You can invite 12 writers, living or dead, novels and plays, for dinner and they will magically appear. Who would make your list?
My quick choices:
- William Shakespeare
- Charles Dickens
- Flannery O'Connor
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- George Orwell
- Leo Tolstoy
- Anthony Trollope
- Agatha Christie
- Tom Wolfe
- John Updike
- Graham Greene
- William Faulkner
9 comments:
David McCullough
Vince,
Great choice but, to be fair, I should ask for a list of historians.
I'll do that next week. Please be thinking of the ones you'd like at the table with McCullough.
Michael
Jim Harrison, Robert B. Parker, Ernest Hemingway, Mary Oliver, Ingeborg Bachmann, H.L. Mencken (I get to include him for Heliogabalus (A Buffoonery in Three Acts) (1920)), Virginia Woolf, Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Wisława Szymborska, Robert Heinlein, David Brin, and Jerzy Kosinski.
Harvey,
Wow!
May I pour the wine and linger in the background?
Michael
Of course! You and Kurt Harden are also invited. :)
Harvey,
That would be a hard invitation to turn down.
Michael
Frank Schaeffer
Robert Coles
Brennan Manning
Simon Tugwell, O.P.
Maya Angelou
Dean Koontz
Stephen King
Richard Rohr, O.F.M.
Robert Caro
Camille Paglia
Sorry about adding people who wrote/write non-fiction and I only offered 10. I will add Updike and O'Conner. E.
E,
Many thanks!
A very interesting list.
Michael
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