Highest Ranked Novel Authors 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	220	uncredited
2	165	George Orwell
3	152	A. E. van Vogt
4	150	Robert A. Heinlein
5	134	T. H. White
6	132	C. S. Lewis
7	110	Olaf Stapledon
8	89	H. G. Wells
9	85	Fritz Leiber
10	80	Bram Stoker
11	77	Eric Linklater
12	70	J. R. R. Tolkien
13	70	William Morris
14	70	Anne Parrish
15	60	Edgar Rice Burroughs
16	56	George R. Stewart
17	51	Elizabeth Goudge
18	50	Rachel Field
19	50	William Pène du Bois
20	50	Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
21	50	Hugh Lofting
22	50	Valdimar Ásmundsson
23	50	Евгений Замятин?Yevgeny Zamyatin
24	50	Sinclair Lewis
25	50	Kate Seredy
26	50	BB
27	50	Lewis Carroll
28	36	Julia L. Sauer
29	36	Mary Shelley
30	36	Ayn Rand
31	35	Szepes Mária
32	35	Katharine Burdekin
33	35	Padraic Colum
34	35	Arthur Koestler
35	35	Alida Sims Malkus
36	35	William Bowen
37	35	江戸川乱歩?Edogawa Rampo
38	35	Anne Carroll Moore
39	35	Dillwyn Parrish
40	35	Eleanor Estes
41	30	L. Frank Baum
42	29	Curt Siodmak
43	29	Edmond Hamilton
44	29	Robert Graves
45	29	Karin Boye
46	28	Dorothy Macardle
47	27	Austin Tappan Wright
48	27	Hermann Hesse
49	23	J. M. Barrie
50	22	Margaret Cavendish
51	22	Fletcher Pratt
52	22	L. Sprague de Camp
53	16	E. R. Eddison
54	12	John Myers Myers
55	2	L. Ron Hubbard
56	2	Aldous Huxley
57	2	René Barjavel?Rene Barjavel
58	1	Enid Blyton
59	1	Warwick Deeping
60	1	P. L. Travers
61	1	Adolfo Bioy Casares
62	1	Sax Rohmer
63	1	Anthony Boucher
64	1	Kenneth Lewis Roberts
65	1	Jean-Jacques Rousseau
66	1	Mark Twain
67	1	H. P. Lovecraft
68	1	George Lowther
69	1	J. B. Priestley
70	1	Vita Sackville-West
71	1	Jack Williamson
72	1	Walter B. Gibson
73	1	Mervyn Peake
74	1	Robert Ardrey
75	1	Manly Wade Wellman
76	1	Dorothy B. Hughes
77	1	Herbert Best
78	1	Thea von Harbou
79	1	Janusz Korczak
80	1	Josephine Young Case
81	1	Ernest Bramah
82	1	James Hadley Chase
83	1	Ruth Plumly Thompson
84	1	Joseph O'Neill
85	1	Jack London
86	1	Jean Ray
87	1	Henry Kuttner
88	1	John Russell Fearn
89	1	David V. Reed
90	1	John R. Neill

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