Charles Baxter Jill Mccorkle Kerry Hulme George Singleton Robert Caro David Mccollough H. Rider Haggard Henry Green Alice Hoffmann Kiran Desai Hanif Kureishi Gordon Lish Arthur Ransome Claire Messud Michael Pollan Mary Renault Anne Carson Mike Davis Muriel Spark Erica Jong Emerson John Donne Doctorow Lorrie Moore Joan Didion Richard Russo Jamaica Kincaid William Carlos Williams Hubert Selby Tim O'Brien Dorothy Parker Orhan Pamuk Denis Johnson Pablo Neruda Michael Cunningham Nabakov Henry James Kazuo Ishiguro Alice Munro Graham Greene Edward Albee Virginia Woolf Anne Sexton George Eliot Seamus Heaney Tom Stoppard Zadie Smith Michael Chabon Helen Fielding