Writers March Madness

[vcczar]

Writers March Madness. This one is similar to the other. No bracket system, at least for round 1. Who moves to round 2? 

Take the president and religions poll if you haven't done so already. 

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[Bushwa777]

Man this one was hard.  I like many of them but why no david McCulloch?

[vcczar]

8 minutes ago, Bushwa777 said:

Man this one was hard.  I like many of them but why no david McCulloch?

If you've noticed, these are entirely novelists, poets, and playwrights---creative writing. McCulloch is a biographer. I don't include them or non-creative writing, aside from Montaigne, who is an essayist. I probably shouldn't have included him. 

[Bushwa777]

1 minute ago, vcczar said:

If you've noticed, these are entirely novelists, poets, and playwrights---creative writing. McCulloch is a biographer. I don't include them or non-creative writing, aside from Montaigne, who is an essayist. I probably shouldn't have included him. 

Ahh did not see that

[ConservativeElector2]

Wanted to vote for Ben Jonson as well.

[OrangeP47]

I was generous with the first round.

[NCblue1]

So many greats.

[Edouard]

I strongly recommend Ionesco and particulary his theater representation of Rhinoceros.

It shows how a society falls into totalitarianism.

Jean Paul Sartre is an incredible writer but a bad ideologue, while Camus is a great writer and a good ideologue.

Baudelaire was far too ahead for his time, today I don't know what he would write.

[ShortKing]

Why no CS Lewis? I just noticed Tolkien on here and figured Lewis would be as well

[themiddlepolitical]

No John Greene? 😞

[themiddlepolitical]

Also Jim Harrison! A legend, The anthony bourdain Montana ep is a must watch. 

[WVProgressive]

I'm a bit surprised that you didn't include writers such as Cormac McCarthy, Frank Herbert, Kurt Vonnegut, Isaac Asimov, Bret Easton Ellis, and Osamu Dazai, who I would consider some of the best authors of the later-half of the 21st century (And certainly McCarthy, Ellis, and Vonnegut would be among the number of all-time greats, IMO)

[vcczar]

20 hours ago, Edouard said:

I strongly recommend Ionesco and particulary his theater representation of Rhinoceros.

It shows how a society falls into totalitarianism.

Jean Paul Sartre is an incredible writer but a bad ideologue, while Camus is a great writer and a good ideologue.

Baudelaire was far too ahead for his time, today I don't know what he would write.

Yeah. I've read Rhinoceros like three times. I also like the Bald Soprano. 

I try to read Baudelaire, but I just can't get into him as much as I can get into Lautreamont. 

And to everyone below: I only filled in the first 100 authors I could think of. Time was my restriction. I had like 500+ other writers I'd like to have included. 

4 hours ago, ShortKing said:

Why no CS Lewis? I just noticed Tolkien on here and figured Lewis would be as well

 

2 hours ago, themiddlepolitical said:

Also Jim Harrison! A legend, The anthony bourdain Montana ep is a must watch. 

 

1 hour ago, WVProgressive said:

I'm a bit surprised that you didn't include writers such as Cormac McCarthy, Frank Herbert, Kurt Vonnegut, Isaac Asimov, Bret Easton Ellis, and Osamu Dazai, who I would consider some of the best authors of the later-half of the 21st century (And certainly McCarthy, Ellis, and Vonnegut would be among the number of all-time greats, IMO)