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[NT] NT authors/poets

dynamiteninja

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

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

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

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


Perhaps Patrick Süskind, Thomas Love Peacock and C. S. Forester are NTs?


I want to hear agreements/disagreements with the above list and other suggestions...
 

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Samuel Beckett, I would say is more like ISTJ. He is one of the favourite authors of a promiment comedian in germany, who is ISTJ aswell. I only saw "Waiting for Godot" on stage and it was very artistic, showing hard and fast beliefs and morales as concrete sensational objects, graspable by the audience. It didnt create new meaning, rather transformed things onto a new realm of perception.

I will look up other authors later. Have a pizza in the oven :D
 

dynamiteninja

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Samuel Beckett, I would say is more like ISTJ. He is one of the favourite authors of a promiment comedian in germany, who is ISTJ aswell. I only saw "Waiting for Godot" on stage and it was very artistic, showing hard and fast beliefs and morales as concrete sensational objects, graspable by the audience. It didnt create new meaning, rather transformed things onto a new realm of perception.

I will look up other authors later. Have a pizza in the oven :D

Very interesting. I would like to hear the viewpoints of others on his type.
 

jenocyde

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Hunter S. Thomson is my hero.
 

CJ99

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Roald Dahl!
His book boy is even funnier the the NT child thread!
 

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Samuel Beckett, I would say is more like ISTJ. He is one of the favourite authors of a promiment comedian in germany, who is ISTJ aswell. I only saw "Waiting for Godot" on stage and it was very artistic, showing hard and fast beliefs and morales as concrete sensational objects, graspable by the audience. It didnt create new meaning, rather transformed things onto a new realm of perception.

I will look up other authors later. Have a pizza in the oven :D


I highly doubt Beckett could be anything but an INxx..

INTJ or INTP seems most likely, but not ISTJ.
 

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Tom Robbins is some sort of NT I'm pretty sure.
 

Haphazard

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I've heard Jack London as ISTP, but I've never really studied him.
 

Orangey

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And what about Kurt Vonnegut Jr.? I'm sure he's an NT as well. Maybe INTP.
 

auriel

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I don't mean to stereotype here, but why was Coatzee typed as an INTP?

And as much as I want him to be INTP (being an INTP-leaning aspiring novelist more interested in writing about emotions and the human condition than abstract ideas...I know, fail) his biography seems pretty NF. I mean, I was really into environmentalism as a child, so it isn't like no INTP can ever be into "causes" or even feel strongly about them, but I mean...he's a vegan and his idealism dominates his life. I'm not necessarily diagreeing here, he has that INTP cynicism and fascination with the morbid (plus his eyes are quite NT) I just want to know why. Is there evidence of Ti-Ne in his writing?

I do think Tolkien was, though. The obsession with inventing languages, the degree to which he fleshed out the societies (systems) of Middle-Earth...it pretty much screams INTP. I honestly don't understand why he's so often typed as an NF...
 

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Dan Brown and Sherri Tepper would both have to be INTP and Anne Rice would have to be xNFP
 

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What do you think about Michel Houellebecq?
 

auriel

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I don't mean to stereotype here, but why was Coatzee typed as an INTP?

And as much as I want him to be INTP (being an INTP-leaning aspiring novelist more interested in writing about emotions and the human condition than abstract ideas...I know, fail) his biography seems pretty NF. I mean, I was really into environmentalism as a child, so it isn't like no INTP can ever be into "causes" or even feel strongly about them, but I mean...he's a vegan and his idealism dominates his life. I'm not necessarily diagreeing here, he has that INTP cynicism and fascination with the morbid (plus his eyes are quite NT) I just want to know why. Is there evidence of Ti-Ne in his writing?

I do think Tolkien was, though. The obsession with inventing languages, the degree to which he fleshed out the societies (systems) of Middle-Earth...it pretty much screams INTP. I honestly don't understand why he's so often typed as an NF...

Changed my mind. I met more INTP's. :)
 

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Dan Brown and Sherri Tepper would both have to be INTP and Anne Rice would have to be xNFP

Absolutely on Sherri Tepper. I'm not much for meeting people but I'd give my eye-teeth to talk with or meet her just once. Well...at least communicate by email.

She needs to put some more books out...I get tired of waiting, ya know?

What about Julian May? And Mary Gentle? INTP as well?
 

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And here I though that an INTP poet would write 0010101100010101010100 101010101001 0101 0101010101 0101010101 010101010100100 1000101 0101000101 01001010100010 0101010 1010101 010, I know, it's not funny, but still.
 

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I remember reading somewhere that Nietzche was an INTJ. I do love C.S. Lewis' writing. He is quite an inspiration to me.
 
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