Authors

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1 Ernest Hemingway 45x

2 William Faulkner 38x

3 Mark Twain 37x

4 Charles Dickens 35x

5 Agatha Christie 32x

6 Rudyard Kipling 28x

7 James Joyce 27x

8 Stephen King 26x

9 John Steinbeck 26x

10 John Grisham 25x

11 Louisa May Alcott 25x

12 F. Scott Fitzgerald 25x

13 Anne Rice 23x

14 Edgar Allan Poe 23x

15 Toni Morrison 21x

16 Jane Austen 21x

17 Henry David Thoreau 21x

18 Virginia Woolf 19x

19 Margaret Mitchell 19x

20 Dorothy Parker 19x

21 Ayn Rand 19x

22 J.D. Salinger 19x

23 Pearl Buck 18x

24 Alice Walker 18x

25 Leo Tolstoy 18x

26 E.B. White 18x

27 H.G. Wells 17x

28 Willa Cather 16x

29 Harriet Beecher Stowe 16x

30 Ian Fleming 16x

31 Edgar Rice Burroughs 16x

32 Herman Melville 16x

33 Joseph Heller 16x

34 J.R.R. Tolkien 16x

35 Robert Louis Stevenson 15x

36 Jack London 15x

37 George Sand 15x

38 Dashiell Hammett 15x

39 Sinclair Lewis 14x

40 Lewis Carroll 14x

41 Laura Ingalls Wilder 14x

42 George Orwell 14x

43 D.H. Lawrence 14x

44 Nathaniel Hawthorne 14x

45 Michael Crichton 13x

46 Jules Verne 13x

47 J.K. Rowling 13x

48 Isak Dinesen 13x

49 Harper Lee 13x

50 Hans Christian Andersen 13x

Sample Clues

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

Ernest Hemingway

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

Wilkins Micawber, Samuel Pickwick, Bob Cratchit

Charles Dickens

In her very 1st book, she introduced Hercule Poirot

Agatha Christie

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Other 3,471

James Joyce (28) Anne Rice (24) Margaret Mitchell (20) Harriet Beecher Stowe (19) Edgar Rice Burroughs (19) Michael Crichton (19) Pearl Buck (19) Ayn Rand (19) J.K. Rowling (18) Dorothy Parker (18)

American Literature 555

Ernest Hemingway (44) Mark Twain (39) William Faulkner (35) F. Scott Fitzgerald (26) John Steinbeck (24) Henry David Thoreau (22) Toni Morrison (21) J.D. Salinger (20) Willa Cather (19) Herman Melville (19)

Poetry 456

Edgar Allan Poe (25) George Eliot (17) Mary Shelley (14) Emily Dickinson (9) John Keats (9) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (8) Robert Frost (8) William Butler Yeats (7) Dylan Thomas (7) Edward Lear (6)

British Literature 399

Charles Dickens (31) Rudyard Kipling (23) Virginia Woolf (22) Jane Austen (21) Robert Louis Stevenson (19) George Orwell (18) H.G. Wells (16) Laura Ingalls Wilder (15) J.R.R. Tolkien (15) Oscar Wilde (13)

Mystery / Thriller 216

Agatha Christie (32) Stephen King (21) John Grisham (21) Dashiell Hammett (16) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (15) Raymond Chandler (7) Dick Francis (4) Tom Clancy (4) James Patterson (3) Dorothy Sayers (3)

Children's Literature 152

Hans Christian Andersen (14) Dr. Seuss (12) L. Frank Baum (9) Roald Dahl (8) E.B. White (6) C.S. Lewis (6) Charles Dickens (5) the Brothers Grimm (3) Mary Poppins (3) Joseph Conrad (3)

Shakespeare 46

William Shakespeare (11) "The Masque of the Red Death" (4) Christopher Marlowe (2) William Faulkner (2) Prospero (2) Othello (1) King Lear (1) James Fenimore Cooper (1) Ben Jonson (1) Crow (1)