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DN's Author Type List II

dynamiteninja

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Homer
Virgil
William Shakespeare
John Keats
François-René de Chateaubriand
Emily Bronte
Mary Shelley
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Herman Melville
James Joyce
Virginia Woolf
Aldous Huxley
George Orwell
Albert Camus
Jack Kerouac
Herman Hesse
John Steinbeck
A A Milne
Beatrix Potter
Leon Bloy
Miguel de Cervantes
Marcel Proust
Thomas Mann
E. M. Forster
J D Salinger
Kazuo Ishiguro
Chuck Palahniuk
Sebastien Faulks
Zadie Smith
Yukio Mishima
Bret Easton Ellis
Henry James
Stephen King
Jean Rhys
Alan Moore
Alex Garland
David Foster Wallace
Tennessee Williams
Washington Irving
Terry Pratchett
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Walt Whitman


INFJ
Geoffrey Chaucer
Leo Tolstoy
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Joseph Conrad
Emily Dickinson
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
G K Chesterton
Charles Peguy
Dante
Goethe
Simone De Beauvoir
Dan Brown
Robert Burns
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
W Somerset Maugham
Anthony Burgess
Harold Pinter
William Blake
John Milton


INTP
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Edgar Allen Poe
Henry David Thoreau
Franz Kafka
Joseph Heller
Philip K Dick
Isaac Asimov
Martin Amis
Kurt Vonnegut
Will Self
Carl Sagan
Vladimir Nabokov
Thomas Pynchon
William Golding
Salman Rushdie
Kingsley Amis


INTJ
Jane Austen
George Eliot
C S Lewis
Samuel Beckett
Michael Crichton
Cormac McCarthy
Ayn Rand
Philip Pullman
Ernst Jünger
Norman MacLean
T S Eliot
Wallace Stevens


ENTP
Lewis Caroll
Lord Byron
Oscar Wilde
Hunter S Thompson
Truman Capote
Douglas Adams
Hilaire Belloc
Ray Bradbury
Roald Dahl
Christopher Marlowe


ENFP
Charles Dickens
Mark Twain
Charlotte Bronte
Alexander Pushkin
L. Ron Hubbard
Ralph Waldo Emerson
D H Lawrence


ISFP

J K Rowling
Percy Shelley
Anaïs Nin
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Nick Hornby
Ian Fleming


ISFJ
William Wordsworth
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Louisa May Alcott
John Irving
John Betjeman
Seamus Heaney


ESTP
F Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
Norman Mailer


ENTJ

George Bernard Shaw
Jack London


ENFJ
Ivan Turgenev
Toni Morrison



Incomplete typings

Douglas Coupland: INxP
J R R Tolkien: INxP
Ian McEwan: INxx
Sylvia Plath: IxFJ
Thomas Hardy: xSxJ
J M Barrie: xSxP
Georges Bernanos: xNFP
Umberto Eco: INTx
Philip Roth: INTx
Stephanie Meyer: ExFx
Ken Kesey: ExFP
Anne Rice: IxFx
Adam Mickiewicz: INFx
Dan Simmons: INxJ
William Faulkner: INxJ
Arthur Miller: INFx
Hans Christian Andersen: xNFJ
Evelyn Waugh: INxx (Difficult to type as was eccentric)
Neil Gaiman: INFx
 
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Lauren Ashley

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Tennessee Williams (INFJ)

I remember reading The Glass Menagerie and I'm thinking more of INFP. I think it shows in the character Laura who lives mainly in her own world with glass animals and, in the end, never leaves this pretend world. I don't see an INFJ writing something like this; they would rather add a conclusion where Laura is brought out of her trance and into the real world, not continuing to live in a fairytale. Plus, Tennessee Williams was P if I ever knew one -- "Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it..." is not something a J would say.

INFJ
Agatha Christie

Not sure of her type but INFJ is not it. Her novels were rather dry in my opinion and focused on the plot and the actual action of the story. An NF, particularly an INFJ, would focus on the motivations of the characters.
 

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I remember reading the Glass Menagerie and I'm thinking more of INFP. I think it shows in the character Laura who lives mainly in her own world with glass animals and, in the end, never leaves this pretend world. I don't see an INFJ writing something like this; they would rather add a conclusion where Laura is brought out of her trance and into the real world, not continuing to live in a fairytale. Plus, Tennessee Williams was P if I ever knew one -- "Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it..." is not something a J would say.

I was unsure whether INFP or INFJ. Now I say INFP.

Not sure of her type but INFJ is not it. Her novels were rather dry in my opinion and focused on the plot and the actual action of the story. An NF, particularly an INFJ, would focus on the motivations of the characters.

I just saw her typed as this somewhere. I'll remove her from this category for now.
 

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I'll post this from the old thread too:

A few author's types to ponder:

Arthur Miller
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)
Tom Stoppard YouTube - Tom Stoppard Talks With Charlie Rose INFJ?
Raymond Chandler
Kingsley Amis
Eugene O'Neill
Jules Verne
Agatha Christie
Rudyard Kipling
 
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Interesting list. Funny I find most of the INTP writers a bit boring.

What is your reasoning on McCarthy? I find him similar to Faulkner.
 

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Interesting list. Funny I find most of the INTP writers a bit boring.

What is your reasoning on McCarthy? I find him similar to Faulkner.

Twas based on an Oprah interview on youtube. He said he has no writer friends, he prefered to hang out with *scientists* rather than the literary community. Lacked the "playfulness" of the INTP. I dunno, seemed INTJ. And I've been seriously thinking INTJ for Faulkner too. He approached his work like a science.

ADDS: William Faulkner (INTJ)
 

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Why not both of them being sensors?

They are very detailed with their descriptions.
 

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Why not both of them being sensors?

They are very detailed with their descriptions.

Dunno really. But I've only watched interviews of them, not read their works I'm afraid. You probably can type them better than I can. But I say INTJ for both. Can Ns not give detailed descriptions?
 

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Dunno really. But I've only watched interviews of them, not read their works I'm afraid. You probably can type them better than I can. But I say INTJ for both. Can Ns not give detailed descriptions?
They can, but your list is pretty heavy on the Ns. Any more Sensor writers?
 

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They can, but your list is pretty heavy on the Ns. Any more Sensor writers?

Most writers are N man. S types tend towards painting, sculpture. design etc, the more "hands on" kind of art. It's not surprising or a sign of bias that there's so many Ns.
 

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Most writers are N man. S types tend towards painting, sculpture. design etc, the more "hands on" kind of art. It's not surprising or a sign of bias that there's so many Ns.
Are you claiming written language is an iNtuitive medium?
 

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Most writers are N man. S types tend towards painting, sculpture. design etc, the more "hands on" kind of art. It's not surprising or a sign of bias that there's so many Ns.

Speaking of that... I was just wondering last night if most great Actors/actresses were F types? I was thinking....how would one express the feelings of a character well without knowing how to express and experience others feelings in the first place? Am I way off base here?
 

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Speaking of that... I was just wondering last night if most great Actors/actresses were F types? I was thinking....how would one express the feelings of a character well without knowing how to express and experience others feelings in the first place? Am I way off base here?

I'd say like 90% are.
 

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Are you claiming written language is an iNtuitive medium?

Obviously not. Just by saying that S types "tend" towards hands-on arts in no way excludes them from writing. I have listed a good number of great S type writers if you care to actually consult the list.
 

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Obviously not. Just by saying that S types "tend" towards hands-on arts in no way excludes them from writing. I have listed a good number of great S type writers if you care to actually consult the list.
16?

There is 16 in the INFJ category alone.
 
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