Who's your favorite author?

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You know, that person whose books you just can't put down and must read, and whenever they release a book you automatically put it on your to-buy list without reading reviews, because who needs reviews when you love their work that much? :-p

So, who's your favorite author?

Mine: R L Stine when I was reading YA, as an adult I've failed to find that favorite author, so I'm still looking.
I forgot to add Edgar Allen Poe as my favorite author as an adult. I have an anthology of his writings, but I'm still searching for someone "modern." I couldn't get into Dean Koontz or Robert Ludlum (LOVE the Borne series). Maybe I'll read some of R L Stine's adult novels.
 
My favorite author...man that's a very hard question! But I admit that when I pick up one of Mitch Alboms books I CAN'T put it down!

Tuesdays With Morrie.
My favorite by him.

Then there is

The 5 People you meet in Heaven.

Great books!
 
terry pratchett.

i never read anything by someone so intelligent and creative. he really writes these wonderfully dark and satirical takes on human behaviour and psyche, but at the same time he pokes fun at politics, royalty, rules and 'the man' and just when you are laughing until you ache, he spears your heart with something so poignant that it rips your breath from you.
 
oh... well the one i like doesn't have anyother books... only like 4... i've read all of them. two of them (THe bridges of Madison County and a thousand country roads) at least 10 times each, and he is Robert James Waller i love his work!!

The one still with stuff is Erin Hunter. I've read all the books numerous times, own them all and read spolers months ahead of each book... that was a couple years ago.
 
I have lots of fav authors to name a few:

A)David Clement-Davies
B)Erin Hunter
C)Nicholas Sparks
D)William Shakespeare (he isnt releasing a book anytime soon but...)
E)J.K. Rowling
F)J.R.R Tolkin
G)Jodi Picoult
H)Alice Sebold
I)Anonymous (Beatrice Sparks)
J)Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler)
 
Well, it's quite unlikely my favorite author will be coming out with a new book anytime soon, afterall he'll have been dead for 150 years this November 28th. I'm talking about Washington Irving. I've bought two different copies of his "Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon" just to get appendicies which give extra info on stories (particulary my favorite "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." I was even making my own e-book that started because I wanted to get a particular short story of his ("The Devil and Tom Walker") which then lead to making it a Halloween e-book featuring stories by him and Hawthorne among others. For me Halloween isn't complete without reading either his "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" or some of Poe's works along with other ghost stories. Of course his "Spectre Bride Groom" is also a good Halloween story even though it's not really the ghost story it first seems to be.

More modern I go for Jeff Shaara. I enjoy his historical fiction and the use of real people and events as the characters and settings for his books. It's something I got into with his late fahter's book "The Killer Angels." I loved how Micheal Shaara told the story of the Battle of Gettysburg through the eyes of the men who were there in this book and when I learned his son had produced "Gods and Generals" (too bad the movie version made years later was nowhere near as good as Gettysburg had been) and "The Last Full Measure" to turn his father's book into the second of a trilogy I had to read them both. Since then I've enjoyed reading his other books. It's just like I said, Shaara doesn't just create fictional character to tell the story of historical events through. There may be a few fictional characters central to the story, but it's real world figures who tell the story. It really brings these people to life.
 
Tamora Pierce; her books go right down my fantasy filled alley. Knights, deceptions, tribes, love (just a bit) all make her books so awesome.
 
Karen Rose
Karin Slaughter
Tess Gerritsen
Allison Brennan
Roxanne St.Claire
Julie Garwood (her contemporary works)
Sophie Kinsella
 
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