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Top 100 Writers of the 20th Century

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath." — F. Scott Fitzgerald

A century of voices, a hundred sparks of genius. Honoring Writer’s Digest's Top 100 Writers of the 20th Century, this page links to DailyCelebrations tributes where their words still sing. 🎉📖 Each name changed how we see the world—one story, one risk at a time.

✨💓TOP TEN 1. John Steinbeck	2. Ernest Hemingway	3. William Faulkner
4. Eugene O'Neill	5. T.S. Eliot	6. Willa Cather
7. Robert Frost	8. James Baldwin	9. Eudora Welty
10. E.B. White	✨💓THE REST: Edward Albee	Isabel Allende
Maya Angelou	Isaac Asimov	Margaret Atwood
W.H. Auden	Saul Bellow	Judy Blume
Jorge Luis Borges	Ray Bradbury	Charles Bukowski
Edgar Rice Burroughs	Octavia E. Butler	Albert Camus
Truman Capote	Raymond Carver	John Cheever
Agatha Christie	Winston Churchill	Arthur C. Clarke
Joseph Conrad	Roald Dahl	Arthur Conan Doyle
Ralph Ellison	F. Scott Fitzgerald	E.M. Forster
Dr. Seuss	Allen Ginsberg	William Golding
Graham Greene	John Grisham	Alex Haley
Robert Heinlein	Langston Hughes	Zora Neale Hurston
Aldous Huxley	John Irving	James Joyce
Jack Kerouac	Stephen King	Barbara Kingsolver
Milan Kundera	D. H. Lawrence	Ursula Le Guin
Harper Lee	C.S. Lewis	Sinclair Lewis
Jack London
Bernard Malamud	Thomas Mann	Gabriel Garcia Marquez
W. Somerset Maugham	John McPhee	James A. Michener
Arthur Miller	Toni Morrison	Vladimir Nabokov
Pablo Neruda	Anais Nin	Flannery O'Connor
George Orwell	Dorothy Parker	Sylvia Plath
Marcel Proust	Ernie Pyle	Thomas Pynchon
Ayn Rand	Tom Robbins	J. D. Salinger
Rod Serling	Shel Silverstein	Upton Sinclair
Danielle Steel	William Styron	Amy Tan
Hunter S. Thompson	J.R.R.Tolkien	John Updike
Kurt Vonnegut	Alice Walker	Edith Wharton
Laura Ingalls Wilder	Tennessee Williams	Tom Wolfe
Virginia Woolf	Herman Wouk	William Butler Yeats

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