| 1 | Alexander Pope |
| 2 | John Irving |
| 3 | Jack Kerouac |
| 4 | John Dos Passos |
| 5 | Graham Greene |
| 6 | Agatha Christie |
| 7 | Stephen Crane |
| 8 | Toni Morrison |
| 9 | Theodore Dreiser |
| 10 | Lillian Hellman |
| 11 | Larry McMurtry |
| 12 | Nathanael West |
| 13 | George Orwell |
| 14 | Elmore Leonard |
| 15 | Sinclair Lewis |
| 16 | Bernard Malamud |