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Top 100 authors

Class XP Main/Index The most popular authors on Wikisource calculated by number of hits on their author pages.

Most popular authors by page views on 01 January 2011

#	Author	Hits	Description	Image
1	Lovecraft, H. P.H. P. Lovecraft	101	American author of fantasy, horror and science fiction.
2	Howard, Robert ErvinRobert Ervin Howard	78	American author of fantasy and historical adventure pulp stories.
3	Poe, Edgar AllanEdgar Allan Poe	52	American poet, short story writer, editor and critic
4	McGonagall, William TopazWilliam Topaz McGonagall	36	Scottish poet
5	Doyle, Arthur ConanArthur Conan Doyle	35	A Scottish author of Irish descent most famously known for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes.
5	Dickinson, EmilyEmily Dickinson	35	American poet
7	Shakespeare, WilliamWilliam Shakespeare	33	English poet and playwright considered to be the greatest writer in the English language.
8	Tennyson, AlfredAlfred Tennyson	27	The Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom after William Wordsworth and one of the most popular English poets in literature.
9	Donne, JohnJohn Donne	26	Jacobean metaphysical poet.
10	Harte, BretBret Harte	25	American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California.
10	Keats, JohnJohn Keats	25	One of the principal poets of the English Romantic movement.
12	Bierce, AmbroseAmbrose Bierce	22	American satirist, critic, poet, short story (horror) writer, editor, and journalist.
13	Chesterton, Gilbert KeithGilbert Keith Chesterton	21	Prolific English writer of the early 20th century
14	Wilde, OscarOscar Wilde	20	Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and author of short stories.
15	London, JackJack London	17	American novelist and noted socialist.
15	Stevenson, Robert LouisRobert Louis Stevenson	17	Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer famous for his novels of adventure, romance, and horror.
17	Dickens, CharlesCharles Dickens	16	English novelist whose characters are among the most memorable in English literature.
17	Henry, O.O. Henry	16	O. Henry was the pen name of American writer William Sydney Porter whose clever use of twist endings in his stories popularized the term "O. Henry Ending."
17	Twain, MarkMark Twain	16	Famous American humorist, novelist, writer, and lecturer
20	AristotleAristotle	15	Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.
20	Wells, Herbert GeorgeHerbert George Wells	15	British writer best known for his science fiction novels
20	Gandhi, MahatmaMahatma Gandhi	15	Indian political and spiritual leader
20	Blake, WilliamWilliam Blake	15	English poet, painter, and printmaker.
24	Christie, AgathaAgatha Christie	14	British crime writer of novels, short stories, and plays
24	Balzac, Honoré deHonoré de Balzac	14	Nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright
24	Carroll, LewisLewis Carroll	14	English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer
24	Burns, RobertRobert Burns	14	Scottish poet and songwriter
24	VoltaireVoltaire	14	French philosopher from the Enlightment
29	Brontë, EmilyEmily Brontë	13	British novelist and poet, sister of Charlotte and Anne Brontë.
29	Nietzsche, FriedrichFriedrich Nietzsche	13	German philosopher.
29	Carryl, Guy WetmoreGuy Wetmore Carryl	13	American humorist, novelist, and poet
29	Shelley, Percy BysshePercy Bysshe Shelley	13	One of the major English romantic poets, considered to be among the finest lyric poets in the English language.
29	Tagore, RabindranathRabindranath Tagore	13	Indian poet, Nobel prize for literature in 1913.
29	Frost, RobertRobert Frost	13	American poet who received four Pulitzer Prizes.
29	SakiSaki	13	British author often referred to as the master of short stories; compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker.
36	Pope, AlexanderAlexander Pope	12	Considered by many as one of the greatest English poets of the eighteenth century.
36	Obama, BarackBarack Obama	12	44th President of the United States
36	Alighieri, DanteDante Alighieri	12	Italian poet, statesman and language theoric.
36	Fitzgerald, Francis ScottFrancis Scott Fitzgerald	12	American novelist, short story writer, and playwright.
36	Bush, George W.George W. Bush	12	43rd President of the United States.
36	Joyce, JamesJames Joyce	12	Expatriate Irish writer and poet, widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century.
36	Spooner, LysanderLysander Spooner	12	American individualist, anarchist, political philosopher, abolitionist, and legal theorist.
36	Kipling, RudyardRudyard Kipling	12	British author and poet.
36	Coleridge, Samuel TaylorSamuel Taylor Coleridge	12	English poet, critic, and philosopher who was one of the founders of the Romantic Movement.
36	Gray, ThomasThomas Gray	12	English poet, classical scholar, and professor of history at Cambridge University.
36	Woolf, VirginiaVirginia Woolf	12	British author and literary figure.
47	Smith, Clark AshtonClark Ashton Smith	11	American poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories.
47	Burroughs, Edgar RiceEdgar Rice Burroughs	11	American author of adventurous and science fiction pulp stories.
47	Millay, Edna St. VincentEdna St. Vincent Millay	11	Lyrical poet and playwright; the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
47	Longfellow, Henry WadsworthHenry Wadsworth Longfellow	11	American poet and educator.
47	Melville, HermanHerman Melville	11	American novelist, essayist, and poet
47	Swift, JonathanJonathan Swift	11	Anglo-Irish writer of novels, poetry and essays.
47	Tolstoy, LeoLeo Tolstoy	11	Russian novelist.
47	Johnson, Lyndon BainesLyndon Baines Johnson	11	36th President of the United States.
47	PlatoPlato	11	Classical Greek philosopher.
47	Austen, JaneJane Austen	11	English novelist.
57	Franklin, BenjaminBenjamin Franklin	10	American scientist and one of the founders of the United States.
57	Darwin, CharlesCharles Darwin	10	English naturalist.
57	Wesley, CharlesCharles Wesley	10	A leader of the Methodist movement chiefly remembered for his many hymns.
57	Coates, Florence EarleFlorence Earle Coates	10	American poet.
57	HerodotusHerodotus	10	Ancient Greek historian.
57	Kaczynski, TheodoreTheodore Kaczynski	10	American terrorist.
57	Roosevelt, TheodoreTheodore Roosevelt	10	26th President of the United States
57	Yeats, William ButlerWilliam Butler Yeats	10	Irish poet, dramatist, mystic and public figure who was one of the driving forces behind the Irish Literary Revival.
57	Wilson, WoodrowWoodrow Wilson	10	28th President of the United States.
57	Lincoln, AbrahamAbraham Lincoln	10	16th President of the United States.
67	Schopenhauer, ArthurArthur Schopenhauer	9	German philosopher.
67	Russell, BertrandBertrand Russell	9	British logician, philosopher, and mathematician.
67	Faraday, MichaelMichael Faraday	9	British physicist and chemist.
67	Dostoevsky, FyodorFyodor Dostoevsky	9	Russian novelist and writer of fiction.
67	Byron, George GordonGeorge Gordon Byron (Lord Byron)	9	British poet and a leading figure in Romanticism.
67	Thoreau, Henry DavidHenry David Thoreau	9	American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, pacifist, tax resister and philosopher.
67	Milton, JohnJohn Milton	9	English poet, author, polemicist and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England
67	James, Montague RhodesMontague Rhodes James	9	Noted medieval scholar and Provost of King's College, Cambridge.
67	Descartes, RenéRené Descartes	9	Founder of Modern Philosophy and the Father of Modern Mathematics.
67	Browning, RobertRobert Browning	9	English poet and playwright.
67	Rohmer, SaxSax Rohmer	9	English novelist and pulp writer.
67	Freud, SigmundSigmund Freud	9	Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist who founded the psychoanalytic school of psychology.
67	Tout, Thomas FrederickThomas Frederick Tout	9	English historian, Professor of History at the University of Manchester.
67	Hardy, ThomasThomas Hardy	9	Novelist, short story writer, and poet of the naturalist movement.
67	Hobbes, ThomasThomas Hobbes	9	English philosopher.
67	Mare, Walter de laWalter de la Mare	9	English poet, short story writer, and novelist.
67	Hitler, AdolfAdolf Hitler	9	Austrian-born German Chancellor and Führer of Germany.
84	Stoker, BramBram Stoker	8	Irish writer.
84	Elizabeth IElizabeth I	8	Queen of England and Ireland.
84	Leibniz, GottfriedGottfried Leibniz	8	Polymathic genius, with major contributions to several fields.
84	Potter, BeatrixBeatrix Potter	8	British author, illustrator, and mycologist, famous for her children book.
84	Maupassant, Guy deGuy de Maupassant	8	French novelist.
84	Kant, ImmanuelImmanuel Kant	8	German philosopher.
84	Bonaparte, NapoleonNapoleon Bonaparte	8	Emperor of France.
84	PolycarpPolycarp	8	Christian bishop of Smyrna.
84	More, ThomasThomas More	8	English author, politician, and lawyer.
84	Hugo, VictorVictor Hugo	8	French Romantic writer.
84	Davies, William HenryWilliam Henry Davies	8	Welsh poet and writer.
84	Courtney, William PrideauxWilliam Prideaux Courtney	8	Ecclesiastical Commissioner; of the Reform Club Chambers.
84	XenophonXenophon	8	Ancient Greek soldier and mercenary.