Just had a random thought. Putting the top American vs non-American writers/authors. Who wins?
Here in America we have:
Pynchon, Delillo, Hemingway, Faulkner, David Foster Wallace, Melville, Toni Morrison, Poe, Whitman, Twain, Baldwin, Dickinson, Cormac McCarthy, Stephen King, Sylvia Plath, Philip Roth, Salinger, Harper Lee, Steinbeck, Kerouac, Vonnegut, Fitzgerald.
Non-American you’ve got:
Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Dickens, Kafka, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Nabokov, Camus, Sartre, Wilde, Jane Austen, Bronte sisters, Dumas, Victor Hugo, Woolf, Proust, Joyce, Cervantes, Marquez, Lewis Carroll, Conrad, Orwell, Stendhal, George Eliot.
Who am I missing?! Who wins!?
USA - George RR Martin
Non-USA - Tolkien