1. Ernest Hemingway (American journalist)
2. Charles Dickens (Writer)
3. William Shakespeare (English poet)
4. Leo Tolstoy (Russian writer)
5. Stephen King (author)
6. William Faulkner (writer)
7. Jane Austen (Novelist)
8. Virginia Woolf (Writer)
9. James Joyce (Irish novelist)
10. Mark Twain (writer)