Most of the stuff I've read is sci-fi fantasy so that's where all my favourite authors come from- Michael A stackpole and Timothy Zahn for their Star Wars stuff.
R.A Salvatore. How he keeps pumping out the great books amazes me. The Dark Elf books and the cleric quintet were both really good.
William King for his slayer book series. If you want to read about complex characters and a killer fighter, read them.

Humour: Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett (more amusing than laugh out loud), Louis de Bernieres, 'Private Eye' (paper).

Autobiog: Jung Chang (Wild Swans - great book)

Serious: Joseph Heller (falls in humour as well), Aldous Huxley, Laurie Lee

Favorite Author ever: Tolkien (because I enjoyed reading his books as much now as when I was about 10).

(plus many others - these are just the ones I can remember)

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Hm let's see

John Grisham
Steven King
Margret Wise and Tracy Hickman
Raymand E Feist
JRR Tolkien

A lot of others too but those are not my favorite writers

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Fantasy and the like: Iain Banks, JRR Tolkien, Terry Pratchett, H.P. Lovecraft, Clive Barker, Robert Jordan, Marion Zimmer Bradley, CS Lewis, Mervyn Peake
Non-fantasy: AS Byatt, Anthony Burgess, William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Kit Marlowe, John Milton, Oscar Wilde, Emily Brontë, John Keats, William Butler Yeats, Michele Roberts, Salman Rushdie, Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Roddy Doyle, Tom Stoppard, Sylvia Plath, David Hare, Robert Frost, Edward Bond, Seamus Heaney, Geoffrey Hill, Stevie Smith, Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Pynchon, Iris Murdoch, Guy De Maupassant, Baudelaire, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Hermann Hesse, Margaret Atwood etc etc etc

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Stephen King

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Draconia, Dragon Queen

Robert Asprin~LOVED the "Myth" Series!
Piers Anthony
Douglas Adams

Who wrote "Tales From The Vulgar Unicorn"? I loved the series that it started!
Gosh that was so long ago!

Slackerboy, My son is a big fan of Orson Scott Card and read and re-read the Ender's Series. They were probably the only books in his massive collection that I never got around to reading. http://www.tgeweb.com/cgi-bin/ubb/no...iles/frown.gif

Moni

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Let's see Moni, Tales from the Vulgar Unicorn was by lots of authors I seem to remember - hmm, swivels computer chair and gazes at overladen 2nd bookcase - Hah, deftly plucks a volume - authors are various, but edited by Asprin - you got some Phillip Jose Farmer, Lynn Abbey, van Vogt, Andrew Offutt (always loved his Hanse character) - looks like I only have 3 of them as well (volumes 2, 4 and 5) - better rectify that now that I know my set is incomplete). Think I will take one for the plane (if the Liveship book gets a bit hard to stick with) - thanks Mon.

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No, Thank YOU! Andrew Offutt was one of my favorite writers in that series as well. Shadowspawn was my favorite character. http://www.tgeweb.com/cgi-bin/ubb/no...miles/wink.gif
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Moni

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All I can say is "All of the above"... you all beat me to listing most of my faves.
Two names I didn't spot in the many lists were:
Kate Forsythe.... check out "The Witches of Eileanon" - most excellent
J.K. Rowlings (of course)

And Slackerboy, I have read every book (except short story collections) that Orson Scott Card ever wrote. He's great!! http://www.tgeweb.com/cgi-bin/ubb/no...es/biggrin.gif

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This is tough. Let's be selective -

Fantasy:
J.R.R. Tolkien for Silmarillion, and LOTR
Roger Zelazny for the Chronicles of Amber
Fritz Lieber for Fahred & the Grey Mouser
C.S. Lewis for Narnia
Robin Hobb for her nasty Assassin series(and also she's a Robin too)http://www.tgeweb.com/cgi-bin/ubb/no...es/heysexy.gif
Glen Cook for the Black Company series
Barbera Hambly for her Dragonsbane & Silicon Mage series
Ursula LeGuin for the Earthsea books
Mary Stewart for the Crystal Cave
Jack Vance for the Houses of Ism, the Dying Earth series, and the Demon Princes
Stephen Donaldson for the Thomas Covenant books
Terry Brooks, for Shanarra series
Terry Pratchet - he he hehehehe for Diskworld http://www.tgeweb.com/cgi-bin/ubb/no.../1orglaugh.gif
Robert E. Howard for Conan
Marion Zimmer Bradley for Darkover
Anne McCaffrey for the Pern books
Edgar Rice Burroughs for Tarzan
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle for Lost World & Sherlock

Um... let's stop here -