writers who wrote the largest number of masterpieces from their entire works

I'm not sure I understand the thread question.

Homer

One of the inherent problems with this thread is that so few writers are capable of writing anything that can be called a masterpiece by consensus. Those few tend to maintain a consistently high standard across the great majority of their works.

F'rinstance, does G.B. Shaw qualify here? He had an interesting mind. His work was always extremely characteristic of him, all sharing the same viewpoint and the same quality of wit and argument. But are they masterpieces? Some people despise them.

What is the ideal mixture of pluralism vs consensus?

gabbneb

Henry James
George Eliot
Woolf

I read something by Shaw a little while ago, and was thrown by reading in the brief author's bio that he'd won an Oscar, which seems too contemporary and weird. I also remembered reading (and forgetting) that before, and being just as thrown by it the last time. Which is a roundabout way of saying I have the memory and capacity for surprise of a goldfish, I guess.

Oscar Wilde

JK Rowling - sales make masterpieces, don't they?

A) If sales make masterpieces, then Clan of the Cave Bear is a masterpiece.

B) Clan of the Cave Bear is not a masterpiece.

c) Therefore, sales do not make masterpieces.

Chekhov