Highest Ranked Authors and Editors of the 1950s

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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	453	Robert A. Heinlein
2	294	Arthur C. Clarke
3	290	Theodore Sturgeon
4	288	Alfred Bester
5	272	Ray Bradbury
6	256	James Blish
7	236	John W. Campbell, Jr.
8	213	Fritz Leiber
9	180	Walter M. Miller, Jr.
10	169	Poul Anderson
11	149	C. M. Kornbluth
12	135	Hal Clement
13	135	Willy Ley
14	130	Edward E. Smith
15	130	C. S. Lewis
16	115	Eric Frank Russell
17	113	L. Sprague de Camp
18	104	Clifford D. Simak
19	103	Ray Van Houten
20	103	James V. Taurasi
21	101	Anthony Boucher
22	86	Edgar Pangborn
23	86	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
24	80	A. E. van Vogt
25	79	H. Beam Piper
26	70	Isaac Asimov
27	65	Gordon R. Dickson
28	62	Catherine Crook de Camp
29	58	Reginald Bretnor
30	53	H. L. Gold
31	52	Frank Pietro
32	52	Murray Leinster
33	51	Elinor Busby
34	51	Ron Smith
35	51	Ron Ellik
36	51	Terry Carr
37	51	John Carnell
38	51	Leigh Brackett
39	51	F. M. Busby
40	51	Burnett R. Toskey
41	51	Wally Weber
42	50	Daniel Keyes
43	50	Frank Riley
44	50	A. Bertram Chandler
45	50	John J. McGuire
46	50	Damon Knight
47	50	Brian W. Aldiss
48	50	Wernher von Braun
49	50	Robert Bloch
50	50	Robert P. Mills
51	50	Eleanor Farjeon
52	50	John Collier
53	50	Ayn Rand
54	50	Mary Norton
55	50	Mark Clifton
56	50	Philippa Pearce
57	50	Fred L. Whipple
58	50	William Mayne
59	50	Muriel Spark
60	50	Donald H. Tuck
61	50	Avram Davidson
62	50	Rosemary Sutcliff
63	46	Jack Vance
64	40	Algis Budrys
65	36	Cordwainer Smith
66	35	Carol Kendall
67	35	Fletcher Pratt
68	35	Philip K. Dick
69	35	Philip José Farmer
70	35	Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
71	35	T. H. White
72	35	John Wyndham
73	35	Henry Hazlitt
74	35	Jerome Bixby
75	35	Katherine B. Shippen
76	35	Jack Coggins
77	35	E. B. White
78	31	Robert Sheckley
79	30	Richard Matheson
80	29	Jack Williamson
81	29	Jack Finney
82	29	A. J. Deutsch
83	28	L. Ron Hubbard
84	28	Theodore R. Cogswell
85	28	Charles L. Harness
86	24	Everett F. Bleiler
87	24	T. E. Dikty
88	10	Stanisław Lem?Stanislaw Lem
89	9	Frederik Pohl
90	3	Mervyn Peake
91	3	Chuck Harris
92	3	Walt Willis
93	3	C. L. Moore
94	2	Juanita Coulson
95	2	Larry T. Shaw
96	2	F. L. Wallace
97	2	Manly Wade Wellman
98	2	Robert Coulson
99	2	James H. Schmitz
100	2	Lynn Hickman
101	1	Cameron Hawley
102	1	Frank Herbert
103	1	Raymond F. Jones
104	1	Pauline Ashwell
105	1	Ralph Williams
106	1	Alan E. Nourse
107	1	Rog Phillips
108	1	J. F. Bone
109	1	Stanley Mullen
110	1	Anton Lee Baker
111	1	Hans Stefan Santesson
112	1	Judith Merril
113	1	John Steinbeck
114	1	Katherine MacLean
115	1	Charles Lee Riddle
116	1	William Golding
117	1	Charles V. De Vet
118	1	Zenna Henderson
119	1	Cele Goldsmith
120	1	Henry Kuttner
121	1	Peter Hamilton

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