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The young Marcel Proust was asked to fill out questionnaires at two social events: one when he was 13, another when he was 20. Proust did not invent this party game; he was simply the most extraordinary person to respond to them. At the birthday party of Antoinette Felix-Faure, the 13-year-old Marcel was asked to answer fifteen questions in the birthday book. Seven years after the first questionnaire, Proust was asked, at another social event, to fill out another; the questions are much the same, but the answers somewhat different, indicative of his traits at 20. In the back pages of Vanity Fair each month, readers can find The Proust Questionnaire, a closely related set of questions posed to famous subjects about their lives, thoughts, values and experience. This Web site offers you the opportunity to answer the same questions Proust answered and to make your answers known to the world (they will be posted on this Web site).
Jean Rhys, Truman Capote, Sallinger A real phony (27) Bob Dylan. AROG i dont have one. i mostly read non fiction. Aaron (32) 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) Edgar Allan Poe, Indro Montanelli Alessandro Pian (30) Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Mary Wollstonecraft Alex C. Elizabeth Gilbert and Mark Twain Alexandra (27) I don't keep track of creators. I pay attention to their words, their lessons. Alexandra (19) 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) Toni Morrison Allison (33) Vladimir Nabokov, Cormac Mccarthy Allison (20) Alice Walker Amanda R. L. Stine Amelia (13) forster, kundera. Ana (21) I do not know. Andrew (22) 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) too many to list Anne Louise Sheldon (34) Chaucer Anthony (24) 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) 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 Leo Tolstoy Azat Souren Oganesian (27) Chuck Palahnuick. Bailey (19) unknown Batgirl (23) José Saranago Beatriz (13) John Green, JKR, Jonathan Friesan Becca (16) Samuel Beckett, Thomas Pynchon, and Murasaki Shikibu. Ben I don't really have one. Beth Ellis (15) Mishima, Twain Blademan (60) None Blood (15) Stephen King Bluebird (27) Leo Tolstoy and Charles Dickens Bluto (29) What's.... uh.... nevermind. Bill James? Bob (22) one who inspires me Bonnie (15) Proust, Chekhov, Hugo, Nabokov Brad (17) 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) John Irving, Christopher Isherwood, Milan Kundera, Phillip Pulman, Alan Bennett, Dorothy Parker. C Christopher Moore and Neil Gaiman. Candice (23) Michael Crichton, Christopher Moore, Lewis Carroll, Jean Plaidy, Margaret George, and J.K. Rowling. Candy 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 myself Cestmoi 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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 Thomas Friedman Ellen (48) Steinbeck, Fitzgerald, Capote, Runyon Ellen 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) Edgar Allan Poe and Shakespeare Erin (27) 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) Anatole France Gail Flaherty Kerouac, Hunter S. Thompson, Mark Twain Galareh (23) Proust, Dostoevsky, Nabokov. Genevieve (22) 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) Kafka, Joyce, Mann, and yes: Proust Guy Van Driessche (44) Dostojevskij, Tolstoi. H.Nakashima (21) 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) Proust, obviously; Joyce; and, Borges. Isaac (16) Dostoyevsky,Breton,Blanchot,Bernhard Isabelle (26) Zoze Saramago, Isabela Allende, Aziz Nessin Isadora Duncan (32) 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) 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) Not a fan of any, really. Jamie (25) Virginia Woolf Jan 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) Kerouac JennyLynn (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) 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) brina svit, proust Juliette (25) anais nin, I mean, her diaries. June (23) none Justin Rasile (23) 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) 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) 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 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) Nick Cave, Irvine Welsh Lolita Hazed (18) 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) 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) too many MaryFred (24) 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) Zola Meredith Paulo Coelho Mersiha (20) Edgar Allen Poe, CS Lewis, Orwell, Kafka Michael (40) 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) can't help you here Mike (33) Kerouac, Haruki Murakami Mike (14) 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) Leo Tolstoy. Mitela (22) Kurt Vonnegut Molly (19) N/A Mooke (16) No favourite Morgana lewis carroll Mr. Mandarin (41) Brooks. Mychel Shannon (18) E. B. White, George Orwell, Jane Austen Nancy (78) 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) At the moment I like Scott westerfield, Hugo, and Vonnegut... you? Nia (15) Nabakov Nick Schiff (16) Margaret Atwood, Margaret Lawrence, The Bronte Sisters Nikki (35) 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) 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 David Foster Wallace, Fitzgerald. Pleiadian7 (59) Thomas Kohnstamm Pope (31) proust and dickens Prismatic (74) Neil Gaiman, Edgar Allan Poe R. W. (26) Neil Gaiman Rachel (21) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) proust and italo calvino Sedona (16) deSade SeraphimeRising (31) 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) Oscar Wilde, Ignas Šeinius, Maxence Fermine Simona (16) Gene Roddenberry Smeghead Paul Auster, Nick Hornby Sofi (24) Laura Mulvey Sonia (25) Nabokov Sonya Dahl (21) C. S. Forrester, Jane Austen, Jasper Fforde, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde Stephanie (23) J.K. Rowling Stephanie (21) 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) 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) Haruki Murakami The Essential Man (26) 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) Hemingway and Nabokov. Tim Proser (17) 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) A.A. Milne Village Of Brooklin (45) Céline, Proust, Dostoevsky, Sartre, Kerouac, Henry Miller, John Fante, Knut Hamsun... Vincent (19) Voltaire Vivianne Liliaceae Aspho Vilth Lewis Lapham Waleed (32) Flaubert, Carroll/Dodgson, Tolstoy, Shakespeare, Chekhov. Walter (19) Shakespeare Wendy (34) - Wormsie (24) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) Orson Card, A. 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