Author

An author is someone who writes a piece of literature such as might appear in a book or a magazine article.

The term author is usually used with works that have been mass-produced either in written or electronic form and have the capability to be widely read and distributed.

## Authors and Books[edit]

There are several lists of "Top authors" or "Best seller" books. Some include:

Portrait of Leo Tolstoy by Ilya Yefimovich Repin

* The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen
* Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
* The Treasury of Oz by L. Frank Baum
* Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens
* Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
* The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
* Miffy by Dick Bruna
* Answered Prayers by Truman Capote
* Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
* The Plague by Albert Camus
* Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
* The Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov
* Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton
* And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
* The Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy
* Shōgun by James Clavell
* The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
* An Outcast of the Islands by Joseph Conrad
* House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
* A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
* The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
* The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
* The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
* Middlemarch by George Eliot
* The Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
* The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
* The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
* Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
* The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes

J. W. von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

* The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
* Don Juan by George Gordon, Lord Byron
* The Big Sky by A. B. Guthrie, Jr.
* A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
* The Iliad by Homer
* The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
* The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
* The Turn of The Screw by Henry James
* Ulysses by James Joyce
* The Stand by Stephen King
* The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling
* Guin Saga by Kaoru Kurimoto
* Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
* Independent People by Halldor Laxness
* The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
* The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
* Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
* Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
* One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
* Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
* Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
* Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
* Late and Posthumous Poems by Pablo Neruda
* U.S.A. by John Dos Passos
* The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
* In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
* The Double Flame by Octavio Paz
* The Godfather by Mario Puzo
* Wolf Totem by Jiang Rong
* Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo
* Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini
* Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
* Blindness by Jose Saramago
* Ivanhoe by Walter Scott
* A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
* Hamlet by William Shakespeare
* The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead
* Perfume by Patrick Süskind
* Legend of the Galactic Heroes by Yoshiki Tanaka
* The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
* The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
* Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
* The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
* The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Peoples by Miguel de Unamuno
* Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
* The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren
* The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
* A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe
* Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa
* The Railway Children by E. Nesbit