. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Mary Higgins Clark
51. {{Icon|B}} Beverly Cleary
52. {{Icon|B}} James Fenimore Cooper
53. {{Icon|B}} Patricia Cornwell
54. {{Icon|FA}} Stephen Crane
55. {{Icon|B}} Michael Crichton
56. {{Icon|C}} Clive Cussler
57. {{Icon|C}} Janet Dailey
58. {{Icon|B}} Henry Darger
59. {{Icon|C}} Lydia Davis
60. {{Icon|C}} Varina Davis
61. {{Icon|B}} Don DeLillo
62. {{Icon|B}} Philip K. Dick
63. {{Icon|B}} Joan Didion
64. {{Icon|C}} Annie Dillard
65. {{Icon|B}} Thomas Dixon Jr.
66. {{Icon|B}} Mary Mapes Dodge
67. {{Icon|C}} John Dos Passos
68. {{Icon|C}} Theodore Dreiser
69. {{Icon|C}} Bret Easton Ellis
70. {{Icon|C}} James Ellroy
71. {{Icon|C}} Harlan Ellison
72. {{Icon|C}} Ralph Ellison
73. {{Icon|C}} Louise Erdrich
74. {{Icon|Start}} Jeffrey Eugenides
75. {{Icon|C}} Walter Farley
76. {{Icon|C}} William Faulkner (Level 4)
77. {{Icon|C}} Edna Ferber
78. {{Icon|B}} M. F. K. Fisher
79. {{Icon|GA}} F. Scott Fitzgerald (Level 4)
80. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|FFA}} Zelda Fitzgerald
81. {{Icon|B}} Jonathan Franzen
82. {{Icon|B}} James Frey
83. {{Icon|B}} Diana Gabaldon
84. {{Icon|Start}} William Gaddis
85. {{Icon|Start}} Erle Stanley Gardner
86. {{Icon|C}} Roxane Gay
87. {{Icon|FA}} William Gibson
88. {{Icon|B}} Sue Grafton
89. {{Icon|GA}} John Green
90. {{Icon|C}} Zane Grey
91. {{Icon|B}} John Grisham
92. {{Icon|C}} Alex Haley
93. {{Icon|C}} Dashiell Hammett
94. {{Icon|C}} Daniel Handler
95. {{Icon|Start}} Bret Harte
96. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Nathaniel Hawthorne (Level 4)
97. {{Icon|C}} Louise Hay
98. {{Icon|B}} Lafcadio Hearn
99. {{Icon|C}} {{Icon|FFA}} Robert A. Heinlein (Level 4)
100. {{Icon|B}} Joseph Heller
101. {{Icon|FA}} Ernest Hemingway (Level 4)
102. {{Icon|C}} Marguerite Henry
103. {{Icon|C}} O. Henry
104. {{Icon|B}} Frank Herbert
105. {{Icon|B}} Patricia Highsmith
106. {{Icon|C}} S. E. Hinton
107. {{Icon|C}} Khaled Hosseini
108. {{Icon|B}} Robert E. Howard
109. {{Icon|Start}} William Dean Howells
110. {{Icon|B}} Herbert Huncke
111. {{Icon|Start}} Evan Hunter
112. {{Icon|B}} Zora Neale Hurston
113. {{Icon|C}} Iceberg Slim
114. {{Icon|B}} Clifford Irving
115. {{Icon|Start}} John Irving
116. {{Icon|GA}} Washington Irving
117. {{Icon|B}} Shirley Jackson
118. {{Icon|C}} {{Icon|FFA}} Henry James (Level 4)
119. {{Icon|C}} N. K. Jemisin
120. {{Icon|C}} James Jones (author)
121. {{Icon|C}} Erica Jong
122. {{Icon|C}} Mary Karr
123. {{Icon|Start}} Susanna Kaysen
124. {{Icon|C}} Carolyn Keene
125. {{Icon|B}} Jack Kerouac (Level 4)
126. {{Icon|B}} Ken Kesey
127. {{Icon|B}} Stephen King (Level 4)
128. {{Icon|B}} Barbara Kingsolver
129. {{Icon|Start}} Robert Kiyosaki
130. {{Icon|B}} Dean Koontz
131. {{Icon|C}} Judith Krantz
132. {{Icon|B}} Louis L'Amour
133. {{Icon|B}} Madeleine L'Engle
134. {{Icon|C}} {{Icon|FFA}} Nella Larsen
135. {{Icon|C}} Margaret Laurence
136. {{Icon|FA}} Ursula K. Le Guin (Level 4)
137. {{Icon|B}} Harper Lee
138. {{Icon|GA}} Jonathan Lethem
139. {{Icon|C}} Sinclair Lewis
140. {{Icon|C}} Alan Lightman
141. {{Icon|Start}} Jeff Lindsay
142. {{Icon|B}} Jack London (Level 4)
143. {{Icon|GA}} {{Icon|FFA}} H. P. Lovecraft (Level 4)
144. {{Icon|B}} Lois Lowry
145. {{Icon|Start}} Robert Ludlum
146. {{Icon|Start}} Ross Macdonald
147. {{Icon|C}} Debbie Macomber
148. {{Icon|C}} Maddox (writer)
149. {{Icon|B}} Norman Mailer
150. {{Icon|Start}} William Manchester
151. {{Icon|C}} Yann Martel
152. {{Icon|C}} Ann M. Martin
153. {{Icon|B}} George R. R. Martin
154. {{Icon|C}} Peter Matthiessen
155. {{Icon|C}} Anne McCaffrey
156. {{Icon|GA}} Cormac McCarthy
157. {{Icon|C}} Mary McCarthy (author)
158. {{Icon|C}} Carson McCullers
159. {{Icon|Start}} Jay McInerney
160. {{Icon|C}} Patricia A. McKillip
161. {{Icon|B}} Michelle McNamara
162. {{Icon|C}} Marijane Meaker
163. {{Icon|GA}} Herman Melville (Level 4)
164. {{Icon|GA}} Stephenie Meyer
165. {{Icon|C}} James A. Michener
166. {{Icon|B}} Henry Miller
167. {{Icon|B}} Margaret Mitchell
168. {{Icon|B}} Lucy Maud Montgomery
169. {{Icon|B}} Toni Morrison (Level 4)
170. {{Icon|B}} Alice Munro
171. {{Icon|C}} Anaïs Nin
172. {{Icon|C}} Larry Niven
173. {{Icon|Stub}} Philip Francis Nowlan
174. {{Icon|A}} Flannery O'Connor
175. {{Icon|Start}} John O'Hara
176. {{Icon|B}} Joyce Carol Oates
177. {{Icon|C}} {{Icon|FFA}} Chuck Palahniuk
178. {{Icon|C}} Katherine Paterson
179. {{Icon|Start}} James Patterson
180. {{Icon|Start}} Norman Vincent Peale
181. {{Icon|Start}} Richard Peck (writer)
182. {{Icon|Start}} Walker Percy
183. {{Icon|Start}} Christopher Pike (author)
184. {{Icon|FA}} Edgar Allan Poe (Level 4)
185. {{Icon|C}} Frederik Pohl
186. {{Icon|Start}} Richard Price (writer)
187. {{Icon|Start}} Mario Puzo
188. {{Icon|C}} {{Icon|FFA}} Thomas Pynchon
189. {{Icon|GA}} Ayn Rand (Level 4)
190. {{Icon|B}} Kathy Reichs
191. {{Icon|Start}} H. A. Rey
192. {{Icon|GA}} Anne Rice
193. {{Icon|B}} Rick Riordan
194. {{Icon|Start}} Harold Robbins
195. {{Icon|B}} Nora Roberts
196. {{Icon|C}} Philip Roth
197. {{Icon|Start}} Patrick Rothfuss
198. {{Icon|C}} Ann Rule
199. {{Icon|C}} Damon Runyon
200. {{Icon|C}} {{Icon|DGA}} J. D. Salinger
201. {{Icon|Start}} George Saunders
202. {{Icon|Start}} Michael Shaara
203. {{Icon|Start}} Sidney Sheldon
204. {{Icon|C}} Shel Silverstein
205. {{Icon|C}} Upton Sinclair (Level 4)
206. {{Icon|C}} Isaac Bashevis Singer
207. {{Icon|C}} Lucy Mack Smith
208. {{Icon|B}} Susan Sontag
209. {{Icon|Start}} Terry Southern
210. {{Icon|Start}} Nicholas Sparks
211. {{Icon|Start}} Mickey Spillane
212. {{Icon|B}} Danielle Steel
213. {{Icon|Start}} William Steig
214. {{Icon|B}} Gertrude Stein
215. {{Icon|B}} John Steinbeck (Level 4)
216. {{Icon|Start}} R. L. Stine
217. {{Icon|Start}} Charles Warren Stoddard
218. {{Icon|B}} Rex Stout
219. {{Icon|B}} Harriet Beecher Stowe
220. {{Icon|C}} Cheryl Strayed
221. {{Icon|B}} William Styron
222. {{Icon|B}} Jacqueline Susann
223. {{Icon|C}} Amy Tan
224. {{Icon|Start}} Booth Tarkington
225. {{Icon|C}} Donna Tartt
226. {{Icon|Start}} Paul Theroux
227. {{Icon|B}} James Thurber
228. {{Icon|C}} Wallace Thurman
229. {{Icon|C}} John Kennedy Toole
230. {{Icon|B}} Mark Twain (Level 4)
231. {{Icon|B}} Anne Tyler
232. {{Icon|B}} John Updike
233. {{Icon|C}} Leon Uris
234. {{Icon|C}} Catherynne M. Valente
235. {{Icon|B}} Jack Vance
236. {{Icon|Start}} Jeff VanderMeer
237. {{Icon|C}} Gore Vidal
238. {{Icon|B}} A. E. van Vogt
239. {{Icon|Start}} William T. Vollmann
240. {{Icon|FA}} Kurt Vonnegut (Level 4)
241. {{Icon|C}} Alice Walker
242. {{Icon|C}} Rebecca Walker
243. {{Icon|C}} David Foster Wallace
244. {{Icon|Start}} Irving Wallace
245. {{Icon|C}} Jesmyn Ward
246. {{Icon|B}} Eudora Welty
247. {{Icon|C}} Dorothy West
248. {{Icon|Start}} Nathanael West
249. {{Icon|B}} Edith Wharton (Level 4)
250. {{Icon|C}} E. B. White
251. {{Icon|Start}} Colson Whitehead
252. {{Icon|B}} Laura Ingalls Wilder
253. {{Icon|FA}} Nathaniel Parker Willis
254. {{Icon|Start}} Kathleen Winsor
255. {{Icon|B}} Gene Wolfe
256. {{Icon|Start}} Thomas Wolfe
257. {{Icon|B}} Tom Wolfe
258. {{Icon|Start}} Cornell Woolrich
259. {{Icon|C}} Herman Wouk
260. {{Icon|B}} Richard Wright (author)
261. {{Icon|C}} Elizabeth Wurtzel
262. {{Icon|C}} Richard Yates (novelist)
263. {{Icon|C}} Cecily von Ziegesar

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1. {{Icon|Start}} José de Alencar
2. {{Icon|B}} Isabel Allende
3. {{Icon|C}} Jorge Amado (Level 4)
4. {{Icon|Start}} Ignacio Manuel Altamirano
5. {{Icon|C}} Machado de Assis (Level 4)
6. {{Icon|Start}} Aluísio Azevedo
7. {{Icon|C}} Lima Barreto
8. {{Icon|C}} Roberto Bolaño
9. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Jorge Luis Borges (Level 4)
10. {{Icon|B}} Alejo Carpentier (Level 4)
11. {{Icon|C}} Paulo Coelho
12. {{Icon|Start}} Julio Cortázar
13. {{Icon|B}} Junot Díaz
14. {{Icon|C}} Carlos Fuentes (Level 4)
15. {{Icon|GA}} Gabriel García Márquez (Level 4)
16. {{Icon|Start}} Ricardo Güiraldes
17. {{Icon|B}} Clarice Lispector
18. {{Icon|Start}} Monteiro Lobato
19. {{Icon|Start}} Raul Pompeia
20. {{Icon|Start}} Rachel de Queiroz
21. {{Icon|Start}} Graciliano Ramos
22. {{Icon|Stub}} José Lins do Rego
23. {{Icon|Start}} João Ubaldo Ribeiro
24. {{Icon|Start}} João Guimarães Rosa
25. {{Icon|Start}} Juan Rulfo
26. {{Icon|C}} Ernesto Sabato
27. {{Icon|Start}} Moacyr Scliar
28. {{Icon|B}} Lygia Fagundes Telles
29. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|FFA}} Mario Vargas Llosa (Level 4)

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1. {{Icon|C}} Kōbō Abe
2. {{Icon|GA}} Khachatur Abovian
3. {{Icon|Start}} Aravind Adiga
4. {{Icon|C}} Shmuel Yosef Agnon
5. {{Icon|C}} Chinghiz Aitmatov (Level 4)
6. {{Icon|C}} Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (Level 4)
7. {{Icon|Start}} Ahmed Ali (writer)
8. {{Icon|Start}} Mulk Raj Anand
9. {{Icon|Start}} Takeo Arishima
10. {{Icon|C}} Eileen Chang
11. {{Icon|C}} Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
12. {{Icon|C}} Chiung Yao
13. {{Icon|C}} Simin Daneshvar
14. {{Icon|Start}} Kiran Desai
15. {{Icon|B}} Edogawa Ranpo
16. {{Icon|Start}} Shūsaku Endō
17. {{Icon|C}} Gao Xingjian
18. {{Icon|C}} Goh Poh Seng
19. {{Icon|Stub}} Junpei Gomikawa
20. {{Icon|C}} David Grossman
21. {{Icon|C}} Gu Byeong-mo
22. {{Icon|B}} Han Kang
23. {{Icon|GA}} Han Sorya
24. {{Icon|Start}} Sadegh Hedayat
25. {{Icon|C}} Ichiyō Higuchi
26. {{Icon|Stub}} Hong Myong-hui
27. {{Icon|Stub}} Hong Sok-jung
28. {{Icon|Start}} Yasushi Inoue
29. {{Icon|B}} Jin Yong (Level 4)
30. {{Icon|C}} Yasunari Kawabata (Level 4)
31. {{Icon|Start}} Yaşar Kemal
32. {{Icon|Start}} Kim Dong-in
33. {{Icon|C}} Kim Young-ha
34. {{Icon|Start}} Takiji Kobayashi
35. {{Icon|Start}} Chart Korbjitti
36. {{Icon|C}} Lao She (Level 4)
37. {{Icon|C}} Liu Cixin
38. {{Icon|C}} Lu Xun (Level 4)
39. {{Icon|Start}} Jalil Mammadguluzadeh
40. {{Icon|B}} Ghassan Kanafani
41. {{Icon|C}} Mao Dun
42. {{Icon|B}} Yukio Mishima (Level 4)
43. {{Icon|C}} Mo Yan
44. {{Icon|Start}} Mari Mori
45. {{Icon|C}} Mori Ōgai
46. {{Icon|Stub}} Seiichi Morimura
47. {{Icon|B}} Haruki Murakami (Level 4)
48. {{Icon|GA}} R. K. Narayan
49. {{Icon|C}} Taslima Nasrin
50. {{Icon|C}} Natsume Sōseki (Level 4)
51. {{Icon|C}} Ni Kuang
52. {{Icon|Stub}} Kyotaro Nishimura
53. {{Icon|B}} Kenzaburō Ōe (Level 4)
54. {{Icon|Start}} Mimei Ogawa
55. {{Icon|B}} Amos Oz
56. {{Icon|Start}} Ozaki Kōyō
57. {{Icon|C}} Pak Kyongni
58. {{Icon|B}} Orhan Pamuk (Level 4)
59. {{Icon|C}} Park Wan-suh
60. {{Icon|C}} Premchand (Level 4)
61. {{Icon|Start}} Qian Zhongshu
62. {{Icon|B}} Raja Rao
63. {{Icon|Start}} Ri Ki-yong
64. {{Icon|C}} Begum Rokeya
65. {{Icon|B}} Arundhati Roy
66. {{Icon|Start}} Kulap Saipradit
67. {{Icon|C}} Sanmao (writer)
68. {{Icon|C}} Shen Congwen
69. {{Icon|Start}} Ryōtarō Shiba
70. {{Icon|Stub}} Shin Kyung-sook
71. {{Icon|Start}} Khamsing Srinawk
72. {{Icon|Start}} Takizawa Bakin
73. {{Icon|C}} Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
74. {{Icon|Stub}} Vũ Trọng Phụng
75. {{Icon|Start}} Xiao Hong
76. {{Icon|C}} Yi Cheong-jun

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1. {{Icon|GA}} Ivo Andrić
2. {{Icon|Start}} Jerzy Andrzejewski
3. {{Icon|Start}} Vasil Bykaŭ
4. {{Icon|B}} Ivan Cankar
5. {{Icon|B}} Joseph Conrad (Level 4)
6. {{Icon|Start}} Anton Donchev
7. {{Icon|Start}} Odysseas Elytis
8. {{Icon|Start}} Géza Gárdonyi
9. {{Icon|C}} Jaroslav Hašek
10. {{Icon|C}} Bohumil Hrabal
11. {{Icon|Start}} Mór Jókai
12. {{Icon|B}} Ismail Kadare (Level 4)
13. {{Icon|C}} Nikos Kazantzakis
14. {{Icon|Start}} Imre Kertész
15. {{Icon|GA}} Józef Ignacy Kraszewski
16. {{Icon|C}} László Krasznahorkai
17. {{Icon|C}} Milan Kundera
18. {{Icon|GA}} Stanisław Lem
19. {{Icon|Start}} Mendele Mocher Sforim
20. {{Icon|C}} Sławomir Mrożek
21. {{Icon|Start}} Božena Němcová
22. {{Icon|GA}} Bolesław Prus
23. {{Icon|Start}} Władysław Reymont
24. {{Icon|C}} Bruno Schulz
25. {{Icon|C}} Sholem Aleichem
26. {{Icon|C}} Andrzej Sapkowski
27. {{Icon|GA}} Henryk Sienkiewicz (Level 4)
28. {{Icon|C}} Magda Szabó
29. {{Icon|Start}} Dimitar Talev
30. {{Icon|B}} Olga Tokarczuk
31. {{Icon|B}} Elie Wiesel (Level 4)
32. {{Icon|Start}} Alki Zei

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1. {{Icon|B}} Hans Christian Andersen (Level 4)
2. {{Icon|B}} Karen Blixen (Level 4)
3. {{Icon|Start}} Arne Garborg
4. {{Icon|Start}} Hulda Garborg
5. {{Icon|C}} Maria Gripe
6. {{Icon|C}} Knut Hamsun (Level 4)
7. {{Icon|GA}} Tove Jansson
8. {{Icon|Start}} Johannes V. Jensen
9. {{Icon|Start}} Thit Jensen
10. {{Icon|C}} Eyvind Johnson
11. {{Icon|Start}} Alexander Kielland
12. {{Icon|Start}} Aleksis Kivi
13. {{Icon|Start}} Pär Lagerkvist
14. {{Icon|C}} Selma Lagerlöf (Level 4)
15. {{Icon|C}} Stieg Larsson
16. {{Icon|C}} Halldór Laxness (Level 4)
17. {{Icon|Start}} Jonas Lie (writer)
18. {{Icon|GA}} Astrid Lindgren (Level 4)
19. {{Icon|C}} Väinö Linna
20. {{Icon|B}} Henrik Pontoppidan
21. {{Icon|C}} Alf Prøysen
22. {{Icon|Start}} Frans Eemil Sillanpää
23. {{Icon|C}} Sjón
24. {{Icon|Start}} Zachris Topelius
25. {{Icon|C}} Sigrid Undset
26. {{Icon|C}} Mika Waltari

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1. {{Icon|Start}} Vasily Aksyonov
2. {{Icon|C}} Boris Akunin
3. {{Icon|Stub}} Mark Aldanov
4. {{Icon|B}} Isaac Babel
5. {{Icon|Start}} Alexander Belyaev
6. {{Icon|Start}} Andrei Bely
7. {{Icon|C}} Mikhail Bulgakov (Level 4)
8. {{Icon|B}} Ivan Bunin (Level 4)
9. {{Icon|B}} Fyodor Dostoevsky (Level 4)
10. {{Icon|C}} Ilya Ehrenburg
11. {{Icon|Start}} Alexander Fadeyev (writer)
12. {{Icon|Start}} Gaito Gazdanov
13. {{Icon|Start}} Dmitry Glukhovsky
14. {{Icon|B}} Ivan Goncharov
15. {{Icon|C}} Maxim Gorky (Level 4)
16. {{Icon|Start}} Alexander Grin
17. {{Icon|B}} Alexander Herzen
18. {{Icon|Start}} Ilf and Petrov
19. {{Icon|Start}} Alexander Karasyov
20. {{Icon|Stub}} Arsen Kotsoyev
21. {{Icon|B}} Aleksandr I. Kuprin
22. {{Icon|B}} Mikhail Lermontov (Level 4)
23. {{Icon|B}} Nikolai Leskov
24. {{Icon|C}} Sergei Lukyanenko
25. {{Icon|C}} Nadezhda Mandelstam
26. {{Icon|B}} Dmitry Merezhkovsky
27. {{Icon|Start}} Sergey Mikhalkov
28. {{Icon|C}} Vladimir Nabokov (Level 4)
29. {{Icon|Start}} Nikolai Ostrovsky
30. {{Icon|Start}} Victor Pelevin
31. {{Icon|C}} Lyudmila Petrushevskaya
32. {{Icon|B}} Aleksey Pisemsky
33. {{Icon|Start}} Andrei Platonov
34. {{Icon|Start}} Zakhar Prilepin
35. {{Icon|C}} Valentin Rasputin
36. {{Icon|Start}} Aleksey Remizov
37. {{Icon|C}} Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
38. {{Icon|Start}} Varlam Shalamov
39. {{Icon|Start}} Mikhail Shishkin (writer)
40. {{Icon|C}} Mikhail Sholokhov (Level 4)
41. {{Icon|B}} Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Level 4)
42. {{Icon|Start}} Vladimir Sorokin
43. {{Icon|C}} Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
44. {{Icon|C}} Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy
45. {{Icon|B}} Leo Tolstoy (Level 3)
46. {{Icon|B}} Ivan Turgenev (Level 4)
47. {{Icon|C}} Lyudmila Ulitskaya
48. {{Icon|Start}} Eduard Uspensky
49. {{Icon|C}} Yevgeny Zamyatin

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1. {{Icon|C}} Ilse Aichinger
2. {{Icon|Start}} Leopoldo Alas
3. {{Icon|C}} Bettina von Arnim
4. {{Icon|C}} Emmanuelle Arsan
5. {{Icon|FA}} Honoré de Balzac (Level 4)
6. {{Icon|Start}} René Belbenoît
7. {{Icon|Start}} Ludwig Bemelmans
8. {{Icon|Start}} Georges Bernanos
9. {{Icon|Start}} Aloysius Bertrand
10. {{Icon|C}} Heinrich Böll
11. {{Icon|Start}} Michel Butor
12. {{Icon|Start}} Dino Buzzati
13. {{Icon|B}} Italo Calvino
14. {{Icon|GA}} Albert Camus (Level 4)
15. {{Icon|Start}} Elias Canetti
16. {{Icon|Start}} Camilo José Cela
17. {{Icon|Start}} Louis-Ferdinand Céline
18. {{Icon|C}} Blaise Cendrars
19. {{Icon|Start}} Henri Charrière
20. {{Icon|C}} François-René de Chateaubriand
21. {{Icon|C}} Paul Claudel
22. {{Icon|Start}} Albert Cohen (novelist)
23. {{Icon|B}} Colette
24. {{Icon|Start}} Frédéric Dard
25. {{Icon|C}} Alphonse Daudet
26. {{Icon|B}} Grazia Deledda
27. {{Icon|GA}} Alfred Döblin
28. {{Icon|C}} Alexandre Dumas (Level 4)
29. {{Icon|Start}} Alexandre Dumas fils
30. {{Icon|B}} Umberto Eco (Level 4)
31. {{Icon|Start}} Michael Ende
32. {{Icon|C}} Elena Ferrante
33. {{Icon|B}} Gustave Flaubert (Level 4)
34. {{Icon|Start}} Theodor Fontane
35. {{Icon|Start}} Anatole France
36. {{Icon|FA}} Anne Frank (Level 4)
37. {{Icon|C}} Cornelia Funke
38. {{Icon|C}} André Gide (Level 4)
39. {{Icon|Start}} Anne Golon
40. {{Icon|Stub}} Jules de Goncourt
41. {{Icon|Start}} Julien Gracq
42. {{Icon|B}} Günter Grass
43. {{Icon|B}} Brothers Grimm (Level 4)
44. {{Icon|B}} Jacob Grimm
45. {{Icon|Start}} Wilhelm Grimm
46. {{Icon|C}} Peter Handke
47. {{Icon|Start}} Paul Heyse
48. {{Icon|C}} Michel Houellebecq
49. {{Icon|C}} {{Icon|DGA}} Victor Hugo (Level 4)
50. {{Icon|B}} Elfriede Jelinek
51. {{Icon|Start}} Uwe Johnson
52. {{Icon|Start}} André Jullien
53. {{Icon|FA}} Franz Kafka (Level 4)
54. {{Icon|Start}} Charles Paul de Kock
55. {{Icon|B}} Karl Kraus (writer)
56. {{Icon|C}} J. M. G. Le Clézio
57. {{Icon|C}} Maurice Leblanc
58. {{Icon|C}} Gaston Leroux
59. {{Icon|B}} Primo Levi
60. {{Icon|Stub}} André Pieyre de Mandiargues
61. {{Icon|C}} Thomas Mann (Level 4)
62. {{Icon|Start}} Alessandro Manzoni
63. {{Icon|Start}} Roger Martin du Gard
64. {{Icon|C}} Guy de Maupassant (Level 4)
65. {{Icon|Start}} François Mauriac
66. {{Icon|C}} Karl May
67. {{Icon|B}} Prosper Mérimée
68. {{Icon|C}} Octave Mirbeau
69. {{Icon|C}} Frédéric Mistral
70. {{Icon|C}} Patrick Modiano
71. {{Icon|C}} Henry de Montherlant
72. {{Icon|C}} Alberto Moravia
73. {{Icon|C}} Harry Mulisch
74. {{Icon|C}} Herta Müller
75. {{Icon|Start}} Multatuli
76. {{Icon|C}} Robert Musil
77. {{Icon|C}} Gérard de Nerval
78. {{Icon|Start}} Georges Perec
79. {{Icon|C}} Benito Pérez Galdós
80. {{Icon|C}} Arturo Pérez-Reverte
81. {{Icon|Start}} Robert Pinget
82. {{Icon|C}} Abbé Prévost
83. {{Icon|C}} Marcel Proust (Level 4)
84. {{Icon|C}} Eça de Queiroz
85. {{Icon|C}} Raymond Queneau
86. {{Icon|Start}} Erich Maria Remarque
87. {{Icon|Start}} Gerard Reve
88. {{Icon|C}} Alain Robbe-Grillet
89. {{Icon|Start}} Gianni Rodari
90. {{Icon|C}} Joseph Roth
91. {{Icon|Start}} Carlos Ruiz Zafón
92. {{Icon|Start}} Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
93. {{Icon|C}} Françoise Sagan
94. {{Icon|C}} Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
95. {{Icon|C}} Felix Salten
96. {{Icon|B}} George Sand
97. {{Icon|C}} José Saramago (Level 4)
98. {{Icon|C}} Bernhard Schlink
99. {{Icon|C}} Annie M.G. Schmidt
100. {{Icon|Start}} W. G. Sebald
101. {{Icon|C}} Georges Simenon
102. {{Icon|C}} Claude Simon
103. {{Icon|Start}} Johanna Spyri
104. {{Icon|C}} Stendhal (Level 4)
105. {{Icon|Start}} Eugène Sue
106. {{Icon|Start}} Patrick Süskind
107. {{Icon|Start}} Italo Svevo
108. {{Icon|C}} Corín Tellado
109. {{Icon|Start}} Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
110. {{Icon|B}} Tomi Ungerer
111. {{Icon|Start}} Giovanni Verga
112. {{Icon|B}} Jules Verne (Level 4)
113. {{Icon|Start}} Gérard de Villiers
114. {{Icon|Start}} Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
115. {{Icon|C}} Franz Werfel
116. {{Icon|C}} Marguerite Yourcenar
117. {{Icon|C}} Émile Zola (Level 4)
118. {{Icon|B}} Stefan Zweig

{{Vital article count|174}}

1. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|FFA}} Douglas Adams
2. {{Icon|B}} William Harrison Ainsworth
3. {{Icon|C}} Richard Aldington
4. {{Icon|C}} Kingsley Amis
5. {{Icon|C}} Martin Amis
6. {{Icon|C}} Jeffrey Archer
7. {{Icon|Start}} Michael Arlen
8. {{Icon|GA}} Jane Austen (Level 4)
9. {{Icon|C}} Wilbert Awdry
10. {{Icon|B}} J. G. Ballard
11. {{Icon|B}} Iain Banks
12. {{Icon|B}} John Banville
13. {{Icon|B}} Clive Barker
14. {{Icon|C}} Pat Barker
15. {{Icon|Start}} Julian Barnes
16. {{Icon|B}} J. M. Barrie
17. {{Icon|C}} Nina Bawden
18. {{Icon|Start}} Louis de Bernières
19. {{Icon|FA}} Enid Blyton (Level 4)
20. {{Icon|Start}} Marjorie Bowen
21. {{Icon|Start}} John Braine
22. {{Icon|B}} Brontë family (Level 4)
23. {{Icon|B}} Anne Brontë
24. {{Icon|B}} Charlotte Brontë
25. {{Icon|B}} Emily Brontë
26. {{Icon|C}} Edward Bulwer-Lytton
27. {{Icon|B}} Eleanor Alice Burford
28. {{Icon|B}} Anthony Burgess
29. {{Icon|B}} Frances Hodgson Burnett
30. {{Icon|B}} A. S. Byatt
31. {{Icon|B}} John le Carré
32. {{Icon|B}} Lewis Carroll (Level 4)
33. {{Icon|C}} Barbara Cartland
34. {{Icon|B}} G. K. Chesterton
35. {{Icon|GA}} Erskine Childers (author)
36. {{Icon|GA}} Agatha Christie (Level 4)
37. {{Icon|B}} Arthur C. Clarke (Level 4)
38. {{Icon|Start}} Eoin Colfer
39. {{Icon|C}} Jackie Collins
40. {{Icon|C}} Wilkie Collins
41. {{Icon|C}} Catherine Cookson
42. {{Icon|C}} John Creasey
43. {{Icon|C}} Quentin Crisp
44. {{Icon|B}} Roald Dahl (Level 4)
45. {{Icon|C}} Thomas De Quincey
46. {{Icon|FA}} Len Deighton
47. {{Icon|B}} Charles Dickens (Level 4)
48. {{Icon|Start}} Peter Dickinson
49. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Arthur Conan Doyle (Level 4)
50. {{Icon|C}} Roddy Doyle
51. {{Icon|C}} Lord Dunsany
52. {{Icon|B}} George Eliot (Level 4)
53. {{Icon|B}} Anne Enright
54. {{Icon|B}} Bernardine Evaristo
55. {{Icon|C}} J. G. Farrell
56. {{Icon|Start}} Sebastian Faulks
57. {{Icon|C}} Helen Fielding
58. {{Icon|C}} Penelope Fitzgerald
59. {{Icon|FA}} Ian Fleming
60. {{Icon|Start}} Ken Follett
61. {{Icon|B}} Ford Madox Ford
62. {{Icon|C}} E. M. Forster
63. {{Icon|C}} Dick Francis
64. {{Icon|GA}} John Galsworthy
65. {{Icon|B}} Elizabeth Gaskell
66. {{Icon|C}} William Golding (Level 4)
67. {{Icon|Start}} Kenneth Grahame
68. {{Icon|C}} Graham Greene
69. {{Icon|Start}} Arthur Hailey
70. {{Icon|B}} Thomas Hardy (Level 4)
71. {{Icon|Start}} Roger Hargreaves
72. {{Icon|C}} Frank Harris
73. {{Icon|FA}} Georgette Heyer
74. {{Icon|C}} Jack Higgins
75. {{Icon|C}} James Hogg
76. {{Icon|C}} Alan Hollinghurst
77. {{Icon|B}} Aldous Huxley
78. {{Icon|C}} Christopher Isherwood
79. {{Icon|C}} Kazuo Ishiguro (Level 4)
80. {{Icon|Start}} Howard Jacobson
81. {{Icon|C}} E. L. James
82. {{Icon|C}} P. D. James
83. {{Icon|C}} Jerome K. Jerome
84. {{Icon|C}} Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
85. {{Icon|C}} Penny Jordan
86. {{Icon|FA}} James Joyce (Level 4)
87. {{Icon|Start}} James Kelman
88. {{Icon|C}} Dick King-Smith
89. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|FFA}} Rudyard Kipling (Level 4)
90. {{Icon|C}} Arthur Koestler
91. {{Icon|Start}} Edward William Lane
92. {{Icon|B}} D. H. Lawrence (Level 4)
93. {{Icon|B}} Sheridan Le Fanu
94. {{Icon|B}} Doris Lessing
95. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} C. S. Lewis (Level 4)
96. {{Icon|B}} Wyndham Lewis
97. {{Icon|C}} Penelope Lively
98. {{Icon|Start}} Hugh Lofting
99. {{Icon|B}} Malcolm Lowry
100. {{Icon|C}} George MacDonald
101. {{Icon|C}} Compton Mackenzie
102. {{Icon|C}} Alistair MacLean
103. {{Icon|B}} Hilary Mantel
104. {{Icon|Start}} Frederick Marryat
105. {{Icon|FA}} W. Somerset Maugham
106. {{Icon|B}} Daphne du Maurier
107. {{Icon|C}} Ian McEwan
108. {{Icon|Start}} George Meredith
109. {{Icon|Start}} Stanley Middleton
110. {{Icon|B}} A. A. Milne
111. {{Icon|C}} David Mitchell (author)
112. {{Icon|C}} Naomi Mitchison
113. {{Icon|FA}} Nancy Mitford
114. {{Icon|B}} Michael Moorcock
115. {{Icon|B}} Iris Murdoch
116. {{Icon|B}} V. S. Naipaul (Level 4)
117. {{Icon|C}} E. Nesbit
118. {{Icon|Start}} P. H. Newby
119. {{Icon|C}} Edna O'Brien
120. {{Icon|C}} Amelia Opie
121. {{Icon|Start}} E. Phillips Oppenheim
122. {{Icon|B}} George Orwell (Level 4)
123. {{Icon|B}} Thomas Love Peacock
124. {{Icon|C}} Mervyn Peake
125. {{Icon|C}} Anne Perry
126. {{Icon|C}} John William Polidori
127. {{Icon|B}} Beatrix Potter
128. {{Icon|B}} Anthony Powell
129. {{Icon|C}} {{Icon|DGA}} Terry Pratchett
130. {{Icon|C}} J. B. Priestley
131. {{Icon|B}} Philip Pullman
132. {{Icon|B}} Ann Radcliffe
133. {{Icon|Start}} Derek Raymond
134. {{Icon|GA}} Mary Renault
135. {{Icon|C}} Louise Rennison
136. {{Icon|C}} Jean Rhys
137. {{Icon|C}} Denise Robins
138. {{Icon|Start}} Sally Rooney
139. {{Icon|Start}} William Roughead
140. {{Icon|FA}} J. K. Rowling
141. {{Icon|C}} Bernice Rubens
142. {{Icon|B}} Salman Rushdie (Level 4)
143. {{Icon|FA}} Dorothy L. Sayers
144. {{Icon|Start}} Paul Scott (novelist)
145. {{Icon|B}} Walter Scott (Level 4)
146. {{Icon|C}} Anna Sewell
147. {{Icon|C}} Margery Sharp
148. {{Icon|FA}} Mary Shelley (Level 4)
149. {{Icon|B}} Nevil Shute
150. {{Icon|Start}} The Sitwells
151. {{Icon|Start}} Osbert Sitwell
152. {{Icon|C}} Zadie Smith
153. {{Icon|C}} Muriel Spark
154. {{Icon|C}} Olaf Stapledon
155. {{Icon|B}} Robert Louis Stevenson (Level 4)
156. {{Icon|C}} Bram Stoker
157. {{Icon|Start}} Graham Swift
158. {{Icon|B}} William Makepeace Thackeray
159. {{Icon|B}} Colm Tóibín
160. {{Icon|FA}} J. R. R. Tolkien (Level 4)
161. {{Icon|C}} P. L. Travers
162. {{Icon|B}} Anthony Trollope
163. {{Icon|Start}} Barry Unsworth
164. {{Icon|C}} Edgar Wallace
165. {{Icon|FA}} Evelyn Waugh
166. {{Icon|B}} H. G. Wells (Level 4)
167. {{Icon|B}} Irvine Welsh
168. {{Icon|B}} Rebecca West
169. {{Icon|Start}} T. H. White
170. {{Icon|C}} Margery Williams
171. {{Icon|C}} Jacqueline Wilson
172. {{Icon|FA}} P. G. Wodehouse
173. {{Icon|B}} Virginia Woolf (Level 4)
174. {{Icon|C}} Benjamin Zephaniah

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{{Vital article count|17}}

1. {{Icon|C}} Thea Astley
2. {{Icon|C}} Peter Carey (novelist)
3. {{Icon|Start}} Marcus Clarke
4. {{Icon|Start}} Albert Facey
5. {{Icon|C}} Richard Flanagan
6. {{Icon|C}} Miles Franklin
7. {{Icon|C}} Joseph Furphy
8. {{Icon|B}} Helen Garner
9. {{Icon|Start}} Thomas Keneally
10. {{Icon|C}} David Malouf
11. {{Icon|C}} Colleen McCullough
12. {{Icon|C}} Alan Moorehead
13. {{Icon|C}} Ruth Park
14. {{Icon|Start}} DBC Pierre
15. {{Icon|C}} Ethel Turner
16. {{Icon|B}} Patrick White (Level 4)
17. {{Icon|C}} Tim Winton

{{Vital article count|6}}

1. {{Icon|C}} Eleanor Catton
2. {{Icon|Start}} Alan Duff
3. {{Icon|B}} Janet Frame
4. {{Icon|C}} Keri Hulme
5. {{Icon|B}} Margaret Mahy
6. {{Icon|B}} Katherine Mansfield

{{Vital article count|1}}

1. {{Icon|GA}} Meralda Warren

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{{Vital article count|42}}

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{{Vital article count|11}}

1. {{Icon|C}} Aśvaghoṣa
2. {{Icon|B}} Bao Zhao
3. {{Icon|C}} Bhartṛhari
4. {{Icon|C}} Cao Zhi
5. {{Icon|B}} Enheduanna
6. {{Icon|B}} Kalidasa (Level 4)
7. {{Icon|C}} Qu Yuan (Level 4)
8. {{Icon|Start}} Sima Xiangru
9. {{Icon|Stub}} Song Yu
10. {{Icon|C}} Tao Yuanming (Level 4)
11. {{Icon|C}} Xie Lingyun

{{Vital article count|31}}

1. {{Icon|Start}} Lucius Accius
2. {{Icon|Start}} Alcaeus
3. {{Icon|B}} Alcman
4. {{Icon|C}} Anacreon
5. {{Icon|C}} Apollonius of Rhodes
6. {{Icon|B}} Aratus
7. {{Icon|C}} Archilochus
8. {{Icon|Start}} Bacchylides
9. {{Icon|Start}} Julia Balbilla
10. {{Icon|Start}} Caecilius Statius
11. {{Icon|GA}} Callimachus
12. {{Icon|C}} Catullus (Level 4)
13. {{Icon|B}} Ennius
14. {{Icon|B}} Hesiod (Level 4)
15. {{Icon|C}} Hipponax
16. {{Icon|B}} Homer (Level 3)
17. {{Icon|B}} Horace (Level 4)
18. {{Icon|C}} Ibycus
19. {{Icon|B}} Martial
20. {{Icon|Start}} Gnaeus Naevius
21. {{Icon|B}} Ovid (Level 4)
22. {{Icon|Start}} Pacuvius
23. {{Icon|B}} Pindar
24. {{Icon|GA}} Sappho (Level 4)
25. {{Icon|Start}} Semonides of Amorgos
26. {{Icon|Start}} Shen Yue
27. {{Icon|B}} Simonides of Ceos
28. {{Icon|Start}} Stesichorus
29. {{Icon|GA}} Sulpicia (satirist)
30. {{Icon|Start}} Theocritus
31. {{Icon|C}} Virgil (Level 3)

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{{Vital article count|77}}

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{{Vital article count|59}}

1. {{Icon|Start}} Abdallah ibn al-Mu'tazz
2. {{Icon|C}} Abu al-Atahiya
3. {{Icon|C}} Abu Nuwas (Level 4)
4. {{Icon|Start}} Abu Tammam
5. {{Icon|Start}} Adi ibn Zayd
6. {{Icon|Stub}} Al-Akhtal al-Taghlibi
7. {{Icon|C}} Ali-Shir Nava'i
8. {{Icon|Start}} Amr ibn Kulthum
9. {{Icon|Start}} Antarah ibn Shaddad
10. {{Icon|GA}} Ariwara no Narihira
11. {{Icon|Start}} Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadani
12. {{Icon|B}} Bai Juyi (Level 4)
13. {{Icon|Start}} Bilhana
14. {{Icon|Stub}} Buhturi
15. {{Icon|FA}} Du Fu (Level 4)
16. {{Icon|Start}} Du Mu
17. {{Icon|Start}} Al-Farazdaq
18. {{Icon|C}} Ferdowsi (Level 4)
19. {{Icon|Start}} Fujiwara no Shunzei
20. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Fujiwara no Teika
21. {{Icon|Start}} Gao Ming
22. {{Icon|B}} Hafez (Level 4)
23. {{Icon|GA}} Han Wo
24. {{Icon|Start}} Hanshan (poet)
25. {{Icon|Start}} Al-Hariri of Basra
26. {{Icon|Start}} Ibn al-Farid
27. {{Icon|C}} {{Icon|DGA}} Imru' al-Qais
28. {{Icon|C}} Jami (Level 4)
29. {{Icon|Stub}} Jarir ibn Atiyah
30. {{Icon|Start}} Jayadeva
31. {{Icon|GA}} Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
32. {{Icon|C}} Omar Khayyam (Level 4)
33. {{Icon|C}} Amir Khusrau (Level 4)
34. {{Icon|Start}} Ki no Tsurayuki
35. {{Icon|Stub}} Labid
36. {{Icon|B}} Li Bai (Level 3)
37. {{Icon|GA}} Li He
38. {{Icon|C}} Li Qingzhao
39. {{Icon|C}} Li Shangyin
40. {{Icon|Start}} Lu You
41. {{Icon|GA}} Al-Ma'arri
42. {{Icon|Start}} Al-Mutanabbi
43. {{Icon|Stub}} Al-Nabigha
44. {{Icon|B}} Namdev
45. {{Icon|B}} Nizami Ganjavi (Level 4)
46. {{Icon|C}} Ono no Komachi
47. {{Icon|Stub}} Ōshikōchi no Mitsune
48. {{Icon|C}} Ōtomo no Yakamochi
49. {{Icon|GA}} Rudaki (Level 4)
50. {{Icon|B}} Rumi (Level 3)
51. {{Icon|C}} Saadi Shirazi (Level 4)
52. {{Icon|C}} Saigyō
53. {{Icon|Stub}} Umar ibn Abi Rabi'ah
54. {{Icon|B}} Wang Wei (Level 4)
55. {{Icon|GA}} Yu Wuling
56. {{Icon|Start}} Yuan Zhen
57. {{Icon|GA}} Zhang Hu (poet)
58. {{Icon|GA}} Zhou Bangyan
59. {{Icon|Start}} Zuhayr bin Abi Sulma

{{Vital article count|18}}

1. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|FFA}} Cædmon
2. {{Icon|B}} Geoffrey Chaucer (Level 4)
3. {{Icon|B}} Chrétien de Troyes (Level 4)
4. {{Icon|C}} Cynewulf
5. {{Icon|Start}} Dafydd ap Gwilym
6. {{Icon|B}} Dante Alighieri (Level 3)
7. {{Icon|Start}} Gawain Poet
8. {{Icon|C}} Gottfried von Strassburg
9. {{Icon|Start}} John Gower
10. {{Icon|C}} Jean de Meun
11. {{Icon|Start}} William Langland
12. {{Icon|C}} John Lydgate
13. {{Icon|C}} Marie de France
14. {{Icon|Start}} Muireadhach Albanach Ó Dálaigh
15. {{Icon|C}} Petrarch (Level 4)
16. {{Icon|C}} Qul Ghali
17. {{Icon|C}} François Villon (Level 4)
18. {{Icon|C}} Walther von der Vogelweide

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{{Vital article count|87}}

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{{Vital article count|1}}

1. {{Icon|Start}} Abd al-Rahman al-Majdoub

{{Vital article count|2}}

1. {{Icon|B}} Anne Bradstreet
2. {{Icon|B}} Phillis Wheatley

{{Vital article count|16}}

1. {{Icon|Start}} Abdul Rahim Khan-i-Khanan
2. {{Icon|Start}} Huseng Sisiw
3. {{Icon|C}} Fukuda Chiyo-ni
4. {{Icon|FA}} Fuzuli (poet) (Level 4)
5. {{Icon|Start}} Ihara Saikaku
6. {{Icon|B}} Kabir (Level 4)
7. {{Icon|B}} Kobayashi Issa
8. {{Icon|GA}} Matsuo Bashō (Level 4)
9. {{Icon|C}} Mir Taqi Mir (Level 4)
10. {{Icon|C}} Mirabai (Level 4)
11. {{Icon|Start}} Santō Kyōden
12. {{Icon|GA}} Ramprasad Sen
13. {{Icon|Start}} Surdas
14. {{Icon|C}} Tukaram (Level 4)
15. {{Icon|GA}} Tulsidas (Level 4)
16. {{Icon|Start}} Yosa Buson

{{Vital article count|68}}

1. {{Icon|C}} Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair
2. {{Icon|B}} Ludovico Ariosto
3. {{Icon|Start}} Agrippa d'Aubigné
4. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|FFA}} Anna Laetitia Barbauld
5. {{Icon|Start}} Ivan Barkov
6. {{Icon|Start}} James Beattie (poet)
7. {{Icon|Start}} Joachim du Bellay
8. {{Icon|Start}} Matteo Maria Boiardo
9. {{Icon|B}} Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
10. {{Icon|Start}} Nicholas Bourbon (the elder)
11. {{Icon|Start}} Anna Bunina
12. {{Icon|Start}} Samuel Butler (poet)
13. {{Icon|B}} Robert Burns (Level 4)
14. {{Icon|B}} Luís de Camões (Level 4)
15. {{Icon|C}} Thomas Chatterton
16. {{Icon|Start}} André Chénier
17. {{Icon|B}} John Clare
18. {{Icon|Start}} Abraham Cowley
19. {{Icon|Start}} William Cowper
20. {{Icon|B}} George Crabbe
21. {{Icon|C}} Richard Crashaw
22. {{Icon|Start}} Gavrila Derzhavin
23. {{Icon|B}} John Donne (Level 4)
24. {{Icon|B}} John Dryden (Level 4)
25. {{Icon|Start}} John Dyer
26. {{Icon|Start}} Laurence Eusden
27. {{Icon|Start}} Robert Fergusson
28. {{Icon|B}} Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Level 4)
29. {{Icon|C}} Thomas Gray
30. {{Icon|C}} Robert Henryson
31. {{Icon|B}} George Herbert
32. {{Icon|Start}} Robert Herrick (poet)
33. {{Icon|Start}} Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
34. {{Icon|C}} Walter Kennedy (poet)
35. {{Icon|C}} Louise Labé
36. {{Icon|Start}} George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton
37. {{Icon|Start}} François de Malherbe
38. {{Icon|Start}} Clément Marot
39. {{Icon|Start}} Andrew Marvell
40. {{Icon|B}} John Milton (Level 4)
41. {{Icon|GA}} Novalis
42. {{Icon|Start}} Thomas Overbury
43. {{Icon|Start}} John Owen (epigrammatist)
44. {{Icon|C}} Katherine Philips
45. {{Icon|C}} Alexander Pope (Level 4)
46. {{Icon|Start}} Matthew Prior
47. {{Icon|C}} Henry James Pye
48. {{Icon|Start}} Francis Quarles
49. {{Icon|C}} Allan Ramsay (poet)
50. {{Icon|Start}} Samuel Rogers
51. {{Icon|B}} Pierre de Ronsard
52. {{Icon|C}} Paul Scarron
53. {{Icon|Start}} Maurice Scève
54. {{Icon|C}} Thomas Shadwell
55. {{Icon|C}} Philip Sidney
56. {{Icon|GA}} Christopher Smart
57. {{Icon|B}} Robert Southwell (priest)
58. {{Icon|C}} Edmund Spenser (Level 4)
59. {{Icon|C}} Torquato Tasso
60. {{Icon|C}} Nahum Tate
61. {{Icon|Start}} James Thomson (poet, born 1700)
62. {{Icon|GA}} Thomas Traherne
63. {{Icon|Start}} Pontus de Tyard
64. {{Icon|B}} Henry Vaughan
65. {{Icon|Start}} Théophile de Viau
66. {{Icon|Start}} William Whitehead (poet)
67. {{Icon|C}} John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
68. {{Icon|Start}} Thomas Wyatt (poet)

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{{Vital article count|362}}

{{Vital article count|17}}

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1. {{Icon|Start}} Kofi Awoonor
2. {{Icon|C}} Breyten Breytenbach
3. {{Icon|Start}} Syl Cheney-Coker
4. {{Icon|Start}} Birago Diop
5. {{Icon|GA}} Dox (poet)
6. {{Icon|Stub}} Salah Ahmed Ibrahim
7. {{Icon|C}} Keorapetse Kgositsile
8. {{Icon|Start}} Jack Mapanje
9. {{Icon|Start}} Christopher Okigbo
10. {{Icon|Start}} Lenrie Peters
11. {{Icon|FA}} Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo
12. {{Icon|C}} Jacques Rabemananjara
13. {{Icon|C}} Elie Rajaonarison
14. {{Icon|Start}} Ny Avana Ramanantoanina
15. {{Icon|Start}} Esther Razanadrasoa
16. {{Icon|Start}} Shaaban bin Robert
17. {{Icon|Start}} Mongane Wally Serote

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{{Vital article count|114}}

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{{Vital article count|4}}

1. {{Icon|B}} Aimé Césaire
2. {{Icon|Start}} Léon Damas
3. {{Icon|B}} Claude McKay
4. {{Icon|C}} Derek Walcott

{{Vital article count|83}}

1. {{Icon|FA}} Maya Angelou (Level 4)
2. {{Icon|C}} Rae Armantrout
3. {{Icon|C}} John Ashbery
4. {{Icon|C}} Gwendolyn B. Bennett
5. {{Icon|Start}} Charles Bernstein (poet)
6. {{Icon|B}} John Berryman
7. {{Icon|B}} Elizabeth Bishop
8. {{Icon|Start}} Paul Blackburn (poet)
9. {{Icon|B}} Gwendolyn Brooks
10. {{Icon|B}} Charles Bukowski
11. {{Icon|GA}} Thomas Holley Chivers
12. {{Icon|C}} Florence Van Leer Earle Coates
13. {{Icon|GA}} Ina Coolbrith
14. {{Icon|C}} Hart Crane
15. {{Icon|C}} Robert Creeley
16. {{Icon|C}} Countee Cullen
17. {{Icon|C}} {{Icon|DGA}} E. E. Cummings
18. {{Icon|FA}} H.D.
19. {{Icon|FA}} Emily Dickinson (Level 4)
20. {{Icon|B}} Paul Laurence Dunbar
21. {{Icon|C}} Robert Duncan (poet)
22. {{Icon|Start}} Larry Eigner
23. {{Icon|B}} T. S. Eliot (Level 4)
24. {{Icon|Start}} Louis-Honoré Fréchette
25. {{Icon|B}} Robert Frost (Level 4)
26. {{Icon|B}} Allen Ginsberg (Level 4)
27. {{Icon|B}} Louise Glück
28. {{Icon|C}} Barbara Guest
29. {{Icon|B}} Sarah Josepha Hale
30. {{Icon|FA}} Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
31. {{Icon|C}} Susan Howe
32. {{Icon|B}} Langston Hughes (Level 4)
33. {{Icon|B}} James Weldon Johnson
34. {{Icon|GA}} Rupi Kaur
35. {{Icon|B}} Francis Scott Key
36. {{Icon|C}} Denise Levertov
37. {{Icon|Start}} Vachel Lindsay
38. {{Icon|GA}} Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
39. {{Icon|B}} Amy Lowell
40. {{Icon|FA}} James Russell Lowell
41. {{Icon|B}} Robert Lowell
42. {{Icon|C}} Daphne Marlatt
43. {{Icon|Start}} Don Marquis
44. {{Icon|Start}} John McCrae
45. {{Icon|B}} Edna St. Vincent Millay
46. {{Icon|Start}} Clement Clarke Moore
47. {{Icon|B}} Marianne Moore
48. {{Icon|B}} Robin Morgan
49. {{Icon|C}} Ogden Nash
50. {{Icon|C}} Lorine Niedecker
51. {{Icon|Start}} Frank O'Hara
52. {{Icon|C}} Sharon Olds
53. {{Icon|C}} Mary Oliver
54. {{Icon|C}} Michael Ondaatje
55. {{Icon|C}} George Oppen
56. {{Icon|B}} Frances Sargent Osgood
57. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Dorothy Parker
58. {{Icon|C}} Bob Perelman
59. {{Icon|GA}} Sylvia Plath (Level 4)
60. {{Icon|FA}} Ezra Pound (Level 4)
61. {{Icon|Start}} Charles Reznikoff
62. {{Icon|GA}} James Whitcomb Riley
63. {{Icon|Start}} Theodore Roethke
64. {{Icon|C}} Carl Sandburg
65. {{Icon|B}} James Schuyler
66. {{Icon|B}} Gil Scott-Heron
67. {{Icon|B}} Dr. Seuss (Level 4)
68. {{Icon|C}} Anne Sexton
69. {{Icon|Start}} Karl Shapiro
70. {{Icon|C}} William Gilmore Simms
71. {{Icon|B}} John Sinclair (poet)
72. {{Icon|B}} Gary Snyder
73. {{Icon|B}} Wallace Stevens
74. {{Icon|C}} Sara Teasdale
75. {{Icon|Start}} Ernest Thayer
76. {{Icon|C}} Margaret Walker
77. {{Icon|C}} Robert Penn Warren
78. {{Icon|Start}} Lew Welch
79. {{Icon|Start}} Philip Whalen
80. {{Icon|GA}} Walt Whitman (Level 4)
81. {{Icon|C}} John Greenleaf Whittier
82. {{Icon|C}} William Carlos Williams
83. {{Icon|Start}} Yvor Winters

{{Vital article count|27}}

1. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|FFA}} Mário de Andrade
2. {{Icon|Start}} Oswald de Andrade
3. {{Icon|Start}} Augusto dos Anjos
4. {{Icon|B}} Miguel Ángel Asturias
5. {{Icon|C}} Mario Benedetti
6. {{Icon|Start}} Olavo Bilac
7. {{Icon|B}} Julia de Burgos
8. {{Icon|Start}} Raimundo Correia
9. {{Icon|C}} Rubén Darío
10. {{Icon|Stub}} Menotti Del Picchia
11. {{Icon|Start}} Esteban Echeverría
12. {{Icon|Start}} Luís Gama
13. {{Icon|C}} Manuel Ortiz Guerrero
14. {{Icon|Start}} José Hernández (writer)
15. {{Icon|Start}} Lêdo Ivo
16. {{Icon|Start}} Leopoldo Lugones
17. {{Icon|Start}} José Mármol
18. {{Icon|B}} José Martí (Level 4)
19. {{Icon|Start}} Cecília Meireles
20. {{Icon|C}} Gabriela Mistral
21. {{Icon|C}} Vinicius de Moraes
22. {{Icon|C}} Pablo Neruda (Level 4)
23. {{Icon|Stub}} Alberto de Oliveira
24. {{Icon|C}} Octavio Paz
25. {{Icon|Start}} Guillermo Prieto
26. {{Icon|C}} Alfonsina Storni
27. {{Icon|C}} César Vallejo

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{{Vital article count|29}}

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1. {{Icon|Start}} Adonis (poet)
2. {{Icon|FA}} Amir Hamzah
3. {{Icon|Start}} Mohammad-Taqi Bahar
4. {{Icon|GA}} {{Icon|A}} Cho Ki-chon
5. {{Icon|C}} Parvin E'tesami
6. {{Icon|C}} Forugh Farrokhzad
7. {{Icon|B}} Ghalib (Level 4)
8. {{Icon|B}} Kahlil Gibran (Level 4)
9. {{Icon|Start}} Thakin Kodaw Hmaing
10. {{Icon|Start}} Daigaku Horiguchi
11. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|FFA}} Muhammad Iqbal (Level 4)
12. {{Icon|Start}} Iraj Mirza
13. {{Icon|Start}} Salah Jahin
14. {{Icon|GA}} {{Icon|FFA}} Kazi Nazrul Islam
15. {{Icon|Start}} Yusuf al-Khal
16. {{Icon|Start}} Ko Un
17. {{Icon|B}} Masaoka Shiki
18. {{Icon|Start}} Ahmed Fouad Negm
19. {{Icon|Start}} Sunthorn Phu
20. {{Icon|Start}} Nobutsuna Sasaki
21. {{Icon|Start}} Sohrab Sepehri
22. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|FFA}} Rabindranath Tagore (Level 3)
23. {{Icon|GA}} Edwin Thumboo
24. {{Icon|Start}} Bayram al-Tunisi
25. {{Icon|Start}} Nima Yooshij
26. {{Icon|B}} Yosano Akiko
27. {{Icon|Start}} Isamu Yoshii
28. {{Icon|Start}} Tekkan Yosano
29. {{Icon|B}} Mahmoud Darwish

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{{Vital article count|187}}

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{{Vital article count|24}}

1. {{Icon|Start}} Endre Ady
2. {{Icon|GA}} Mateiu Caragiale
3. {{Icon|C}} Constantine P. Cavafy (Level 4)
4. {{Icon|Start}} Attila József
5. {{Icon|Start}} József Katona
6. {{Icon|Start}} Dragotin Kette
7. {{Icon|Start}} Edvard Kocbek
8. {{Icon|Start}} Srečko Kosovel
9. {{Icon|GA}} Adam Mickiewicz (Level 4)
10. {{Icon|B}} Czesław Miłosz
11. {{Icon|Start}} Josip Murn
12. {{Icon|Start}} Jan Neruda
13. {{Icon|GA}} Cyprian Norwid
14. {{Icon|C}} Sándor Petőfi (Level 4)
15. {{Icon|C}} France Prešeren
16. {{Icon|Start}} Jaroslav Seifert
17. {{Icon|C}} Giorgos Seferis
18. {{Icon|C}} Taras Shevchenko (Level 4)
19. {{Icon|GA}} Juliusz Słowacki
20. {{Icon|B}} Wisława Szymborska
21. {{Icon|GA}} Tristan Tzara (Level 4)
22. {{Icon|C}} Lesya Ukrainka
23. {{Icon|Start}} Ivan Vazov
24. {{Icon|C}} Oton Župančič

{{Vital article count|15}}

1. {{Icon|C}} Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
2. {{Icon|Start}} Steen Steensen Blicher
3. {{Icon|Start}} Janus Djurhuus
4. {{Icon|Start}} Gunnar Ekelöf
5. {{Icon|Start}} Karl Adolph Gjellerup
6. {{Icon|Start}} Paavo Haavikko
7. {{Icon|Start}} Verner von Heidenstam
8. {{Icon|Start}} Erik Axel Karlfeldt
9. {{Icon|C}} Eino Leino
10. {{Icon|C}} Elias Lönnrot
11. {{Icon|C}} Harry Martinson
12. {{Icon|Start}} Johan Ludvig Runeberg
13. {{Icon|C}} Nelly Sachs
14. {{Icon|C}} Edith Södergran
15. {{Icon|C}} Tomas Tranströmer

{{Vital article count|37}}

1. {{Icon|GA}} Anna Akhmatova (Level 4)
2. {{Icon|Start}} Innokenty Annensky
3. {{Icon|Start}} Konstantin Balmont
4. {{Icon|C}} Yevgeny Baratynsky
5. {{Icon|Start}} Demyan Bedny
6. {{Icon|C}} Olga Bergholz
7. {{Icon|Start}} Alexander Blok
8. {{Icon|C}} Joseph Brodsky (Level 4)
9. {{Icon|Start}} Valery Bryusov
10. {{Icon|Start}} Sergei Chavain
11. {{Icon|Start}} Sasha Chorny
12. {{Icon|Start}} Korney Chukovsky
13. {{Icon|B}} Afanasy Fet
14. {{Icon|Start}} Rasul Gamzatov
15. {{Icon|B}} Zinaida Gippius
16. {{Icon|Start}} Nikolai Gumilev
17. {{Icon|Start}} Antiochus Kantemir
18. {{Icon|Start}} Daniil Kharms
19. {{Icon|Start}} Velimir Khlebnikov
20. {{Icon|C}} Kosta Khetagurov
21. {{Icon|C}} Aleksei Kruchyonykh
22. {{Icon|Start}} Mikhail Kuzmin
23. {{Icon|C}} Osip Mandelstam
24. {{Icon|C}} Vladimir Mayakovsky (Level 4)
25. {{Icon|C}} Nikolay Nekrasov
26. {{Icon|B}} Boris Pasternak (Level 4)
27. {{Icon|Start}} Dmitri Prigov
28. {{Icon|C}} {{Icon|DGA}} Alexander Pushkin (Level 4)
29. {{Icon|Start}} Igor Severyanin
30. {{Icon|Start}} Fyodor Sologub
31. {{Icon|Start}} Vasily Trediakovsky
32. {{Icon|C}} Marina Tsvetaeva
33. {{Icon|Start}} Ğabdulla Tuqay
34. {{Icon|C}} Fyodor Tyutchev
35. {{Icon|Start}} Maximilian Voloshin
36. {{Icon|Start}} Sergei Yesenin
37. {{Icon|Start}} Vasily Zhukovsky

{{Vital article count|52}}

1. {{Icon|C}} Vicente Aleixandre
2. {{Icon|C}} Guillaume Apollinaire
3. {{Icon|C}} Louis Aragon
4. {{Icon|Start}} Achim von Arnim
5. {{Icon|Start}} Théodore de Banville
6. {{Icon|B}} Charles Baudelaire (Level 4)
7. {{Icon|Start}} Willem Bilderdijk
8. {{Icon|Start}} Clemens Brentano
9. {{Icon|C}} André Breton
10. {{Icon|Start}} Giosuè Carducci
11. {{Icon|Start}} Alice de Chambrier
12. {{Icon|Start}} René Char
13. {{Icon|Start}} Tristan Corbière
14. {{Icon|C}} Gabriele D'Annunzio
15. {{Icon|Start}} Robert Desnos
16. {{Icon|C}} Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff
17. {{Icon|Start}} Paul Éluard
18. {{Icon|Start}} Carlo Favetti
19. {{Icon|Start}} Paul Fort
20. {{Icon|Start}} Ugo Foscolo
21. {{Icon|C}} Théophile Gautier
22. {{Icon|B}} Heinrich Heine (Level 4)
23. {{Icon|C}} Willem Frederik Hermans
24. {{Icon|C}} Hermann Hesse (Level 4)
25. {{Icon|Start}} Juan Ramón Jiménez
26. {{Icon|C}} Alphonse de Lamartine
27. {{Icon|C}} Else Lasker-Schüler
28. {{Icon|Start}} Comte de Lautréamont
29. {{Icon|Start}} Leconte de Lisle
30. {{Icon|Start}} Giacomo Leopardi
31. {{Icon|B}} Federico García Lorca (Level 4)
32. {{Icon|C}} Pierre Louÿs
33. {{Icon|Start}} Antonio Machado
34. {{Icon|C}} Stéphane Mallarmé (Level 4)
35. {{Icon|Start}} Henri Michaux
36. {{Icon|Start}} Eugenio Montale
37. {{Icon|C}} Charles Péguy
38. {{Icon|C}} Saint-John Perse
39. {{Icon|C}} Fernando Pessoa (Level 4)
40. {{Icon|C}} Francis Ponge
41. {{Icon|Start}} Jacques Prévert
42. {{Icon|Start}} Sully Prudhomme
43. {{Icon|Start}} Salvatore Quasimodo
44. {{Icon|B}} Rainer Maria Rilke (Level 4)
45. {{Icon|C}} Arthur Rimbaud (Level 4)
46. {{Icon|Start}} Carl Spitteler
47. {{Icon|Start}} Jules Supervielle
48. {{Icon|B}} Giuseppe Ungaretti
49. {{Icon|C}} Paul Valéry
50. {{Icon|Start}} Émile Verhaeren
51. {{Icon|C}} Paul Verlaine
52. {{Icon|Start}} Alfred de Vigny

{{Vital article count|59}}

1. {{Icon|Start}} William Allingham
2. {{Icon|B}} Simon Armitage
3. {{Icon|B}} Matthew Arnold
4. {{Icon|GA}} W. H. Auden
5. {{Icon|B}} Alfred Austin
6. {{Icon|B}} John Betjeman
7. {{Icon|B}} William Blake (Level 4)
8. {{Icon|Start}} Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
9. {{Icon|Start}} Robert Bridges
10. {{Icon|Start}} Branwell Brontë
11. {{Icon|C}} Rupert Brooke
12. {{Icon|B}} Elizabeth Barrett Browning
13. {{Icon|B}} Robert Browning
14. {{Icon|C}} Basil Bunting
15. {{Icon|B}} Lord Byron (Level 4)
16. {{Icon|Start}} Thomas Campbell (poet)
17. {{Icon|C}} Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Level 4)
18. {{Icon|Start}} Cecil Day-Lewis
19. {{Icon|B}} Carol Ann Duffy
20. {{Icon|B}} Charlotte Elliott
21. {{Icon|B}} Edward Faragher
22. {{Icon|Start}} Edward FitzGerald (poet)
23. {{Icon|C}} Robert Graves
24. {{Icon|Start}} Geoffrey Grigson
25. {{Icon|B}} Seamus Heaney
26. {{Icon|B}} Gerard Manley Hopkins
27. {{Icon|C}} A. E. Housman
28. {{Icon|B}} Ted Hughes
29. {{Icon|B}} John Keats (Level 4)
30. {{Icon|GA}} Philip Larkin
31. {{Icon|C}} Edward Lear
32. {{Icon|C}} Mina Loy
33. {{Icon|C}} Hugh MacDiarmid
34. {{Icon|GA}} Sorley MacLean
35. {{Icon|C}} Louis MacNeice
36. {{Icon|C}} John Masefield
37. {{Icon|C}} William McGonagall
38. {{Icon|Start}} Thomas Moore
39. {{Icon|C}} Andrew Motion
40. {{Icon|Stub}} William Neill (poet)
41. {{Icon|C}} Alfred Noyes
42. {{Icon|B}} Wilfred Owen
43. {{Icon|FA}} Adelaide Anne Procter
44. {{Icon|Start}} Tom Raworth
45. {{Icon|C}} Isaac Rosenberg
46. {{Icon|B}} Christina Rossetti
47. {{Icon|C}} Dante Gabriel Rossetti
48. {{Icon|B}} Siegfried Sassoon
49. {{Icon|B}} Percy Bysshe Shelley (Level 4)
50. {{Icon|C}} Edith Sitwell
51. {{Icon|B}} Robert Southey
52. {{Icon|B}} Stephen Spender
53. {{Icon|B}} Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Level 4)
54. {{Icon|GA}} Dylan Thomas (Level 4)
55. {{Icon|C}} James Thomson (poet, born 1834)
56. {{Icon|B}} Edward Thomas (poet)
57. {{Icon|Start}} Vernon Watkins
58. {{Icon|C}} William Wordsworth (Level 4)
59. {{Icon|FA}} W. B. Yeats (Level 4)

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{{Vital article count|15}}

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1. {{Icon|Start}} Bruce Dawe
2. {{Icon|Start}} C. J. Dennis
3. {{Icon|C}} Mary Gilmore
4. {{Icon|B}} Adam Lindsay Gordon
5. {{Icon|Start}} A. D. Hope
6. {{Icon|C}} Henry Lawson
7. {{Icon|C}} Louisa Lawson
8. {{Icon|C}} Dorothea Mackellar
9. {{Icon|B}} Les Murray (poet)
10. {{Icon|B}} Oodgeroo Noonuccal
11. {{Icon|C}} Banjo Paterson (Level 4)
12. {{Icon|Start}} Peter Porter (poet)
13. {{Icon|C}} Kenneth Slessor
14. {{Icon|B}} Albert Wendt
15. {{Icon|C}} Judith Wright

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{{Vital article count|163}}

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{{Vital article count|21}}

1. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Aeschylus (Level 4)
2. {{Icon|C}} Aristophanes (Level 4)
3. {{Icon|Start}} Bhāsa
4. {{Icon|Start}} Bhavabhuti (Level 4)
5. {{Icon|C}} Epicharmus of Kos
6. {{Icon|Stub}} Euphorion (playwright)
7. {{Icon|C}} Euripides (Level 4)
8. {{Icon|Start}} Guan Hanqing
9. {{Icon|B}} Hrotsvitha
10. {{Icon|Stub}} Kan'ami
11. {{Icon|Start}} Livius Andronicus
12. {{Icon|Stub}} Ma Zhiyuan
13. {{Icon|C}} Menander (Level 4)
14. {{Icon|Stub}} Phormis
15. {{Icon|B}} Plautus (Level 4)
16. {{Icon|Stub}} Pratinas
17. {{Icon|GA}} Sophocles (Level 4)
18. {{Icon|Start}} Shudraka
19. {{Icon|C}} Terence (Level 4)
20. {{Icon|Start}} Wang Shifu
21. {{Icon|C}} Zeami Motokiyo

{{Vital article count|40}}

1. {{Icon|Start}} Vittorio Alfieri
2. {{Icon|B}} Pierre Beaumarchais
3. {{Icon|Start}} Francis Beaumont
4. {{Icon|B}} Aphra Behn
5. {{Icon|C}} Cyrano de Bergerac
6. {{Icon|C}} Pedro Calderón de la Barca (Level 4)
7. {{Icon|C}} Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland
8. {{Icon|B}} Susanna Centlivre
9. {{Icon|C}} George Chapman
10. {{Icon|FA}} Colley Cibber
11. {{Icon|C}} Chikamatsu Monzaemon
12. {{Icon|Start}} William Congreve
13. {{Icon|C}} Pierre Corneille (Level 4)
14. {{Icon|C}} Thomas Dekker (writer)
15. {{Icon|C}} John Fletcher (playwright)
16. {{Icon|Start}} Denis Fonvizin
17. {{Icon|Start}} John Ford (dramatist)
18. {{Icon|Start}} John Gay
19. {{Icon|C}} Carlo Goldoni
20. {{Icon|Start}} Carlo Gozzi
21. {{Icon|C}} Ben Jonson (Level 4)
22. {{Icon|B}} Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz
23. {{Icon|Start}} George Lillo
24. {{Icon|Start}} Pierre de Marivaux
25. {{Icon|B}} Christopher Marlowe (Level 4)
26. {{Icon|B}} John Marston (playwright)
27. {{Icon|C}} Molière (Level 4)
28. {{Icon|Start}} Tirso de Molina
29. {{Icon|Start}} Juan Pérez de Montalbán
30. {{Icon|C}} Jean Racine (Level 4)
31. {{Icon|Stub}} Jean-François Regnard
32. {{Icon|Start}} Nicholas Rowe (writer)
33. {{Icon|C}} Friedrich Schiller (Level 4)
34. {{Icon|FA}} William Shakespeare (Level 3)
35. {{Icon|Start}} Alexander Sumarokov
36. {{Icon|Start}} Tang Xianzu
37. {{Icon|C}} Lope de Vega (Level 4)
38. {{Icon|C}} Joost van den Vondel
39. {{Icon|C}} John Webster
40. {{Icon|Start}} William Wycherley

{{Vital article count|102}}

{{Vital article count|5}}

1. {{Icon|C}} Athol Fugard
2. {{Icon|C}} Ebrahim Hussein
3. {{Icon|C}} Mbongeni Ngema
4. {{Icon|C}} Hubert Ogunde
5. {{Icon|B}} Wole Soyinka (Level 4)

{{Vital article count|34}}

1. {{Icon|C}} Edward Albee
2. {{Icon|Start}} Maxwell Anderson
3. {{Icon|Start}} David Belasco
4. {{Icon|Start}} Lee Blessing
5. {{Icon|Start}} Marc Connelly
6. {{Icon|B}} Eve Ensler
7. {{Icon|B}} Lorraine Hansberry
8. {{Icon|Start}} Moss Hart
9. {{Icon|Start}} Dorothy Heyward
10. {{Icon|C}} DuBose Heyward
11. {{Icon|B}} Lillian Hellman
12. {{Icon|Start}} William M. Hoffman
13. {{Icon|Start}} William Inge
14. {{Icon|C}} Georgia Douglas Johnson
15. {{Icon|C}} George S. Kaufman
16. {{Icon|B}} Larry Kramer
17. {{Icon|B}} Tony Kushner
18. {{Icon|C}} Martyna Majok
19. {{Icon|C}} David Mamet
20. {{Icon|B}} Terrence McNally
21. {{Icon|B}} Arthur Miller (Level 4)
22. {{Icon|B}} Eugene O'Neill
23. {{Icon|B}} Clifford Odets
24. {{Icon|Start}} Elmer Rice
25. {{Icon|C}} Morrie Ryskind
26. {{Icon|B}} Sam Shepard
27. {{Icon|Start}} Robert E. Sherwood
28. {{Icon|C}} Neil Simon
29. {{Icon|B}} Theodore Ward
30. {{Icon|C}} Wendy Wasserstein
31. {{Icon|B}} Thornton Wilder
32. {{Icon|C}} Tennessee Williams (Level 4)
33. {{Icon|C}} August Wilson
34. {{Icon|C}} Lanford Wilson

{{Vital article count|5}}

1. {{Icon|Start}} Mirza Fatali Akhundov
2. {{Icon|Start}} Agha Hashar Kashmiri
3. {{Icon|Start}} Junji Kinoshita
4. {{Icon|B}} Imtiaz Ali Taj
5. {{Icon|GA}} Wu Zuguang

{{Vital article count|55}}

1. {{Icon|Start}} Leonid Andreyev
2. {{Icon|C}} Jean Anouilh
3. {{Icon|C}} Antonin Artaud (Level 4)
4. {{Icon|Start}} Émile Augier
5. {{Icon|C}} Alan Ayckbourn
6. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|FFA}} Samuel Beckett (Level 4)
7. {{Icon|C}} Brendan Behan
8. {{Icon|Start}} Jacinto Benavente
9. {{Icon|C}} Bertolt Brecht (Level 4)
10. {{Icon|Stub}} Elbazduko Britayev
11. {{Icon|Start}} Georg Büchner
12. {{Icon|B}} Karel Čapek
13. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|FFA}} Anton Chekhov (Level 4)
14. {{Icon|C}} Caryl Churchill
15. {{Icon|Start}} Giles Cooper (playwright)
16. {{Icon|FA}} Noël Coward
17. {{Icon|Stub}} Dimitar Dimov
18. {{Icon|Start}} José Echegaray
19. {{Icon|FA}} Georges Feydeau
20. {{Icon|B}} Dario Fo
21. {{Icon|Start}} Paul Foucher
22. {{Icon|Start}} Christopher Fry
23. {{Icon|B}} Jean Genet
24. {{Icon|Start}} Jean Giraudoux
25. {{Icon|B}} Nikolai Gogol (Level 4)
26. {{Icon|Start}} Alexander Griboyedov
27. {{Icon|Start}} Àngel Guimerà
28. {{Icon|Stub}} Antonio García Gutiérrez
29. {{Icon|Start}} Gerhart Hauptmann
30. {{Icon|B}} Henrik Ibsen (Level 4)
31. {{Icon|B}} Eugène Ionesco (Level 4)
32. {{Icon|Start}} Alfred Jarry
33. {{Icon|B}} Sarah Kane
34. {{Icon|C}} Maurice Maeterlinck
35. {{Icon|B}} Martin McDonagh
36. {{Icon|Start}} Ferenc Molnár
37. {{Icon|Start}} Alfred de Musset
38. {{Icon|C}} Seán O'Casey
39. {{Icon|B}} Joe Orton
40. {{Icon|B}} John Osborne
41. {{Icon|B}} Alexander Ostrovsky
42. {{Icon|FA}} Harold Pinter
43. {{Icon|C}} Luigi Pirandello (Level 4)
44. {{Icon|C}} Stanisława Przybyszewska
45. {{Icon|C}} Romain Rolland
46. {{Icon|Start}} Edmond Rostand
47. {{Icon|Start}} Victorien Sardou
48. {{Icon|Start}} Eugène Scribe
49. {{Icon|FA}} George Bernard Shaw (Level 4)
50. {{Icon|Start}} R. C. Sherriff
51. {{Icon|Start}} David Storey
52. {{Icon|C}} August Strindberg (Level 4)
53. {{Icon|FA}} John Millington Synge
54. {{Icon|B}} Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
55. {{Icon|GA}} Oscar Wilde (Level 4)

{{Vital article count|3}}

1. {{Icon|C}} Barry Dickins
2. {{Icon|Start}} Nick Enright
3. {{Icon|Start}} David Williamson

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{{Vital article count|21}}

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1. {{Icon|C}} Mitsuru Adachi
2. {{Icon|Start}} Gosho Aoyama
3. {{Icon|Start}} Hirohiko Araki
4. {{Icon|C}} Brian Michael Bendis
5. {{Icon|B}} Warren Ellis
6. {{Icon|B}} Bill Finger
7. {{Icon|C}} Neil Gaiman
8. {{Icon|C}} Steve Gerber
9. {{Icon|Start}} René Goscinny
10. {{Icon|B}} Stan Lee (Level 4)
11. {{Icon|B}} Jun Maeda
12. {{Icon|Start}} William Moulton Marston
13. {{Icon|B}} Scott McCloud
14. {{Icon|B}} Mark Millar
15. {{Icon|C}} Frank Miller
16. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Alan Moore
17. {{Icon|B}} Grant Morrison
18. {{Icon|C}} Marjane Satrapi
19. {{Icon|B}} Jerry Siegel
20. {{Icon|B}} Joe Simon
21. {{Icon|GA}} Art Spiegelman

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1. {{Icon|Start}} Giuseppe Adami
2. {{Icon|Start}} Hippolyte Bis
3. {{Icon|Start}} Arrigo Boito
4. {{Icon|Start}} Salvadore Cammarano
5. {{Icon|Start}} Hector-Jonathan Crémieux
6. {{Icon|C}} Lorenzo Da Ponte
7. {{Icon|Start}} Louis Gallet
8. {{Icon|Stub}} Richard Genée
9. {{Icon|Start}} Antonio Ghislanzoni
10. {{Icon|Start}} Giuseppe Giacosa
11. {{Icon|FA}} W. S. Gilbert
12. {{Icon|Start}} Ludovic Halévy
13. {{Icon|B}} Hugo von Hofmannsthal
14. {{Icon|Stub}} Luigi Illica
15. {{Icon|C}} Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy
16. {{Icon|B}} Henri Meilhac
17. {{Icon|Stub}} Guido Menasci
18. {{Icon|Start}} Pietro Metastasio
19. {{Icon|C}} Francesco Maria Piave
20. {{Icon|Stub}} Ottavio Rinuccini
21. {{Icon|Start}} Emanuel Schikaneder
22. {{Icon|Start}} Renato Simoni
23. {{Icon|Stub}} Temistocle Solera
24. {{Icon|Stub}} Cesare Sterbini
25. {{Icon|Stub}} Alessandro Striggio the Younger
26. {{Icon|Stub}} Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti

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1. {{Icon|B}} Shireen Abu Akleh
2. {{Icon|B}} Svetlana Alexievich (Level 4)
3. {{Icon|C}} Chris Anyanwu
4. {{Icon|B}} François-Noël Babeuf
5. {{Icon|FA}} Isabella Beeton
6. {{Icon|GA}} Alexander Berkman
7. {{Icon|C}} Carl Bernstein
8. {{Icon|B}} Nellie Bly (Level 4)
9. {{Icon|Start}} Heywood Broun
10. {{Icon|FA}} Louise Bryant
11. {{Icon|Start}} John Fisher Burns
12. {{Icon|B}} Alexander Cockburn
13. {{Icon|Start}} Claud Cockburn
14. {{Icon|B}} Ann Coulter
15. {{Icon|Start}} Euclides da Cunha
16. {{Icon|Start}} Kamel Daoud
17. {{Icon|C}} Dominick Dunne
18. {{Icon|C}} Oriana Fallaci
19. {{Icon|B}} Ronan Farrow
20. {{Icon|C}} Robert Fisk
21. {{Icon|FA}} Margaret Fuller
22. {{Icon|C}} Eduardo Galeano
23. {{Icon|B}} Daphne Caruana Galizia
24. {{Icon|B}} Malcolm Gladwell
25. {{Icon|C}} Stephen Glass
26. {{Icon|C}} Veronica Guerin
27. {{Icon|Start}} Maximilian Harden
28. {{Icon|C}} Michael Hastings (journalist)
29. {{Icon|B}} Seymour Hersh
30. {{Icon|B}} Christopher Hitchens
31. {{Icon|C}} Hedda Hopper
32. {{Icon|Start}} Khadija Ismayilova
33. {{Icon|B}} Ryszard Kapuściński
34. {{Icon|B}} Jamal Khashoggi
35. {{Icon|B}} Dorothy Kilgallen
36. {{Icon|Start}} Paul Krassner
37. {{Icon|C}} Charles Krauthammer
38. {{Icon|B}} Bill Kristol
39. {{Icon|C}} A. J. Liebling
40. {{Icon|C}} Walter Lippmann (Level 4)
41. {{Icon|Start}} Graciano López Jaena
42. {{Icon|B}} H. L. Mencken
43. {{Icon|B}} Judith Miller
44. {{Icon|Start}} Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
45. {{Icon|B}} Piers Morgan
46. {{Icon|C}} Douglas Murray (author)
47. {{Icon|GA}} Nizar Nayyouf
48. {{Icon|B}} Robert Novak
49. {{Icon|Start}} Nikolay Novikov
50. {{Icon|B}} Louella Parsons
51. {{Icon|B}} Daniel Pearl
52. {{Icon|Start}} Westbrook Pegler
53. {{Icon|C}} Marcelo H. del Pilar
54. {{Icon|C}} John Pilger
55. {{Icon|C}} {{Icon|DGA}} Anna Politkovskaya
56. {{Icon|C}} Ernie Pyle
57. {{Icon|C}} John Reed (journalist)
58. {{Icon|B}} Edith Rosenbaum
59. {{Icon|C}} Mike Royko
60. {{Icon|Start}} Cornelius Ryan
61. {{Icon|Start}} Yaqub Sanu
62. {{Icon|B}} Dan Savage
63. {{Icon|C}} Daniel Schneidermann
64. {{Icon|C}} Michael Shermer
65. {{Icon|B}} Randy Shilts
66. {{Icon|Start}} Lincoln Steffens
67. {{Icon|C}} I. F. Stone
68. {{Icon|Start}} Neil Strauss
69. {{Icon|B}} Andrew Sullivan
70. {{Icon|C}} Gay Talese
71. {{Icon|GA}} Ida Tarbell (Level 4)
72. {{Icon|B}} Helen Thomas
73. {{Icon|B}} Hunter S. Thompson (Level 4)
74. {{Icon|B}} Gary Webb
75. {{Icon|C}} Gene Weingarten
76. {{Icon|C}} George Will
77. {{Icon|C}} Walter Winchell
78. {{Icon|C}} Michael Wolff (journalist)
79. {{Icon|C}} Bob Woodward (Level 4)

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1. {{Icon|C}} Kate Adie
2. {{Icon|C}} Martin Agronsky
3. {{Icon|C}} George Alagiah
4. {{Icon|C}} Christiane Amanpour
5. {{Icon|B}} Carmen Aristegui
6. {{Icon|GA}} David Attenborough (Level 4)
7. {{Icon|C}} Martin Bashir
8. {{Icon|B}} Glenn Beck
9. {{Icon|C}} Shereen Bhan
10. {{Icon|B}} Wolf Blitzer
11. {{Icon|Start}} Gloria Borger
12. {{Icon|FA}} Ed Bradley
13. {{Icon|Start}} David Brinkley
14. {{Icon|B}} Tom Brokaw
15. {{Icon|C}} Mika Brzezinski
16. {{Icon|B}} Gretchen Carlson
17. {{Icon|B}} Tucker Carlson
18. {{Icon|B}} Christine Chubbuck
19. {{Icon|B}} Anderson Cooper
20. {{Icon|B}} Katie Couric
21. {{Icon|B}} Walter Cronkite (Level 4)
22. {{Icon|C}} Ann Curry
23. {{Icon|Start}} James Dibble
24. {{Icon|Start}} Melissa Doyle
25. {{Icon|C}} Linda Ellerbee
26. {{Icon|C}} Stephanie Flanders
27. {{Icon|C}} Sandy Gall
28. {{Icon|Start}} Bernard Goldberg
29. {{Icon|B}} Sean Hannity
30. {{Icon|B}} Brit Hume
31. {{Icon|Start}} Chet Huntley
32. {{Icon|C}} Laura Ingraham
33. {{Icon|FA}} Peter Jennings
34. {{Icon|B}} Megyn Kelly
35. {{Icon|B}} Larry King
36. {{Icon|Start}} Yevgeny Kiselyov
37. {{Icon|Start}} David Koch (television presenter)
38. {{Icon|Start}} Ted Koppel
39. {{Icon|C}} Hoda Kotb
40. {{Icon|C}} Matt Lauer
41. {{Icon|B}} Jim Lehrer
42. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Rush Limbaugh
43. {{Icon|Start}} Vladislav Listyev
44. {{Icon|B}} Rachel Maddow
45. {{Icon|GA}} Patrick Moore
46. {{Icon|Start}} Herbert Morrison (journalist)
47. {{Icon|B}} Bill Moyers
48. {{Icon|B}} Edward R. Murrow (Level 4)
49. {{Icon|B}} Bill O'Reilly (political commentator)
50. {{Icon|B}} Jeremy Paxman
51. {{Icon|B}} Dan Rather
52. {{Icon|B}} Joy Reid
53. {{Icon|Start}} Geraldo Rivera
54. {{Icon|C}} Cokie Roberts
55. {{Icon|Start}} Charlie Rose
56. {{Icon|Start}} Martha Rountree
57. {{Icon|B}} Tim Russert
58. {{Icon|C}} Pierre Salinger
59. {{Icon|B}} Jessica Savitch
60. {{Icon|C}} Diane Sawyer
61. {{Icon|B}} Joe Scarborough
62. {{Icon|B}} Ed Schultz
63. {{Icon|C}} William L. Shirer
64. {{Icon|C}} Margarita Simonyan
65. {{Icon|Start}} Howard K. Smith
66. {{Icon|C}} Ksenia Sobchak
67. {{Icon|Start}} Svetlana Sorokina
68. {{Icon|Start}} Lawrence Spivak
69. {{Icon|Start}} Karl Stefanovic
70. {{Icon|C}} George Stephanopoulos
71. {{Icon|GA}} John Stossel
72. {{Icon|C}} Louis Theroux
73. {{Icon|Start}} Mélissa Theuriau
74. {{Icon|C}} Chuck Todd
75. {{Icon|C}} Meredith Vieira
76. {{Icon|C}} Mike Wallace
77. {{Icon|B}} Barbara Walters
78. {{Icon|Start}} Lisa Wilkinson
79. {{Icon|C}} Brian Williams
80. {{Icon|C}} Muntadhar al-Zaidi

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:For critics chiefly known for their analysis of the arts as a whole, see Art historians, theorists and critics and Musicologists and music theorists.

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1. {{Icon|C}} Joan Acocella
2. {{Icon|Start}} Jack Anderson (dance critic)
3. {{Icon|Start}} Brooks Atkinson
4. {{Icon|Start}} Lester Bangs
5. {{Icon|C}} Vissarion Belinsky
6. {{Icon|Start}} Eric Bentley
7. {{Icon|Start}} Richard Blackwell
8. {{Icon|Start}} Claudia Cassidy
9. {{Icon|B}} Robert Christgau
10. {{Icon|Start}} Bosley Crowther
11. {{Icon|Start}} Jim DeRogatis
12. {{Icon|GA}} Roger Ebert
13. {{Icon|C}} Anthony Fantano
14. {{Icon|Start}} Leonard Feather
15. {{Icon|Start}} Wolcott Gibbs
16. {{Icon|Start}} Ralph J. Gleason
17. {{Icon|C}} Jonathan Gold
18. {{Icon|Start}} Dave Hickey
19. {{Icon|Start}} Robert Hilburn
20. {{Icon|C}} Robert Hughes (critic)
21. {{Icon|C}} Ada Louise Huxtable
22. {{Icon|Start}} Michael Jackson (writer)
23. {{Icon|B}} Clive James
24. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Pauline Kael
25. {{Icon|C}} Mark Kermode
26. {{Icon|Start}} Walter Kerr
27. {{Icon|Start}} Alan M. Kriegsman
28. {{Icon|C}} John Leonard (critic)
29. {{Icon|B}} Leonard Maltin
30. {{Icon|C}} Greil Marcus
31. {{Icon|Start}} Dave Marsh
32. {{Icon|Start}} Legs McNeil
33. {{Icon|Start}} Daniel Mendelsohn
34. {{Icon|Start}} Paul Morley
35. {{Icon|Start}} George Jean Nathan
36. {{Icon|C}} Elliot Norton
37. {{Icon|C}} Emily Nussbaum
38. {{Icon|Start}} Henry Taylor Parker
39. {{Icon|C}} Robert Parker (wine critic)
40. {{Icon|C}} Ann Powers
41. {{Icon|Start}} Rex Reed
42. {{Icon|B}} Simon Reynolds
43. {{Icon|Start}} Richard Roeper
44. {{Icon|Start}} Howard Rosenberg
45. {{Icon|B}} Alex Ross (music critic)
46. {{Icon|B}} Frank Rutter
47. {{Icon|Start}} Leo Schofield
48. {{Icon|Start}} Harold C. Schonberg
49. {{Icon|Start}} A. O. Scott
50. {{Icon|C}} Gilbert Seldes
51. {{Icon|C}} Gene Siskel
52. {{Icon|C}} James Suckling
53. {{Icon|B}} TotalBiscuit
54. {{Icon|Start}} Peter Travers
55. {{Icon|B}} Kenneth Tynan
56. {{Icon|C}} Ellen Willis
57. {{Icon|C}} Alexander Woollcott

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1. {{Icon|B}} Margaret Bourke-White
2. {{Icon|B}} Robert Capa
3. {{Icon|C}} Robert Doisneau
4. {{Icon|B}} Alfred Eisenstaedt
5. {{Icon|B}} Walker Evans
6. {{Icon|B}} Dorothea Lange
7. {{Icon|C}} Li Zhensheng (photojournalist)
8. {{Icon|C}} Lee Miller
9. {{Icon|C}} Gordon Parks
10. {{Icon|C}} Sebastião Salgado
11. {{Icon|B}} W. Eugene Smith
12. {{Icon|B}} John Thomson (photographer)
13. {{Icon|C}} Weegee

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1. {{Icon|C}} Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook
2. {{Icon|C}} Joseph Addison
3. {{Icon|Start}} Suroosh Alvi
4. {{Icon|Start}} Rudolf Augstein
5. {{Icon|C}} Martin Baron
6. {{Icon|Start}} Clarence W. Barron
7. {{Icon|Start}} James Gordon Bennett Sr.
8. {{Icon|C}} James Gordon Bennett Jr.
9. {{Icon|Start}} Gomer Berry, 1st Viscount Kemsley
10. {{Icon|Start}} William Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose
11. {{Icon|Stub}} Hubert Beuve-Méry
12. {{Icon|B}} Conrad Black
13. {{Icon|C}} Edward Bok
14. {{Icon|C}} Andrew Bradford
15. {{Icon|C}} Stewart Brand
16. {{Icon|GA}} Samuel Brannan
17. {{Icon|C}} Rebekah Brooks
18. {{Icon|B}} William F. Buckley Jr.
19. {{Icon|Start}} John Bushell
20. {{Icon|Start}} Nathaniel Butter
21. {{Icon|C}} {{Icon|DGA}} John W. Campbell
22. {{Icon|C}} Johann Carolus
23. {{Icon|C}} Lucien Carr
24. {{Icon|Start}} Graydon Carter
25. {{Icon|Start}} Edward Cave
26. {{Icon|Start}} Edna Woolman Chase
27. {{Icon|Start}} Nathan Cole Jr.
28. {{Icon|B}} Paul Dacre
29. {{Icon|Start}} Geoffrey Dawson
30. {{Icon|Start}} Alberto Dines
31. {{Icon|B}} {{Icon|DGA}} Hrant Dink
32. {{Icon|Start}} John Fairfax
33. {{Icon|C}} Jessie R. Fauset
34. {{Icon|B}} Larry Flynt
35. {{Icon|Start}} B. C. Forbes
36. {{Icon|Start}} Malcolm Forbes
37. {{Icon|Start}} Timothy Thomas Fortune
38. {{Icon|C}} William Gaines
39. {{Icon|Stub}} Thomas Gardiner (publisher)
40. {{Icon|Start}} Al Goldstein
41. {{Icon|B}} Katharine Graham
42. {{Icon|C}} Jane Grant
43. {{Icon|FA}} Horace Greeley (Level 4)
44. {{Icon|C}} Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor
45. {{Icon|C}} Bob Guccione
46. {{Icon|Start}} William Peter Hamilton
47. {{Icon|Start}} Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe
48. {{Icon|Start}} Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere
49. {{Icon|B}} William Randolph Hearst (Level 4)
50. {{Icon|Start}} Andrew Heiskell
51. {{Icon|C}} Hugh Hefner
52. {{Icon|Start}} James Augustus Hicky
53. {{Icon|C}} Lars Johan Hierta
54. {{Icon|Start}} Hu Shuli
55. {{Icon|Start}} Stilson Hutchins
56. {{Icon|Stub}} George Jones (publisher)
57. {{Icon|C}} Douglas Kenney
58. {{Icon|Start}} Mark Lemon
59. {{Icon|Start}} Joseph Moses Levy
60. {{Icon|Start}} Edward Levy-Lawson, 1st Baron Burnham
61. {{Icon|C}} Henry Luce
62. {{Icon|Start}} Elizabeth Mallet
63. {{Icon|B}} Henry Mayhew
64. {{Icon|C}} Gavin McInnes
65. {{Icon|Stub}} John Ames Mitchell
66. {{Icon|Start}} John Newbery
67. {{Icon|C}} Roberto Noble
68. {{Icon|C}} Joseph Pulitzer (Level 4)
69. {{Icon|B}} Henry Jarvis Raymond
70. {{Icon|Start}} Paul Raymond (publisher)
71. {{Icon|C}} William Rees-Mogg
72. {{Icon|Start}} Paul Reuter
73. {{Icon|B}} Pearl Rivers
74. {{Icon|Start}} Harold Ross
75. {{Icon|Start}} Denis de Sallo
76. {{Icon|Start}} C. P. Scott
77. {{Icon|Start}} E. W. Scripps
78. {{Icon|C}} Will Shortz
79. {{Icon|Start}} Charles Emory Smith
80. {{Icon|Start}} Shane Smith (journalist)
81. {{Icon|C}} Franca Sozzani
82. {{Icon|C}} Axel Springer
83. {{Icon|B}} W. T. Stead
84. {{Icon|Start}} Richard Steele
85. {{Icon|C}} Julius Streicher
86. {{Icon|Start}} Charles H. Taylor (publisher)
87. {{Icon|Start}} John Edward Taylor
88. {{Icon|B}} Agness Underwood
89. {{Icon|C}} Diana Vreeland
90. {{Icon|B}} Thomas Wakley
91. {{Icon|Start}} DeWitt Wallace
92. {{Icon|Start}} Lila Acheson Wallace
93. {{Icon|Start}} John Walter (publisher)
94. {{Icon|Start}} Jann Wenner
95. {{Icon|B}} William R. Wilkerson
96. {{Icon|GA}} Anna Wintour (Level 4)
97. {{Icon|Start}} M. H. de Young
98. {{Icon|Start}} John Peter Zenger

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1. {{Icon|C}} Erin Andrews
2. {{Icon|B}} Richie Benaud
3. {{Icon|C}} Michael Buffer
4. {{Icon|C}} Henry Chadwick (writer)
5. {{Icon|C}} Howard Cosell
6. {{Icon|C}} Bob Costas
7. {{Icon|Start}} Jacques Goddet
8. {{Icon|Start}} Bryant Gumbel
9. {{Icon|Start}} Edmond Hoyle
10. {{Icon|Start}} Bill James
11. {{Icon|B}} John Madden
12. {{Icon|Start}} Jim McKay
13. {{Icon|C}} Grantland Rice
14. {{Icon|GA}} Helen Rollason
15. {{Icon|C}} Jim Ross
16. {{Icon|GA}} Stuart Scott
17. {{Icon|B}} Vin Scully
18. {{Icon|B}} Bill Simmons
19. {{Icon|C}} Doreen Simmons
20. {{Icon|C}} Sjokz
21. {{Icon|B}} Murray Walker

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1. {{Icon|B}} Julian Assange
2. {{Icon|B}} Steve Bannon
3. {{Icon|C}} Andrew Breitbart
4. {{Icon|B}} Glenn Greenwald
5. {{Icon|B}} Arianna Huffington
6. {{Icon|C}} Ezra Klein
7. {{Icon|Start}} Jonah Peretti
8. {{Icon|B}} Maria Ressa
9. {{Icon|C}} Ben Shapiro
10. {{Icon|Start}} Ben Smith (journalist)
11. {{Icon|C}} Cenk Uygur

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