Favorite Authors

Some of my favorite authors, in no particular order:

JRR Tolkein
Neal Stephenson
Mark Twain
Henry David Thoreau
Arthur Conan Doyle
Henry David Thoreau
Zhuang Zi
Nicholas Nassim Taleb
Michael Crichton
Stephen Jay Gould
Patricia Highsmith
Robert Heinlein
John LeCarre
Charles Dickens
Isaac Asimov
Victor Hugo
James Clavell
Sun Tzu
Any Rand
Stephen King
Tom Clancy
Richard Matheson
Malcolm Gladwell
Trevanian
Mario Puzo
JK Rowling
PG Wodehouse
Brad Warner
Bram Stoker
William Shakespeare
Roger T. Ames
Ian Fleming
Frederick Forsythe
Richard Condon
Joseph Conrad
Jack London
Steven Pressfield
Edgar Rice Burroughs

Who are some of yours?