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
27	0	National Public Radio (NPR) Radio Personality 54.05% (20 of 37 votes)
60	1	F. Scott Fitzgerald Author 16.67% (1 of 6 votes)
20	2	J.D. Salinger Author 61.43% (43 of 70 votes)
11	3	Vladimir Nabokov Author 75.00% (3 of 4 votes)
47	4	James Joyce Poet 33.33% (3 of 9 votes)
70	5	John Updike Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
55	6	Arthur Conan Doyle Author 23.08% (3 of 13 votes)
71	7	Harper Lee Author 0% (0 of 7 votes)
48	8	James Joyce Poet 33.33% (3 of 9 votes)
49	9	James Joyce Poet 33.33% (3 of 9 votes)
1	10	Edith Wharton Author 100% (2 of 2 votes)
26	11	Truman Capote Author 55.00% (11 of 20 votes)
68	12	Franz Kafka Author 0% (0 of 6 votes)
69	13	Ralph Ellison Author 0% (0 of 2 votes)
10	14	Vladimir Nabokov Author 75.00% (3 of 4 votes)
17	15	Gabriel Garcia Marquez Author 65.75% (48 of 73 votes)
66	16	Virginia Woolf Author 11.11% (1 of 9 votes)
2	17	John Kennedy Toole Author 100% (3 of 3 votes)
67	18	John Le Carre Author 0% (0 of 0 votes)
65	19	Virginia Woolf Author 11.11% (1 of 9 votes)
23	20	Richard Wright (Novelist) Author 60.61% (100 of 165 votes)
61	21	Ernest Hemingway Author 13.04% (3 of 23 votes)
72	22	Joseph Heller Author 0% (0 of 0 votes)
45	23	Margaret Mitchell Author 33.33% (1 of 3 votes)
74	24	Harper Lee Author 0% (0 of 7 votes)
75	25	Raymond Chandler Author 0% (0 of 3 votes)
46	26	Joseph Conrad Author 33.33% (1 of 3 votes)
73	27	Kazuo Ishiguro Author 0% (0 of 3 votes)
13	28	Italo Calvino Author 67.46% (85 of 126 votes)
40	29	A.A. Milne Author 42.86% (3 of 7 votes)
29	30	Gunter Grass Author 50.0% (1 of 2 votes)
42	31	Flannery O'Connor Author 40.0% (2 of 5 votes)
56	32	Philip Roth Author 22.22% (2 of 9 votes)
76	33	Walker Percy Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
3	34	Evelyn Waugh Author 100% (2 of 2 votes)
28	35	P.G. Wodehouse Author 50.0% (1 of 2 votes)
77	36	Saul Bellow Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
78	37	Marcel Proust Author 0% (0 of 2 votes)
15	38	Kenneth Grahame Author 66.67% (2 of 3 votes)
53	39	Dr. Seuss Author 26.59% (71 of 267 votes)
44	40	J.M. Barrie Author 33.33% (1 of 3 votes)
87	41	Larry McMurtry Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
14	42	Dashiell Hammett Author 67.46% (85 of 126 votes)
41	43	Cormac McCarthy Author 42.53% (37 of 87 votes)
91	44	Robert Penn Warren Poet 0% (0 of 0 votes)
92	45	Patrick O'Brian Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
57	46	Antoine de Saint Exupery Aviator 22.22% (2 of 9 votes)
62	47	Ernest Hemingway Author 13.04% (3 of 23 votes)
86	48	Muriel Spark Author 0% (0 of 2 votes)
32	49	Graham Greene (Writer) Author 50.0% (1 of 2 votes)
88	50	John Cheever Author 0% (0 of 0 votes)
89	51	Toni Morrison Author 0% (0 of 6 votes)
90	52	Albert Camus Philosopher 0% (0 of 3 votes)
63	53	Ernest Hemingway Author 13.04% (3 of 23 votes)
22	54	J.D. Salinger Author 61.43% (43 of 70 votes)
30	55	Zora Neale Hurston Author 50.0% (3 of 6 votes)
80	56	Willa Cather Author 0% (0 of 2 votes)
81	57	John Gardner Author 0% (0 of 2 votes)
82	58	Joyce Cary Author 0% (0 of 2 votes)
64	59	George Orwell Author 12.00% (3 of 25 votes)
4	60	Patricia Highsmith Author 100% (1 of 1 votes)
21	61	J.D. Salinger Author 61.43% (43 of 70 votes)
79	64	John Irving Author 0% (0 of 5 votes)
12	65	Dashiell Hammett Author 67.46% (85 of 126 votes)
43	66	Ian Fleming Author 38.46% (10 of 26 votes)
83	68	Malcolm Lowry Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
35	69	William Faulkner Author 50.0% (1 of 2 votes)
9	70	Vladimir Nabokov Author 75.00% (3 of 4 votes)
31	71	Shirley Jackson Author 50.0% (2 of 4 votes)
5	72	Evelyn Waugh Author 100% (2 of 2 votes)
85	73	Colette Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
16	74	Gabriel Garcia Marquez Author 65.75% (48 of 73 votes)
84	75	Sinclair Lewis Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
33	76	Ford Madox Ford Author 50.0% (1 of 2 votes)
96	77	Carson McCullers Author 0% (0 of 3 votes)
19	78	Jose Saramago Author 63.89% (23 of 36 votes)
97	79	Edgar Rice Burroughs Author 0% (0 of 0 votes)
58	80	Philip Roth Author 22.22% (2 of 9 votes)
94	81	Harper Lee Author 0% (0 of 7 votes)
25	82	Charles Bukowski Author 56.25% (9 of 16 votes)
95	83	Franz Kafka Author 0% (0 of 6 votes)
36	84	Boris Pasternak Poet 50.0% (3 of 6 votes)
24	85	J.K. Rowling Author 59.06% (88 of 149 votes)
6	86	Michael Ondaatje Author 100% (2 of 2 votes)
98	87	E.M. Forster Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)
52	88	Kingsley Amis Author 29.55% (13 of 44 votes)
34	89	Graham Greene (Writer) Author 50.0% (1 of 2 votes)
54	90	John Steinbeck Author 25.00% (1 of 4 votes)
8	91	V.S. Naipaul Author 75.00% (3 of 4 votes)
37	92	Graham Greene (Writer) Author 50.0% (1 of 2 votes)
50	93	Rudyard Kipling Author 33.33% (3 of 9 votes)
7	94	Edith Wharton Author 100% (2 of 2 votes)
18	95	Theodore Dreiser Author 64.80% (81 of 125 votes)
39	96	A.A. Milne Author 42.86% (3 of 7 votes)
38	97	William Faulkner Author 50.0% (1 of 2 votes)
51	98	Joseph Conrad Author 33.33% (1 of 3 votes)
59	99	Alice Walker Author 20.0% (1 of 5 votes)
93	100	Saul Bellow Author 0% (0 of 1 votes)

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

27

0

Radio Personality

54.05% (20 of 37 votes)

60

1

Author

16.67% (1 of 6 votes)

20

2

Author

61.43% (43 of 70 votes)

11

3

Author

75.00% (3 of 4 votes)

47

4

Poet

33.33% (3 of 9 votes)

70

5

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

55

6

Author

23.08% (3 of 13 votes)

71

7

Author

0% (0 of 7 votes)

48

8

Poet

33.33% (3 of 9 votes)

49

9

Poet

33.33% (3 of 9 votes)

1

10

Author

100% (2 of 2 votes)

26

11

Author

55.00% (11 of 20 votes)

68

12

Author

0% (0 of 6 votes)

69

13

Author

0% (0 of 2 votes)

10

14

Author

75.00% (3 of 4 votes)

17

15

Author

65.75% (48 of 73 votes)

66

16

Author

11.11% (1 of 9 votes)

2

17

Author

100% (3 of 3 votes)

67

18

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

65

19

Author