DN's Author Type List

[dynamiteninja]

Probably INTP, I mean the guy invented a language. It doesn't get much more involved and useless.

That seems too sweeping a statement to use to discriminate against T/F by itself.

 

[Jack Flak]

That seems too sweeping a statement to use to discriminate against T/F by itself.

INTP/INFP though, definitely. Only 999 times out of 1000 though, you've certainly got me there.

 

[dynamiteninja]

Philip Roth is an INTx YouTube - Interview with Philip Roth (Part 1)

 

[Venom]

im pretty sure that thomas friedman and thomas sowell are ENTJs...


i know they do non-fiction (econ), but a lot of other authors u list are non fiction...

 

[dynamiteninja]

im pretty sure that thomas friedman and thomas sowell are ENTJs...


i know they do non-fiction (econ), but a lot of other authors u list are non fiction...

Yes, but they've all written fiction.

 

[dynamiteninja]

YouTube - william s burroughs

YouTube - William Burroughs interviewed by the BBC

INTP

 

[Anentropic IxTx]

ADDS: L. Ron Hubbard (ENFP)

Scientology!?

 

[dynamiteninja]

Scientology!?

Quite the prolific author too.

 

[dynamiteninja]

*BUMPS POST*

A few classics to ponder:

Arthur Miller
Harold Pinter (INFJ?) YouTube - Al-Jazeera interviews Harold Pinter Part 2
Evelyn Waugh
Bram Stoker
Jonathan Swift
Daniel Defoe
Samuel Richardson
Walt Whitman
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Christopher Marlowe
Margaret Atwood (INTx?)
Christina Rossetti
D H Lawrence
T S Eliot
W B Yeats
Seamus Heaney (IxFJ?)
Katherine Mansfield
Graham Greene
Philip Larkin
William Golding
H G Wells
Mario Puzo
Robert Louis Stevenson
Sir Walter Scott
William Makepeace Thackeray
Arthur C Clarke
Arthur Conan Doyle (xNTx)?
John Updike
William S. Burroughs (INxJ)?
Jay McInerney
Allen Ginsberg
Victor Hugo
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Harper Lee (IxFx)
Tennessee Williams (INFJ)?
Tom Stoppard YouTube - Tom Stoppard Talks With Charlie Rose INFJ?
Raymond Chandler
Kingsley Amis
Eugene O'Neill
Jules Verne
Agatha Christie

 

[mysterio]

Stephen is generally agreed upon as being INxP.

INFP over INTP for King, judging both by his fiction and bio. He’s more emotional and subjective than detached and cerebral. More heart than head, with a strong Fi flavor in his character-driven novels.

 

[dynamiteninja]

Roald Dahl YouTube - Roald Dahl - Dirty Beasts and Revolting Rhymes Performance YouTube - Roald Dahl South Bank Show 2

ENTP

 

[dynamiteninja]

This: Alex Garland: Coma chameleon | Books | The Observer cements my opinion of Alex Garland (The Beach) as an INFP.

 

[dynamiteninja]

Charlie Rose - An interview with Umberto Eco

INTP?

 

[jackandthebeast]

Angela Carter<3- INFj

 

[silverchris9]

Walt Whitman: INFP

P because "I have instant conductors all over me, whether I pass or stop;
They seize every object and lead it harmlessly through me." seems to me thee essence of P-hood, I because although he purported to be all open and everywhere, he had to have Ni in order to know so much about himself (and the subject of all of his poetry is either himself or himself relative to Abraham Lincoln, right?) N just seems obvious, and F because I don't think that any T in history could put up with "do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself." Plus the parts of "When Lilacs Last..." that I've read seem very emotional.

I'd consider Shakespeare an ENFP, because it seems to me that he must have had Ne because all of his work is about understanding other people well enough to create characters who seem like real people. Plus, he was an actor and acting seems to be a very ENFP friendly type profession. And, unlike Whitman, he subject seems to never be himself. All in all, based on what I know about his biography, he seems to be an ENFP who had to take on some more SJ qualities now and then as a self-preservational instinct. Plus, the whole "fall in love with Anne whatshername and then get bored with her and run off to London without her" thing seems ENFP-like: all interested in possibilities and horribly bored when they seem to be exhausted. But I probably just want to claim Shakespeare for my own type; who wouldn't want him?

Also, on that note, and on the basis of a very little amount of reading, I'd consider D.H. Lawrence rather ENFP as well, because he talks about how he wants his wife to be constantly changing even as he is constantly changing. Sounds like possibility-lust to me!

And I don't know if we're counting critics, but since it just says "authors" I think that the critic Harold Bloom is definitely an NFJ but I can't tell if he's I or E. Also, there's a slim possibility that he might be a P who looks like a J because he's so confident in his intuitions, but I doubt it. My guess is INFJ.

Based on Miller's work, I'm inclined to call him INF, but I'm uncertain whether the heavy judgment in many of his plays (from "attention must be paid" to the irritating and irrelevant moralizing in the lengthy stage direction thingys in The Crucible) stems from an actual judging nature or just deeply held beliefs being expressed strongly.

 

[dynamiteninja]

Walt Whitman: INFP

P because "I have instant conductors all over me, whether I pass or stop;
They seize every object and lead it harmlessly through me." seems to me thee essence of P-hood, I because although he purported to be all open and everywhere, he had to have Ni in order to know so much about himself (and the subject of all of his poetry is either himself or himself relative to Abraham Lincoln, right?) N just seems obvious, and F because I don't think that any T in history could put up with "do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself." Plus the parts of "When Lilacs Last..." that I've read seem very emotional.

I'd consider Shakespeare an ENFP, because it seems to me that he must have had Ne because all of his work is about understanding other people well enough to create characters who seem like real people. Plus, he was an actor and acting seems to be a very ENFP friendly type profession. And, unlike Whitman, he subject seems to never be himself. All in all, based on what I know about his biography, he seems to be an ENFP who had to take on some more SJ qualities now and then as a self-preservational instinct. Plus, the whole "fall in love with Anne whatshername and then get bored with her and run off to London without her" thing seems ENFP-like: all interested in possibilities and horribly bored when they seem to be exhausted. But I probably just want to claim Shakespeare for my own type; who wouldn't want him?

Also, on that note, and on the basis of a very little amount of reading, I'd consider D.H. Lawrence rather ENFP as well, because he talks about how he wants his wife to be constantly changing even as he is constantly changing. Sounds like possibility-lust to me!

And I don't know if we're counting critics, but since it just says "authors" I think that the critic Harold Bloom is definitely an NFJ but I can't tell if he's I or E. Also, there's a slim possibility that he might be a P who looks like a J because he's so confident in his intuitions, but I doubt it. My guess is INFJ.

Based on Miller's work, I'm inclined to call him INF, but I'm uncertain whether the heavy judgment in many of his plays (from "attention must be paid" to the irritating and irrelevant moralizing in the lengthy stage direction thingys in The Crucible) stems from an actual judging nature or just deeply held beliefs being expressed strongly.

Well well well. Walt Whitman I can certainly see as INFP, but I also considered ISFP as a possiblity. Explain how he is N.

Shakespeare ENFP? Just no.

D H Lawrence as ENFP? I can certainly see it.

Harold Bloom I agree completely with you, and have already added as an INFJ on the more recent version of this thread: http://www.typologycentral.com/forums/popular-culture-type/13112-dn-s-author-type-list-ii.html . He is not just a critic by the way.

Miller as INFx? Interesting.

 

[groovejet02]

In a word, yes. She's one of the strongest examples I've seen of the type.

Could you please elaborate why you think Zadie Smith's an INFP? Through her writings, I notice a strong Thinking function to her and would peg her either as INTP or INTJ.

I'm curious to know.

 

[Ginkgo]

James Joyce is apparently an enneagram 5. This being said, I'm not sure if INFP is as plausible. Maybe ENFP 5w6 soc/sx ? I suppose there are probably enneagram 5 INFPs out there, though a rarity.

 

[Tom]

Shakespeare's always seemed ENFP to me too, an unpopular opinion I know.

 

[Ratsimoan]

I though Mark Twain was an enfp and not an entp? I never read any of his stuffs. So I'm going off what some personality websites said.