2006-08-10 09:05:56 · 20 answers · asked by bernadette 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Don't you want to know why these authors are their favorites? I do.
I certainly cannot come up with just one, so I'll mention just a few that have been my favorite ones to teach for the past 47 years.
Favorite British poet: John Keats and William Blake
Favorite American peot: Emily Dickinson
Favorite British novelist: Charles Dickens
Favorite American novelist: William Faulkner or Eudora Welty
Favorite dramatist: Shakespeare, of course
Favorite writer of creative nonfiction: Henry David Thoreau
Favorite contemporary poet: probably Howard Nemerov or James Dickey
Favorite contemporary novelist: Salman Rushdie or John Gardner
Favorite living American poet: Billy Collins or Wendell Berry
Favorite living American novelist: maybe John Irving
Favorite fantasy writer: J. R. R. Tolkien
Favorite children's author: George MacDonald, E. Nesbit, Lloyd Alexander, or Russell Hoban
Favorite literary critic: Northrup Frye
Favorite living literary critic: Helen Vendler or Edward Hirsch
Favorite biographer: David McCullough or Doris Kearns Goodwin (too bad about her unfortunate "borrowing" that has been labeled plagiarism; her books are still good)
Favorite religious commentators: Philip Yancey and Marcus Borg
My favorite definition of literature is by Douglas Bush (NOT one of those Bushes!): "a vision of human experience achieved by a great spirit and bodied forth by a great artist." All of my favorites listed above (and there are many, many more) represent such literature to me.
More than you wanted to know, I know, but I answer questions I enjoy . . . and let my joy show in my responses.
2006-08-10 14:28:09 · answer #1 · answered by bfrank 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Michael Ende, author of The Neverending Story.
2006-08-10 16:18:18 · answer #2 · answered by mapple 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Nobel prize winning Ivo Andric.
2006-08-11 02:58:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl) J. K. Rowling and Dan Brown
2006-08-11 11:37:27 · answer #4 · answered by Tamsin 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pat Conroy
2006-08-14 12:58:14 · answer #5 · answered by i have no idea 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
J.R.R Tolkein, J.K.K. Rowling, Sharon Creech, Clive Cussler, Dan Brown....AHH! I can't stop. I like a lot of authors. I really don't have a favorite one.
2006-08-11 00:37:28 · answer #6 · answered by REDHED4 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
John Steinbeck.
2006-08-10 19:02:23 · answer #7 · answered by LooneyDude 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nicholas Sparks
2006-08-10 16:43:47 · answer #8 · answered by M. M 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Shannon Hale
2006-08-10 17:32:37 · answer #9 · answered by Smiles Like She Means It 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Orson Scott Card.
2006-08-10 18:49:52 · answer #10 · answered by laney_po 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋