Who Is the Greatest American Writer? (Poll Closed)

Mark Twain 18%
Ernest Hemingway 9%
William Faulkner 8%
F. Scott Fitzgerald 7%
Kurt Vonnegut 5%
Edgar Allan Poe 5%
Herman Melville 4%
Toni Morrison 3%
Walt Whitman 2%
Emily Dickinson 2%
Flannery O'Connor 2%
T.S. Eliot 2%
J.D. Salinger 2%
Tennessee Williams 2%
Henry James 2%
Philip Roth 2%
Edith Wharton 1%
Nathaniel Hawthorne 1%
Willa Cather 1%
Saul Bellow 1%
Arthur Miller 1%
John Updike 1%
Joan Didion 1%
Sinclair Lewis <1%
Washington Irving <1%
Other 20%

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6 Comments

David Bergsland - 11 years ago

Thomas Jefferson
Mary Paquettemarypaquette - 11 years ago

James Elroy, Elmore Leonard
jhcp - 11 years ago

sherman alexie
Donna Atkins Gilbert - 11 years ago

Eudora Welty.
Jacqueline Roman - 11 years ago

John Steinbeck
bobbiek - 11 years ago

Raymond Chandler.
Perhaps not the greatest American author, but -- writer? I thinks that's a defensible position.

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