Top Writers

The most publicly visible writers worldwide.

590 people indexed·66 currently rising·Top: Anna Wintour

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Top writers globally on Fame.am — 590 ranked, top: Anna Wintour. Coverage spans 21 countries.

Category: Writers
Total ranked: 590
Top person: Anna Wintour
Countries covered: 21

#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#1	new	Anna Wintour	United Kingdom	Writers	81.9	20.0
#2	new	William Shakespeare Writing	—	Writers	77.5	10.0
#3	new	Fyodor Dostoevsky Writing	—	Writers	72.4	10.5
#4	new	J. R. R. Tolkien Writing	United Kingdom	Writers	70.1	12.6
#5	new	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Writing	—	Writers	69.6	0.3
#6	new	Homer Writing	—	Writers	66.7	7.1
#7	new	J. D. Vance	United States	Writers	65.6	13.5
#8	new	Edgar Allan Poe Writing	United States	Writers	64.1	10.0
#9	new	Franz Kafka	—	Writers	59.5	5.4
#10	new	Alexandre Dumas	France	Writers	56.7	10.0
#11	new	Jane Austen	—	Writers	56.4	4.7
#12	new	Mary Shelley	—	Writers	55.9	14.0
#13	new	Isabel Allende	United States	Writers	55.8	10.0
#14	new	Thomas Mann	—	Writers	55.8	16.6
#15	new	Ian Fleming	United Kingdom	Writers	55.4	17.3
#16	new	Dante Alighieri Writing	—	Writers	55.4	1.4
#17	new	Agatha Christie	United Kingdom	Writers	55.2	2.4
#18	new	Rabindranath Tagore	—	Writers	55.0	7.6
#19	new	Isaac Asimov	—	Writers	54.9	10.0
#20	new	Tom Clancy	United States	Writers	54.9	19.5
#21	new	Sylvia Plath	United States	Writers	54.7	10.0
#22	new	Margaret Atwood	Canada	Writers	54.4	6.8
#23	new	Germaine de Staël	—	Writers	53.5	10.0
#24	new	Stephen King	United States	Writers	53.3	0.6
#25	new	George R. R. Martin	United States	Writers	52.9	3.6
#26	new	Virginia Woolf	United Kingdom	Writers	52.1	2.9
#27	new	Emily Brontë	—	Writers	52.0	2.9
#28	new	H. G. Wells	—	Writers	51.5	10.0
#29	new	Terry Pratchett	United Kingdom	Writers	51.5	8.9
#30	new	Arthur Miller	United States	Writers	51.2	3.8
#31	new	Jack Kerouac	United States	Writers	50.8	16.8
#32	new	Arthur C. Clarke	United Kingdom	Writers	50.8	10.0
#33	new	George Sand	France	Writers	50.8	11.4
#34	new	Anne Frank	—	Writers	50.7	0.0
#35	new	J. K. Rowling	United Kingdom	Writers	50.6	0.0
#36	new	Ernest Hemingway	United States	Writers	50.3	0.0
#37	new	Yukio Mishima	Japan	Writers	50.2	0.0
#38	new	Svetlana Alliluyeva	—	Writers	50.1	12.4
#39	new	Kurt Vonnegut	United States	Writers	50.0	4.8
#40	new	Ivanka Trump	United States	Writers	49.9	0.0
#41	new	George Orwell	United Kingdom	Writers	49.8	0.0
#42	new	Oscar Wilde	—	Writers	49.6	0.0
#43	new	Roald Dahl	Norway	Writers	49.5	0.0
#44	new	Jean Cocteau	France	Writers	49.1	11.6
#45	new	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn	—	Writers	49.1	12.2
#46	new	Emily Dickinson	United States	Writers	49.1	3.4
#47	new	Maya Angelou	United States	Writers	49.0	4.1
#48	new	William Golding	United Kingdom	Writers	48.9	10.0
#49	new	Truman Capote	United States	Writers	48.9	3.4
#50	new	Bram Stoker	—	Writers	48.6	7.2
#51	new	John Steinbeck	United States	Writers	47.8	1.9
#52	new	Hans Christian Andersen	—	Writers	47.5	0.0
#53	new	George Eliot	—	Writers	47.2	4.3
#54	new	Paul Auster	United States	Writers	47.2	2.5
#55	new	Federico García Lorca	Spain	Writers	47.1	1.9
#56	new	Albert Camus	France	Writers	46.7	0.0
#57	new	Gabriele D'Annunzio	—	Writers	46.4	5.6
#58	new	Frank Herbert	United States	Writers	45.0	4.3
#59	new	W. Somerset Maugham	United Kingdom	Writers	45.0	8.6
#60	new	C. S. Lewis	United Kingdom	Writers	45.0	0.4
#61	new	Victor Hugo	France	Writers	44.9	0.0
#62	new	Dan Brown	United States	Writers	44.9	2.8
#63	new	Yasunari Kawabata	Japan	Writers	44.5	3.6
#64	new	Haruki Murakami	Japan	Writers	44.3	0.5
#65	new	José Martí	Spain	Writers	44.2	12.4
#66	new	Lord Byron	—	Writers	44.1	0.6
#67	new	Percy Bysshe Shelley	—	Writers	44.1	2.8
#68	new	Miyamoto Musashi	Japan	Writers	44.0	0.1
#69	new	H. P. Lovecraft	United States	Writers	44.0	0.0
#70	new	Leo Tolstoy	—	Writers	43.9	0.0
#71	new	Mark Twain	United States	Writers	43.8	0.0
#72	new	Charles Dickens	—	Writers	43.6	0.0
#73	new	Ayn Rand	—	Writers	43.5	0.3
#74	new	J. M. Barrie	United Kingdom	Writers	43.3	6.8
#75	new	Giacomo Casanova	—	Writers	43.3	4.1
#76	new	Tennessee Williams	United States	Writers	43.3	3.0
#77	new	Molière	—	Writers	42.9	1.4
#78	new	Jaggi Vasudev	India	Writers	42.8	4.2
#79	new	Voltaire	—	Writers	42.5	0.0
#80	new	Thomas Hardy	United Kingdom	Writers	42.4	3.3
#81	new	W. H. Auden	United Kingdom	Writers	42.2	10.6
#82	new	Ryūnosuke Akutagawa	Japan	Writers	42.2	2.2
#83	new	Eckhart Tolle	Germany	Writers	42.2	3.1
#84	new	Ralph Waldo Emerson	United States	Writers	42.2	2.1
#85	new	Virgil	—	Writers	42.1	2.0
#86	new	Léopold Sédar Senghor	—	Writers	42.0	15.7
#87	new	William Wordsworth	—	Writers	41.9	4.0
#88	new	Jean-Paul Sartre	France	Writers	41.8	0.0
#89	new	Ursula K. Le Guin	United States	Writers	41.8	0.9
#90	new	Marquis de Sade	—	Writers	41.7	0.0
#91	new	Toni Morrison	United States	Writers	41.5	1.3
#92	new	Arthur Conan Doyle	—	Writers	41.4	0.0
#93	new	Jim Corbett	United Kingdom	Writers	41.2	16.6
#94	new	William Faulkner	United States	Writers	41.2	0.9
#95	new	Traudl Junge	Germany	Writers	41.1	4.2
#96	new	Miguel de Cervantes	—	Writers	41.0	0.0
#97	new	Salman Rushdie	United Kingdom	Writers	40.7	0.0
#98	new	Osamu Dazai	Japan	Writers	40.7	0.0
#99	new	Jules Verne	France	Writers	40.6	0.0
#100	new	Gabriel García Márquez	—	Writers	40.6	0.0

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