GREAT AUTHORS OF THE WESTERN WORLD

GREAT THINKERS

AND WRITERS FROM THE WEST

(AND SOME FROM THE EAST)

1. Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
2. Balzac (1799 - 1850)
3. Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
4. Erich Fromm
5. Friedrich Nietzche
6. William James
7. George Orwell
8. E.M. Forster
9. Cesare Pavese
10. Karl Popper
11. Charles Dickens
12. Leo Tolstoy
13. Fyodor Dostoevsky
14. Albert Einstein
15. Norman Mailer
16. John Updike
17. Joseph Heller
18. Philip Roth
19. Ernest Hemingway
20. William Faulkner
21. Thomas Mann
22. Erasmus
23. Thomas More
24. Immanuel Kant
25. John Locke
26. Henry James
27. Leibniz
28. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
29. Boris Pasternak
30. Ernest Becker
31. T.S. Eliot
32. Jean-Paul Sartre
33. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
34. Andre Malraux
35. Thomas Hardy
36. James Joyce
37. Virginia Woolf
38. Arthur Schopenhauer
39. Rollo May
40. William Styron
41. Albert Schweitzer
42. Henry Miller
43. Alexis de Tocqueville
44. Raymond Williams
45. Stendhal
46. Henry David Thoreau
47. Ralph Waldo Emerson
48. Carl Gustav Jung
49. Plato
50. Socrates
51. Aristotle
52. D.H. Lawrence
53. Dante
54. Hegel
55. Francis Bacon
56. Miguel de Cervantes
57. Rabelais
58. Saul Bellow
59. Henry Fielding
60. Laurence Sterne
61. Jeremy Bentham
62. Henri Bergson
63. Norman O. Brown
64. Edmund Burke
65. Michael Bakunin
66. Peter A. Kropotkin
67. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
68. Hannah Arendt
69. Robert M. Pirsig
70. Jacques Barzun
71. Lionel Trilling
72. James Baldwin
73. Jane Austen
74. Noam Chomsky
75. Frantz Fanon
76. Victor Hugo
77. David Hume
78. Samuel Butler
79. Henry Adams
80. e.e. cummings
81. Henri Ibsen
82. Thomas Carlyle
83. Cicero
84. J.D. Salinger
85. Benedict Spinoza
86. Thucydides
87. Voltaire
88. Baudelaire
89. Mary McCarthy
90. Machiavelli
91. Montesquieu
92. Margaret Mead
93. Marcel Proust
94. Ayn Rand
95. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
96. Pascal
97. David Reisman
98. Plutarch
99. Ezra Pound
100. Jonathan swift
101. Max Weber
102. Charles Darwin
103. Herbert Marcuse
104. Jacques Maritain
105. Franz Kafka
106. Goethe
107. John Dewey
108. Andre Gide
109. Thomas Hobbes
110. Herodotus
111. Truman Capote
112. Cyril Connolly
113. Sidney Hook
114. T.E. Lawrence
115. Henry James
116. Malcolm Cowley
117. F. Scott Fitzgerald
118. Theodore Dreiser
119. John Kenneth Galbraith
120. Oliver Wendell Holmes
121. G. E. Moore
122. Nathaniel Hawthorne
123. W. H. Auden
124. Joseph Needham
125. Reinhold Neibuhr
126. Montaigne
127. Simone de Beauvoir
128. Rachel Carson
129. Simon Weil
130. Isaac Babel
131. Aldous Huxley
132. Martin Buber
133. Auguste Comte
134. Emile Durkheim
135. Heraclitus
136. Adam Smith
137. H. G. Wells
138. Herbert Read
139. Evelyn Waugh
140. Alexander Hamilton
141. James Harrington
142. James Madison
143. Thomas Jefferson
144. Arnold Toynbee
145. Thomas Paine
146. Graham Greene
147. Thomas Malthus
148. Irving Kristol
149. Edward Gibbon
150. Benjamin Franklin
151. Flaubert
152. Thomas Wolfe
153. Alfred Adler
154. Abraham Maslow
155. Paul Goodman
156. Tacitus
157. Thorstein Veblen
158. Oswald Spengler
159. George Bernard Shaw
160. R. D. Laing
161. H. L. Mencken
162. Lewis H. Lapham
163. Alberto Moravia
164. Vladimir Nabokov
165. Bruno Bettelheim
166. William F. Buckley, Jr.
167. Jakob Burckhardt
168. Emily Dickinson
169. Russell Baker
170. Xenophon
171. Rebecca West
172. Walt Whitman
173. Robert Penn Warren
174. Isaac Bashevis Singer
175. Ignazio Silone
176. Stephen Crane
177. Otto Rank
178. Robert Frost
179. Joyce Carol Oates
180. Lillian Hellman
181. Irving Howe
182. Milan Kundera
183. Alfred Kazin
184. Herbert Gold
185. William Gass
186. Henry Roth
187. Harold Bloom
188. Bernard Malamud
189. Herman Melville
190. Descartes
191. Walter Kaufmann
192. Eugene Ionesco
193. Anthony Burgess
194. E. L. Doctorow
195. James Agee
196. Lawrence Durrell
197. Havelock Ellis
198. Nikos Kazantzakis
199. Joseph Conrad
200. Hermann Hesse
201. Gunter Grass
202. Karl Barth
203. Jorges Luis Borges
204. Heinrich Boll
205. Bertolt Brecht
206. Maxim Gorky
207. Erich Maria Remarque
208. A. J. P. Taylor
209. Oscar Wilde
210. Barbara Tuchman
211. Arthur Koestler
212. Karl Jaspers
213. John Maynard Keynes
214. Heinrich Heine
215. Charles S. Pierce
216. William Morris
217. Emily Bronte
218. John Dos Passos
219. George Gissing
220. Edith Wharton
221. William Carlos Williams
222. John O'Hara
223. Gogol
224. Patrick White
225. Romain Rolland
226. Mark Twain
227. John Steinbeck
228. J. B. Priestley
229. Jose Ortega y gasset
230. Flannery O'Connor
231. Iris Murdoch
232. Sinclair Lewis
233. Jack Kerouac
234. C. P. Snow
235. Susan Sontag
236. Upton Sinclair
237. William Hazlitt
238. Konrad Z. Lorenz
239. Euripides
240. Epictetus
241. Epicurus
242. Marcus Aurelius
243. Aeschylus
244. Sophocles
245. Edmund Husserl
246. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
247. Malcolm X
248. John Jay
249. Martin Heidegger
250. E. B. White
251. Soren Kierkegaard
252. Homer
253. Tennessee Williams
254. Matthew Arnold
255. Samuel Johnson
256. John Hersey (1914 - )
257. John Stuart Mill
258. Karl Marx
259. Cesare Pavese
260. Michael Bakunin
261. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
262. Peter A. Kropotkin
263. Samuel Butler
264. Norman O. Brown
265. Ernest Becker
266. Irving Howe
267. George Woodcock
268. Ludwig Wittgenstein
269. Doris Lessing
270. Norman Mailer
271. Edmund Wilson
272. Lionel Trilling
273. Alfred Kazin
274. Tu Fu
275. Wang Wei
276. Su Tong Po
277. Li Po
278. Lao Tze
279. Chuang Tze
280. Confucius
281. Mencius