- Award Category: All-Time Best Fantasy Novelist Award Category Record # 320
- Award Type: Locus Poll Award
| 1987 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | ---- | J. R. R. Tolkien |
| 2 | ---- | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| 3 | ---- | Anne McCaffrey |
| 4 | ---- | Peter S. Beagle |
| 5 | ---- | Gene Wolfe |
| 6 | ---- | Roger Zelazny |
| 7 | ---- | Stephen R. Donaldson |
| 8 | ---- | Stephen King |
| 9 | ---- | T. H. White |
| 10 | ---- | Lewis Carroll |
| 11 | ---- | Patricia A. McKillip |
| 12 | ---- | John Crowley |
| 13 | ---- | Mervyn Peake |
| 14 | ---- | Fritz Leiber |
| 14 | ---- | Jack Vance |
| 16 | ---- | C. S. Lewis |
| 17 | ---- | L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt |
| 18 | ---- | Michael Moorcock |
| 19 | ---- | Richard Adams |
| 20 | ---- | Piers Anthony |
| 21 | ---- | Katherine Kurtz |
| 22 | ---- | Poul Anderson |
| 22 | ---- | Ray Bradbury |
| 22 | ---- | Andre Norton |
| 25 | ---- | Robert A. Heinlein |
| 26 | ---- | Robert Silverberg |
| 27 | ---- | L. Frank Baum |
| 28 | ---- | John Myers Myers |
| 29 | ---- | Robert E. Howard |