Writers that aren't 4s or 5s

[KDude]

I was referring to Hobbes' philosophy... why I think he may be 6w5.

I know.. I'm just ranting on current affairs. Don't mind me

 

[Elfboy]

Thomas Hobbs was EVIL!!!

anyway, more writers of other types
Bill Wallace: ENFP 7w8 or 8w7 don't know his instinct variant
Wilson Rawls: ??FP 7w8 or 9w8 Sx/Sp
Jack London: ESTP 8w7 Sp/Sx
James Herriot: INFP 9w1 Sp/Sx
Benjamin Franklin: ENTP 7w8 Sx/Sp (yes, he is Sx first. if you read anything about him, he is a total womanizer )

 

[Speed Gavroche]

Charles Bukowski: 6w5 Sx/So
Octavio Paz: 7w8 Sx/So
Hugh Laury: 3w4 So/Sx
Truman Capote: 3w4 Sp/Sx
Jack Kerouac: 6w5 Sx/So
Neal Cassady: 7w8 Sx/So
Pablo Neruda: 8w9 Sx/So

 

[mrcockburn]

You need to weed out 6's and 9's, too. They're all over the place in the book shelves.

 

[SilkRoad]

Arthur Conan Doyle doesn't seem like 4 or 5. Not sure what he'd be though!

6w7? 8w7? He was an adventurer and fascinated by psychic phenomena, but also very responsible and a proper British gentleman. (not too different from many others of his time, honestly.)

Another one I thought of: Richard Adams, author of Watership Down, seems like a likely 9w1 (INFP?). Even from what I've heard about his personality (quiet guy who likes country walks). His main character, Hazel, seems VERY 9w1 to me.

 

[SilkRoad]

George Orwell - 6w5

no wonder I love him. I think I've seen him typed as a 1 as well, but 6w5 makes sense...obsession with power, authority, class systems, etc. He was uneasy with the whole class thing; he was a socialist and was passionate about the rights of the working classes etc, but apparently in social settings he was really quite uncomfortable with working class people and in many ways he was very much of the higher classes himself. He seems very much to waver between phobic and counterphobic.

You mentioned thriller writers being likely 6s. My favourite, John Le Carre, seems like he could be 6w5 as well.

 

[SilkRoad]

James Herriot: INFP 9w1 Sp/Sx

Agreed about enneagram but I think he's a more likely ISFP.

 

[Elfboy]

Agreed about enneagram but I think he's a more likely ISFP.

I could see either way

 

[SilkRoad]

I could see either way

I can find them hard to tell apart myself. He just seems like a classic ISFP: great love for animals and nature, gentleness and quietly quirky sense of humour, precise and intense sensory detail, etc.

 

[Elfboy]

I can find them hard to tell apart myself. He just seems like a classic ISFP: great love for animals and nature, gentleness and quietly quirky sense of humour, precise and intense sensory detail, etc.

that can also be INFP, but I agree, the two are very hard to tell apart
ISFPs almost always look like Ns to me except for the reckless Harry Potter types.