Writers agree that pens are mightier than swords. And apparently, tyrants and despots agree that jails are mightier than pens.
Let's find some list on authors of The Greatest Literature of All Time.
via neatorama
1) J.R.R. Tolkien
2) J.K. Rowling
3) Jane Austen
4) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
5) Edgar Allen Poe
6) Charles Dickens
7) Stephen King
8) C.S. Lewis
9) Oscar Wilde
10) John Grisham
via the-top-tens
full list via editoreric