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Who influenced Charles Dickens?

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Who was influenced by Charles Dickens?

  • Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    Russian novelist (1821–1881)

    Influenced 37

    Influenced by 18

  • Robert Louis Stevenson

    Scottish novelist and poet (1850–1894)

    Influenced 21

    Influenced by 4

  • Leo Tolstoy

    Russian author (1828–1910)

    Influenced 19

    Influenced by 20

  • T. S. Eliot

    US-born British poet (1888–1965)

    Influenced 12

    Influenced by 28

  • George Orwell

    British writer and journalist

    Influenced 10

    Influenced by 1

  • Walt Whitman

    American poet, essayist and journalist

    Influenced 9

    Influenced by 8

  • Gene Wolfe

    American science fiction and fantasy writer

    Influenced 7

    Influenced by 20

  • Ray Bradbury

    American author and screenwriter

    Influenced 6

    Influenced by 21

  • Joyce Carol Oates

    American author

    Influenced 4

    Influenced by 15

  • Roald Dahl

    British writer and poet (1916–1990)

    Influenced 3

    Influenced by 6

  • George Bernard Shaw

    Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856–1950)

    Influenced 2

    Influenced by 5

  • Margaret Atwood

    Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pépiniériste and inventor

    Influenced 2

    Influenced by 15

  • Maya Angelou

    American poet, author, and civil rights activist (1928–2014)

    Influenced 2

    Influenced by 5

  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    American poet and educator (1807–1882)

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 3

  • Jonathan Lethem

    American novelist, essayist, short story writer, Roy E. Disney Chair in Creative Writing, Pomona College

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 26

  • Bolesław Prus

    Polish novelist (1847–1912)

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 9

  • China Miéville

    English writer, critic, and activist (born 1972)

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 19

  • Shelby Foote

    American novelist, historian (1916-2005)

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 7

  • Tom Wolfe

    American author and journalist (1930–2018)

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 8