15 Authors

The Rules: Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen authors (poets included) who've influenced you and that will always stick with you. List the first fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes. Tag at least fifteen friends, including me, because I'm interested in seeing what authors my friends choose.

1. J.K. Rowling (Master of the Book Universe-Harry Potter)

2. Suzanne Collins (Hunger Games)

3. Kathryn Stockett (The Help)

4. Stephanie Meyer (as much as I hate to say it, Twilight got me reading!)

5. Edgar Allen Poe (Poet. He rocks.)

6. William Shakespeare

7. Kathleen O'Dell (The Aviary)

8. Dan Brown (The DaVinci Code, Angels and Demons, The Lost Symbol)

9. Jane Austen

10. Mimi Alford (Once Upon A Secret)

11. Mark Twain (SO many childhood classics)

12. Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)

13. Philippa Gregory (The Other Boleyn Girl)

14. Charles Dickens (SO many good stories)

15. Hans Christian Andersen (The Ugly Duckling)