Highest Ranked Non-Fiction Authors of the 1980s

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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	Harlan Ellison
2	220	Stephen King
3	191	Charles N. Brown
4	191	William G. Contento
5	183	Brian W. Aldiss
6	169	James E. Gunn
7	145	Charles Platt
8	135	Don Maitz
9	135	Tom Weller
10	122	Neil Barron
11	121	David Wingrove
12	120	Joy Chant
13	112	Lawrence Sutin
14	111	Everett F. Bleiler
15	108	Samuel R. Delany
16	105	Jack Williamson
17	100	石原藤夫?Fujio Ishihara
18	100	Robert Weinberg
19	94	David Pringle
20	85	Isaac Asimov
21	85	Alexei Panshin
22	85	Cory Panshin
23	85	Chuck Miller
24	85	Michael Whelan
25	85	Richard Purtill
26	85	Tim Underwood
27	85	Norbert Spehner
28	85	Ron Miller
29	80	Carl Sagan
30	79	Barry N. Malzberg
31	73	Kim Newman
32	73	Stephen Jones
33	70	Owen Barfield
34	65	George Hay
35	65	Patti Perret
36	65	Perry A. Chapdelaine
37	65	Byron Preiss
38	65	Leo Dillon
39	65	Diane Dillon
40	65	Tony Chapdelaine
41	63	Paul Williams
42	61	David A. Cherry
43	59	Arthur C. Clarke
44	59	Ursula K. Le Guin
45	59	Beth Meacham
46	59	Thomas G. Smith
47	58	Dougal Dixon
48	58	William K. Hartmann
49	57	Norman Spinrad
50	56	Douglas E. Winter
51	55	Jack Mathews
52	54	Karen Wynn Fonstad
53	51	H. R. Giger
54	50	Joe R. Christopher
55	50	Tom Shippey
56	50	Paul F. Ford
57	50	矢野徹?やのてつ Yano Tetsu
58	50	Henri Delmas
59	50	Alain Julian
60	50	会津信吾?あいずしんご Aizu Shingo
61	50	Guy Lardreau
62	50	Jean-Jacques Lecercle
63	50	Robert L. Forward
64	50	Donald H. Tuck
65	50	Emmanuel Carrère?Emmanuel Carrere
66	50	野田昌宏?のだまさひろ Noda Masahiro
67	50	Robert Runté
68	50	Gérard Cordesse?Gerard Cordesse
69	50	Peter J. Schakel
70	50	Glen Cavaliero
71	50	George Sayer
72	50	横田順彌?よこたじゅんや Yokota Junya Yokota Jun'ya
73	49	J. R. R. Tolkien
74	49	Gregg Rickman
75	48	Philip K. Dick
76	48	Michael Moorcock
77	46	Curtis C. Smith
78	46	Marshall B. Tymn
79	45	Martin H. Greenberg
80	44	Virgil Finlay
81	44	Gerry de la Ree
82	42	Patricia S. Warrick
83	42	Sam Moskowitz
84	42	John J. Pierce
85	42	Daniel J. H. Levack
86	35	Stephen Hickman
87	35	L. Sprague de Camp
88	35	Jane Whittington Griffin
89	35	Norine Dresser
90	35	Tanya Gardiner-Scott
91	35	Monette Vacquin
92	35	Paul R. Gagne
93	35	Susan Seddon Boulet
94	35	Leonard Wolf
95	35	Verlyn Flieger
96	35	Rupert Brown
97	35	J. J. Llewellyn
98	35	John Robert Colombo
99	35	Christopher Priest
100	35	Catherine Crook de Camp
101	35	Peter Cannon
102	35	Joe Bob Briggs
103	35	Lucian Boia
104	35	Edmund Little
105	35	Bruce L. Edwards
106	35	Brian Froud
107	35	Thomas Howard
108	30	Kim Stanley Robinson
109	30	Baird Searles
110	30	Michael Franklin
111	30	Anthony R. Lewis
112	29	Algis Budrys
113	29	Ian Summers
114	29	Vincent Di Fate
115	29	George Turner
116	28	Piers Anthony
117	28	Kenneth R. Johnson
118	28	Rowena Morrill
119	28	Jerry Boyajian
120	28	Willis E. McNelly
121	28	Richard Bergeron
122	27	Steven Owen Godersky
123	27	David G. Hartwell
124	27	John Clute
125	27	Greg Thokar
126	27	Frederick C. Durant, III
127	26	H. Bruce Franklin
128	26	Joseph D. Olander
129	26	David Larkin
130	26	Alan Lee
131	26	J. N. Williamson
132	26	David Day
133	26	Susan E. Meyer
134	25	Richard Bilyeu
135	25	Frank Kelly Freas
136	24	Damon Knight
137	24	Denise Du Pont
138	24	Rosemarie Arbur
139	23	James Blish
140	23	Jim Burns
141	23	David Macaulay
142	23	Christopher Evans
143	22	A. Merritt
144	22	Russell Miller
145	22	M. A. Bartter
146	22	Tom Staicar
147	22	Ed Naha
148	21	Charles Sheffield
149	21	David Ketterer
150	21	Stanisław Lem?Stanislaw Lem
151	21	Sharon Jarvis
152	21	Charles Solomon
153	20	James Cawthorn
154	20	Frank Herbert
155	20	Colin Greenland
156	20	Tim O'Reilly
157	19	George E. Slusser
158	19	Eric S. Rabkin
159	19	Douglas A. Mackey
160	19	Leon E. Stover
161	18	Sarah LeFanu
162	18	Kenneth C. Davis
163	18	David Cowart
164	18	Thomas L. Wymer
165	18	David L. Rosheim
166	17	Stephen Hawking
167	17	S. T. Joshi
168	17	Alex Schomburg
169	17	Jon Gustafson
170	15	Mark Willard
171	15	William Stout
172	15	William Service
173	13	Forrest J. Ackerman
174	13	A. W. Strickland
175	1	Robert Anton Wilson

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