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Writers on the way up — steady, sustained gains in attention rather than a single viral spike. Today's underrated, tomorrow's headline.

WritersGaining attentionUpdated dailyHow fame is measured

#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#1	—	Pope Francis	Argentina	Writers	94.2	30.8
#2	—	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	—	Writers	93.9	6.5
#23	—	J. R. R. Tolkien	United Kingdom	Writers	87.7	14.0
#24	—	Jane Austen	United Kingdom	Writers	87.5	29.5
#26	—	Matsuo Bashō	Japan	Writers	86.9	15.0
#32	—	Jorge Luis Borges	Argentina	Writers	86.2	16.7
#42	—	Charles Baudelaire	France	Writers	84.0	8.0
#44	20	Naguib Mahfouz	Egypt	Writers	83.0	10.8
#45	1	Helen Keller	United States	Writers	82.8	7.8
#53	—	Abu Nuwas	—	Writers	81.6	21.9
#62	1	Guy de Maupassant	France	Writers	80.6	7.3
#63	1	Stephen King	United States	Writers	80.5	8.2
#68	—	Ivan Turgenev	—	Writers	80.0	23.9
#75	—	Graham Hancock	United Kingdom	Writers	79.5	25.0
#81	—	Queen Rania of Jordan	—	Writers	79.3	10.3
#83	—	John Green	United States	Writers	79.3	17.6
#88	—	David Blaine	United States	Writers	79.0	6.6
#89	—	Jennette McCurdy	United States	Writers	79.0	7.4
#96	1	Farah Pahlavi	—	Writers	78.5	14.7
#97	1	Walter Scott	United Kingdom	Writers	78.5	14.5
#101	—	Masahiro Sakurai	Japan	Writers	78.3	13.6
#102	—	Nirmal Purja	—	Writers	78.2	10.0
#108	—	Marie Kondō	Japan	Writers	78.1	15.0
#120	—	Stendhal	France	Writers	77.8	8.0
#122	—	Mike Rowe	United States	Writers	77.7	13.3
#127	—	Rebecca Sugar	United States	Writers	77.5	9.6
#129	—	Deddy Corbuzier	Indonesia	Writers	77.5	20.3
#135	—	Michael J. Knowles	United States	Writers	77.2	9.5
#144	—	Amelia Earhart	United States	Writers	76.9	12.6
#146	—	Douglas Murray	United Kingdom	Writers	76.8	5.7
#150	—	Ayn Rand	—	Writers	76.8	15.2
#151	—	Tanmay Bhat	India	Writers	76.8	10.9
#154	—	Stefan Zweig	Austria	Writers	76.7	16.3
#155	—	Maurice Maeterlinck	—	Writers	76.7	16.7
#157	—	Salman Rushdie	United Kingdom	Writers	76.6	5.9
#158	—	Pope John Paul I	Italy	Writers	76.6	20.5
#160	new	Lu Xun	China	Writers	76.6	17.3
#182	—	Adam Peaty	United Kingdom	Writers	75.6	17.3
#187	—	Léo Ferré	—	Writers	75.3	12.3
#190	—	Ilyas Qadri	—	Writers	75.2	23.5
#191	new	George R. R. Martin	United States	Writers	75.2	20.3
#194	1	Gerhart Hauptmann	—	Writers	75.1	12.5
#197	1	Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson	Norway	Writers	74.8	16.2