Living or dead.
2006-11-19 10:44:00 · 24 answers · asked by u 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Hey ulickobei...,
Thomas Jefferson. He framed the model for the United States in words. I know you mean books, but I just had to get that in. Great man, great strategy, excellent writer.
2006-11-19 10:47:10 · answer #1 · answered by BuyTheSeaProperty 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
When I was growing up (India), the only American authors/ poets I knew were Mark Twain, Edgar Allen Poe and Robert Frost. I loved the pranks of huck Finn and Tom Sawyer as well as got goosebumps on reading the short horror stories that Poe wrote.
However since then I have read quite a bit of American literature and I can say the Steinbeck has touched me as no other American writer has done. His study of human nature has been bought out so beautifully in Of Mice and Men and Cannery Row.
Another author I love is John Irving (World according to Garp, Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany) - they are among my favourites.
I also loved Harriet Beecher Stowe and Harper Lee - being women and writing about taboo topics (slavery and treatment of African Americans) was admirable. To Kill A Mockingbird, is among my 5 favourite books.
And yes, Tolkein was British.
2006-11-19 11:02:52 · answer #2 · answered by estee06 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain in that order.
Some needs a clue, Tolkien was British.
2006-11-19 10:49:48 · answer #3 · answered by Who cares 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Steinbeck as he wrote novels about people noone else would - Lenny from 'Of Mice and Men' for example. One of very few authors to have won a Pulitzer and a Nobel Prize and also a very influential novellist.
Playwright - between Arthur Miller or Tenesee Williams (cheerful eh?)
2006-11-19 23:18:06 · answer #4 · answered by Dr No 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ah ha, this is an easy one:))
It's got to be, by a mile, that intellectual giant the late, great Mr Gene Roddenberry - may he Rest In Peace.
He may not have written or invented Seven of Nine (the delectably sensuous Jeri Ryan), but boy oh boy, was he responsible for such inspiration.
2006-11-19 11:06:29 · answer #5 · answered by ♥Robin♥ (Scot,UK) 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
John Steinbeck
2006-11-20 05:02:34 · answer #6 · answered by fizzy_wolf 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Harper Lee, John Grisham and Dan Brown.
2006-11-19 10:56:58 · answer #7 · answered by b97st 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
F Scott Fitzgerald
2006-11-21 14:41:50 · answer #8 · answered by SteveUK 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Earnest Hemingway
2006-11-19 11:00:38 · answer #9 · answered by Stacye S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not an easy question. Prose? Poetry? OK, I'll jump in.
Poetry: T.S. Eliot
Prose: Herman Melville, because "The Great American Novel" people talk so much about has already been written, and it is Moby Dick.
2006-11-19 15:48:12 · answer #10 · answered by Cassandra Des 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stephen King
2006-11-19 20:21:41 · answer #11 · answered by karen f 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋