Favorite Authors

This is random, I s'pose...but I'm just wondering about favorite authors and if the rest of you are readers? So, if you happen upon this - feel free to list some of your favorite authors and why they are!

Here's a few of mine:
Kurt Vonnegut
Mark Twain
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Allen Ginsberg


and oh so many more!!

Hmm, favorite authors, eh? This will be a rather long list, don't feel obligated to go through it all. haha

Stephen King
Clive Barker
Terry Pratchett
Neil Gaiman
Jeff Smith
Peter Blegvad
Ayn Rand
Piers Anthony
Herman Melville
Dean Koontz
William Shakespeare
Emily Dickinson
Edgar Allen Poe
J. R. R. Tolkien
Victor Hugo
Kurt Vonnegut
Roald Dahl
Lewis Carol
Frank L. Baum
not to mention many others... I'll devour anything.

-Ian Disch

Stephen King
J. R. R. Tolkein
Jack Keourac
Richard Laymon
Edgar Allen Poe

Those are my ultimate favorites. I don't have a favorite poet...