Highest Ranked Short Fiction 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	402	Robert A. Heinlein
2	377	C. L. Moore
3	374	Isaac Asimov
4	373	Henry Kuttner
5	235	Ray Bradbury
6	184	Fredric Brown
7	169	Clifford D. Simak
8	159	Leigh Brackett
9	151	A. E. van Vogt
10	125	Lester del Rey
11	119	Murray Leinster
12	115	Hal Clement
13	90	L. Sprague de Camp
14	88	Anthony Boucher
15	83	Theodore Sturgeon
16	79	John W. Campbell, Jr.
17	78	Ayn Rand
18	67	Fritz Leiber
19	57	Jack Williamson
20	57	Fletcher Pratt
21	51	Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
22	50	Arthur C. Clarke
23	50	E. M. Forster
24	50	Hans Christian Andersen
25	36	Robert E. Howard
26	35	Rudyard Kipling
27	35	Dorothy P. Lathrop
28	35	Catherine Cate Coblentz
29	35	Ruth Stiles Gannett
30	35	Mary Norton
31	35	Louisa May Alcott
32	32	Robert Bloch
33	32	H. P. Lovecraft
34	32	Ross Rocklynne
35	31	A. Bertram Chandler
36	31	John Wyndham
37	29	Alfred Bester
38	29	H. L. Gold
39	29	Richard S. Shaver
40	29	Jorge Luis Borges
41	29	Harry Bates
42	28	Raymond F. Jones
43	28	Eric Frank Russell
44	28	Edmond Hamilton
45	27	Donald A. Wollheim
46	5	Manly Wade Wellman
47	4	Robert Moore Williams
48	3	George O. Smith
49	2	Edgar Rice Burroughs
50	2	William P. McGivern
51	2	August Derleth
52	2	Allison V. Harding
53	2	Cleve Cartmill
54	2	Don Wilcox
55	1	Nelson S. Bond
56	1	Norvell W. Page
57	1	Raymond Z. Gallun
58	1	Lester Dent
59	1	Ray Cummings
60	1	Helen Simpson (1897-1940)
61	1	James H. Schmitz
62	1	Malcolm Jameson
63	1	P. Schuyler Miller
64	1	John R. Pierce
65	1	John Coleman Burroughs
66	1	Olaf Stapledon
67	1	Marian O'Hearn
68	1	Mary Butts
69	1	Orson Welles
70	1	Albert dePina
71	1	Dorothy Quick
72	1	Shirley Jackson
73	1	Mary Lutyens
74	1	Jack Vance
75	1	Roald Dahl
76	1	Zealia Bishop

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