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Great writers don't describe the world — they restructure how we see it. The 163 names below invented literary forms, languages of thought, and moral imaginations that still govern how humans feel.

Abu al Ala Al Ma'arri

Abu al Ala Al Ma'arri

IQ 178

Blind Arab philosopher, poet, and writer who Lived during the Islamic Golden Age

Aeschylus

Aeschylus

IQ 173

An ancient Greek tragedian

Aesop

Aesop

IQ 150

Greek moral philosopher; noted for his fabulist storytelling using animal-human figures to convey teachings about ambigu

Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle

IQ 180

British detective fiction author

Alan Watts

Alan Watts

IQ 145

A British writer and speaker known for interpreting and popularizing Buddhism, Taoism, and Hinduism for a Western audien

Albert Camus

Albert Camus

IQ 155

A French writer, philosopher and journalist.

Alexander Pushkin

Alexander Pushkin

A Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet.

Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas

French writer and dramatist.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

British poet and Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland.

Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov

Russian dramatist, author and physician

Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand

IQ 160

Russian-American writer and philosopher

Ben Jonson

Ben Jonson

IQ 170

An English playwright and poet best known for the satirical plays Every Man in His Humour (1598), Volpone, or The Fox (c

Benjamin Disraeli

Benjamin Disraeli

IQ 165

Was twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

IQ 180

Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist known for writing Man and Superman (1902

Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan

IQ 130

American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, and science educator

Charles-Guillaume Étienne

Charles-Guillaume Étienne

IQ 160

A 19th-century French playwright.

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens

IQ 165

An English writer and social critic.

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

IQ 165

A French literary critic.

Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte Brontë

IQ 165

Jane Eyre
Villette

Christoph Martin Wieland

Christoph Martin Wieland

IQ 160

A German poet and writer best-remembered for having written the first Bildungsroman (Geschichte des Agathon) as well as

Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens

IQ 170

An English intellectual, polemicist, and socio-political critic, who expressed himself as an author, orator, essayist an

Claude Adrien Helvétius

Claude Adrien Helvétius

IQ 160

A French philosopher, freemason and littérateur.

Clive Staples Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis

IQ 150

A British writer and lay theologian best known for The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Space Trilog

Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney

Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney

IQ 170

A French philosopher, abolitionist, writer, orientalist, and politician who was one of the first modern writers to advoc

Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe

IQ 165

An English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe, published in 1719.

Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri

IQ 175

An Italian poet, writer and philosopher best known for the narrative poem Divine Comedy.

David Strauss

David Strauss

IQ 170

A German liberal Protestant theologian and writer, who influenced Christian Europe with his portrayal of the "historical

David Hume

David Hume

IQ 180

A Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, librarian and essayist, who is best known for his highly inf

Denis Diderot

Denis Diderot

IQ 180

La Religieuse

Marquis de Sade

Marquis de Sade

IQ 165

A French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer best known for The 120 Days of Sodom and Justine.

Acharya S

Acharya S

IQ 160

An American genius writer supporting the theory that Jesus never existed as a historical person.

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

IQ 145

An American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is considered the inventor of the detective fiction and is kno

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

IQ 155

An English writer and politician coined the phrases "the great unwashed", "pursuit of the almighty dollar", "the pen is

Edward Gibbon

Edward Gibbon

IQ 180

Probably the greatest English historian of all times. Famous for his work The History of the Decline and Fall of the Rom

Elizabeth Gaskell

Elizabeth Gaskell

IQ 160

An English novelist, biographer and short story writer most famous for her novels "Cranford", "North and South, and "Wiv

Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

IQ 170

An American novelist, short-story writer, journalist, and sportsman best known for his novels For Whom the Bell Tolls, A

Erwin Chargaff

Erwin Chargaff

An Austro-Hungarian-born American biochemist who discovered two rules that helped lead to the discovery of the double he

Euripides

Euripides

IQ 180

A tragedian of classical Athens who is remembered by the plays Medea, Hippolytus, Electra, The Trojan Women, and Bacchae

F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald

IQ 145

Is an American novelist and screenwriter known across the world for his novel The Great Gatsby.

François Rabelais

François Rabelais

IQ 170

A French Renaissance writer, physician, Renaissance humanist, monk, and Greek scholar.

Voltaire

Voltaire

IQ 190

French writer, historian & philosopher who wrote more than 20,000 letters and 2,000 books and pamphlets.

François-René de Chateaubriand

François-René de Chateaubriand

IQ 160

A French writer, politician, diplomat and historian who dominated the literary scene in France in the first half of the

François de La Rochefoucauld (writer)

François de La Rochefoucauld (writer)

IQ 170

A noted French moralist and author of maxims and memoirs

François de La Mothe Le Vayer

François de La Mothe Le Vayer

IQ 170

A French writer who was the tutor of Louis XIV.

Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka

A genius Czech novelist known for the surreal subject of his novel "Metamorphosis".

Friedrich Schiller

Friedrich Schiller

German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky

IQ 180

One of the greatest Russian authors of the 19th century whose works deal with human nature, religion, atheism, revolutio

Gaius Lucilius

Gaius Lucilius

IQ 165

The earliest Roman satirist, of whose writings only fragments remain

Pliny the Elder

Pliny the Elder

IQ 170

A Roman author, a naturalist and natural philosopher, a naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend

Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer

IQ 165

An English poet and author who is credited as the creator of modern English poetry and literature as a whole.

George Sand

George Sand

IQ 160

A French novelist, memoirist, and journalist who had a vibrant personal and literary life.

George Eliot

George Eliot

IQ 160

An English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era

Germaine de Staël

Germaine de Staël

IQ 175

A French woman of letters and political theorist of Genevan origin.

Gerolamo Cardano

Gerolamo Cardano

IQ 175

An Italian polymath was one of the key figures in the foundation of probability and the earliest introducer of the binom

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

IQ 160

A German writer, philosopher, dramatist, publicist and art critic, and an outstanding representative of the Enlightenmen

Hans Christian Andersen

Hans Christian Andersen

IQ 145

A Danish author who is one of the most well-known authors of fairy tales.

Henry Fielding

Henry Fielding

IQ 165

An English novelist and dramatist known for his earthy humour and satire. His comic novel Tom Jones is still widely appr

Henry Thomas Buckle

Henry Thomas Buckle

IQ 175

An English historian, the author of an unfinished History of Civilization considered to be the Father of Scientific Hist

Herodotus

Herodotus

IQ 175

An ancient Greek writer and geographer who was the first Greek historian.

Hildegard of Bingen

Hildegard of Bingen

IQ 160

A German Benedictine abbess who is among the best best-known composers of sacred monophony

Homer

Homer

IQ 175

Is the presumed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey

Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac

IQ 155

A French novelist and playwright best-known for his magnum opus novel sequence La Comédie humaine.

Hugh Miller

Hugh Miller

IQ 155

A self-taught Scottish geologist and writer, folklorist and an evangelical Christian.

Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov

IQ 170

An American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University who is considered one of the most influential sci-

Ivan Turgenev

Ivan Turgenev

A Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in the West.

Jacob Grimm

Jacob Grimm

IQ 160

A German philologist, jurist, and folklorist who was the editor of Grimm's Fairy Tales.

James Anthony Froude

James Anthony Froude

IQ 180

An English historian, novelist, biographer, and editor of Fraser's Magazine

James Thomson (poet, born 1700)

James Thomson (poet, born 1700)

IQ 175

A British poet and playwright, known for the lyrics of "Rule, Britannia!"

Jane Marcet

Jane Marcet

British writer

Jean Racine

Jean Racine

IQ 170

A French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

IQ 180

Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer whose political philosophy influenced the progress of the Enlightenment throug

Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre

IQ 155

A French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter who is one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentiali

Ludwig Tieck

Ludwig Tieck

IQ 155

A German poet, fiction writer, translator, and critic who was one of the founding fathers of the Romantic movement.

Johann Gottfried Herder

Johann Gottfried Herder

IQ 165

Volksgeist

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

IQ 200

German writer, scientist artist, & politician best known for his drama Faust and is considered to be the greatest German

Johannes Gutenberg

Johannes Gutenberg

IQ 140

A German inventor, printer, publisher, and goldsmith who introduced printing to Europe

John Harington (writer)

John Harington (writer)

An English courtier, author and translator known as the inventor of the flush toilet

John Philoponus

John Philoponus

Philosopher, Theologist, Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer, Writer

John Milton

John Milton

An English poet and intellectual most famous for his epic poem Paradise Lost.

John Burroughs

John Burroughs

IQ 170

An American naturalist and nature essayist, active in the U.S. conservation movement.

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Preguntas Frecuentes

Who is the greatest writer of all time?

William Shakespeare is nearly universally considered the greatest writer in history, followed by Homer, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky.

Which writer had the highest IQ?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is estimated at IQ 210; Leo Tolstoy at 190; Voltaire at 190-200.

Who invented the modern novel?

Miguel de Cervantes with Don Quixote (1605) is widely credited as inventor of the modern novel.

Which writer has sold the most books?

William Shakespeare has sold an estimated 4+ billion copies, followed by Agatha Christie at ~2 billion.

Who won the Nobel Prize in Literature first?

Sully Prudhomme of France won the first Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901.