Brain Pickings made this infographic called “Famous Writers’ Sleep Habits and Literary Productivity.” This infographic features names and drawings of several of the world’s most famous authors. It shows their years of birth and death, their wakeup time, the type of works they produced (such as nonfiction, fiction, and poetry), awards won, and productivity. The data was compiled from sources such as interviews and journals. The authors are listed in order from the earliest to latest risers. Authors included range from Haruki Murakami and Sylvia Plath to Vladimir Nabokov and Gertrude Stein.
