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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]]
* ''[[Anna Karenina]]'' by [[Leo Tolstoy]]
* ''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]]
* ''[[Don Quixote]]'' by [[Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra]]
* ''[[Hamlet]]'' by [[William Shakespeare]]
* ''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]]
* ''[[A Tale of Two Cities]]'' by [[Charles Dickens]]
* ''[[Sorrows of Young Werther|The Sorrows of Young Werther]]'' by [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]]
* ''The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson''
* ''[[Sound and the Fury|The Sound and the Fury]]'' by [[William Faulkner]]
* ''[[The Brothers Karamazov]]'' by [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]]
* ''[[Adventures of Huckleberry Finn|The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]]'' by [[Mark Twain]]
* ''The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'' by Sir [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]
* ''The Turn of The Screw'' by [[Henry James]]
* ''[[Middlemarch]]'' by [[George Eliot]]
* ''In Search of Lost Time'' by [[Marcel Proust]]
* ''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]]
* ''Madame Bovary'' by [[Gustave Flaubert]]
* ''Answered Prayers'' by [[Truman Capote]]
* ''The Death of Artemio Cruz'' by [[Carlos Fuentes]]
* ''Le Petit Prince'' by [[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]]
[[Image:Goethe Y.jpg|thumb|J. W. von Goethe (1749 - 1832)]]
* ''The Stories of Anton Chekhov'' by [[Anton Chekhov]]
* ''[[The Sorrows of Young Werther]]'' by [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]]
* ''The Iliad'' by [[Homer]]
* ''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]]
* ''A Farewell to Arms'' by [[Ernest Hemingway]]
* ''Middlemarch'' by [[George Eliot]]
* ''[[Iliad|The Iliad]]'' by [[Homer]]
* ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'' by [[Victor Hugo]]
* ''The Brothers Karamazov'' by [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]]
* ''The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'' by [[Washington Irving]]
* ''The Turn of The Screw'' by [[Henry James]]
* ''The Chronicles of Narnia'' by [[C.S. Lewis]]
* ''The War of the Worlds'' by [[H. G. Wells]]
* ''Ulysses'' by [[James Joyce]]
* ''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]]
* ''The Prince'' by [[Niccolo Machiavelli]]
* ''The Great Gatsby'' by [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]]
* ''Death in Venice'' by [[Thomas Mann]]
* ''Pride and Prejudice'' by [[Jane Austen]]
* ''Meditations'' by Marcus Aurelius
* ''One Hundred Years of Solitude'' by [[Gabriel García Márquez]]
* ''Of Human Bondage'' by [[Somerset Maugham|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]]
* ''The Godfather'' by [[Mario Puzo]]
* ''Wolf Totem'' by Jiang Rong
* ''Wolf Totem'' by Jiang Rong
* ''And Then There Were None'' by [[Agatha Christie]]
* ''Pedro Paramo'' by [[Juan Rulfo]]
* ''Miffy'' by [[Dick Bruna]]
* ''Scaramouche'' by Rafael Sabatini
* ''Gone with the Wind'' by [[Margaret Mitchell]]
* ''Le Petit Prince'' by [[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]]
* ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' by [[Lewis Carroll]]
* ''Blindness'' by [[Jose Saramago]]
* ''Musashi'' by Eiji Yoshikawa
* ''Ivanhoe'' by [[Walter Scott]]
* ''A Suitable Boy'' by Vikram Seth
* ''U.S.A.'' by [[John Dos Passos]]
* ''[[Hamlet]]'' by [[William Shakespeare]]
* ''The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'' by Sir [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]
* ''The Man Who Loved Children'' by Christina Stead
* ''Perfume'' by [[Patrick Süskind]]
* ''The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'' [[Washington Irving]]
* ''Guin Saga'' by [[Kaoru Kurimoto]]
* ''Legend of the Galactic Heroes'' by Yoshiki Tanaka
* ''Legend of the Galactic Heroes'' by Yoshiki Tanaka
* ''The Stand'' by [[Stephen King]]
* ''The Hobbit'' by [[J.R.R. Tolkien]]
* ''Shōgun'' by [[James Clavell]]
* ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' by [[J.R.R. Tolkien]]
* ''Perfume'' by [[Patrick Süskind]]
* ''[[Anna Karenina]]'' by [[Leo Tolstoy]]
* ''The Ugly Duckling'' by [[Hans Christian Andersen]]
* ''[[The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]]'' by [[Mark Twain]]
* ''The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson''
* ''The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Peoples'' by [[Miguel de Unamuno]]
* ''Meditations'' by Marcus Aurelius
* ''[[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea]]'' by [[Jules Verne]]
* ''The Purpose Driven Life'' by Rick Warren
* ''The Purpose Driven Life'' by Rick Warren
* ''Don Juan'' by [[George Gordon, Lord Byron]]
* ''[[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]]
* ''Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome'' by E. M. Berens
* ''House of Leaves'' by Mark Z. Danielewski
* ''The Death of Artemio Cruz'' by [[Carlos Fuentes]]
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