The Ladder

Every ballot counted · rankings move with every vote

1. 18F. Scott FitzgeraldWriters17–41652
2. 84Mark TwainWriters9–11600
3. 104Ernest HemingwayWriters10–21594
4. 152Edgar Allan PoeWriters9–31577
5. 318Herman MelvilleWriters9–61538
6. 433T. S. EliotWriters8–61517
7. 435Laura Ingalls WilderWriters6–51517
8. 453Ralph Waldo EmersonWriters9–61515
9. 485E. B. WhiteWriters8–81509
10. 500William FaulknerWriters7–81505
11. 507Emily DickinsonWriters8–71503
12. 547Walt WhitmanWriters5–61496
13. 583Henry David ThoreauWriters6–71490
14. 611Jack LondonWriters6–71484
15. 711Nathaniel HawthorneWriters5–71465
16. 717Robert FrostWriters4–71464
17. 826Upton SinclairWriters6–121439
18. 828Louisa May AlcottWriters7–131439
19. 872Edith WhartonWriters6–111431
20. 882O. HenryWriters3–81428
21. 961Willa CatherWriters3–111405
22. 1018Ambrose BierceWriters2–111377
23. 1026Eugene O'NeillWriters2–121367
24. 1040Zora Neale HurstonWriters1–151356