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 Samuel Beckett on eBay

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Samuel Beckett SIGNED - Proust, Grove Press 1957, 1/250 First Edition Hardcover

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Samuel Beckett's "PROUST" in a signed limited edition, Copy No. 30 of only 250

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Journey to Chaos by Raymond Federman SIGNED 1st DJ HC 1965 Samuel Beckett

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Samuel Beckett Signed Grove Press Limited Ed 1957 Proust Aesthetic Manifesto

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Samuel Beckett, The Lost Ones, Limited Signed Edition, 1972 With Slipcase

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Samuel Beckett - Nohow On SIGNED Limited Editions Club 1989 Robert Ryman

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SIGNED! Samuel Beckett KRAPP'S LAST TAPE / EMBERS First edition thus 1965 Faber

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Samuel Beckett: about him and about • A.J. Con Leventhal • SIGNED Hermathena

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Samuel Beckett / From an Abandoned Work / SIGNED First Edition/Printing 1958

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Molloy, Malone Dies & The Unnamable ~ SIGNED by SAMUEL BECKETT ~ First Edition

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Samuel BECKETT, Sadhan Kumar GHOSH / Tragedy Signed 1st Edition 1965

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Samuel Beckett / Imagination Dead Imagine Signed 1st Edition 1965

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Samuel Beckett / Poems in English / Signed First US Edition / Review Copy 1963

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Endgame: A Play in One Act ~ SIGNED by SAMUEL BECKETT ~ First US Edition ~ 1958

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Guillaume Apollinaire, Samuel Beckett / ZONE SIGNED Limited Edition 1972

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Samuel Beckett / Comment C'est / Signed First Trade Edition / Minuit, 1961

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Samuel Beckett: Laughing Matters, Comic Timing - Laura Salisbury - SIGNED - 2012

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[Joyce] Beckett, William Carlos Williams / Our Exagmination Signed 1929

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