The Ladder

Every ballot counted · rankings move with every vote

1. 20F. Scott FitzgeraldWriters17–41652
2. 81Mark TwainWriters9–11600
3. 123Ernest HemingwayWriters9–21585
4. 150Edgar Allan PoeWriters8–21578
5. 188Ralph Waldo EmersonWriters9–31570
6. 322Herman MelvilleWriters9–61538
7. 346Laura Ingalls WilderWriters6–41533
8. 382E. B. WhiteWriters8–71526
9. 432Emily DickinsonWriters8–61519
10. 438T. S. EliotWriters8–61517
11. 488Walt WhitmanWriters5–51508
12. 490Henry David ThoreauWriters6–61507
13. 507William FaulknerWriters7–81505
14. 711Nathaniel HawthorneWriters5–71465
15. 716Robert FrostWriters4–71464
16. 723Jack LondonWriters5–71461
17. 804Edith WhartonWriters6–101443
18. 805O. HenryWriters3–71443
19. 820Upton SinclairWriters6–121439
20. 822Louisa May AlcottWriters7–131439
21. 960Willa CatherWriters3–111405
22. 1016Zora Neale HurstonWriters1–131377
23. 1026Eugene O'NeillWriters2–121367
24. 1036Ambrose BierceWriters1–111360