ISFDB banner

Highest Ranked Non-Fiction Authors of All Time

You are not logged in. If you create a free account and sign in, you will be able to customize what is displayed.

This report is generated once a day

Note: Some recent awards are yet to be integrated into the database. Only title-based awards are used for ranking purposes.
Scoring: Wins are worth 50 points, nominations and second places are worth 35 points. For polls, third and lower places are worth (33-poll position) points.
Place Score Author
1 1352 Cathy Fenner
2 1317 Arnie Fenner
3 894 Farah Mendlesohn
4 883 S. T. Joshi
5 690 John Clute
6 655 Stephen Jones
7 591 Ursula K. Le Guin
8 457 Alexandra Pierce
9 448 David J. Skal
10 444 Brian W. Aldiss
11 430 Verlyn Flieger
12 426 Paul Kincaid
13 377 Damien Broderick
14 375 Edward James
15 372 William G. Contento
16 356 Stephen King
17 356 Adam Roberts
18 354 Isaac Asimov
19 334 J. R. R. Tolkien
20 330 Robert Weinberg
21 326 James E. Gunn
22 322 Mike Ashley
23 321 Jack Zipes
24 311 Jeff VanderMeer
25 307 Alisa Krasnostein
26 306 John Fleskes
27 296 L. Sprague de Camp
28 294 Michael Whelan
29 293 David Pringle
30 292 Charles N. Brown
31 291 Samuel R. Delany
32 278 Tom Shippey
33 275 John D. Rateliff
34 272 Neil Barron
35 267 Sean McMullen
36 261 Everett F. Bleiler
37 250 Gary K. Wolfe
38 246 Richard Bleiler
39 230 Julie Phillips
40 228 Kim Newman
41 228 Ron Miller
42 220 Harlan Ellison
43 216 uncredited
44 215 Wayne G. Hammond
45 215 Christina Scull
46 214 Willy Ley
47 213 H. R. Giger
48 212 John Grant
49 207 Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
50 205 Virgil Finlay
51 205 F. T. Barbini
52 203 Bob Eggleton
53 200
野田昌宏?のだまさひろ
Noda Masahiro
54 200 Peter Nicholls
55 197 Frank Frazetta
56 193 Philip K. Dick
57 193 Jim Loehr
58 191 Stanley Wiater
59 190 Daniel Falconer
60 190 Brian Froud
61 189 Nigel Suckling
62 187 David Langford
63 185 Andrew M. Butler
64 183 Ian Summers
65 177 J. David Spurlock
66 172 Wayne Barlowe
67 171 Don Maitz
68 170 Joseph Altairac
69 170 Dimitra Fimi
70 167 Russell Blackford
71 165 Barry N. Malzberg
72 164 Colin Manlove
73 162 Catherine McIlwaine
74 157 H. P. Lovecraft
75 155
François Rouiller?Francois Rouiller
76 155 John Garth
77 155 Cath Filmer-Davies
78 155 Mark Morris
79 155 Joe Mynhardt
80 154 Frank M. Robinson
81 154 Douglas E. Winter
82 152 Bill Sheehan
83 151 Ramsey Campbell
84 150 Robert Silverberg
85 150 Mimi Mondal
86 150 G. Ronald Murphy
87 150
笹本祐一?ささもとゆういち
Sasamoto Yūichi
Sasamoto Yuuichi
Sasamoto Yuichi
88 150
石原藤夫?Fujio Ishihara
89 146 Van Ikin
90 145 Charles Platt
91 143 Vincent Di Fate
92 142 Brian Attebery
93 141 Michael Swanwick
94 140 Gwyneth Jones
95 140 William H. Patterson, Jr.
96 140 Don W. King
97 140 Jane Chance
98 140 Kevin Wetmore
99 140 Selena Chambers
100 136 Diana Wynne Jones
101 135 Donald H. Tuck
102 135 Chesley Bonestell
103 135 Michael Knost
104 135 Tom Weller
105 135 Peter J. Schakel
106 135
Rafael Marín?Rafael Marin
107 135 Fernando Eguidazu
108 135 Michael M. Levy
109 134 Jane Frank
110 130 Fernando Ángel Moreno
111 130 Charles Vess
112 130 Kameron Hurley
113 128 Patti Perret
114 128 Michael Saler
115 126 Algis Budrys
116 125 Paul Tobin (N. Z.)
117 124 Hannes Bok
118 122 Norman Spinrad
119 122 Marina Warner
120 121 David Wingrove
121 121 Steven Paulsen
122 121 Paul Collins
123 120 Mike Resnick
124 120 Jason Fisher
125 120 Robert Boenig
126 120 Arnaud Huftier
127 120 William Patrick Day
128 120 Joy Chant
129 120 Michael Ward
130 120 Charles Butler
131 120 Kim Paffenroth
132 120 Jonathan Maberry
133 120 Rocky Wood
134 120 James Gifford
135 120 Glen Cavaliero
136 120 Lois Rostow Kuznets
137 119 Frank Kelly Freas
138 115 Orson Scott Card
139 115 Robert Bloch
140 114 Helen Merrick
141 113 Tim Underwood
142 113 Julie Dillon
143 112 Lawrence Sutin
144 112 Frederick C. Durant, III
145 111 Gerry de la Ree
146 111 Jo Walton
147 110 Jim Burns
148 110 Shaun Tan
149 109 Arthur C. Clarke
150 108 Donato Giancola
151 107 Boris Vallejo
152 107 Miquel Barceló
153 106 Anne Besson
154 105 Jack Williamson
155 105 Patrick J. Gyger
156 105 Lisa Coutras
157 105 Katherine Ramsland
158 105 Charul Palmer-Patel
159 105 Jerry Griswold
160 105 Lionel Adey
161 105 Clive Bloom
162 105 Christine Poulson
163 105 George Clark
164 105 Daniel Timmons
165 105 Danel Olson
166 105 Mark J. P. Wolf
167 105 Marjorie J. Burns
168 101 Melanie R. Anderson
169 101 Iain McIntyre
170 101 J. Gordon Melton
171 101 Andrew Nette
172 101
Lisa Kröger?Lisa Kroger
Lisa Kroeger
173 100 Michael Moorcock
174 100 Judith Merril
175 100 Karen Haber
176 100 Thomas M. Disch
177 100
最相葉月?さいしょうはづき
Saishō Hazuki
Saishou Hazuki
178 100
長山靖生?ながやまやすお
Nagayama Yasuo
179 100 Jean-Marc Lainé
180 100 Denis Mellier
181 100 Elizabeth Miller
182 100
横田順彌?よこたじゅんや
Yokota Junya
Yokota Jun'ya
183 100
と学会?Togakkai
184 98 Edo van Belkom
185 97 Catherine Crook de Camp
186 96 Doug Ellis
187 96 Alan Lee
188 95 Jon Peterson
189 95 Gary Westfahl
190 94 Robert Reginald
191 93 Justine Larbalestier
192 92 Carlos Aguilar
193 90 Leo Dillon
194 90 Diane Dillon
195 89 Beth Meacham
196 88 Jonathan R. Eller
197 88 Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
198 87 David Larkin
199 86 Robert A. Heinlein
200 86 Natacha Vas-Deyres
201 86 Will Errickson
202 86 Grady Hendrix
203 85 Alexei Panshin
204 85 Cory Panshin
205 85 Neil Gaiman
206 85 Chuck Miller
207 85 Eugene Johnson
208 85 Gary A. Braunbeck
209 85 Alison Peirse
210 85 Eric B. Henriet
211 85 Michael Largo
212 85 Caroline Sumpter
213 85
Emmanuel Carrère?Emmanuel Carrere
214 85 Richard Purtill
215 85
水玉螢之丞?みずたま けいのじょう
Mizutama Keinojō
Mizutama Keinojou
Mizutama Keinojo
216 85 Nisi Shawl
217 85 Norbert Spehner
218 85 José Miguel Pallarés
219 85
Hélène Collon?Helene Collon
220 85 Donna R. White
221 85 Doris T. Myers
222 85 Carl F. Hostetter
223 85 Graham Anderson
224 85 Pablo Capanna
225 85 Janet Brennan Croft
226 85 Marek Oziewicz
227 85
巽孝之?たつみたかゆき
Tatsumi Takayuki
228 85 Marc Atallah
229 85 David Naimon
230 85 Jean Marigny
231 85 Francis Berthelot
232 84 Malcolm R. Phifer
233 84 Michael C. Phifer
234 83 John Scalzi
235 83 John Helfers
236 81 Lynne M. Thomas
237 81 Carl Sagan
238 81 Diana Pavlac Glyer
239 80 Howard DeVore
240 80 Emily Pohl-Weary
241 79 Katherine Chu
242 79 Ruth Franklin
243 79 Julie Bell
244 79 Julián Díez
245 78 Jack Vance
246 78 Jared Shurin
247 78 Justin Landon
248 78 Christopher Golden
249 78 Pilar Pedraza
250 77 Darrell Schweitzer
251 77 Mark Bould
252 76 Humphrey Carpenter
253 75 Bruce Sterling
254 75 Pamela D. Scoville
255 75 Nina Auerbach
256 75 Elizabeth Humphrey
257 74 Brom
258 73 Stephen D. Korshak
259 72 Damon Knight
260 71 Stephen Fabian
261 71 Pete Tombs
262 71 Lauric Guillaud
263 70 Bruce Campbell
264 70 Emma Audsley
265 70 Gavin Ashenden
266 70 Richard Laymon
267 70 Thomas Ligotti
268 70 Jeremy Marshall
269 70 Edmund Weiner
270 70 Joe Bob Briggs
271 70 Daniel Gabelman
272 70 Owen Barfield
273 70 Jennifer Schacker
274 70 Douglas Charles Kane
275 70 Don Hutchison
276 70 Daniel J. H. Levack
277 70 David Sandner
278 70 Milly Williamson
279 70 Douglas A. Anderson
280 70 Steve Walker (I)
281 70 Claude Fierobe
282 70 Donald E. Palumbo
283 70 Leslie A. Sconduto
284 70 Alister E. McGrath
285 70 Richard Tuerk
286 70 Heather O'Donoghue
287 70 Eugenio Sánchez Arrate
288 70 Peter Gilliver
289 70 Klaus Geus
290 70 C. W. Sullivan, III
291 70 Elizabeth A. Whittingham
292 70 Marshall B. Tymn
293 70
Daniel Compère?Daniel Compere
294 70 Victoria Price
295 70 Roma A. King, Jr.
296 70 Judith Priestman
297 70 Brian Rosebury
298 70 William H. Green
299 70 Roderick McGillis
300 70 Francis Bridger
301 70 Arturo Villarrubia
302 70 Stan Barets
303 70
藤元登四郎?ふじもととしろう
Fujimoto Toshirō
Fujimoto Toshirou
304 70 Corey Olsen
305 70
Xavier Mauméjean?Xavier Maumejean
306 70 Sebastian D. G. Knowles
307 70 John C. Tibbetts
308 70 Étienne Barillier
309 70 Matthew T. Dickerson
310 70 Michael O. Riley
311 70 Hélène Machinal
312 70 Sam Weller
313 70 Joseph McCabe
314 70 Gary William Crawford
315 70 Elizabeth M. Sanders
316 70
Frédéric Landragin?Frederic Landragin
317 70 Nicolas Stanzick
318 70 Aisling Byrne
319 70 Bonnie Gaarden
320 66 John J. Pierce
321 66 Jerry Weist
322 65 Mallory O'Meara
323 65 George Hay
324 65 Joseph Wrzos
325 65 Byron Preiss
326 65 Stefan Ekman
327 65 Perry A. Chapdelaine
328 65 Tony Chapdelaine
329 64 Joy Sanchez-Taylor
330 64 Peter Cannon
331 64 Carlos Díaz Maroto
332 64 John C. Wright
333 63 Fred Nadis
334 63 Karen Burnham
335 63 Paul Williams
336 63 M. J. Simpson
337 63 Liz Bourke
338 62 Maria Tatar
339 62 Alec Nevala-Lee
340 62 Robert H. Waugh
341 61 E. Hoffmann Price
342 61 Andrew Milner
343 61 Bruce Byfield
344 61 David A. Cherry
345 61 Marc Aramini
346 61 J. R. Burgmann
347 60 Baird Searles
348 60 Michael Franklin
349 60 Anthony R. Lewis
350 60 Gary Spencer Millidge
351 60 Peter Dickinson
352 60 Edward Gorey
353 60 Sergi Grau
354 60 Kyle Newman
355 60 Willis Conover
356 60 Michael Witwer
357 60 Sam Witwer
358 59 Antonio José Navarro
359 59 Thomas G. Smith
360 59 Sigrid Ellis
361 58 Stephen Hickman
362 58 Justin Everett
363 58 Polly Freas
364 58 Miguel Ángel Parra
365 58 Wendy Froud
366 58 Richard Powers
367 58 Jeffrey Shanks
368 58 William K. Hartmann
369 58 Dougal Dixon
370 58 A. N. Wilson
371 58 David G. Panadero
372 58 Maria Sachiko Cecire
373 58 José Manuel Serrano Cueto
374 58 Scott McCloud
375 57 Theodore R. Cogswell
376 57 George Beahm
377 57 Daniel Aguilar
378 56 Harry Harrison
379 56 Ed Emshwiller
380 56 Richard A. Lupoff
381 56 Robert Holdstock
382 56 Carlos Abraham
383 56 J. G. Ballard
384 56 Jeff Jones
385 56 Brian Herbert
386 56 Camille Bacon-Smith
387 55 Jack Mathews
388 55 Luis Ortiz
389 55 Lillian Stewart Carl
390 55 Beth Gwinn
391 55 Jess Nevins
392 54 Lester del Rey
393 54 Joanna Russ
394 54 J. K. Potter
395 54 Chris Foss
396 54 Karen Wynn Fonstad
397 54 Vox Day
398 54 Maxfield Parrish
399 54 David Day
400 54 Alvaro Zinos-Amaro
401 54 Tom Weaver
402 53
天野喜孝?あまのよしたか
Amano Yoshitaka
403 53 Rowena Morrill
404 53 Philip Ball
405 53 Jim C. Hines
406 53 Nat Segaloff
407 52 Teresa Nielsen Hayden
408 52 Dick Jude
409 51 Richard Comballot
410 51 William Gibson
411 51 Gerry Canavan
412 51 Daniel Ritter
413 51 Donald Franson
414 51 Earl Kemp
415 51 G. Peter Winnington
416 51 David Schecter
417 51 Steve Kronenberg
418 51 Marc Burrows
419 51 David Ritter
420 51 Nancy Kemp
421 51 Stephan Martiniere
422 51 Mary Anne Mohanraj
423 51 Xavier Fournier
424 50 Kate Wilhelm
425 50 Charles A. Huttar
426 50 Tara O'Shea
427 50
日本SF作家クラブ?にほんSFさっかクラブ
Nihon SF Sakka Kurabu
Nihon Esu Efu Sakka Kurabu
428 50 John Edgar Browning
429 50 Caroline Joan Picart
430 50
あさりよしとお?Asakari Yoshito
431 50
Евгений Харитонов?Evgeniy Kharitonov
432 50 Carol A. Senf
433 50 Paul F. Ford
434 50 Michel Jeury
435 50 Richard Dalby
436 50
池澤春菜?いけざわはるな
Ikezawa Haruna
437 50 John M. Bowers
438 50 Robert L. Forward
439 50 Frederik Pohl
440 50 William F. Nolan
441 50
増山久明?Masuyama Hisaaki
ますやまひさあき
442 50
前田建設工業?Maeda Kensetsu Kōgyō
Maeda Kensetsu Kougyou
Maeda Kensetsu Kogyo
まえだけんせつこうぎょう
443 50 Benoît Grison
444 50 Paul Simpson-Housley
445 50 Lisa Morton
446 50 David Keyworth
447 50 Sergio Gaut vel Hartman
448 50
牧眞司?まきしんじ
Maki Shinji
449 50
大森望?Ohmori Nozomi
おおもりのぞみ
Ōmori Nozomi
Oomori Nozomi
Omori Nozomi
450 50 Pascal Pinteau
451 50
くられ?Kurare
452 50 Nancy Marie Brown
453 50
会津信吾?あいずしんご
Aizu Shingo
454 50 Sergio Mars
455 50 Pierre Versins
456 50 David J. Schow
457 50 Fabien Mauro
458 50 Wojtek Siudmak
459 50
小谷真理?こたにまり
Kotani Mari
460 50 Henri Delmas
461 50 Alain Julian
462 50 Tim Waggoner
463 50 Sørina Higgins
464 50 Richard Firth Green
465 50 Ïan Larue
466 50 Grevel Lindop
467 50 Clare Burgess
468 50 Susannah Clements
469 50
鹿野司?しかのつかさ
Shikano Tsukasa
470 50
穴沢優子?あなざわゆうこ
Anazawa Yūko
Anazawa Yuuko
471 50 Stephen Jacobs
472 50
後藤真孝?ごとうまさたか
Gotō Masataka
Gotou Masataka
Goto Masataka
473 50 Frédéric Jaccaud
474 50 Lola Robles
475 50 Lucy A. Snyder
476 50 Elisa G. McCausland
477 50
早川書房編集部?はやかわしょぼうへんしゅうぶ
Hayakawa Shobō Henshūbu
Hayakawa Shobou Henshuubu
478 50 Harry Warner, Jr.
479 50 Claire Fitzpatrick
480 50 Stefan Dziemianowicz
481 50 Sorcha Ní Fhlainn
482 50
Zoran Živković?Zoran Zivkovic
483 50 Robert Runté
484 50 Louis-Vincent Thomas
485 50 Philip Zaleski
486 50 Carol Zaleski
487 50 Roger Lancelyn Green
488 50 Jean-Jacques Lecercle
489 50 Alain Carrazé
490 50 David A. Kyle
491 50 Cynthia Ward
492 50 Kerry Gammill
493 50
Gérard Cordesse?Gerard Cordesse
494 50 Guy Bouchard
495 50 Tish Farrell
496 50 Ugo Bellagamba
497 50
Éric Picholle?Eric Picholle
498 50 Jean-Claude Forest
499 50 Grant Morrison
500 50 Carlos Saiz Cidoncha
Copyright © 1995-2022 Al von Ruff and the ISFDB team
ISFDB Engine - Version 4.00 (2006-04-24)