The Literary 100:

A Ranking of the Most Influential Novelists, Playwrights, and Poets of All Time

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Ν. Τσούλιας

The list below is from the book The Literary 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Novelists, Playwrights, and Poets of All Time (Checkmark Books/Facts On File, Inc.: New York, 2001), written by Daniel S. Burt.

Burt holds a Ph.D from New York University with a specialty in Victorian fiction and was for nine years a dean at Wesleyan University, where he has also taught literature courses since 1989. He is also the author of The Novel 100: A Ranking of the Greatest Novels of All Time.

1	William Shakespeare	1564-1616	Catholic; Anglican
2	Dante Alighieri	1265-1321	Catholic
3	Homer	fl. c. 750(?) B.C.	Greek paganism
4	Leo Tolstoy	1828-1910	Russian Orthodox
5	Geoffrey Chaucer	c. 1340-1400	Catholic
6	Charles Dickens	1812-1870	Anglican
7	James Joyce	1882-1941	Catholic (lapsed)
8	John Milton	1608-1674	Congregationalist
9	Virgil	70-19 B.C.
10	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	1749-1832	Deist
11	Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra	1547-1616	Catholic
12	Murasaki Shikibu	c. 978-1030	Buddhist/Shinto culture
13	Sophocles	496-406 B.C.
14	William Faulkner	1897-1962	Presbyterian
15	Feodor Dostoevsky	1821-1881	Russian Orthodox
16	T.S. Eliot	1888-1965	Anglican
17	Marcel Proust	1871-1922	Jewish Catholic
18	Jane Austen	1775-1817	Anglican
19	George Eliot	1819-1880	Anglican; agnostic
20	William Butler Yeats	1865-1939	Church of Ireland (Anglican); astrology
21	Alexander Pushkin	1799-1837	Russian Orthodox
22	Euripides	c. 480-406 B.C.
23	John Donne	1572-1631	Anglican; Catholic
24	Herman Melville	1819-1891	Transcendentalist
25	John Keats	1795-1821	Anglican
26	Ovid	43 B.C.-17 A.D.
27	Tu Fu	712-770
28	William Blake	1757-1827	Swedenborgian; occult
29	Aeschylus	c. 525-456 B.C.
30	Gustave Flaubert	1821-1880	Catholic
31	Franz Kafka	1883-1924	Jewish
32	Moliere	1622-1673	Catholic
33	William Wordsworth	1770-1850	Anglican
34	Aristophanes	c. 450-c. 385 B.C.
35	Thomas Mann	1875-1955	Lutheran
36	Henrik Ibsen	1828-1906
37	Anton Chekhov	1860-1904	Russian Orthodox
38	Henry James	1843-1916	Anglican
39	Vladimir Nabokov	1899-1977	Russian Orthodox
40	Walt Whitman	1819-1892	Quaker; Humanist; Transcendentalist
41	Honore de Balzac	1799-1850	Catholic
42	Jonathan Swift	1667-1745	Church of Ireland (Anglican)
43	Stendhal	1783-1842	Catholic
44	Thomas Hardy	1840-1928
45	George Bernard Shaw	1856-1950	Church of Ireland (Anglican); atheist, then mystic
46	Ernest Hemingway	1899-1961	Catholic
47	D. H. Lawrence	1885-1930
48	Charles Baudelaire	1821-1867	Catholic
49	Samuel Beckett	1906-1989	Church of Ireland (Anglican)
50	Virginia Woolf	1882-1941	Neo-pagan
51	Alexander Pope	1688-1744	Catholic
52	Francois Rabelais	c. 1494-1553	Catholic
53	Francesco Petrarch	1304-1374	Catholic
54	Emily Dickinson	1830-1886
55	Edgar Allan Poe	1809-1849
56	Henry Fielding	1707-1754
57	Joseph Conrad	1857-1924	Catholic; atheist
58	Robert Browning	1812-1889	Anglican
59	Albert Camus	1913-1960	Catholic; Existentialism
60	Charlotte Bronte	1816-1855	Anglican
61	Emily Bronte	1818-1848	Anglican
62	Jean Racine	1639-1699	Catholic
63	Mark Twain	1835-1910	Presbyterian
64	August Strindberg	1849-1912
65	Emile Zola	1840-1902	Catholic
66	Jorge Luis Borges	1899-1986	Catholic; Quaker; agnostic
67	Cao Xueqin	1715-1763
68	Giovanni Boccaccio	1313-1375	Catholic
69	Voltaire	1694-1778	raised in Jansenism; later Deist
70	Laurence Sterne	1713-1768	Church of Ireland clergyman (Anglican)
71	William Makepeace Thackeray	1811-1863
72	Percy Bysshe Shelley	1792-1822	Anglican; atheist
73	Eugene O’Neill	1888-1953	Catholic
74	Wallace Stevens	1879-1955	Catholic
75	Lord Byron (George Gordon)	1788-1824
76	Gabriel Garcia Marquez	1928-	Catholic
77	Walter Scott	1771-1832	Anglican
78	Pablo Neruda	1904-1973	Catholic
79	Robert Musil	1880-1942	Catholic
80	Alfred Lord Tennyson	1809-1892	Anglican
81	Flannery O’Connor	1925-1964	Catholic
82	Catullus	c. 84-c. 54 B.C.
83	Federico Garcia Lorca	1898-1936	Catholic (some Jewish ancestry)
84	Nathaniel Hawthorne	1804-1864	Transcendentalist
85	Theodore Dreiser	1871-1945	Catholic; Congregationalist; Chrisitan Science
86	Ralph Ellison	1914-1994
87	Anthony Trollope	1815-1882	Anglican
88	F. Scott Fitzgerald	1896-1940	Catholic
89	Victor Hugo	1802-1885	Catholic
90	Rabindranath Tagore	1961-1941	Hindu
91	Daniel Defoe	1660?-1731	Protestant Dissenter (Presbyterian)
92	Gunter Grass	1927-	Catholic
93	Lu Xun	1881-1936
94	E. M. Forster	1879-1970
95	Isaac Bashevis Singer	1904-1991	Jewish
96	Tanizaki Jun’ichiro	1886-1965
97	Richard Wright	1908-1960	Seventh-day Adventist; Communist
98	Gertrude Stein	1874-1946	Jewish
99	Zeami Motokiyo	1363-1443	Buddhist/Shinto culture
100	Oscar Wilde	1854-1900	Church of Ireland (Anglican); Catholic