Highest Ranked Short Fiction Authors 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	168	Poul Anderson
2	131	James Blish
3	112	Theodore Sturgeon
4	101	Arthur C. Clarke
5	85	Robert A. Heinlein
6	79	Eric Frank Russell
7	54	C. M. Kornbluth
8	51	Murray Leinster
9	51	Ray Bradbury
10	50	Daniel Keyes
11	50	Walter M. Miller, Jr.
12	50	Clifford D. Simak
13	50	A. Bertram Chandler
14	50	Robert Bloch
15	50	Avram Davidson
16	50	Damon Knight
17	37	Fritz Leiber
18	36	Cordwainer Smith
19	35	Philip K. Dick
20	35	Philip José Farmer
21	35	Jerome Bixby
22	35	Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
23	32	Alfred Bester
24	30	Richard Matheson
25	30	Gordon R. Dickson
26	30	Robert Sheckley
27	29	H. Beam Piper
28	29	A. J. Deutsch
29	28	Reginald Bretnor
30	28	Charles L. Harness
31	28	Theodore R. Cogswell
32	3	Algis Budrys
33	2	James H. Schmitz
34	2	Manly Wade Wellman
35	2	F. L. Wallace
36	1	Jack Vance
37	1	L. Sprague de Camp
38	1	C. L. Moore
39	1	Pauline Ashwell
40	1	Charles V. De Vet
41	1	Henry Kuttner
42	1	Ralph Williams
43	1	Alan E. Nourse
44	1	Rog Phillips
45	1	J. F. Bone
46	1	Stanley Mullen
47	1	Zenna Henderson
48	1	Judith Merril
49	1	Anton Lee Baker
50	1	Katherine MacLean