DN's Author Type List VI

[dynamiteninja]

INFP
Homer
Virgil
Miguel de Cervantes
William Shakespeare
John Keats
François-René de Chateaubriand
Washington Irving
Emily Bronte
Mary Shelley
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Herman Melville
Henry James
Virginia Woolf
E M Forster
Aldous Huxley
George Orwell
Albert Camus
Jack Kerouac
Herman Hesse
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Willa Cather
Tennessee Williams
Eugene O'Neill
A A Milne
Hans Christian Andersen
Beatrix Potter
Leon Bloy
Marcel Proust
Thomas Mann
J D Salinger
Harper Lee
Madeleine L'Engle
Jean Rhys
Alice Walker
James Herriot
Kazuo Ishiguro
Chuck Palahniuk
Sebastien Faulks
Zadie Smith
Yukio Mishima
Bret Easton Ellis
Alan Moore
David Foster Wallace
Terry Pratchett
Neil Gaiman
Haruki Murakami
Terry Brooks
Douglas Coupland
Dylan Thomas
Lu Xun
Italo Calvino
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gore Vidal
Michael Ondaatje
Chinua Achebe
Dave Eggers
Maya Angelou
Paul Auster
Novalis
Pat Conroy
Robert Frost
William Hazlitt
Stephen Chbosky
Carson McCullers
Anna Sewell
Hubert Selby Jr
Irvine Welsh
Patrick Süskind
Paul Claudel
Christina Rossetti
John Berryman
Thomas Gray
Iain Banks
Bill Bryson
E E Cummings
Petrarch
Thomas Hardy
Charles Bukowski
Robert Browning
Leo Tolstoy
John Milton
J R R Tolkien


INFJ
Geoffrey Chaucer
Dante
Goethe
William Blake
Emily Dickinson
Charlotte Bronte
Robert Burns
Robert Louis Stevenson
George Eliot
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nella Larsen
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Joseph Conrad
G K Chesterton
Charles Peguy
Simone De Beauvoir
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
Salman Rushdie
Anne Rice
Dan Brown
Milan Kundera
Ian McEwan
Angela Carter
Tom Stoppard
Gerard Manley Hopkins
John Buchan
Sylvia Plath
Khalil Gibran
Donald Barthelme
Arthur Miller
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Anaïs Nin
Joan Didion
Victor Hugo
Orson Scott Card
James Joyce
Vladimir Nabokov
Ralph Waldo Emerson
W B Yeats
Stephen King
Walter Pater
J K Rowling


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
Juvenal
Henry Fielding
John Webster
Nikolai Gogol
Thomas Bernhard
Philip Roth


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
Robert A Heinlein
H P Lovecraft
J M Coetzee
Umberto Eco
Neal Stephenson
Margaret Atwood
Franz Kafka
Robert Walser
Knut Hamsun
William Makepeace Thackeray
H G Wells
Thomas De Quincey
Robert Musil


ENTP
Thomas More
Lewis Caroll
Oscar Wilde
Truman Capote
Hunter S Thompson
Douglas Adams
Hilaire Belloc
Ray Bradbury
Roald Dahl
Diana Wynne Jones
Voltaire
Jules Verne
Ken Kesey
Henry Miller
Allen Ginsberg
D H Lawrence
Charles Baudelaire
Arthur Rimbaud
Michel de Montaigne
Tom Robbins
John Donne
Lord Byron
Christopher Marlowe


ISFP
John Steinbeck
Ian Fleming
Jeanette Winterson
Daphne Du Maurier
Mario Puzo
John Irving
William Wordsworth
Colin MacInnes
Quentin Blake
F Scott Fitzgerald
J M Barrie
John Ashberry
Don DeLillo
Alex Garland


ISFJ
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Louisa May Alcott
John Betjeman
Seamus Heaney
Samuel Richardson
W H Auden
Jeffrey Eugenides
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Arthur Conan Doyle
Agatha Christie


ENFP
Charles Dickens
Mark Twain
Alexander Pushkin
Edith Wharton
L. Ron Hubbard
Upton Sinclair
Alexander Dumas
Percy Shelley
Thomas Kyd
Walt Whitman
Jay McInerney
John Gay


ENFJ
Ivan Turgenev
Toni Morrison
Enid Blyton
Ezra Pound
Nick Hornby
John Updike
Stephen Fry


ENTJ
Jack London
George Bernard Shaw
Frank Herbert
Daniel Defoe
Dan Simmons


ESTP
Ernest Hemingway
Norman Mailer


ISTJ
Ben Jonson
William Wycherley


ISTP
P G Wodehouse
Frank Miller


ESTJ
Samuel Johnson


ESFP
Stephanie Meyer


Incomplete typings
Georges Bernanos: xNFP
Taras Shevchenko: xNFP
Arthur C Clarke: xNTx
Adam Mickiewicz: INFx
William Golding: INTx
Rudyard Kipling: xNFx
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: xNFx
Bram Stoker: INFx
Sinclair Lewis: IxFx
John Ford: EnfJ
Benjamin Disraeli: ENxx
Peter S Beagle: xNFx
Patrick Süskind: INxP
Katherine Mansfield: xNFx
Thomas Love Peacock: INTP?
C. S. Forester: INxJ
Raymond Chandler: ISTx
L P Hartley: IxFJ
Joyce Carol Oates: INxP
Anton Chekhov: xNFP
Amos Oz: INxP
Dorothy Parker: IxxP

 

[Kool Keith]

That's a big list you have there. What are those based on?

Someone please type Michael Chabon.

 

[OrangeAppled]

^ Opinions!

Looking good too...I like this list

 

[Space_Oddity]

J. K. Rowling is definitely an INFJ.

You have Angela Carter under both INFP and INFJ - I'm pretty sure she's an INFJ. (I love her, btw!)

I'd add J. R. R. Tolkien and Sherwood Anderson to the INFP authors.

I think that Virginia Woolf is more INFJ though. William Faulkner is an INFJ as well, imo.

Considering that an ENTP classmate of mine from high school highly identifies with Robert Musil's works, I'd say that Robert Musil might be an INTP.

I agree on many others though... it looks like a good list

 

[Zenihita]

Charles Bukowski - INFP?
I object I have no arguments to support my objections, but still. How can he be INFP?
And Arthur Rimbaud as ENTP doesn't seem right as well. Although he could be.

This is the most useless comment ever, sorry

EDIT: I'll add some speculation: on Bukowski, it's his focus on sex and violence and general attitude towards these things that swayed me, giving an impression of a sensor I guess, but I checked his biography and tried to remember his writing, and he might as well be INFP. A kind of a burnout version
As for Rimbaud, it's purely personal impression, he's my favourite poet, so you know I would think (or want) him to be a NF. But when you really analyze his poems, he doesn't appear to be F.

 

[Totenkindly]

Junk dumped.

Keep responses sensible and contributing SOMETHING to the discussion, please.

 

[Mondo]

This is a long list.
I definitely can't touch base on all of them.. but I'll do my best for a few.

I agree with you that Mark Twain is an ENFP.
He writes so much like one. His stories are filled with cynicism but at the same time, a wish and hope that things can change for the better.

I would argue that Aldous Huxley and George Orwell were more so ENFP's than INFP's actually- since neither of them really seemed uncomfortable with the prospect of being thrust into the public spotlight like an INFP write would.

Isaac Asimov was definitely an INTP- I'd possibly say ENTP since he's written so much but his speaking style seems more like an Introvert than Extravert. Watch any video with him and you'll see for yourself. He speaks clearly and takes his time to make sure what he says is precise.. while an ENTP just doesn't care about that as much.

Jane Austen.. I've always had a hard time deciding whether she was an INTJ or ESFJ. That's probably because IMO Fitzwilliam Darcy is a clear INTJ but Elizabeth Bennett is a clear ESFJ.
It's easy to think that she is the same type as Elizabeth BUT her writing style seems so much more NT-ish.. I'm tempted to agree with you on INTJ.

James Joyce, IMO, was more likely an INFP than INFJ. I've only read "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man", but I'm assuming his main character Stephen was supposed to be somewhat based on himself.. and he was very open-ended, letting his emotions and passion for art lead him to his "destiny".

Ayn Rand.. I've read all of her fiction. A lot of people here are going to disagree with me but I don't think she's an INTJ at all. ISTJ fits her a lot better.
Ayn Rand wasn't interested in looking for new information to help adapt her philosophy. She was very narrow in this respect. The quest of knowledge didn't seem to interest her much at all.. not that SJ's can't be interested in knowledge.. but it's a primary character trait of an NT.

From reading her fiction alone, it's easy to think of her as an NT. However, when you look at the woman herself, there is some doubt.

People described her as forceful and overbearing. She also actively extinguished any sort of dissent and was 100% stubborn about her ideas- in the sense that she wouldn't even allow a moment to think about it.. while, I would think, the INTJ would, by principle, want his/her ideas to be so logically consistent that even if someone were to point out a flaw.. while the INTJ's ego could be hurt- the INTJ would test and see how this works into his/her philosophy. Ayn Rand just didn't care about that. She wanted to belong to a group of "superior, enlightened people".. which is a desire of a neurotic SJ.

Ray Bradbury is clearly an INFP. Watch any video of him and you'll see.

 

[dynamiteninja]

I would argue that Aldous Huxley and George Orwell were more so ENFP's than INFP's actually- since neither of them really seemed uncomfortable with the prospect of being thrust into the public spotlight like an INFP write would.

This is very interesting.

James Joyce, IMO, was more likely an INFP than INFJ. I've only read "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man", but I'm assuming his main character Stephen was supposed to be somewhat based on himself.. and he was very open-ended, letting his emotions and passion for art lead him to his "destiny".

Interesting. Stephen certainly seems to me to be an INFP.

Ayn Rand.. I've read all of her fiction. A lot of people here are going to disagree with me but I don't think she's an INTJ at all. ISTJ fits her a lot better.
Ayn Rand wasn't interested in looking for new information to help adapt her philosophy. She was very narrow in this respect. The quest of knowledge didn't seem to interest her much at all.. not that SJ's can't be interested in knowledge.. but it's a primary character trait of an NT.

From reading her fiction alone, it's easy to think of her as an NT. However, when you look at the woman herself, there is some doubt.

People described her as forceful and overbearing. She also actively extinguished any sort of dissent and was 100% stubborn about her ideas- in the sense that she wouldn't even allow a moment to think about it.. while, I would think, the INTJ would, by principle, want his/her ideas to be so logically consistent that even if someone were to point out a flaw.. while the INTJ's ego could be hurt- the INTJ would test and see how this works into his/her philosophy. Ayn Rand just didn't care about that. She wanted to belong to a group of "superior, enlightened people".. which is a desire of a neurotic SJ.

Interesting.

Ray Bradbury is clearly an INFP. Watch any video of him and you'll see.

??? I don't see INFP at all!

 

[Space_Oddity]

Jane Austen.. I've always had a hard time deciding whether she was an INTJ or ESFJ. That's probably because IMO Fitzwilliam Darcy is a clear INTJ but Elizabeth Bennett is a clear ESFJ.
It's easy to think that she is the same type as Elizabeth BUT her writing style seems so much more NT-ish.. I'm tempted to agree with you on INTJ.

I'm sorry but --
Elizabeth Bennet an ESFJ????!!!!!!!
I strongly disagree with this typing. In my opinion, Elizabeth is definitely an ENTP (I've seen her typed as an ENFP as well, but I think she's more of an intellectual and her and Darcy are philosophical soulmates). The archetypal ESFJ in P&P is her mother - an almost polar opposite of Elizabeth and extremely annoying to INTJ Darcy.
I'd think that Austen was either an INTJ or an ENTP - definitely a type that has a great insight into human characters and can observe them, analyze them and make fun of them from a rather detached perspective. That sounds nothing like an ESFJ, imo.

 

[dynamiteninja]

I'm sorry but --
Elizabeth Bennet an ESFJ????!!!!!!!
I strongly disagree with this typing. In my opinion, Elizabeth is definitely an ENTP (I've seen her typed as an ENFP as well, but I think she's more of an intellectual and her and Darcy are philosophical soulmates). The archetypal ESFJ in P&P is her mother - an almost polar opposite of Elizabeth and extremely annoying to INTJ Darcy.
I'd think that Austen was either an INTJ or an ENTP - definitely a type that has a great insight into human characters and can observe them, analyze them and make fun of them from a rather detached perspective. That sounds nothing like an ESFJ, imo.

The Austen debate seems to have moved to the INFJ thread... That shouldn't mean this thread is dead though!

 

[Space_Oddity]

Ok...

I disagree with J.R.R. Tolkien's typing - his books as well as his life are soaked in Fi. Not every absent-minded professor is an INTP. INFP and INTP absent-minded professors appear very similar outwardly, so one has to look carefully at the Fi-Ti difference. Tolkien was certainly an INFP imo, very similar to my dad actually.

I still maintain that J.K. Rowling is an INFJ... but there will be a thread on her somewhere already, won't it?

Angela Carter - definitely an INFJ imo (as much as I'd love to claim her). Her works are full of symbols, there are always very specific allusions to different works or traditions, her imagination is directed inwards and it 'specifies' rather than 'amplifies' = Ni, not Ne.

I really wonder about Oscar Wilde's true type... I could see the ENTP for his plays, but 'Happy Prince and Other Stories' screams F to me (and most personality pages list him as an INFP). Angela Carter was likened to him as far as I've read, which really got me thinking about his type.

 

[dynamiteninja]

Ok...

I disagree with J.R.R. Tolkien's typing - his books as well as his life are soaked in Fi. Not every absent-minded professor is an INTP. INFP and INTP absent-minded professors appear very similar outwardly, so one has to look carefully at the Fi-Ti difference. Tolkien was certainly an INFP imo, very similar to my dad actually.

I still maintain that J.K. Rowling is an INFJ... but there will be a thread on her somewhere already, won't it?

Angela Carter - definitely an INFJ imo (as much as I'd love to claim her). Her works are full of symbols, there are always very specific allusions to different works or traditions, her imagination is directed inwards and it 'specifies' rather than 'amplifies' = Ni, not Ne.

I really wonder about Oscar Wilde's true type... I could see the ENTP for his plays, but 'Happy Prince and Other Stories' screams F to me (and most personality pages list him as an INFP). Angela Carter was likened to him as far as I've read, which really got me thinking about his type.

I agree with all of these, apart from Wilde. I take your point, but ENTP just fits the best so far.

 

[Killjoy]

This is a long list.


James Joyce, IMO, was more likely an INFP than INFJ. I've only read "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man", but I'm assuming his main character Stephen was supposed to be somewhat based on himself.. and he was very open-ended, letting his emotions and passion for art lead him to his "destiny".

Ayn Rand.. I've read all of her fiction. A lot of people here are going to disagree with me but I don't think she's an INTJ at all. ISTJ fits her a lot better.
Ayn Rand wasn't interested in looking for new information to help adapt her philosophy. She was very narrow in this respect. The quest of knowledge didn't seem to interest her much at all.. not that SJ's can't be interested in knowledge.. but it's a primary character trait of an NT.

From reading her fiction alone, it's easy to think of her as an NT. However, when you look at the woman herself, there is some doubt.

People described her as forceful and overbearing. She also actively extinguished any sort of dissent and was 100% stubborn about her ideas- in the sense that she wouldn't even allow a moment to think about it.. while, I would think, the INTJ would, by principle, want his/her ideas to be so logically consistent that even if someone were to point out a flaw.. while the INTJ's ego could be hurt- the INTJ would test and see how this works into his/her philosophy. Ayn Rand just didn't care about that. She wanted to belong to a group of "superior, enlightened people".. which is a desire of a neurotic SJ.

I see much Ti in Joyce, and he seems more of an extraverted feeler. I initially had him typed as INTP, but others have made interesting arguments for his being Ni dominant and I have to say INFJ seems to fit him better than INFP.


As for Ayn Rand - an SJ Philosopher? That could explain why she sucks so much.

 

[Space_Oddity]

I agree with all of these, apart from Wilde. I take your point, but ENTP just fits the best so far.

Perhaps this is just a meaningless idea, but couldn't Wilde be an ENFJ after all? The judging functions would be the same as for ENTP, and the more I learn about typology the more Ni+Se I see in Wilde's works.

(Also, I confess I have this strange vibe that Stephen Fry is the same type as him - which is why he portrayed him so convincingly, imo - and you have him listed as an ENFJ in your celebrity type list... Besides that, I have an ENFJ gay friend who has a very similar 'vibe', sense of humor and imagination like these two... oh, the science)

 

[dynamiteninja]

Perhaps this is just a meaningless idea, but couldn't Wilde be an ENFJ after all? The judging functions would be the same as for ENTP, and the more I learn about typology the more Ni+Se I see in Wilde's works.

(Also, I confess I have this strange vibe that Stephen Fry is the same type as him - which is why he portrayed him so convincingly, imo - and you have him listed as an ENFJ in your celebrity type list... Besides that, I have an ENFJ gay friend who has a very similar 'vibe', sense of humor and imagination like these two... oh, the science)

He does kinda have an ENFJ look about him. By jove, I think you may be right.

 

[Space_Oddity]

He does kinda have an ENFJ look about him. By jove, I think you may be right.

Wow. That would be really great if we finally nailed him, he's pretty hard to figure out!

 

[dynamiteninja]

Wow. That would be really great if we finally nailed him, he's pretty hard to figure out!

I'll change him to ENFJ (and any other subsequent typings) on the next DN's list I make as I can't edit my OP any more.

 

[dynamiteninja]

Feel free to continue to contest my list or add suggestions to it. I'll add them when I next repost the list.

 

[Kaveri]

J. K. Rowling is definitely an NF... and she does have the INFJ eyes...

I don't know anything about her character but her HP books, especially the last one, scream NF to me. Ha, I used to think that she's an INTP because she's not very good at writing about romance, but seems more focused on creating the perfect plotline. But the last book especially was so value-oriented that I must have been wrong.

 

[lamp]

I have started reading some lovecraft and he seems INP, probably INTP to me.