Who is your favorite author of all-time?

[VoltaireAmericain]

[terrya]

1. Sinclair Lewis

[bicentennial_baby]

2. Neil Gaiman

:)

[SteppingRazor]

3. I guess I gotta go with my avatar.

I've certainly read more-skillful, more-imaginative and more-cogent writers, but no writer has had a larger effect on me personally.

[VoltaireAmericain]

8. Who is that in your avatar?

[BrotherBuzz]

15. That be the original gonzo journalist

[SteppingRazor]

46. That would be Hunter S. Thompson n/t

[ceile]

4. PD James or Agatha Christie

And welcome to DU! :hi:

[av8rdave]

5. Vonnegut!

[VoltaireAmericain]

I agree with you 100 percent!

[HERVEPA]

49. Absolutely

[querelle]

6. Toss Up

Margaret Atwood or F. Scott Fitzgerald. I love them both equally.

Q

[deepthought42]

7. Terry Goodkind

but I also LOVE Douglas Adams and Isaac Asimov. And too many other authers to mention.

[Louis Cipher]

9. Tolkien

[cobalt1999]

10. David McCollough

The man can write history.

[Brigid]

11. Barbara Kingsolver.

Loved "the Poisonwood Bible" and "Prodigal Summer." :)

[LostinVA]

12. Bill Bryson and Margaret George

[cobalt1999]

16. A brief history of nearly everything is one of my favorites.

n/t

[LostinVA]

22. A great writer

Able to successfully blend the funny and the informative.

[bicentennial_baby]

18. I love love love Bryson...

:bounce:

[LostinVA]

21. I liked him before he WAS Bill Bryson!

[bikebloke]

13. John Fowles

[flvegan]

14. Thich Nhat Hanh

Jon Kabat-Zinn and HHDL are decent runners up.

[hellbound-liberal]

31. I like your first choice flvegan. I got Peace Is Every Step for Christmas

and it has made some big changes in my life. I also really liked Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki and EVERYTHING that Alan Watts ever wrote!

[swag]

17. Vladimir Nabokov, I suppose.

[Courtesy Flush]

43. A man who truly loved words

[Courtesy Flush]

44. I love Dickens

[geardaddy]

19. Kurt Vonnegut n/t

[Book Lover]

20. Zelazny

I can reread his work all day...

[SKKY]

23. Hesse, hands down.

[Omphaloskepsis]

38. Ditto..

Mark Twain is a close second. But Hesse is easily my favorite.

[Mendocino]

24. Jack London

[applegrove]

25. Mordecai Richler

[WCGreen]

26. God.....

Made you look...

[Brigid]

28. Well . . .

He does have the all-time #1 best-seller. :rofl:

[WCGreen]

36. You know that is a deep thought...

Well....

Perhaps that is why many thought RR was an intellectual marvel...

Well...

[Broken_Hero]

27. I'm going with

S. King here...lots of good novels, DT and Needful Things are very powerful books/series....

Close seconds, Troy Denning, RA Salvatore, Tolkien, Ed Greenwood....

[Rob H.]

29. Tough question

Past authors: Edgar Rice Burroughs for his Tarzan and John Carter of Mars books. Fun reading when I was a preteen/teen. Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler for getting me into hardboiled detective fiction (which I still love to this day) and true crime books.

Current author: Joe R. Lansdale. He's one of the best writers nobody's ever heard of.

[BlueIris]

30. Sharon Olds. nt

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[Joe Fields]

33. Mark Twain

[hippywife]

34. So many to pick from and

I can't pick one so two will have to do: James Michener and Howard Zinn.

[WCGreen]

37. James Micheners novel The Source got me to rethink my

religious beliefs...

And his book Poland made me proud of my heritage...

[hippywife]

51. I've read most of his books twice.

I started with The Source and fell in love with him. The Covenant was my second favorite. Alaska was my third favorite. Poland was the only one I had to struggle to get through for some reason.

[NightWatcher]

35. Hunter S. Thompson.

Edward Abbey a close second

[Mr. Blonde]

39. Probably Bret Easton Ellis

Even if the point sometimes gets muddled he is usually incredibly funny.

[stuntcat]

40. all-time

of "all-time" I don't want to pick a favorite, but the writer I like best is Dorothy Parker.. personally I mean, I love her.
Is someone who mostly wrote for magazines called an 'author'? Her stories were put together and published only after she died, but she had books of poetry when she was younger.

[Elidor]

41. I'd have to say Herman Hesse, just on the strength of Siddhartha

His other work is a very mixed bag, stylistically. But Siddhartha is a wonder, a lucid parable of life, written with beautiful simplicity, artless and timeless. He has my undying respect for that book in particular. And it's so completely different from the dream-time jazz cacophony of Steppenwolf. It amazes me that both of those stories were written by the same person.

[cloudbase]

42. John Steinbeck

n/t

[JVS]

45. Apostle John

[leftyladyfrommo]

47. I'm a huge Faulkner fan n/t

[Forkboy]

48. There's 3: Vonnegut,Hunter Thompson,and Kim Stanley Robinson.

[mainegreen]

50. Ack. I guess either Phillip K Dick or H P Lovecraft.

[sniffa]

52. mick foLey