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1 JAMES AGEE (novelist; 1909–1955) Films worked on include: The Quiet One (1948); The African Queen (1951); The Night of the Hunter (1955)

2 MAYA ANGELOU (poet; 1928–) Georgia, Georgia (1972); Poetic Justice (1993)

3 RAY BRADBURY (science-fiction writer; 1920–) Moby Dick (1956); Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)

4 BERTOLT BRECHT (playwright; 1898–1956) Hangmen Also Die (1943)

5 CHARLES BUKOWSKI (poet and novelist; 1920–1994) The Killers (1984); Barfly (1987); Lonely at the Top (1993)

6 TRUMAN CAPOTE (novelist; 1924–1984) Beat the Devil (1954); The Innocents (1961)

7 RAYMOND CHANDLER (detective story writer; 1888–1959) And Now Tomorrow (1944); Double Indemnity (1944); The Unseen (1945); The Blue Dahlia (1946); Strangers on a Train (1951)

8 MICHAEL CRICHTON (novelist; 1942–) Westworld (1973); Coma (1978); The Great Train Robbery (1979); Jurassic Park (1993); Rising Sun (1993)

9 ROALD DAHL (author; 1916–1990) You Only Live Twice (1967); Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968); Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)

10 WILLIAM FAULKNER (novelist; 1897–1962) Today We Live (1933); Road to Glory (1936); To Have and Have Not (1945); The Big Sleep (1946); Land of the Pharaohs (1955)

11 F. SCOTT FITZGERALD (novelist; 1896–1940) A Yank at Oxford (1938); Three Comrades (1938); Gone with the Wind (1939); The Women (1939); Madame Curie (1943)

12 CARLOS FUENTES (novelist; 1928–) Pedro Paramo (1967); Muneca Riera (1971)

13 GRAHAM GREENE (novelist; 1904–91) The Green Cockatoo (1937); The Fallen Idol (1948); The Third Man (1950); Saint Joan (1957); Our Man in Havana (1960); The Comedians (1967)

14 DASHIELL HAMMETT (detective story writer; 1894–1961) City Streets (1931); Mister Dynamite (1935); After the Thin Man (1937); Another Thin Man (1939); Watch on the Rhine (1943)

15 ERNEST HEMINGWAY (novelist; 1899–1961) The Spanish Earth (1937); The Old Man and the Sea (1956)

16 ALDOUS HUXLEY (novelist and essayist; 1894–1956) Pride and Prejudice (1940); Jane Eyre (1944); A Woman’s Vengeance (1948)

17 CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD (writer; 1904–1986) Rage in Heaven (1941); Forever and a Day (1944); The Loved One (1965); Frankenstein, the True Story (1973)

18 WILLIAM KENNEDY (novelist; 1928–) The Cotton Club (1984); Ironweed (1987)

19 NORMAN MAILER (novelist; 1923–) Tough Guys Don’t Dance (1987); King Lear (1987) 20.

20 LARRY McMURTRY (novelist; 1936–) The Last Picture Show (1971); Falling from Grace (1992)

21 ARTHUR MILLER (playwright; 1915–) Death of a Salesman (1951); Let’s Make Love (1960); The Misfits (1961); An Enemy of the People (1977); Everybody Wins (1990)

22 JOHN OSBORNE (playwright; 1929–94) The Entertainer (1960); Tom Jones (1963); England, My England (1995)

23 DOROTHY PARKER (short-story writer; 1893–1967) Suzy (1936); A Star Is Born (1937); Weekend for Three (1941); Saboteur (1942); The Fan (1949)

24 S.J. PERELMAN (humorist; 1904–79) Horse Feathers (1932); Sitting Pretty (1933); Florida Special (1936); Boy Trouble (1939); Around the World in 80 Days (1956)

25 HAROLD PINTER (playwright; 1930–) The Birthday Party (1968); The Go-Between (1971); The Last Tycoon (1976); The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1981); The Trial (1993)

26 GEORGE BERNARD SHAW (playwright; 1856–1950) Pygmalion (1938); Major Barbara (1941); Caesar and Cleopatra (1946)

27 SAM SHEPARD (playwright; 1943–) Zabriske Point (1970); Paris, Texas (1984); Silent Tongue (1993)

28 NEIL SIMON (playwright; 1927–) Barefoot in the Park (1967); The Sunshine Boys (1975); The Goodbye Girl (1977); The Lonely Guy (1984); Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986); Lost in Yonkers (1993)

29 JOHN STEINBECK (novelist; 1902–1968) The Forgotten Village (1941); The Pearl (1948); The Red Pony (1949); Viva Zapata (1952)

30 TOM STOPPARD (playwright; 1937–) Brazil (1985); Empire of the Sun (1987); The Russia House (1990); Shakespeare in Love (1998)

31 JIM THOMPSON (crime novelist; 1906–77) The Killing (1956); Paths of Glory (1957)

32 GORE VIDAL (novelist; 1925–) I Accuse (1958); Suddenly Last Summer (1959); Ben Hur (1959); The Best Man (1961); Caligula (1980)

33 EDGAR WALLACE (novelist; 1875–1932) King Kong (1933)

34 NATHANAEL WEST (novelist; (1903–40) Ticket to Paradise (1936); It Could Happen to You (1937); Five Came Back (1939); I Stole a Million (1939); Let’s Make Music (1940)

35 THORNTON WILDER (novelist and playwright; (1897–1975) The Dark Angel (1935); Our Town (1940); Shadow of a Doubt (1943).

36 TENNESSEE WILLIAMS (playwright; 1911–83) A Streetcar Named Desire (1951); Baby Doll (1956); Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)

37 TOM WOLFE (journalist and novelist; 1937–) Three Ways to Love (1969)

– C.F. & F.B.