30-day Challenge! - Day 13: Your favorite writer

[Piyangie]

Jane Austen, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Virginia Woolf (in no particular order) are my top 3 writers.

[Luke]

Robin P wrote: "A lot of us seem to have been born in the wrong century!"

I don't mind that most of my favorite writers are dead. These days, the live ones are too prone to embarassing themselves on social media.

[Sara, New School Classics]

Aubrey wrote: "Robin P wrote: "A lot of us seem to have been born in the wrong century!"

I don't mind that most of my favorite writers are dead. These days, the live ones are too prone to embarassing themselves ..."

Isn't that the truth!

[Joseph]

Charles Dickens – this is a tough question, but I'll go with CD simply because I’ve read him more than any other author

[Lynn, Old School Classics]

I am looking at the top ten.

If go by the number of texts first place is the children's author Katherine Applegate - I read a 60 books series called the Animorphs with my son. He was a member of a "club" at a local bookstore. They reserved every new copy for him, one a month. The series kept coming out for 5 years, hence 60 books. Honestly, I liked the series. Next would be "Carolyn Keene" which is actually a group of authors.

Next come a slew of Science Fiction authors:
3. Arthur C. Clarke
4. Ray Bradbury
5. Peter David
6. H. G. Wells.
7. Micheal Jan Friedman

Then we have Hemingway, Flannery O'Connor, and Edgar Alan Poe tied for the next position.

[Linda R,]

There are too many excellent ones so I will only mention my favorite of the moment because I am currently reading her. Jane Austen.

[LiLi]

This is just for fiction, right? My favorites are George Eliot and Thomas Hardy. I have not read all of their books yet because I have been spacing them out so I'll have some to look forward to!

I've been trying to incorporate some new authors of late. I have to mention that Yaa Gyasi's _Homecoming_ is excellent, and I hope to read more of her books in the future. Her writing has that same poetic quality that Hardy's has.

[Wreade1872]

Well it used to be Pratchett, but right now i'm going to have to go with a kind of spiritual ancestor of Pratchett (sort of), the now obscure James Branch Cabell .