Name 5 authors you'd like to meet in heaven.

[Jack]

They can be dead or living. Preferably dead though.

[Jenny]

Frank McCourt
Charles Dickens
Theodore Dreiser
Ernest Hemingway
John Steinbeck
Willa Cather

Ok, I cheated and chose 6, but maybe one of mine will not end up in Heaven so I figured I'd need a backup.

[Rock]

Right now I'd have to say Nicole Martin, who is still very much alive, is one of the five I'd like to spend time with in heaven.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14...

[fabby]

Diana gabaldon the outlander series was the best

sherrilyn kenyon the man and women of the otherworld

Samantha Kane mmm.... the stories she would tell
Scott westerfeld anything really

Jr ward black dagger brotherhood

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Charles Bukowski
J.R.R. Tolkien

[Ed]

Jenny wrote: "Frank McCourt
Charles Dickens
Theodore Dreiser
Ernest Hemingway
John Steinbeck
Willa Cather

Ok, I cheated and chose 6, but maybe one of mine will not end up in Heaven so I figured I'd need a backup."

Well Hemingway killed himself, right? So I think that disqualifies him for membership in the Pearly Gate Club.

[Lucy Qhuay]

J.R.R.Tolkien
Fernando Pessoa
Luís de Camões
Edgar Allan Poe

[Jenny]

Ed Wagemann wrote: "Jenny wrote: "Frank McCourt
Charles Dickens
Theodore Dreiser
Ernest Hemingway
John Steinbeck
Willa Cather

Ok, I cheated and chose 6, but maybe one of mine will not end up in Heaven so I figured I..."

Oh, well... then I guess he is off and Willa Cather is on. I was thinking maybe Hunter S Thompson but he killed himself also so I guess maybe some of the authors I would like to meet are in Hell not Heaven

[Ed]

On the other hand, maybe God makes an exception for certain suicides. I know that if I was God, I'd certainly let Hunter S. Thompson in.

[Misa]

J.R.R. Tolkien
Jane Austen
Elizabeth Gaskell
Stieg Larsson
Louisa May Alcott

[Mark]

I'll start with one of my typically awful puns by saying that none of my five people will be Mitch Albom.

Tolkien,
Pratchett,
Orwell,
Dostoevsky,
Poe, and oh so many others that may even take precedence but you said five so here are the ones that popped into my head.

[Jack]

Dostoevsky would be interesting to talk to, but I'm only picking authors who speak English. I'm not sure if there will be good tranlators in Heaven or not, but I don't want to take any chances.

Anais Nin
Herman Melville
J.D. Salinger
Dashell Hammet
Sherwood Anderson

[Jenny]

Jack wrote: "Dostoevsky would be interesting to talk to, but I'm only picking authors who speak English. I'm not sure if there will be good tranlators in Heaven or not, but I don't want to take any chances.

A..."

I thought about Dostoeyvsky also, but I too wondered if I would actually be able to talk to the guy. Sherwood Anderson... Good Call on him.

[fabby]

hey mine are not dead at all oh well.......

[Jack]

Jen wrote: "Vonnegut. Hemingway. Marquez. Kathy Acker. Salinger (though I doubt he'd show for a dinner party)."

You're right, I might cross Salinger off my list now that I think of it.

[Farrah]

Dorothy Parker
Edna St. Vincent Milly
Sylvia Plath
William Shakespeare
Edgar Allen Poe


(Only 5?)

[Iolanthe]

Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, Booth Tarkington, Clarence Day.

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Lester Bangs