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2tynkybell
My favorite author is Sharon Draper. I love her books with a passion because they seem so real. While reading I can imagine being there because she is so desciptive! Whatever the subject may be, i can feel the emotion. I want to meet her someday and tell her how much i love her books!.....
P.S. i like Charles Dickens also.
P.S. i like Charles Dickens also.
3RRHowell
I have many favorite authors. The ones who make it to favorite tend to be ones that are pretty easy to read, but that allow me to escape into a world I enjoy a great deal, while let me think about various subjects. My tastes are not particularly highbrow, at least in terms of my favorites.
Robert A. Heinlein I like a great deal of what he wrote. Even in the science fiction novels which have really silly basic plots (e.g. Have Space Suit Will Travel or The Puppet Masters offer little details that inspired me or informed me as a kid. His best, (e.g. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Stranger in a Strange Land, Starship Troopers, Double Star) left me with new understandings about how the world and people fit together that have stayed with me all my life, even though I do not share much of Heinlein's political philosophy and almost none of his religious perspective.
Chaim Potok gave me a window into conservative (and Hassidic) Judaism that has been wonderful. I started on The Chosen, which is one of those books I feel like everyone ought to read at some point in their life.
C.S. Lewis helped me to understand Christianity, when I came to that faith in my late teenage years. Not just Mere Christianity and The Problem of Pain and Miracles but the whole space trilogy, particularly Perelandra and That Hideous Strength, the Narnia books and The Screwtape Letters. He filled my mind with some basic understandings, and a basic mindset that helped me to understand how things fit together in terms of ethics and theology, and put words to some things I only sensed vaguely.
Recommendations from C.S. Lewis led me to George MacDonald. As Lewis said, he knows how to write about characters who are good in such a way that they are still interesting. Lewis said that in real life, good people actually are more interesting to be around than bad people. However, it is easier to write in such a way that your evil characters are compelling. Favorites for me were Sir Gibbie and The Marquis' Secret, though by now, I've read the bulk of his novels.
I came to Orson Scott Card at a time in my life when I thought I had given up reading science fiction. I listened to an audiotape of Speaker for the Dead because it looked cool to my third grader. I ultimately rejected it completely for my third grader, but was blown away by the most sophisticated first-contact-with-aliens scenario I had ever seen. Since then, I have read almost everything he has written, and appreciate his handling of theological issues within a science fiction and fantasy framework. He is a Mormon, and I am not, but I am grateful for the way he works ethical and theological considerations into much of his writing.
Sometimes one book by a writer will blow me away. I have read only a tiny fraction of what Rabindranath Tagore has written, and some of it, I don't much care for. But I find myself coming back to the poems in Gitanjali again and again.
Enough. I have favorite authors (a whole lot of them). Not sure I have any ONE favorite author.
Robert A. Heinlein I like a great deal of what he wrote. Even in the science fiction novels which have really silly basic plots (e.g. Have Space Suit Will Travel or The Puppet Masters offer little details that inspired me or informed me as a kid. His best, (e.g. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Stranger in a Strange Land, Starship Troopers, Double Star) left me with new understandings about how the world and people fit together that have stayed with me all my life, even though I do not share much of Heinlein's political philosophy and almost none of his religious perspective.
Chaim Potok gave me a window into conservative (and Hassidic) Judaism that has been wonderful. I started on The Chosen, which is one of those books I feel like everyone ought to read at some point in their life.
C.S. Lewis helped me to understand Christianity, when I came to that faith in my late teenage years. Not just Mere Christianity and The Problem of Pain and Miracles but the whole space trilogy, particularly Perelandra and That Hideous Strength, the Narnia books and The Screwtape Letters. He filled my mind with some basic understandings, and a basic mindset that helped me to understand how things fit together in terms of ethics and theology, and put words to some things I only sensed vaguely.
Recommendations from C.S. Lewis led me to George MacDonald. As Lewis said, he knows how to write about characters who are good in such a way that they are still interesting. Lewis said that in real life, good people actually are more interesting to be around than bad people. However, it is easier to write in such a way that your evil characters are compelling. Favorites for me were Sir Gibbie and The Marquis' Secret, though by now, I've read the bulk of his novels.
I came to Orson Scott Card at a time in my life when I thought I had given up reading science fiction. I listened to an audiotape of Speaker for the Dead because it looked cool to my third grader. I ultimately rejected it completely for my third grader, but was blown away by the most sophisticated first-contact-with-aliens scenario I had ever seen. Since then, I have read almost everything he has written, and appreciate his handling of theological issues within a science fiction and fantasy framework. He is a Mormon, and I am not, but I am grateful for the way he works ethical and theological considerations into much of his writing.
Sometimes one book by a writer will blow me away. I have read only a tiny fraction of what Rabindranath Tagore has written, and some of it, I don't much care for. But I find myself coming back to the poems in Gitanjali again and again.
Enough. I have favorite authors (a whole lot of them). Not sure I have any ONE favorite author.
