I scanned BrainiacDating.com member database to find the most popular authors.
This table shows the frequency percent of response for the favorite author field in the member profiles.
Stephen King is the scary favorite!
| 1 | Stephen King | 5.7 |
| 2 | Edgar Allen Poe | 3.3 |
| 3 | William Shakespeare | 3.2 |
| 4 | John Grisham | 2.9 |
| 5 | Charles Dickens | 2.7 |
| 5 | Earnest Hemingway | 2.7 |
| 7 | J.R. Tolkien | 2.5 |
| 8 | Kurt Vonnegut | 2.4 |
| 9 | Isaac Asimov | 2.3 |
| 10 | John Steinbeck | 2.2 |
| 10 | Mark Twain | 2.2 |
| 12 | Jane Austen | 1.9 |
| 13 | Robert Heinlein | 1.8 |
| 13 | Dan Brown | 1.8 |
| 13 | James Joyce | 1.8 |
| 16 | Douglas Adams | 1.7 |
| 16 | Ayn Rand | 1.7 |
| 18 | Neil Gaiman | 1.6 |
| 18 | Dean Koontz | 1.6 |
| 18 | James Patterson | 1.6 |
| 21 | Tom Clancy | 1.5 |
| 21 | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 1.5 |
| 22 | J.K. Rowling | 1.4 |
| 23 | Margaret Atwood | 1.3 |
| 23 | Frank Herbert | 1.3 |
| 23 | Terry Pratchett | 1.3 |
| 23 | Anne Rice | 1.3 |
| 27 | William Faulkner | 1.2 |
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