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Related pages:
- The Novel 100: The 100 Greatest Novels of All Time - The Fictional 100 and 100 Best Characters in Fiction Since 1900 (including info about authors who created the characters) |
Burt holds a Ph.D from New York University with a specialty in Victorian fiction and was for nine years a dean at Wesleyan University, where he has also taught literature courses since 1989. He is also the author of The Novel 100: A Ranking of the Greatest Novels of All Time.
| 1 | William Shakespeare | 1564-1616 | Catholic; Anglican |
| 2 | Dante Alighieri | 1265-1321 | Catholic |
| 3 | Homer | fl. c. 750(?) B.C. | Greek paganism |
| 4 | Leo Tolstoy | 1828-1910 | Russian Orthodox |
| 5 | Geoffrey Chaucer | c. 1340-1400 | Catholic |
| 6 | Charles Dickens | 1812-1870 | Anglican |
| 7 | James Joyce | 1882-1941 | Catholic (lapsed) |
| 8 | John Milton | 1608-1674 | Congregationalist |
| 9 | Virgil | 70-19 B.C. | |
| 10 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | 1749-1832 | Deist |
| 11 | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | 1547-1616 | Catholic |
| 12 | Murasaki Shikibu | c. 978-1030 | Buddhist/Shinto culture |
| 13 | Sophocles | 496-406 B.C. | |
| 14 | William Faulkner | 1897-1962 | Presbyterian |
| 15 | Feodor Dostoevsky | 1821-1881 | Russian Orthodox |
| 16 | T.S. Eliot | 1888-1965 | Anglican |
| 17 | Marcel Proust | 1871-1922 | Jewish Catholic |
| 18 | Jane Austen | 1775-1817 | Anglican |
| 19 | George Eliot | 1819-1880 | Anglican; agnostic |
| 20 | William Butler Yeats | 1865-1939 | Church of Ireland (Anglican); astrology |
| 21 | Alexander Pushkin | 1799-1837 | Russian Orthodox |
| 22 | Euripides | c. 480-406 B.C. | |
| 23 | John Donne | 1572-1631 | Anglican; Catholic |
| 24 | Herman Melville | 1819-1891 | Transcendentalist |
| 25 | John Keats | 1795-1821 | Anglican |
| 26 | Ovid | 43 B.C.-17 A.D. | |
| 27 | Tu Fu | 712-770 | |
| 28 | William Blake | 1757-1827 | Swedenborgian; occult |
| 29 | Aeschylus | c. 525-456 B.C. | |
| 30 | Gustave Flaubert | 1821-1880 | Catholic |
| 31 | Franz Kafka | 1883-1924 | Jewish |
| 32 | Moliere | 1622-1673 | Catholic |
| 33 | William Wordsworth | 1770-1850 | Anglican |
| 34 | Aristophanes | c. 450-c. 385 B.C. | |
| 35 | Thomas Mann | 1875-1955 | Lutheran |
| 36 | Henrik Ibsen | 1828-1906 | |
| 37 | Anton Chekhov | 1860-1904 | Russian Orthodox |
| 38 | Henry James | 1843-1916 | Anglican |
| 39 | Vladimir Nabokov | 1899-1977 | Russian Orthodox |
| 40 | Walt Whitman | 1819-1892 | Quaker; Humanist; Transcendentalist |
| 41 | Honore de Balzac | 1799-1850 | Catholic |
| 42 | Jonathan Swift | 1667-1745 | Church of Ireland (Anglican) |
| 43 | Stendhal | 1783-1842 | Catholic |
| 44 | Thomas Hardy | 1840-1928 | |
| 45 | George Bernard Shaw | 1856-1950 | Church of Ireland (Anglican); atheist, then mystic |
| 46 | Ernest Hemingway | 1899-1961 | Catholic |
| 47 | D. H. Lawrence | 1885-1930 | |
| 48 | Charles Baudelaire | 1821-1867 | Catholic |
| 49 | Samuel Beckett | 1906-1989 | Church of Ireland (Anglican) |
| 50 | Virginia Woolf | 1882-1941 | Neo-pagan |
| 51 | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744 | Catholic |
| 52 | Francois Rabelais | c. 1494-1553 | Catholic |
| 53 | Francesco Petrarch | 1304-1374 | Catholic |
| 54 | Emily Dickinson | 1830-1886 | |
| 55 | Edgar Allan Poe | 1809-1849 | |
| 56 | Henry Fielding | 1707-1754 | |
| 57 | Joseph Conrad | 1857-1924 | Catholic; atheist |
| 58 | Robert Browning | 1812-1889 | Anglican |
| 59 | Albert Camus | 1913-1960 | Catholic; Existentialism |
| 60 | Charlotte Bronte | 1816-1855 | Anglican |
| 61 | Emily Bronte | 1818-1848 | Anglican |
| 62 | Jean Racine | 1639-1699 | Catholic |
| 63 | Mark Twain | 1835-1910 | Presbyterian |
| 64 | August Strindberg | 1849-1912 | |
| 65 | Emile Zola | 1840-1902 | Catholic |
| 66 | Jorge Luis Borges | 1899-1986 | Catholic; Quaker; agnostic |
| 67 | Cao Xueqin | 1715-1763 | |
| 68 | Giovanni Boccaccio | 1313-1375 | Catholic |
| 69 | Voltaire | 1694-1778 | raised in Jansenism; later Deist |
| 70 | Laurence Sterne | 1713-1768 | Church of Ireland clergyman (Anglican) |
| 71 | William Makepeace Thackeray | 1811-1863 | |
| 72 | Percy Bysshe Shelley | 1792-1822 | Anglican; atheist |
| 73 | Eugene O'Neill | 1888-1953 | Catholic |
| 74 | Wallace Stevens | 1879-1955 | Catholic |
| 75 | Lord Byron (George Gordon) | 1788-1824 | |
| 76 | Gabriel Garcia Marquez | 1928- | Catholic |
| 77 | Walter Scott | 1771-1832 | Anglican |
| 78 | Pablo Neruda | 1904-1973 | Catholic |
| 79 | Robert Musil | 1880-1942 | Catholic |
| 80 | Alfred Lord Tennyson | 1809-1892 | Anglican |
| 81 | Flannery O'Connor | 1925-1964 | Catholic |
| 82 | Catullus | c. 84-c. 54 B.C. | |
| 83 | Federico Garcia Lorca | 1898-1936 | Catholic (some Jewish ancestry) |
| 84 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | 1804-1864 | Transcendentalist |
| 85 | Theodore Dreiser | 1871-1945 | Catholic; Congregationalist; Chrisitan Science |
| 86 | Ralph Ellison | 1914-1994 | |
| 87 | Anthony Trollope | 1815-1882 | Anglican |
| 88 | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 1896-1940 | Catholic |
| 89 | Victor Hugo | 1802-1885 | Catholic |
| 90 | Rabindranath Tagore | 1961-1941 | Hindu |
| 91 | Daniel Defoe | 1660?-1731 | Protestant Dissenter (Presbyterian) |
| 92 | Gunter Grass | 1927- | Catholic |
| 93 | Lu Xun | 1881-1936 | |
| 94 | E. M. Forster | 1879-1970 | |
| 95 | Isaac Bashevis Singer | 1904-1991 | Jewish |
| 96 | Tanizaki Jun'ichiro | 1886-1965 | |
| 97 | Richard Wright | 1908-1960 | Seventh-day Adventist; Communist |
| 98 | Gertrude Stein | 1874-1946 | Jewish |
| 99 | Zeami Motokiyo | 1363-1443 | Buddhist/Shinto culture |
| 100 | Oscar Wilde | 1854-1900 | Church of Ireland (Anglican); Catholic |