sylviachangdou-prayer/stylematch-index · Datasets at Hugging Face

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0	de	Adalbert Stifter	150	3	[ "literary" ]	Austrian writer, painter, and educator; Indian Summer, Rock Crystal; master of landscape ethics and attentive realism	mineral-calm, landscape-devout, microscopically patient, ethically ordered	formal
1	de	Arthur Schnitzler	150	3	[ "literary" ]	Viennese playwright and novelist; Reigen, Casanova's Homecoming; anatomist of desire	clinical, erotic, interior, disenchanted	formal
2	de	Clara Viebig	200	4	[ "literary" ]			formal
3	de	E. T. A. Hoffmann	150	3	[ "literary" ]	German Romantic fantasist; The Golden Pot, tales of the uncanny	grotesque, musical, uncanny, doubled	formal
4	de	Franz Kafka	143	3	[ "literary" ]	German-language novelist and short-story writer; The Trial, The Metamorphosis; modernist emblem	absurd, claustrophobic, bureaucratic, dreamlike	formal
5	de	Friedrich Nietzsche	150	3	[ "literary" ]	German philosopher and philologist; Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil; radical critic of morality	aphoristic, incendiary, prophetic, hammer-struck	formal
6	de	Friedrich Schiller	150	3	[ "literary" ]			formal
7	de	Gerhart Hauptmann	150	3	[ "literary" ]	German dramatist and novelist; The Weavers, Before Sunrise; Nobel Prize in Literature 1912	naturalistic, proletarian, storm-laden, socially searing	formal
8	de	Gotthold Ephraim Lessing	150	3	[ "literary" ]			formal
9	de	Gustav Freytag	150	3	[ "literary" ]			formal
10	de	Gustav Meyrink	224	5	[ "literary" ]			formal
11	de	Heinrich Heine	139	3	[ "literary" ]	German poet and essayist; Book of Songs, the Harz Journey	witty, lyrical, barbed, self-ironizing	formal
12	de	Heinrich Mann	242	6	[ "literary" ]			exploratory
13	de	Heinrich von Kleist	150	3	[ "literary" ]			formal
14	de	Hermann Hesse	150	3	[ "literary" ]	German-Swiss novelist; Siddhartha, Demian; Nobel laureate of the inward path	meditative, seeking, parabolic, serene	formal
15	de	Hermann Sudermann	200	4	[ "literary" ]			formal
16	de	Jakob Wassermann	300	6	[ "literary" ]			formal
17	de	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	150	3	[ "literary" ]	German writer, thinker, and statesman; Faust, The Sorrows of Young Werther; Weimar polymath	lyrical, philosophical, expansive, classical	formal
18	de	Karl May	125	3	[ "literary" ]			formal
19	de	Ludwig Ganghofer	257	6	[ "literary" ]			formal
20	de	Ludwig Tieck	150	3	[ "literary" ]			formal
21	de	Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach	200	4	[ "literary" ]			formal
22	de	Paul Heyse	150	3	[ "literary" ]			formal
23	de	Rainer Maria Rilke	150	3	[ "literary" ]	Prague-born German poet; The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge	inward, imagistic, elegiac, luminous	formal
24	de	Ricarda Huch	284	6	[ "literary" ]			formal
25	de	Stefan Zweig	144	3	[ "literary" ]	Austrian novelist and biographer; Amok, chess and passion novellas	feverish, psychological, polished, propulsive	formal
26	de	Theodor Fontane	115	3	[ "literary" ]	German realist; Effi Briest; ironic chronicler of Prussian society	conversational, ironic, poised, socially acute	formal
27	de	Theodor Storm	132	3	[ "literary" ]	North German novella master; Immensee, Der Schimmelreiter	elegiac, coastal, framed, quietly tragic	formal
28	de	Thomas Mann	115	3	[ "literary" ]	German novelist and essayist; The Magic Mountain, Buddenbrooks; Nobel laureate of bourgeois decline	ironic, symphonic, cerebral, decadently precise	formal
29	de	Wilhelm Hauff	300	6	[ "literary" ]			formal
30	de	Wilhelm Raabe	140	3	[ "literary" ]			formal
31	en	Abraham Lincoln	370	9	[ "rhetorical" ]	16th U.S. president; led the Union through the Civil War and issued the Emancipation Proclamation	plainspoken, solemn, aphoristic, moral	formal
32	en	Agatha Christie	600	17	[ "literary" ]	English detective novelist; Hercule Poirot and early mysteries; best-selling novelist of all time	plotted, brisk, tidy, misdirecting	formal
33	en	Algernon Blackwood	273	6	[ "literary" ]			formal
34	en	Alice Brown	300	6	[ "literary" ]			formal
35	en	Ambrose Bierce	247	6	[ "literary" ]			formal
36	en	Andrew Jackson	50	1	[ "rhetorical" ]	Seventh U.S. president and military commander; transformed mass-party politics amid coercive Indigenous removal	pugnacious, populist, personal, command-heavy	exploratory
37	en	Andrew Johnson	50	1	[ "rhetorical" ]	Seventeenth U.S. president; led early Reconstruction and became the first president impeached	defiant, extemporaneous, personalistic, confrontational	exploratory
38	en	Anna Katharine Green	300	6	[ "literary" ]			formal
39	en	Anthony Hope	274	6	[ "literary" ]			formal
40	en	Anthony Trollope	600	83	[ "literary" ]	English novelist and civil servant; the Barsetshire and Palliser series; chronicler of institutions	conversational, patient, institutional, dryly amused	formal
41	en	Arnold Bennett	247	6	[ "literary" ]			formal
42	en	Arthur Conan Doyle	600	80	[ "literary" ]	Scottish writer and physician; creator of Sherlock Holmes; architect of modern detective fiction	deductive, brisk, atmospheric, clue-driven	formal
43	en	Arthur Machen	300	6	[ "literary" ]			formal
44	en	Barack Obama	131	3	[ "rhetorical" ]	44th U.S. president, constitutional lawyer, and author; Nobel Peace Prize	measured, reflective, inclusive, soaring	formal
45	en	Benjamin Harrison	150	3	[ "rhetorical" ]	Twenty-third U.S. president; oversaw antitrust legislation and expansion of federal activity	precise, lawyerly, chilly, policy-dense	formal
46	en	Bill Clinton	61	2	[ "rhetorical" ]	Forty-second U.S. president; New Democrat associated with economic expansion and welfare reform	empathetic, policy-fluent, improvisational, triangulating	exploratory
47	en	Booker T. Washington	50	1	[ "rhetorical" ]	American educator and orator; Up from Slavery, Atlanta Exposition address	pragmatic, anecdotal, conciliatory, industrious	exploratory
48	en	Booth Tarkington	300	6	[ "literary" ]			formal
49	en	Bram Stoker	550	11	[ "literary" ]	Irish novelist; Dracula; gothic horror in documentary form	epistolary, gothic, suspenseful, atmospheric	formal
50	en	Calvin Coolidge	120	3	[ "rhetorical" ]	Thirtieth U.S. president; symbol of small-government conservatism during the 1920s	laconic, dry, restrained, civic-moral	formal
51	en	Charles Dickens	600	93	[ "literary" ]	English novelist and social critic; Oliver Twist, Great Expectations; Victorian social realism	expansive, theatrical, compassionate, satirical	formal
52	en	Charles Reade	300	6	[ "literary" ]			formal
53	en	Charlotte Bronte	100	3	[ "literary" ]	English novelist and poet; Jane Eyre, Villette; Gothic innovator of female interiority	ardent, intimate, gothic, fiercely self-possessed	exploratory
54	en	D. H. Lawrence	600	37	[ "literary" ]	English novelist and poet; Sons and Lovers, Women in Love; explorer of desire and industrial modernity	sensual, volcanic, instinctive, polemically alive	formal
55	en	Donald Trump	10	1	[ "rhetorical" ]	American businessman and political figure; 45th and 47th U.S. president	blunt, repetitive, combative, performative	exploratory
56	en	Dwight D. Eisenhower	50	1	[ "rhetorical" ]	Thirty-fourth U.S. president and Allied commander; managed Cold War containment and interstate-highway expansion	measured, military-calm, consensus-minded, cautionary	exploratory
57	en	E. M. Forster	555	12	[ "literary" ]	English novelist and essayist; A Passage to India, Howards End; critic of class and imperial distance	lucid, humane, ironic, connection-seeking	formal
58	en	E. Nesbit	600	38	[ "literary" ]	English children's novelist; Five Children and It, The Railway Children	playful, brisk, wry, matter-of-fact magical	formal
59	en	E. Phillips Oppenheim	300	6	[ "literary" ]			formal
60	en	Edgar Allan Poe	600	23	[ "literary" ]	American poet, short-story writer, and critic; pioneering detective and gothic fiction	macabre, hypnotic, ornate, claustrophobic	formal
61	en	Edgar Rice Burroughs	300	6	[ "literary" ]			formal
62	en	Edith Wharton	600	50	[ "literary" ]	American novelist and designer; The Age of Innocence, The House of Mirth; first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction	coolly observant, socially surgical, polished, elegiac	formal
63	en	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	600	27	[ "literary" ]	English novelist and biographer; North and South, Cranford; interpreter of industrial conflict	sympathetic, socially alert, domestic, quietly panoramic	formal
64	en	Elizabeth von Arnim	300	6	[ "literary" ]			formal
65	en	Ernest Hemingway	225	5	[ "literary" ]	American novelist and journalist; The Sun Also Rises, The Old Man and the Sea; Nobel laureate	spare, stoic, muscular, understated	formal
66	en	F. Scott Fitzgerald	350	7	[ "literary" ]	American novelist; The Great Gatsby, Tender Is the Night; chronicler of Jazz Age glamour and loss	glittering, wistful, romantic, disillusioned	formal
67	en	Frances Hodgson Burnett	600	46	[ "literary" ]	British-American novelist and playwright; The Secret Garden, A Little Princess; classic children's storyteller	tender, restorative, garden-bright, sentimental	formal
68	en	Frank Norris	300	6	[ "literary" ]			formal
69	en	Frank R. Stockton	244	6	[ "literary" ]			formal
70	en	Franklin D. Roosevelt	136	4	[ "rhetorical" ]	32nd U.S. president; New Deal architect and wartime leader	reassuring, pragmatic, intimate, commanding	formal
71	en	Franklin Pierce	50	1	[ "rhetorical" ]	Fourteenth U.S. president; administration deepened sectional conflict through the Kansas-Nebraska era	ornamental, conciliatory, party-loyal, evasive	exploratory
72	en	Frederick Douglass	131	3	[ "rhetorical" ]	American abolitionist and orator; escaped slavery to become a leading public voice	searing, cadenced, indicting, dignified	formal
73	en	G. K. Chesterton	600	59	[ "literary" ]	English essayist and novelist; Father Brown stories, Orthodoxy; master of paradox	paradoxical, jovial, aphoristic, combative	formal
74	en	Gene Stratton-Porter	220	6	[ "literary" ]			formal
75	en	George Eliot	600	18	[ "literary" ]	English novelist; Middlemarch, Silas Marner; psychological realism	analytical, humane, morally searching, panoramic	formal
76	en	George Gissing	300	6	[ "literary" ]			formal
77	en	George MacDonald	600	64	[ "literary" ]	Scottish author and minister; Phantastes, The Princess and the Goblin; formative fantasy writer	mystical, fairy-lit, allegorical, childlike-wise	formal
78	en	George Meredith	300	6	[ "literary" ]			formal
79	en	George W. Bush	50	1	[ "rhetorical" ]	Forty-third U.S. president; led after the September 11 attacks and launched wars in Afghanistan and Iraq	plainspoken, moral-binary, folksy, faith-inflected	exploratory
80	en	George Washington	100	2	[ "rhetorical" ]	First U.S. president and Revolutionary War commander; established key precedents for the presidency	grave, republican, restrained, duty-bound	exploratory
81	en	Gerald Ford	50	1	[ "rhetorical" ]	Thirty-eighth U.S. president; restored procedural stability after Watergate and pardoned Richard Nixon	plain, healing, unpretentious, institution-steadying	exploratory
82	en	Gertrude Atherton	300	6	[ "literary" ]			formal
83	en	Grover Cleveland	150	3	[ "rhetorical" ]	Twenty-second and twenty-fourth U.S. president; advocate of limited government and executive independence	blunt, fiscally austere, veto-minded, moralizing	formal
84	en	H. G. Wells	600	77	[ "literary" ]	English novelist and social thinker; The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds; pioneer of scientific romance	speculative, brisk, satirical, future-facing	formal
85	en	H. Rider Haggard	248	6	[ "literary" ]			formal
86	en	Hamlin Garland	300	6	[ "literary" ]			formal
87	en	Harold Frederic	300	6	[ "literary" ]			formal
88	en	Harry S. Truman	50	1	[ "rhetorical" ]	Thirty-third U.S. president; ended World War II and shaped the early Cold War order	plainspoken, decisive, homespun, combative	exploratory
89	en	Henry James	600	114	[ "literary" ]	American-British novelist; The Portrait of a Lady, The Ambassadors; master of psychological point of view	subtle, ceremonious, psychologically coiled, finely shaded	formal
90	en	Herbert Hoover	50	1	[ "rhetorical" ]	Thirty-first U.S. president, engineer, and humanitarian; led during the onset of the Great Depression	technical, voluntarist, managerial, emotionally distant	exploratory
91	en	Herman Melville	600	18	[ "literary" ]	American novelist and poet; Moby-Dick, Bartleby; visionary chronicler of obsession and the sea	biblical, oceanic, digressive, metaphysically charged	formal
92	en	Israel Zangwill	300	6	[ "literary" ]			formal
93	en	J. K. Rowling	50	1	[ "literary" ]	British novelist and screenwriter; Harry Potter series, The Casual Vacancy; creator of a globally influential fantasy world	myth-making, plot-propulsive, school-gothic, morally legible	exploratory
94	en	Jack London	600	53	[ "literary" ]	American novelist and journalist; The Call of the Wild, Martin Eden; adventure naturalist	propulsive, elemental, hard-bitten, survivalist	formal
95	en	James Baldwin	600	15	[ "literary" ]	American novelist and essayist; Giovanni's Room, The Fire Next Time; civil-rights intellectual	incisive, eloquent, intimate, prophetic	formal
96	en	James Buchanan	50	1	[ "rhetorical" ]	Fifteenth U.S. president and diplomat; presided over the accelerating secession crisis	legalistic, temporizing, formal, status-quo bound	exploratory
97	en	James Joyce	241	5	[ "literary" ]	Irish novelist and modernist; Ulysses, Dubliners; radical stream-of-consciousness	experimental, polyphonic, allusive, labyrinthine	formal
98	en	James K. Polk	50	1	[ "rhetorical" ]	Eleventh U.S. president; oversaw major territorial expansion and the Mexican-American War	goal-driven, meticulous, expansionist, administratively spare	exploratory
99	en	James Madison	50	1	[ "rhetorical" ]	Fourth U.S. president; principal architect of the Constitution and Bill of Rights	constitutional, compressed, analytical, faction-aware	exploratory

0

de

Adalbert Stifter

150

3

[ "literary" ]

Austrian writer, painter, and educator; Indian Summer, Rock Crystal; master of landscape ethics and attentive realism

mineral-calm, landscape-devout, microscopically patient, ethically ordered

formal

1

de

Arthur Schnitzler

150

3

[ "literary" ]

Viennese playwright and novelist; Reigen, Casanova's Homecoming; anatomist of desire

clinical, erotic, interior, disenchanted

formal

2

de

Clara Viebig

200

4

[ "literary" ]

formal

3

de

E. T. A. Hoffmann

150

3

[ "literary" ]

German Romantic fantasist; The Golden Pot, tales of the uncanny

grotesque, musical, uncanny, doubled

formal

4

de

Franz Kafka

143

3

[ "literary" ]

German-language novelist and short-story writer; The Trial, The Metamorphosis; modernist emblem

absurd, claustrophobic, bureaucratic, dreamlike

formal

5

de

Friedrich Nietzsche

150

3

[ "literary" ]

German philosopher and philologist; Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil; radical critic of morality

aphoristic, incendiary, prophetic, hammer-struck

formal

6

de

Friedrich Schiller

150

3

[ "literary" ]

formal

7

de

Gerhart Hauptmann

150

3

[ "literary" ]

German dramatist and novelist; The Weavers, Before Sunrise; Nobel Prize in Literature 1912

naturalistic, proletarian, storm-laden, socially searing

formal

8

de

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

150

3

[ "literary" ]

formal

9

de

Gustav Freytag

150

3

[ "literary" ]

formal

10

de

Gustav Meyrink

224

5

[ "literary" ]

formal

11

de

Heinrich Heine

139

3

[ "literary" ]

German poet and essayist; Book of Songs, the Harz Journey

witty, lyrical, barbed, self-ironizing

formal

12

de

Heinrich Mann

242

6

[ "literary" ]

exploratory

13

de

Heinrich von Kleist

150

3

[ "literary" ]

formal

14

de

Hermann Hesse

150

3

[ "literary" ]

German-Swiss novelist; Siddhartha, Demian; Nobel laureate of the inward path

meditative, seeking, parabolic, serene

formal

15

de

Hermann Sudermann

200

4

[ "literary" ]

formal

16

de

Jakob Wassermann

300

6

[ "literary" ]

formal

17

de

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

150

3

[ "literary" ]

German writer, thinker, and statesman; Faust, The Sorrows of Young Werther; Weimar polymath

lyrical, philosophical, expansive, classical

formal

18

de

Karl May

125

3

[ "literary" ]

formal

19

de

Ludwig Ganghofer

257

6

[ "literary" ]

formal

20

de

Ludwig Tieck

150

3

[ "literary" ]

formal

21

de

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

200

4

[ "literary" ]

formal

22

de

Paul Heyse

150

3

[ "literary" ]

formal

23

de

Rainer Maria Rilke

150

3

[ "literary" ]

Prague-born German poet; The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

inward, imagistic, elegiac, luminous

formal

24

de

Ricarda Huch

284

6

[ "literary" ]

formal

25

de

Stefan Zweig

144

3

[ "literary" ]

Austrian novelist and biographer; Amok, chess and passion novellas

feverish, psychological, polished, propulsive

formal

26

de

Theodor Fontane

115

3

[ "literary" ]

German realist; Effi Briest; ironic chronicler of Prussian society

conversational, ironic, poised, socially acute

formal

27

de

Theodor Storm

132

3

[ "literary" ]

North German novella master; Immensee, Der Schimmelreiter

elegiac, coastal, framed, quietly tragic

formal

28

de

Thomas Mann

115

3

[ "literary" ]

German novelist and essayist; The Magic Mountain, Buddenbrooks; Nobel laureate of bourgeois decline

ironic, symphonic, cerebral, decadently precise

formal

29

de

Wilhelm Hauff

300

6

[ "literary" ]

formal

30

de

Wilhelm Raabe

140

3

[ "literary" ]

formal

31

en

Abraham Lincoln

370

9

[ "rhetorical" ]

16th U.S. president; led the Union through the Civil War and issued the Emancipation Proclamation

plainspoken, solemn, aphoristic, moral

formal

32

en

Agatha Christie

600

17

[ "literary" ]

English detective novelist; Hercule Poirot and early mysteries; best-selling novelist of all time

plotted, brisk, tidy, misdirecting

formal

33

en

Algernon Blackwood

273

6

[ "literary" ]

formal

34

en

Alice Brown

300

6

[ "literary" ]

formal

35

en

Ambrose Bierce

247

6

[ "literary" ]

formal

36

en

Andrew Jackson

50

1

[ "rhetorical" ]

Seventh U.S. president and military commander; transformed mass-party politics amid coercive Indigenous removal

pugnacious, populist, personal, command-heavy

exploratory

37

en

Andrew Johnson

50

1

[ "rhetorical" ]

Seventeenth U.S. president; led early Reconstruction and became the first president impeached

defiant, extemporaneous, personalistic, confrontational

exploratory

38

en

Anna Katharine Green

300

6

[ "literary" ]

formal

39

en

Anthony Hope

274

6

[ "literary" ]

formal

40

en

Anthony Trollope

600

83

[ "literary" ]

English novelist and civil servant; the Barsetshire and Palliser series; chronicler of institutions

conversational, patient, institutional, dryly amused

formal

41

en

Arnold Bennett

247

6

[ "literary" ]

formal

42

en

Arthur Conan Doyle

600

80

[ "literary" ]

Scottish writer and physician; creator of Sherlock Holmes; architect of modern detective fiction

deductive, brisk, atmospheric, clue-driven

formal

43

en

Arthur Machen

300

6

[ "literary" ]

formal

44

en

Barack Obama

131

3

[ "rhetorical" ]

44th U.S. president, constitutional lawyer, and author; Nobel Peace Prize

measured, reflective, inclusive, soaring

formal

45

en

Benjamin Harrison

150

3

[ "rhetorical" ]

Twenty-third U.S. president; oversaw antitrust legislation and expansion of federal activity

precise, lawyerly, chilly, policy-dense

formal

46

en

Bill Clinton

61

2

[ "rhetorical" ]

Forty-second U.S. president; New Democrat associated with economic expansion and welfare reform

empathetic, policy-fluent, improvisational, triangulating

exploratory

47

en

Booker T. Washington

50

1

[ "rhetorical" ]

American educator and orator; Up from Slavery, Atlanta Exposition address

pragmatic, anecdotal, conciliatory, industrious

exploratory

48

en

Booth Tarkington

300

6

[ "literary" ]

formal

49

en

Bram Stoker

550

11

[ "literary" ]

Irish novelist; Dracula; gothic horror in documentary form

epistolary, gothic, suspenseful, atmospheric

formal

50

en

Calvin Coolidge

120

3

[ "rhetorical" ]

Thirtieth U.S. president; symbol of small-government conservatism during the 1920s

laconic, dry, restrained, civic-moral

formal

51

en

Charles Dickens

600

93

[ "literary" ]

English novelist and social critic; Oliver Twist, Great Expectations; Victorian social realism

expansive, theatrical, compassionate, satirical

formal

52

en

Charles Reade

300

6

[ "literary" ]

formal

53

en

Charlotte Bronte

100

3

[ "literary" ]

English novelist and poet; Jane Eyre, Villette; Gothic innovator of female interiority

ardent, intimate, gothic, fiercely self-possessed

exploratory

54

en

D. H. Lawrence

600

37

[ "literary" ]

English novelist and poet; Sons and Lovers, Women in Love; explorer of desire and industrial modernity

sensual, volcanic, instinctive, polemically alive

formal

55

en

Donald Trump

10

1

[ "rhetorical" ]

American businessman and political figure; 45th and 47th U.S. president

blunt, repetitive, combative, performative

exploratory

56

en

Dwight D. Eisenhower

50

1

[ "rhetorical" ]

Thirty-fourth U.S. president and Allied commander; managed Cold War containment and interstate-highway expansion

measured, military-calm, consensus-minded, cautionary

exploratory

57

en

E. M. Forster

555

12

[ "literary" ]

English novelist and essayist; A Passage to India, Howards End; critic of class and imperial distance

lucid, humane, ironic, connection-seeking

formal

58

en

E. Nesbit

600

38

[ "literary" ]

English children's novelist; Five Children and It, The Railway Children

playful, brisk, wry, matter-of-fact magical

formal

59

en

E. Phillips Oppenheim

300

6

[ "literary" ]

formal

60

en

Edgar Allan Poe

600

23

[ "literary" ]

American poet, short-story writer, and critic; pioneering detective and gothic fiction

macabre, hypnotic, ornate, claustrophobic

formal

61

en

Edgar Rice Burroughs

300

6

[ "literary" ]

formal

62

en

Edith Wharton

600

50

[ "literary" ]

American novelist and designer; The Age of Innocence, The House of Mirth; first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

coolly observant, socially surgical, polished, elegiac

formal

63

en

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

600

27

[ "literary" ]

English novelist and biographer; North and South, Cranford; interpreter of industrial conflict

sympathetic, socially alert, domestic, quietly panoramic

formal

64

en

Elizabeth von Arnim

300

6

[ "literary" ]

formal

65

en

Ernest Hemingway

225

5

[ "literary" ]

American novelist and journalist; The Sun Also Rises, The Old Man and the Sea; Nobel laureate

spare, stoic, muscular, understated

formal

66

en

F. Scott Fitzgerald

350

7

[ "literary" ]

American novelist; The Great Gatsby, Tender Is the Night; chronicler of Jazz Age glamour and loss

glittering, wistful, romantic, disillusioned

formal

67

en

Frances Hodgson Burnett

600

46

[ "literary" ]

British-American novelist and playwright; The Secret Garden, A Little Princess; classic children's storyteller

tender, restorative, garden-bright, sentimental

formal

68

en

Frank Norris

300

6

[ "literary" ]

formal

69

en

Frank R. Stockton

244

6

[ "literary" ]

formal

70

en

Franklin D. Roosevelt

136

4

[ "rhetorical" ]

32nd U.S. president; New Deal architect and wartime leader

reassuring, pragmatic, intimate, commanding

formal

71

en

Franklin Pierce

50

1

[ "rhetorical" ]

Fourteenth U.S. president; administration deepened sectional conflict through the Kansas-Nebraska era

ornamental, conciliatory, party-loyal, evasive

exploratory

72

en

Frederick Douglass

131

3

[ "rhetorical" ]

American abolitionist and orator; escaped slavery to become a leading public voice

searing, cadenced, indicting, dignified

formal

73

en

G. K. Chesterton

600

59

[ "literary" ]

English essayist and novelist; Father Brown stories, Orthodoxy; master of paradox

paradoxical, jovial, aphoristic, combative

formal

74

en

Gene Stratton-Porter

220

6

[ "literary" ]

formal

75

en

George Eliot

600

18

[ "literary" ]

English novelist; Middlemarch, Silas Marner; psychological realism

analytical, humane, morally searching, panoramic

formal

76

en

George Gissing

300

6

[ "literary" ]

formal

77

en

George MacDonald

600

64

[ "literary" ]

Scottish author and minister; Phantastes, The Princess and the Goblin; formative fantasy writer

mystical, fairy-lit, allegorical, childlike-wise

formal

78

en

George Meredith

300

6

[ "literary" ]

formal

79

en

George W. Bush

50

1

[ "rhetorical" ]

Forty-third U.S. president; led after the September 11 attacks and launched wars in Afghanistan and Iraq

plainspoken, moral-binary, folksy, faith-inflected

exploratory

80

en

George Washington

100

2

[ "rhetorical" ]

First U.S. president and Revolutionary War commander; established key precedents for the presidency

grave, republican, restrained, duty-bound

exploratory

81

en

Gerald Ford

50

1

[ "rhetorical" ]

Thirty-eighth U.S. president; restored procedural stability after Watergate and pardoned Richard Nixon

plain, healing, unpretentious, institution-steadying

exploratory

82

en

Gertrude Atherton

300

6

[ "literary" ]

formal

83

en

Grover Cleveland

150

3

[ "rhetorical" ]

Twenty-second and twenty-fourth U.S. president; advocate of limited government and executive independence

blunt, fiscally austere, veto-minded, moralizing

formal

84

en

H. G. Wells

600

77

[ "literary" ]

English novelist and social thinker; The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds; pioneer of scientific romance

speculative, brisk, satirical, future-facing

formal

85

en

H. Rider Haggard

248

6

[ "literary" ]

formal

86

en

Hamlin Garland

300

6

[ "literary" ]

formal

87

en

Harold Frederic

300

6

[ "literary" ]

formal

88

en

Harry S. Truman

50

1

[ "rhetorical" ]

Thirty-third U.S. president; ended World War II and shaped the early Cold War order

plainspoken, decisive, homespun, combative

exploratory

89

en

Henry James

600

114

[ "literary" ]

American-British novelist; The Portrait of a Lady, The Ambassadors; master of psychological point of view

subtle, ceremonious, psychologically coiled, finely shaded

formal

90

en

Herbert Hoover

50

1

[ "rhetorical" ]

Thirty-first U.S. president, engineer, and humanitarian; led during the onset of the Great Depression

technical, voluntarist, managerial, emotionally distant

exploratory

91

en

Herman Melville

600

18

[ "literary" ]

American novelist and poet; Moby-Dick, Bartleby; visionary chronicler of obsession and the sea

biblical, oceanic, digressive, metaphysically charged

formal

92

en

Israel Zangwill

300

6

[ "literary" ]

formal

93

en

J. K. Rowling

50

1

[ "literary" ]

British novelist and screenwriter; Harry Potter series, The Casual Vacancy; creator of a globally influential fantasy world

myth-making, plot-propulsive, school-gothic, morally legible

exploratory

94

en

Jack London

600

53

[ "literary" ]

American novelist and journalist; The Call of the Wild, Martin Eden; adventure naturalist

propulsive, elemental, hard-bitten, survivalist

formal

95

en

James Baldwin

600

15

[ "literary" ]

American novelist and essayist; Giovanni's Room, The Fire Next Time; civil-rights intellectual

incisive, eloquent, intimate, prophetic

formal

96

en

James Buchanan

50

1

[ "rhetorical" ]

Fifteenth U.S. president and diplomat; presided over the accelerating secession crisis

legalistic, temporizing, formal, status-quo bound

exploratory

97

en

James Joyce

241

5

[ "literary" ]

Irish novelist and modernist; Ulysses, Dubliners; radical stream-of-consciousness

experimental, polyphonic, allusive, labyrinthine

formal

98

en

James K. Polk

50

1

[ "rhetorical" ]

Eleventh U.S. president; oversaw major territorial expansion and the Mexican-American War

goal-driven, meticulous, expansionist, administratively spare

exploratory

99

en

James Madison

50

1

[ "rhetorical" ]

Fourth U.S. president; principal architect of the Constitution and Bill of Rights

constitutional, compressed, analytical, faction-aware

exploratory