Daily Beast's 11 Greatest Literary Feuds [2010]

Historical Literary

Missing: *Richard Ford vs. Colson Whitehead (2) *V.S. Naipaul vs. Paul Theroux (5)

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11

1

Norman Mailer

Author

5.88% (1 of 17 votes)

12

1

Gore Vidal

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

16

2

Richard Ford

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

17

2

Colson Whitehead

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

8

3

John Updike

Author

16.67% (1 of 6 votes)

20

3

Salman Rushdie

Author

0% (0 of 2 votes)

1

4

Harold Bloom

Critic

100% (4 of 4 votes)

4

4

J.K. Rowling

Author

58.33% (7 of 12 votes)

13

5

Paul Theroux

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

14

5

V.S. Naipaul

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

9

6

John Updike

Author

16.67% (1 of 6 votes)

10

6

Norman Mailer

Author

5.88% (1 of 17 votes)

18

6

John Irving

Author

0% (0 of 2 votes)

21

6

Tom Wolfe

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

5

7

Lillian Hellman

Playwright

50.0% (2 of 4 votes)

15

7

Muriel Gardiner

Doctor

0% (0 of 6 votes)

19

7

Mary McCarthy

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

7

8

Truman Capote

Author

38.89% (7 of 18 votes)

22

8

Gore Vidal

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

6

9

Ernest Hemingway

Author

50.0% (1 of 2 votes)

23

9

Gertrude Stein

Poet

0% (0 of 0 votes)

2

10

Henry James

Author

100% (1 of 1 votes)

3

10

H.G. (Herbert George) Wells

Author

100% (6 of 6 votes)

24

11

Charles Dickens

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

25

11

William Makepeace Thackeray

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)