The greatest question of the day: Who is the best writer of all time and who is the worst?

Question

Living or dead. You decide.

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Answer 1

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the worst is Stephenie Meyer

and the best are

Fyodor Dostoevsky

William Shakespeare

Charles Dickens

Leo Tolstoy

Jane Austen

J.R.R. Tolkien

Ernest Hemingway

John Steinbeck

George Orwell

Mark Twain

James Joyce

Alexandre Dumas

J.D. Salinger

Franz Kafka

Vladimir Nabokov

Kurt Vonnegut

C.S. Lewis

William Faulkner

Oscar Wilde

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Virginia Woolf

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

J.K. Rowling

Edgar Allan Poe

Victor Hugo

Stephen King

Marcel Proust

George Eliot

Albert Camus

Joseph Heller

Ayn Rand

Homer

W. Somerset Maugham

Salman Rushdie

Agatha Christie

Anton Chekhov

Joseph Conrad

Evely Waugh

Douglas Adams

Honore de Balzac

Dr. Seuss

Edith Wharton

Charlotte Bronte

Cormac McCarthy

Miguel de Cervantes

Ray Bradbury

Ian McEwan

Anthony Burgess

Virgil

Phillip Roth

Toni Morrison

Henry Miller

Emily Bronte

John Updike

Saul Bellows

Aldous Huxley

Khalid Hosseini

H.P. Lovecraft

Jodi Picoult

Jack London

Thomas Mann

Graham Greene

Thomas Hardy

Dante Alighieri

Phillip K. Dick

Answer 2

Best depends on your tastes, really.

I like John Steinbeck, Philip Roth, and Richard Brautigan, but all for different reasons. Each one of them has a different style.

For the worst writer, I think that's a tie between about 90% of amateur writers on the internet, who write because they want to be artists, not because they have a sincere interest in writing.

Answer 3

I would have to say that J. K. Rowling is one of the best. She has captured a lot of readers, adults and children alike, into her amazing Harry Potter world.

As for the worst, I can't really think of one. If an author sucked, they probably would never have been published.

Answer 4

Worst: Carole Marsh. Her children books are predictable, poorly written, and send bad messages to kids. Her books tell kids that when ever a crime is commited, dont tell the police and search for the criminals yourself. Plus it also tells kids that you can wander around heavily populated places like China and Argentina and come back without a scratch. Oh and that people won't hurt you because you are kids. What wonderful messages.

Best: Stephanie meyer. I just love Twilight

Answer 5

The greatest author of all time is Jane Austen! Pride and Prejudice is one of my favorite books!

Answer 6

Best is Stephen King

He has been writing over over 40 years,

and with 800 million novels in print.

Including his "The Dark Tower series.

He can't be beat.

Worst. The writer of Twilight. <}:-})

Answer 7

There are many wonderful authors. I wouldn't say that any one of them is better than all the others. Now the worst author I would have to say is Tara Gilesbie, who wrote My immortal. You can find it here- http://www.fanfiction.net/topic/51917/10404916/1/

Answer 8

I dunno who the worst is but J.K. Rowling is the ultimate author of all time. She's the most creative one too. The Harry Potter Series is known extremely well and she's made millions of dollars just by her books. J.K.Rowling's the best!

Answer 9

my best< William Faulkner

my worst < the chick who did the twilight books

Answer 10

I say that the best author is J.K. Rowling author of the harry potter series and i dont think theres a worst author.

thats just my opinion though...

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but still i do agree with you kenna 4 life