The Ladder

Every ballot counted · rankings move with every vote

1. 59F. Scott FitzgeraldWriters5–21546
2. 73T. S. EliotWriters3–01545
3. 135Ernest HemingwayWriters3–11531
4. 162Emily DickinsonWriters2–01531
5. 168Edith WhartonWriters2–01530
6. 192Mark TwainWriters2–01529
7. 205Ralph Waldo EmersonWriters2–01528
8. 249Walt WhitmanWriters2–11517
9. 358Edgar Allan PoeWriters1–01515
10. 373Herman MelvilleWriters1–01515
11. 472Jack LondonWriters2–21501
12. 516Nathaniel HawthorneWriters0–01500
13. 587Laura Ingalls WilderWriters1–11499
14. 670Upton SinclairWriters2–31485
15. 675Louisa May AlcottWriters1–21485
16. 678Henry David ThoreauWriters1–21485
17. 747Willa CatherWriters0–11484
18. 750O. HenryWriters0–11484
19. 763E. B. WhiteWriters0–11484
20. 813William FaulknerWriters1–21482
21. 909Robert FrostWriters0–21469
22. 921Ambrose BierceWriters0–21469
23. 966Zora Neale HurstonWriters0–31458
24. 997Eugene O'NeillWriters1–41454