Your favourite authors?

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Kafka seems to be surprisingly popular here. o.O

Maybe he was an unDX'd ASpie??

Oddly enough, Orson Welles said he thought his film of Kafka's "The Trial" was one of his greatest films (??)
No doubt poor Orson felt trapped by inconsistant logic himself.

"Classics" authors in general seem real popular. I really need to catch up on my classics. One of my favourites there is "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin. It was first published in 1899, and was considered quite taboo. It's an interesting read.

Veresae beat me to it for most of them

H.P.Lovecraft
Kim Newman
Frank Herbert
H.G.Wells

There are three authors who were surely AS: Robert Walser, Franz Kafka, and Patricia Highsmith. One quotation from Kafka in a letter to his one night lover Milena Pollack "it is as if between me and you there were two circles pf bodyguards armed with spears, but your guards have their spears directed at me, my guard have ther spears again directed at me." As for Patricia Highsmith, the autistic streak may be easily found in her characters continually courting crime with no empathy for the victims, and in the case of Tom Ripley. planning and executing homicides. Ripley was somehow the alter ego pf Patricia.

But why Kafka' stories has become longsellers, revolutionized European literature. introduced a neoogism (kafkaeske) and sold million of copies if their intensely autistic atmosphere, were not in some part our atmosphere? if the autistic streak did not run in our lives much more than we think and much more than it appears from the so called epidemiolgical data.
Same can be said of Patricia Highsmith.

Oh yeah, Thomas Hardy! I'll add my vote there...

Also Dostoevsky, Peter Carey, Mark Twain, Edgar Allen Poe, Anthony Burgess, and Frank Herbert (I love Dune!)...

Being time limited, there should be a policy of reading well and more than once. And once you find an author of depth, more than one book of that author: all you can find he(she) has written. Kafka three times at least and all his novels and stories.

Carole Wilkinson. She loves dragons as much as I do.

Hesse, Hemingway, Camus, Turgenev, Bradbury, Tolstoy, Salinger

Mark Twain
John Steinbeck
Nikos Kazantsakis
George Orwell
Albert Camus
William Shakespeare
Moliere

Lots of us seem to like Lovecraft, and Kafka. Now I know I've come to the right place.

Also, I love Terry Pratchet, and, more than any other author, I LOVE John Bellairs!

I couldn't list my favourite authors of all time.
But Barry Hannah is my current favourite.

I just read 'Pimp' by IceBerg Slim. If his other books are as entertaining I might be a fan.

Jane Austen
CS Lewis
Winston Graham
Kathy Reichs
Patricia Cornwell
Linda Fairstein
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peter F. Hamilton is my favourite writer, his books are inventive and insightful into a full view of various possibilities and futures, whilst not being too farfetched. He does pressure himself into writing for long hours sometimes, though.

I've read the Night's Dawn Trilogy, and am currently reading the Commonwealth Saga.

J.R.R Tolkien comes a close second, I think

Contemporary: Sue Grafton, Dianne Blacklock, Margaret Atwood.
Children's: JK Rowling, Roald Dahl, Eoin Colfer.
Science Fiction: John Varley, Sheri S Tepper, James Tiptree Jr, and the almighty Heinlein.
Buddhism: Daniel Goleman, Pema Chödrön, Jack Kornfield.

Neil Gaimen, Ayn Rand, Anne Rice, C. S. Lewis