Most Celebrated Writers of All Time - Statistics

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Birthyear	Birthplace	Most Famous Work	Name	% Correct
1265	Florence, Italy	The Divine Comedy	Dante Alighieri	94%
1775	Steventon, England	Pride & Prejudice	Jane Austen	93%
1818	Thornton, England	Wuthering Heights	Emily Bronte	90%
1828	Tula, Russia	Anna Karenina	Leo Tolstoy	90%
1564	Stratford, England	Julius Caesar	William Shakespeare	90%
1816	Thornton, England	Jane Eyre	Charlotte Bronte	89%
1797	London, England	Frankenstein	Mary Shelley	88%
1802	Besancon, France	Les Miserables	Victor Hugo	88%
1821	Moscow, Russia	Crime & Punishment	Fyodor Dostoevsky	86%
1812	Portsmouth, England	A Tale of Two Cities	Charles Dickens	84%
1903	Motihari, India	Nineteen Eighty Four	George Orwell	84%
1802	Aisne, France	The Three Musketeers	Alexandre Dumas	82%
1883	Prague, Czechia	The Metamorphosis	Franz Kafka	82%
1892	Blomfontein, South Africa	The Lord of the Rings	J.R.R. Tolkien	82%
1835	Florida, Missouri	The Adventures of Tom Sawyer	Mark Twain	82%
1896	St. Paul, Minnesota	The Great Gatsby	F. Scott Fitzgerald	79%
1882	Dublin, Ireland	Ulysses	James Joyce	79%
1854	Dublin, Ireland	The Picture of Dorian Gray	Oscar Wilde	78%
1847	Dublin, Ireland	Dracula	Bram Stoker	76%
1828	Nantes, France	Around the World in Eighty Days	Jules Verne	76%
1749	Frankfurt, Germany	Faust	Wolfgang Von Goethe	75%
1819	Manhattan, New York	Moby Dick	Herman Melville	74%
1469	Florence, Italy	The Prince	Niccolo Machiavelli	73%
1805	Odense, Denmark	The Little Mermaid	Hans Christian Andersen	72%
1947	Portland, Maine	The Shining	Stephen King	72%
1899	St. Petersburg, Russia	Lolita	Vladimir Nabokov	70%
1902	Salinas, California	Of Mice and Men	John Steinbeck	69%
1821	Rouen, France	Madame Bovary	Gustave Flaubert	68%
1929	Frankfurt, Germany	The Diary of a Young Girl	Anne Frank	67%
1926	Monroeville, Alabama	To Kill a Mockingbird	Harper Lee	67%
1927	Aracataca, Colombia	One Hundred Years of Solitude	Gabriel Garcia Marquez	66%
1899	Chicago, Illinois	The Sun Also Rises	Ernest Hemingway	65%
1919	Manhattan, New York	The Catcher in the Rye	J.D. Salinger	65%
1850	Edinburgh, Scotland	Treasure Island	Robert Louis Stevenson	64%
1913	Drean, Algeria	The Stranger	Albert Camus	63%
1667	Dublin, Ireland	Gulliver's Travels	Jonathan Swift	63%
1882	London, England	To The Lighthouse	Virginia Woolf	61%
1877	Calw, Germany	Siddhartha	Hermann Hesse	60%
1871	Paris, France	In Search of Lost Time	Marcel Proust	60%
1894	Godalming, England	Brave New World	Aldous Huxley	59%
1809	Boston, Massachusetts	The Tell Tale Heart	Edgar Allan Poe	56%
1876	San Francisco, California	The Call of the Wild	Jack London	56%
1906	Dublin, Ireland	Waiting for Godot	Samuel Beckett	56%
1875	Lubeck, Germany	The Magic Mountain	Thomas Mann	55%
1890	Torquay, England	And Then There Were None	Agatha Christie	54%
1313	Certaldo, Italy	The Decameron	Giovanni Boccaccio	54%
1828	Skien, Norway	A Doll's House	Henrik Ibsen	54%
1932	Boston, Massachusetts	The Bell Jar	Sylvia Plath	54%
1915	Harlem, New York	Death of a Salesman	Arthur Miller	53%
1908	Paris, France	The Second Sex	Simone De Beauvoir	53%
1920	Manhattan, New York	The Godfather	Mario Puzo	52%
1924	New Orleans, Louisiana	In Cold Blood	Truman Capote	52%
1799	Moscow, Russia	Eugene Onegin	Alexander Pushkin	51%
1811	Litchfield, Connecticut	Uncle Tom's Cabin	Harriet Beecher Stowe	50%
1840	Paris, France	Germinal	Emile Zola	49%
1857	Berdychiv, Ukraine	Heart of Darkness	Joseph Conrad	49%
1832	Daresbury, England	Through the Looking Glass	Lewis Carroll	49%
1905	Paris, France	Nausea	Jean Paul Sartre	48%
1911	Newquay, England	Lord of the Flies	William Golding	48%
1922	Lowell, Massachusetts	On the Road	Jack Kerouac	47%
1900	Atlanta, Georgia	Gone With the Wind	Margaret Mitchell	47%
1922	Indianapolis, Indiana	Slaughterhouse Five	Kurt Vonnegut Jr.	46%
1891	Kyiv, Ukraine	The Master and Margarita	Mikhail Bulgakov	46%
1917	Manchester, England	A Clockwork Orange	Anthony Burgess	45%
1860	Taganrog, Russia	The Cherry Orchard	Anton Chekhov	45%
1804	Salem, Massachusetts	The Scarlet Letter	Nathaniel Hawthorne	45%
1897	New Albany, Mississippi	The Sound and the Fury	William Faulkner	45%
1920	Chicago, Illinois	Fahrenheit 451	Ray Bradbury	44%
1809	Poltava, Ukraine	The Overcoat	Nikolai Gogol	43%
1821	Paris, France	The Flowers of Evil	Charles Baudelaire	42%
1920	Tacoma, Washington	Dune	Frank Herbert	42%
1817	Concord, Massachusetts	Walden	Henry David Thoreau	42%
1929	Brno, Czechia	The Unbearable Lightness of Being	Milan Kundera	42%
1931	Lorain, Ohio	Beloved	Toni Morrison	40%
1819	Long Island, New York	Leaves of Grass	Walt Whitman	40%
1890	Moscow, Russia	Doctor Zhivago	Boris Pasternak	38%
1907	London, England	Rebecca	Daphne Du Maurier	37%
1927	Gdansk, Poland	The Tin Drum	Gunter Grass	37%
1818	Oryol, Russia	Fathers and Sons	Ivan Turgenev	37%
1898	Osnabruck, Germany	All Quiet on the Western Front	Erich Maria Remarque	36%
1843	Manhattan, New York	The Portrait of a Lady	Henry James	35%
1928	St. Louis, Missouri	I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings	Maya Angelou	35%
1879	London, England	A Passage to India	E.M. Forster	34%
1923	Coney Island, New York	Catch 22	Joseph Heller	34%
1907	Vimmerby, Sweden	Pippi Longstocking	Astrid Lindgren	32%
1840	Stinsford, England	Jude the Obscure	Thomas Hardy	32%
1924	Harlem, New York	Giovanni's Room	James Baldwin	30%
1918	Kislovodsk, Russia	One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn	29%
1899	The Bronx, New York	Charlotte's Web	E.B. White	29%
1920	Smolensk, Russia	The Foundation	Isaac Asimov	28%
1930	Ogidi, Nigeria	Things Fall Apart	Chinua Achebe	25%
1880	Klagenfurt, Austria	The Man Without Qualities	Robert Musil	25%
1888	Lisbon, Portugal	The Book of Disquiet	Fernando Pessoa	23%
1892	Hillsboro, West Virginia	The Good Earth	Pearl S. Buck	23%
1914	Oklahoma City, Oklahoma	Invisible Man	Ralph Ellison	23%
1862	Manhattan, New York	The Age of Innocence	Edith Wharton	22%
1878	Baltimore, Maryland	The Jungle	Upton Sinclair	22%
1785	Milan, Italy	The Betrothed	Alessandro Manzoni	21%
1854	Ardennes, France	The Drunken Boat	Arthur Rimbaud	20%
1909	Slatina, Romania	The Bald Soprano	Eugene Ionesco	19%
1875	Prague, Czechia	Letters to a Young Poet	Rainer Maria Rilke	19%
1850	Tourville, France	The Necklace	Guy De Maupassant	18%
1814	Moscow, Russia	A Hero of Our Time	Mikhail Lermontov	18%
1824	London, England	The Woman in White	Wilkie Collins	18%
1849	Stockholm, Sweden	The Red Room	August Strindberg	16%
1859	Lom, Norway	Hunger	Knut Hamsun	16%
1874	New London, Canada	Anne of Green Gables	Lucy Maud Montgomery	16%
1883	Heraklion, Greece	Zorba the Greek	Nikos Kazantzakis	16%
1905	Rostov, Russia	And Quiet Flows the Don	Mikhail Sholokhov	15%
1932	Chaguanas, Trinidad	A House For Mrs. Biswas	V.S. Naipaul	15%
1891	Notasulga, Alabama	Their Eyes Were Watching God	Zora Neale Hurston	15%
1928	Sighetu, Romania	Night	Elie Wiesel	14%
1923	Havana, Cuba	Invisible Cities	Italo Calvino	14%
1861	Trieste, Italy	Zeno's Conscience	Italo Svevo	13%
1883	Prague, Czechia	The Good Soldier	Jaroslav Hasek	13%
1878	Szczecin, Poland	Berlin Alexanderplatz	Alfred Doblin	12%
1869	Paris, France	The Counterfeiters	Andre Gide	12%
1903	Brussels, Belgium	Memoirs of Hadrian	Marguerite Yourcenar	12%
1873	Gore, Virginia	My Antonia	Willa Cather	12%
1871	Newark, New Jersey	The Red Badge of Courage	Stephen Crane	11%
1815	London, England	Barchester Towers	Anthony Trollope	10%
1364	Venice, Italy	The City of Ladies	Christine De Pizan	10%
1868	Marseille, France	Cyrano De Bergerac	Edmond Rostand	10%
1885	Rungsted, Denmark	Out of Africa	Isak Dinesen	10%
1850	St. Louis, Missouri	The Awakening	Kate Chopin	10%
1911	Cairo, Egypt	Palace Walk	Naguib Mahfouz	9%
1966	Nesconset, New York	My Sister's Keeper	Jodi Picoult	8%
1903	Pietermaritzburg, South Africa	Cry, the Beloved Country	Alan Paton	7%
1905	Budapest, Hungary	Darkness at Noon	Arthur Koestler	7%
1929	San Francisco, California	The Left Hand of Darkness	Ursula K. Le Guin	7%
1892	Belgrade, Serbia	The Bridge on the Drina	Ivo Andric	6%
1934	Sacramento, California	The White Album	Joan Didion	6%
1902	London, England	Cold Comfort Farm	Stella Gibbons	3%
1902	Leoncin, Poland	The Family Moskat	Isaac Bashevis Singer	2%

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