Let's Get Philatelic

Even though we at OLL remain big fans of writing letters (and of shipping radical new merch, like these YWP "First-Class Novelist" buttons), the U.S. Postal Service is having some tough times lately. Business is down more and more each year, and 3,700 post offices are being considered for closure.

Fortunately, that's not stopping them from cool initiatives, like the 2012 poetry stamp series! Who doesn't want to think about Sylvia Plath's "Daddy" while addressing a Father's Day card, right? Anyway, this new set got me curious about which authors the USPS has honored before.

On this list, all the biggies (Cather, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Hughes, Steinbeck, Seuss, etc.) are accounted for. Even Ayn Rand is there, but I think rational egoists only send self-addressed stamped envelopes.

Which literature folks do you think deserve a stamp, either now or eventually? (This is not a US-exclusive question, though we're tempted to exclude the UK based on jealousy of their Harry Potter series.) Do you buy special stamps, or are you happy with whatever generic ones your post office has at the ready? Have you ever saved an especially neat stamp from a received letter?

– Chris A.