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Barry is a newspaper humor columnist in South Florida who retired recently. Not as talented as Carl Hiaasen, another South Florida writer whose novels are darkly funny and often involve tourists and/or developers being killed in horrible ways.
D. H. Lawrence.
Has transfixation with Freud's believe that little boys are in love with their mothers... "Sons and Lovers"
Jean Rhys-Davies
Jean Rhys-Davies - always meant to read her Wide Sargasso Sea. I think she's best known for that book - in bringing to life the woman in the attic in Jane Eyre, Rochester's mad wife but other than that don't know much about her.
George Orwell
"all animals are equal but some ar more equal than others" more or less suums up his general disillusion with idealisims.
Oscar Wilde
Genius is born--not paid.
Virginia Woolf
An intriguing author
George Eliot
A woman who scandalised her society, good writer though.
Henry fielding
An author whose books I haven't read.
Wilkie Collins.
his name always makes me think of munchkins for some reason
virginia Woolfe
I have not read any of the books of Virginia Wolf.
JK Rowling
Very very famous but, no offense to anyone, her stories lack... well, they lack lots of things....
Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingslover is someone I must bashfully admit total ignorance of as a writer.
Hermann Hesse
I have never read him....
Elizabeth Strout - reading her right now... say good things so I know I am not wasting my time...
(I have turned my part of this into just naming an author my eyes fall on)
Elizabeth Strout: I thought I recognized the name, but wasn't sure so I goggled. I believe I've read some of her short stories, but don't hold me to that. Short stories are a weakness with me, I have bookshelves of anthologies for when I don't feel up to starting a novel. I see she won The Orange Prize for Fiction, 2000, and was published in The New Yorker as a short story writer. That's like the Holy Grail for short fiction, so she can write, so Kiwi, I don't think you are wasting your time!
H. P. Lovecraft
An author famous for gothic, macabre stories, a contemporary of the talented Robert E. Howard and an admirer of the wonderful Edgar Allan Poe. Very intriguing works.
Sir Walter Scott