W. H. Hudson (1841–1922)

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1. Samuel Butler

   Author of The Way of All Flesh, Erewhon

2. W. H. Hudson

   Author of Green Mansions, Far Away and Long Ago: A Childhood in Argentina, The Purple Land

3. Robert Louis Stevenson

   Author of The Master of Ballantrae, The Silverado Squatters, In the South Seas

4. Isak Dinesen

   Author of Seven Gothic Tales, Winter's Tales

5. William Makepeace Thackeray

   Author of The History of Henry Esmond, The History of Pendennis

6. Richard Hughes

   Author of A High Wind in Jamaica, The Fox in the Attic, In Hazard

7. Arnold Bennett

   Author of The Old Wives' Tale, Anna of the Five Towns, Clayhanger

8. Benvenuto Cellini

   Author of The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

9. Francis Parkman

   Author of The Oregon Trail

10. W. Somerset Maugham

    Author of The Moon and Sixpence, The Summing Up

11. Joseph Conrad

    Author of Victory, The Nigger of the Narcissus, The Portable Conrad

12. Oliver Goldsmith

    Author of The Vicar of Wakefield

13. Richard Henry Dana

    Author of Two Years Before the Mast

14. Peter Fleming

    Author of News from Tartary, Brazilian Adventure

15. Sinclair Lewis

    Author of Arrowsmith

16. John Hershey

    Author of A Bell for Adano

17. James Hilton

    Author of Lost Horizon

18. William Dean Howells

    Author of The rise of Silas Lapham

19. Tobias Smollett

    Author of The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

20. Nathaniel Hawthorne

    Author of The House of the Seven Gables