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I know we have the over-rated authors section but it got me to thinking, what about the ones we love that don't get enough recognition? Whos an author that you love and think is great but doesn't get the recognition you feek they deserve?

The prime example that comes to my mind is Joe Meno, he has a very interesting truthful way of writing that I am yet to see in any other works. He wrote books like, hairstyles of the damned, The boy detective fails, how the hula girl sings, and a few others.

I also have a big thing for michael cunningham (the hours), but I suppose hes recognized enough haha.

For me, that would have to be Billie Letts. Every time I read her books I am blown away, but nobody else seems to read her stuff!

Richard Bach.

I dunno, Richard Bach is pretty famous. I mean Jonathan Livingstone Seagull is a much cited favourite book of many.

Yet you never hear about Illusions which is a much more thought provoking book...I dunno, maybe you are right.

If underrated can mean lack of enormous popular success it would make it much easier on me. With that, I go with James Welch.

Sir J M Barrie. These days at least. Enormous success with Peter Pan of course but though that story is widely known very few know the author. He also wrote numerous other novels and plays that I personally love but have only ever found in second hand shops or on the internet, and even then they are usually second hand. His Sentimental Tommy and Tommy and Griezel series is fantastic, as is his book about his mother, Margaret Olgivy. All of this was appreciated in his day of course - as the knighthood shows - but on doing a search in my university library I came up with one, ONE book, which was a collection of his letters, and was included in the library by merit of his letters to Thomas Hardy, a close friend. Madness!

One would be John Shors, author of Beneath a Marble Sky.
And I don't know exactly how well known she is, but Nancy Holder. I really loved her Wicked series.