Most Influential World Writers
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1.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
81 points - added 15 years ago by BradHemphill -
2.
Homer
81 points - added 15 years ago by BradHemphill -
3.
Dante
71 points - added 15 years ago by BradHemphill -
4.
Voltaire
66 points - added 15 years ago by BradHemphill -
5.
Victor Hugo
64 points - added 15 years ago by BradHemphill -
6.
Benjamin Franklin
The true renaissance man. His essays, patents, and letters helped shape the United States of America and its independence.
53 points - added 15 years ago by BradHemphill -
7.
William Shakespeare
Shakespeare has simply done more for language and literature than any writer in history.
51 points - added 15 years ago by BradHemphill -
8.
Anton Chekhov
34 points - added 15 years ago by BradHemphill -
9.
Leo Tolstoy
The greatest novelist of all. "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina" will be read hundreds of years from now.
33 points - added 15 years ago by BradHemphill -
10.
Plato
Western civilization owes a great debt to Greek culture and literature. Plato's Republic foremost.
23 points - added 15 years ago by BradHemphill -
11.
James Joyce
20 points - added 15 years ago by BradHemphill -
12.
Franz Kafka
18 points - added 15 years ago by BradHemphill -
13.
Aristotle
15 points - added 14 years ago by guest -
14.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
9 points - added 14 years ago by guest -
15.
Sigmund Freud
8 points - added 15 years ago by BradHemphill -
16.
Niccolo Machiavelli
8 points - added 15 years ago by BradHemphill -
17.
Aesop
8 points - added 15 years ago by BradHemphill -
18.
Honoré de Balzac
7 points - added 13 years ago by Laurent -
19.
Charles Darwin
7 points - added 15 years ago by BradHemphill -
20.
Albert Einstein
7 points - added 15 years ago by BradHemphill -
21.
Gustave Flaubert
7 points - added 15 years ago by BradHemphill -
22.
Paul
6 points - added 14 years ago by guest -
23.
Moses
6 points - added 14 years ago by guest -
24.
Sir Issac Newton
A genius beyond compare. Gave us science and mathematical philosophies that have put us where we are as people.
6 points - added 15 years ago by BradHemphill -
25.
Virgil
2 points - added 14 years ago by guest -
26.
Jules Verne
2 points - added 15 years ago by BradHemphill -
27.
Ovid
0 points - added 14 years ago by guest -
28.
Rumi
-5 points - added 14 years ago by guest -
29.
Rabindranath Tagore.
Rabindranath Tagore is perhaps the world's greatest playwright and is perhaps the worlds greatest polymath. Tagore is an outstanding and great composer of songs, philosopher, novelist,painter, poet, essayist,short story writer, innovative educator and letter writer.
-30 points - added 14 years ago by guest -
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