Who is your favorite Classic author?
Rosman@metsci.com
Jane Austen is my favorite classic author.
bkwmwc@yahoo.com
Fitzgerald and Dickens
CShank1246@aol.com
Well, I have many actually but I think Nathaniel Hawthorne ranks right up there. Dickens "David Copperfield" is my favorite of his but as a body of work I am really taken with Hawthorne.
Linelle@aol..com
Victor Hugo
Donna1931@aol.com
My all time favorite classical author is Henry James.
Cairo1953@aol.com
Charlotte Bronte
Spclfn@aol.com
I would have to say that my favorite classic author is Charles Dickens. His stories capture the imagination of readers both young and old.
Carosp@aol.com
My favorite classic author? I'm not sure what a "classic" author is, but I'd have to say that two of my favorite "classics," from two different eras, are Jane Austen, whom I can read again and again, and William Shakespeare (ditto!).
sai_pushp@hotmail.com
Hi, my favorite classic author is Jane Austen and I can think of so many reasons why. She makes the characters and their foibles come alive. They are like us, with good and bad in them. I have read others who are also very good but they only make me "smile." Jane Austen makes me "laugh."
Robertfinn@aol.com
For me, this is an EASY question! I have been a Dickens freak since about the age of 15 or so, and now serve as chairman of the Cleveland chapter of the International Dickens Fellowship headquartered at the house on Doughty Street in London where Dickens wrote PICKWICK PAPERS and several others of his early works. I visited that house when in London in 1989, for all the world like a monk paying a visit to the Vatican! Right now the Cleveland Chapter is embarked on a multiyear project to study each of the 16 Dickens novels in chronological order, one per year. We are only up to NICHOLAS NICKLEBY at the moment. I have high hopes that I will be around long enough to reach THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD some 12 or 13 years hence!!!
I continue to read, reread and enjoy the Dickens novels, as well as his other productions (AMERICAN NOTES, SKETCHES BY BOZ, his journalism and occasional pieces, PICTURES FROM ITALY, etc.) --- and I always find new things in them that seem to have eluded me on previous readings. He was a masterly comic novelist, a sharp (and vastly influential) social critic and a very
astute observer of the life of his time, especially of the lower classes.
I could go on and on about the man and his life, but I don't want to bore you, or draw from you what Dickens described so unforgettably in PICKWICK PARERS as "a look that might have withered an anchor...."
a54roz@aol.com
Janet Evanovich and Fern Michaels.
RAVEN0555@aol.com
Edgar Allan Poe. No doubts. No one ever better.
PHenager@aol.com
Jane Austen!
MsBGibson@aol.com
I have several authors that I feel provide hours of classic reading. My favorite Classic author is Ernest Hemingway. Then there is Jack London, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Don Coldsmith.
deedle@comcast.net
As much as I love Dickens, I would have to say my favorite classic author is Jane Austen.
Tonyadonnie6@aol.com
Sandra Brown and Danielle Steel.
ATESSL@aol.com
F. Scott Fitzgerald or, if he's not classic enough, George Eliot.
kenphillips69@hotmail.com
George Eliot
garymcl2@attbi.com
My favorite "classic" author is John Steinbeck.
OneVoice63@aol.com
My favorite classic author hands down is Betty Smith. I already have it specified in my final wishes that a copy of "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" be tucked in my coffin. The woman has inspired me through all of her writings. I only wish she had written more and lived a longer life.
Dexpost@aol.com
Jane Austen, hands down!
DCCJ1@aol.com
Ernest Hemingway is my all time favorite.
JohnPLaura@aol.com
Hard question!!! I would have to say Harper Lee and Margaret Mitchell.....Gone With The Wind and To Kill a Mockingbird are 2 all-time favorites. Also, I have just gotten into Bronte. I love and look forward to each edition of BookReporter!!
KTrocheck@aol.com
Daphne duMaurier! REBECCA never fails to enchant me.
Psd2z@aol.com
Trollope
mlauerba@aol.com
My favorite classic author is Jane Austen.
JEarh13191@aol.com
William Faulkner
IRLMIE@aol.com
My favorite author would be Elie Wiesel because he is a very interesting person who has survived to tell a tale of the past. He was one of the very few who survived during the Holocaust. I loved the book Night because it described to the reader what really happened to all the Jews taken away by the Nazis. What I mostly liked about the book was how it had a straightforward explanation of the truth, or as you may say the raw truth. Only in this kind of reading was I really able to understand the pain, and mistreatment caused to the Jews. I truly admire Elie and hope that through this paragraph I was able to interest in reading the book Night.
KTBug931@aol.com
My favorite classic author is, without a doubt, Oscar Wilde. He has such a wit and way with words. I've read The Importance of Being Earnest so many times, and yet it still makes me laugh out loud.
c_s_gross@hotmail.com
Pearl S. Buck
AUGER77777@aol.com
Harper Lee. I would like to ask Harper Lee why, after writing To Kill a Mockingbird, she did not continue to write such enchanting novels.
ELLERBAKER@aol.com
Classic author is a state of mind when you are reading, what is classic to one is not necessarily so for everyone but of course you all ready know that. My favorite classic authors are Lewis Carroll with Alice in Wonderland, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his infamous Sherlock Holmes and last but not least Dr. Seuss with the Green Eggs and Ham and The Cat in the Hat I will never be to old to pull out a copy of Green Eggs and Ham and chuckle a couple of minutes.
RonnieHW@aol.com
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, OF COURSE.
Welshchef2@aol.com
W. Somerset Maugham
Kreckmd1@aol.com
I don't know I can't chose between Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John. OK, for consistency and volume. Dickens. For social justice, Upton Sinclair. For cleverness, Arthur Conan Doyle. For ego, Hemingway. But No 1 --- John Hersey.
SalbyC@aol.com
Being that I live in the "Pastures of Heaven," it would have to John Steinbeck. Despite much controversy, he wrote about many important issues.
MACN4MONEY@worldnet.att.net
Difficult to narrow it down.
George Eliot
Alexander Dumas
Victor Hugo
I could go on and on but I'll leave it at the first three that came to mind.
KAPEAN@aol.com
Depending on what you mean by "classic" author, my favorites are: Louisa May Alcott, Edgar Allen Poe, O. Henry, Hemingway, James Patterson (modern classic mysteries) and J.K.Rowling.
SamWharton2@aol.com
Hands down... Jane Austen!
Booksagain@aol.com
John Steinbeck
mnboylan@hotmail.com
My favorite is definitely J. D. Salinger.
pedro@gamapc.net
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor (Mikhailovich and second Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy undisputed, by far. I like Shakespeare, Goethe, Cervantes Saavedra and lots more, but these guys are simply excellent writers. Realism.
PBROWNTIGERTKD@aol.com
My favorite author is P. J. Brown, author of Million Man March Book of the American Dead.
Linpeace1@aol.com
Thomas Hardy, Isaac Baashevis Singer.
Ilekso@aol.com
Mark Twain
EMJSLEEPER@aol..com
Jane Austen
SWeeaks@aol.com
My favorite classic author is Rex Stout.
Playtriot@aol.com
Shakespeare
MomSAH@aol.com
Pearl Buck or Alexandre Dumas.
JANCETOOYOU@AOL.com
I LOVE DIANA GABALDON, SUCH ADVENTURE!!!
Sulluin@aol.com
Louisa May Alcott
Jsaofusa@aol.com
Jane Austen
Psstbob@aol.com
Greetings. I'm not sure if my vote will qualify because the author was never known, but the work was and is astounding. In high school I fell in love with a strange tale of mystery, murder, and big Nordic guys with a baffling purpose. They had no idea what they were up against, be it man or supernatural beast, but they had heart. In the end their triumph was bitter with loss as most battles end. The first epic saga will never trumpet the name of the man or woman who gave us....Beowulf. I'm sorry for gushing.
DoctorJM@aol.com
Lawrence Sterne --- The Life and Opinions Tristram Shandy: Gentleman
KTBug931@aol.com
I have a tie for my favorite classic author(s): Jane Austen and Oscar Wilde. Though they could not be more different as writers (and as people) I love them both.
Indigo6126@aol.com
I'd have to say, though with some reservation because there are so many classic authors I've enjoyed that Jane Austin wins my vote. Simply put, I've enjoyed every one of her novels.
Flower1217@aol.com
Jane Austen
Britadon@aol.com
Charles Dickens!
tony@bigcat.net
My favorite classic author is Jane Austen.
robmedcalfjr@earthlink.net
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
cleas@earthlink.net
Anthony Trollope followed closely by Jane Austen. If only Austen had written more books, she might have claimed first place...
SBoyle6827@aol..com
I love Mark Twain's stories. Hope he qualifies.
BettyB6768@aol..com
Franz Kafka: The Metamorphosis. No one can copy this highly original concept, although many have tried. It was a forerunner to the many plots of Russian arrests without warning and happenings during the W.W.II conflict. But also the psychological and metaphysical ideas of the short novella are mind boggling.
GL3P@aol.com
George Eliot. Silas Marner, Middlemarch, The Lifted Veil all are great titles by her. I feel she is often overlooked in favor of Jane Austen, or the Bronte sisters.
VonRanke@aol.com
St. Augustine
SISTER91390@aol.com
My favorite author is J. K. Rowling.
edroy@zip.com.au
Emily Bronte
songoden@earthlink.net
Charles Dickens
Avery85282@aol.com
Jane Austen
Charles Dickens
Leo Tolstoy
If anyone enters 'Margaret Mitchell' I may curse quietly, under my breath.
Xtnto@aol.com
Very difficult for me to choose just one name amongst so many geniuses. I would rather choose works by different authors instead of just one personal name. I do not know either if you are referring to classical Greek and Latin writers, or classic authors in a broader sense, those who are the pillars or backbones of literature (and of other fields), writing at different places and at any time in history. To me, a classic is one who has inspired and continues to inspire readers anytime, anywhere; someone who speaks to the heart and mind of men with a message that helps them to better understand the world and to become better human beings. Restricting the roll to a chronological list frustrating for being so impossibly short, I do not know how I could leave out the names of Solomon, Plato, Aristotle, Seneca and Saint Augustine among the ancient, and Dante, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Quevedo and Dickens among the "recent" ones.
Oldauntie56@aol.com
Charles Dickens, I can reread anything that he wrote.
NoelWillis@aol.com
Homer with Shakespeare a close second. All the variations of human behavior laid out before you without editorial comment.
safynegaia@aol.com
My favorite author is Edgar Allan Poe.
Tjbwawczak@aol.com
I truly have to continue to believe in Shakespeare!!! Everyone should try him!
EZREADER1265@aol.com
Dickens, of course.
SlaveryButterfly@aol.com
My favorite classic author would definitely have to be John Steinbeck. His stories, especially Of Mice and Men and East of Eden never fail to touch my heart.
Mbuttercupmc@aol.com
Charles Dickens is my favorite classic author!
Bshbsh@aol.com
My favorite classic author is Anthony Trollope unless you mean classic in the Greek/Roman tradition, then it is Socrates. Getting back to Trollope, his books all, whether dealing with the church or parliament, are political and politics never change. Trollope really nailed character types. You cannot read an Anthony Trollope novel without recognizing aspects of yourself and bumping into family and friends.
