The 100 Most Influential Authors of the 20th Century

Some lists rank. This one doesn't. These one hundred writers were chosen because their work travelled, because readers found them and kept finding them, across borders, languages, and generations. Nobel laureates sit alongside genre pioneers, voices of political exile alongside architects of popular fiction. What they share is reach, and the kind of staying power that makes their books worth owning in any form.

The list is deliberately broad. It draws from every continent and dozens of literary traditions, and it resists the idea that influence belongs only to the canonised or the critically approved. A book that has been pressed into a stranger's hands a million times has earned its place here.

Where we have individual pages for an author, you'll find a link to their full profile and any signed first editions currently available. For the rest, click the name to explore signed copies directly.

Signed works by Ernest Hemingway on eBay

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SIGNED 1st Edition / My Brother, Ernest Hemingway / Leicester Hemingway / 1962

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Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story SIGNED by Baker 1969 1st Edition Circle BCE HC

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Signed The Hemingways Past & Present And Allied Families By Patricia Hemingway

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SIGNED, 1952, ERNEST HEMINGWAY, THE WRITER AS ARTIST, by CARLOS BAKER

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Ernest Hemingway / Selected Letters Signed 1981 #2208111

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The Old Man and the Sea ~ SIGNED by ERNEST & MARY HEMINGWAY ~ c.1954 Autographed

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Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961 (Signed, Limited) Signed

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A Moveable Feast First Edition Signed by Jack Hemingway

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The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway SIGNED / 1st Edition 1955

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Ernest Hemingway SIGNED BOOK Men Without Women UK FIRST EDITION (1928) Hardcover

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FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS BY ERNEST HEMINGWAY - SIGNED BY HEMINGWAY

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Ernest Hemingway THE SUN ALSO RISES Signed Easton Press 1st Edition 1st Printing

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Ernest Hemingway / The Old Man and the Sea Signed 1957

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Ernest by Peter Buckley Signed First Printing 1978 Dial Press Hemingway Bio

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SIGNED MARGARET DIXON Yearbook Ernest Hemingway Ethel Payne 1934 Lindblom Chicag

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SIGNED Papa Hemingway A Personal Memoir A.E. Hotchner First Ed HCDJ Ernest NICE!

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AUTOGRAPHED On War by Earnest Hemingway Hardcover 2003 signed by Sean Hemingway

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SIGNED! The Walkable Feast by David Nuffer, Ernest Hemingway in Paris

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