I am a big fan of Joyce, Woolf, Faulkner, Morrison.
2007-03-12 17:09:18 · 10 answers · asked by O 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Lets not forget about Hermann Hesse and Hunter S. Tompson, Tennessee Williams, e.e. cummings, Castenada.
2007-03-12 17:36:22 · answer #1 · answered by darkstar 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Along with Faulkner, there's Henry James, Philip Roth, Babbitt, Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Atwood, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, Nabokov, E. B. White, Jared Diamond, and I guess I could go on as there have been some truly wonderful authors in the last century. I have no idea how to narrow it down to just a few.
2007-03-13 00:22:11 · answer #2 · answered by PAT 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My favorite 20th century authors and their works are F. Scott Fitzgerald's short stories, O. Henry's short stories, Jack London's White Fang, and Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind.
I loved Fitzgerald short stories "Winter Dreams" and "Head and Shoulders" - the irony and twists really caught my attention. So did the semi-tragic quality.
O. Henry is all about the "pop" in snap, crackle, and pop. Master of the surprise ending, he's the ultimate in short stories that floor you, and I LOVE that.
Jack London's imagery and emotional description has always captured me in a way no other nature writer has, especially White Fang.
Gone with the Wind, Mitchell's masterpiece of American literature, is hands-down the best historical romance I've ever read. Absolutely EPIC. And I like epic.
2007-03-13 10:42:14 · answer #3 · answered by tigertrot1986 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow, that's an inclusive question. I'm a fan of Faulkner, Joseph Conrad, John Millington Synge, and more. The ones I like have a few traits in common: a keen eye for the potential of language, complex characters in intriguing conflicts, and an unconventional philosophical outlook on the turmoil of life.
2007-03-13 01:15:49 · answer #4 · answered by nbsandiego 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
James Joyce. Irishman who bested the British in the most British of literary genres: the novel.
2007-03-13 02:19:05 · answer #5 · answered by Gang Green 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
George Orwell is certainly one of my favorites. The final chapters of 1984 are incredible. Also Thomas Pynchon is pretty cool, especially if you like James Joyce.
2007-03-13 02:26:56 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Virginia Woolf. She writes the way people actually think, from the inside, rather than as a detached observer.
2007-03-13 01:15:02 · answer #7 · answered by Berta 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I also enjoy toni morrison as well as sylvia plath...plath helped to establish the confessional style of writing which has been used by countless poets and novelists.
2007-03-13 02:20:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
John Steinbbeck. He made me believe his characters.
2007-03-13 00:19:33 · answer #9 · answered by Beejee 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How do you choose just one? I guess I would go with F. Scott Fitzgerald.
2007-03-13 10:11:35 · answer #10 · answered by Gen•X•er (I love zombies!) 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋