Alphabet of Authors' First Names

[Leslie]

Skipping Q - R?

[Sigourney]

R: Richelle Mead author of Vampire Academy and a bunch of other series.

[Tweedledum]

S
Sue Townsend author of the Adrian Mole books and other great stories.

[LauraT]

T
Tennessee Williams; I've read only The Glass Menagerie

[Tweedledum]

U

Ursula Moray Williams author of Gobbolino The Witch's Cat

[LauraT]

V
Vasily Grossman Life and Fate
Great book, not an easy read though

[Leslie]

W: William Faulkner -- one of my favorites is The Sound and the Fury

[Tweedledum]

X
Xiaolu Guo author of A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers

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Yann Martel, author of Life of Pi

[Leslie]

Anyone with a Z first name? Or skip ahead to A...

[[deleted user]]

Z - Zachary Schomburg author of Scary, No Scary among others.

As for the letter elusive letter Q, there's Quintus Tullius Cicero ( brother of the more famous Marcus Tullius Cicero). ( It's been skipped a few times, so I had to put it out there, sorry)

[LauraT]

A - Ada Leverson author of Love's Shadow

[Julia]

B - Bill Bryson author of A Walk in the Woods

[Leslie]

C: Charlotte Brontë, author of Shirley (which I am currently reading)

[LauraT]

D - Dino Buzzati, a famous Italian author, The Tartar Steppe his most renown book, whom I confess I've not read

[Tweedledum]

E
E. Nesbit Edith Nesbit. Author of many wonderful children's books.
The Railway Children
Five Children and It
Etc.

[Richa]

Francis Scott Fitzgerald.I read the great Gatsby,didn't like the story very much though but loved the style of writing.

[Leslie]

binsie wrote: "V
Vikram Chandra"

Nice choice but we are going alphabetically, so next should be G.

G: George Gissing, whose book The Odd Women I am listening to right now.

[Gail]

H: Henry David Thoreau, who wrote Walden (which is great to read in the woods, if you like to go to the woods and read!).

[LauraT]

I:Ildefonso Falcones who wrote La catedral del mar; not bad for an easy read

[Rick]

James Lee Burke - Dave Robicheaux series (Neon Rain, etc.)

[Katie]

K: Kazuo Ishiguro (I've read Never Let Me Go and Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall

[Leslie]

L: Laurence Sterne, author of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman and A Sentimental Journey Through France And Italy

[Rick]

M. Mark Twain

Tom Sawyer
Huck Finn

[LauraT]

N: Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter
The House of the Seven Gables

[Rick]

Q: Quinn Loftis - Prince of Wolves

[Leslie]

P: Peter Mayle, author of Hotel Pastis, A Year In Provence, and others

[Rick]

Sorry
Jumped ahead here.

Quinn Loftis should be here.

My apologies. Brain dead for a moment.

[LauraT]

R: Raymond Chandlerof The Big Sleep not one of my favourite authro I admit

[Leslie]

S: Stephen King, author of many many books (not one of which I have read!)

[LauraT]

binsie wrote: "T: Tim Parks of An Italian Education
Judge Savage and many more"

Loved the first one! How I laughed!

[Tweedledum]

Ursula Nordstrom author of The Secret Language
Anyone read this?

[Leslie]

Victor Hugo, author of The Hunchback of Notre Dame & Les Miserables

[Tweedledum]

//w//
Walter Scott author of Ivanhoe and many others.
I've read The Heart of Midlothian

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Zachary Mason, author of The Lost Books of the Odyssey

[Leslie]

A: Alexandre Dumas, author of The Three Musketeers, The Man in the Iron Mask and many others

[Tweedledum]

Brian Sibley: Shadowlands

[Lorraine]

Caroline Graham, author of Death Of A Hollow Man, The Killings At Badger's Drift (both Midsomer Murders books) and a standalone Murder At Madingley Grange.

[Danielle]

Dan Fesperman. I read The Small Boat of Great Sorrows

[Lorraine]

Elizabeth Gaskell. I've read North and South.

[Danielle]

Freidoune Sahebjam. I read The Stoning of Soraya M.: A Story of Injustice in Iran

[Lorraine]

Gilda Radner. I read her autobiography It's Always Something.

[Nefeli]

H.G. Wells (Herbert George Wells).
I read his book A Slip Under the Microscope

[Danielle]

Iain Pears. I read his book: Stone's Fall

[Ruth]

I: Irvine Welsh. I have read quite a lot of his gritty books including Glue.

[Leslie]

J: Jiang Rong, Chinese author of Wolf Totem which I read earlier this year.

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Victor Hugo: Victor Hugo Les Misarbles and THe Hunchback of Notre Dame are not his only books! I have started these books, translations ofcourse, but not managed to finished them but everyone is familiar with these titles. In France he must be as significant as Alexandre Dumas

[Leslie]

Nahyan wrote: "Victor Hugo: Victor Hugo Les Misarbles and THe Hunchback of Notre Dame are not his only books! I have started these books, translations ofcourse, but not managed to finished them bu..."

Great author but next should be an author whose first name begins with the letter K. Want to try again?

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oops! Sorry I must have been tripping...I could have sworn I saw the last one being U. I apologize! I choose Kurt Vonnegut He is a writer universally loved and read by everyone. I just love Cats Cradle. I have also read Breakfast of Champions and Slaughterhouse Five.

[Leslie]

//L// Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of all the Little House books