Authors, past and present.

I am often asked what my favorite book of all time is. What a difficult question! Every book I've read has impacted me in a different way. I haven't liked every book I've read, but I've definitely taken something away from it. It made it's mark on me, and the world got a bit bigger with each page. Recently, I was asked this question: if you could meet any one author, from any time period, who would it be? I think that's perhaps I more tricky question than the first. I'm not even close to knowing! I have a top ten, though:

1. Thomas Hardy --Tess of the D'urbevilles, Jude the Obscure, etc.
2. Ghada Karmi --In Search of Fatima
3. Buchi Emecheta --Joys of Motherhood, Second Class Citizen, etc.
4. Salman Rushdie --Midnight's Children, Satanic Verses, etc.
5. Sarah Dunant --The Birth of Venus
6. Lisa M. Diamond --Sexual fluidity: Understanding women's love and desire. 
7. Robert Wrigley --Reign of Snakes, Moon in a Mason Jar
8. Sylvia Plath --Ariel, The Bell Jar
9. Simone de Beauvoir --The Second Sex, etc.
10. Vivian Elliot --*Okay, I'm cheating on this one. She didn't write anything that I know of. She was the estranged wife of the poet, T.S. Eliot*

Okay! Your turn! Who would you meet, if you could?

Choose an author as you choose a friend." ~Arthur Helps