DN's Author Type List III

[dynamiteninja]

My sis told me she was an INFP but her blogs make me think she is an ENFP.

Well from interviews and kinda from her writing style, I'm definite on the ExFx,

 

[Venom]

Naw. Tolkien was like that because of a very strict catholic upbringing.

we debated this to death in another thread... and we all seemed content with XSTJ after some anecdotes pertaining to his school studies, friendship with CS Lewis, kinds of things he focused on in his writing etc.

Of note is that ESTJs have tertiary Ne.

 

[Sniffles]

Have we figured out WB Yeats yet?

 

[dynamiteninja]

Have we figured out WB Yeats yet?

Nope.

 

[dynamiteninja]

INFP
Homer
Virgil
Miguel de Cervantes
William Shakespeare
John Keats
François-René de Chateaubriand
Washington Irving
Emily Bronte
Mary Shelley
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Walt Whitman
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Herman Melville
Henry James
James Joyce
Virginia Woolf
E M Forster
Aldous Huxley
George Orwell
Albert Camus
Jack Kerouac
Herman Hesse
John Steinbeck
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Willa Cather
Tennessee Williams
Eugene O'Neill
Jean Rhys
A A Milne
Hans Christian Andersen
Beatrix Potter
Leon Bloy
Marcel Proust
Thomas Mann
J D Salinger
Kazuo Ishiguro
Chuck Palahniuk
Sebastien Faulks
Zadie Smith
Yukio Mishima
Bret Easton Ellis
Alan Moore
Alex Garland
David Foster Wallace
Terry Pratchett
Arthur Miller
Neil Gaiman
Haruki Murakami
Terry Brooks
Madeleine L'Engle
Jay McInerney
Harper Lee
James Herriot
Irvine Welsh
Douglas Coupland
Dylan Thomas
Alice Walker
Lu Xun
Italo Calvino
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Allen Ginsberg
Gore Vidal
Michael Ondaatje
Chinua Achebe
Dave Eggers
Maya Angelou
Stephen King
Paul Auster
Novalis
Pat Conroy
Robert Frost
William Hazlitt
W B Yeats
Stephen Chbosky
Carson McCullers
Thomas De Quincey


INFJ
Geoffrey Chaucer
Dante
Goethe
John Milton
William Blake
Leo Tolstoy
Emily Dickinson
Robert Burns
Robert Louis Stevenson
George Eliot
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nella Larsen
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Joseph Conrad
G K Chesterton
Charles Peguy
Simone De Beauvoir
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
W Somerset Maugham
Anthony Burgess
Graham Greene
Vladimir Nabokov
Harold Pinter
Gabriel Marcel
Guy Gavriel Kay
Stephen R. Donaldson
Piers Anthony
William Faulkner
Kurt Vonnegut
Tom Wolfe
Franz Kafka
Salman Rushdie
Anne Rice
Dan Brown
Milan Kundera
Ian McEwan
Angela Carter
Tom Stoppard
Agatha Christie
Gerard Manley Hopkins


INTP
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Henry David Thoreau
Joseph Heller
Philip K Dick
Isaac Asimov
Martin Amis
Thomas Pynchon
Kingsley Amis
William Gaddis
Evelyn Waugh
Lemony Snicket
Will Self
Edgar Allen Poe
Donald Barthelme
Robert A Heinlein
H P Lovecraft
J M Coetzee
Umberto Eco
Neal Stephenson
Margaret Atwood
J R R Tolkien
P G Wodehouse


INTJ
Jonathan Swift
Jane Austen
C S Lewis
T S Eliot
Ayn Rand
Samuel Beckett
Michael Crichton
Cormac McCarthy
Philip Pullman
Ernst Jünger
Norman MacLean
Wallace Stevens
William S. Burroughs
Ursula Le Guin
Gustave Flaubert
Ted Hughes
Philip Larkin
Frederick Douglass
Alexander Pope
J G Ballard
Flannery O'Connor


ENFP
Charles Dickens
Mark Twain
Charlotte Bronte
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Alexander Pushkin
D H Lawrence
Edith Wharton
L. Ron Hubbard
Ken Kesey
Joseph Campbell
Tom Robbins
Henry Miller
John Updike
Orson Scott Card
Upton Sinclair
Joan Didion


ENTP
Thomas More
Christopher Marlowe
Lord Byron
Lewis Caroll
Oscar Wilde
Truman Capote
Hunter S Thompson
Douglas Adams
Hilaire Belloc
Ray Bradbury
Roald Dahl
Diana Wynne Jones
Voltaire


ISFJ
William Wordsworth
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Louisa May Alcott
John Betjeman
Sylvia Plath
John Irving
Seamus Heaney
Thomas Hardy
Samuel Richardson


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


ENTJ
Jack London
George Bernard Shaw
Carl Sagan
Frank Herbert
Daniel Defoe


ESTP
F Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
Norman Mailer


ENFJ
Ivan Turgenev
Toni Morrison
Enid Blyton


ISTJ
Ben Jonson
Samuel Johnson
William Wycherley


ISTP
Dan Simmons


Incomplete typings
J M Barrie: xSxP
Mario Puzo: xSxP
Georges Bernanos: xNFP
Taras Shevchenko: xNFP
Arthur C Clarke: xNTx
Philip Roth: INTx
Adam Mickiewicz: INFx
William Golding: INFx
William Makepeace Thackeray: INxx
Alexander Dumas: ENxP
Rudyard Kipling: xNFx
Robert Browning: xNFx
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: xNFx
Christina Rossetti: IxFP
Bram Stoker: INFx
Sinclair Lewis: IxFx
Victor Hugo: INFJ?
Kate Atkinson: IxFJ
Juvenal: INTJ?
Thomas Kyd: ENFP?
John Ford: EnfJ
Benjamin Disraeli: ENxx
Stephanie Meyer: ExFx
Peter S Beagle: xNFx
Walter Scott: INTP?
Patrick Süskind: INxP
Katherine Mansfield: xNFx
H G Wells: xNTx
Jules Verne: xNTx

 

[dynamiteninja]

Type these authors?

Raymond Chandler
John Webster
Ovid
John Donne
John Dryden
Edmund Spenser
John Bunyan
Thomas Malory
William Langland
Samuel Pepys: Exxx
Joe Orton
John Osbourne
Wilkie Collins
Jerome K Jerome
W H Auden
Baroness Orczy
Dennis Wheatley
Donna Tartt
E B White
E E Cummings
Ford Madox Ford
Ezra Pound
Jorge Luis Borges
Frank Miller
Henry Fielding
Euripides
Aphra Behn
Muriel Spark
James Hogg
William Godwin
John Dos Passos
William Congreve
Laurence Sterne
Don DeLillo
Mikhail Bulgakov
Denis Diderot
Thomas Dekker
Saul Bellow
Arthur Rimbaud
Honoré de Balzac
Rainer Maria Rilke
Thomas Harris
John Buchan
John Meade Falkner
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Erskine Childers
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
James Fennimore Cooper
Stephen Crane
E Nesbit
Anna Sewell
John Galsworthy
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Elizabeth Gaskell
Kenneth Grahame
Jeffrey Eugenides
Thomas Love Peacock
Stendhal
Anthony Trollope
George Grossmith
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Nancy Mitford
Gunter Grass
Elizabeth Taylor
John Le Carre
Beryl Bainbridge
V S Naipaul
Marilynne Robinson
Alasdair Gray
Primo Levi
Peter Carey
James Ellroy
W G Sebald
J G Farrell
Iris Murdoch
Arthur Conan Doyle
H. Rider Haggard
Aesop
Sophocles
Seneca
Hubert Selby Jr
Peter Shaffer
Henrik Ibsen
Alexander Solzhenitsyn

 

[Sniffles]

Could we also add authors' Enneamgram too?

 

[dynamiteninja]

If anyone has any opinions on the listed authors, or has a suggestion for someone else (provided they're not too obscure) I'll be happy to consider them for addition to the list I am compiling.

Could we also add authors' Enneamgram too?

So there can be three (if we include the Enneagram wings) factors on which to disagree upon? Although I'm not inherently against it per se. Give me some lists of authors and their Enneagram types and I'll add them when I get a chance and if I think it doesn't clutter the list up too much...

 

[hokie912]

Maybe ENTJ for Wharton? No particular support for that, just a guess. She could well have been an S. I do think T, though.

 

[dynamiteninja]

Alice Walker as INFP? YouTube - Writer Alice Walker Endorses Barack Obama

Maybe ENTJ for Wharton? No particular support for that, just a guess. She could well have been an S. I do think T, though.

Keirsey says ENFP.

 

[Killjoy]

I'll add a few that have me stumped:

Rimbaud- xNxP? (He has me baffled)

Gerard Manley Hopkins - INxJ

Gustave Flaubert - INTJ?

 

[dynamiteninja]

I'll add a few that have me stumped:

Rimbaud- xNxP? (He has me baffled)

Gerard Manley Hopkins - INxJ

Gustave Flaubert - INTJ?

Good, good, but reasons?

 

[The Ü™]

How about Lemony Snicket? INTP?

 

[dynamiteninja]

How about Lemony Snicket? INTP?

Quite possibly.

 

[Sniffles]

The Chinese writer Lu Xun - INFP.

I see some striking parallels between his themes and those of Orwell.

 

[dynamiteninja]

Lu Xun - INFP.

I see some striking parallels between his themes and those of Orwell.

Well I'll stick him up with the INFPs until someone begs to differ...

 

[heart]

I am going to say xNFP for Gore Vidal. But I intend to read a biography soon so would have a better grasp then. Vidal seems to have such a wonderful grasp on duality and hypocrisy in human nature, seeing it and loving humanity even while revealing and complaining them at their worst. He seems to have an appreication for the trickster aspect in life.

 

[dynamiteninja]

I am going to say xNFP for Gore Vidal. But I intend to read a biography soon so would have a better grasp then. Vidal seems to have such a wonderful grasp on duality and hypocrisy in human nature, seeing it and loving humanity even while revealing and complaining them at their worst. He seems to have an appreication for the trickster aspect in life.

I'd say he seems introverted. But do get back to us when you've read the bio Heart!

 

[the state i am in]

dfw is definitely an infp. i would guess dave eggers is an infp as well. kesey seems pretty certainly an enfp. so would be henry miller, tom robbins, and joseph campbell. i think vonnegut would be more of an f than a t. I think elizabeth smart would be an infp and lester bangs would be infx (not sure if p or j). i think gonzo journalist tom wolfe (not thomas) would be an infj, along with milan kundera, joan didion, and haruki murakami (possibly an infp). i struggle to see kafka as a t, he seems like an enneagram 4 to me all the way. i'm not exactly sure why hesse and huxley are infps?

what about italo calvino, garcia marquez, rimbaud, honore de balzac, and rilke? and if nabokov is an intp, is donald barthelme considered an intp as well?

changing my mind. vonnegut as intp seems right (i focus too much on timequake, deadeye dick, and bluebeard) but perhaps infj could work as well. i resonate with it deeply, he waxes poetic about the lost sense of connection in modern life. extended families, not feeling alone, etc. he seems sad instead of angry, but he's an old man and maybe he usedtabe angry. kafka- still not sure. why is he typed intp? like philip k dick i guess i can see intps as universe builders. but kafka's whole oeuvre seems to be based on his relationship with his father. metamorphosis seems like an exercise in Fe to me, absorbing the impressions of others about yourself and teh way the environment feels. maybe an infj. i think william s burroughs is more of an intp than intj, but i haven't seen any good discussions. seems more inf Fe than ter Fi to me.

enfps: ken kesey, henry miller, joseph campbell, tom robbins. they're all enfps. joseph campbell is a mythologist, he has this buzz about him, this great energy. he and henry miller all influenced tom robbins. ken kesey has the ultimate dom Ne. his merry pranksters. so enfp. he's the non-navigator (as told in electric koolaid acid test). no esfp could EVER write sometimes a great notion. it's faulknerian in scope, then bigger. tom robbins has hilariously great metaphors and similies. great dialogue, just always hopeful, upbeat, wanting to find the best in people. first fav band was the doors. henry miller's philosophy is always merry and bright. he always finds a way, scrapes along, gets other people to give him food, love, attention, pussy. he wins them over with his bursting warmth, connection, enthusiasm. it's infectious.

infps: dfw, no question. hurting, intuitive, can't get out of the past, can't free himself, brilliantly careeningly perceptive. yes, and more yes. eggers could be xnfp. real world, really dave? he's a mover and a shaker too, always getting things done. he has GREAT Ne, he knows how to network like a motherfucker. mcsweeneys, i just need to see him talk to KNOW. but he has so many ventures, is always out there doing things, starting foundations, etc. i could see him as either, really. probably infp, he has his shit together a little more than most enfps. lester bangs- absolutely infp. no question. he's kerouac reincarnated (and my personal hero). he has his values, he judges music how it relates to him and his idealized image of rock and roll purity. and his Ne is sickeningly sweet and twisted. i'm guessing calvino and garic a marquez are infps. maybe all of magical realism. there's a flavor of feeling so finely shaded, so detailed and complete, so drifting along and so fresh and alive like flowers in springtime, and from where and from what? it's not the context of the story that hits you, it's their depth of feeling peeking out from the pages and peering around their words. very beautiful. i can see hesse and maybe huxley here too now.

infj: milan kundera is a distilled dostoeyevsky. sleek, precise, deeply and penetratingly revealing. the emotion breathes on the pages from simple gestures worn by caricatures of humanity, who represent all of humanity in one fell swoop. nothing extraneous is necessary and context rules his philosophy of the novel. creating deeper and deeper context, polyphoony as his calls it. tom wolfe is a strange guess. i feel the Fe. he gets inside voices, slangs, styles. he feels how they work inside out, absorbs them and tweaks them so cunningly, so slyly, it's great. he elucidates, exaggerates, plays with. murakami i do not yet see clearly. i've read 3 of his books but not the wind up bird chronicle. norwegian wood, kafka on the shore, south of the border west of the sun. resonates as infj to me, but it could just be understatement of feeling. they have depth of feeling, but they don't often know how they feel internally. they are usually younger characters so they could be struggling infps or infjs who respond instead to others. at times he seems so distant and mythic and elegant. i could see him and calvino and even garica marquez as infps or infjs too, this one is tough.

joan didion and elizabeth smart, i'm just not sure. i resonated with both, maybe they're enfps. on a strangely invisbily related note, why is shakespeare infp instead of enfp? he seems enfp to me way more than infp.

donald barthelme and vladimir nabokov confuse me. i'd guess intp, too deconstructionistic and formally playful to not be dominant Ti. they take writing apart and put it back together piece by piece. they get jolted and electrified by their own witticisms and solipsisms and inventions. you can feel the excitement when they've got it flowing. it also feels like they're writing in punctuated bursts and stop-starts. and when it stops, it stops. barthelme's favorite writer was intj samuell beckett, but his writing is so much more pieced together, less integrated, less whole. it's what makes him great (and to my ears) a more engaging read than beckett. plus the hypercontextualization of his literary stances, positions, inventions, etc.

what's the verdict on william blake and ginsberg? ginsberg seems infp 100%. is his hero blake the same?

 

[dynamiteninja]

^ It's an annoying thing about these forums, but the most up to date list is on page 5 here: http://www.typologycentral.com/forums/popular-culture-type/13672-dn-s-author-type-list-iii-5.html and as you can see, Kafka has been changed to INFJ. Ken Kesey too, is now ENFP. Vonnegut is now INFJ. Point noted about William S. Burroughs, I'm still not sure we've got his type down. I have Henry Miller as ENTP. Would that not work? I will add Campbell and Robbins to the ENFPs. DFW is already listed as INFP. Added Eggers. Lester Bangs I have long since thought of as INFP, but does he fit into an author list? I may add him anyway. Added Calvino. Marquez INxP certainly. Maybe I'll put him as INFP for now, really depends how sure you are of your typing of him? Added Kundera although I'm not familiar with him personally I'll take your word for it. Added Barthelme. Still not sure of Nabakov, certainly INTP/INFJ, just INFJ seems to fit better for now. Ironic you ask, Blake as long flitted between the INFP/INFJ categories, although currently INFJ. Ginsberg will add as INFP, I have long thought this but wanted confirmation. Thanks a lot for your extensive insights state!

Didion certainly doesn't look like an ENFP! File:Joan Didion at the Brooklyn Book Festival.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia