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[james_davis_nicoll]

Who is the best English-language author without a US publisher?

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[nihilistic-kid.livejournal.com]

And I want to know what "without a publisher" means? Do periodicals count? Backlist in print but no new books forthcoming from US publishers? Without a multi-book deal and thus a more or less guaranteed appearance on the shelves on an annual/biennial basis? Someone who was just dropped?

[dsrtao]

My intuitive understanding is "is writing books, gets them published in other countries, has no current publisher in the US, and none of that is a recent status change".

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Backlist in print but no new books forthcoming from US publishers will do.

I don't care about periodicals.

[nihilistic-kid.livejournal.com]

Ligotti?

[dhole.livejournal.com]

William Shakespeare.