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.

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Graham Greene (Signed, Limited) A QUICK LOOK BEHIND (1983) Mint, Unread Copy

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Super Rare! Graham Greene Signed May We Borrow Your Husband? (1967, 1st Edition)

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Graham Greene Signed 1983 A Quick Look Behind Footnotes to an Autobiography

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A Weed Among the Flowers by Graham Greene Afterword by Stephen Spender Signed

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Graham GREENE / HOW FATHER QUIXOTE BECAME A MONSIGNOR Signed Limited #207354

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Graham Greene / THE LAWLESS ROADS INSCRIBED TO PETER GLENVILLE Signed 1955

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HOW FATHER QUIXOTE BECAME A MONSIGNOR SIGNED LIMITED #'D HC BOOK GRAHAM GREENE

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Graham GREENE / THE GREAT JOWETT Signed Limited Edition 1st Edition 1981 #207752

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Graham GREENE / DOCTOR FISCHER OF GENEVA OR THE BOMB PARTY Signed #207750

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MONSIGNOR QUIXOTE by Graham Greene 1982 SIGNED First Edition 193/250 Slipcase VG

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May We Borrow Your Husband?-Graham Greene-SIGNED-LIMITED-Excellent condition!

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Graham Greene THE THIRD MAN / SIGNED VERY RARE Special Edition / Finland

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Norman Sherry / The Life of Graham Greene: Vol 1 / Signed First US Edition, 1989

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Signed #694/750 GRAHAM GREENE. Yes and No and For Whom the Bell Chimes. Ltd.

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Graham Greene Signed Limited Ed. Yes and No & For Whom the Bell Chimes~NF COND

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Graham Greene Signed Limited Edition Yes and No & For Whom the Bell Chimes

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MAY WE BORROW YOUR HUSBAND? SIGNED by Graham Greene first printing #292 of 500

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Doctor Fischer of Geneva or the Bomb Party by Graham Greene Signed Limited Rare

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