1. Nathaniel Hawthorne
— America | 1804 - 1864
2. Herman Melville
— America | 1819 - 1891
3. Walt Whitman
— America | 1819 - 1892
4. Edgar Allan Poe
— America | 1809 - 1849
5. Ernest Miller Hemingway
— America | 1899 - 1961
6. Benjamin Franklin
— America | 1706 - 1790
7. Ralph Waldo Emerson
— America | 1803 - 1882
8. Henry David Thoreau
— America | 1817 - 1862
9. Mark Twain
— America | 1835 - 1910
10. Henry James
— America | 1843 - 1916
11. Emily Dickinson
— America | 1830 - 1886
12. O.Henry
— America | 1862 - 1910
13. Theodore Dreiser
— America | 1871 - 1945
14. Robert Frost
— America | 1874 - 1963
15. Eugene O'Neill
— America | 1888 - 1953
16. William Faulkner
— America | 1897 - 1962
17. Edwin Arlington Robinson
— America | 1869 - 1935
18. Helen Keller
— America | 1880 - 1968
19. Margaret Mitchell
— America | 1900 - 1949
20. Jerome David Salinger
— America | 1919 - 2010