The 100 Greatest Writers Of All Time

There is no list of the top 100 greatest of anything that will satisfy all.  Here is yet another attempt at assembling the greatest 100 writers of all time by thisrecording.  The sequence of order might offend bibliophiles but a concentration of important writers made this comprehensive list.

100. Joseph Conrad
99. Honoré de Balzac
98. Czeslaw Milosz
97. George Bernard Shaw
96. Wallace Stevens
95. Rumi
94. W.G. Sebald
93. Robert Hayden
92. Henry Miller
91. Robert Heinlein
90. Lorine Niedecker
89. George Eliot
88. David Mamet
87. Derek Walcott
86. Isak Dinesen
85. Maryse Conde
84. Joyce Cary
83. Frank O’Hara
82. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
81. Ernest Hemingway
80. Carson McCullers
79. Flann O’Brien
78. Julio Cortazar
77. Saul Bellow
76. Jonathan Swift
75. Ezra Pound
74. Philip K. Dick
73. Percy Shelley
72. James Agee
71. Stanley Elkin
70. Walter Benjamin
69. Harold Pinter
68. John Berryman
67. James Baldwin
66. Tu Fu
65. Jorge Luis Borges
64. Malcolm Lowry
63. Willa Cather
62. Edgar Allan Poe
61. Henrik Ibsen
60. W.H. Auden
59. Thomas Pynchon
58. Emily Brontë/Charlotte Brontë
57. Flannery O’Connor
56. Leo Tolstoy
55. Tennessee Williams
54. Nathaniel Hawthorne
53. T.S. Eliot
52. Sophocles
51. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

50. Toni Morrison
49. Charles Olson
48. John Steinbeck
47. Eugene O’Neill
46. Gustave Flaubert
45. Ivan Turgenev
44. Charles Baudelaire
43. Robert Lowell
42. Mark Twain
41. Robert Creeley
40. Iris Murdoch
39. Arthur Rimbaud
38. Mary Shelley
37. Virgil
36. Emily Dickinson
35. Walt Whitman
34. D.H. Lawrence
33. William Carlos Williams
32. Samuel Coleridge
31. Henry James
30. John Keats
29. William Wordsworth
28. Ovid
27. William Blake
26. Dr. Johnson
25. Lord Byron
24. George Orwell
23. Stendhal
22. Euripides
21. Miguel Cervantes
20. Laurence Sterne
19. Herman Melville
18. William Butler Yeats
17. Homer
16. Charles Dickens
15. John Ashbery
14. Virginia Woolf
13. Geoffrey Chaucer
12. Dante
11. Fyodor Doestoyevsky
10. Marcel Proust
9. Anton Chekhov
8. Vladimir Nabokov
7. Samuel Beckett
6. John Milton
5. Gertrude Stein
4. James Joyce
3. William Shakespeare
2. Franz Kafka
1. William Faulkner