2019’s Top Authors & Poets
We wrote a list of the people who’ve written the words you love the most. You’re welcome.
- Neil Gaiman +10
- Terry Pratchett +14
- William Shakespeare +1
- J.K. Rowling −3
- Stephen King +3
- Rupi Kaur −4
- Rainbow Rowell +5
- Cassandra Clare −1
- Rick Riordan +1
- Sappho
- Jane Austen −2
- Charles Bukowski −7
- Oscar Wilde +4
- Sylvia Plath
- Leigh Bardugo +3
- Virginia Woolf +4
- Juansen Ryne Dizon
- Sarah J. Maas −15
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Donna Tartt
The number in italics indicates how many spots a name moved up or down from the previous year. Bolded names weren’t on the list last year.
I just imagine all 20 of us at the best dinner party in history.
It’s humbling to be at #1. I’m all alone in a house in the Scottish Highlands otherwise I would hug somebody. But it’s only me.
So thank you from only me.
And I really wish Terry was here. I don’t think any of the love for Crowley and Aziraphale (and the rest of the characters) on Tumblr would have surprised him at all. But I think he would have felt very vindicated. He said no to several would be Good Omens adaptations before he asked me to do it, because he wanted it to still be Good Omens. And I like to think that it was.