Authors

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1 William Faulkner 36x

2 Mark Twain 35x

3 Ernest Hemingway 35x

4 Agatha Christie 31x

5 Charles Dickens 27x

6 Stephen King 25x

7 Rudyard Kipling 23x

8 Anne Rice 22x

9 James Joyce 22x

10 John Steinbeck 22x

11 Henry David Thoreau 20x

12 Toni Morrison 19x

13 Virginia Woolf 19x

14 Louisa May Alcott 19x

15 F. Scott Fitzgerald 19x

16 Edgar Allan Poe 19x

17 Pearl Buck 18x

18 Margaret Mitchell 18x

19 John Grisham 18x

20 Jane Austen 18x

21 Dashiell Hammett 18x

22 Leo Tolstoy 18x

23 Harriet Beecher Stowe 16x

24 Dorothy Parker 16x

25 Ayn Rand 16x

26 Sinclair Lewis 16x

27 Edgar Rice Burroughs 15x

28 J.R.R. Tolkien 15x

29 Willa Cather 14x

30 Jack London 14x

31 H.G. Wells 14x

32 D.H. Lawrence 14x

33 Ian Fleming 14x

34 Gertrude Stein 14x

35 Herman Melville 14x

36 J.D. Salinger 14x

37 Robert Louis Stevenson 13x

38 Laura Ingalls Wilder 13x

39 Isak Dinesen 13x

40 Edith Wharton 13x

41 J.K. Rowling 13x

42 George Eliot 13x

43 Aldous Huxley 13x

44 Michael Crichton 12x

45 Lewis Carroll 12x

46 Jules Verne 12x

47 Hans Christian Andersen 12x

48 George Sand 12x

49 George Orwell 12x

50 Nathaniel Hawthorne 12x

Sample Clues

This author revealed Yoknapatawpha, a place in his books, is a Chickasaw word meaning "water runs slow through flat land"

William Faulkner

From 1862 to 1864 he wrote for the Territorial Enterprise newspaper in Virginia City, Nevada

Mark Twain

This American adventurist armed his boat & hunted German subs in the Caribbean during WWII: WEIGHTY MAN, SNEER

Ernest Hemingway

In her very 1st book, she introduced Hercule Poirot

Agatha Christie

Wilkins Micawber, Samuel Pickwick, Bob Cratchit

Charles Dickens

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Other 2,402

James Joyce (23) Anne Rice (23) Harriet Beecher Stowe (19) Margaret Mitchell (19) Sinclair Lewis (18) Leo Tolstoy (18) Edgar Rice Burroughs (17) Pearl Buck (17) Ayn Rand (16) J.K. Rowling (15)

American Literature 368

Mark Twain (36) Ernest Hemingway (35) William Faulkner (34) Henry David Thoreau (20) F. Scott Fitzgerald (20) John Steinbeck (20) Toni Morrison (19) Willa Cather (17) Herman Melville (16) Nathaniel Hawthorne (15)

Poetry 298

Edgar Allan Poe (21) George Eliot (14) Mary Shelley (11) Emily Dickinson (8) Samuel Taylor Coleridge (5) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (5) William Butler Yeats (5) Dylan Thomas (5) Robert Frost (5) Pablo Neruda (4)

British Literature 294

Charles Dickens (25) Rudyard Kipling (20) Virginia Woolf (19) Robert Louis Stevenson (17) George Orwell (16) Jane Austen (16) Laura Ingalls Wilder (14) J.R.R. Tolkien (14) H.G. Wells (13) Daniel Defoe (12)

Mystery / Thriller 174

Agatha Christie (31) Stephen King (20) John Grisham (18) Dashiell Hammett (16) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (14) Raymond Chandler (6) James Patterson (3) Dick Francis (3) Dorothy Sayers (3) Margaret Truman (3)

Children's Literature 118

Hans Christian Andersen (13) Dr. Seuss (12) Roald Dahl (8) (Frank) Baum (7) Charles Dickens (4) C.S. Lewis (4) Mary Poppins (3) E.B. White (3) Beatrix Potter (3) Pearl Buck (3)

Shakespeare 24

William Shakespeare (7) William Faulkner (2) Othello (1) Christopher Marlowe (1) King Lear (1) James Fenimore Cooper (1) Ben Jonson (1) Crow (1) Will's quills (1) H.G. Wells (1)