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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.
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:
[[Image:Repin LeoTolstoy.jpg|thumb|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 [[Erasmus|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]]
[[Image:Goethe Y.jpg|thumb|J. W. von Goethe (1749 - 1832)]]
* ''[[The Sorrows of Young Werther]]'' by [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]]
* ''Don Juan'' by [[George Gordon, Lord Byron]] <!--May be alphabetized wrong-->
* ''The Big Sky'' by A. B. Guthrie, Jr.
* ''A Farewell to Arms'' by [[Ernest Hemingway]]
* ''[[Iliad|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]]
* ''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]] <!-- Poem, not a book; should it really be here? -->
* ''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
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