Favorite Celebrations ~  Novelists Sometimes Madness Is Wisdom

"All things truly wicked start from innocence." ~ Ernest Hemingway

MEN
Sherwood Anderson
Isaac Asimov
Richard Bach
J. M. Barrie
L. Frank Baum
Jorge Luis Borges
Ray Bradbury
Edgar Rice Burroughs

Joseph Campbell
Albert Camus
Truman Capote
Cervantes
Raymond Chandler
Chateaubriand
Joseph Conrad
Stephen Crane

Roald Dahl
Charles Dickens
Benjamin Disraeli
E. L. Doctorow
Arthur Conan Doyle
Alexandre Dumas
Ralph Ellison

William Faulkner
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gustave Flaubert
William Golding
Baltasar Gracián
Alex Haley
Robert Heinlein
Ernest Hemingway
Hermann Hesse
Aldous Huxley
Washington Irving
James Joyce
Nikos Kazantzakis
Jack Kerouac
Stephen King
Rudyard Kipling

Louis L'Amour
D. H. Lawrence
Elmore Leonard
Jack London

Norman Mailer
Thomas Mann
W. Somerset Maugham
Herman Melville
Henry Miller
George Orwell
Edgar Allen Poe

Award Winners

Carl Sagan
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
J. D. Salinger
George Santayana
Rod Serling
George Bernard Shaw
Isaac Bashevis Singer
John Steinbeck
Robert Louis Stevenson
R. L. Stine
William Styron

James Thurber
J.R.R.Tolkien
Leo Tolstoy
Mark Twain
John Updike
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Robert Penn Warren
E.B. White
Elie Wiesel
Thomas Wolfe
Emile Zola


WOMEN
Louisa May Alcott
Maya Angelou
Jane Austen

Yoshimoto Banana
Simone de Beauvoir
Francesca Lia Block
Judy Blume
Pearl S. Buck
Willa Cather
Kate Chopin
Agatha Christie
Colette
Joan Didion
Annie Dillard
Harriet Doerr
George Eliot
Laura Esquivel

Zona Gale
Sue Grafton
Zora Neale Hurston
Erica Jong
Harper Lee
Doris Lessing
Carson McCullers
Margaret Mitchell
Lady Murasaki

Anais Nin
Anna Quindlen
Ayn Rand
Anne Rice
J.K. Rowling

George Sand
Gertrude Stein
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Amy Tan
Pamela Lyndon Travers
Brenda Ueland
Alice Walker
Eudora Welty

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