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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William Faulkner Signed & Personalized: As I Lay Dying, Sanctuary, Pylon, Light…

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The Literary Career of William Faulkner by James Meriwether 1961 signed 1st edit

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Faulkner’s Fortunes & Flames SIGNED 1st Ed Jack Case Wilson /Faulkner Centennial

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A Light In August, James Faulkner, 1st Print, Owned By Charles Bickford. Signed

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THE TOWN. BY WILLIAM FAULKNER SIGNED LIMITED EDITION #40 of 450.

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William Faulkner / These 13 Limited Signed 1st Edition 1931 #2205006

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SIGNED Selections from the William Faulkner Collection of L.D. Brodsky HC/DJ

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William Faulkner ~ Requiem for a Nun - 1951 Signed Limited Edition w/ COA

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William Faulkner: The Cofield Collection - By Jack Cofield - Signed Book

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William Faulkner Complete Works 27-Volume Set Japanese Edition Signed 1st 1990

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William Faulkner Neil Welliver Signed 1988 Hunting Stories Limited Editions Club

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William Faulkner / A Fable Signed 1st Edition 1954

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William Faulkner / Requiem for a Nun Limited Signed Edition 1951 #2507016

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1990 Faulkner's Mississippi SIGNED Willie Morris William Eggleston HC DJ 1st Ed

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The Mansion ~ by WILLIAM FAULKNER ~ Signed Limited First Edition ~ 1st 1959

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William FAULKNER, Ruth Ford / Requiem for a Nun Signed 1st Edition 1959

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*Signed* The Yoknapatawpha Chronicle of Gavin Stevens by Crane; 1st Edition, HC

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SIGNED - WILLIAM FAULKNER AND THE RITES OF PASSAGE by Christopher A. LaLonde

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