Authors with Most First Quotations

In most cases, the first example of a given word does not represent the actual coinage, merely the first example that has been discovered. Nonetheless, it's interesting to see who is at the top of the list.

Author Number of First Quotations
Edward E. Smith 44
Robert A. Heinlein 33
John W. Campbell, Jr. 33
Edmond Hamilton 28
Jack Williamson 22
Isaac Asimov 20
Poul Anderson 18
Nat Schachner 16
Harl Vincent 15
Forrest J. Ackerman 13
James Blish 12
H. G. Wells 11
Larry Niven 10
Ray Cummings 10
George Lucas 10
L. Sprague de Camp 10
Henry Kuttner 9
A. E. van Vogt 9
Murray Leinster 9
Malcolm Jameson 9
Robert Silverberg 9
George O. Smith 8
Nelson S. Bond 8
Arthur Leo Zagat 8
John Russell Fearn 7
Garrett P. Serviss 7
Fritz Leiber 7
J. R. R. Tolkien 7
Philip K. Dick 7
P. Schuyler Miller 7