Book Blogger Hop No. 91: Meeting Favorite Authors

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This Week's Question

If you could meet one author,

dead or alive, who would it be?

(Submitted  by Kristin @ 

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My Answer

These questions in which we're asked to pick one of whatever-or-whoever-it-is are just too "hard" for me! Lol. The thing is, I can never pick JUST ONE. Nope! Impossible!

I should mention that I have met some favorite authors, but very briefly, at book signing events. What this question refers to, though, is probably a more personal meeting, one in which you could REALLY get to know your favorite writer(s).

The authors I've met at book signing events are: Stephenie Meyer, Meg Cabot, Melissa de la Cruz, Kami Garcia, and Maggie Stiefvater. These are all Young Adult Fiction authors.  

I really don't have to think that hard for a list of names of authors I'd love to meet and be able to chat with, but I am indeed having a hard time choosing! And so, several Classic Great Names and More Recent Great Names float in front of my consciousness, in no particular order: Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, J.R.R. Tolkien, J.K. Rowling, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ray Bradbury, Lisa T. Bergren, and even a somewhat obscure but beloved author -- Elswyth Thane. And then there's Thomas Hardy, and Hermann Hesse, and OF COURSE Stephenie Meyer, and Richelle Mead, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Mark Twain, and Lloyd C. Douglas (who penned that great Christian classic, The Robe), and Cordwainer Smith, and Ursula Le Guin and Daphne du Maurier.....and, well, you DEFINITELY get the picture by now!

I would be greatly honored to sit at the feet of any of these wonderful authors, telling them how greatly I had enjoyed their works, and asking them as many questions as I dared. 

But you know, I would also love to meet those authors whose works I have yet to read. Those might be the most interesting conversations of all! I would ask them to just read from one of their works, becoming a particular character as they read. If they were willing to do this type of thing, I would greatly enjoy myself! And these are the authors I would pick: Kurt Vonnegut (I might have read his Cat's Cradle somewhere along the way, although I don't quite remember), Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, James Baldwin, Nora Zeale Hurston, Larry Niven, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Agatha Christie, and Anthony Trollope. PLUS these YA authors: Mary Lindsey, Stephanie Perkins, Melissa Landers, Sophie Jordan, and Nicola Yoon!

So I find myself unable to pick one single author, or even three! There are just too many who have held my mind captive with the pictures painted by their magnificent words, the conjured quests of their various heroes and heroines, the slithering, venomous plotting of their Totally Nefarious Villains, and the sheer beauty of their imagined worlds, whether or not they are based on reality. Those whose books I have not yet read also hold the promise of all of the above, as I've seen from plot summaries of their works.

If it were possible, I would love to meet ALL of these wonderful people, have tea with each of them, and try very hard to treat them like regular folks. It would not be easy for me to do so, though, because I think that writers, artists, and heck, ANY creative people are much more important than royalty or those who are wealthy and/or hold political power. I would try VERY hard, though, to hold my fangirling as much as possible, and ask them interesting questions about their work, while enjoying fun conversations with them! 

And don't get me started on NONFICTION authors! Lol.


                       

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