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DN's Author Type List VII

dynamiteninja

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<b>INFP</b>
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
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
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
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
Sherwood Anderson
J R R Tolkien
Ray Bradbury


<b>INFJ</b>
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
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
Ralph Waldo Emerson
W B Yeats
Stephen King
J K Rowling
Walter Pater
Jorge Luis Borges
Jonathan Safran Foer
Tennessee Williams
T S Eliot


<b>INTJ</b>
Jane Austen
C S Lewis
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
Salman Rushdie
Don DeLillo


<b>INTP</b>
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


<b>ENTP</b>
Thomas More
Lewis Caroll
Truman Capote
Hunter S Thompson
Douglas Adams
Hilaire Belloc
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
Benjamin Disraeli
Laurence Sterne
Daniel Defoe


<b>ENFP</b>
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
Pablo Neruda
Dave Eggers


<b>ISFP</b>
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
Alex Garland
Ernest Hemingway


<b>ISFJ</b>
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


<b>ENFJ</b>
Oscar Wilde
Ivan Turgenev
Toni Morrison
Ezra Pound
Nick Hornby
John Updike
Stephen Fry
Enid Blyton


<b>ENTJ</b>
Jack London
George Bernard Shaw
Frank Herbert
Dan Simmons
Bret Easton Ellis
Norman Mailer
Samuel Johnson


<b>ISTJ</b>
Jonathan Swift
Ben Jonson
William Wycherley


<b>ISTP</b>
P G Wodehouse
Frank Miller


<b>ESFP</b>
Stephanie Meyer


<b>Incomplete typings</b>
Georges Bernanos: xNFP
Taras Shevchenko: xNFP
Arthur C Clarke: xNTx
Adam Mickiewicz: INFx
William Golding: IxTP
Rudyard Kipling: xNFx
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: xNFx
Bram Stoker: INFx
Sinclair Lewis: IxFx
John Ford: EnfJ
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
V S Naipaul: INxJ
 

dynamiteninja

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Interested to hear what people think: it's changed from before, so please read it through. Don't be afraid to hack it to bits. I want debate.
 

neptunesnet

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I'm pretty sure Kerouac and Whitman are ISFP.

Burn, burn, burn seems FiSe to me while Whitman uses the individualism and interconnectedness theme often enough for him to be crowned Fi-dominant.

I've also seen Palahniuk typed as ISTP on this forum. I exactly can't say, but as I consider Fight Club, I'm thinking ISxP. And Oscar Wilde is so ENTP it hurts. He engages in far too much shock value for me not to type him as such.
 

dynamiteninja

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I'm pretty sure Kerouac and Whitman are ISFP.

Burn, burn, burn seems FiSe to me while Whitman uses the individualism and interconnectedness theme often enough for him to be crowned Fi-dominant.

I've also seen Palahniuk typed as ISTP on this forum. I exactly can't say, but ss I consider Fight Club, I'm thinking ISxP. And Oscar Wilde is so ENTP it hurts. He engages in far too much shock value for me not to type him as such.

Point taken on Palahniuk. I remember seeing your/an argument about him now, I'll change him in my next list.

I'm open on the other two, partic. Kerouac, can you explain how you came to these conclusions?
 

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*feels left out*

:sadbanana:

(how about some travel/food writers like Chuck Thompson and Anthony Bourdain... then you could have some ESTPs AND a chunk of my bookshelf!)
 

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*feels left out*

:sadbanana:

(how about some travel/food writers like Chuck Thompson and Anthony Bourdain... then you could have some ESTPs AND a chunk of my bookshelf!)

That's how INFPs feel about a list of Great Military Leaders ;)
 

nanook

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do you have an idea about peter ragnar's type? if he is like infp than he has not written enough to be in a list like that, but if he happens to be estp, other criterion should be applied, as i believe that an estp would typically excel as author by being an example (embodiment) of what he writes about, which is what peter ragnar does. or crocodile Dundee. wait, dundee didnt write anything .. well ... i suppose he scratched his initials into the scull of some alligator.
 

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yeah... but there ARE estp authors :dry:

and how about Jack London? If not ESTP he's sure as hell an ISTP! :huh:

And Bierce for an ISTP as well... and where's Hemmingway? the dude oozes ESTP! :holy: And Damon Runyan is an ESxP for sure, I'm leaning towards ESTP! :cheese:

ANYONE can want to be an author... INFPs are just more likely to run a cult that convinces people to go to war instead of having to get all that unnecissary exercize! :devil:
 

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Kafka is INfP.

Also, how can you type Homer? He was either one person, two, or he (they) never even existed. We don't know anything about him except that he was supposedly blind and told stories.
 

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*keeps looking through bookshelf*

Richard Francis Burton if you've ever read up on the man (which I did after reading his translation of Arabian Nights :) )

Cassanova... real dude, real author, HAS to be an ESxP at least! (probably ESTP)

not to mention Kennedy was an author before being a politician... :newwink:
 

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I'm open on the other two, partic. Kerouac, can you explain how you came to these conclusions?

Kerouac's writing style.

For On the Road, he wrote as his thoughts came to him, and the original manuscript had no form and no real syntax. He just wrote in a sort of stream-of-consciousness way, and the story wasn't tailored or refined at all but just a scroll of text, really. I doubt an INFP would accept that. Ne would kick in and we'd start picking apart how exactly we could reach a more perfect idea of whatever our idea is (disillusioned with the reality of what we've created - doesn't match the dream), if that makes any sense. We tend to have some perfectionist tendencies when it comes to something we care about or believe in, and we tend to be overly analytical about those things, sometimes to a fault. Also, much of Road is autobiographical, thus I doubt too that an INFP would be hopping from Colorado to San Fran to Mexico and back just for the thrill of it, or to salve his loneliness. I've seen that more in ISFPs, even ESFPs, I know: they use a change in scenery and material things or more sensory, more external sources to resolve whatever emotional issues they're engaged in. I can't really see that happening for the more "cerebral" INFP, which is probably why we have a reputation for being the "brooding" type.

Frankly, I don't know what Kerouac believes in, and I think I'd get some indication of that from FiNe but not necessarily FiSe.


Whitman, however, could go both ways. It's just that I've always seen him as FiSe. I can't explain why, but if I come up with a better reason than "I just feel like that's right" I'll come back.
 

dynamiteninja

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Kerouac's writing style.

For On the Road, he wrote as his thoughts came to him, and the original manuscript had no form and no real syntax. He just wrote in a sort of stream-of-consciousness way, and the story wasn't tailored or refined at all but just a scroll of text, really. I doubt an INFP would accept that. Ne would kick in and we'd start picking apart how exactly we could reach a more perfect idea of whatever our idea is (disillusioned with the reality of what we've created - doesn't match the dream), if that makes any sense. We tend to have some perfectionist tendencies when it comes to something we care about or believe in, and we tend to be overly analytical about those things, sometimes to a fault. Also, much of Road is autobiographical, thus I doubt too that an INFP would be hopping from Colorado to San Fran to Mexico and back just for the thrill of it, or as a salve to his loneliness. I've seen that more in ISFPs, even ESFPs, I know: they use a change in scenery and material things or more sensory, more external sources to resolve whatever emotional issues they're engaged in. I can't really see that happening for the more "cerebral" INFP, which is probably why we have a reputation for being the "brooding" type.

Frankly, I don't know what Kerouac believes in, and I think I'd get some indication of that from FiNe but not necessarily FiSe.


Whitman, however, could go both ways. It's just that I've always seen him as FiSe. I can't explain why, but if I come up with a better reason than "I just feel like that's right" I'll come back.

I'm sold on Kerouac. I've changed my database so the next time I repost this he'll be an ISFP.
 

dynamiteninja

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Kafka is INfP.

Also, how can you type Homer? He was either one person, two, or he (they) never even existed. We don't know anything about him except that he was supposedly blind and told stories.

Well that one comes from a site with a few typings on it. I guess you can sometimes type someone based upon their works? I don't think that I would defend that assertion too boldly however.
 

elehci

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Has anyone read anything by A.S. Byatt? I think DN might have mentioned her in one of the previous discussions on an older list, though she's not on the main list (yet!)

Anyway, any idea what type she might be?
(I think IxxJ, after watching some interviews on youtube too.. as for the rest, hmm.)
 

Invisiblemonkey

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INTPs... They're all gloomy! *Grabs a batman cape and starts brooding* Not really. (Especially since Batman's an ISTP) I think I'm starting to get the impression that INTPs are created by some sort of insane amount of gloominess/psychological stress... If some archetype had to be it, it might as well be INTP. (I've heard that Eeyore is an ISTJ, however.)
 

OrangeAppled

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Has anyone read anything by A.S. Byatt? I think DN might have mentioned her in one of the previous discussions on an older list, though she's not on the main list (yet!)

Anyway, any idea what type she might be?
(I think IxxJ, after watching some interviews on youtube too.. as for the rest, hmm.)

INxJ....not sure about Te or Fe, but leaning towards Fe.
 

dynamiteninja

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so DN why isnt cervantes an enfp?

These are other peoples' suggestions as much (if not more) as mine. I'm simply its self-appointed editor. I forget who suggested what exactly now its been so long... I'm sure if you search for it you'll find your answer...
 

auriel

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Lol, I love how Stephenie Meyer is actually on this list. I guess the ESFPs needed someone to represent them... ;)

In all seriousness, I think Coatzee's an INTJ. I thought he was an F before I read Disgrace because of his strong stances on animal rights, but changed my mind when I met sincerely vegetarian INTP's and, well, found out he used to be a computer programmer:newwink:. So I was content to see him as an INTP...but then I read up on him some more. He is apparently an incredibly scheduled person when it comes to writing and exercise - almost slavishly so - and is, well (okay, there's no nice way to say this) almost robotic in interviews. An Ne user would "emote" more, especially if they use Fe as well. His sparse, unornamented writing style also bespeaks an inferior S.

My gut feeling is that Atwood is an INTJ as well. Again, she has that monotone voice, plus her eyes tend to drift upwards and to the left (apparently a sign of Ni). Of course, that isn't enough evidence to slot her in for sure (counter arguments are welcome); it's just a hunch. But I'd bet money on it.
 
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