According to the French, it is Victor Hugo - hélas! But many authorities claim that Céline's French is so good we must forgive what he says in it.
The greatest writer of Latin prose is Cicero
Francesco Petrarch
no
Charles Wesley
He wrote the greatest plays anyone has ever written.
No, he was the selfcrowned emperor of France.
The greatest Methodist song writer is usually considered to be John Wesley's brother, Charles.
A. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Geoffrey Chaucer
Stan 'The Man' Lee .
The whole world recognizes Shakespeare as the greatest writer in English, and the greatest playwright in any language. There may be a debate whether Shakespeare is the finest writer of anything, when he is in competition with Goethe and Dante and Cervantes and people like that.
T.S. Elliot