Author

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.

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

Portrait of Leo Tolstoy by Ilya Yefimovich Repin

• The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• The Treasury of Oz by L. Frank Baum
• Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens
• Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
• Miffy by Dick Bruna
• Answered Prayers by Truman Capote
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• The Plague by Albert Camus
• Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
• The Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov
• Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton
• And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
• The Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy
• Shōgun by James Clavell
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• An Outcast of the Islands by Joseph Conrad
• House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
• The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Middlemarch by George Eliot
• The Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
• The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
• The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes

J. W. von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

• The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Don Juan by George Gordon, Lord Byron
• The Big Sky by A. B. Guthrie, Jr.
• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
• The Iliad by Homer
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
• The Turn of The Screw by Henry James
• Ulysses by James Joyce
• The Stand by Stephen King
• The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling
• Guin Saga by Kaoru Kurimoto
• Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
• Independent People by Halldor Laxness
• The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
• The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
• Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
• Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
• Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
• Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
• Late and Posthumous Poems by Pablo Neruda
• U.S.A. by John Dos Passos
• The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
• In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
• The Double Flame by Octavio Paz
• The Godfather by Mario Puzo
• Wolf Totem by Jiang Rong
• Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo
• Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini
• Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• Blindness by Jose Saramago
• Ivanhoe by Walter Scott
• A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
• Hamlet by William Shakespeare
• The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead
• Perfume by Patrick Süskind
• Legend of the Galactic Heroes by Yoshiki Tanaka
• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Peoples by Miguel de Unamuno
• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
• The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren
• The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
• A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe
• Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa
• The Railway Children by E. Nesbit