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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.
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.
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:
[[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]]
* ''Hamlet'' by [[William Shakespeare]]
* ''The Treasury of Oz'' by [[L. Frank Baum]]
* ''A Tale of Two Cities'' by [[Charles Dickens]]
* ''Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome'' by E. M. Berens
* ''The Sorrows of Young Werther'' by [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]]
* ''Labyrinths'' by [[Jorge Luis Borges]]
* ''The Sound and the Fury'' by [[William Faulkner]]
* ''The Da Vinci Code'' by [[Dan Brown]]
* ''The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' by [[Mark Twain]]
* ''Miffy'' by [[Dick Bruna]]
* ''The Turn of The Screw'' by [[Henry James]]
* ''Madame Bovary'' by [[Gustave Flaubert]]
* ''Answered Prayers'' by [[Truman Capote]]
* ''Answered Prayers'' by [[Truman Capote]]
* ''Le Petit Prince'' by [[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]]
* ''[[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]]
* ''The Stories of Anton Chekhov'' by [[Anton Chekhov]]
* ''Father Brown'' by [[G.K. Chesterton]]
* ''Father Brown'' by [[G.K. Chesterton]]
* ''And Then There Were None'' by [[Agatha Christie]]
* ''And Then There Were None'' by [[Agatha Christie]]
* ''The Sum of All Fears'' by [[Tom Clancy]]
* ''The Sum of All Fears'' by [[Tom Clancy]]
* ''Shōgun'' by [[James Clavell]]
* ''Shōgun'' by [[James Clavell]]
* ''Perfume'' by [[Patrick Süskind]]
* ''The Alchemist'' by [[Paulo Coelho]]
* ''The Ugly Duckling'' by [[Hans Christian Andersen]]
* ''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 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]]
* ''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
* ''Meditations'' by Marcus Aurelius
* ''The Purpose Driven Life'' by Rick Warren
* ''One Hundred Years of Solitude'' by [[Gabriel García Márquez]]
* ''Don Juan'' by [[George Gordon, Lord Byron]]
* ''Of Human Bondage'' by [[Somerset Maugham|W. Somerset Maugham]]
* ''The Man Who Loved Children'' by Christina Stead
* ''[[Gone with the Wind]]'' by [[Margaret Mitchell]]
* ''The Da Vinci Code'' by [[Dan Brown]]
* ''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 Double Flame'' by [[Octavio Paz]]
* ''Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome'' by E. M. Berens
* ''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]]
* ''Blindness'' by [[Jose Saramago]]
* ''House of Leaves'' by Mark Z. Danielewski
* ''Ivanhoe'' by [[Walter Scott]]
* ''The Death of Artemio Cruz'' by [[Carlos Fuentes]]
* ''A Suitable Boy'' by Vikram Seth
* ''Scaramouche'' by Rafael Sabatini
* ''[[Hamlet]]'' by [[William Shakespeare]]
* ''Independent People'' by Halldor Laxness
* ''The Man Who Loved Children'' by Christina Stead
* ''Pedro Paramo'' by Juan Rulfo
* ''Perfume'' by [[Patrick Süskind]]
* ''The Big Sky'' by A. B. Guthrie, Jr.
* ''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]]
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