Favorite Author of All Time

I've narrowed it down to Charles Dickens & Jack Kerouac. I can't pick between the two. I also quite like Jane Austen as well, but not quite as much as the first two.
 
Jane Austen is probably my literary icon. Her wit and ability to write about the things around her was something truly remarkable. I find it hard to be able to be as objective as she was about the society that surrounds me. Hers was a magnificent talent.
 
Jack Kerouac is also one of my favorite authors! I took a class devoted solely to him while in college. We read many of his works, and my favorite was On the Road. However, I would have to say my favorite author is Dean Koontz, and I'll even go one step further to say my favorite book of his is The Face.
 
D.H. Lawrence, William Thackeray, Doris Kerns Goodwin, Carl Sandburg, and always Austen. I was recently called out by a friend for preferring Austen over Bronte, but there's something so attractive about her restraint. You know all that passion and desire is under the surface, but it's never allowed to come out, never allowed to disturb the surface of the polite, protocoled life she describes. It's almost literary masochism, like delayed gratification. That's probably not what she meant to do, but that's why I love her.
 
My favorite author of all time is toss up between Haruki Murakami and Franz Kafka. They both deal exquisitely with themes of love, loneliness, desire, alienation and the sometimes confusing and surreal aspects of contemporary life.
 
It's hard to choose my favorite author, because I haven't read more than a few of any one author's books. I do like the Bronte sisters' works, even though they're really all different (and obviously different authors). My favorite modern author is Michael Crichton, whose works I've probably read the most of. Incidentally, I was doing a big report on him when he died, but that didn't excuse me from the assignment. :)
 
I have more than one I must admit. There is Charles Dickens. He was just overly amazing. His work is so inspiring. I also love George Eliot who wrote 'Silas Marner'. Her work was so expressive and figurative and so enlightening to read. If you haven't heard of her you guys should check her work out. Plus make sure to read her biography, it's totally very very interesting.
 
My favorite author has to be Neil Gaiman. My favorite work of his the Sandman Graphic Novels. In my opinion, he's the master of writing fantasy stories. I also loved his novels. My favorite being American Gods.
 
Milan Kundera. If you've only read "Unbearable Lightness of Being" and liked it, read his other stuff. It's all amazing and brilliant. He writes the way I think, constantly overturning and shaping ideas to look at them from all angles. His characters aren't so much specific people as they are ideas to be played with and to move through his philosophical minefield.
 
CrackDSkye said:
My favorite author has to be Neil Gaiman. My favorite work of his the Sandman Graphic Novels. In my opinion, he's the master of writing fantasy stories. I also loved his novels. My favorite being American Gods.
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I read American Gods on a whim when the anniversary edition came out, and I loved it. I heard that they're making an HBO series based on it, so that ought to be good. I haven't read anything else by Gaiman, but I did see the Coraline movie, which was fantastic.
 
American God on HBO!??? It's too good to be true. I wonder who they're going to cast for the part of Shadow.

Joker99352: Try reading Anansi Boys. It's about Anansi's two sons.
 
Yeah, but it's taking them longer than they originally thought. It's too bad that it's on HBO, though, because I don't get that channel. I also heard that he's planning on writing a sequel to the book, which he's supposedly going to incorporate into the show, as well.
 
I love Jane Austen, her works are light yet meaningful. I like Hardy too (though many think that he's depressing, I like his way of story telling) and Dickens. From modern writers I like Khaled Hosseini, his stories are overpowering. There are some single works that I've really liked too, like Golding's Lord of the Flies, Kerouac's On The Road.
 
I don't even need to think twice on that. Wole Soyinka is my all time favourite. Even though most people find his stories a little complex, but complexity is such a beautiful style he uses to drive his plots forward. He is a Nobel laureate, and he really inspires me too as a writer.
 
My favorite author of all time is James Patterson. The first time I read anything by him was Along Came a Spider which was the start of his Alex Cross series. I now currently have every Alex Cross and Women's Murder Club books and I'm working on his Maxium Ride series. The way he writes is just amazing. I really love how I can start the book and get wrapped up within the first few pages. I recommend his books to anyone I can when they ask me for book suggestions.
 
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