Writer - Top100
1. William Shakespeare
— UK | 1564 - 1616
2. Dante Alighieri
— Italy | 1265 - 1321
3. Homer
— Ancient Greece
— Circa 9th - 8th century BC
4. Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy
— Russia | 1828 - 1910
5. Geoffrey Chaucer
— UK | 1343 - 1400
6. Charles John Huffam Dickens
— UK | 1812 - 1870
7. James Joyce
— Ireland | 1882 - 1941
8. John Milton
— UK | 1608 - 1674
9. Publius Vergilius Maro
— Italy | 70 BC - 19 BC
10. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
— Germany | 1749 - 1832
11. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
— Spain | 1547 - 1616
12. Murasaki Shikibu
— Japan | Circa 978 - Circa 1016
13. Sophocles
— Ancient Greece
— C. 496 BC - C. 406 BC
14. William Faulkner
— USA | 1897 - 1962
15. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
— Russia | 1821 - 1881
16. Thomas Stearns Eliot
— UK | 1888 - 1965
17. Marcel Proust
— France | 1871 - 1922
18. Jane Austen
— UK | 1775 - 1817
19. George Eliot
— UK | 1819 - 1880
20. William Butler Yeats
— Ireland | 1865 - 1939