Who were your favorite authors when you were growing up?
2007-11-25 01:34:57 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
For me:
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Robert E. Howard
Frederick Faust
2007-11-25 01:35:33 · update #1
Eeewww! Romance novels, urk. Okay, I guess that is a good answer, hahahaha
2007-11-25 03:34:07 · update #2
Mercedes Lackey
J.R. Rowlings
Ben Bova
2007-11-25 01:42:24 · answer #1 · answered by Wizard Alex 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Growing up:
Dickens, Poe, Orwell, Rand, Chaucer, Michener, Thomas B. Costain, Dumas, Hugo
Today:
l enjoy historically based fiction. A few favorite authors are:
Sharon K. Pennman, James Michener, John Jakes, Thomas B. Costain
My favorite all time books are (in no particular order):
The Morning Is Near us (read it 2x's), Below the Salt (read it 4x's), A Tale of Two Cities (read it 3x's), Silas Marner ( still have my paperback copy from English Lit. in 1964 (read it 3x's), The Canterbury Tales ( read it 4x's)
2007-11-25 02:01:59 · answer #2 · answered by braves squaw 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Rbt. L. Stevenson
Joseph Conrad
Taylor Caldwell
now:
Flannery O'Connor
David Foster Wallace
2007-11-25 01:43:09 · answer #3 · answered by Acorn 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Enid Blyton,
Frank Richards,
Richmal Crompton.
2007-11-25 01:50:40 · answer #4 · answered by Roxy. 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Mother Goose
Hans Christian Anderson
The Brothers Grimm
2007-11-25 05:15:10 · answer #5 · answered by Granny 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The only books I read as a child were required reading from school. We did not have money for books and there was no public library. I loved Poe. Have always like the weird and scarey. The telltale heart, loved that one.
2007-11-25 07:22:13 · answer #6 · answered by Aloha_Ann 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Walter Farley
Leon Uris
The authors of the stories in all of the romance magazines.
2007-11-25 03:32:56 · answer #7 · answered by curious connie 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A very strange mix for a young one but here they are:
Carolyn Keene - Nancy Drew series
Henry David Thoreau - avid abolitionist
Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre
2007-11-25 01:51:43 · answer #8 · answered by sage seeker 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Louis Lemoore. I love westerns.
2007-11-25 02:03:31 · answer #9 · answered by Ken H 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
agatha christie
tolkien
isaac asimov
robert heinlein
2007-11-25 01:46:47 · answer #10 · answered by waterlin 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋