Roald Dahl
[ranking: 5]
Age: Dec. at 74 (1916-1990)
Birthplace: Llandaff, Cardiff, United Kingdom
Works: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, The Witches, The BFG
J. D. Salinger
[ranking: 6]
Age: Dec. at 91 (1919-2010)
Birthplace: New York City, New York
Works: The Catcher in the Rye, Nine Stories, Franny and Zooey, Raise High the Roof Beam Carpenters and Seymour: And Introduction
Arthur Rimbaud
[ranking: 7]
Age: Dec. at 37 (1854-1891)
Birthplace: Charleville-M??zi??res, France
Works: Voyelles, The Drunken Boat, A Season in Hell
C. S. Lewis
[ranking: 8]
Age: Dec. at 65 (1898-1963)
Birthplace: Belfast, United Kingdom
Works: The Chronicles of Narnia, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, Mere Christianity
Jack Kerouac
[ranking: 1]
Age: Dec. at 47 (1922-1969)
Birthplace: Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Works: On the Road, The Dharma Bums, Big Sur, The Town and the City, The Subterraneans
Ernest Hemingway
[ranking: 2]
Age: Dec. at 62 (1899-1961)
Birthplace: Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Works: The Old Man and the Sea, The Sun Also Roses, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, A Moveable Feast
Anton Chekhov
[ranking: 3]
Age: Dec. at 44 (1860-1904)
Birthplace: Taganrog, Russia
Works: The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters, Ivanov
Hunter S. Thompson
[ranking: 4]
Age: Dec. at 68 (1937-2005)
Birthplace: Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America
Works: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Rum Diary, The Curse of the Lono, The Great Shark Hunt
Albert Camus
[ranking: 9]
Age: Dec. at 47 (1913-1960)
Birthplace: Dr??an, Algeria
Works: The Stranger, The Plague, The Fall, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Rebel
Aldous Huxley
[ranking: 10]
Age: Dec. at 69 (1894-1963)
Birthplace: Godalming, United Kingdom
Works: Alice in Wonderland, Brave New World, Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, Island, + more
William Butler Yeats
[ranking: 11]
Age: Dec. at 74 (1865-1939)
Birthplace: Sandymount, Republic of Ireland
Works: Lake Isle of Innisfree, The Rose Tree, Adam's Curse, A Prayer for My Daughter, The Song of the Happy Shepherd
Ralph Ellison
[ranking: 12]
Age: Dec. at 81 (1913-1994)
Birthplace: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Works: Invisible Man, Shadow and Act, Three Days before the Shooting..., Juneteenth, Going to the Territory
Truman Capote
[ranking: 13]
Age: Dec. at 60 (1924-1984)
Birthplace: USA, New Orleans, Louisiana
Works: The Innocents, In Cold Blood, Utterly Cold Blooded, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Beat the Devil, + more
Robert Frost
[ranking: 14]
Age: Dec. at 89 (1874-1963)
Birthplace: California
Works: The Road Not Taken, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Still I Rise, Birches, After Apple-Picking
George Orwell
[ranking: 15]
Age: Dec. at 47 (1903-1950)
Birthplace: Motihari, India
Works: Nineteen Eighty-Four, Animal Farm, Homage to Catalonia, Down and Out in Paris and London, The Road to Wigan Pier
S?ren Kierkegaard
[ranking: 16]
Age: Dec. at 42 (1813-1855)
Birthplace: Copenhagen, Denmark
Works: Either/Or, Fear and Trembling, The Sickness Unto Death, The Concept of Anxiety, Repetition
James Joyce
[ranking: 17]
Age: Dec. at 59 (1882-1941)
Birthplace: Rathgar, Republic of Ireland
Works: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Dubliners, Finnegans Wake
Rudyard Kipling
[ranking: 18]
Age: Dec. at 71 (1865-1936)
Birthplace: Mumbai, India
Works: The Jungle Book, Kim, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, If, Just So Stories
Raymond Chandler
[ranking: 19]
Age: Dec. at 71 (1888-1959)
Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois
Works: The Big Sleep, The Long Goodbye, The Little Sister, Farewell My Lovely
Joseph Heller
[ranking: 20]
Age: Dec. at 76 (1923-1999)
Birthplace: Coney Island, New York City, New York
Works: Catch-22, Casino Royale, Sex and the Single Girl, Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man, + more
Ray Bradbury
[ranking: 21]
Age: Dec. at 92 (1920-2012)
Birthplace: Waukegan, Illinois, United States of America
Works: Fahrenheit 451, Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine
F. Scott Fitzgerald
[ranking: 22]
Age: Dec. at 44 (1896-1940)
Birthplace: Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America
Works: The Great Gatsby, Tender Is the Night, This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and the Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon
Franz Kafka
[ranking: 23]
Age: Dec. at 41 (1883-1924)
Birthplace: Prague, Czech Republic
Works: The Metamorphosis, Letter to His Father, In the Penal Colony, The Castle
William Carlos Williams
[ranking: 24]
Age: Dec. at 80 (1883-1963)
Birthplace: Rutherford, New Jersey
Works: The Red Wheelbarrow, This Is Just to Say, Libertad! Igualdad! Fraternidad!, A Sort of Song
Oscar Wilde
[ranking: 25]
Age: Dec. at 46 (1854-1900)
Birthplace: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Works: The Picture of Dorian Gray, The importance of being Earnest and other plays, An Ideal Husband, The Importance of Being Earnest, Le d??clin du mensonge, + more
Kurt Vonnegut
[ranking: 26]
Age: Dec. at 85 (1922-2007)
Birthplace: Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Works: Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat's Cradle, Breakfast of Champions, The Sirens of Titan, God Bless You, + more
T. S. Eliot
[ranking: 27]
Age: Dec. at 77 (1888-1965)
Birthplace: St. Louis, Missouri
Works: The Waste Land, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, The Cocktail Party, Murder in the Cathedral, The Family Reunion
Walt Whitman
[ranking: 28]
Age: Dec. at 73 (1819-1892)
Birthplace: West Hills, New York
Works: O Captain! My Captain!, Leaves of Grass, Song of Myself, Calamus, Pioneers! O Pioneers!
Mark Twain
[ranking: 29]
Age: Dec. at 75 (1835-1910)
Birthplace: Florida, Missouri, United States of America
Works: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, The Prince and the Pauper, The Mysterious Stranger, + more
William Faulkner
[ranking: 30]
Age: Dec. at 65 (1897-1962)
Birthplace: New Albany, Mississippi
Works: The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, Absalom Absalom!, A Rose for Emily
Michael Crichton
[ranking: 31]
Age: Dec. at 66 (1942-2008)
Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Works: Jurassic Park, Twister, Westworld, Disclosure, The Runaway, + more
Ezra Pound
[ranking: 32]
Age: Dec. at 87 (1885-1972)
Birthplace: Hailey, Idaho
Works: Social Credit. An Impact, The Cantos, A B C of economics, The translations of Ezra Pound, Unwobbling pivot & the Great digest, + more
Samuel Beckett
[ranking: 33]
Age: Dec. at 83 (1906-1989)
Birthplace: Foxrock, Republic of Ireland
Works: Waiting for Godot, Film, Murphy, The Unnamable, Malone Dies, + more
Leo Tolstoy
[ranking: 34]
Age: Dec. at 82 (1828-1910)
Birthplace: Yasnaya Polyana, Russia
Works: Anna Karenina, War and Peace, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, The Kreutzer Sonata, Father Sergius, + more
Jack London
[ranking: 35]
Age: Dec. at 40 (1876-1916)
Birthplace: San Francisco Peninsula, Northern California, California, Contiguous United States, San Francisco Bay Area, + more
Works: The Call of the Wild, White Fang, The Sea-Wolf, To Build a Fire, Martin Eden
Dylan Thomas
[ranking: 36]
Age: Dec. at 39 (1914-1953)
Birthplace: Swansea, United Kingdom
Works: A prospect of the sea, Under Milk Wood, Under Milk Wood, On the air with Dylan Thomas, Adventures in the Skin Trade, + more
Charles Dickens
[ranking: 37]
Age: Dec. at 58 (1812-1870)
Birthplace: Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Works: Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, The Pickwick Papers, A Christmas Carol
Allen Ginsberg
[ranking: 38]
Age: Dec. at 71 (1926-1997)
Birthplace: Newark, New Jersey, United States of America
Works: Howl, Collected poems 1947-1980, Kaddish, The Yage Letters, Howl and Other Poems, + more
Seamus Heaney
[ranking: 39]
Age: Dec. at 74 (1939-2013)
Birthplace: Castledawson, United Kingdom
Works: The Cure at Troy, Beowulf, Death of a Naturalist, The Spirit Level, Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966-1996, + more
A. A. Milne
[ranking: 40]
Age: Dec. at 74 (1882-1956)
Birthplace: Hampstead, London, United Kingdom
Works: Winnie-the-Pooh, When We Were Very Young, Now We Are Six, The Red House Mystery
Jules Verne
[ranking: 41]
Age: Dec. at 77 (1828-1905)
Birthplace: Nantes, France
Works: Around the World in Eighty Days, Journey to the Center of the Earth, The Mysterious Island, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, From the Earth to the Moon, + more
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
[ranking: 42]
Age: Dec. at 78 (1899-1977)
Birthplace: Saint Petersburg, Russia
Works: Lolita, The Gift, Pale Fire, Pnin, Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
Robert Burns
[ranking: 43]
Age: Dec. at 37 (1759-1796)
Birthplace: Alloway, United Kingdom
Works: Tam o' Shanter, A Red, Red Rose, Tam-Lin, The Works of Robert Burns, + more
Malcolm Lowry
[ranking: 44]
Aristophanes
[ranking: 45]
Birthplace: Athens, Greece
Works: Thesmophoriazusae, The Knights of Aristophanes, The Clouds, The Acharnians, The Wasps, + more
Percy Bysshe Shelley
[ranking: 46]
Age: Dec. at 30 (1792-1822)
Birthplace: Horsham, United Kingdom
Works: The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Vol. 2, The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Vol. 1, Prometheus Unbound, + more
George Bernard Shaw
[ranking: 47]
Age: Dec. at 94 (1856-1950)
Birthplace: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Works: Pygmalion, The Millionairess, Caesar and Cleopatra, Major Barbara, Pygmalion, + more
Washington Irving
[ranking: 48]
Age: Dec. at 76 (1783-1859)
Birthplace: Manhattan, New York City, New York
Works: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, Life of George Washington, A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, + more
Jorge Luis Borges
[ranking: 49]
Age: Dec. at 87 (1899-1986)
Birthplace: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Works: Labyrinths, Ficciones, The Aleph, Dreamtigers, The Borges Reader, + more
E. E. Cummings
[ranking: 50]
Age: Dec. at 68 (1894-1962)
Birthplace: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Works: The Enormous Room, Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town, anyone lived in a pretty how town, Indignes paquets d'expression, Viva, + more
Aleksandr Pushkin
[ranking: 51]
Age: Dec. at 38 (1799-1837)
Birthplace: Moscow, Russia
Works: Eugene Onegin, Boris Godunov, The Queen of Spades
Herman Melville
[ranking: 52]
Age: Dec. at 72 (1819-1891)
Birthplace: Manhattan, New York City, New York
Works: Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, The Confidence-Man, Billy Budd, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War, + more
Hermann Hesse
[ranking: 53]
Age: Dec. at 85 (1877-1962)
Birthplace: Calw, Germany
Works: Siddhartha, Steppenwolf, Kurgast: Aufzeichnungen von einer Badener Kur, Beneath the Wheel, The Glass Bead Game, + more
Lewis Carroll
[ranking: 54]
Age: Dec. at 66 (1832-1898)
Birthplace: Daresbury, Widnes, United Kingdom
Works: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Annotated Alice, + more
Ivan Turgenev
[ranking: 55]
Age: Dec. at 65 (1818-1883)
Birthplace: Oryol, Russia
Works: Fathers and Sons, On the Eve, Virgin soil, Diary of a Superfluous Man, Rudin, + more
Upton Sinclair, Jr.
[ranking: 56]
Age: Dec. at 90 (1878-1968)
Birthplace: Area code 443, Baltimore, Area code 667, United States of America, United States, + more
Works: The Jungle, A World to Win, The Gnomobile, The Flivver King, Mental Radio, + more
Edgar Allan Poe
[ranking: 57]
Age: Dec. at 40 (1809-1849)
Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts
Works: The Raven, Annabel Lee, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Purloined Letter, The Pit and the Pendulum, + more
Victor Hugo
[ranking: 58]
Age: Dec. at 83 (1802-1885)
Birthplace: Besan?on, France
Works: Les Mis??rables, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Odes et Ballades, Lucretia Borgia, Po??sies choisies, + more
Henry Miller
[ranking: 59]
Age: Dec. at 89 (1891-1980)
Birthplace: Yorkville, New York City, New York
Works: Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, Sexus, The best of Henry Miller, Sextet, + more
Arthur Conan Doyle
[ranking: 60]
Age: Dec. at 71 (1859-1930)
Birthplace: Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Works: The Lost World, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles, A Study in Scarlet, The Hound of the Baskervilles, + more
Hans Christian Andersen
[ranking: 61]
Age: Dec. at 70 (1805-1875)
Birthplace: Odense, Denmark
Works: Thumbelina, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, The Complete Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl, The Little Mermaid, + more
O. Henry
[ranking: 62]
Age: Dec. at 48 (1862-1910)
Birthplace: Greensboro, North Carolina
Works: The Gift of the Magi, Cabbages and Kings, The last leaf, The Gentle Grafter, Whirligigs, + more
Henry David Thoreau
[ranking: 63]
Age: Dec. at 45 (1817-1862)
Birthplace: Concord, Massachusetts
Works: Walden, The Service, Civil Disobedience, Faith in a seed, Cape Cod, + more
Bertolt Brecht
[ranking: 64]
Age: Dec. at 58 (1898-1956)
Birthplace: Augsburg, Germany
Works: The Threepenny Opera, The Decision, Se?ora Carrar's Rifles, Mother Courage and Her Children, To Whom Does the World Belong?, + more
Antoine de Saint-Exup??ry
[ranking: 65]
Age: Dec. at 44 (1900-1944)
Birthplace: Lyon, France
Works: The Little Prince, Flight to Arras, Wind, Sand and Stars, Courrier sud, + more
G. K. Chesterton
[ranking: 66]
Age: Dec. at 62 (1874-1936)
Birthplace: Kensington, London, United Kingdom
Works: The Man Who Was Thursday, The Napoleon of Notting Hill, The Everlasting Man, Orthodoxy, William Blake, + more
Marcel Proust
[ranking: 67]
Age: Dec. at 51 (1871-1922)
Birthplace: Auteuil-Neuilly-Passy
Works: In Search of Lost Time, Swann in love, In Search of Lost Time Volume 2, Contre Sainte-Beuve, Sesamo y Lirios y Sobre La Lectura, + more
Robert Louis Stevenson
[ranking: 68]
Age: Dec. at 44 (1850-1894)
Birthplace: Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Works: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Treasure Island, The Master of Ballantrae, Kidnapped, Kidnapped, + more
Alexandre Dumas
[ranking: 69]
Age: Dec. at 68 (1802-1870)
Birthplace: Villers-Cotter??ts, France
Works: The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, The Black Tulip, La Reine Margot, The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later, + more
J. M. Barrie
[ranking: 70]
Age: Dec. at 77 (1860-1937)
Birthplace: Kirriemuir, United Kingdom
Works: Peter Pan, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, As You Like It, Peter and Wendy, Stories by English Authors: Scotland, + more
E. M. Forster
[ranking: 71]
Age: Dec. at 91 (1879-1970)
Birthplace: England, London
Works: A Passage to India, A Room with a View, Howards End, Where Angels Fear to Tread, Where Angels Fear to Tread, + more
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