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May 16, 2024 · This list of authors features the best writers ever, including, William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Emily Bronte, Geoffrey Chaucer, Homer, Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens, Herman Melleville, William Faulkner, and Edgar Allan Poe. Vote up the best authors of all time below or add the writer you think is the best who isn't already on the list.
- Homer ~850 BCE. Scholars have debated whether Homer was one single author rather than a collection of oral stories but it is now thought that such an author existed.
- Sophocles 496-406 BCE. Sophocles, an ancient Greek dramatist, wrote plays that have stood as a model for tragic dramas, both by Greek and Roman writers and into the modern age, hugely influencing the playwrights of the golden age of Elizabethan drama in England, as well as modern dramatists.
- Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) 70 BCE – 19 BCE. Virgil was a prolific Roman poet, best remembered for his epic, Aeneid. He Was to Rome what Homer was to Greece.
- The Evangelist, Mark (Author of the Gospel of St Mark) 1st Century CE. The identity of Mark is unknown but his great book, The Gospel of St Mark, was written in about the year 70 and has had the greatest impact on the world of any book ever written.
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