Great thead!
My favorite author of all time is
Roald Dahl. Remember, the guy who wrote kids books like Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, etc? Not only are his children's books fantastic, but he wrote FABULOUS short stories for adults that are very eccentric, and I just love them. Anyone else a fan???
Other than that, though, I read random books. BUT...I am a huge poetry reader. Doesn't count as "authors", but here's my favorite poets anyways:
Anne Sexton
Sylvia Plath
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Pablo Neruda
Walt Whitman
e.e. cummings
T.S. Eliot
W.B. Yeats