Who is considered the greatest writer of all time?

Who is considered the greatest writer of all time?

TOP TEN AUTHORS BY POINTS EARNED

  • Leo Tolstoy — 327.
  • William Shakespeare — 293.
  • James Joyce — 194.
  • Vladimir Nabokov — 190.
  • Fyodor Dostoevsky — 177.
  • William Faulkner — 173.
  • Charles Dickens — 168.
  • Anton Chekhov — 165.

Who are the three great authors?

The Top Ten Famous Authors

  1. William Shakespeare. Ah, The Bard.
  2. George Orwell. True, Orwell (whose real name was Eric Arthur Blair) isn’t everyone’s taste, especially those who do not share his views on totalitarianism.
  3. J.K. Rowling. Like her or not, Ms.
  4. Kurt Vonnegut.
  5. Virginia Woolf.
  6. Ernest Hemingway.
  7. William Faulkner.
  8. Ayn Rand.

Who is considered the greatest writer in the English language?

William Shakespeare
It’s worth also pointing out that here at NoSweatShakespeare we have no doubt that William Shakespeare is by far the best (and probably most famous) writer in English literary history.

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Who was a great writer?

This list of authors features the best writers ever, including, William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Emily Bronte, Geoffrey Chaucer, Homer, Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens, Herman Melleville, William Faulkner, and Edgar Allan Poe.

Why is Shakespeare the greatest writer who ever lived?

Why does the world regard William Shakespeare as one of the greatest playwrights in history? First, because he was supremely gifted at selecting the right words and arranging them into convincing representations of reality in all its forms, material and immaterial. His verbal dexterity was nothing short of amazing.

Who are the contemporary writers of Shakespeare?

We regularly stage plays by Shakespeare’s contemporaries – playwrights who lived and worked at the same time as Shakespeare. Writers and playwrights working in the same era as Shakespeare included Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Middleton, John Webster, Ben Jonson and Thomas Dekker.