DN's Author Type List III

[dynamiteninja]

Raymond Chandler's type anyone?

 

[dynamiteninja]

I want to add Eugene O'Neill as an INFP. Anyone else have any thoughts?

 

[hokie912]

My opinions on some of the incompletes:
Stephanie Meyer: ESFP
Anne Rice: INFJ (hmm, not sure about that one)
Evelyn Waugh: INTP

What about Haruki Murakami? INTP? INFP? Lots of Ne.

 

[dynamiteninja]

My opinions on some of the incompletes:
Stephanie Meyer: ESFP
Anne Rice: INFJ (hmm, not sure about that one)
Evelyn Waugh: INTP

Sounds good to me. But care to explain?

 

[hokie912]

Sure.

Stephenie Meyer: ESFP
Was ExFx. E and definitely F work for me, and I think her writing focuses so much on physical sensation that I can't but see her as an S. And the meandering, loosely-plotted nature of the Twilight books strikes me as very P. I see lots of Fi with her, so I think the type fits.

Anne Rice: INFJ
Was IXFX. I'm not as confident on that one. I'm inclined to say NF as she seems obsessed with moral questions and more abstract in her writing. Her recent and total conversion to Christianity seems fairly NFJ. Having read and seen interviews with her, I definitely get an INF vibe.

Evelyn Waugh: INTP
Was INXX. More or less a guess based on reading a little about him and reading Brideshead Revisited. I don't see F in that novel, at least, and that he was a satirist and social conservative makes me think NT. Could be way off base.

 

[dynamiteninja]

Sure.

Stephenie Meyer: ESFP
Was ExFx. E and definitely F work for me, and I think her writing focuses so much on physical sensation that I can't but see her as an S. And the meandering, loosely-plotted nature of the Twilight books strikes me as very P. I see lots of Fi with her, so I think the type fits.

Anne Rice: INFJ
Was IXFX. I'm not as confident on that one. I'm inclined to say NF as she seems obsessed with moral questions and more abstract in her writing. Her recent and total conversion to Christianity seems fairly NFJ. Having read and seen interviews with her, I definitely get an INF vibe.

Evelyn Waugh: INTP
Was INXX. More or less a guess based on reading a little about him and reading Brideshead Revisited. I don't see F in that novel, at least, and that he was a satirist and social conservative makes me think NT. Could be way off base.

Very good. I shall add to the list.

 

[dynamiteninja]

INFP
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
Arthur Miller
Hans Christian Andersen
Neil Gaiman
Eugene O'Neill
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Willa Cather
Haruki Murakami
Terry Brooks
Madeleine L'Engle
Jay McInerney
Harper Lee
James Herriot
Irvine Welsh


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
Graham Greene
Gabriel Marcel
Anne Rice
Vladimir Nabokov
Nella Larsen
Tom Stoppard
Guy Gavriel Kay
Stephen R. Donaldson
Piers Anthony
George Eliot
Kurt Vonnegut
William Faulkner


INTJ
Jane Austen
C S Lewis
Samuel Beckett
Michael Crichton
Cormac McCarthy
Ayn Rand
Philip Pullman
Ernst Jünger
Norman MacLean
T S Eliot
Wallace Stevens
Jonathan Swift
William S. Burroughs
Neal Stephenson
Ursula Le Guin
Will Self


INTP
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Edgar Allen Poe
Henry David Thoreau
Franz Kafka
Joseph Heller
Philip K Dick
Isaac Asimov
Martin Amis
Carl Sagan
Thomas Pynchon
Salman Rushdie
Kingsley Amis
William Gaddis
Evelyn Waugh


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


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


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


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


ESTP
F Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
Norman Mailer


ENTJ
George Bernard Shaw
Jack London


ENFJ
Ivan Turgenev
Toni Morrison


ISTJ
Ben Jonson
Samuel Johnson


ISTP
Jeanette Winterson


Incomplete typings
Douglas Coupland: INxP
Ian McEwan: INxx
Thomas Hardy: xSxJ
J M Barrie: xSxP
Georges Bernanos: xNFP
Umberto Eco: INTx
Philip Roth: INTx
Ken Kesey: ExFP
Adam Mickiewicz: INFx
Dan Simmons: INxJ
Taras Shevchenko: xNFP
Frederick Douglass: INTx
Margaret Atwood: INTx
Mario Puzo: xSxP
Alexander Pope: ISTJ?
Samuel Richardson: ISTJ?
Agatha Christie: INxJ/INTP
Philip Larkin (xNTx)?
Stephanie Meyer: ExFx
Thomas More: xNFJ
J G Ballard: INFJ?
Robert Frost: IxFP
William Golding: INxx

 

[dynamiteninja]

I'm thinking Jonathan Swift as INTJ, and Eugene O'Neill as INFP.

 

[Haphazard]

Why are there so many on the INFP list?

 

[dynamiteninja]

Need someone better read than I am on these:

Bram Stoker: excelled in athletics and a mathematician (S?)
Daniel Defoe
Christina Rossetti
W B Yeats
Katherine Mansfield
H G Wells: NT?
Robert Louis Stevenson
Sir Walter Scott
William Makepeace Thackeray
Arthur C Clarke
John Updike
Allen Ginsberg
Victor Hugo
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Raymond Chandler
Jules Verne
Rudyard Kipling: NF vibes
John Webster
Arthur Conan Doyle
J R R Tolkien: introvert
Erasmus
Ovid: Feeler
Juvenal
John Donne
John Dryden
Edmund Spenser
John Bunyan
Thomas Malory
William Langland
Samuel Pepys
Joe Orton
Angela Carter
John Osbourne
Wilkie Collins

 

[dynamiteninja]

Why are there so many on the INFP list?

INFPs are some of the best writers. And they are naturally drawn to it more than any other type.

 

[Haphazard]

INFPs are some of the best writers. And they are naturally drawn to it more than any other type.

Perhaps I am one of those, then...

But what draws them to writing?

 

[dynamiteninja]

Perhaps I am one of those, then...

But what draws them to writing?

Its the best way for them to express themselves.

 

[Haphazard]

Its the best way for them to express themselves.

Is writing about expressing one's self?

 

[dynamiteninja]

Is writing about expressing one's self?

Sometimes, and more often than usual when an INFP does it.

 

[Haphazard]

Sometimes, and more often than usual when an INFP does it.

This is making no sense to me, then. Let me look at this.


Not everyone writes to express themselves. On average, people only do this 'sometimes.'

But we do have people who often write to express themselves. Often when INFPs write, they do it for this reason.

And yet, this makes INFPs more naturally drawn to writing than any other type?

Is it just me, or does this not all logically follow? Is there a piece of information that I'm missing?

 

[dynamiteninja]

What about Haruki Murakami? INTP? INFP? Lots of Ne.

From sniffing around on other boards (INTP Central), they seem of the opinion that he's INFP.


I'm getting whiffs around the interweb that Victor Hugo may have been an INTJ?

 

[dynamiteninja]

Reading Jay McInerney now, and I'm getting xNFP vibes strongly. Will get back once I finish the book and maybe watch him being interviewed, which should help me on the I/E front...

 

[CJ99]

I won't pretend to be good at this, but I had personally typed J. K. Rowling as an INFJ (with little evidence to support it.) I was, however, quite convinced that J. R. R. Tolkien was an SJ, introverted of course. He was a hobbit in real life.

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

 

[CJ99]

Sure.

Stephenie Meyer: ESFP
Was ExFx. E and definitely F work for me, and I think her writing focuses so much on physical sensation that I can't but see her as an S. And the meandering, loosely-plotted nature of the Twilight books strikes me as very P. I see lots of Fi with her, so I think the type fits.

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