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Top Writers for #History

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The most famous writers associated with History right now — ranked by the public attention they command across search, news, Wikipedia, and social.

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#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#1	new	J. R. R. Tolkien Writing	United Kingdom	Writers	70.1	12.6
#2	new	H. G. Wells	—	Writers	51.5	10.0
#3	new	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn	—	Writers	49.1	12.2
#4	new	Voltaire	—	Writers	42.5	0.0
#5	new	Arthur Conan Doyle	—	Writers	41.4	0.0
#6	new	Alexander Pushkin	—	Writers	39.8	1.2
#7	new	Louis Aragon	France	Writers	39.3	8.8
#8	new	Stefan Zweig	—	Writers	37.9	0.0
#9	new	Mary Wollstonecraft	—	Writers	34.4	0.9
#10	new	Walter Scott	—	Writers	33.6	1.1
#11	new	Umberto Eco	Italy	Writers	32.9	0.2
#12	new	Bartolomé de las Casas	Spain	Writers	32.8	1.2
#13	new	Friedrich Schiller	—	Writers	32.0	0.0
#14	new	François-René de Chateaubriand	France	Writers	29.5	0.9
#15	new	Nikolai Gogol	—	Writers	29.4	0.0
#16	new	Snorri Sturluson	—	Writers	29.4	2.8
#17	new	Alfonso X of Castile	—	Writers	27.7	1.2
#18	new	Cato the Elder	—	Writers	26.2	0.3
#19	new	Denis Diderot	—	Writers	26.1	0.0
#20	new	Juvenal	—	Writers	25.9	2.9
#21	new	Pliny the Younger	—	Writers	24.6	0.0
#22	new	Jean Racine	—	Writers	22.0	0.0
#23	new	Alphonse de Lamartine	France	Writers	20.4	0.3
#24	new	Svetlana Alexievich	—	Writers	20.3	0.0
#25	new	André Maurois	France	Writers	19.3	3.8
#26	new	Ennius	—	Writers	18.5	6.8
#27	new	Romain Rolland	France	Writers	18.4	0.0
#28	new	Leopold von Sacher-Masoch	—	Writers	17.9	0.0
#29	new	Jacob Grimm	—	Writers	16.6	0.0
#30	new	Ghalib	—	Writers	16.5	0.0
#31	new	Dimitrie Cantemir	—	Writers	15.8	4.9
#32	new	Prosper Mérimée	France	Writers	15.6	0.1
#33	new	Anna Komnene	—	Writers	13.9	0.0
#34	new	Constantine VII	—	Writers	13.8	0.0
#35	new	Madame de La Fayette	France	Writers	13.1	1.8
#36	new	Diogenes Laërtius	—	Writers	12.8	0.0
#37	new	Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet	France	Writers	12.4	0.0
#38	new	Dionysius of Halicarnassus	—	Writers	12.0	1.3
#39	new	Ahmad ibn Hanbal	—	Writers	11.9	0.0
#40	new	Gregory of Tours	France	Writers	11.9	0.0
#41	new	Jules Michelet	France	Writers	11.4	0.0
#42	new	J Jordanes	—	Writers	10.5	2.5
#43	new	Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux	France	Writers	10.2	0.9
#44	new	Sallust	—	Writers	10.2	0.0
#45	new	Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus	—	Writers	9.9	2.1
#46	new	Marcus Terentius Varro	—	Writers	9.8	0.0
#47	new	Friedrich Schlegel	—	Writers	9.2	0.0
#48	new	Ammianus Marcellinus	—	Writers	9.0	0.0
#49	new	Z Zosimus	—	Writers	8.7	2.7
#50	new	Ludvig Holberg	Norway	Writers	7.9	1.7
#51	new	Seneca the Elder	—	Writers	7.8	0.0
#52	new	Vuk Karadžić	Turkey	Writers	7.7	0.9
#53	new	Appian	—	Writers	7.0	0.0
#54	new	Al-Masudi	—	Writers	5.6	0.0
#55	new	Claudius Aelianus	—	Writers	5.0	0.0
#56	new	Einhard	—	Writers	5.0	0.0
#57	new	Khaled al-Asaad	—	Writers	5.0	0.2
#58	new	Cornelius Nepos	—	Writers	5.0	0.0
#59	new	Demetrius Vikelas	—	Writers	4.6	0.0
#60	new	Matilde Camus	Spain	Writers	4.3	0.0