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J.K. Rowling

‘No story lives unless someone wants to listen’
Although this literature journey is ending, we could not complete the list without J.K. Rowling and the undoubted impact her books have had. Do we need to quote her best-known character? Everybody across the world knows of Harry Potter and all his adventures; Rowling filled the 90s and new millennium generations with a magical new world about the young wizard and his friends. The massive effects this saga has had is what makes this author remarkable. Apart from the prizes and global fame she has gained from the Harry Potter saga , J.K. Rowling has been an active character even beyond the lines of her books. At the beginning of her career, she was with Amnesty International, readily involved in the Human Rights debate and philanthropy of the time. If you want to discover her new works after Potter, read the The Cuckoo’s Calling or The Silkworm, written under the pseudonym of Robert Galbraith.

ngland is one of the European countries that shaped the world of literature as we know it today. If you visited school in an English speaking country, or had English lessons at school, then you will at least have heard of Shakespeare – as teachers love to “torture” their students with that particular writer. And the man did indeed do a lot of good for English and world literature. However, we should not ignore the multitude of other fantastic English authors. Many of them have left an impact on the world – and in this article, we will introduce just a few of them to you.

Interested in finding out the most famous English authors of all time? We’ve had a go at defining the world’s most famous authors, and the best American writers elsewhere, but here we present the ten best English authors (excluding the Bard of Avon). It was no easy task given the huge volume of high-quality English writers over the years, plus any list of great authors is going to be – at least on some level – very subjective. We’ve ended up going with the criteria of:

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   Impact on the world of literature
   
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   Relevance today
   
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   Number of books sold
   

It’s worth also pointing out that here at NoSweatShakespeare we have no doubt that William Shakespeare is by far the best (and probably most famous) writer in English literary history. And that’s no mean feat, given the many centuries of English history that have been adorned with authors who have placed England as the leading literary nation in the world.

So, in no particular order, here is our pick of the ten most famous English authors of all time: