Some of my favorite authors
 

EE "Doc" Smith.
http://www.google.com/search?num=20&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=EE+%22Doc%22+Smith.+&btnG=Search

James White
http://www.sectorgeneral.com/

Anne McCaffrey
http://www.annemccaffrey.net/

David Drake
http://david-drake.com/

Tom McGuane

Mario Vargas Llosa
Kurt Vonnegut
John Le Carre
Robertson Davies
Thomas Jefferson
Abraham Linclon

hijack!

my building was designed by vonnegut and bohn in 1912. indianapolis.

yep, kurt's dad.

hemmingway, pyle, steinbeck, and of course.....hemmingway.
anonomous did a great job on "primary colors" too. one of the few i have read three or more times, along with the old man and the sea.

tom w

Barbara Tuchman, Jared Diamond, Armen Tahktajan. Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand.

Mordecai Richler
Mark Bowden
Jared Diamond
Robertson Davies

If I had to pick my one favorite all-time author, it wouldn't even be close:

Ernest Hemingway.

He's such a beautiful writer.

Harlan Ellison

A Canticle for Liebowitz. A Boy and His Dog. I have no mouth and cannot scream.

Howdy All,
Dutch Salmon, Vera Watkins, Leon Almirall, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Mark Twain. This can change at any minute.

how could i forget mark twain?

tom w

For fun
 

Hunter S. Thompson:behead:
James Ellroy
Franklyn Wood
Jonathan Kellerman
Joe Gores
John D. MacDonald

i am working on a jack london reader a collection of his short stories.

just a really excellent story teller.

with profound thoughts too.

tom w