My choice in no particular order:
Jack Kerouac
John Steinbeck
George Orwell
2006-08-28 12:13:43 · 15 answers · asked by Mean Mr Mustard 4 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Harper Lee, Steinbeck and Orwell
2006-08-28 12:58:23 · answer #1 · answered by kookie_chick 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ernest Hemingway
Philip K. Dick
George Orwell
2006-08-28 12:19:56 · answer #2 · answered by ♪ ♫ ☮ NYbron ☮ ♪ ♫ 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
William Sydney Porter
Leo Tolstoy
2006-08-28 12:34:30 · answer #3 · answered by jsweit8573 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Henry Miller, Kurt Vonnegut, Louis Ferdnand Celine
2006-08-28 12:20:07 · answer #4 · answered by skippybuttknuckle 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
George Orwell
Arthur C. Clarke
Boris Pasternak
Almost impossible to limit it to thirty, never mind three.
Orwell saw the future coming, and knew it would be dystopic; Clarke looked as far into the future as any living writer, and Pasternak was a great poet as well as novellist and observed the transformation of Russia from Tsarism to communism in Dr. Zhivago. I suppose I might nominate Karl Marx, though of course he was a political philosopher rather than author, but his writings caused more political change than probably any other writer in the 20th Century, or any other.
2006-08-28 12:33:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
There are so many good authors out there, that if I answered this today, and went back tomorrow, I would cite different authors!
But some that are Pretty Damned GOOD are:
Jane Austen - for her insight and gentle irony
Doris Lessing - for being Doris Lessing
J. M. Coetzee - his language is so pure and simple
Steinbeck - superb!
........ hmmmmmmm, I could go on all night - and I haven't mentioned Margaret Atwood, John Banville, Sebastian Faulks, Pat Barker, C.S Lewis, Vikram Seth, Peter Carey......
2006-08-28 13:01:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Elias Canetti, Herman Hesse, A.A Milne
2006-08-28 12:20:17 · answer #7 · answered by dignifiedcollapse 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hunter S. Thompson
Roald Dahl
John Irving
Once again, in no order. I mean those three just popped into my head, it's a personal list of favourites, I don't know if they'd hold their own in a match against other 'heavyweight' authors... but they might ; )
2006-08-28 12:55:43 · answer #8 · answered by Buzzard 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Izac Asimov
2006-08-28 12:20:20 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Kurt Vonnegut
Franz Kafka
HP Lovecraft (the language is only half of the art)
2006-08-28 13:22:33 · answer #10 · answered by Em 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋