My Favorite Writers
by PimpinAinttEasy | created - 26 Apr 2015 | updated - 31 May 2017 | PublicJust a bunch of writers whose books are like my very best friends.
1. Charles Bukowski
Writer | Barfly
Charles Bukowski, the American poet, short-story writer, and novelist, was born Heinrich Karl Bukowski, Jr. in Andernach, Germany on August 1920. He was the son of Henry Bukowski, a US soldier who was part of the post-World War I occupation force, and Katharina Fett, a German woman. His father, his...
2. Charles Willeford
Writer | The Burnt Orange Heresy
Charles Willeford was a remarkably fine, talented, and prolific writer who wrote everything from poetry to crime fiction to literary criticism throughout the course of his impressively long and diverse career. His crime novels are distinguished by a mean'n'lean sense of narrative economy and an ...
3. V.S. Naipaul
Writer | The Mystic Masseur
V.S. Naipaul was born on August 17, 1932 in Chaguanas, Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago. He was a writer, known for The Mystic Masseur (2001), The Levin Interviews (1980) and Review (1969). He was married to Nadira Khannum Alvi and Patricia Ann Hale. He died on August 11, 2018 in London, England, UK.
4. J.D. Salinger
Writer | My Foolish Heart
U.S. writer whose novel "The Catcher in the Rye" (1951) won critical acclaim and devoted admirers, especially among the post-World War II generation of college students. His entire corpus of published works consists of that one novel and 13 short stories, all originally written in the period 1948-...
5. Graham Greene
Writer | The Fallen Idol
Graham Greene was one of the greatest novelists of the 20th century and his influence on the cinema and theatre was enormous. He wrote five plays and almost all of his novels, including "Brighton Rock", "The Ministry of Fear" and "The End of the Affair", have been brought to the screen. A superb ...
6. Norman Mailer
Writer | Tough Guys Don't Dance
Norman Mailer, the Brooklyn-born and -bred writer who fought for what he characterized as the "heavyweight championship" of American letters after the 1961 death of Ernest Hemingway, never came close to his dream of writing the Great American novel, but he was a colossus of American culture and ...
7. Philip K. Dick
Writer | Blade Runner
Philip Kindred Dick was born in Chicago in December 1928, along with a twin sister, Jane. Jane died less than eight weeks later, allegedly from an allergy to mother's milk. Dick's parents split up during his childhood, and he moved with his mother to Berkeley, California, where he lived for most of...
8. Michel Houellebecq
Writer | La possibilité d'une île
Michel Houellebecq was born on February 26, 1956 in Saint-Pierre, Ile de la Réunion, France. He is a writer and actor, known for La possibilité d'une île (2008), Déséquilibres (1982) and Elementarteilchen (2006).
9. Raymond Carver
Writer | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Raymond Carver was born on May 25, 1938 in Clatskanie, Oregon, USA. He was a writer, known for Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014), Short Cuts (1993) and Everything Must Go (2010). He was married to Tess Gallagher and Maryanna Burk-Carver. He died on August 2, 1988 in Port ...
10. Hunter S. Thompson
Writer | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Hunter S. Thompson was born on July 18, 1937 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), The Rum Diary (2011) and Gonzo (2008). He was married to Anita Thompson and Sondi Wright. He died on February 20, 2005 in Aspen, Colorado, USA.
11. Robert Crumb
Soundtrack | Crumb
Robert Crumb was born on August 30, 1943 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He is a writer, known for Crumb (1994), American Splendor (2003) and Meatball (1969). He was previously married to Aline Kominsky-Crumb and Dana Morgan.
12. Irvine Welsh
Writer | Trainspotting
Welsh's books have made him a cult figure within the writing world since the 1990s. Several of his books have become best sellers and all have a mixture of comedy, drama and hard-hitting issues...the best-known being Trainspotting (1996) which was made into a box-office smash worldwide at the ...
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