After we shared our list of the fifty most inspiring authors in the world [2], [2]we asked our readers to add their favorites. Culled from the responses on pw.org and our Facebook [3] page, here are the results:
| Kim Addonizio | Beckian Fritz Goldberg | Alice Munro |
| Sherman Alexie | Peter Handke | Cees Nooteboom |
| Aharon Appelfeld | Joy Harjo | Naomi Shihab Nye |
| Suzanna Arundhati Roy | Jim Harrison | Mary Oliver |
| Margaret Atwood | Seamus Heaney | Michael Ondaatje |
| Paul Auster | Mark Helprin |
Robert Pinsky |
| Nicholson Baker | Alice Hoffman | Sheenagh Pugh |
| Russell Banks | bell hooks | Adrienne Rich |
| Wendell Berry | Michel Houellebecq | Marilyn Robinson |
| Eric Bogosian | Eduardo Hughes Galeano |
Richard Rodriguez |
| Ray Bradbury | John Irving |
Philip Roth |
| J. M. G. Le Clézio | Kazuo Ishiguro | Carlos Ruiz Zafón |
| Lucille Clifton | Denis Johnson | Scott Russell Sanders |
| Evan Shelby Connell | Edward P. Jones | George Saunders |
| Dennis Cooper | Mary Karr | Ruth Schwartz |
| Wendy Cope | Jamaica Kincaid | Tom Sharpe |
| Edwidge Danticat | Barbara Kingsolver | Joan Silber |
| Marie Darrieussecq | Milan Kundera | Charles Simic |
| Annie Dillard | Jhumpa Lahiri |
José de Sousa Saramago |
| Rita Dove | Wally Lamb |
Mark Strand |
| John Dufresne | Anne Lamott |
Elizabeth Strout |
| Peter Everwine | Li-Young Lee |
Natasha Trethewey |
| Lillian Faderman | Ursula K. Le Guin |
Anne Tyler |
| Neil Gaiman | Jan Heller Levi | William T. Vollmann |
| William H. Gass | Larry McMurtry |
Alice Walker |
| Amy Gerstler | W. S. Merwin |
Rebecca Walker |
| Ellen Gilchrist | Steven Millhauser | Terry Tempest Williams |
| Nikki Giovanni |
Patrick Modiano |
Josef Winkler |
| Natalie Goldberg | Lorrie Moore |
Franz Wright |
| Dean Young |
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