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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Zone [Signed by Samuel Beckett] 1972 SIGNED HC Book

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Samuel Beckett Signed Grove Press Limited Ed 1957 Proust Aesthetic Manifesto

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Signed Samuel Beckett More Pricks Than Kicks First Edition 1970 #88/100 Ltd Ed

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No's Knife Collected Shorter Prose FIRST EDITION Samuel Beckett Hardcover 1967

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Samuel Beckett / Malone Dies / Signed First UK Edition in DJ / Calder, 1958

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Samuel Beckett / Gedichte / Signed First Edition / Limes Verlag, 1959

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Samuel Beckett / Proust / Signed Limited First US Edition in DJ / Grove, 1957

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Samuel Beckett / Murphy / Signed Limited First US Edition (of 100) / Grove 1957

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Samuel BECKETT / Waiting for Godot A Tragicomedy in Two acts Signed 1st Edition

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

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Samuel Beckett / Fin de Partie [Endgame] / Signed First Edition / Minuit 1957

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Samuel Beckett / From an Abandoned Work / Signed First Edition / London, 1958

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

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

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

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Samuel Beckett's "MURPHY" - Copy No. 1 of Beckett's signed limited edition, 1957

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

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A Country Road, A Tree by Jo Baker, Signed 1st edition, Samuel Beckett

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