Fav Author

[Guest Emily Violet]

ok whos your fav author

mines Edgar Allan Poe hes awsome in my opinion. his themes in his poems and short stories are amazing to me and how creates fear with his many deranged or tortured characters

[Guest Leigh]

i dont know that i could pick one........

probably Socrates..? or some religious author?

but for entertainment... Whitman..? dunno. i like old poetry...so.

ah. why do i even post in these threads...i'm so bad at picking favorites....*sigh*

peace&love

leigh

[Sally]

Wow Emily Violet!

Poe is one of my favorites and his collected works were the first books I ever read (two years before the great disapointment called Elementary School).

Also Shakespeare, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Douglas Adams.

It's not all Dark!

Love ya,

Sally

[Guest Elizabeth K]

Shakespeare is the master of English.

Tolstoy and Dostoevsky

Doug Adams and Terry Prachett

Jack L. Chalker and John Varley

James A. Michener

Heinline - Clark - Bradbury

Poe - Gaiman - James Tiptree - Greg Bear - Mary Parker Anderson

and anyone who keeps me interested all night and I can't put the book down

[Guest Naomi Stardust]

all of the above

(and likely all below too )

Lizzy already mentioned Ray Bradbury

so i'll go with poetry.... too many to choose from...

however because of all the bad news today i have to say:

Joy Harjo

[Guest Valentine]

Currently: Mercedes Lackey, David Weber, Steven Brust

In the past: Heinlein, Clarke, Asimov, Niven, Tolkien, Eddings

[Guest Emily Violet]

i like more authors but poe's my favorite

[Guest 1charlotte1]

Sylvia Plath

[Guest Neuro]

Hmmm My favorite author is William Golding and Issac Asimov. As well as JK.Rowling. c:

[Guest Crow]

Edgar Allen Poe, Stephan King, Oscar Wilde or Amelia Atwater Rhodes. Or you can just make it all of them!

[Guest Amelie]

Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami... I LOVE his stuff.

[Guest pattib]

F. Scott Fitzgerald . . . well, The Great Gastby by him.

I seriously luv that one!

[Sally]

Isn't it funny with all of the intellectuals here that no one has even mentioned one of the earliest novelist - Homer!

Oh well, we've all skipped Chaucer in our list too.

Sorry, I'm the child of an English major.

I forgot to list two of my favorites William Sydney Porter and Samuel Langhorne Clemens (O. Henry and Mark Twain)

And George Bernard Shaw.

Love ya,

Sally

[Guest Nikk]

I have to say that my favorite all around author is JK. Rowling. She just wrote such an amazing story that so touched so many people that it's hard to not say her.

Jodi Piccoult is my favorite writer though. Her storytelling ends up being mediocre after you find out that all of her books have the same plot, but with different characters - but just the way she writes is figging incredible. Her words just draw you in and leave you wanting to hear them forever.

Terry Goodkind has the best plotline in his series The Sword of Truth. It's just so complex, and just when you think you have everything figured out - BLAM. You don't.

Marcus Zuzak is my favorite storyteller. He took something in the book, The Book Thief that was new and exciting and took a different point of view and just made that book incredible.

Tamora Pierce has some pretty amazing characters that never fail to draw you in and seem lifelike and real.

I have other favorites for different reasons, but these are some incredible writers.

[Guest Melanieshaman]

I have to say Michael Moorcock (Elric Saga/Eternal Champion series) and RA Salvatore (Dark Elf saga)

Not much into high brow heavy Literature LOL I like light fantasy

[Guest Tammy Maher]

Tolkein, Hiromu Arakawa, Akimine Kamijyo, Tsugumi Ohba, Koushun Takami and Masayuki Taguchi

Ok that seems enough for now.

[Guest Kacee]

I am currently immersed in the Anita Blake-Vampire Hunter series by Laurell K. Hamilton. Bloody fantastic!! LOL Stephen King, George Bernard Shaw, Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Bradbury, Dorothy Parker, A A Milne, of course Shakespeare, Poe, and Wilde. Dylan Thomas is in there somewhere too!!

Love

Kacee

[Guest NatalieRene]

I like Orson Scott Card. His book called Lost Boys (no relation to the movie) is still one of my favorites and the ender's game series especially the last three before the spin offs where so moving and thought provoking.

[Guest Natalie92]

I have quite a few:

F Scott Fitzgerald

John Steinbeck

Stephen King

Ernest Hemingway

David Eddings (if you haven't heard of him, he is a GREAT fantasy author)

Robert Frost

Walt Whitman

Henry David Thoreau

and to break the list of American authors: Charles Dickens

(And, yes I REALLY am only 17)

[Guest Tempest]

goodness, Natalie, youre quite the literary expert, but yeah, American author's do tend to be really good. my favorites definitley William Faulkner. he's incredible.

I also like Jk Rowling, because harry potter is just sooo awesome!!

[Guest AlexDeOrange]

Absolute, for all time favorite? Kurt Vonnegut. I started reading his work when I was twelve, had finished all his books by fourteen, and am currently rereading my favorites.

Other favorites include: Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Isaac Asimov, George Orwell, and Robert Heinlein.

[Guest Crow]

I forgot about Orson Scott Card!!! But I can seriously list a bunch of authors if you gave me a few minutes to check my library for my favorites. I have a lot fo favorite authors. Jeff Lindsey is another favorite of mine and Robert Sawyer too.

[Guest Robin Winter]

I'm a fan of a lot of those mentioned, specifically the fantasy fiction authors, but my favorite to date is Stephen Erikson for his "Malazan Tale of the Fallen" series. Very adult material (no, I don't mean pornographic), and he REALLY develops his characters, you can tell he cares about them.

[Guest Edu]

Beyond any doubt, J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings, On Fairy Stories, The Silmarillion) goes on top of my list.

Just next would come Margaret Weiss & Tracy Hickman (Dragonlance), and Michael Ende (The Neverending Story, Momo)

Going further, I could add Isaac Asimov, R.A. Salvatore, Clive Barker, and Karen Wynn Fonstad; but these are authors of some of my favorite works, rather than actual favorite authors.

Regards,

Ethain

[Guest InkCloud]

Wow. A tad intimidated by all the literature and American novelist lovers. Lol. But pushing that aside, I'll go with my all time fav, Robert Jordan author of the Wheel of Time Series. Yes, I am a convention going, daydreaming, fantasy loving, Lord of the Rings buff as well. Haha.