Who Is Your All Time Favorite Author? Why?

This is a tough one. I've probably read more Stephen King than any other single author. I also like Leon Uris and Robert Ludlum.

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Stephen King and Dean Koontz. I like scary stories. One of my favorite things is starting a new hardcover book, the smell of it, the beginning of a new journey and the end of the journey when the books finished.

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Stephen King. Followed by James Baldwin, Oscar Wile and Sommerset Maughn

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If I had to pick only one, I guess it would be Charles Dickens. The way he brings characters to life is just wonderful. Even characters who appears only very briefly are so fully realized, you feel like you know them. I have yet to finish reading everything he wrote and that's good because it gives me something to look forward to.

Others I've enjoyed: Kurt Vonnegut, Phillip Roth, Wally Lamb, Michael Chabon, Alice Sebold, Glen David Gold, Myla Goldberg, E.L. Doctorow, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte.

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Unfortunately, my favorite author is long gone. My all-time favorite books are "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy and "The Hobbit" by J. R. R. Tolkien. His works of fantasy have set the bar higher than any other can hope to surpass. However, I do not plan to delve into his scholarly works on subjects such as Middle English vocabulary, or Beowulf.

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Well my favourite writer was shakespear, he had all the abilities that an author required.

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This is a tough one. Over the last couple of years I started getting into reading in my spare time. I like James Patterson and I love who-done-it novels. But, I have to say that Erica Spindler is probably my favorite. She is not real widely known yet however, many of her books a psychological suspense thrillers (only way I can describe) and I literally can't put her books down. I have passed on her books to many of my friends that read and they love her as well.

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Shakespeare's plays, Tolkien's stories
Dean Koontz (thrillers, usually with a supernatural element)
Jeffrey Deaver, Jonathan Kellerman--traditional suspense
Nora Roberts as J.D. Robb (crime novels set in the near future)

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Ohh to hard to pick just one! My current favorites is Charlaine Harris,
Alice Kimberly, Kelley Armstrong, J.K. Rowlings, & Dianna Wynne Jones (I have all of her books as a collection for my daughter), Madelyn Alt.

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I have trouble deciding between JK Rowling, Masashi Kishimoto, and Hiromu Arakawa. Yes, Naruto and FullMetal Alchemist count as great literature. So does harry potter, but everyody already knows that.

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Sidney sheldon.nora roberts,catherine coulter,johanna lindsay,danielle steel...all are fictional...and they have one thing in common...all are stating that life is like a stage and we all have a role to play.everything we do in life is like a one time performance,there are no cuts,no re runs, no rehearsals.thats why we must always give it our best shot,because what wil be remembered is not the roles we have collected in our repertoire,but its the roles we played in the lives of others....

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Stephen King is the all time King!

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At the moment I have to say it is John Sandford, with the Prey series of books. They have us both enthralled. I also like Jeffery Deaver.

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John Grisham, he keeps you reading on. Can't seem to put his books down.

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While i love a lot of different books and don't really have favorite authors i have to say i love JK Rowling. I think she's amazing but am a little upset about her outing dumbledoor on the news. I had always hoped that him and professor magonall were going to get together.

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I have two favorite authors Stephen King and Edgar Allan Poe

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Stephen King is my favorite, I have his entire work collected, I even have a copy of Creepshow, the comic book, and a copy of X-men where he wrote to pages in it with a bunch of other writers. One of my other favorites is Mark Twain, his essays are insightful.
Then there is Shakespear, who by the way used over 22,000 different words in his works. That is what you could say is word wise. The one book of Mr. King that I didn't like and couldn't finish was Dance Macabre.
My newest book to read is Blaze, and The Secretary of Dreams. I love his works! Did anyone know that there are people who have studied the Dark Tower series and have written a book to help people get through the series?
You have to be some writer to have a panel of people who study your work while you are still living and writing!

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Lisa Scottaline, keeps you on the edge, a woman who knows how to write and keep you interested all the way to the end.

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I can't pick just one. I love Jonathan Kellerman and his wife Fay Kellerman. I like Stephen King's earlier works and a few of his later books. I also like Tami Hoag, John Sandford, and Robin Cook among others.

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JK Rowling. Her books have done amazing. She's so rich now.

Anyone who can write that much and have all of them be awesome is amazing to me.
The harry potter series will always be included in my favorites.

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Tolkien, jk rowling, christopher paoulini, carl hiassen, ....too many!=)

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Aldous Huxley, and "Brave New World", Then "Brave New World revisited"!

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