100 Best Authors List (or not…)
Posted on August 21, 2009 by
I realize that no ‘Top 100’ list can ever be truly accurate, and I also find it difficult to see so many Americans on the list at the cost of so many other great writers. And the ‘best’ on the list? SPOILER ALERT: Faulkner (1) is good, and so is Kafka (2), but are they really better than Shakespeare (3), Doestoyevsky (11), Dante (12), Dickens (16), and Homer (17)? That is very much a personal opinion.
In any case this article: ‘The 100 Greatest Writers of All Time‘ by WILL HUBBARD and ALEX CARNEVALE at www.thisrecording.com, lists a group of very good authors, all worth reading and discussing, albeit very skewed toward Americans.
So, rather than arguing with this list and its proponents, I suggest that the following great writers belong on this list as well:
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- J.R.R. Tolkien
- Jack Kerouac
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Mordecai Richler
- Joseph Heller
- J.D. Salinger
- Salman Rushdie
- Rudyard Kipling
- Aldous Huxley
- Alexandre Dumas
- Oscar Wilde
And I am sure with a little time and effort, I could list off another 20 or 30 who deserve mention on such a list, proving that lists such as these are very subjective.
