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An '''author''' is someone who [[writes]] a piece of [[literature]] such as might appear in a [[book]] or a [[magazine]] article.
 
An '''author''' is someone who [[writes]] a piece of [[literature]] such as might appear in a [[book]] or a [[magazine]] article.
  
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The term author is usually used with works that have been mass produced either in written or electronic form and have the capability to be widely read and distributed.
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The term author is usually used with works that have been mass-produced either in written or electronic form and have the capability to be widely read and distributed.
 
    
 
    
 
== Authors and Books ==
 
== Authors and Books ==
  
 
There are several lists of "Top authors" or "Best seller" books. Some include:
 
There are several lists of "Top authors" or "Best seller" books. Some include:
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[[Image:Repin LeoTolstoy.jpg|thumb|Portrait of Leo Tolstoy by Ilya Yefimovich Repin]]
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* ''Anna Karenina'' by [[Leo Tolstoy]]
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* ''The Ugly Duckling'' by [[Hans Christian Andersen]]
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* ''Don Quixote'' by [[Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra]]  
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* ''Pride and Prejudice'' by [[Jane Austen]]  
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* ''Hamlet'' by [[William Shakespeare]]
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* ''The Treasury of Oz'' by [[L. Frank Baum]]  
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* ''A Tale of Two Cities'' by [[Charles Dickens]]
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* ''Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome'' by E. M. Berens
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* ''The Sorrows of Young Werther'' by [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]]
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* ''Labyrinths'' by [[Jorge Luis Borges]]
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* ''The Sound and the Fury'' by [[William Faulkner]]
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* ''The Da Vinci Code'' by [[Dan Brown]]
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* ''The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' by [[Mark Twain]]
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* ''Miffy'' by [[Dick Bruna]]
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* ''The Ambassadors'' by [[Henry James]]
 
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* ''In Search of Lost Time'' by [[Marcel Proust]]
 
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* ''Madame Bovary'' by [[Gustave Flaubert]]
 
 
* ''Answered Prayers'' by [[Truman Capote]]
 
* ''Answered Prayers'' by [[Truman Capote]]
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* ''Le Petit Prince'' by [[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]]
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* ''[[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]'' by [[Lewis Carroll]]
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* ''The Plague'' by [[Albert Camus]]
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* ''[[Don Quixote]]'' by [[Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra]]  
 
* ''The Stories of Anton Chekhov'' by [[Anton Chekhov]]
 
* ''The Stories of Anton Chekhov'' by [[Anton Chekhov]]
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* ''The Iliad'' by [[Homer]]
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* ''Father Brown'' by [[G.K. Chesterton]]
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* ''Middlemarch'' by [[George Eliot]]
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* ''And Then There Were None'' by [[Agatha Christie]]
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* ''20,000 Leagues Under the Sea'' by [[Jules Verne]]
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* ''The Sum of All Fears'' by [[Tom Clancy]]
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* ''The Brothers Karamazov'' by [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]]
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* ''Shōgun'' by [[James Clavell]]
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* ''The Lord of the Rings'' by [[J.R.R. Tolkien]]
 
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* ''The Chronicles of Narnia'' by [[C.S. Lewis]]
 
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* ''The Raven'' by [[Edgar Allan Poe]]  
 
 
* ''The Alchemist'' by [[Paulo Coelho]]
 
* ''The Alchemist'' by [[Paulo Coelho]]
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* ''Labyrinths'' by [[Jorge Luis Borges]]
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* ''An Outcast of the Islands'' by [[Joseph Conrad]]
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* ''House of Leaves'' by Mark Z. Danielewski
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* ''[[A Tale of Two Cities]]'' by [[Charles Dickens]]
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* ''The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson''
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* ''[[The Brothers Karamazov]]'' by [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]]
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* ''The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'' by Sir [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]
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* ''[[Middlemarch]]'' by [[George Eliot]]
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* ''The Praise of Folly'' by [[Erasmus|Desiderius Erasmus]]
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* ''[[The Sound and the Fury]]'' by [[William Faulkner]]
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* ''[[The Great Gatsby]]'' by [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]]
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* ''Madame Bovary'' by [[Gustave Flaubert]]
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* ''The Death of Artemio Cruz'' by [[Carlos Fuentes]]
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[[Image:Goethe Y.jpg|thumb|J. W. von Goethe (1749 - 1832)]]
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* ''[[The Sorrows of Young Werther]]'' by [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]]
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* ''Don Juan'' by [[George Gordon, Lord Byron]] <!--May be alphabetized wrong-->
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* ''The Big Sky'' by A. B. Guthrie, Jr.
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* ''A Farewell to Arms'' by [[Ernest Hemingway]]
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* ''[[Iliad|The Iliad]]'' by [[Homer]]
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* ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'' by [[Victor Hugo]]
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* ''The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'' by [[Washington Irving]]
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* ''The Turn of The Screw'' by [[Henry James]]
 
* ''Ulysses'' by [[James Joyce]]  
 
* ''Ulysses'' by [[James Joyce]]  
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* ''The Stand'' by [[Stephen King]]
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* ''The Jungle Books'' by [[Rudyard Kipling]]
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* ''Guin Saga'' by [[Kaoru Kurimoto]]
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* ''Tess of the D'Urbervilles'' by [[Thomas Hardy]]
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* ''Independent People'' by Halldor Laxness
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* ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]'' by [[C.S. Lewis]]
 
* ''The Prince'' by [[Niccolo Machiavelli]]
 
* ''The Prince'' by [[Niccolo Machiavelli]]
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* ''The Great Gatsby'' by [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]]  
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* ''Death in Venice'' by [[Thomas Mann]]
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* ''Pride and Prejudice'' by [[Jane Austen]]  
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* ''Meditations'' by Marcus Aurelius
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* ''One Hundred Years of Solitude'' by [[Gabriel García Márquez]]
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* ''Of Human Bondage'' by [[Somerset Maugham|W. Somerset Maugham]]
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* ''[[Gone with the Wind]]'' by [[Margaret Mitchell]]
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* ''Pale Fire'' by [[Vladimir Nabokov]]
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* ''Late and Posthumous Poems'' by [[Pablo Neruda]]
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* ''U.S.A.'' by [[John Dos Passos]]
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* ''The Raven'' by [[Edgar Allan Poe]] <!-- Poem, not a book; should it really be here? -->
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* ''In Search of Lost Time'' by [[Marcel Proust]]
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* ''The Double Flame'' by [[Octavio Paz]]
 
* ''The Godfather'' by [[Mario Puzo]]
 
* ''The Godfather'' by [[Mario Puzo]]
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* ''A Man in Full'' by [[Tom Wolfe]]
 
 
* ''Wolf Totem'' by Jiang Rong
 
* ''Wolf Totem'' by Jiang Rong
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* ''And Then There Were None'' by [[Agatha Christie]]
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* ''Pedro Paramo'' by [[Juan Rulfo]]
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* ''Miffy'' by [[Dick Bruna]]
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* ''Scaramouche'' by Rafael Sabatini
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* ''Gone with the Wind'' by [[Margaret Mitchell]]
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* ''Le Petit Prince'' by [[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]]
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* ''Lolita'' by [[Vladimir Nabokov]]
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* ''Blindness'' by [[Jose Saramago]]
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* ''Musashi'' by Eiji Yoshikawa
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* ''Ivanhoe'' by [[Walter Scott]]
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* ''Of Human Bondage'' by [[W. Somerset Maugham]]  
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* ''A Suitable Boy'' by Vikram Seth
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* ''U.S.A.'' by [[John Dos Passos]]
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* ''[[Hamlet]]'' by [[William Shakespeare]]
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* ''The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'' by Sir [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]
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* ''The Man Who Loved Children'' by Christina Stead
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* ''The Treasury of Oz'' by [[L. Frank Baum]]
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* ''Perfume'' by [[Patrick Süskind]]
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* ''Pale Fire'' by [[Nabokov]]
 
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* ''One Hundred Years of Solitude'' by [[Gabriel García Márquez]]  
 
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* ''The Sum of All Fears'' by [[Tom Clancy]]
 
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* ''Guin Saga'' by [[Kaoru Kurimoto]]
 
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* ''The Plague'' by [[Albert Camus]]
 
 
* ''Legend of the Galactic Heroes'' by Yoshiki Tanaka
 
* ''Legend of the Galactic Heroes'' by Yoshiki Tanaka
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* ''The Stand'' by [[Stephen King]]
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* ''The Hobbit'' by [[J.R.R. Tolkien]]
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* ''Shōgun'' by [[James Clavell]]
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* ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' by [[J.R.R. Tolkien]]
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* ''Perfume'' by [[Patrick Süskind]]
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* ''[[Anna Karenina]]'' by [[Leo Tolstoy]]
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* ''The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson''  
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* ''[[The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]]'' by [[Mark Twain]]
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* ''Meditations'' by Marcus Aurelius
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* ''The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Peoples'' by [[Miguel de Unamuno]]
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* ''[[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea]]'' by [[Jules Verne]]
 
* ''The Purpose Driven Life'' by Rick Warren
 
* ''The Purpose Driven Life'' by Rick Warren
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* ''The Man Who Loved Children'' by Christina Stead
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* ''[[The War of the Worlds]]'' by [[H. G. Wells]]  
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* ''The Da Vinci Code'' by [[Dan Brown]]
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* ''A Man in Full'' by [[Tom Wolfe]]  
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* ''The Double Flame'' by [[Octavio Paz]]
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* ''Musashi'' by Eiji Yoshikawa
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* ''Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome'' by E. M. Berens
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* ''The Railway Children'' by [[E. Nesbit]]
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* ''Blindness'' by [[Jose Saramago]]
 
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* ''House of Leaves'' by Mark Z. Danielewski
 
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* ''The Death of Artemio Cruz'' by [[Carlos Fuentes]]
 
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* ''Scaramouche'' by Rafael Sabatini
 
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* ''Independent People'' by Halldor Laxness
 
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* ''Pedro Paramo'' by Juan Rulfo
 
  
 
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[[Category:Professions]]
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[[Category:Literature]]
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[[Category:Authors]]

Latest revision as of 13:10, June 28, 2016

An author is someone who writes a piece of literature such as might appear in a book or a magazine article.

The term author is usually used with works that have been mass-produced either in written or electronic form and have the capability to be widely read and distributed.

Authors and Books

There are several lists of "Top authors" or "Best seller" books. Some include:

Portrait of Leo Tolstoy by Ilya Yefimovich Repin
J. W. von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
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