Tuesday, February 10, 2009

25 writers

More for National Egotism Week....  25 fiction and poetry writers who have influenced me.


1. William Tenn 
2. John Brunner 
3. Robert Benchley 
4. Pablo Neruda 
5. Robert Anton Wilson
6. H. Beam Piper 
7. Andre Norton 
8. John Dos Passos 
9. Spike Milligan 
10. Edison Marshall 
11. Clifford Simak 
12. Tom Sharpe
13. Steven Saylor 
14. S. J. Perlman 
15. Seamus Heaney 
16. Cordwainer Smith 
17. Robert Heinlein
18. Sinclair Lewis
19, Bernard Cornwall
20. John Mortimer
21. George O Stewart
22. Anthony Burgess
23. Mary Oliver
24. H.G. Wells
25. Alan Furst

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

At no. 21, I think you've conflated
George R. Stewart and George O. Smith?

A Pedant

handdrummer said...

Of course you are correct. Much as I loved George O as a person, his writing was not what I would call inspiring.