The Most Awarded Authors
A ranking of every author by how often their books have won, been shortlisted for, or longlisted for one of the tracked awards. Authors are ranked first by wins, then by shortlists.
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- 1
Stephen King
12
wins
185
score
- 2
Gene Wolfe
8
wins
171
score
- 3
Louise Penny
14
wins
160
score
- 4
Kim Stanley Robinson
8
wins
154
score
- 5
Philip Roth
7
wins
146
score
- 6
China Miéville
13
wins
142
score
- 7
Lois McMaster Bujold
10
wins
135
score
- 8
Orson Scott Card
10
wins
123
score
- 9
Ken MacLeod
5
wins
122
score
- 10
Ursula K. Le Guin
10
wins
121
score
- 11
John Updike
7
wins
120
score
- 12
Colson Whitehead
8
wins
119
score
- 13
C. J. Cherryh
3
wins
114
score
- 14
Patricia A. McKillip
7
wins
112
score
- 15
Stephen Graham Jones
11
wins
105
score
- 16
Dan Simmons
9
wins
105
score
- 17
N. K. Jemisin
7
wins
104
score
- 18
Neil Gaiman
12
wins
103
score
- 19
E. L. Doctorow
6
wins
103
score
- 20
Marilynne Robinson
5
wins
102
score
- 21
Christopher Priest
7
wins
101
score
- 22
Louise Erdrich
7
wins
99
score
- 23
Tim Powers
7
wins
99
score
- 24
Ian McDonald
4
wins
97
score
- 25
Margaret Atwood
4
wins
97
score
- 26
Ann Leckie
7
wins
95
score
- 27
Terry Pratchett
6
wins
94
score
- 28
Neal Stephenson
8
wins
93
score
- 29
Connie Willis
9
wins
92
score
- 30
Margaret Maron
7
wins
92
score
- 31
Percival Everett
5
wins
92
score
- 32
Stephen Baxter
3
wins
90
score
- 33
Michael Connelly
5
wins
89
score
- 34
Joyce Carol Oates
3
wins
89
score
- 35
Greg Bear
2
wins
89
score
- 36
Barbara Kingsolver
5
wins
87
score
- 37
T. Kingfisher
8
wins
86
score
- 38
Poul Anderson
3
wins
86
score
- 39
Adrian Tchaikovsky
5
wins
84
score
- 40
Robert A. Heinlein
5
wins
83
score
- 41
Peter Straub
7
wins
82
score
- 42
Anne Tyler
2
wins
82
score
- 43
Laura Lippman
5
wins
81
score
- 44
Charles Stross
3
wins
81
score
- 45
John Scalzi
6
wins
80
score
- 46
Joe Haldeman
5
wins
80
score
- 47
David Brin
6
wins
79
score
- 48
Robert Silverberg
2
wins
78
score
- 49
Naomi Novik
8
wins
77
score
- 50
Jo Walton
7
wins
77
score
Recent Standouts (2020+)
- 1Stephen Graham Jones98 score
- 2Percival Everett84 score
- 3T. Kingfisher81 score
- 4S. A. Cosby62 score
- 5Adrian Tchaikovsky61 score
- 6Martha Wells53 score
- 7Silvia Moreno-Garcia48 score
- 8Darcie Little Badger46 score
- 9Alix E. Harrow42 score
- 10Charlie Jane Anders40 score
Most Prolific Authors
- 1C. J. Cherryh39 books
- 2Stephen King38 books
- 3Gene Wolfe27 books
- 4Terry Pratchett25 books
- 5Stephen Baxter24 books
- 6Orson Scott Card22 books
- 7Poul Anderson22 books
- 8Sheri S. Tepper21 books
- 9Greg Bear20 books
- 10Kim Stanley Robinson20 books