You just listed five male authors.

(Three of whom I’ve read, as it happens).

I suggest YOU expand your fantasy reading. Try LeGuin, Moon, Kerr, McKillip, Hobb, for starters.

All excellent authors. All created incredible stories.

All underpromoted and passed over by an industry that considered them less than their male counterparts.

This article is not an exhaustive list of every fantasy author and series ever produced. It is a discussion of the tentpole series of the genre, WHY they are the tentpole series, and how they have influenced other, smaller series, as well as the perception of the genre by gatekeeping men who claim to be its only true fans.

(A lot of people didn’t seem to have trouble grasping that fact.)