Highest Ranked Novel Authors of the 1960s

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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	583	Robert A. Heinlein
2	480	Frank Herbert
3	354	John Brunner
4	335	Roger Zelazny
5	320	Robert Silverberg
6	310	Ursula K. Le Guin
7	241	Philip K. Dick
8	208	Samuel R. Delany
9	127	Poul Anderson
10	100	R. A. Lafferty
11	99	Clifford D. Simak
12	95	Piers Anthony
13	92	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
14	86	Alexei Panshin
15	85	Brian W. Aldiss
16	85	Lloyd Alexander
17	85	Thomas M. Disch
18	70	Manuel Mujica Láinez
19	70	Avram Davidson
20	64	Norman Spinrad
21	57	Madeleine L'Engle
22	53	Daniel Keyes
23	51	Fritz Leiber
24	51	A. Bertram Chandler
25	51	Anthony Burgess
26	51	J. G. Ballard
27	50	Eric Frank Russell
28	50	Sheena Porter
29	50	Alan Garner
30	50	筒井康隆?Tsutsui Yasutaka つつい やすたか
31	50	Pauline Clarke
32	50	Michael Moorcock
33	50	Michael Crichton
34	50	L. M. Boston
35	46	Anne McCaffrey
36	43	Peter S. Beagle
37	43	Andre Norton
38	38	Edgar Pangborn
39	38	H. Beam Piper
40	37	Jack Vance
41	37	Keith Laumer
42	37	James White
43	36	Naomi Mitchison
44	35	Scott O'Dell
45	35	James Blish
46	35	Monique Wittig
47	35	Kate Wilhelm
48	35	Theodore L. Thomas
49	35	Ken Kesey
50	35	Joanna Russ
51	35	Hayden Howard
52	35	G. C. Edmondson
53	35	George Selden
54	35	Hans Kneifel
55	35	William S. Burroughs
56	35	Charles L. Harness
57	35	Zilpha Keatley Snyder
58	30	A. E. van Vogt
59	30	Cordwainer Smith
60	30	Jack Williamson
61	30	E. Mayne Hull
62	29	Henry Kuttner
63	29	C. L. Moore
64	15	Arthur C. Clarke
65	12	Ray Bradbury
66	6	Harry Harrison
67	5	James H. Schmitz
68	3	Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
69	2	Gordon R. Dickson
70	2	Philip José Farmer
71	2	Theodore Sturgeon
72	2	Mark Clifton
73	2	Randall Garrett
74	2	Frederik Pohl
75	1	Isaac Asimov
76	1	Algis Budrys
77	1	Thomas Burnett Swann
78	1	L. P. Hartley
79	1	Larry Niven
80	1	Edward E. Smith
81	1	J. F. Bone
82	1	Hannes Bok
83	1	Damon Knight
84	1	John T. Phillifent
85	1	Laurence M. Janifer
86	1	John Jakes
87	1	James Clavell
88	1	Fletcher Knebel
89	1	Chester Anderson
90	1	Marion Zimmer Bradley
91	1	Vercors
92	1	Walter Tevis
93	1	Daniel F. Galouye
94	1	Rosel George Brown
95	1	Edmond Hamilton
96	1	Murray Leinster
97	1	Charles W. Bailey, II
98	1	Robert Sheckley
99	1	Zenna Henderson
100	1	J. T. McIntosh
101	1	Dean McLaughlin
102	1	Morris West
103	1	Hugh Sykes Davies

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