1 Katrinka Blickle Eileen Buckholtz = formerly ½Rebecca York Patricia Cabot = Meg Cabot = Meggin Cabot = Jenny Carroll Elizabeth Gregg = Samantha Lee = Velda Brotherton Leonard Gribble = Leo Grex = Dexter Muir = Sterry Browning = Landon Grant = Lee Denver Matthew Head = John Canaday Claire Lorrimer = Beatrice Coogan = Patricia Robins Janeen O'Kerry Eileen Putman = Eileen Winwood Muriel Spark Ross Thomas = Oliver Bleeck Yevgeny Zamyatin 2 James Dickey Terence M. Green Frank Gruber = Stephen Acre = Charles K. Boston = Joseph K. Vedder Brenda Streater Jackson Ayn Rand Selina Rosen 3 Paul Auster = Paul Benjamin Raine Cantrell = Theresa DiBenedetto = Theresa Michaels James A. Michener 4 Friedrich Glauser 5 Violet Ashton Connie Bennett = Constance Bennett William S. Burroughs Stacy-Deanne Lynn Isenberg Father Andrew M. Greeley Margaret Millar 6 Maggie Shayne Stacy E. Walker (cover model) 7 Eric Temple Bell = John Taine Anne Bradshaw Charles Dickens Karen Joy Fowler Emma Goldrick Crawford Kilian Margaret Mayo Laura Ingalls Wilder 8 John Grisham Adrianne Lee 9 Cass Andre Diane Guest Alice Walker Joe Weber 10 Jeffery Farnol Boris Pasternak Julian Rathbone John Shirley Vernor Vinge 11 Daniel F. Galouye = Louis G. Daniels Sidney Sheldon Jane Yolen 12 Terry Bisson Judy Blume Juanita Coulson = John Jay Wells Claire Harrison = Laura Eden Donald Kingsbury Ellis Hoff 13 Cassandra Bella Winnie Griggs Ashley Jamieson Maureen F. McHugh Ann Major = Margaret Major Cleaves Georges Simenon William Sleator 14 Lilian Darcy Susan Napier Jonathan Pearce Rebecca Winters = Rebecca Burton 15 Jo Clayton Jack Dann Anthony Gilbert Victoria Heland = Josephine Janes Barbara Metzger Sax Rohmer Vivian Schilling 16 Iain M. Banks 17 Cheryln Biggs = Cheryln Jac June Calvin Miasha Coleman = Miasha Andre Norton Ruth Rendell = Barbara Vine Michelle Rowen Margaret St. Clair = Idris Seabright Troy Sutter (cover model) Lynda Williams 18 Jean Auel JoMarie DeGioia Len Deighton Toni Morrison Erica Spindler Wallace Stegner Gahan Wilson 19 Terry Carr Laurell K. Hamilton Jonathan Lethem Carson McCullers Amy Tan 20 William Bayer = David Hunt Helen Bianchin Pierre Boulle William Carleton Sharon Ihle = Sharon MacIver = June Cameron Sylvie Kurtz Richard Matheson = Logan Swanson Jennifer O'Neill Diana L. Paxson M.R. Sellars 21 Jilly Cooper Julie Ellis Pamela Johnson = Amanda McIntyre Richard A. Lupoff P. Schuyler Miller Anaïs Nin Ross Rocklynne Jeff Shaara 22 Edward D. Hoch Candace McCarthy = Leigh Fletcher Sean O'Faolain Richard North Patterson Reggie Rivers Joanna Russ 23 John Camp = John Sandford W.E.B. DuBois Barbara Miller = Laurel Ames 24 Grant Allen August Derleth Rupert Holmes Jane Kidder = ½Charlotte Simms Ralph McInerny = Monica Quill James Musgrave 25 Frank Bonham Anthony Burgess Stefan Grabinski Thomas Harlan S.B. Hough = Rex Gordon Neil Jordan Lauran Paine Edgar Pangborn John Saul Frank Slaughter Cynthia Voigt 26 Phyllis Eisenstein Elizabeth George Victor Hugo Sharyn McCrumb Larry Jay Martin = L.J. Martin = L. Jay Martin = ½Kathy Lawrence Craig Mills Jack Ritchie Theodore Sturgeon 27 Peter DeVries Lawrence Durrell James T. Farrell Richard Garnett Ken Grimwood Florence Parry Heide Geoffrey Homes Joseph Hone Nicole Givens Kurtz Irwin Shaw John Steinbeck 28 Don Coldsmith Stephen Goldin Donna Leon Steve Martini Delia Parr Walter S. Tevis 29 Monica Barrie = Jenifer Dalton = Marilyn Davids = David Wind Patricia A. McKillip Tim Powers