Biographies of famous fictional characters

Book Magazine, now defunct, compiled a panel of 55 authors, literary agents, editors, and actors in to “rank the top one hundred characters in literature since ”

1. Jay Gatsby, The Great Gatsby, F.

   Scott Fitzgerald,

2. Holden Caulfield, The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger,
3. Humbert Humbert, Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov,
4. Leopold Bloom, Ulysses, James Joyce,
5. Rabbit Angstrom, Rabbit, Run, John Updike,
6. Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,
7. Atticus Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee,
8. Molly Bloom, Ulysses, James Joyce,
9. Stephen Dedalus, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce,
10. Lily Bart, The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton,
11. Holly Golightly, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Truman Capote,
12. Gregor Samsa, The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka,
13. The Invisible Man, Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison,
14. Lolita, Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov,
15. Aureliano Buendia, One Hundred Years of Solit