Who are your 10 favourite authors?

[JaneyGee]

Bit of a spin off from the ten favourite books thread. Who are your ten favourite writers (they don't have to be novelists)?

1. Virginia Woolf
2. P. G. Wodehouse
3. Aldous Huxley
4. Evelyn Waugh
5. Dickens
6. Bill Bryson
7. M. R. James
8. Oscar Wilde
9. Jane Austen
10. Edward St Aubyn

Ooh!
Dorothy Sayers
Angela Carter
Terry Pratchett
Douglas Adams
John Keats
William Shakespeare
Sarah Moss
Peter Ackroyd
JK Rowling
Alison Uttley

An eclectic mix. In the past I would have had Douglas Coupland but I haven't read him for ages so maybe I have gone off him . There are a lot of authors I'm really enjoying at the moment but I've only read one or two of their books so we shall see.

Kate Atkinson
Ann Tyler
Veronica Henry (always a treat I save for my holiday)
Terry Pratchett
J K Rowling
Maggie O'Farrell
David Sedaris
Andrea Camilleri
Fredrik Blackman
Charles Dickens

Terry Pratchett
Ben Aaronovitch
Natasha Pulley
Jodi Taylor
Gerald Durrell
Neil Gaiman
Jasper Fforde
E.M Delafield
Julia Quinn
Mark Stay

In no particular order

Probably

Pym
Austen
Dickens
Evelyn Waugh
Pat barker
Dorothy L Sayers
Penelope Farmer
CS Lewis
Beryl Bainbridge
Conan Doyle

Maeve Binchley
lucinda Riley
Steve Higgs
Rhys Bowen

Sorry, can’t name ten, but these are the authors I turn to if I want to read something but can’t think what, so I search these names on my kindle for something to read.

Jane Austen
Virginia Woolf
Barbara Kingsolver
David Mitchell
Graham Greene
Ann Patchett
Diana Wynne Jones
Nancy Mitford
Maggie O'Farrell
Noel Streatfeild

Georgette Heyer
Terry Pratchett
Jane Austen
George RR Martin
Iain M Banks
PG Wodehouse
Connie Willis
Frances Hardinge
Adrian Tchaikovsky
John Le Carre
(the bottom four will vary according to day of the week but the top six are pretty static)

Jodi Picoult.
Diane Chamberlain.
Sophie Kinsella.
Marian Keyes
Cathy Glass.
Sophie Hannah.
Lionel Shriver but I guess that's mainly for We Need to Talk about Kevin.

Margaret Atwood
Doris Lessing
Vikram Seth
Hilary Mantel
Charles Dickens
Salman Rushdie
Umberto Ecco
Maria Gripe
Barbro Lindgren

Patrick Rothfuss
Terry Pratchett
Diana Wynne Jones
JK Rowling
JRR Tolkien
Isabel Allende
Neil Gaiman
Sandra Newman

Struggling to think of another 2. I have many, many other much-loved books, but mostly only one per author.