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The most famous writers associated with Theatre 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	William Shakespeare Writing	—	Writers	77.5	10.0
#2	new	Edgar Allan Poe Writing	United States	Writers	64.1	10.0
#3	new	Alexandre Dumas	France	Writers	56.7	10.0
#4	new	Mary Shelley	—	Writers	55.9	14.0
#5	new	Agatha Christie	United Kingdom	Writers	55.2	2.4
#6	new	Rabindranath Tagore	—	Writers	55.0	7.6
#7	new	Arthur Miller	United States	Writers	51.2	3.8
#8	new	George Sand	France	Writers	50.8	11.4
#9	new	Ernest Hemingway	United States	Writers	50.3	0.0
#10	new	Yukio Mishima	Japan	Writers	50.2	0.0
#11	new	Kurt Vonnegut	United States	Writers	50.0	4.8
#12	new	Oscar Wilde	—	Writers	49.6	0.0
#13	new	Jean Cocteau	France	Writers	49.1	11.6
#14	new	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn	—	Writers	49.1	12.2
#15	new	Maya Angelou	United States	Writers	49.0	4.1
#16	new	Truman Capote	United States	Writers	48.9	3.4
#17	new	Hans Christian Andersen	—	Writers	47.5	0.0
#18	new	Federico García Lorca	Spain	Writers	47.1	1.9
#19	new	Albert Camus	France	Writers	46.7	0.0
#20	new	Gabriele D'Annunzio	—	Writers	46.4	5.6
#21	new	W. Somerset Maugham	United Kingdom	Writers	45.0	8.6
#22	new	Victor Hugo	France	Writers	44.9	0.0
#23	new	Percy Bysshe Shelley	—	Writers	44.1	2.8
#24	new	Leo Tolstoy	—	Writers	43.9	0.0
#25	new	Charles Dickens	—	Writers	43.6	0.0
#26	new	Ayn Rand	—	Writers	43.5	0.3
#27	new	J. M. Barrie	United Kingdom	Writers	43.3	6.8
#28	new	Tennessee Williams	United States	Writers	43.3	3.0
#29	new	Molière	—	Writers	42.9	1.4
#30	new	Voltaire	—	Writers	42.5	0.0
#31	new	W. H. Auden	United Kingdom	Writers	42.2	10.6
#32	new	Jean-Paul Sartre	France	Writers	41.8	0.0
#33	new	Marquis de Sade	—	Writers	41.7	0.0
#34	new	Arthur Conan Doyle	—	Writers	41.4	0.0
#35	new	William Faulkner	United States	Writers	41.2	0.9
#36	new	Miguel de Cervantes	—	Writers	41.0	0.0
#37	new	Jules Verne	France	Writers	40.6	0.0
#38	new	Gabriel García Márquez	—	Writers	40.6	0.0
#39	new	Robert Louis Stevenson	—	Writers	40.3	1.2
#40	new	Alexander Pushkin	—	Writers	39.8	1.2
#41	new	F. Scott Fitzgerald	United States	Writers	39.7	0.0
#42	new	Joseph Roth	Austria	Writers	38.7	5.3
#43	new	Heinrich Mann	Germany	Writers	38.5	15.0
#44	new	Bertolt Brecht	Germany	Writers	38.4	0.3
#45	new	Émile Zola	France	Writers	38.0	0.0
#46	new	Stefan Zweig	—	Writers	37.9	0.0
#47	new	André Gide	France	Writers	37.3	3.2
#48	new	Vladimir Nabokov	—	Writers	37.2	0.2
#49	new	Pedro Calderón de la Barca	Spain	Writers	37.0	14.2
#50	new	George Bernard Shaw	—	Writers	36.8	0.5
#51	new	Rainer Maria Rilke	Germany	Writers	36.2	0.3
#52	new	Gertrude Stein	United States	Writers	36.0	1.3
#53	new	Sidney Sheldon	United States	Writers	35.9	6.3
#54	new	W. B. Yeats	—	Writers	35.7	0.9
#55	new	Knut Hamsun	Norway	Writers	35.5	5.6
#56	new	Anton Chekhov	—	Writers	35.4	0.0
#57	new	T. S. Eliot	United States	Writers	35.4	0.0
#58	new	Theodor Herzl	—	Writers	35.2	0.0
#59	new	Robert Musil	Austria	Writers	35.2	7.3
#60	new	Peter Handke	Austria	Writers	34.6	4.6
#61	new	Graham Greene	United Kingdom	Writers	34.4	0.6
#62	new	Ray Bradbury	United States	Writers	34.3	0.0
#63	new	Günter Grass	—	Writers	34.3	2.1
#64	new	Washington Irving	United States	Writers	34.1	2.8
#65	new	Walter Scott	—	Writers	33.6	1.1
#66	new	Max Brod	Israel	Writers	33.5	16.0
#67	new	Mario Vargas Llosa	—	Writers	32.9	0.0
#68	new	Naguib Mahfouz	—	Writers	32.9	6.1
#69	new	Jean Genet	France	Writers	32.4	1.3
#70	new	Alejandro Jodorowsky	—	Writers	32.4	0.0
#71	new	Heinrich Heine	—	Writers	32.4	0.5
#72	new	Friedrich Schiller	—	Writers	32.0	0.0
#73	new	Guy de Maupassant	France	Writers	31.9	0.0
#74	new	August Strindberg	Sweden	Writers	31.6	3.8
#75	new	Robert Frost	United States	Writers	31.5	0.0
#76	new	Elie Wiesel	United States	Writers	31.2	0.3
#77	new	Erich Maria Remarque	Germany	Writers	31.1	0.0
#78	new	Colette	France	Writers	30.9	0.0
#79	new	D. H. Lawrence	United Kingdom	Writers	30.9	0.0
#80	new	Cyrano de Bergerac	France	Writers	30.8	1.0
#81	new	Christopher Marlowe	—	Writers	30.7	0.3
#82	new	Henry James	United States	Writers	30.6	0.0
#83	new	Pietro Aretino	—	Writers	30.3	13.8
#84	new	Joseph Brodsky	—	Writers	30.0	4.2
#85	new	Václav Havel	—	Writers	29.9	0.9
#86	new	Julio Cortázar	Argentina	Writers	29.8	0.0
#87	new	Yevgeny Zamyatin	—	Writers	29.8	3.2
#88	new	Henrik Ibsen	Norway	Writers	29.6	0.0
#89	new	Eugene O'Neill	United States	Writers	29.5	0.1
#90	new	Aeschylus	—	Writers	29.4	0.0
#91	new	Nikolai Gogol	—	Writers	29.4	0.0
#92	new	Mikhail Bulgakov	—	Writers	29.0	0.7
#93	new	Tristan Tzara	—	Writers	28.9	4.6
#94	new	Sophocles	—	Writers	28.7	0.0
#95	new	José Saramago	Portugal	Writers	28.7	0.8
#96	new	Paul Claudel	France	Writers	28.6	3.1
#97	new	Maxim Gorky	—	Writers	28.6	0.0
#98	new	Marguerite Duras	France	Writers	28.5	0.0
#99	new	Lope de Vega	Spain	Writers	28.3	1.0
#100	new	Terence	—	Writers	28.1	6.8