Who are your favorite authors?

I’ll start my list (not to be interpreted as exhaustive by any means).

Fiction: Stephen R. Donaldson, C.S. Lewis, Frank L. Baum, Lewis Carroll, Jack Kerouac, James Joyce, William Faulkner, Aldous Huxley, Ray Bradbury, Graham Geene, Jack London, Joseph Conrad, George Orwell, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, Edgar Allan Poe, Ranier Maria Rilke . . .

Nonfiction: Dalai Lama, Booker T. Washington, T.S. Elliot, Sean Wilentz, Stephen J. Gould, E.H. Gombrich . .  .

Drama: Euripides, Arthur Miller, Shakespeare . . .

Poetry: Virgil, Wallace Stevens, T.S. Elliot, Homer, Walt Whitman, Jack Karouac, Chaucer, Susan Mitchell, John Donne, Edgar Allan Poe, Sharon Olds, King Solomon, Robert Frost, Seamus Heaney, Maya Angelou, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ranier Maria Rilke   . . .