People have already listed many authors I wouldn't mind having back, like: Dickens, Poe, Hemingway and others. I'll pick a couple author's that are toss-ups for me, that haven't been listed. I would like Homer, maybe he could come up with some new epic poems; also I'd like to see Richard Laymon, he's one of horrors great authors who died recently and at a relatively young age.
I would bring back Edgar Allen Poe, William Shakespear, Lord Byron, Johnathon Swift, Emily Bronte and Charlotte Bronte, Ernest Hemmingway, oh my I just cant pick one. I love them all and some I haven't even thought of so far.
David Gemmell, I would love to see more of his work which just kept getting better and better until he died in 2006.
If you're going through hell, keep going. - Winston Churchill
Mark Twain. I'd like to see what he'd write about these days. The things he wrote late in life were so much different than his early stuff, and his opinions so far outside the general thinking of his time that I'd imagine he'd be writing a lot more angry now, and I imagine his humor would be more edgy and devastating. Also Kurt Vonnegut and Douglas Adams.
"Happiness is doing it rotten your own way."Isaac Asimov (1994)
A.A Milne.......He actually wrote some pretty kick ass detective stories in his time although once Winnie the Pooh got published he had a hard time re-directing his press and stopped writing them! Bastard!
Either that or Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, maybe not to write but more so I can ask him about what he REALLY meant in 'The Final problem' (SPOILER ALERT) What the hell were you thinking when they had that struggle over the falls....seriously?! Is the whole split personality thing truly without founding?! Damn you Doyle, so many questions I have for you!!
As for your quest to write 'elevated' lit....HA. Long live pulpy detective novels! *swishes her cape*
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Jane Austen & james Joyce
Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov
It would have to be douglas Adams, who wrote hitchhikers guide to the galaxy... He really made me laugh...
David Foster Wallace, Richard Brautigan, and Kurt Vonnegut.
Marquis de Sade ... truly one of the most brilliant minds of his day
"When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them." -Marilyn Monroe
Plato and Marcus Aurelius
Love to hear what they would say about today's world.
There's a TON of great choices here!
Terry Pratchett. Best books I've ever read.
Jackie Collins for sure.
Hugs,
Mysteria
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William W. Johnstone (yes he is dead, but as with V.C. Andrews someone "took over the legacy" which means their publishers wanted to cash in on name recognition), because when he was in his prime he wrote some fairly decent and gory horror stories that appealed to my need for blood and guts as a teenager. Edgar Allen Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, because I am sure they would be truly terrified by the internet age of the 21st Century. And finally Stephen King. What you say? Stepehn King is alive? I mean the real Stephen King who wrote stuff like It, The Dark Half and The Stand, and not the pretentious little, self-serving, wussy who replaced him after his car accident who made himself a character in the final books of The Dark Tower and wrote The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon.
he is not even a poet!!!!
