1. Sylvia Plath

2. Oscar Wilde

3. Toni Morrison

4. Jonathan Franzen

5. William Faulkner

6. Margaret Atwood

7. James Baldwin

8. Jeffrey Eugenides

9. Norman Rush

10. W. Somerset Maugham

11. Lorrie Moore

12. Gabriel García Márquez

13. Virginia Woolf

14. Samuel Johnson

15. Stephen King
