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DN's Author Type List V

dynamiteninja

Man for all seasons
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INFJ
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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
Alex Garland
David Foster Wallace
Terry Pratchett
Neil Gaiman
Haruki Murakami
Terry Brooks
Jay McInerney
Douglas Coupland
Dylan Thomas
Lu Xun
Italo Calvino
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gore Vidal
Michael Ondaatje
Chinua Achebe
Dave Eggers
Maya Angelou
Stephen King
Paul Auster
Novalis
Pat Conroy
Robert Frost
William Hazlitt
Stephen Chbosky
Carson McCullers
Thomas De Quincey
Anna Sewell
Hubert Selby Jr
Irvine Welsh
Patrick Süskind
Paul Claudel
Christina Rossetti
John Berryman
Thomas Gray
Angela Carter
Iain Banks
J K Rowling
Bill Bryson


INFJ
Geoffrey Chaucer
Dante
Goethe
John Milton
William Blake
Emily Dickinson
Charlotte Bronte
Robert Burns
Robert Louis Stevenson
George Eliot
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nella Larsen
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Joseph Conrad
James Joyce
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
Salman Rushdie
Anne Rice
Dan Brown
Milan Kundera
Ian McEwan
Angela Carter
Tom Stoppard
Agatha Christie
Gerard Manley Hopkins
John Buchan
Sylvia Plath
Khalil Gibran
W B Yeats
Donald Barthelme
Arthur Miller
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Anaïs Nin
Joan Didion
Victor Hugo
Vladimir Nabokov
James Joyce
Orson Scott Card


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
J R R Tolkien
Franz Kafka
Robert Walser
Knut Hamsun
William Makepeace Thackeray


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
Walt Whitman
Allen Ginsberg
D H Lawrence
Charles Baudelaire
Arthur Rimbaud
Michel de Montaigne
Tom Robbins
John Donne
Lord Byron
Christopher Marlowe


ENFP
Charles Dickens
Mark Twain
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Alexander Pushkin
Edith Wharton
L. Ron Hubbard
Upton Sinclair
Alexander Dumas
Percy Shelley
Thomas Kyd
Leo Tolstoy


ISFP
John Steinbeck
Ian Fleming
Jeanette Winterson
Daphne Du Maurier
Mario Puzo
John Irving
William Wordsworth
Colin MacInnes
Dorothy Parker
Quentin Blake
F Scott Fitzgerald
J M Barrie


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


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


ENTJ

Jack London
George Bernard Shaw
Frank Herbert
Daniel Defoe
Dan Simmons


ISTJ
Ben Jonson
William Wycherley


ISTP
P G Wodehouse


ESTP
Ernest Hemingway
Norman Mailer


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
Robert Browning: 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
H G Wells: INTx
Thomas Love Peacock: INTP?
C. S. Forester: INxJ
Raymond Chandler: ISTx
L P Hartley: IxFJ
Thomas Hardy: INFx
Robert Musil: INTx
Charles Bukowski: IxFP
Joyce Carol Oates: INxP
Don DeLillo: IxFP
Walter Pater: INFx
Anton Chekhov: xNFP
Amos Oz: INxP
 
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Polaris

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I'm going to revise my guess on Orson Scott Card's type. I watched a video clip of him, and there's no way he's an NP of any sort. I would guess NJ, probably with a preference for Feeling.

Video clip for reference: YouTube - NYCC ' 08 ORSON SCOTT CARD INTERVIEW


Now that I've seen a video of him, Dan Simmons is another one I'll revise my guess on. He comes off as much more of an ENTJ than an ISTP. Tertiary Se could explain the physicality of his writing. Or he might be an ESTP, too, the extraverted version of my original guess. I'm still thinking ENTJ, though.

Video clip for him: YouTube - Dan Simmons interview at Norwescon 31
 

dynamiteninja

Man for all seasons
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I'm going to revise my guess on Orson Scott Card's type. I watched a video clip of him, and there's no way he's an NP of any sort. I would guess NJ, probably with a preference for Feeling.

Video clip for reference: YouTube - NYCC ' 08 ORSON SCOTT CARD INTERVIEW


Now that I've seen a video of him, Dan Simmons is another one I'll revise my guess on. He comes off as much more of an ENTJ than an ISTP. Tertiary Se could explain the physicality of his writing. Or he might be an ESTP, too, the extraverted version of my original guess. I'm still thinking ENTJ, though.

Video clip for him: YouTube - Dan Simmons interview at Norwescon 31

Dan Simmons and Scott Card did strike me as being wrong, but there were no competing typings for them, so they stayed. I'll change em now. Scott Card an xNFJ then?
 

paintmuffin

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eNTP
Diana Wynne Jones, an ENTP?!
Congratulations, you just made my life. She's my idol!
 

Polaris

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Scott Card an xNFJ then?
Yes, I think so. Obviously it would be nice to change the first letter, but I can't decide because he sends mixed signals. On one hand, he has good use of Ti, which would be more common for an INFJ; on the the other hand, he likes to put himself out there and cause controversy as few introverts do.
 

dynamiteninja

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Yes, I think so. Obviously it would be nice to change the first letter, but I can't decide because he sends mixed signals. On one hand, he has good use of Ti, which would be more common for an INFJ; on the the other hand, he likes to put himself out there and cause controversy as few introverts do.

I haven't read him but I lean more INFJ for him due to the Ti thing. Introverts can cause controversy when they want to.
 

dynamiteninja

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Yes, I think so. Obviously it would be nice to change the first letter, but I can't decide because he sends mixed signals. On one hand, he has good use of Ti, which would be more common for an INFJ; on the the other hand, he likes to put himself out there and cause controversy as few introverts do.

Actually there are a lot of well informed people on this forum who think he is an INTJ...
 

Polaris

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dynamiteninja said:
I haven't read him but I lean more INFJ for him due to the Ti thing. Introverts can cause controversy when they want to.
That's true. I've had some controversy of my own, although as an introvert I find it exhausting.

Actually there are a lot of well informed people on this forum who think he is an INTJ...
I can't see him as an INTJ. It would be extremely unusual for an NT sci-fi writer to resist explaining things on a technical, impersonal level. In the books of his I've read, which is the Ender series, he does a lot of system building, but these systems are always used to illustrate ethical principles. There is far less concern with representing any kind of realistic or objective view of reality. And when I look at those systems (particularly the philotic links) and the broader thematic concerns, I see a lot of Fe. He focuses on connections between people and the clash of societies through misunderstanding. There is almost no Fi involved in any of it.
 

Southern Kross

Away with the fairies
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I would say William Makepeace Thackeray is a clear INTP. All that biting humour and the very intellectual investigation of character - definitely INTP.

May I suggest a few for debate which are not included on the list (from what I can see anyway):

Anton Chekhov - xNFP
James Joyce - INFx
Phillip K. Dick - xNTx
Amos Oz - INxP
Bill Bryson - ENxP
 

dynamiteninja

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I would say William Makepeace Thackeray is a clear INTP. All that biting humour and the very intellectual investigation of character - definitely INTP.

May I suggest a few for debate which are not included on the list (from what I can see anyway):

Anton Chekhov - xNFP
James Joyce - INFx
Phillip K. Dick - xNTx
Amos Oz - INxP
Bill Bryson - ENxP

Thanks with the Thackeray typing, I've been missing him for ages.

As for the others, Bryson is INFP without a doubt. Dick is on the list, he's INTP. Joyce is baffling everyone lol but thanks for the input. I orginally thought INFx for him, can you tell me why you think this?
 

Southern Kross

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Thanks with the Thackeray typing, I've been missing him for ages.

As for the others, Bryson is INFP without a doubt. Dick is on the list, he's INTP. Joyce is baffling everyone lol but thanks for the input. I orginally thought INFx for him, can you tell me why you think this?
Bryson an INFP? Hmmm, that might explain his appeal to me :D. I typed him as more E, despite his solitary method of travel, because of his confidence and sociability. He does remind me of an ENFP friend of mine that just loves to make jokes about herself. However, he could be a more sociable INFP.

As for Joyce, to me the intense emotional interiority of his works could only be written by an INFx
 

Lotr246

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Here are some quotes from Joyce on writing Dubliners:

"My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country."

"I believe that in composing my chapter of moral history in exactly the way that I have composed it I have taken the first step towards the spiritual liberation of my country."
 

dynamiteninja

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Here are some quotes from Joyce on writing Dubliners:

"My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country."

"I believe that in composing my chapter of moral history in exactly the way that I have composed it I have taken the first step towards the spiritual liberation of my country."

Lol. Sounds INFx to me.
 

AphroditeGoneAwry

failure to thrive
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sx/so
Here are some quotes from Joyce on writing Dubliners:

"My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country."

"I believe that in composing my chapter of moral history in exactly the way that I have composed it I have taken the first step towards the spiritual liberation of my country."

infj---just sayin, cuz i usually feel more 'full of myself' than any infp i've known.
 

Killjoy

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INTJ
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I think Rimbaud is actually ENFP.

Even though his public persona would be more characteristic of an ENTP, his poetry is that of an Introverted Feeler.

Same with Whitman and Ginsberg, actually.
 

the state i am in

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i would love to hear more, oedipa_maas. we seem to gravitate to much of the same art. your director typings intrigue me as well.

for you, as an intj, i would love to compare notes. i'm an infj 5w4 sx/sp.
 

dynamiteninja

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Ovid for INFP? Based on his writings he seems quite INFPish.
 
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