Who is your favorite Author and Poet

[steelemagnolia]

Mine are:

Author: Joan Dideon
Poet: Merrit Malloy

[terrya]

1. Mine:

Author : Margaret Atwood

Poet: Walt Whitman

[MassLiberal]

40. Whitman is one of mine, too

I need to go back and read him again.

[Chan790]

2. Chan790 recommends:

Author: Steve Almond
Poet: Charles Bukowski

[Goblinmonger]

12. Dude

You and I need to drink together because Buk is the shit.

"Don't try."

[hellbound-liberal]

3. My favorite author is Emerson, my favorite poet is Rumi.

Don't have any favorites among the living.

[MassLiberal]

38. Emerson...

:loveya: :loveya: :loveya:

[MonkeyFunk]

4. mine

Author: Kenroy James
Poet: Dr. Suess

[Burma Jones]

5. Shakespere

[1gobluedem]

6. Mine

Author: Nancy Mitford (with a nod to my friend, Ruth Doan MacDougall)

Poet: Dorothy Parker

[gemdem]

7. I have many favorites, but if I have to pick one of each

I'll go with

Author: David Halberstam
Poet: Herbert Woodward Martin

[wildhorses]

8. ---

austen
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[femmocrat]

9. These guys....

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Poet: Walt Whitman

[Goblinmonger]

13. Fitzgerald writes like butter.

I don't think I've ever read a better stylist.

[dolo amber]

10. I dunno if I can think of a poet I like

Fave author is either Maugham or Tolstoy. Which is crazy because I read like...zero fiction. :shrug:

Poet...ummm...yeah, I got nothin'. :(

[petronius]

11. Author: Patrick O'Brian; Poet: A.E. Housman

Those are the choices for today, anyway...

[bertha katzenengel]

14. Ah... Joan Didion. All I've read of hers is

_The Year of Magical Thinking_. Mrs. V. gave it to me after the death of my grandmother. I need to read more on grief - specifically what it can do to the mind.

Mine are -- okay, to narrow it to one each

Betty Smith
Maya Angelou

but if I could have two I'd add

Pat Conroy
Robert Frost

[MassLiberal]

15. two of each

Favorite authors:
Mark Twain
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Favorite poets:
Walt Whitman
Robert Frost

[6000eliot]

16. Author: George Eliot

Poet: Emily Dickinson

[MassLiberal]

39. Middlemarch!

What a novel! :thumbsup:

[Broken_Hero]

17. hmm,

Stephen King, and Edgar Allen Poe

[qwertyMike]

18. Here goes

Author: John LeCarre - Spy stuff mostly, but transcebds all genres
Poet: Shakespeare - sonnets

[Miss_Strawberry]

19. Tennyson!

In Memoriam is fifty pages long and never breaks rhyme....not to mention utterly breathtaking

[WilliamPitt]

20. Robert Penn Warren

to answer both.

[BarenakedLady]

21. Douglas Adams and e.e. cummings

I'm a little odd.

[gemdem]

34. They're on my list, too.

:hi:

[nosillies]

22. mine are

Author: John Irving
Poet: W.H. Auden

[wavesofeuphoria]

23. Bukowski and Hughes

[SteppingRazor]

24. Hmmm... I'd list Bukowski as my favorite poet before putting him down as author

I always thought his poetry was pretty good, but his long-form stuff tended to ramble — which is to be expected of course, when one is soused 24/7 ;)

[SecularMotion]

25. Mine

TC Boyle
Bob Dylan

[regularguy]

26. Phillip Roth / Langston Hughes n/t

[JitterbugPerfume]

27. Alan Ginsberg ,poet and

Kurt Vonnegut , author

at least today . Ask again tomorrow for different answers like John Stenbeck , William Blake etc

[KitchenWitch]

28. Welcome to DU

[enigmatic]

29. For both: Bukowski

http://bukowski.net/

[BOSSHOG]

30. James Lee Burke and H. W. Longfellow

[Richard Steele]

31. Many authors, only one poet: Stephen Crane.

[Reverend_Smitty]

32. Fitzgerald is my favorite author for sure...

as for poet, I'd say it's a tie between Bukowski and Dylan Thomas...I guess I've got a "thing" for alcoholic writers

[momophile]

33. poet - Mason Williams

author? that will take more thought...

[mvd]

35. Author:

Charles Dickens, followed by J.K. Rowling and John Grisham. I like the Harry Potter series and books like Grisham's The Firm and A Painted House just as much as A Christmas Carol, but Dickens is just a classic.

Poet: Walt Whitman.

[LiberalHeart]

36. Paul Auster / Dickinson

At least at the moment that's the line up.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

37. Kurt Vonnegut and Ogden Nash.

[Glorfindel]

41. Mine are:

Auhor - Gore Vidal
Poet - Walt Whitman and/or T. S. Eliot