1. Ernest Hemingway
2. Elmore Leonard
3. Anton Chekhov
4. Toni Morrison
5. George Orwell
6. E.L. Doctorow
7. Henry Miller
8. Elmore Leonard
9. John Steinbeck
10. Stephen King
11. Ralph Waldo Emerson
12. Neil Gaiman
13. Maya Angelou
14. James Patterson
15. Stephen King
16. Mark Twain
17. Toni Morrison
18. Edgar Allan Poe
19. John Steinbeck
20. Annie Dillard
21. Ray Bradbury
22. Saul Bellow
23. Erica Jong
24. Kurt Vonnegut
25. T.S. Eliot
26. Ernest Hemingway
27. Gertrude Stein
28. F. Scott Fitzgerald
29. Neil Gaiman
30. G.K. Chesterton
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