Favorite authors/poets

[punkrockpoet]

ok ok... so aside from being freaks and pervs a lot of us are writers too. so, lets hear who some of the Litizen's fave writers are...

i'll start:

Poet: Dylan Thomas
Author: Jack Kerouac/John Updike

 

[APhil]

Poet: Walt Whitman

Author: Nikos Kazantzakis

 

[Laurel]

Poet: Joseph Brodsky or Virginia Adair
Author: William Vollmann

 

[Guest]

 

[Guest]

 

[Andreina]

Poet: Shakespeare or Wordsworth

Author: Jostein Gaarder, Robert Schneider, Salman Rushdie

 

[Guest]

 

[cesra]

I can't possibly pick one. Or 2. Maybe 3. But choosing these were difficult.

Authors: Jeanette Winterson, Nadine Gordimer, Carol Shields.
Poets: Audre Lord, May Swenson, Pablo Neruda.

 

[Andreina]

But the greatest work ever written and a real revelation is the Qu'ran. It is the words of Allah (SWA); it is sublime and a true miracle.

so the greastest author is the archangel Gabriel for you.

 

[punkrockpoet]

uh oh

i smell theological debate.

 

[Mellon Collie]

Poet: Allen Ginsberg

Author: currently James Joyce

 

[Kitte]

Poet~ Walt Whitman

Author~ Tom Robbins

 

[wizbit9]

poet Dylan Thomas

author, stephen king(when writing with peter straub) Colin wilson, nick hornby,Che Guevara(in particular motorcycle diaries)

 

[just pet]

poets: Dylan Thomas, Coleridge, Ferlinghetti

authors: Thomas Wolfe, Yukio Mishima

 

[Vivacia]

Poet - none really - not a fan of poetry

Author - so many... Anne MaCaffery, James Hurburt, Stephen King, David Eddings... I could go on all night!

 

[brokenbrainwave]

author: Voltair

poet: Poe

 

[wizbit9]

another good modern day fiction writer Will Self

 

[tigerjen]

fave authors: Anne Rice, John Grisham, Thomas Harris,
Mark Pritchard, Joan Elizabeth Lloyd, Anais Nin

fave poet: Pablo Neruda

 

[Guest]

Poets: Plath and Sexton

Authors: Too damn many to list- right now, I'm loving D.H. Lawrence.

 

[just pet]

another good modern day fiction writer Will Self

I forgot about him...
One of my favorites as well
Great Apes
Quantity Theory of Insanity
Cock and Bull

Milan Kundera is another favorite

 

[The Squid King]

Poet: William Blake

Author: William Gibson

 

[medjay]

My favorite writer has always been Joe R. Lansdale.

 

[Gord]

Poet: Rudyard Kipling - or AA Milne Ok Winnie the Pooh was a bit over the top but he wrote some great poems mainly for kids and IF is in my opinion one of the top poems written

Writer: again so many - Currently Tom Wolfe I thought Bonfire of The Vanities was superb I just read his latest " fallen man or was it a good man ?? any way it was excellent all about Atlanta though have never been there if anyone has and read the book is it correct ??

 

[rubymyst]

poets: edna st vincent millay, frost, ee cumming, dylan thomas
authors: john fowles, j winterson, a apparchanna, rushdie,updike, singer, g greene

 

[Oilpainter]

Author: E. Hemingway
Poet: Shakespeare