Highest Ranked Non-Fiction Authors of the 1970s

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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	154	Ian Summers
2	113	Brian W. Aldiss
3	110	H. R. Giger
4	100	Peter Nicholls
5	100	James E. Gunn
6	92	Ursula K. Le Guin
7	80	Wayne Barlowe
8	76	Humphrey Carpenter
9	70	Isaac Asimov
10	67	Gerry de la Ree
11	64	L. Sprague de Camp
12	61	David Larkin
13	60	Peter Dickinson
14	60	Willis Conover
15	60	H. P. Lovecraft
16	58	Michael Whelan
17	58	Polly Freas
18	58	Frank Kelly Freas
19	56	Robert Holdstock
20	54	Lester del Rey
21	53	Frank Frazetta
22	51	Donald Franson
23	51	Howard DeVore
24	50	Paul H. Kocher
25	50	Kathryn Lindskoog
26	50	Wojtek Siudmak
27	50	Louis-Vincent Thomas
28	50	Frederik Pohl
29	50	Richard C. West
30	50	Roger Lancelyn Green
31	50	Harry Warner, Jr.
32	50	Walter Hooper
33	50	David A. Kyle
34	50	Pierre Versins
35	45	Stephen Fabian
36	35	Beatrice Phillpotts
37	35	Radu Florescu
38	35	Donald H. Tuck
39	35	Alan Lee
40	35	Brian Froud
41	35	Frank Belknap Long
42	30	Baird Searles
43	30	Martin Last
44	30	Michael Franklin
45	30	Beth Meacham
46	30	Malcolm Edwards
47	30	William G. Contento
48	29	L. W. Currey
49	29	Stuart W. Wells, III
50	29	Boris Vallejo
51	28	Harry Harrison
52	28	Tim Underwood
53	28	Daniel J. H. Levack
54	27	Chris Foss
55	27	Christopher Cerf
56	27	Tony Hendra
57	27	Peter Elbling
58	27	Alicia Austin
59	26	Sarah Teale
60	26	Robert Foster (author)
61	25	Colin Lester
62	25	Robert Reginald
63	24	Tim Hildebrandt
64	24	Marshall B. Tymn
65	24	Bruce Gillespie
66	24	Diana Waggoner
67	24	Kenneth J. Zahorski
68	24	Robert H. Boyer
69	24	Greg Hildebrandt
70	23	Samuel R. Delany
71	23	Robert Scholes
72	23	Betty Ballantine
73	22	Paul Walker
74	22	Virgil Finlay
75	22	Franz Rottensteiner
76	21	Roger Dean
77	21	Hal W. Hall
78	21	Donald Lehmkuhl
79	21	Martyn Dean
80	20	Chris Achilleos
81	19	Roger C. Schlobin

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