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Who are your favorite prose writers?

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Jean Rhys, Truman Capote, Sallinger A real phony (27) Bob Dylan. AROG Pynchon, Kafka, Cervantes, Proust AR (20) Vladimir Nabokov, Eudora Welty A (19) i dont have one. i mostly read non fiction. Aaron (32) J.R.R. Tolkien, Walker Percy, Chesterton Abs charles Bukowski, Adam Hyde (26) Henry Rollins, Jack Kerouac and Chuck Palahniuk Adam (22) I don't know Adam (25) Chatwin Adrian Martyn (34) bob dylan Adriana (16) bob dylan Adriana (16) Tom Holt and Patricia Highworth Ady (22) too many... Agustina (27) Haruki Murakami, JD Salinger, Lewis Carroll Ai (21) For now, Pablo Coehlo, Stephen King, Michael Crichton Aldonza77 (47) To be honest with you, myself. Alecksi Edgar Allan Poe, Indro Montanelli Alessandro Pian (30) Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Mary Wollstonecraft Alex C. At the moment, Jose Saramago is on top. Alex Elizabeth Gilbert and Mark Twain Alexandra (27) I don't keep track of creators. I pay attention to their words, their lessons. Alexandra (19) Voltaire AlexandriaHMerlin (40) any, just as long as i learn from them Alexis Johnson (19) Flaubert, Anita Brookner and Dostoievsky. Ali (37) don't know Alicein1derland (27) Wilde, Huysmans, Cioran Alin (23) Charlotte Bronte and Jeffrey Eugenides Allison Jean (21) Toni Morrison Allison (33) Vladimir Nabokov, Cormac Mccarthy Allison (20) Alice Walker Amanda None Ame (37) R. L. Stine Amelia (13) Barbara Kingsolver, Sue Monk Kidd Amy (33) forster, kundera. Ana (21) neil gaiman, jose saramago, gabriel garcia marquez, osho Ana (30) I do not know. Andrew (22) Langston Hughes Andrew (25) Daniel Silva, Eça Queirós Ângela (24) Charlotte Bronte, E M Forster and Jane Austen Anjel (28) edgar allen poe. he is amazing Ankassandra (15) Amélie Nothomb, Will Christopher Baer, (Jonathan Carrol) Anke! (17) Murakami Haruki and about 20 others Anna Kalimar (18) Herta Muller, Colette, Bataille, Gombrowicz, Borowski, Konwicki, Hrabal, Hesse, Gretkowska etc. Anna O. too many to list Anne Louise Sheldon (34) David Foster Wallace, Saul Bellow. Anthony D C (20) Chaucer Anthony (24) ? Antoinette (21) Eça de Queirós Antonio Lemos (18) dan brown Anya (22) I couldn't say Anzi (27) Alice Munro, Raymond Carver, Paul Auster, F Scott Fitzgerald Aoife Walsh Jack Kerouac Apos Joyce, Austen, Dumas and Asimov April (20) Marion zimmer Bradley, Virginia Woolf, João Aguiar Aranneaa (19) J.R.R. Tolkien, J.K. Rowling Artie (17) Emily Bronte, Jane Austen, John Steinbeck, Richard Yates, Truman Capote, Flannery O'Conner. Ash (23) Cosmopolitan sex books are about all that interest you right now Ashley Brazil (17) Laurence Sterne, Michael Ondatje, Mark Lord. Ashley Meller (26) PG Wodehouse, Douglas Adams, Isaac Asimov, Neil Gaiman, Dawkins, Hawking, Guha, Frank Herbert, Kurt Vonnegut... Ashwin Murali (21) Sharon Kay Penman, Voltaire, Astrid Nakobov, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Conrad Aya Leo Tolstoy Azat Souren Oganesian (27) Chuck Palahnuick. Bailey (19) unknown Batgirl (23) Austen, Jilly Cooper, Irvine Welsh, the Russians Beatrice Moore (30) José Saranago Beatriz (13) John Green, JKR, Jonathan Friesan Becca (16) Haruki Murakami BeckBeck (26) Samuel Beckett, Thomas Pynchon, and Murasaki Shikibu. Ben I don't really have one. Beth Ellis (15) Contemporarily, Bill Bryson BillyBobABC123zzz Mishima, Twain Blademan (60) Milan Kundera, David Foster Wallace Blaine (21) None Blood (15) Stephen King Bluebird (27) Leo Tolstoy and Charles Dickens Bluto (29) What's.... uh.... nevermind. Bill James? Bob (22) so many Bobia (25) one who inspires me Bonnie (15) Proust, Chekhov, Hugo, Nabokov Brad (17) Emily Brontë Bree Ogden Mark Twain Brian A. Henegar (26) Kurt Vonnegut, Orson Scott Card, Neil Gaiman, Ayn Rand Brian (22) My girlfrend, when she ever does write prose. Rarely. Brutus (20) i have none Bryon Springer (25) Robert Rodi Buddy (34) Oscar Wilde. C face. (22) ....... CAVCAV (26) John Irving, Christopher Isherwood, Milan Kundera, Phillip Pulman, Alan Bennett, Dorothy Parker. C none C (14) Christopher Moore and Neil Gaiman. Candice (23) Michael Crichton, Christopher Moore, Lewis Carroll, Jean Plaidy, Margaret George, and J.K. Rowling. Candy Too many to name Carlie (24) Borges. Carlo (26) Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Camille Paglia Carlos A. (24) Plath, Salinger, Vonnegut, Plascencia, Foer Carly (19) Austen, Tolstoy, Toni Morrison, Barbara Kingsolver, Carol Lacoss (62) Ernest Hemingway, Oscar Wilde Caroline (38) Dostoyevsky, Balzac, Proust, Mauriac Caroline (25) I'm sure it's Huysman, and maybe Wilde, too. It's obvious, isn't it? Cassie (16) At the moment, John Steinbeck Cat (36) I dont have favourites Cat (24) too many Catalina (44) Currently Ellen Hopkins and Jay Asher. Catherine Jean Don't know any Cattie Chong (26) myself Cestmoi Cortázar, Ibargüengoitia, Joseph Conrad Chari (21) Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Carl Sagan, Arthur C. Clarke, Ernest Hemingway Charles L Davis Jr (51) People who see the humour in their experiences, light and dark Charlotte (18) Jerry Spinelli and Margaret Atwood Chary Silva (22) ? Cherish Robinson (21) Have not a favourite but non favourites Cherub (30) Ruben Dario Chinita (34) Wut? Chiu Jing Hua (17) Edgar Allen Poe. Chris (16) Oscar Wilde. JM Barrie. Any and all. Christina Kronberg (23) William Faulkner, Cormac McCarthy, Kafka, Hemingway, Henry Miller Christobel (17) Marcel Proust, Salman Rushdie, Umberto Eco, Herman Hesse. Christopher Blaum (37) At the moment, J. D. Salinger Christopher James Stagg (16) Henry James, Anton Chekhov Christopher (24) Shakespeare Cissa Fireheart (32) Jane Austen, as always. Claire Bartholomew (16) Annie Dillard, James Lee Burke ClaireW (65) I could never choose just one. Karl Marx. Claire Chuck Palahniuk Clancy Salinger, Dafoe Clara (20) Joseph Campbell, Mark Twain, J.R.R. Tolkien Cody Gould (17) james clavell Cookie Mary Higgins Clark Core (25) I don't like the idea of having heroes/heroines or favorites so thus I don't have any. Craig Suga Biles (22) Lots. Crystal (17) Virginia Wolf, Anna Kavan, Jean Rhys, Margaret Atwood, Anais Nin, Margarita Karapanou, Patricia Highsmith, Proust, Kafka, Ballard,etc Crystal (32) At the moment, Ray Bradbury D.X (22) Don't have one - prefer reality bok Daisy (27) None at the moment Damien TC (36) David Sedaris Dan (29) Michael Connely, Jeffery Deaver, Timothy Zahn, Tom Clancy Dan roald dahl Dan (20) Sylvia Plath Danae (17) Steinbeck, Alice Walker, Tom Robbins, Larry McMurtry, David Sedaris, etc... Dani (31) sergei lukyanenko, Tolkein Dani (19) Victor Hugo Daniella (27) Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson Darcy (20) C.S. Forrester, Patrick O’Brien, Herman Melville, Loren Eiseley. Dave Cresswell (46) I am not educated enough in the works of prose to say Davey (18) Marcel Proust David K (46) Haruki Murakami, Oscar Wilde. David Timme (19) Shakespeare David (19) Charles Dickens and Harper Lee Deb (37) Too many to name. Debby Creech-West (43) Shakespeare Dee (19) Yasunari Kawabata, Nick Joaquin, Salman Rushdie, Densio (25) Virginia Woolf Derek (27) James Joyce and Richard Brautigan Dev Tucker (17) I don't like to read... Devon (18) those who express my thoughts, but with eloquence Diana (20) Calvino, maybe Dolores Nabokov (26) Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Jean-Paul Sartre Dominick Miller (19) Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Flannery O'Connor, George Orwell and Plato Dominick Miller (20) stephen king, bentley little Dori (23) Jean Plaidy who weaves historical fact into her fiction. Bryce Courtenay Doug Lambert (65) Emmerson, Thoreau, and those of that era Doug (30) Nabokov Drella (26) Dickens, Dostoyevsky, etc. E.A. Latham (25) Maybe Toni Morrison; I have read a lot of her books but I love so many authors E.Jay (21) peter gammons...murakami, vonnegut, halberstam. EJ (29) Anyone who puts the effort in Eden (19) Alexandre Dumas Edmond Dantes (26) pass Eduardo (19) Oscar Wilde, Charlotte Bronte, Lewis Carroll Elena Dorothy Parker, Anne Rice, Lewis Caroll, Brothers Grim, Hans Christian Anderson. Eleni Constantinou (20) Proust Elissa (22) Jane Austen, Jasper Fforde, and J.K. Rowling Elizabeth Lois McMaster Bujold, Jim Butcher, Patricia Briggs, Stephenie Meyer, Orson Scott Card, Wen Spencer Elizabeth (25) Thomas Friedman Ellen (48) Steinbeck, Fitzgerald, Capote, Runyon Ellen F. Scott Fitzgerald, E.M.Forster, Evelyn Waugh Ellie_Estrella (19) Kafka, Márquez, J.D Salinger, Tennessee Williams... Ema (18) Marcel Proust, Helen Fielding, Paulo Coelho Emillia (16) Calvino Emily Harford Barrett Dostoevsky, Turgenjev , Aristotle Endimion Proust, Shakespeare, Kafka and Eco Eno A. Agolli (15) Clarke, Copeland. I rarely read prose. Enrique (21) John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Mick Jagger, Pete Townshend, Bono Eric C. Wolfe (28) Voltaire Erica Johnson (21) ? Erica David Eddings, Tom Clancy Erich (20) Dylan Thomas Erik Price (18) Edgar Allan Poe and Shakespeare Erin (27) Sandbergy Erin (53) Oscar Wilde, Jamie O'Neill Escapism (19) Aristotle. Plato. James Baldwin. Et Cetera (22) unsure Et (32) I have no idea Eva (23) Melina Marchetta, Jaclyn Moriarty, Paulina Simons (I just went for favourite authors) Evie (22) erica jong, charlaine harris, Feysweetie (43) I fear I am not well educated in prose to answer this question Finokio (38) Thucydides, Cicero, Churchill, Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Stephen King. FlameHorse (28) Joe Abercrombie, Chuck Palahniuk and Glen Cook right now FlyinMonki (27) José Saramago and Milan Kundera Francisca Bastos (17) Don't have any... Gabriel Gonzalez (26) Anatole France Gail Flaherty Kerouac, Hunter S. Thompson, Mark Twain Galareh (23) Proust, Dostoevsky, Nabokov. Genevieve (22) George Orwell, William Hazlitt, Jonathan Swift George Owers (21) I have not read many books to express an opinion yet Georgia (14) none Georgia (53) John Irving, David Mitchell Gillian Martin (40) Milan Kundera, Haruki Murakami, E.M. Forster Gina (19) chuck palahniuk, neil gaiman, gabriel garcia-marquez and jonathan safran foer. Giselle (18) Hesse and (though a playwrite) Beckett Godfrey (19) Charles Bukowski, Kurt Vonnegut, Jerry Holkins, David Lynch, Kevin Smith Greg Lytle (26) Tolkien, Rowling, and Palanchuk Greg (19) Balzac, Thomas Mann, William Faulkner, Flaubert, Proust, Kafka, Camus, a lista é interminável Gustavo (21) Kafka, Joyce, Mann, and yes: Proust Guy Van Driessche (44) Dostojevskij, Tolstoi. H.Nakashima (21) Those who are most poetic HCE (15) Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald HHP (41) Janet Fitch Haley (19) J.D Salinger,Douglas Adams,Neil Gaiman,Franz Kafka HandeG. (13) At the moment, ronald sukenick Hari (21) Emerson, Toni Morrison Hassan (21) Bathroom wall grafitti artists. Hayzeus (23) James Joyce Heidi R. i don't read enough prose writers to have a favorite. Helen Mattison Wyatt (20) poe Hetal (22) I don't have any longterm favorites, I used to love Bettina von Arnim and Christoph-Martin Wieland, in the field of scifi, Stanislaw Lem and Greg Egen, most often the author I currently read, right now Marcel Proust. Hoelder1in (51) shakespeare I Beg (54) Edgar Allen Poe Ian (23) None Illinibeatle (44) wilde, sartre Iris (18) Proust, obviously; Joyce; and, Borges. Isaac (16) bob dylan, salinger Isaac (29) Dostoyevsky,Breton,Blanchot,Bernhard Isabelle (26) Zoze Saramago, Isabela Allende, Aziz Nessin Isadora Duncan (32) Marquez. Iva Now Stephenie Meyer and J. K. Rowling Ivy (10) Ralph Ellison, Aldous Huxley, JK Rowling J.A. Lawrence Orson Scott Card; though at the moment, myself... And Masashi Kishimoto J.L. Odom (16) None JD (21) anais nin JLo (34) H.P. Lovecraft, Arthur Machen, Robert Anton Wilson JW (27) Tolkien Jack (14) Dorothy Dunnett, Joan Aiken, Raymond Chandler, Paul Scott, John Banville, James Baldwin, Ernest Hemingway, Charles Dickens Jackie Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Tom Wolfe. Jackson8471 (23) Anyone but Sarah Palin JaclynM (19) Kevin Smith haha Jaclyn (22) Octavia E. Butler, Rita Mae Brown, John Irving Jacqueline Garrett (38) oscar wilde, gertrude stein and bob dylan Jadelynn (24) Not a fan of any, really. Jamie (25) Virginia Woolf Jan I have none Jan (54) i dont reaqd writings Janae (17) Annie Proulx and Albert Camus. Jared Oswald (19) Bill Simmons, Rick Telander Jay West (27) Poe, Shakespeare, Angelou Jenn (35) David Byrne, Lennon and McCartney, Bernie Taupin, Billy Joel Jenni Webb Reynolds (29) George Orwell & Mary Shelley Jennifer Lewis (26) Kerouac JennyLynn (23) John Irving, Vladimir Nabokov Jenny (23) Cormac Jeremy (17) Me!!! Jessica (18) Henry Miller, Edgar Allen Poe, F. Scott Fitzgerald Jeux Too many Jo (41) Dr.Seuss...always knew how to cheer one's soul up Jo (16) William Styron, Virginia Woolf, Nicholas Sparks Jo (21) Jane Austen Jo I'm not familiar with enough prose writers to choose favorites, yet. Jo (20) James Marsden Joel (17) Bukowski, Woolf, Joyce, Marquez John Porter none John (28) don't like to read Johnny (21) Henrik Ibsen, JD Salinger Jordan (19) Christopher moore Jorelle (18) 能寫出好作品的作家 Joseph Cheng (28) I can't remember Josephine A (19) Shel Silverstein. Joshua Levi (21) Probably people in the same movement or style as Louis Aragon and Coetzee Ju (28) Many. Jubin (21) Cormac McCarthy Judyka (64) At the moment – Joan Didion, Kurt Vonnegut, Jane Austen and Henry James Jules (19) Carlos Ruiz Zafon Jules (26) brina svit, proust Juliette (25) anais nin, I mean, her diaries. June (23) none Justin Rasile (23) Anchee Min & Joyce Carol Oates. Donna Tartt K Yeo (19) Italo Calvino, T.H. White, Borges. KG (38) The old standbys are Bronte, Austen, Hugo, Hemmingway...but I am discovering new treasures all the time KKC (26) Sheen KLVS (22) none K (21) don't have one Kaleena (23) Toni Morrison comes to mind. Kameke Oscar Wilde, JD Salinger, Joseph Conrad Kamila (18) edward allen poe Kandi (26) Edgar Alan Poe, Anne Rice Karen (22) Right now Italo Calvino and Cormac McCarthy Kasper (19) J.K. Rowling, Beverly Cleary, Tolstoy, F. Scott Fitzgerald Kate McJ (31) Dont have one Kate (23) Tolkien and Tom Robbins. Katerina (22) at the moment Fred Vagas Katharina (32) Fyodor Dostoevsky. Katherine (18) George Will, Anna Quindlin Katie (20) Sarah Dessen Kayla Marie (17) Pushkin. Jonathan Carroll. Good journalism. Excellent short stories (I have a fondness for them, and they're so hard to write). Kechiro (33) I don't have a favorite. Kendyl (20) Dante Kenn (47) Myself, when I'm in a certain mind state. Kiara M. (15) Patrick O'Brian, Graham Greene, John Cheevers, William Langewiesche Kid Jasper don't have one Kika Marilynne Robinson, Laurie Hertzel Kim Randall Cox (43) frost Kim (37) Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Emily Bronte, Kimberly (23) Oscar Wilde, Molière, Agatha Christie, George Orwell, Joseph Conrad, Ernest Hemingway Kitty (21) Lawrence Block and David McCullough Koinekid (28) I don't know enough to really say... Kreuzz Terry Pratchett. A. S. Byatt. Sarah Monette. Banana Yoshimoto. Kristi (35) vonnegut, palahniuk, gaiman. Kristie (22) Isaac Asimov, Dickens, Arthur C. Clarke and Truman Capote Krum Kirov (16) William Gibson, Anthony Bourdain and Voltaire Krysstofer Pierre (23) Vladimir Nabokov, Truman Capote, Bernard Schlink and Francoise Sagan Kt (15) At the moment, Ken Follet and P. G. Wodehouse Kyrie (18) Kafka, Albert Camus, and J.D.Salinger. L. Kadey (18) Camus L. Kadey (19) Anne Rice, Daphne Du Maurier, Ellen Hopkins, Charles Bukowski, Philippa Gregory, and Augusten Burroughs. L.E.Murphy (17) Neil Gaiman, Haruki Murakami LAND (22) Sue Monk Kidd, Kathleen Norris, Kate Chopin, Jane Austen, JK Rowling LB Perkins (42) Stephen J. Gould. LVG F Scott Fitzgerald, Helen Mirren, Barbara Walters, Shakespeare, Racine Laura (20) I can never name favorites. Laura (24) don't know Lauren (28) virginia woolf Lauren (22) Orson Scott Card, James Clavell, Haruki Murakami Layla (22) Jack Kerourac. Leah (16) Nietzsche Leeham Too many to ever list, but primarily Shakespeare. Leena (16) Mark Twain, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Nathaniel Hawthorne Legacy Lee (31) Sidney Sheldon. Leigh Lagamayo (27) thank you for the plural; hemingway, wharton, green, fitzgerald, tolstoy, balzac, waugh Lem (24) George Orwell, Joseph Conrad LeonidasStokely Steve Tesich LiamP (25) Ayn Rand, Hemingway Lily (16) Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Wharton, Steinbeck Linda (23) Tolkien, Goodkind, Rowling. Lindsey B. (17) The Beats and The Decadents (in all international forms) Lint (17) Shakespeare, Jane Austen Lisa Martin Buber; Robert Thurman; Barbara Kingsolver; William Shakespeare. Liz (28) I don't read prose. LodRose (32) Austen, Doyle, Bronte sisters, Ishiguro Log Nick Cave, Irvine Welsh Lolita Hazed (18) If I understand prose correctly, Frank McCourt Lori (37) Margret Peterson Haddix. I read lots of books but dont pay attention to the authors names Loui Edgington (12) Baudelaire Louis (19) D.J. MacHale? Lemony Snicket :] Louisalokyee (15) J.M Barrie, Ian McEwan, Fitzgerald. Louise (17) Neil Gaiman, Fitzgerald, Jane Austen, Alexandre Dumas, Gaston Leroux, Thomas Hardy, Phillip Pullman, Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson), Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Garth Nix Loz (17) jk rowling Luc (27) Jane Austen, Steven Saylor, Agatha Christie, Joanne Harris Luísa (21) Jane Austen, Steven Saylor, Agatha Christie, Joanne Harris and Alexandre Dumas (both of them). Luísa (22) don't know Lydia (50) C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Kurt Vonnegut. Lyndsey (19) I cannot say that I quite believe in the term prose being synomous with any work of written word MJ (22) Alice Walker, Isabelle Allende, Zadie Smith MM (34) I lack one. MP3 (22) Hemingway, Norman Mailer, Amos Oz, Emerson and Sartre MPaylor (21) Stephen King, Tom Clancy, Machiavelli_Mx (38) Saul Bellow, Peter Hedges Maggie (24) Hemingway, Bolero, Wolff (Tobias) Malibu (31) Victor Hugo, Franz Kafka, Vincent van Gogh (his letters), Neil Gaiman... Maltet Scott Fitzgerald, Proust Mandar (27) None. Manu (22) Poe, King, Hardy, Orwell, Bradbury, Wharton MaraMichelle ummm geez-how about i don't know Marc_Meyer Chekhov, Dostoyevski Mari (30) Stephen King, J.K. Rowling, Jaida Jones, Jane Austen Maria Patenaude (29) Jk Rowling Maria (45) alexandre dumas, charles bukowski, jules verne, oscar wilde, jack kerouac, vladimir nabokov, f. scott fitzgerald, ernest hemingway Mariana (16) Tom Robbins, John Steinbeck, Neil Gaiman, and Tolkein Mark D Anderson (23) Garth Nix or Raymond E. Feist Mark (16) Nicolai Gogol, Sergei Dovlatov, Boris Pasternak, Andrea Camilleri Martyshka (31) Ah! Steinbeck and Dostoevsky, but don't assume I'm literary, Maruku (18) too many MaryFred (24) David Sedaris and Kurt Vonnegut Mary (22) Henry James, Frank Herbert, Twain Matt (30) Albert Camus, Leo Tolstoy Meaghan do not have one Meebo I dont know Megan (25) I'm going to translate "prose" as "fiction." I like Edgardo Vega Yunque, John Steinbeck, Edwidge Danticat, and Truman Capote among others. Mel Sundquist (20) Stephenie Meyer, Philippa Gregory, Bram Stoker Mel (16) Hemingway, Salinger, and Kafka Mel (20) Chuck Palahnuik. Melinda (18) Laurie Notaro Melissa Farr (25) George Orwell, Mark Twain Melissa (23) Poe Menjou (21) Zola Meredith Paulo Coelho Mersiha (20) Edgar Allen Poe, CS Lewis, Orwell, Kafka Michael (40) Jonathan Swift, Stephen Fry, Flann O'Brien, Peter Ackroyd Michael (46) None. Michaela Tee (15) Jane Austen, more to come in the future. Michelle Jeong (20) Tea Michelle (30) I don't like to play favourites here much, but I do like reading science fiction. Mick (28) Reading Trollope, Jane Austen, Dickens and Thomas Hardy for the 100th time Mignonne (53) Truman Capote Mike Sadler (53) can't help you here Mike (33) Kerouac, Haruki Murakami Mike (14) Ivo Andric, Franz Kafka. Milly (23) Ummmm Mimi (24) Jane Eyre Mimi (53) Don't have one Mimi (31) Marilynne Robinson, LM Montgomery, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Charles Dickens. Minerva Black (30) Langston Hughes Miriam Liggett (48) He's not the best, he's not the greatest novelist alive, he will never win the Nobel prize for literature, but I love the Universes that Douglass Coupland create. Miss Mia Moriarty (29) Leo Tolstoy. Mitela (22) Depends on my mood. MlleJacqueline William Gibson, Samuel Beckett and Voltaire Mnemonic Aberration Kurt Vonnegut Molly (19) N/A Mooke (16) No favourite Morgana Don't have one, don't want one Mouse (42) lewis carroll Mr. Mandarin (41) Terry Brooks Muffin (25) Joyce, Celine, Genet, Lewis, Wallace, Dickens, McCabe Murphy (21) Anais Nin My Dear Materialista (27) Brooks. Mychel Shannon (18) I will pass on this question. I do not know any. Myron (26) E. B. White, George Orwell, Jane Austen Nancy (78) Richard Yates and so many others. Natalie MJ (31) maroun abboud Nathalie (20) none Neller (35) C. S. Lewis, Dylan Thomas, William Shakespeare, Ernest Hemingway, T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Isaac Asimov, Kurt Vonnegut, J. D. Sallinger, F. Scott Fitzgerald, George Orwell and Frank Herbert. Nels (31) Why is there not a nonfiction section here? Plato, Nietzsche, Zizek. Newlin (25) Charlotte Bronte, Louisa Alcott and Anais Nin Nia Robinson (19) At the moment I like Scott westerfield, Hugo, and Vonnegut... you? Nia (15) None at present Nicholas Kovacev (12) Nabakov Nick Schiff (16) Margaret Atwood, Margaret Lawrence, The Bronte Sisters Nikki (35) I don't have any Nikon Shooter Currently (and possibly for always) Antoine de Saint-Exupery and Jane Austen. Nina (21) im not sure right now Nirmal Singh (99) Frank Herbert, Friedrich Nietzsche, William James, Bertrand Russell Nuance (26) Joyce, David Foster Wallace, and Fitzgerald. ORK (22) maybe myself. Oliver Orwell,M.G.Dantec PUNK PAINTER (37) Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, Lovecraft, Tolkien, Clive Barker Pamcake (28) Franz Kafka, Jean-Paul Sartre Panic (18) John Updike, Robert Harris, Thomas Hardy Pat Garrett (26) Kurt Vonnegutt and Larry McMurtry Pat (39) Evelyn Waugh, Margaret Atwood Patty Cake (29) salmon rushdie Paula (54) J.R.R. Tolkien, Alexandre Dumas (the father) Pedro Albernaz (20) To have a favorite one must be aware of more than a single example Peregrine Currently Flaubert and Nietzsche Pessoa non Grata Le Carre, Cheever, Proust, Borges Peter Heron (57) I have not the eye for poetry Peter Joseph Tamber Maxima Gaffney impossible to answer Petree (22) ian mcewan, john fowles, d h lawrence Phil (44) Tolstoy - Dawkins- Euginedes Pingbluto Steinbeck, Harper Lee Pistol Pete David Foster Wallace, Fitzgerald. Pleiadian7 (59) Banana Yoshimoto Plusein (25) Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh Poobah (65) Thomas Kohnstamm Pope (31) proust and dickens Prismatic (74) William Shakespear Quasimodo (30) Still reading. Quinn (23) Neil Gaiman, Edgar Allan Poe R. W. (26) Neil Gaiman Rachel (21) Tolstoy and Tolkein Rachelmate (39) for now, Audrey Niffennegger, Robert Frost Raquelle (17) Tracy Chevalier, Charlotte Bronte. Raven (30) Cory Doctorow and Neil Gaiman. Ray of Mars (36) none Rebekah (29) Anyone willing to spill their hearts and dreams out for me to read Ree (21) William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway Reed Braden (19) Not sure Remi (28) none Renath Marcel Proust Renos (24) I can't answer this with enough knowledge Rethinker (26) memiors ... those would be hardest to write. Rini I really need to read more prose. Rinilia (17) He thought for a long period of time over this question. His heart welled with the weight of possibility presented before him. He then pressed his fingers on the keys and typed, "Me." Robert Tatler (18) Willa Cather, George Elliott, Amy Tan Robo (56) In ym opinion, William Shakespeare, but as i said before, favorites are demening. Robyn (15) Anaïs Nin, Maya Angelou, Dottie Parker, Robert Benchley. Rochelle (40) Shakespeare, Capote, John L:ennon and Paul McCartney Romina (16) Henery Thoreu Rosalie Grace (16) Ernest Hemingway Rox (17) Gabriel Garcia Marquez Ruska (33) Margret Peterson Haddix. I like lots of books, but I dont pay attention to the authors names. Ruskin Clay (17) me Ruskin Clay (17) Thompson, Crichton, Hemmingway. Ryan Brun (23) David Foster Wallace Ryan (18) C.S. Lewis, Edgar Allan Poe, J.K Rowling Ryssan (22) Salman Rushdie, Umberto Eco, Italo Calvino, Borges. S.P. (20) I can't say that any have my attention, just one book here, one there, I'll try to take better note as I read so many books STUPID IDIOT (0) Dostoyevski SamSam (33) germans Sam (24) songwriters in general Samantha (17) enjoying bonnie prince billy's lyrics right now and morrissey's Sara C aka Snacks aka Sarbs (26) I'm not sure? Sarah Taylor Vernarecci (19) Plato Sarah Taylor Vernarecci (19) Beckett and Proust Sarah (23) I have none Sarah (23) none Sarah (38) Ethelreda Lewis, Jhumpa Lahiri, F. Scott Fitzgerald Sasha Sutton (22) Nabokov, Ishiguro, Grahams both Swift & Greene, Richard Russo Scooter (29) Contemporarily, Bill Bryson Scott777 Many...Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Jean Paul Satre, Jack Kerouac, Phillip K. Dick, Joseph Conrad, Ken Saro-wiwa and many more Screaming Bastard Child of the Apocalyps (23) EM Forster, Herman Melville, Nabokov, Maugham. Sebastian (18) proust and italo calvino Sedona (16) deSade SeraphimeRising (31) Marian Keyes is the only name I recall. Serena (26) André Gide & Jean d' Ormesson. Sexismandthecity (28) "I fear I am not well educated in prose to answer this question." Shanna (19) Sylvia Plath Shari (21) So far, William Faulkner. Sharice (22) Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy have affected me the most so far. SharonBillings none right now Shawna (21) Maya Angelou Sheila D (55) none Shelly (17) Iain Banks, Dostoyevski, Pratchett, John M. Ford Shinydan (34) jane austin ShiversB (19) Woolf, Shukle, Winterson, Wilde, shakespeare of course Shubhda (24) Oscar Wilde, Ignas Šeinius, Maxence Fermine Simona (16) Virginia Woolf, Thomas Mann, Iris Murdoch, Ismail Kadare, Arundhati Roy, Dostoyeviski Smaranda (33) Gene Roddenberry Smeghead Paul Auster, Nick Hornby Sofi (24) Laura Mulvey Sonia (25) Nabokov Sonya Dahl (21) Jack Kerouac and James Joyce. Sophie (17) Tom Clancy, HP Lovecraft, Voltaire. Spike Spiegel C. S. Forrester, Jane Austen, Jasper Fforde, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde Stephanie (23) J.K. Rowling Stephanie (21) Proust, Twain, Dickens, Michael Chabon, Michael Cunningham, David Sedaris Stephen (56) J.D. Salinger, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Voltaire, Carl Sagan, Thomas Paine, Christopher Hitchens Steve Shives (29) Terry Pratchett Susie (20) jose saramago Suzy (19) Oscar Wilde, Alexandre Dumas, Ambrose Bierce, John Green, J.D. Salinger, Garth Nix, Edgar Allen Poe. Sydchez Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Wodehouse, Waugh, Tom Wolfe T. Christopher Cox (43) john berger, haruki murakami T (19) None really Tee (40) I have none. Terra (22) Jane Austen, Forster, Hawthorne, Flaubert Terry (41) Will Self and Robert McLaim Wilson TerryG (49) hard to say - Nabokov, Lee + others Tess Calopedos (17) Lara Adrien Tess Fiennes (40) Saki, Colette, Roald Dahl, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Dorothy L. Sayers, Naomi Novik, Nancy Mitford, R. K. Narayan Thambi (24) William Faulkner, Cormac McCarthy, Ernest Hemingway That New Chris Sloce (18) David Foster Wallace, Kurt Vonnegut The Desert (22) Haruki Murakami The Essential Man (26) Sedaris, The Imprecise Duke Of Phonology (77) Chuck Palahniuk and JD Salinger The Josh Rollins (21) Anthony Burgess, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, & Eve Titus The Mouse Avenger (20) Sontag, Erdrich, Arendt The Roomba Mifi (28) John Irving and Mark Childress Thomzagod (39) I dunno. Thrakish (18) Nabokov Tianna Hemingway and Nabokov. Tim Proser (17) George Orwell, Franz Kafka, Thomas Hardy Tim Sandle not much a fan for prose Tivia Stewart (40) James Baldwin, Gore Vidal, Edmund White, Kurt Vonnegut, C.S. Lewis, Ken Wilber, Thomas Merton. Todd (I don't have one yet) Tofu (19) I have none Tom G (19) Leo Tolstoy and George Eliot Tommy (19) Francesca Lia Block, JD Salinger, Vladimir Nabokov Trisha (17) Poe Trisha (29) Curently, Gregory Maguire, Turtle Heart Virginia Woolf, Truman Capote, Carson McCullers, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Saul Bellow, Soren Kierkegaard, Ernest Hemingway Valentina (17) Shakespeare, Nabokov Veronica (20) Dean Koontz Victoria (37) I like Kurt Vonnegut, and I appreciate Dickens. I have enjoyed Bill Bryson and Dave Barry. The 17th and 18th century English literature radiates far more perfectly than any other set of work, and it is hard not to admire that. Vijay Pierce (23) Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Isaac Asimov, Jules Verne, Flaubert Vikram Krishnan (24) A.A. Milne Village Of Brooklin (45) Céline, Proust, Dostoevsky, Sartre, Kerouac, Henry Miller, John Fante, Knut Hamsun... Vincent (19) carl sagan, christopher hitchens VinnyGreenock72 F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut Viv (14) Voltaire Vivianne Liliaceae Aspho Vilth Lewis Lapham Waleed (32) Flaubert, Carroll/Dodgson, Tolstoy, Shakespeare, Chekhov. Walter (19) Willa Cather, Alain-Fourniar, Gustave Flaubert, Anais Nin Wanda (26) Shakespeare Wendy (34) - Wormsie (24) Stephanie Meyer. Wyteria (20) George Orwells XYZ (17) Alice Walker. George Orwell. Xan Etienne Liu Yong,Ba Jin, Stefan Zweige Xialing Gan (27) pessoa, murakami Zee (21) Kropotkin, Orwell, Pullman Zozobra (17) Camus a young boy (91) rilke, dostoevsky, and emerson a.g. (23) F. Scott Fitzgerald. aaaaaaa (18) Fyodor Dostoevsky, Brendan Matthews, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Bertrand Russell, E.D. Klemke, Kurt Baier, Chinua Achebe, Deogracias Rosario aag (22) John Irving, F.Scott Fitzgerald aetilson (41) undecided agony (25) C.S. Lewis, Charles Dickens aimee.dawson (21) tolstoy, sartre, nabokov alessa (21) Rainer Maria Rilke alexa (28) lewis carroll, mary gaitskill, jonathan safran foer, orson scott card, phillip pullman alison wonderland Nicholson Baker, Marquez, Palahniuk, Julian Barnes almavidrio (35) stephanie meyer ames (21) jacqueline wilson amz (16) gabriel garcia marques anasonic (29) Van Damme ancientrobot (31) at the moment: Liz Gilbert.... was it prose? Also: Douglas Coupland, Zafon, Robert Williams ang (99) i do not have one angie (29) jonathan safran foer anjali na anon moose (19) gerald durrell, roald dahl antoinette (24) sappho ashleytheresa (20) Andre Schwarz-Bart, D.H. Lawrence, Styron, Stendahl asmitchel (67) kelsey autumn (17) Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Milan Kundera, Sylvia Plath ayda (25) dostoevsky ayumi (20) paulo coelho, f scott fitzgerald, daphne du maurier, countless more i imagine baggal21 (28) Anna Quindlen barbara (50) have not yet decided, as i do not know enough on the subject bella (16) atwood, kerowak, wolfe,capote, bhl dont have one big guy (16) james joyce jack kerouac billy boy watson (3) I can't pick just one blip52 (27) I don't read much prose blodot johnny (41) Orson Card, A. Conan Doyle, Gould boku_wa_kami (25) kevin smith brad w (35) alice walker isabelle allende gabriel marquis broad (45) Kerouac bubby (43) At the moment, Mich Hedgeburg, Bob Dylan, John Lennon bunny forester c (21) any that write horror, thrillers and manage to give me goosebumps cartike Tolstoj, Dostoevskij, Marguerite Yourcenar, Arthur Schnitzler cdl (35) thomas hardy, cormac macarthy, joanne harris, martin amis charlotte (29) to many to list comnomnomor (15) len deighton cookie none cookie (51) none corinne None, or all depending on how you look at it cr Hugo, Balzac, Zola, Dickens, Wilde, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Rebreanu cucu (26) Jean-Paul Sartre, Rimbaud, Albert Camus dA member: sonicbutterfly (17) shakespeare daniiii (18) Hemingway, Thesiger, Flaubert dbrown (24) i dont know. aven't thought of that dendoo (23) elizabeth peters, clive cussler diana (52) Doyle, Flann O'Brien, George McDonald Fraser, Eric Hobsbawm dlew919 (40) Thoreau, Dickens donkeys4eva (20) ann tyler, anne pachett dorothy6@aol.com (50) chuck palahniuk, dostoyevsky drift Oğuz Atay ehk2 (30) Huxley, Pirsig el3vat0r Julio Cortázar, Jorge Luis Borges, Milan Kundera elSigno (37) Jules Verne, Arthur Clarke, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Jessica Zafra, Bob Ong, Nick Joaquin elay (21) boris vian,sartre, camus, egar allan poe, tolkien, salinger eldar (25) edgar allen poe eliciabg (23) Dostoievsky, Proust, Hesse, Stendhal, Petronius, Flaubert, Goethe, to name some encolpio8 (22) Michel de Montaigne endor Italo Calvino, Ayn Rand esayer (35) Henry Rollins, Kurt Vonnegut, Stephen King, Charles Bukowski esteban (29) Albert Camus, Franz Kafka, Julio Cortázar, Jorge Luis Borges and José Rafael Pocaterra evilwonders (28) Carroll, Barrie, Bryson, Fry feanix (20) the people who writes the classified section of the newspapers filinia (22) Flaubert, Burgess, Vidal frank (57) Oscar Wilde, Tolkien, Pratchett fred (16) currently: a lot of swedes. edith wharton, hemingway, libba bray. furies (27) Wilde, Kerauc, Bronte, Edgar Allan Poe, Voltaire ghazaleh (27) Frances Itani, Elizabeth Hay, Phillip Pullman goblin64 (45) iain banks goose (20) Can't decide greatlove (32) perez reverte, umberto eco, gabriel garcia marquez, jorge luis borges gruchi (63) the ones who appreciate infintessimal things. guiller van mistoffellees (17) marian keyes hellgirl (19) Gene Wolfe, CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien herbertofwestlake (43) Chekhov hodouk (22) Terry Pratchett hoffsta j.d salinger, charles bukowski, jane austen, chuck palahniuk holden (27) No one can be my favorite holyjkms (29) charles bukowski, williams gibson huggybear (29) to date: bulgakov, hemingway, dostoevsky, lee, seth i.p. so far, Borges. inez (21) Penn Warren, Faulkner, Powers j2a18m (43) noone jabbar (23) none jackie (40) jane austen jane (41) bhai vir singh ji jasleen unknown jemimah (32) VS Naipaul, Peter Carey, Margaret Atwood, Alice Munroe jj (43) raymond carver jordan rutter (18) shakespear poe? josie (25) marc levi joyce (20) Charlotte Bronte; F. Scott Fitzgerald; Ray Bradbury. I tend to read books rather than authors. joyseternal (22) jk rowling jrggzmn (20) 不常讀散文 jude (25) mark twain jujubee (35) hugh laurie right now jupiter jones william faulkner, jane austen justine hope (20) dont know many to choose from k-92 (17) victor hugo, george orwell, and Eoin Colfer kai (15) those who write from the heart karaeileen (24) none kari bobins (33) none kathy (52) sarah kane kay (22) W.O. Mitchell, John Steinbeck, kc Nelson DeMille; John Irving; Khaled Husseini ken (58) Beckett, Bukowski, Burroughs, Celine, Fante, Hamsun, Orwell, Selby kfkfkfk (17) Shakespeare khaye (26) Albert Camus, Bulgakov, Gabriel Garcia Marquez killy Jeffrey Eugenides, Nancy Mitford and Proust kimbo (34) me king (43) Donna Morrisey kit kat (22) Salinger knapsackstraps (21) Auden. kokocakemix (24) Melville, Conrad ks (33) A. L. Kennedy, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Franz Kafka, Carson McCullers kunderakitsch Carson McCullers. kuro usagi (18) amado nervo laura Ytzia Montoya Capristo Victor Hugo, George Sand and many others linou70 david gemmel, robin hobb lmao cortázar lo (19) alexander dumas, jhumpa lahiri, emily bronte, and maybe david sedaris lollipoppingsu (24) don't have one luadepapel (25) None lukemarco (18) annie dillard, anne lamott macskawoman (44) currently Henry James and Stanislav Rakús mahtiel (21) haruki murakami maitresseb (43) Bruce Chatwin and Michel de Montaigne maksimuchka (38) david sedaris, chuck palahniuk margo (22) i don't know any prose writers matt (17) not sure mauserman (42) szweig, tolkien, balzac maxie (20) Stephanie Meyer mcseadogs (34) Shakespeare melissa (17) Jane Austen, Emily & Charlotte Bronte, Philippa Gregory metok rubling (17) Leo Tolstoy, Khaled Hosseini, Salman Rushdie mihaela (26) Demille, Roddy Doyle mikemc1156 john steinbeck, john fante mirabilis (48) So many to name, of now I would say Irish writers like W.B. Yeats and greats like him. mischa (22) Banana Yoshimoto, Viktor Pelevin miso no particular favorite mister buzz (49) tom brosseau, aimee man, kris kristoferson, loretta lynn moeder (32) Wilde, Salinger, Capote monson (28) j.k. rowling montie williams (16) none morgwei (28) JD Salinger nad (17) Langston Hughes natedawg (28) stephanie meyer neckice Paolo Coelho nelly Ziemiański, King, Anne Rice nightinday (19) joan didion, philip roth nmh (32) vonnegut none given Proust, Nabokov, Lewis (as in C. S.), St Exupery nools (21) Alexandre Dumas, Rex Stout, Clive Cussler oldie-goldie (99) Ray Bradbury ooinla (40) camilleri orsetto (19) Alan Moore, Chuck Klosterman palais (32) umberto eco pandaaah (23) mome panthergirl (36) the line is too short to name them all :) And I would not like to have to chose one pax (23) george carlin phreec (35) at the moment, Philip Roth, Henry Miller. pk_henry saramago pp (31) pahlaniuk puppylush (35) I don'r read prose unfortunately. qweasd Christopher Hitchens, Martin Amis, Philip Pullman radomu (18) jd salinger raven (17) none ree (24) Pablo Neruda reneetriay (40) dr seuss haha renno (17) Nabokov retroandi don't have one ro to the rah (20) kerouac rob luddington (45) osho rob (54) michael crichton rossi who? rsan I usually like only one or two books by a writer, not everything they have done. rubysparkles (23) evelyn waugh, barbara pym s. a. hensley (45) Pablo Neruda s33d (20) milton sam (19) No specific samps (29) Shakespeare,Garcia marquez, Llosa, Allende. sara luisa hincapie (23) prose isn't my favorite sarah right now, anyone who keeps a notebook. sarah (14) Jane Austin sarahbeth (21) it's the book, not the author, that matters shelby William Blake sinawae (27) Phillip K. Dick, Mervyn Peake, Virginia Woolf sj (23) anonymous skitalica (27) none come to mind right away sleepy (20) Montaigne sluggishflow (22) madeline l'engle snorris (23) Murakami, Auster, Garcia Marquez, McCarthy, Plath socksless Hardy, Greene sp3ccylad (44) charles dickens ( most recently read little dorrit, bleak house and Pickwick papers ) stephbsemilla (40) many stojan (32) Austen, Sartre, Hamsun, Dickens, Tolstoy, Dostoevski, Murdoch, stradling dostoevsky, horace walpole susie karpasitis (26) too many sybann (50) dostoevski t1 Steven Brust tai (22) ellen gilchrist taintme ernest hemingway tamara (48) too meany to name tamera miller (33) gabriel garcia marquez tanichis (32) tenessy williams tess (24) Steven Fry thebabycub (39) jane austen, jd salinger tiffany; (lifefromtheshelf.blogspot.com) (17) don't have one tiffany I love Virginia Woolf tracynle (20) quim monzo and dostoyevski triplet (30) no one tt (27) edgar allan poe veri333 (21) David Mitchell videoalex what's prose? vinnie smalls (15) Martin McDonagh, Bertolt Brecht and John Godber. wattc128 Michael Ende. By far! yair eshel (30) los cientificos yoko (28) Maupassant, Flaubert, A. Dumas, EM Forster, early Henry James, Elmore Leonard, etc. zig I don't have any.