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Top 100 Authors in United States

This curated ranking covers the 100 largest authors in United States, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 1.6k authors tracked in United States, the 100 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Candace Owens, Caroline Kennedy and Stephen King lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 27M people. Across all 100 entries the average audience size is 1.7M, and the largest, Candace Owens, reaches around 15M people in United States. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in United States who actively engage with each author, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across United States and are refreshed weekly.

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Rank

Position in the Top 100, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated weekly.

Audience size

Estimated number of unique people in United States who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in United States. A higher value means the audience is more locally concentrated here.

Avg age

Average age in years across the people who engage with this audience in United States, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals. A dash means demographic data is not yet available.

Female share

Share of women among the people who engage with this audience in United States. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
51 Elizabeth Gilbert 1.1M 40.9 76.9% Author
52 Toni Morrison 1.1M 42.1 68.6% Author
53 Aleister Crowley 1.1M 41.3 63.1% Author
54 Nostradamus 1.1M 46.4 51.6% Author
55 Emily Dickinson 1.1M 40.5 68.1% Author
56 Kristin Hannah 1.1M 47.6 83.8% Author
57 Margaret Atwood 1M 45.0 74.7% Author
58 Tom Clancy 1M 48.4 45.7% Author
59 John Green (author) 979k 39.2 71.1% Author
60 John Grisham 956k 49.4 63.2% Author
61 Angela Davis 950k 33.8 66.0% Author
62 F. Scott Fitzgerald 924k 42.5 57.2% Author
63 W. E. B. Du Bois 920k 44.7 57.5% Author
64 Andy Weir 910k 39.6 34.2% Author
65 Virginia Woolf 901k 41.3 79.2% Author
66 Kurt Vonnegut 899k 43.4 39.6% Author
67 Sam Harris (author) 879k 43.6 53.2% Author
68 Franz Kafka 874k 37.5 61.7% Author
69 Alan Watts 869k 39.2 58.5% Author
70 Coretta Scott King 864k 39.9 52.4% Author
71 Nora Roberts 838k 39.5 75.3% Author
72 Brad Falchuk 828k 38.0 72.4% Author
73 Michael Crichton 827k 49.6 44.0% Author
74 John Steinbeck 812k 47.1 64.5% Author
75 Nicholas Sparks 799k 39.4 79.8% Author

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Frequently asked questions

How is this Top 100 list compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across United States and ranks each author by its estimated audience size. Only entries with at least 5 measured entities are listed.

How often is the list updated?

The ranking is refreshed weekly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.

What is the largest author in United States?

Candace Owens currently leads with an estimated audience of 15M people in United States.

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