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Rank	Topic	Wikipedia views
1	Harry S. Truman	12,501
2	Mark Twain	10,816
3	Jonathan Franzen	9,374
4	T. S. Eliot	5,201
5	William S. Burroughs	3,963
6	Maya Angelou	3,786
7	Tennessee Williams	3,733
8	Langston Hughes	3,671
9	Laura Ingalls Wilder	3,523
10	Robert A. Heinlein	3,335
11	Dale Carnegie	1,613
12	Laurell K. Hamilton	1,209
13	Kate Chopin	937
14	Rose Wilder Lane	658
15	Stephen Hunter	458
16	Margaret Weis	381
17	Sara Teasdale	291
18	C. J. Cherryh	288
19	William Inge	273
20	Jane Smiley	259
21	Mark Bowden	246
22	Marianne Moore	243
23	William H. Gass	203
24	Patrick Hemingway	202
25	Daniel Woodrell	195
26	Chester Himes	191
27	Elijah Parish Lovejoy	185
28	Herbert Asbury	182
29	Kay Thompson	157
30	Walter J. Ong	156
31	William Least Heat-Moon	150
32	Faye Kellerman	148
33	Ridley Pearson	148
34	A. E. Hotchner	121
35	Edgar Snow	120
36	Richard Rhodes	112
37	Eugene Field	109
38	William Sleator	107
39	Oberon Zell-Ravenheart	102
40	William F. Nolan	98
41	Agnes Smedley	94
42	Lester Dent	89
43	Ramesh Ponnuru	85
44	Winston Churchill (novelist)	83
45	Michael Wallis	81
46	Patricia McKissack	81
47	Dennis L. McKiernan	76
48	Qiu Xiaolong	69
49	Howard Nemerov	68
50	Fannie Hurst	68
51	Stanley Elkin	67
52	Frank Stanford	62
53	Ron Powers	59
54	Frederick Seidel	58
55	John Neihardt	57
56	John Lutz	56
57	Harold Brodkey	49
58	Zoë Akins	48
59	Quincy Troupe	48
60	Terry Teachout	44
61	Sally Benson	42
62	Evan S. Connell	41
63	Dorothy B. Hughes	38
64	Charles G. Finney	37
65	John Miles Foley	36
66	Louis Daniel Brodsky	34
67	Carl Phillips	34
68	Robert C. Tucker	33
69	Abram Joseph Ryan	31
70	Scott Phillips (writer)	30
71	Vance Randolph	26
72	Sherod Santos	26
73	Mona Van Duyn	25
74	Naomi Long Madgett	25
75	Frank Luther Mott	21
76	Keith W. Nolan	21
77	Charles Griffith Ross	20
78	Henry Bellamann	20
79	Howard Schwartz (writer and editor)	20
80	Sue Hubbell	19
81	Robert Moore Williams	19
82	Paulette Jiles	17
83	Edwin Arden	17
84	Lorenzo Greene	15
85	Bob Broeg	15
86	Mike Long (author)	15
87	Elaine Viets	14
88	Walter Williams (journalist)	14
89	John R. Musick	14
90	Josephine Johnson	13
91	Homer Croy	13
92	William F. Wu	13
93	Richard Lockridge	13
94	John Gallaher	13
95	Kevin Prufer	12
96	Pat Schneider	12
97	Tony Tost	12
98	Stephen Morehouse Avery	12
99	Orrick Glenday Johns	11
100	Augustus Thomas	10
101	Robert Vaughan (author)	10
102	George Sibley Johns	10
103	Russell Davis (writer)	10
104	Jonis Agee	10
105	Ron Wallace	10
106	Giles A. Lutz	9
107	J. Breckenridge Ellis	9
108	Murray Bishoff	8
109	Joe McGuff	8
110	Emily Newell Blair	8
111	John Wesley Emerson	8
112	Teri Clemens	8
113	G. S. Sharat Chandra	7
114	Stacey Levine	7
115	Candace O'Connor	7
116	Mark W. Tiedemann	6
117	Lee Ann Sontheimer Murphy	6
118	Sean Quinn (writer)	6
119	Alfred Henry Spink	less than 5 views
120	Maynard C. Krueger	less than 5 views
121	James M. Scott	less than 5 views
122	Amos Fries	less than 5 views
123	Michelle Embree	less than 5 views
124	James Whitehead (poet)	less than 5 views

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