Oh gawd! I have some friends called Austin - I'm always doing that.
Hemingway is - but there are so many (and they change from month to month)
Yep, Kafka too, and Von Arnim at the moment. (only read one Flaubert) and Patchett and Joyce can be when he wants and so-on and so-on.
But Austen is the greatest, If she does become verbose she's done it on purpose and for a very good reason.
