Top 100 Writers of the 20th Century
All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath."F. Scott Fitzgerald

A century of voices, a hundred sparks of genius. This page honors Writer’s Digest's Top 100 Writers of the 20th Century, linking to DailyCelebrations tributes where their words still sing. 🎉📖

✨💓TOP TEN
1. John Steinbeck
2. Ernest Hemingway 3. William Faulkner
4. Eugene O'Neill 5. T.S. Eliot 6. Willa Cather
7. Robert Frost 8. James Baldwin 9. Eudora Welty
10. E.B. White ✨💓THE REST:
Edward Albee
Isabel Allende
Maya AngelouIsaac AsimovMargaret Atwood
W.H. AudenSaul BellowJudy Blume
Jorge Luis BorgesRay BradburyCharles Bukowski
Edgar Rice BurroughsOctavia E. ButlerAlbert Camus
Truman CapoteRaymond CarverJohn Cheever
Agatha ChristieWinston ChurchillArthur C. Clarke
Joseph ConradRoald DahlArthur Conan Doyle
Ralph EllisonF. Scott FitzgeraldE.M. Forster
Dr. SeussAllen GinsbergWilliam Golding
Graham GreeneJohn GrishamAlex Haley
Robert HeinleinLangston HughesZora Neale Hurston
Aldous HuxleyJohn IrvingJames Joyce
Jack KerouacStephen KingBarbara Kingsolver
Milan KunderaD. H. LawrenceUrsula Le Guin
Harper LeeC.S. LewisSinclair Lewis
Jack London
Bernard MalamudThomas MannGabriel Garcia Marquez
W. Somerset MaughamJohn McPheeJames A. Michener
Arthur MillerToni MorrisonVladimir Nabokov
Pablo NerudaAnais NinFlannery O'Connor
George OrwellDorothy ParkerSylvia Plath
Marcel ProustErnie PyleThomas Pynchon
Ayn RandTom RobbinsJ. D. Salinger
Rod SerlingShel SilversteinUpton Sinclair
Danielle SteelWilliam StyronAmy Tan
Hunter S. ThompsonJ.R.R.TolkienJohn Updike
Kurt VonnegutAlice WalkerEdith Wharton
Laura Ingalls WilderTennessee WilliamsTom Wolfe
Virginia WoolfHerman WoukWilliam Butler Yeats

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