Post great authors that arent widely discussed on this board

Post great authors that arent widely discussed on this board

i like aitamtov

Barbara Pym

Doesn't she get abused by her husband and is only mentioned because he slapped her around?

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She never married

great author, even in translation

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Great movie!

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“I have read The Betrothed, by Alessandro Manzoni, three times, and I have it now on my table because I want to read it again. Manzoni gave me so much. When I was a child, my grandmother taught me by heart the beginning of The Betrothed: ‘That branch of Lake Como that turns off to the south between two unbroken chains of mountains….’” — Pope Francis

MICHEL TOURNIER
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Why should this thread be ended? It asked for multiple authors and you only listed one.

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Somerset Maugham
Sherwood Anderson
Saul Bellow (I've only read A Theft and didn't like it, but he gets a lot of praise from people whose opinions I respect)

And if we're counting poets I'll add George Herbert and John Donne.

I don't know why, he's a big deal

A.M. Homes
E.B. White
John Ciardi
Sarah Vowell
Michael Chabon

There's a few

Marcel Schwob. fin de siecle decadent defs had a great influence on Borges.

HE wrote that book?

fuck I feel bad for not knowing

the movie is 10/10, absolute perfection. check it out

Arno Schmidt (aside from recent memeing)

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Frigyes Karinthy
Thomas Mann

Nikolai Gogol