NPR's 100 Best Literary Characters of the 20th Century [Authors - 2002]

Historical Literary

Missing: Evan S. Connell (67)

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Vote Ranking	List Ranking
25	0	National Public Radio (NPR) Radio Personality 52.63% (20 of 38 votes)
58	1	F. Scott Fitzgerald Author 25.00% (2 of 8 votes)
20	2	J.D. Salinger Author 59.72% (43 of 72 votes)
12	3	Vladimir Nabokov Author 66.67% (4 of 6 votes)
40	4	James Joyce Poet 40.0% (4 of 10 votes)
93	5	John Updike Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
57	6	Arthur Conan Doyle Author 26.67% (4 of 15 votes)
94	7	Harper Lee Author 0% (0 of 7 votes)
41	8	James Joyce Poet 40.0% (4 of 10 votes)
42	9	James Joyce Poet 40.0% (4 of 10 votes)
1	10	Edith Wharton Author 100% (2 of 2 votes)
26	11	Truman Capote Author 50.0% (11 of 22 votes)
59	12	Franz Kafka Author 25.00% (2 of 8 votes)
92	13	Ralph Ellison Author 0% (0 of 2 votes)
11	14	Vladimir Nabokov Author 66.67% (4 of 6 votes)
15	15	Gabriel Garcia Marquez Author 64.86% (48 of 74 votes)
66	16	Virginia Woolf Author 20.0% (2 of 10 votes)
2	17	John Kennedy Toole Author 100% (3 of 3 votes)
91	18	John Le Carre Author 0% (0 of 0 votes)
65	19	Virginia Woolf Author 20.0% (2 of 10 votes)
19	20	Richard Wright (Novelist) Author 60.84% (101 of 166 votes)
67	21	Ernest Hemingway Author 16.67% (3 of 18 votes)
88	22	Joseph Heller Author 0% (0 of 0 votes)
49	23	Margaret Mitchell Author 33.33% (1 of 3 votes)
89	24	Harper Lee Author 0% (0 of 7 votes)
60	25	Raymond Chandler Author 25.00% (1 of 4 votes)
39	26	Joseph Conrad Author 40.0% (2 of 5 votes)
90	27	Kazuo Ishiguro Author 0% (0 of 3 votes)
14	28	Italo Calvino Author 65.19% (88 of 135 votes)
27	29	A.A. Milne Author 50.0% (4 of 8 votes)
28	30	Gunter Grass Author 50.0% (1 of 2 votes)
55	31	Flannery O'Connor Author 28.57% (2 of 7 votes)
35	32	Philip Roth Author 41.67% (5 of 12 votes)
87	33	Walker Percy Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
68	34	Evelyn Waugh Author 16.67% (2 of 12 votes)
46	35	P.G. Wodehouse Author 33.33% (1 of 3 votes)
83	36	Saul Bellow Author 0% (0 of 2 votes)
84	37	Marcel Proust Author 0% (0 of 2 votes)
6	38	Kenneth Grahame Author 75.00% (3 of 4 votes)
56	39	Dr. Seuss Author 26.87% (72 of 268 votes)
47	40	J.M. Barrie Author 33.33% (1 of 3 votes)
80	41	Larry McMurtry Author 0% (0 of 2 votes)
9	42	Dashiell Hammett Author 66.93% (85 of 127 votes)
34	43	Cormac McCarthy Author 42.05% (37 of 88 votes)
85	44	Robert Penn Warren Poet 0% (0 of 1 votes)
86	45	Patrick O'Brian Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
53	46	Antoine de Saint Exupery Aviator 30.0% (3 of 10 votes)
69	47	Ernest Hemingway Author 16.67% (3 of 18 votes)
79	48	Muriel Spark Author 0% (0 of 2 votes)
48	49	Graham Greene (Writer) Author 33.33% (1 of 3 votes)
82	50	John Cheever Author 0% (0 of 0 votes)
64	51	Toni Morrison Author 20.0% (2 of 10 votes)
81	52	Albert Camus Philosopher 0% (0 of 4 votes)
70	53	Ernest Hemingway Author 16.67% (3 of 18 votes)
21	54	J.D. Salinger Author 59.72% (43 of 72 votes)
24	55	Zora Neale Hurston Author 57.14% (4 of 7 votes)
45	56	Willa Cather Author 33.33% (1 of 3 votes)
75	57	John Gardner Author 0% (0 of 4 votes)
76	58	Joyce Cary Author 0% (0 of 2 votes)
73	59	George Orwell Author 12.00% (3 of 25 votes)
29	60	Patricia Highsmith Author 50.0% (1 of 2 votes)
22	61	J.D. Salinger Author 59.72% (43 of 72 votes)
74	64	John Irving Author 0% (0 of 5 votes)
10	65	Dashiell Hammett Author 66.93% (85 of 127 votes)
43	66	Ian Fleming Author 38.46% (10 of 26 votes)
78	68	Malcolm Lowry Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
30	69	William Faulkner Author 50.0% (1 of 2 votes)
13	70	Vladimir Nabokov Author 66.67% (4 of 6 votes)
37	71	Shirley Jackson Author 40.0% (2 of 5 votes)
71	72	Evelyn Waugh Author 16.67% (2 of 12 votes)
5	73	Colette Author 80.0% (4 of 5 votes)
16	74	Gabriel Garcia Marquez Author 64.86% (48 of 74 votes)
44	75	Sinclair Lewis Author 33.33% (1 of 3 votes)
61	76	Ford Madox Ford Author 25.00% (2 of 8 votes)
77	77	Carson McCullers Author 0% (0 of 4 votes)
17	78	Jose Saramago Author 64.86% (24 of 37 votes)
96	79	Edgar Rice Burroughs Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
36	80	Philip Roth Author 41.67% (5 of 12 votes)
97	81	Harper Lee Author 0% (0 of 7 votes)
23	82	Charles Bukowski Author 57.89% (11 of 19 votes)
63	83	Franz Kafka Author 25.00% (2 of 8 votes)
31	84	Boris Pasternak Poet 50.0% (3 of 6 votes)
8	85	J.K. Rowling Author 73.44% (188 of 256 votes)
3	86	Michael Ondaatje Author 100% (2 of 2 votes)
98	87	E.M. Forster Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
54	88	Kingsley Amis Author 29.55% (13 of 44 votes)
52	89	Graham Greene (Writer) Author 33.33% (1 of 3 votes)
62	90	John Steinbeck Author 25.00% (1 of 4 votes)
7	91	V.S. Naipaul Author 75.00% (3 of 4 votes)
50	92	Graham Greene (Writer) Author 33.33% (1 of 3 votes)
51	93	Rudyard Kipling Author 33.33% (3 of 9 votes)
4	94	Edith Wharton Author 100% (2 of 2 votes)
18	95	Theodore Dreiser Author 64.80% (81 of 125 votes)
32	96	A.A. Milne Author 50.0% (4 of 8 votes)
33	97	William Faulkner Author 50.0% (1 of 2 votes)
38	98	Joseph Conrad Author 40.0% (2 of 5 votes)
72	99	Alice Walker Author 14.29% (1 of 7 votes)
95	100	Saul Bellow Author 0% (0 of 2 votes)

NPR's 100 Best Literary Characters of the 20th Century [Authors - 2002]

25

0

Radio Personality

52.63% (20 of 38 votes)

58

1

Author

25.00% (2 of 8 votes)

20

2

Author

59.72% (43 of 72 votes)

12

3

Author

66.67% (4 of 6 votes)

40

4

Poet

40.0% (4 of 10 votes)

93

5

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

57

6

Author

26.67% (4 of 15 votes)

94

7

Author

0% (0 of 7 votes)

41

8

Poet

40.0% (4 of 10 votes)

42

9

Poet

40.0% (4 of 10 votes)

1

10

Author

100% (2 of 2 votes)

26

11

Author

50.0% (11 of 22 votes)

59

12

Author

25.00% (2 of 8 votes)

92

13

Author

0% (0 of 2 votes)

11

14

Author

66.67% (4 of 6 votes)

15

15

Author

64.86% (48 of 74 votes)

66

16

Author

20.0% (2 of 10 votes)

2

17

Author

100% (3 of 3 votes)

91

18

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

65

19

Author