Famous Authors
This list of famous authors are given as a general
reference that will drastically increase your chances of finding
high profit books. The majority of the authors in this list
write fiction books as these tend to be the most collectible and popular for selling online.
There are also certain highly collectible children's and
nonfiction authors.
You may find that some authors on the list
with books under the criteria may not be selling for high prices
at the moment, this is normal and can be expected as the market
changes. When this happens I usually find that a profit can
still be made on the book although not as high. Sometimes it is
more profitable to hold on to the book until the market is in
demand for it again.
This list is organized by author name and edition criteria.
All - Means that all editions are included.
First - Means that only first editions are included.
Pre-[date] - This means that any book before the predate is
included.
Example 1: Smith, John First, pre-80
Translates to: Only First edition books by John Smith
that were published before 1980
Example 2: Smith, John All
Translates to: All books written by John Smith
Example 3: Smith, John First
Translates to: Only First edition books written by John Smith
*Note: This list of authors is not a complete
source of all authors with books worth money, but overall it is
a very good generalized source.
| Authors |
4/12/2008 |
| Last / First |
Edition's |
|
|
| Abbey, Edward |
First, pre 90 |
| Abercrombie, lascelles |
First |
| Adams, Ansel |
All, pre 90 |
| Adams, Douglas |
First, pre 90 |
| Adams, Richard |
First, pre 80 |
| Agee, James |
First |
| Akers, Floyd |
All |
| Alcott, Louisa |
First |
| Alexander, Lloyd |
First, pre 90 |
| Algren, Nelson |
First |
| Allen, Quincy |
First |
| Allingham, Margery |
First, pre 50 |
| Amis, Kingsley |
First, pre 70 |
| Amis, Martin |
First, pre 90 |
| Anderson, Hans |
All, pre 70 |
| Anderson, Poul |
First, pre 70 |
| Angelou, Maya |
First |
| Annabel, Russell |
First |
| Anson, Jay |
First |
| Anthony, Piers |
First |
| Asimov, Isaac |
First |
| Atwood, Margaret |
First |
| Auden, W. H. |
First |
| Auel, Jean |
First, pre 90 |
|
| Baker, Willard |
First |
| Baldwin, James |
First |
| Ballard, J G |
First, pre 90 |
| Banks, Iain |
First, pre 00 |
| Banks, Russell |
First, pre 90 |
| Bannerman, Helen |
All |
| Barker, Cicely |
First |
| Barker, Clive |
All |
| Barnes, Djuna |
First |
| Barnes, Julian |
First |
| Barr, Nevada |
First, pre 90 |
| Barrie, J M |
First, pre 30 |
| Barth, John |
First, pre 80 |
| Barthelme, Donald |
First |
| Baum, Frank |
First |
| Baxter, Stephen |
First, pre 00 |
| Beagle, Peter |
First, pre 90 |
| Beckett, Samuel |
First, pre 60 |
| Bellow, Saul |
First, pre 90 |
| Benchley, Peter |
First, pre 80 |
| Berger, Thomas |
First, pre 80 |
| Bester, Alfred |
First, pre 60 |
| Beston, Henry |
First |
| Blaine, John |
All |
| Blatty, William |
First |
| Bloch, Robert |
First |
| Block, Lawrence |
First |
| Bolton, Judy |
First |
| Bowles, Paul |
First, pre 90 |
| Boyd, James |
First |
| Boyle, T. |
First, pre 90 |
| Bradbury, Ray |
First |
| Bradford, Barbara |
First, pre 00 |
| Brant, Rick |
All |
| Brautigan, Richard |
First |
| Brent-dyer, Elinor |
First |
| Brewster, Biff |
First |
| Brin, David |
First, pre 90 |
| Brooks, Terry |
First |
| Brown, Dan |
First |
| Brown, Fredric |
First |
| Brown, Paul |
First, pre 60 |
| Brunner, John |
First |
| Buck, Pearl |
First |
| Buckeridge, Anthony |
First |
| Bukowski, Charles |
First |
| Burbank, Luther |
First |
| Burgess, Anthony |
First, pre 70 |
| Burgess, Thornton |
First |
| Burke, James Lee |
First, pre 00 |
| Burks, Arthur |
First |
| Burnett, Frances |
First |
| Burroughs, Edgar |
First |
| Burroughs, John |
First |
| Burroughs, William |
First |
| Byatt, A. S. |
First, pre 95 |
|
| Cadell, Elizabeth |
First |
| Cain, James M. |
First |
| Cain, Paul |
First |
| Caldwell, Erskine |
First |
| Cameron, Eleanor |
First |
| Campbell, John |
First |
| Capote, Truman |
First |
| Card, Orson |
First |
| Carver, Sonora |
First |
| Carroll, Lewis |
First |
| Carson, Rachel |
First |
| Chabon, Michael |
First |
| Chagall, Marc |
All |
| Chambers, Robert |
First |
| Chan, Charlie |
First |
| Chandler, Raymond |
First, pre 50 |
| Chapman, Allen |
All |
| Charnas, Suzy |
First |
| Charteris, Leslie |
First |
| Cherryh, C. J. |
First |
| Child, Julia |
First |
| Christie, Agatha |
First, pre 90 |
| Churchill, Winston |
All |
| Clancy, Tom |
First |
| Clark, Larry |
First |
| Clark, Mary Higgins |
First |
| Clarke, Arthur |
First, pre 70 |
| Clavell, James |
First, pre 90 |
| Clemens, Samuel |
First |
| Clement, Hal |
First |
| Cocteau, Jean |
First |
| Coleman, Elizabeth |
First |
| Connelly, Michael |
First |
| Conrad, Joseph |
First |
| Conroy, Pat |
First |
| Cookson, Catherine |
First |
| Coolidge, Calvin |
First |
| Cornwell, Bernard |
First |
| Cornwell, Patricia |
First |
| Corvo, Baron |
First |
| Cosulich, Bernice |
First |
| Crais, Robert |
First |
| Crane, Hart |
First |
| Crane, Stephen |
First |
| Creeley, Robert |
First, pre 70 |
| Crichton, Michael |
First |
| Crompton, Richmal |
First |
| Crowe, Cameron |
First |
| Crowley, Aleister |
First |
| Crowley, John |
First |
| Crumley, James |
First |
| Cussler, Clive |
First |
|
| Dahl, Roald |
First |
| Dali, Salvador |
First |
| Dare, Dan |
First |
| Darwin, Charles |
All |
| Davies, Robertson |
First |
| Dawkins, Richard |
First, pre 90 |
| De Camp, L. |
First |
| Deaver, Jeffery |
First |
| Deighton, Len |
First, pre 70 |
| DeMille, Nelson |
First |
| Derleth, August |
First |
| Dexter, Colin |
First |
| Dick, Philip |
First |
| Dickens, Charles |
All |
| Dinesen, Isak |
First |
| Disney, Walt |
Pre 60 |
| Dixon, Franklin |
First |
| Dobie, J. |
First |
| Dodgson, Charles |
All |
| Doyle, Arthur |
First |
| Dr. Seuss |
All |
| Drinkwater, John |
First |
| Dulac, Edmund |
First |
| Dunbar, Paul |
First |
| Dunning, John |
First, pre 00 |
| Dunsany, Lord |
First |
| Durrell, Lawrence |
First |
| Dwyer, K R |
First |
|
| Earhart, Amelia |
First |
| Eberhart, Richard |
First |
| Eckert, Allan |
First, pre 90 |
| Eco, Umberto |
First |
| Eddison, E. R. |
First |
| Eddy, Mary |
All |
| Eggleston, William |
All |
| Einstein, Albert |
All |
| Eisenhower, Dwight |
First |
| Eliot, T. S. |
First |
| Ellison, Harlan |
First |
| Ellison, Ralph |
First, pre 90 |
| Emerson, Ralph |
First |
| Enright, Elizabeth |
First |
| Eugenides, Jeffrey |
First |
| Evanovich, Janet |
First |
|
| Fante, John |
First, pre 80 |
| Farley, Walter |
First, pre 70 |
| Farmer, Philip |
First, pre 80 |
| Fast, Howard |
First |
| Faulkner, William |
All |
| Feist, Raymond |
First, pre 90 |
| Feral, Rex |
First |
| Finney, Jack |
First |
| Fisher, Harrison |
First |
| Fisher, Vardis |
First |
| Fitzgerald, F. |
First |
| Fleming, Ian |
First |
| Foote, Shelby |
All |
| Ford, Gerald R |
First |
| Ford, Richard |
First |
| Ford, Whitey |
First, pre 70 |
| Forester, C. S. |
First, pre 50 |
| Fowles, John |
First |
| Francis, Dick |
First, pre 70 |
| Frazier, Charles |
First |
| Friedlander, Lee |
First |
| Frost, Robert |
All |
| Furst, Alan |
First, pre 90 |
|
| Gabaldon, Diana |
First |
| Gaddis, William |
First |
| Gaines, Ernest J. |
First |
| Gallico, Paul |
First |
| Garcia, Marquez |
First |
| Gardner, Erle |
First |
| Gardner, John |
First |
| Garis, Howard |
First |
| Garland, Hamlin |
First |
| Garwood, Julie |
First |
| Gass, William |
First |
| Gemmell, David |
First, pre 90 |
| Gibson, William |
First |
| Ginsberg, Allen |
First |
| Golding, William |
First |
| Goldman, William |
First |
| Gordimer, Nadine |
First |
| Gouldl, Stephen |
First |
| Grafton, Sue |
First, pre 90 |
| Graham, Benjamin |
All |
| Grant, Kenneth |
First |
| Grant, Ulysses S |
First |
| Greenaway, Kate |
All |
| Greene, Graham |
First |
| Grey, Zane |
First |
| Grisham, John |
First, pre 00 |
| Groom, Winston |
First |
| Gruelle, Johnny |
First |
|
| Hahn, Emily |
First, pre 40 |
| Haldeman, Joe |
First |
| Haley, Alex |
First |
| Hamilton, Peter |
First |
| Hammerstein, Oscar |
First, pre 50 |
| Hammett, Dashiell |
First |
| Hansen, Chuck |
First |
| Harburg, E |
First |
| Hardy,Thomas |
First |
| Harris, Joel |
First |
| Harris, Mark |
First |
| Harris, Thomas |
First |
| Harrison, Jim |
First |
| Heaney, Seamus |
First |
| Hearn, Lafcadio |
First |
| Hecht, Ben |
First |
| Heinlein, Robert |
First |
| Heller, Joseph |
First, pre 75 |
| Hemingway, Ernest |
First |
| Herbert, Frank |
First, pre 80 |
| Hersey, John |
First |
| Hesse, Hermann |
First, pre 60 |
| Hiaasen, Carl |
First |
| Higgins, Jack |
First |
| Highsmith, Patricia |
First |
| Hill, Napoleon |
First |
| Hillerman, Tony |
First, pre 90 |
| Howard, Robert |
First, pre 90 |
| Hubbard, Elbert |
First |
| Hubbard, L. Ron |
First |
| Hughart, Barry |
First, pre 90 |
| Hughes, Langston |
First, pre 60 |
| Hughes, Ted |
First |
| Hunter, J |
First |
| Hunter, Stephen |
First |
| Hurston, Zora |
First, pre 60 |
| Huxley, Aldous |
First |
|
| Irving, John |
First |
| Isherwood, Christopher |
First |
|
| Jackson, Shirley |
First |
| James, Henry |
First |
| James, Will |
First |
| Johns, W.E. |
First |
| Johnson, James |
First |
| Johnson, Lyndon |
First |
| Johnson, Martin |
First |
| Jones, Bobby |
First, pre 70 |
| Jones, Edward |
First |
| Jordan, Robert |
First |
| Joyce, James |
First |
|
| Kay, Susan |
First |
| Keene, Carolyn |
First |
| Keith, Elmer |
First |
| Kelland, Clarence |
First |
| Keller, Helen |
First |
| Kent, Rockwell |
First |
| Kenyon, Sherrilyn |
First |
| Kerouac, Jack |
First |
| Kesey, Ken |
First, pre 90 |
| King, Stephen |
First |
| Kingsley, Charles |
First |
| Kinsella, W |
First, pre 90 |
| Kipling, Rudyard |
First |
| Koestler, Arthur |
First |
| Koontz, Dean |
First |
|
| Lampman, Evelyn |
First, pre 70 |
| Laurents, Arthur |
First |
| Lawrence, D. H. |
First |
| Lawrence, T. E. |
First |
| Lawson, Robert |
First |
| Laymon, Richard |
First |
| Leavitt, Dudley |
First |
| Le Carre, John |
First |
| Lee, Harper |
First |
| Lehane, Dennis |
First |
| Leiber, Fritz |
First |
| L'Engle, Madeleine |
First |
| Leonard, Elmore |
First |
| Levin, Ira |
First |
| Lewis, Alfred |
First |
| Lewis, C. S. |
First |
| Lewis, Sinclair |
First |
| Lewis, Wyndham |
First |
| Ligotti, Thomas |
First |
| Lindbergh, Charles |
First |
| London, Jack |
First |
| Long, Frank |
First |
| Lovelace, Maud |
First |
| Lucas, George |
First |
| Ludlum, Robert |
First |
| Lumley, Brian |
First |
| Lyndon, Barre |
First |
|
| Macardle, Dorothy |
First |
| MacDonald, John D. |
First |
| MacFall, Haldane |
First |
| Machen, Arthur |
First |
| Maclean, Norman |
First, pre 80 |
| Mailer, Norman |
First |
| Malamud, Bernard |
First |
| Mann, Thomas |
First |
| Mantle, Mickey |
First |
| Marquez, Gabriel |
First |
| Martel, Yann |
First |
| Martin, George |
First |
| Matthiessen, Peter |
First, pre 90 |
| Maurier, Daphne |
First |
| Maxwell, William |
First, pre 90 |
| McBain, Ed |
First |
| McCaffrey, Anne |
First |
| McCammon, Robert |
First |
| McCarthy, Cormac |
First |
| Mclean, Norman |
First |
| McCloskey, Robert |
First |
| McCullers, Carson |
First |
| McMurtry, Larry |
First, pre 90 |
| McPhee, John |
First, pre 90 |
| Meader, Stephen |
First |
| Melville, Herman |
First |
| Merton, Thomas |
First |
| Michener, James |
First |
| Middleton, Stanley |
All |
| Miller, Arthur |
First |
| Miller, Henry |
First |
| Milne, A. A. |
First |
| Mitchell, Margaret |
First |
| Moorcock, Michael |
First |
| Morgan, Claire |
First |
| Morrison, Toni |
First, pre 90 |
| Muir, John |
First |
| Mulford, Clarence |
First |
| Mundy, Talbot |
First |
| Murdoch, Iris |
First, pre 80 |
| Murphy, Audie |
First |
|
| Nabokov, Vladimir |
First, pre 60 |
| Naipaul, V |
First |
| Nathan, Robert |
First |
| Neruda, Pablo |
First |
| Newell, Peter |
First |
| Nickerson, William |
All |
| Nin, Anais |
First |
| Niven, Larry |
First, pre 90 |
| Nolan, William |
First, pre 70 |
| Norton, Andre |
First, pre 90 |
|
| O'Brian, Patrick |
First, pre 90 |
| O'Brien, Tim |
First, pre 90 |
| O'Connor, Flannery |
First |
| Ondaatje, Michael |
First |
| O'Neill, Eugene |
First |
| Orwell, George |
First |
|
| Palahniuk, Chuck |
First |
| Parker, Robert |
First |
| Parker, T Jefferson |
First |
| Parrish, Maxfield |
First |
| Passos, John |
First, pre 90 |
| Patchen, Kenneth |
First |
| Patterson, James |
First |
| Peary, Robert E |
First |
| Penrose, Margaret |
First |
| Percy, Walker |
First |
| Percy, William |
First |
| Perry, Thomas |
First |
| Peters, Elizabeth |
First |
| Plath, Sylvia |
First |
| Podhajsky, Alois |
First, pre 70 |
| Poe, Edgar |
First |
| Pohl, Frederik |
First |
| Potter, Beatrix |
All |
| Pound, Ezra |
First, pre 50 |
| Powell, Anthony |
First, pre 80 |
| Powers, Tim |
First |
| Pullman, Philip |
First |
| Pratchett, Terry |
First |
| Puzo, Mario |
First, pre 70 |
| Pynchon, Thomas |
First |
|
| Queen, Ellery |
First |
| Quigley, Carroll |
First |
|
| Rackham, Arthur |
First |
| Rand, Ayn |
First |
| Rawls, Wilson |
First, pre 80 |
| Reagan, Ronald |
First |
| Remarque, Erich |
First |
| Rey, Lester |
First |
| Rhodes, Richard |
First, pre 90 |
| Rice, Anne |
First, pre 90 |
| Robbins, Tom |
First |
| Roberts, Kenneth |
First, pre 40 |
| Roberts, Nora |
First |
| Robinson, Kim |
First, pre 90 |
| Robinson, Marilynne |
First |
| Rockwell, Norman |
First, pre 80 |
| Rodgers, Richard |
First, pre 70 |
| Roethke, Theodore |
First |
| Rohmer, Sax |
First |
| Roquelaure, A |
First |
| Roth, Philip |
First |
| Rowling, J. K. |
First |
| Ruark, Robert |
First |
| Rushdie, Salman |
First, pre 90 |
| Russell, Charles |
First |
| Russo, Richard |
First |
|
| Sadler, Marie |
First |
| Sailor, Charles |
First |
| Salinger, J. D. |
First |
| Sandburg, Carl |
First |
| Sandford, John |
First |
| Sandoz, Maurice |
First |
| Sarg, Tony |
First |
| Saroyan, William |
First |
| Sartre, Jean-Paul |
First |
| Saville, Malcolm |
First |
| Schaefer, Jack |
First, pre 60 |
| Schulz, Charles |
First |
| Schwartz, Delmore |
First |
| Sendak, Maurice |
First |
| Seredy, Kate |
First |
| Sewell, Helen |
First |
| Shaara, Michael |
First, pre 90 |
| Shakespeare, William |
All |
| Shea, Michael |
First |
| Shelley, Mary |
First |
| Sherman, William |
First |
| Shiel, M. P. |
First |
| Shute, Nevil |
First |
| Silverstein, Shel |
First, pre 90 |
| Simak, Clifford |
First, pre 60 |
| Simmons, Dan |
First, pre 90 |
| Sinclair, Upton |
First |
| Smith, Clark |
First |
| Smith, F. |
First |
| Smith, Thorne |
First |
| Smith, Wilbur |
First, pre 90 |
| Snow, Jack |
First |
| Spillane, Mickey |
First, pre 70 |
| Stafford, William |
First |
| Staunton, Schuyler |
First |
| Stegner, Wallace |
First, pre 90 |
| Stein, Gertrude |
First |
| Steinbeck, John |
First |
| Stephenson, Neal |
First |
| Stevens, Wallace |
First |
| Stewart, George |
First, pre 50 |
| Stoker, Bram |
First |
| Stone, Robert |
First |
| Stout, Rex |
First, pre 80 |
| Stowe, Harriet |
First |
| Straub, Peter |
First |
| Stuart, Jesse |
First |
| Swift, Jonathan |
First |
| Swift, Tom |
First, pre 50 |
| Szyk, Arthur |
First |
|
| Tate, James |
First |
| Taylor, Deems |
First |
| Tenn, William |
First, pre 60 |
| Terhune, Albert |
First |
| Theroux, Paul |
First |
| Thomas, Dylan |
First |
| Thompson, Hunter |
First |
| Thompson, Ruth |
First |
| Thurber, James |
First, pre 90 |
| Tolkien, J. R. R. |
First |
| Tuck, Davis |
First |
| Tudor, Tasha |
First |
| Twain, Mark |
First |
| Tyler, Anne |
First |
|
| Updike, John |
First, pre 90 |
|
| Van Doren, Carl |
First |
| Van Dyne, Edith |
First |
| Van Vechten, Carl |
First |
| Vance, Jack |
First, pre 90 |
| Verne, Jules |
All |
| Veryan, Patricia |
First |
| Vinge, Joan |
First, pre 80 |
| Vonnegut, Kurt |
First |
|
| Wain, Louis |
All |
| Walker, Alice |
First |
| Wambaugh, Joseph |
First |
| Ward, Lynd |
First, pre 50 |
| Warhol, Andy |
First |
| Warren, Robert |
First |
| Washington, Booker |
First |
| Waugh, Evelyn |
First, pre 50 |
| Welch, James |
First |
| Wells, H.G. |
First |
| Welty, Eudora |
First, pre 90 |
| West, Nathanael |
First |
| Wharton, Edith |
First |
| White, E.B. |
First |
| White, James |
First |
| White, Randy |
First |
| Whitman, Walt |
First |
| Whittemore, Edward |
First |
| Williamson, Henry |
First, pre 70 |
| Williams, Tennessee |
First |
| Willis, Connie |
First |
| Wilson, Woodrow |
First |
| Wirt, Mildred |
First |
| Wodehouse, P.G. |
First |
| Wolfe, Gene |
First, pre 90 |
| Wolfe, Tom |
First, pre 90 |
| Woods, Stuart |
First |
| Woolf, Virginia |
First, pre 50 |
| Wouk, Herman |
First, pre 90 |
| Wright, Dare |
First |
| Wright, Harold Bell |
First |
| Wright, Richard |
First |
|
| Yeats, William |
First |
|
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