Umberto Eco

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1. Italo Calvino

   Author of The Baron in the Trees, Italian Folktales, Six Memos for the Next Millennium
   All: (10 members)

2. Umberto Eco

   Author of The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language (Advances in Semiotics)

3. Jorge Luis Borges

   Author of Labyrinths, Ficciones, The Book of Imaginary Beings
   All: (12 members)

4. Thomas Pynchon

   Author of The Crying of Lot 49, V., Vineland
   All: (4 members)

5. Robert Graves

   Author of I, Claudius, Claudius the God, The White Goddess
   All: (7 members)

6. Arturo Pérez-Reverte

   Author of The Club Dumas, The Flanders Panel, The Fencing Master
   All: (6 members)

7. Iain Pears

   Author of An Instance of the Fingerpost, The Dream of Scipio
   All: (2 members)

8. John Fowles

   Author of The French Lieutenant's Woman, The Magus
   All: (6 members)

9. Salman Rushdie

   Author of The Moor's Last Sigh, Shalimar the Clown, Shame
   All: (6 members)

10. Gabriel García Márquez

    Author of The General in His Labyrinth, The Autumn of the Patriarch, Strange Pilgrims
    All: (4 members)

11. Thomas Mann

    Author of Buddenbrooks, Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian LeverKuhn as told by a friend, Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man: The Early Years
    All: (2 members)

12. Neal Stephenson

    Author of Cryptonomicon, Quicksilver, Reamde
    All: (7 members)

13. Roland Barthes

    Author of The Pleasure of the Text, Image-Music-Text, Empire of Signs

14. Stendhal

    Author of The Red and the Black, The Charterhouse of Parma, Chroniques italiennes
    All: (1 member)

15. Julian Barnes

    Author of A History of the World in 10½ Chapters, Flaubert's Parrot, The Sense of an Ending
    All: (1 member)

16. Peter Høeg

    Author of Smilla's Sense of Snow
    All: (2 members)

17. Michel Foucault

    Author of The order of things: an archaeology of the human sciences, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason, Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977
    All: (1 member)

18. Giovanni Boccaccio

    Author of The Decameron
    All: (2 members)

19. Douglas Hofstadter

    Author of Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul, Fluid Concepts & Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought

20. Orhan Pamuk

    Author of My Name is Red, The Black Book, The White Castle