Lucy Maud Montgomery
1874 - 1942
HPI 74.4051 languages
Lucy Maud Montgomery is most famous for her novel, Anne of Green Gables.
The Most Famous
Writers from Canada
60 notable people
Top 10 Canadian Writers
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the top 10 most legendary Canadian Writers of all time. This list of famous Canadian Writers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity. Visit the rankings page to view the entire list of Canadian Writers.
#1 #2 
Margaret Atwood
b. 1939
HPI 72.8679 languagesMargaret Atwood is most famous for her dystopian novel, The Handmaid's Tale.
#3 
Saul Bellow
1915 - 2005
HPI 72.79100 languagesSaul Bellow is most famous for his novels "The Adventures of Augie March" and "Humboldt's Gift."
#4 
Alice Munro
1931 - 2024
HPI 72.14106 languagesAlice Munro is a Canadian short story writer who has won the Nobel Prize in Literature. She is most famous for her short stories, which are often about ordinary people and their lives.
#5 
A. E. van Vogt
1912 - 2000
HPI 65.7033 languagesCanadian science fiction author (1912-2000)
#6 
David Morrell
b. 1943
HPI 63.3724 languagesCanadian writer
#7 
Robin Sharma
b. 1965
HPI 62.8432 languagesCanadian self help writer
#8 
Brian Tracy
b. 1944
HPI 62.7522 languagesAmerican motivational speaker and writer
#9 
Antonine Maillet
1929 - 2025
HPI 62.7227 languagesplaywright working in Quebec
#10 
Shulamith Firestone
1945 - 2012
HPI 60.6236 languagesCanadian-American radical feminist
People by Birth Decade
Browse notable Canadians Writers grouped by birth decade. Each decade shows the top 10 by HPI; expand to see everyone.
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Overlapping Lives
Which Writers were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 25 most globally memorable Writers since 1700.
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