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[curuchamion]

Ah, what the hey. Influential authors meme!

'Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen authors (poets [and comic book authors] included)* who've influenced you and that will always stick with you. List the first fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes. Tag everyone, because I'm interested in seeing what authors my friends choose.'

In no order at all:

1. Chris Claremont (hey, when they said "comic book authors"...)
2. JRR Tolkien
3. Laura Ingalls Wilder
4. Eve Titus (of the "Basil of Baker Street" series)
5. Elizabeth Enright ("Gone-Away Lake" and "The Saturdays")
6. Shakespeare (really)
7. Rudyard Kipling
8. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
9. C.S. Lewis (I'm not fond of him, but he did influence me quite a bit)
10. G.K. Chesterton
11. Robert Arthur ("Three Investigators" series)
12. Arthur Ransome ("Swallows and Amazons" series)
13. Adam-Troy Castro
14. Timothy Zahn
15. Kate Seredy

Comments

[curuchamion.livejournal.com]

Oh right, Walter Farley! And Dorothy Sayers! And Carolyn Keene and Franklin W Dixon! And and and...

...who are Jim Butcher and Tanith Lee? Those are the only names I don't recognize, and since you obviously have excellent taste...

[meneleth.livejournal.com]

Jim Butcher gave the world the "other wizard named Harry" - Harry Dresden. Excellent urban fantasy. Most of Tanith Lee's work isn't to my taste but I totally love her book Cyrion.