Who are you favorite “prose” writers - fiction?

Question

Who are you favorite “prose” writers - fiction? I.e. Who delivers great prose?

Yes - contemporary fiction. And if you can name the single best book you would recommend...

Answer 1

Not many writers, not any more.

I like Ayn Rand, the later Edmond Hamilton, Stephen Saylor, Fredric Brown, Jonreed Laritzen, and Ralph Graves the best for their prose, without regard to content.

I like six novels the best:
1. The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand.
2. A Present From Peking, by David Lampard.
3. The Lost Eagles, by Ralph Graves,
4. The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey
5. The Tiger and the Rose by Jonreed Lauritzen
6. Homer's Daughter by Robert Graves

Answer 2

Modern classics: anything by Joseph Conrad. F. Scott Fitzgerald, or John Steinbeck (in any of the ir many prose genres).

I am partial to historical novels. I've liked what I rhave read by James Clavel, Thomas Kenneally (Confederates seems to me to read better than Schindler's List, though the story of Oskar Schindler as told by Kenneally is more significant), and many years ago, the whole sequence of stories or novels about Horatio Hornblower by C. S. Foister.

Good, meaningful prose — the C. F. Snow series, Strangers and Brothers (Britain and intertwined characers in science, the arts, and politics from just after the first World War to the 1970s).

E. M. Forster — particularly Howard's End, A Passage to India, and any of the short stories or essays. Don't miss his critical lectures about the art of the novel, if you are interested on how goood prose is used skillfully to get a reader involoved in a story. I'll also throw in as a bonus thje various volumes of Paris Review interviews, in case this is an interest of yours (Forster was one of the early interviewees when George Plimpton and others were starting the magazine).

About enough for now — I'm glad the amount of good stuff that I've enjoyed over the years. Oops! — almost forgot to add Graham Greene; it would have been unforgivable not to mention him. Again, almost anything. But I'm partial to the short stories, particularly.

Answer 3

Margaret Atwood - Oryx and Crake and The Handmaid's Tale
Kazuo Ishiguro is nice too

Answer 4

My favorite author must be JK Rowling merely by fact i've got reread the sequence a good number of cases. i'm a sci-fi nut who likes authors like Roger Zelasny, Piers Anthony, JRR Tolkien, etc. Rowling's is the only sequence i've got study extra desirable than the Amber sequence of Roger Zelasny, so because it relatively is the only reason. She writes properly, the characters are emotionally attachable, ie, you harm whilst they do, you sense exhilaration whilst they do properly, etc.

Answer 5

If you mean contemporary novels, I think Steve Berry and Daniel Silva are very good. And I love Carl Hiaasen's humor. Pax - C

Answer 6

these authors have a wonderful prose style: kazuo ishiguro, zadie smith, and arundhati roy.

single best book? hard to say, but maybe *the remains of the day* or *the god of small things*