| Author of "The Prague Cemetery" | 41 |
| Author of "The Praise of Folly" | 41 |
| Author of "The Prince of Tides" | 41 |
| Author of "The Promised Land" | 39 |
| Author of "The Prophet" | 33 |
| Author of "The Purloined Letter" | 42 |
| Author of "The Red Badge of Courage" | 46 |
| Author of "The Republic" | 34 |
| Author of "The Right Stuff" | 37 |
| Author of "The Road Less Traveled" | 44 |
| Author of "The Road to Mecca" | 39 |
| Author of "The Sandman" graphic novels | 48 |
| Author of "The Sandman" series Neil | 45 |
| Author of "The Sea, the Sea" | 38 |
| Author of "The Second Mrs. Tanqueray" | 47 |
| Author of "The Seven Lady Godivas" | 44 |
| Author of "The Seven Storey Mountain" | 47 |
| Author of "The Seven-Per-Cent Solution" | 49 |
| Author of "The Shelters of Stone" | 43 |
| Author of "The Silent World" | 38 |
| Author of "The Silver Chalice" | 40 |
| Author of "The Sojourner" | 35 |
| Author of "The Sot-Weed Factor" | 41 |
| Author of "The Spanish Tragedy" | 41 |
| Author of "The Star-Spangled Banner" | 46 |
| Author of "The Story of Bip" | 38 |
| Author of "The Story of Philosophy" | 45 |
| Author of "The Stranger" | 34 |
| Author of "The Swiss Family Robinson" | 47 |
| Author of "The Talisman" | 34 |
| Author of "The Tell-Tale Heart" | 41 |
| Author of "The Third Man," 1949 | 41 |
| Author of "The Titans" | 32 |
| Author of "The Torch Bearers" | 39 |
| Author of "The Torrents of Spring" | 44 |
| Author of "The Two Cultures" | 38 |
| Author of "The Ugly Duckling" | 39 |
| Author of "The Unmade Bed" | 36 |
| Author of "The Valachi Papers" | 40 |
| Author of "The Valley of Horses" | 42 |
| Author of "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" | 49 |
| Author of "The Vicar of Wakefield" | 44 |
| Author of "The Violent Land" Jorge | 44 |
| Author of "The Virginian" | 35 |
| Author of "The Wall Street Gang" | 42 |
| Author of "The Wandering Jew" | 39 |
| Author of "The Wapshot Chronicle" | 43 |
| Author of "The Waste Land" | 36 |
| Author of "The Way Things Ought to Be" | 48 |
| Author of "The Way West" | 34 |
| Author of "The White Company" | 39 |
| Author of "The Yosemite" | 34 |
| Author of "The Young Bank Messenger" | 46 |
| Author of "Things I Remember": 1975 | 45 |
| Author of "This Hunger" | 33 |
| Author of "This Hunger": 1945 | 39 |
| Author of "Thy Neighbor's Wife" | 45 |
| Author of "To Kill a Mockingbird" | 43 |
| Author of "Toad of Toad Hall" | 39 |
| Author of "Tobacco Road" | 34 |
| Author of "Trelawney of the Wells" | 44 |
| Author of "Trent's Last Case" | 43 |
| Author of "Tristram Shandy" | 37 |
| Author of "Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out" | 48 |
| Author of "Two Years Before the Mast" | 47 |
| Author of "Two Years Behind the Mast" | 47 |
| Author of "Unsafe at Any Speed" | 41 |
| Author of "Unto the Sons" | 35 |
| Author of "Vérité" | 34 |
| Author of "Waiting for Lefty" | 39 |
| Author of "Wall Street Jungle" | 40 |
| Author of "War and Peace" | 35 |
| Author of "Westward Ha!" | 34 |
| Author of "While Reagan Slept" | 40 |
| Author of "White Noise" | 33 |
| Author of "Why I Live at the P.O." | 44 |
| Author of "Why Not the Best?" | 39 |
| Author of "Winning Bridge Made Easy" | 46 |
| Author of "Winter's Tales," 1942 | 46 |
| Author of "Wonderland" | 32 |
| Author of "Work in Progress" | 38 |
| Author of "World of Our Fathers" | 42 |
| Author of "Yankee From Olympus" | 41 |
| Author of "Your Erroneous Zones" | 42 |
| Author of 13 books on metaphysics | 33 |
| Author of 2001's "Fury" | 37 |
| Author of a 1719 literary sensation | 35 |
| Author of a 50-million copy best seller | 39 |
| Author of a 65+-million-selling novel | 37 |
| Author of a history making 1837 report | 38 |
| Author of a once-popular book of quotations | 43 |
| Author of Acts, by most accounts | 32 |
| Author of Gothic short stories, in short | 40 |
| Author of inspirational stories for boys | 40 |
| Author of kids' Busytown books | 34 |
| Author of many a talking animal story | 37 |
| Author of more than 600 compositions | 36 |
| Author of Portnoy's Complaint | 33 |
| Author of several New Testament epistles | 40 |
| Author of some stories appropriate for Halloween | 48 |