Who are the the ten greatest fiction writers in all history and all the world?

Answer 1

When someone puts a number up, I have trouble meeting it...but I'll try (but not necessarily in this order):
Number ONE: Tolstoy

1. Ernst Hemminway
2. F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. Rod McKeun
(there's 3 great drunks)
4. Edna Saint Vincent Millay
5. Shakespear
6. Depok Choprah
7. Saint James
8. Erskine Caldwell
9. (2 More to go)... Daphne du Maurnier
10. (YeY!) James Michner

Answer 2

Charles Dickens
Jane Austen
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
JRR Tolkien
William Shakespeare

HG Wells
Robert Louis Stevenson
Lewis Caroll
Alfred Hitchcock
Mark Twain

Answer 3

1. William Shakespeare
2. Ayn Rand
3. Fyodor Dostoevsky
4. John Steinbeck
5. Ernest Hemingway
6. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
7. J.D. Salinger
8. Dante
9. Harper Lee
10. Anne Rice

Answer 4

1. Charles Dickens
2. Rudyard Kipling
3. Ernest Hemingway
4. John Steinbeck
5. Kurt Vonnegut
6. F. Scott Fitzgerald
7. Alexandre Dumas
8. Voltaire
9. Victor Hugo
10. Leo Tolstoy

Answer 5

1. Shakespeare
2. Charles Dickens
3. Jane Austen
4. Robert Louis Stevenson
5. Agatha Christie
6. J. R. R. Tolkien
7. Isaac Asimov
8. Edgar Alan Poe
9. Guy De Maupassant
10. Victor Hugo

Answer 6

Here's my list.

1. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
2. William Shakespeare
3. Charles Dickens
4. Agatha Christie
5. Ian Fleming
6. Edgar Rice Burroughs
7. Rudyard Kipling
8. Stephen King
9. Anne Rice
10. Aristophanes (the greek playwright)

Answer 7

J.R.R Tolkien served contained in the militia throughout between the international Wars. at the same time as he became battling, he began drafting the outlines for The Hobbit, and that is the position a large kind of the tale became mostly built. J.R.R Tolkien is the most spectacular author of this century, he had such an really good techniques. The element he positioned forth to make The Lord of the rings is in basic terms outstanding. He conjured up an finished distinct heritage, some languages, and different factors that quite further to the tale. i imagine this shows how a lot of an really good author he became, because he created a lot before hand to be sure that the reader to comprehend what became going and why in the course of the tale. also, he created such an excellent position with midsection Earth that some Tolkien fanatics fairly opt to visit! And Tolkien's characters are fairly fantastic; they are memorable and some are even very relateable. ultimately, i'm a author, and once you've any such large theory swimming round on your head, you image it as a movie. hence, this makes it very confusing to positioned to words. i'm able to't even imagine what Tolkien became wondering depending on the epicness of LOTR, and that i quite respect him for having the ability to positioned a lot techniques from his head into words on paper. And that, in my eyes, makes an really good author.

Answer 8

1. William Shakespeare
2. Charles Dickens
3. Jane Austen
4. Leo Tolstoy
5. Mark Twain
6. John Steinbeck
7. Willa Cather
8. Faulkner
9. Hemingway
10. Ayn Rand
I did not rank these authors in any particular order - although some are better than others. There are authors that are left off - that should not have been left off - ten is not enough.

Answer 9

EGAD! 10? First I've gotta give the top 4 to the writers of the New Testament first 4 books. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. # 5 is possibly St Peter for "Acts" Maybe Shakespear at #6. Dikens at #7, Hemmingway #8, Isacc Asimov and Larry Nivin make 10. Not a bit of truth in most of it but interesting reading.

Answer 10

James Michener, Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, Danielle Steele, William Shakespeare, Isaac Asimov, John Grisham, C.S. Lewis, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Dante Alighieri are some of the most famous in my opinion. However you will probably get ten more from each and every person who answers this question.