Renowned – definition: celebrated; famous
How many of these famous authors do you know? Which are your favorites? Who inspired you the most?
- Agatha Christie
- Alan Moore
- Albert Camus
- Aldous Huxley
- Alexander Mccall Smith
- Allen Ginsberg
- Anaïs Nin
- Anne Frank
- Anne Rice
- Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
- Anton Chekhov
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Arthur Miller
- Arundhati Roy
- Astrid Lindgren
- Ayn Rand
- Barbara Cartland
- Beatrix Potter
- Beverly Cleary
- Brian Jacques
- C. S. Lewis
- Carol Ann Duffy
- Charles Dickens
- Chinua Achebe
- Christopher Hitchens
- Christopher Marlowe
- Christopher Paolini
- Chuck Palahniuk
- Clive Cussler
- Cormac McCarthy
- Czesław Miłosz
- D.H. Lawrence
- Dale Carnegie
- Dan Brown
- Danielle Steel
- Dante Alighieri
- Daphne du Maurier
- Dashiell Hammett
- Dav Pilkey
- David Baldacci
- David Foster Wallace
- David Sedaris
- Dean Koontz
- Debbie Macomber
- Denis Diderot
- Don DeLillo
- Doris Lessing
- Douglas Adams
- Dr. Seuss
- E.M. Forster
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Edith Wharton
- Elbert Hubbard
- Elie Wiesel
- Ellen G. White
- Émile Zola
- Emily Dickinson
- Enid Blyton
- Eoin Colfer
- Eric Carle
- Erica Jong
- Ernest Hemingway
- Euripides
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Fernando Pessoa
- Frank McCourt
- Flannery O’Connor
- Franz Kafka
- Gabriel García Márquez
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- George Bernard Shaw
- George Eliot
- George Orwell
- George R. R. Martin
- Germaine Greer
- Gertrude Stein
- Giacomo Leopardi
- Giovanni Boccaccio
- Günter Grass
- Gustave Flaubert
- H. G. Wells
- Hans Christian Andersen
- Harper Lee
- Haruki Murakami
- Henning Mankell
- Henrik Ibsen
- Henry David Thoreau
- John Updike
- Jonathan Safran Foer
- Jonathan Swift
- Jorge Luis Borges
- José Saramago
- Joseph Conrad
- Joseph Heller
- Jostein Gaarder
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Juan Rulfo
- Jules Verne
- Julian Barnes
- Karl May
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- Ken Follett
- Khaled Hosseini
- Khalil Gibran
- Knut Hamsun
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Lee Child
- Leo Tolstoy
- Lewis Carroll
- Lord Byron
- Louise Hay
- Malcolm Gladwell
- Marcel Proust
- Margaret Mitchell
- Margaret Peterson Haddix
- Marguerite Yourcenar
- Mario Puzo
- Mario Vargas Llosa
- Mark Twain
- Martin Amis
- Mary Higgins Clark
- Mary Shelley
- Maurice Sendak
- Maya Angelou
- Michael Crichton
- Michel De Montaigne
- Michel Houellebecq
- Miguel De Cervantes
- Mitch Albom
- Napoleon Hill
- Neil Gaiman
- Niall Ferguson
- Nicholas Sparks
- Nick Hornby
- Nicole Krauss
- Nora Roberts
- Norman Mailer
- Oscar Wilde
- Ovid
- P. D. James
- Patricia Cornwell
- Paul Auster
- Paul Celan
- Paul Valéry
- Paulo Coelho
- Peter Hitchens
- Philip Pullman
- Pierre Dukan
- R. L. Stine
- Ralph Ellison
- Raymond Carver
- Raymond Chandler
- Raymond E. Feist
- Rhonda Byrne
- Richard Bach
- Richard Scarry
- Richard Wright
- Rick Riordan
- Rick Warren
- Roald Dahl
- Robert Jordan
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Robert Ludlum
- Robert Munsch
- Robin Cook
- Roger Hargreaves
- Rudyard Kipling
- Rumi
- S. E. Hinton
- Salman Rushdie
- Samuel Beckett
- Samuel Johnson
- Seamus Heaney
- Shaun Tan
- Sidney Sheldon
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Sophocles
- Stendhal
- Stephen Hawking
- Stephen King
- Stephenie Meyer
- Stieg Larsson
- Suzanne Collins
- Sylvia Plath
- Ted Hughes
- Tennessee Williams
- Terry Brooks
- Terry Pratchett
- Thomas Mann
- Thomas Pynchon
- Tom Clancy
- Tom Robbins
- Toni Morrison
- Truman Capote
- Umberto Eco
- Viktor Frankl
- Virgil
- Virginia Woolf
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Walt Whitman
- Wilbur Smith
- William Blake
- William Faulkner
- William Gibson
- William Golding
- William S. Burroughs
- William Shakespeare
- Zora Neale Hurston
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This is great! So many amazing women. I definitely took some lessons and inspiration from many of them. And several were childhood favorites. Beverly Cleary-who doesn’t have memories of her from their childhood? Great post!
If you just replace the “re” with “unk” and knock off the “ed,” that would be me. 🙂