Who is your favorite writer?

[Gman707]

My absolute favorite author is j.r.r tolkien.  I also love terry pratchet, chuck palanihuk, william golding and j.d salanger.

[skifan08]

I agree with others who have said this is tough, but off the top of my head John Steinbeck and Stephen King come to mind:

[SabrinaC]

Karen Rose, she is writing perfect

[me naturist]

George Orwell, i adore his consideration about the possible involution of society.

[Ola]

Ahh, that sucks, all of you got the question wrong!


The correct answer is of course Knut Hamsun=D

And the second place, though far, far below first; Oscar Wilde=)

There, that cleared things up!

[pbtoejam05]

Hmm lots of classics and sci-fi.

I read a lot for my degree in college....so Poe, some Shakespeare, Tim O'Brien (fiction), Anthony Burgess- A Clockwork Orange

Stephen King :)

I prefer fantasy and urban fantasy though so; C.S Lewis, David Eddings, Melanie Rawn, Tad Willliams, Carol Berg, D. J. MacHale and Garth Nix (both young adult authors), Joel Rosenberg, Rob Thurman, Gini Koch, George R R Martin

My ultimate favorite, Jim Butcher

Sam :)

[Kyle]

Ayn Rand. Not that I'm really an objectivist, I just like her writing.

[killor]

my favorite writer is terry pratchett, because of his genious humor, fantasy and writing style.

[Dhall]

Neil Gaiman and Stephen King all the way!

[roccovittore]

I would like to mention the Father of English Literature, Geoffrey Chaucer! If the last time you read The Canterbury Tales was in a modern translation in high school, then take another look, in the original Middle English. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised at how funny it is, and how insightful Chaucer was about the human condition.

Or maybe I'm just a language and history geek and no one else will be interested! 

[eagleday]

My literature guru: JRR Tolkien
My spiritual teacher: Paulo Coelho and Kahlil Gibran
My professor: Michael Crichton

[PrinceOfNaturism]

I think Lemony Snicket or Ridley Pearson.

[AElf]

There are so many great writers living and dead, and who have written in so many different genres, that I would not hazard a qualitative comparison to choose an overall favourite.  There are so many that I like that I can (almost ) do an A-to-Z list quite easily: Austen, Bradbury, Clarke, Dickson, Eco, Forester, Graves, Hemingway, Ibsen, Jack, King, Lewis, Maguire, Nabokov, Orwell, Peters, Quinnell, Rothfuss, Shakespeare, Tolkien, Updike, Vonnegut, Wilde, X  (hmm, X is a problem), Yeats, Zafon.  And of course, standing alone in the zombie naturist genre there is Stuart.

Then there are those best not mentioned . . . Atwood springs to mind.

Books are nutrition for the mind.  You are what you eat.

[brandon]

JK Rowling. She really is an exceptionally good writer. (Being lazy, I listened to most of the Harry Potter series in audio format, read by the outstanding reader, Jim Dale.)

I am looking forward to reading The Casual Vacancy as soon as I have some time.

As for classics: Charles Dickens and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

[Hayley]

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Edgar Allan Poe
Michael Ende
Enid Blyton
Alexandre Dumas
Stephen King
Charles Dickens
Joseph Rudyard Kipling
Astrid Lindgren
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Agatha Christie

First ones I can think of