Sticky and Sweet

15 Sweet Authors That Have Stuck With Me Through the Years


1 William Shakespeare (MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, HENRY V, MACBETH, HAMLET)

2 Marion Zimmer Bradley (the Darkover novels, FIREBRAND, THE MISTS OF AVALON)

3 Stevie Nicks ("Sara," "Rhiannon," "Gypsy, "Has Anyone Ever Written Anything for You")

4 David Sedaris (ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY, NAKED)

5 Gene Roddenberry (creator of STAR TREK)

6 Neil Gaiman (the Sandman graphic novels, AMERICAN GODS)

7 Dave Barry (DAVE BARRY DOES JAPAN, DAVE BARRY TURNS 40)

8 Alan Moore (the Superman story "For the Man Who Has Everything," WATCHMEN, SWAMP THING)

9 Paddy Chayefsky (the films NETWORK, THE HOSPITAL)

10 George Carlin ("The 7 words"..., etc.)

11 Robert Heinlein (STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND, FRIDAY)

12 Edgar Allan Poe ("Eldorado," "The Cask of Amontillado," "The Tell-Tale Heart")

13 Douglas Adams (THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY, SO LONG AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH)

14 Frank Herbert (DUNE)

15 Paul Levitz ("The Great Darkness Saga" and the "Who is Sensor Girl" runs in THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES

(As a Level-16 bonus, I include a little children's book I haven't read since I was maybe 10 or so. It was called ARTY THE SMARTY and was written by Faith McNulty (of THE BURNING BED fame) and was illustrated by Albert Aquino and was about a fish who swam differently from the other fish in his school. I discovered it in the Patrician Academy school library in Butler, Alabama, U.S.A., as a child and would often reread it my first few years of elementary school. It has stuck with me vividly, VIVIDLY! into middle age.)