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Have you met any authors?

Kaz

Kaz

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I haven't but love to met authors and ask them to do autogragh in the book which I buy. I love to meet Danielle Steel (don't laugh at me!) Maeve Binchy and Paullina Simons.

I wonder have you met already, who is it?

If you wish to meet the authors, who will be ??
 
Personally speaking, I'm rather not interested in meeting any contemporary authors, unless it would be a one-to-one meeting. Most of the authors I like are dead now.
Though, I was once on a lecture given by an American professor Robert Cialdini, mostly about his book "How to influence people." I must say it was very interesting, because the professor has a talent of vivid speaking.

I'd like to meet a poet, Czeslaw Milosz.
 
I have met quite a few authors, but unfortunately they were all my university professors!! :D

Phil
 
Well not face to face, but I have exchanged emails with:
Robert Sawyer
Greg Iles
and the sadly late George Alec Effinger

All of them were very gracious.

Oh, and who'd I'd like to meet? Easy:
Dan Simmons
Clive Barker
 
Hi!
I haven't met any authors, at least I don't remember... but I've written to and gotten answers from Belgium author Amélie Nothomb, French author Robert Sabatier (I don't think he's wellknown here...) and Raymond Briggs ;-)
 
I met Ann Rice and Ray Bradbury.

Ray was awsome and exudes the same joy of life that is in his books =)
 
I never have before, however Monday night I am going to see AnneMarie MacDonald - "Fall on your Knees" and "Way the Crow Flies".
 
Haven't met any...

Would like to meet Robert Jordan, Colleen McCollough, M.M. Kaye, Beverly Lewis, Dee Henderson.. that's a good start.
 
In addition to my earlier post, I did meet Ann Marie MacDonald tonight - she read from her new book, and was terrific, so lively and comical. I am shelving the other book I was reading and diving into this one.
 
Since working in a bookshop for a few years now I have met - Maya Angelou, Bill Bryson, Michael Palin, Michael Moore, Ian Rankin ( a few times), Alexander McCall Smith. It is so good when you meet an author and they are just nice people, no special treatment unlike a few other authors I have met and would not like to name!
 
I haven't met any authors (except, like phil-t, university lecturers), but I'd like to meet Terry Pratchett. I have emailed Julie Bertagna about her book Exodus, and got a very nice reply.
 
I worked for awhile at a bookstore that had the occasional signing, so I've met a few, but the ones that were actually famous:

Jimmy Carter (yes, he writes books. And it was a security nightmare.)

Ray Bradbury - as someone else mentioned, an absolute doll, and he loved meeting the fans

Edward Albee - cool sense of humor
 
some kids authors during early elementary school, but recently I got to see Neal Stephenson, and he's amazing
 
just Jose saramago and didnt had any book with me for him to sing, nice guy.

other than that, just academic writters, and some unknow novelists
 
I went to the Carnegie Awards for kids books when I was at school, so met Jenny Nimmo and Jacqueline Wilson. Both were lovely, lovely people and advised me about story writing - best tip they could give was to just persevere with the writing!

I've exchanged emails with Freya North as well, and she was brilliant and very humble about the fact that people enjoyed her books.
 
I realise this is a bit late to reply but I happen to know a published author!!! :D Not a very well-known one though.
 
I've been in contact with two published authors, Charles Montpetit (by email), and another who taught a course at my University. I'll refrain from mentioning her name as we didn't exactly get along. To put it mildly. :rolleyes:
 
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