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 F. Scott Fitzgerald on eBay

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TENDER IS THE NIGHT BY F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1982 LTD 1261 / 2000 SIGNED BY ARTIST

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Betrayed F Scott Fitzgerald Ron Carlson Inscribed Signed 1st Ed 1977 HC

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F. Scott Fitzgerald: the Princeton Years, by Chip Deffaa, signed by Deffaa (new)

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SIGNED ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald: NEW PERSPECTIVES Beyer/Margolis HCDJ 2000 Guide

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SIGNED by llus LIMITED "The Great Gatsby" F. Scott Fitzgerald Easton LEATHER COA

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Man Who Would Be F Scott Fitzgerald/Woman Who Fell from Grace by Handler(SIGNED)

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The Beautiful and Damned SIGNED by F. SCOTT FITZGERALD ~ First Edition 1922 2nd

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Alfred Kazin / F Scott Fitzgerald The Man & His Work Signed 1st Edition 1951

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Henry Dan PIPER / F Scott Fitzgerald A Critical Portrait Signed 1st Edition 1965

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F Scott Fitzgerald / This Side of Paradise Presentation copy Signed 1931

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LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB The Great Gatsby Scott Fitzgerald Illustrated Meyer SIGNED

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The Great Gatsby (Limited Edition) by F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Signed/Numbered

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John B CHAMBERS / The Novels of F Scott Fitzgerald Signed 1st Edition 1989

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Betrayed by F. Scott Fitzgerald by Ron Carlson (1984, Trade Paperback) SIGNED!

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F. Scott Fitzgerald Ledger A. Facsimile Copy 543/1000 Limited Edition Collector

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SIGNED Stories of F Scott Fitzgerald: 28 Stories Malcolm Cowley 1965 PB Classics

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The Far Side of Paradise A Biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald 1959 1st Vintage Ed.

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1989 Signed/Autographed BOOK Hardcover 'THE PENTAGONISTS' A. Ernest Fitzgerald

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