Highest Ranked Novel Authors of the 1950s

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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	314	Robert A. Heinlein
2	256	Alfred Bester
3	178	Theodore Sturgeon
4	155	Fritz Leiber
5	143	Arthur C. Clarke
6	135	Hal Clement
7	130	Walter M. Miller, Jr.
8	130	C. S. Lewis
9	129	Edward E. Smith
10	125	James Blish
11	105	Ray Bradbury
12	95	C. M. Kornbluth
13	86	Edgar Pangborn
14	86	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
15	80	A. E. van Vogt
16	70	Isaac Asimov
17	51	Leigh Brackett
18	50	Brian W. Aldiss
19	50	William Mayne
20	50	H. Beam Piper
21	50	Frank Riley
22	50	Mark Clifton
23	50	John J. McGuire
24	50	Mary Norton
25	50	Ayn Rand
26	50	Rosemary Sutcliff
27	50	Philippa Pearce
28	37	Algis Budrys
29	36	Eric Frank Russell
30	35	Carol Kendall
31	35	Gordon R. Dickson
32	35	John Wyndham
33	35	Henry Hazlitt
34	35	E. B. White
35	29	Jack Williamson
36	29	Jack Finney
37	28	L. Ron Hubbard
38	10	Stanisław Lem^?Stanislaw Lem
39	9	Frederik Pohl
40	3	Mervyn Peake
41	2	C. L. Moore
42	1	Murray Leinster
43	1	Cameron Hawley
44	1	Frank Herbert
45	1	Raymond F. Jones
46	1	Robert Sheckley
47	1	Poul Anderson
48	1	William Golding
49	1	John Steinbeck