Authors from our time that will live on for hundreds of years?

[HEyHEY]

It's a crap shoot isn't it?

I don't even know how to guess at this.

You?

[Ron Green]

1. You talkin' fiction, or essays?

[HEyHEY]

2. Fiction - sorry

[Ron Green]

3. You're right - there's just no way to know how today's writers will age.

I think of Kurt Vonnegut, who isn't really contemporary now, as someone who will stand up for a long time, but we've had 40 or more years now with his stuff. I dunno.

[jpgray]

5. Yep--all my examples are long-established too (nt)

[Maple]

4. Margaret Atwood

A Handmaid's Tale...prophetic, like 1984, Brave New World, etc

[HEyHEY]

6. Yeah, I could see that

[devilgrrl]

7. Beat me to it!

Margaret Atwood will be read for generations.

[RevolutionaryActs]

8. J.K. Rowling and Marion Zimmer Bradley. Maybe?

[lenidog]

12. I think Rowling

may be an iffy one. Writers for kids are tough to judge especially.

[MarianJack]

9. I Love E.L. Doctorow!

Especially "Ragtime" and "The Book of Daniel".

I read "Ragtime" to my wife over the Christmas holidays and she loved it, too!

[Calanus]

10. Dan Simmons, Gene Wolfe, Ursula LeGuin, Stephen King

[lenidog]

11. That is a incredibly tough question to answer

How in the world can you judge that? I mean there have been writers who were giants in their time as least in sales and we can't remember their names anymore. While some who had to practically had to give their books away are considered the bedrock of literary canon.

[WCGreen]

13. I sincerely hop it isn't Joyce Carrol Oates...

I have never read a more self absorbed writer...

She writes great sentences, no plot to speak of....

Condescending, intellectual claptrap...

Philip Roth may survive.....

[hunter]

14. Something like Mary Shelly's Frankenstein

Or George Orwell's 1984, or Animal Farm.

It will almost certainly be some sort of fantasy or science fiction.

But if the world goes to hell, it will be something we think quite boring or trite; the story of an average guy in an average job living an average life.

People in that future will read it because the guy owns a car and they don't, or he flys to Europe on a vacation, and they can't. It will describe a date in a fancy restaurant with a pretty woman wearing fine clothes, eating seafood in a city a thousand miles from the sea...

You gonna write one of those books, HEyHEY?

[proud2BlibKansan]

15. J K Rowling

John Grisham

[HEyHEY]

16. Grisham - Burn him!

ANYWAY.... I gotta get some Rowling..I've heard it many times but have never read him.

[RevolutionaryActs]

17. *cough* Her. hehe

[proud2BlibKansan]

19. Rowling is a she

the author of the Harry Potter books.

And I love Grisham. HIs earlier books are great. A Time To Kill is an awesome story.

[msgadget]

18. Stephen King

He's so prolific even a couple hundred years from now his books will be in print.