Highest Ranked Authors and Editors Prior to 1950

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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	552	Robert A. Heinlein
2	377	C. L. Moore
3	374	Isaac Asimov
4	374	Henry Kuttner
5	303	A. E. van Vogt
6	285	Ray Bradbury
7	221	uncredited
8	218	Forrest J. Ackerman
9	210	Leigh Brackett
10	194	Morojo
11	184	Fredric Brown
12	183	Fritz Leiber
13	170	Wilson Tucker
14	169	Clifford D. Simak
15	165	George Orwell
16	146	H. G. Wells
17	135	E. Everett Evans
18	134	T. H. White
19	132	C. S. Lewis
20	125	Lester del Rey
21	119	Murray Leinster
22	115	Hal Clement
23	114	Ayn Rand
24	112	L. Sprague de Camp
25	111	Olaf Stapledon
26	107	John W. Campbell, Jr.
27	98	Donald A. Wollheim
28	89	J. Michael Rosenblum
29	89	Anthony Boucher
30	83	Theodore Sturgeon
31	80	Bram Stoker
32	79	Fletcher Pratt
33	79	Willy Ley
34	77	Eric Linklater
35	70	Ella Young
36	70	J. R. R. Tolkien
37	70	William Morris
38	70	Anne Parrish
39	62	Edgar Rice Burroughs
40	62	Harry Warner, Jr.
41	58	Jack Williamson
42	57	Edmond Hamilton
43	56	George R. Stewart
44	51	Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
45	51	Elizabeth Goudge
46	50	Arthur C. Clarke
47	50	William Pène du Bois
48	50	Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
49	50	Kate Seredy
50	50	BB
51	50	Rachel Field
52	50	Arthur Bowie Chrisman
53	50	Charles J. Finger
54	50	Hugh Lofting
55	50	Valdimar Ásmundsson
56	50	Евгений Замятин?Yevgeny Zamyatin
57	50	Sinclair Lewis
58	50	Walter de la Mare
59	50	Hans Christian Andersen
60	50	E. M. Forster
61	50	J. Francis McComas
62	50	Raymond J. Healy
63	50	Chesley Bonestell
64	50	Lewis Carroll
65	36	Julia L. Sauer
66	36	Jack Speer
67	36	Mary Shelley
68	36	Robert E. Howard
69	35	Szepes Mária
70	35	Padraic Colum
71	35	Arthur Koestler
72	35	Alida Sims Malkus
73	35	William Bowen
74	35	江戸川乱歩?Edogawa Rampo
75	35	Anne Carroll Moore
76	35	Mary Norton
77	35	Katharine Burdekin
78	35	Dillwyn Parrish
79	35	Catherine Cate Coblentz
80	35	Rudyard Kipling
81	35	Eleanor Estes
82	35	Ruth Stiles Gannett
83	35	Dorothy P. Lathrop
84	35	Louisa May Alcott
85	34	H. P. Lovecraft
86	32	Robert Bloch
87	32	Ross Rocklynne
88	31	A. Bertram Chandler
89	31	John Wyndham
90	30	Arthur L. Widner, Jr.
91	30	L. Frank Baum
92	29	Alfred Bester
93	29	Francis T. Laney
94	29	Jorge Luis Borges
95	29	Harry Bates
96	29	Richard S. Shaver
97	29	Samuel D. Russell
98	29	Robert Graves
99	29	Karin Boye
100	29	Curt Siodmak
101	29	H. L. Gold
102	28	Raymond F. Jones
103	28	Eric Frank Russell
104	28	Charles Burbee
105	28	George Gamow
106	28	Bill Watson
107	28	Dorothy Macardle
108	28	Lynn Bridges
109	27	Austin Tappan Wright
110	27	Hermann Hesse
111	27	Groff Conklin
112	23	J. M. Barrie
113	22	Margaret Cavendish
114	16	E. R. Eddison
115	12	John Myers Myers
116	6	Manly Wade Wellman
117	4	Robert Moore Williams
118	3	George O. Smith
119	2	L. Ron Hubbard
120	2	Aldous Huxley
121	2	Julius Unger
122	2	René Barjavel?Rene Barjavel
123	2	August Derleth
124	2	Don Wilcox
125	2	William P. McGivern
126	2	Allison V. Harding
127	2	Cleve Cartmill
128	1	Don Rogers
129	1	Enid Blyton
130	1	Ray Cummings
131	1	Warwick Deeping
132	1	Helen Simpson (1897-1940)
133	1	Thea von Harbou
134	1	Shirley Jackson
135	1	Abby Lu Ashley
136	1	Walt Liebscher
137	1	James Kepner
138	1	P. L. Travers
139	1	Adolfo Bioy Casares
140	1	Sax Rohmer
141	1	Pete Widner
142	1	Kenneth Lewis Roberts
143	1	Jean-Jacques Rousseau
144	1	Raymond Z. Gallun
145	1	Louis Russell Chauvenet
146	1	Mark Twain
147	1	William C. Anderson
148	1	William S. Sykora
149	1	Lester Dent
150	1	Norvell W. Page
151	1	Josephine Young Case
152	1	Dorothy Quick
153	1	D. R. Smith
154	1	George Lowther
155	1	Zealia Bishop
156	1	J. B. Priestley
157	1	Vita Sackville-West
158	1	Frank M. Robinson
159	1	Al Ashley
160	1	Walter B. Gibson
161	1	Mervyn Peake
162	1	Larry T. Shaw
163	1	Robert Ardrey
164	1	Leslie A. Croutch
165	1	Dorothy B. Hughes
166	1	B. A. Botkin
167	1	Herbert Best
168	1	Mary Lutyens
169	1	Janusz Korczak
170	1	Ernest Bramah
171	1	James H. Schmitz
172	1	John R. Neill
173	1	James Hadley Chase
174	1	George Ebey (I)
175	1	Sam Moskowitz
176	1	Arthur Louis Joquel, II
177	1	Ruth Plumly Thompson
178	1	Ruth Widner
179	1	Joseph O'Neill
180	1	Jack London
181	1	Jean Ray
182	1	Malcolm Jameson
183	1	P. Schuyler Miller
184	1	Nelson S. Bond
185	1	John R. Pierce
186	1	John Coleman Burroughs
187	1	John Russell Fearn
188	1	George Herzog
189	1	David V. Reed
190	1	Harold Courlander
191	1	Mary Butts
192	1	Ed Connor
193	1	Orson Welles
194	1	Albert dePina
195	1	Phil Bronson
196	1	Marian O'Hearn
197	1	Jack Vance
198	1	Roald Dahl

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