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Stephen King - especially after he was hit by the car.
And I'd really like to learn more about Tom Robbins. Apparently he lives up in the Mt. Vernon area and I'd really love to have a cup of coffee and just shoot the breeze with this creative genius.
Plato and Aristotle, who weren't really authors, but writers never the less.
They never would have entered Philosophy if Socrates had died in an earlier battle. They both would have probably entered politics, and the only mention of Socrates would be found in a contemporary play called Clouds, which ridiculed him and other thinkers.
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The Marquis de Sade, a true maverick for his time. Amazing that although about 98% of his writings were destroyed before ever seeing the light of day, his work had a profound influence on literature over the next two centuries.
Harper Lee - how can such a talented author have only one book in them? Did she not write another novel after To Kill a Mockingbird because she was afraid it wouldn't be as well received? Or was she simply satisified?
Jerzy Kozinski was an interesting guy. Emigrated to America as a young man and spoke no English, only to become over the next decade or so one of the best selling novelists in the English language.
Was quoted as saying, I'll paraphrase, "The time's in my life when I've felt most alive, are the times when I've got as close to another human being as possible.
Dr. Tom Dooley, though more for what he did than what he wrote.
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