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For my money, Vladimir Nabokov has got to be the greatest writer of the last hundred years (at least).

ITT: Your favorite author. Go!

>> No.1604782

Neil Gaiman

>> No.1604785

That's not Faulkner.

>> No.1604793

Stephen King

>> No.1604798

Roger Zelazny.

Novels, short stories, peotry, anything.

>> No.1604808
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1604808

Marquez when dealing with friends who don't judge a book as irrelavent if Operah recommends it.

When dealing with the type who do, I mention my second best author Burroughs. Apparently writing about gay junkie beatnik cowboys is a synonym for COOL.

>> No.1604809

Last hundred years? Put us in 2023 when Ulysses and Joyce are out of the picture, then I'll agree.

>> No.1604840

I agree OP.

Mostly because Ada and Invitation to a Beheading are godly.

>> No.1604856

In English? Then it's Yeats for me. Or if it's proseonly , then maybe Nabokov starts to figure, but I think I'd go for Hemingway.

with an honourable mention for Cormac McCarthy

>> No.1604860

>>1604809
Sì, il mio amico.

>> No.1604866

Joyce Carol Oates