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He is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era | Charles Dickens | 92%
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He is a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time | Leo Tolstoy | 92%
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Her UK sales total in excess of £238 million, making her the best-selling living author in Britain | J.K. Rowling | 90%
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Her novel deals with the irrationality of adult attitudes towards race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s, as depicted through the eyes of two children | Harper Lee | 64%
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She is best known for her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), which depicts the harsh conditions for enslaved African Americans | Harriet Beecher Stowe | 64%
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He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language, and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists | Miguel de Cervantes | 60%
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He was interned in Dresden and survived the Allied bombing of the city by taking refuge in a meat locker of the slaughterhouse where he was imprisoned | Kurt Vonnegut | 59%
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He is considered to be one of the greatest and best-known French writers | Victor Hugo | 59%
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He was found delirious on the streets of Baltimore, "in great distress, and… in need of immediate assistance" | Edgar Allan Poe | 47%
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He was sentenced to death but the sentence was commuted at the last moment. He spent four years in a Siberian prison camp | Fyodor Dostoevsky | 47%
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His work typically features isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surrealistic predicaments | Franz Kafka | 36%
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In 2008, The Times ranked him second among "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945" | George Orwell | 35%
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He is known for establishing the use of the vernacular in literature at a time when most poetry was written in Latin, making it accessible only to the most educated readers | Dante Alighieri | 17%
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The New York Times called him "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream" | Ray Bradbury | 16%
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She is a Southern writer who often wrote in a sardonic Southern Gothic style and relied heavily on regional settings and grotesque characters, often in violent situations | Flannery O'Connor | 7%
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