Who's Your Favorite Author?

[ritareadsfiction]

John Green b/c his books are beautifully written and his vocabulary is mind-blowing

[JReader123]

Jeff Lindsay. He writes the Dexter series.

[Zayla_Dale]

Stephen King will always have a special place in my heart for personal reasons.

[Ashah Taylor]

Tamora Pierce

[melissabattles]

At the risk of sounding pretentious, my favorite author of all time is Oscar Wilde. Growing up, my parents had these leather-bound books of collective works from many of the greats: Poe, Voltaire, and Dickens, to name a few. I would sit for hours with my nose in Oscar Wilde's volume.

[robertcjgraves]

It's impossible to pick one.

Shakespeare because his use of language is second to none.
Philip K. Dick because his novels are so inventive.
Stephen King because he's a master storyteller.
Kurt Vonnegut because he is the greatest satirist since Juvenal.
John Barth because I love satirical post-modern metafiction.
Kim Stanley Robinson because the Mars trilogy is exquisite.
Ursula K. LeGuin because The Left Hand of Darkness is exquisite.
Dashiell Hammett because I love noir.
Robert Persig because Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance taught me a lot about myself and my approach to life.
William Platty because The Exorcist is the best supernatural mystery I've ever read.
Peter Le Carre because I love a good spy novel.
Octavia Butler because I admire how rhetorically effective her novels are.
Homer, Virgil, Ovid, and Dante because I love epic poetry.
Albert Goldbarth because he is a brilliant poet (still living too).
I think I could go on for quite a while. It's impossible to choose one, although Shakespeare will always have a special place in my reader's heart.

[crimsonreader]

I am definitely not sure if he is my absolute favorite, but Stephen King is one of my top five..

[kchills]

Nabokov is almost always perfection, I could drown in his prose. I also have recently read Adverbs, by Daniel Handler, and was so impressed by his style. I only knew him as a children's author, but his offerings for adults have really delighted me.

[Njkinny]

I love so many authors and everytime if I am confused I go back to my favorites!
Agatha Christie, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, C.S. Lewis, TRR Tolkien, B.J. Daniels, Nicholas Sparks, J.K. Rowling etc. are people who can imagine and bring to life characters that look so real that we feel we can find bump into them someday while walking down the street!
Also they can make their readers visualize their worlds whether it be a real place, like B.J Daniels always write about Montana and through her books I feel like I know Montana even though I have never been there!, or a fictitious place like C.S Lewis' world of Narnia.

-- 12 Dec 2013, 02:10 --

I love so many authors and everytime if I am confused I go back to my favorites!
Agatha Christie, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, C.S. Lewis, TRR Tolkien, B.J. Daniels, Nicholas Sparks, J.K. Rowling etc. are people who can imagine and bring to life characters that look so real that we feel we can find bump into them someday while walking down the street!
Also they can make their readers visualize their worlds whether it be a real place, like B.J Daniels always writes about Montana and through her books I feel like I know Montana even though I have never been there!, or a fictitious place like C.S Lewis' world of Narnia.

[beatusmedia]

I just started reading Debbie Macomber's works. I am liking her so far. I also like Beverly Lewis, John Bevere and Cindy Woodsmall.

[tstaf4d]

This is one of those questions that is extremely difficult to answer because people's reading tastes change. However, currently I would have to say that Erynn Mangum is my favorite. Towards the end of the college semester I find myself gravitating towards books that are focus on humor. Her Lauren Holbrook series is fantastic in the sense that it deals with a woman who is addicted to coffee and just going at life with an optimistic outlook on life.

[Nathrad Sheare]

The picture chosen by the thread starter for this one is one of the reasons I found this forum very attractive. The other one was the question he asked. My favorite author hands down is Nathaniel Hawthorne. "The Scarlet Letter" is my favorite novel, and I loved "The House of Seven Gables" and "The Marble Faun." His short stories were amazing, too. A total genius at prose, he was very clever when he wanted to be and outstandingly poetic otherwise. Only Poe, I think, could measure up in the short fiction department of which Hawthorne is such an important contributor, the most important, maybe, for the reason that he invented short fiction in the first place.

[ViperStudent6]

C.S. Lewis is one of my favorite authors. I read his children's books as a child and still read them. I've also read other books by him like The Screwtape Letters. He was an atheist, who turned Christian after the death of his wife. He also wrote several spiritual books.

[Nathrad Sheare]

Not many of your everyday readers know that much about the writings of C.S. Lewis that do NOT have anything to do with Narnia. What's your favorite work of his?

[lleon]

I have many but love Nicholas Spark.