Most Adapted Authors (edited)

Name the authors who have had the most film and television adaptations of their works.

Source: imdb.com

HINT: Only one author on this list is still alive and only one a woman

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Rank	Author	Selected Work
1. (831)	William Shakespeare	The Merchant of Venice
2. (320)	Anton Chekhov	Uncle Vanya
3. (300)	Charles Dickens	Great Expectations
4. (243)	Alexandre Dumas	Man in the Iron Mask
5. (240)	Edgar Allan Poe	The Tell-Tale Heart
6. (225)	Robert Louis Stevenson	Swiss Family Robinson
7. (220)	Arthur Conan Doyle	The Hound of the Baskervilles
8. (217)	Hans Christian Andersen	The Snow Queen
9. (214)	Edgar Wallace	The Four Just Men
10. (212)	The Brothers Grimm	Snow White
11. (208)	Molière	The Bourgeois Gentleman

Rank	Author	Selected Work
12. (201)	O. Henry	The Ransom of Red Chief
13. (181)	Oscar Wilde	A Picture of Dorian Gray
14. (177)	Fyodor Dostoevsky	Crime and Punishment
15. (154)	Leo Tolstoy	War and Peace
16. (150)	Victor Hugo	Les Misérables
17. (143)	Jules Verne	From the Earth to the Moon
18. (127)	Stephen King	Misery
18. (127)	Georges Simenon	The Strangers in the House
20. (126)	Agatha Christie	Murder on the Orient Express
21. (124)	L. Frank Baum	The WIzard of Oz
22. (121)	Mark Twain	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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