Who is your most favourite author in this literature author list?

[wilbur lim]

I love Conan Doyle.How about you all?;)

[Sir Bartholomew]

jane austen

[EricP]

I don't see any list of authors.

[Tersely]

Is it this sites author list?

[Dark Muse]

I would probably have to say D.H. Lawrence and Edgar Allan Poe

[Joreads]

Jane Austen for me also

[Sorceress]

Austen!

[Kafka's Crow]

Which list? Where is the list?

[Inderjit Sanghe]

Don't you get it, Kafka's Crow? There is no list! It is a existential posulation of unique brilliance, abounding in solecisms. I think wilbur may be referring to the list of writers on the main page.

[Trystan]

Franz Kafka and Fyodor Dostoevsky.

[Logos]

I don't see any list of authors. :p


Is it this sites author list? :D


Which list? Where is the list? :goof:


Don't you get it, Kafka's Crow? There is no list! It is a existential posulation of unique brilliance, abounding in solecisms. I think wilbur may be referring to the list of writers on the main page. :lol: Indeed, at least I hope it's what they meant :)

Link to LitNet's Author Index:

http://www.online-literature.com/members/author_index.php

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[muhsin]

Charles Dicken of course!

[Nostalgie]

I have a strong penchant for Dr. Seuss. (kidding, :lol: )

In all seriousness, here are some of my favorite authors:
G. Orwell
V. Nabokov
G. de Maupassant

There are so many to name, with so many great books, that choosing an absolute "favorite" is an impossibility for me.

[EricP]

Franz Kafka and Fyodor Dostoevsky.

These would be my two choices as well. For nonfiction, I would choose Darwin and Marx.

[PrinceMyshkin]

I love Conan Doyle.How about you all?;)

Do you know Julien Barnes' Arthur & George? It might be irresistibly interesting for you...

[wessexgirl]

Ooh yes. I've read Arthur and George. It was very good. It took a bit of getting into, but it was worth it.

[wessexgirl]

I can't narrow it down to one favourite from the list, but these are all up there.

Shakespeare
Dickens
Orwell
Trollope
Zola
Eliot
Somerset Maugham
Hardy
Emily Bronte
Austen
Byron
Shelley
Keats

(Well, I can probably put Shakey first, then everyone else :D )

[Brigitte]

I think from that list I'd have to say maybe Jane Austen because I've actually read more than just one book by her. As for the other authors I like some of them more perhaps, but ... I can't call them a fave if I've only read one book by them.

Lol... Funny thing about "the list"... I was wondering if it was that list and I was so glad I wasn't the only one confused.

[Tersely]

I'm in a Thomas Hardy phase.

[Madame la Fere]

For me I think that it would be a three way tie between Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Alexandre Dumas, and Charles Dikens. But I am sortta going through a Dumas phase at the moment.

[kelby_lake]

why are there some authors i've never even heard of who no one has posted in the forums and there are some obvious omissions :(

[Nossa]

Jane Austen, George Orwell, Oscar Wilde, Anton Chekhov...they're SO many.

[Logos]

.... and there are some obvious omissions :( Well, believe me, it's not deliberate; the list of works and authors is continually (slowly but surely) growing :)

[Sloan]

Oscar Wilde and Fyodor Dostoevsky

[cipherdecoy]

Wilde

[Joyeuse]

For me it's between Orwell, Kafka, and (believe it or not) Marx

[Quark]

I get asked who my favorite author is all the time and I can never seem to come up with an answer. Most of my family and friends either don't read or they don't read fiction. In either case, that makes me the literary one of the group, and whenever someone tries to start a conversation with me they always start by asking for a favorite author. Let me see if I can come up with an answer to the perennial question here so I have something to come back with later on.

Part of the problem comes from the fact that I don't know what counts as a "favorite" author. Is it the author you most respect? Is it the one you get the most satisfaction out of? The one you read the most? Another problem is that I don't read particular authors very consistently. I don't think anyone does, really. Usually, people latch onto an author or a genre or a style, and they read that kind of fiction obsessively for a while before moving onto something else. Sometimes I read a lot Romanticist poetry for a couple of months and then it's twentieth-century American novels. There's no connection between the two, and one is just as much my favorite as the other. I think if something is to count as a favorite, though, it has to be a recurring part of your reading.

I suppose when you think of it like that it's much easier to decide. In fact, it's fairly obvious. It's Anton Chekhov. I'm constantly rereading his stories, and I own multiple collections of them. Also, I run the LitNet discussion on his short stories, so I'm frequently having to review things in order to lead the conversation. The stories are so accessible because of their length and comfortable prose that I can read them even when I'm tired or distracted; but, at the same, they also deliver a lot of meaning and pathos. It's that bang-for-your-buck quality that keeps drawing me back. I think that makes him a favorite author.

[Trekker114]

Coleridge and Keats.

[LizzyBennett]

Jane Austen is by far my favorite (I mean, my screen-name?:) )

Tennyson, L.M.Mongomery, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, and a bunch of others are great too! There are so many on the list!

[aabbcc]

Predictable as I am - Dante and Milton. Followed by, as my current signature reveals, Baudelaire.

EDIT: Baudelaire is not on the list?!?! *steps away from the computer in complete terror*

[sun & sky]

Charles Dicken of course!



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Jane Austen for me also


and the brontes sisters

[Erichtho]

Franz Kafka.

[Leabhar]

Dostoevsky.

[PabloQ]

Unfair question. It's like asking someone to pick just one item from the smorgesbord!! I'll take 10 today
Stephen Crane
Charles Dickens
Homer
Frank Norris
E. A. Poe
Beatrix Potter
Willy Shakespeare
Mark Twain
Edith Wharton
P. G. Wodehouse

[Saladin]

That must be the one and the only Fyodor Dostoevsky. With shared "second place" for Kafka and Shakespeare.

I "over" enjoy reading a book written by Dostoevsky. That man knew how to write!

[Idios_Daemon]

It has got to be James Joyce. By far.

[raider60]

Unfair question. It's like asking someone to pick just one item from the smorgesbord!! I'll take 10 today
Stephen Crane
Charles Dickens
Homer
Frank Norris
E. A. Poe
Beatrix Potter
Willy Shakespeare
Mark Twain
Edith Wharton
P. G. Wodehouse

Nice list. Anyone remember Mark Twain's quote about Jane Austen? "It's a shame they let her die a natural death." Ouch!

[eyemaker]

Those are great authors.
as For me...

Mark Twain
Charles Dickens
Jane Austen
E.A. Poe
Shakespeare
William Faulkner
Chekhov
Leo Tolstoy
Irving
Tolkien
Dostoevsky

...:-)

[Mockingbird_z]

well, i havent seen the list but from the previous posts I could see that the mentioned authors are classics of national literatures. my favourite authors Dostoevsky, Austen, Hemingway, Orwell... (to be continued):yawnb: