Who Is Your Favorite Author?

[nickmajor890]

It could be any Author in the world, who would you pick?

[johnk]

Shakespeare

[emmie]

J R R Tolkien

[davebro]

I read a book once - didn't really like it!

No, seriously though, it's a bit like any art form. Prolific authors will turn out good & not so good books. I prefer to read a selection - the best of the best - rather than sticking with one author.

[naomi24]

If I can only choose one it has to be the author of my favourite book ever - Charlotte Bronte.

[Untitled]

if it’s only one we’re allowed i would have to pick Alan Moore

[davebro]

And some will produce only one great, iconic book that gets a place in history - Catch 22, The Catcher in the Rye, Schindler's Ark, To Kill a Mocking Bird, etc. etc.

[davebro]

Enid Blyton

[Untitled]

one’s favourite is not necessarily the most historic or even accomplished though davebro… i doubt there is a writer in the English language better than shakespeare or edgar allen poe…. but your favourite will be the one that means the most to you. I’m sure many people would name JK Rowling as their favourite but i don’t think anyone would say she’s a better writer than Shakespeare!

[naomi24]

I might say she is, untitled. It depends which way you look at it.

[davebro]

Someone will say Jeffrey Archer or Joan Collins (!) - just a matter of taste innit.

[1ozzy]

May Gibbs
May you wonder why,,

[Untitled]

i’m sure you understand what i mean… a favourite is not necessarily the author you think is the “best of the best” it is the one whose work means the most to you… for want of a better word, one whose work you love

My mum absolutely loves the work of Martina Cole… she reads far more of that than she reads of the greats and i suspect she gets more enjoyment out of it… she smiles with excitement if you buy her one in a way that she wouldn’t if you handed her a tome of jane austen… but i don’t think my mum would ever say that she thought martina cole was a better writer than jane austen!

[DTCwordfan]

Herman Hesse - though I agree its more the actual book. As a kid, I 'grew up' from about seven years old on Arthur Ransome and I loved his books.

[naomi24]

Untitled, I think it depends which way you look at it. I've long abandoned the notion of the 'literary intellectual' when I deemed traditionally great writers 'the best' and now recognise that as 'great' as he was, Shakespeare's appeal is limited.

[Maydup]

The question asks for our favourite author rather than the greatest author.

But sorry, I can’t choose a favourite.

[davebro]

Yes - I don't have a favourite. Not an avid reader, I doubt I've read more than 2 or 3 books written by the same author.

[Zacs-Master]

Arthur C Clark. Or Phillip K Dick.

[Hopkirk]

Nevil Shute

[douglas9401]

L Ron Hubbard.

[Tilly2]

Kate Atkinson.