Who is your favorite author?

[12 yaris]

fiction,non-fiction,poetry,etc.

[parrisvpreston]

chuck palahniuk, hands down...who didn't like fight club?

[TLyttle]

Larry Niven or Jerry Pournelle, they got together to write "Lucifer's Hammer". What an amazing look at the End of the World, even though it is a bit dated now, and an interesting introspective on the American Mind...

[DevilGirl]

Too many favorites to pick just one... Here are a few of them:
Tess Gerritson (Rizzoli and Isles on TNT started as a book series)
Patricia Briggs
Keri Authur
Nelson DeMille
Jefferson Bass
Steven James
Stephen King
VC Andrews

[47_MasoN_47]

For fiction I like Tom Clancy.

non-fiction I enjoy:
Christopher Hitchens (RIP)
Richard Dawkins
Howard Zinn (RIP)

have loads more books but those are the only authors I specifically go out looking for books from

[2greek4u]

George R. R. Martin.

[ilikerice]

only one author in the world..

R.A. Salvatore

[KCALB SIRAY]

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ira Levin
Mark Levin

[Yaristeve]

Carroll Smith
Gordon Jennings

[tomato]

Many and they do change over the years, but right now it's Richard Russo (who wrote Nobody's Fool, later made into a movie with Paul Newman). He wrote the Pulitzer Prize winning The Empire Falls.

[tk-421]

Carl Sagan, John Kennedy Toole, Isaac Asimov, Jules Verne, Arthur Conan Doyle, Philip K. Dick, and many more...

[suckerface]

+1 on chuck palahniuk, dude has a writing style like no other...
Also, I'm a huge fan of the Myst games, and the books by Rand and Robyn Miller are fantastic. Huge Edgar Allen Poe fan too.

[TLyttle]

Sagan? I prefer Velikovsky myself, just as much information without the ego trip...

[Altitude]

Orson Scott Card

[tomato]

Edgar Allen Poe is undoubtedly brilliant. But I think as you get older, your taste in literature changes (or is it just me? :P )

[J_Lynn]

Sidney Sheldon
VC Andrews
Ann Rule
Robert Frost
...and my Grandma, she wrote her life story and had it published :) (http://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Minutiae-Nancy-Massman/dp/1401084648/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1331731804&sr=8-1)

[why?]

right now it is Cory Doctorow:http://www.boingboing.net/http://craphound.com/

Orson Scott Card is awesome too, and Edgar Allan Poe is heroic. So many other science fiction and fantasy stuff though, David Drake, David Weber, Tanya Huff, Anne McCaffrey, and so many others.

[nobiggie]

sophie kinsella and king of course