Looking for Great Living Authors

[Luke Abaffy]

Hi everyone,
My name is Luke Abaffy and I host a web show called Author Feast where I interview authors on camera about their work, their writing process, and the publishing industry. The only problem is all of my favorite authors are dead! I'm reading as much as I can to find new work, but I've been burned recently—thank you Philip Roth and Nemesis.
I'm here to find good books by authors that you guys love (who are living). So if you have any suggestions, I'd greatly appreciate it.

Thanks everyone and nice to meet you!
Luke

[Fran]

Off the top of my head: David Mitchell, Joyce Carol Oates, Kate Mosse, Ken Follett, C J Sansom, Markus Zusak, Ian McEwan, Bernhard Schlink, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Hilary Mantel ...............I could go on & on.
Agree with you Nemesis was a disappointment but I wouldn't let it put me off Philip Roth (I absolutely love "I Married a Communist" & "The Humbling" for example.)

[Carrie R]

Chris Bohjalian, Anita Shreve, Jo Nesbo, and Alexander McCall Smith are a few that come to my mind.

[Mazza WA]

Hugh Howey is my favourite almost new author at the moment. He has written a lot of ebooks for Kindle, and I have downloaded most of them and not been disappointed. John Grishom is still alive (!) as is christine King, timothy Hallinan and Michael Connelly. Lisa Unger, Val McDermid, and another favourite of mine, Kazuo Ishiguro.

Just a thought - some of the dead authors are really interesting - why can't you interview someone to talk about one of them, say, Sommerset Maughn, Graham Greene, John Steinbeck, Faulkner etc etc etc. I remember listening to a radio programme where someone was talking about Ian Flemming's work and how his life had influenced his work - that certainly held my interest.

[Schnappi]

That is so difficult! So viele Authors are so good authors!

[suzy1124]

Pat Conroy and John Irving....

Carpe Diem!

Suzy...

[Maud Fitch]

Sadly Luke Abaffy's post is dated last year but still worthy of a reply.

Most public libraries keep a current list of the Top Authors or Top Reads available today.
You could then visit websites or YouTube these authors and decide if they were suitable.

[sgolesba]

milan kundera,umberto eco,jo nesbo

[Venusian42]

I have no doubt that had Kafka lived today, he wouldn't have been noticed at all. But i think you should interview Michael Guse. He is a rare poet.

[marissa_in]

John green

[zoetemeyer]

If Australian literature appeals to you, I recommend giving Tim Winton a go (particularly Cloud Street).

[Smitha Nayak]

McCarthy's novels are exceptionally dark and use intensely violent. Often considered his masterpiece, "Blood Meridian" is the story of a young boy during America's western expansion who gets mixed in with a group that scalps Native Americans. The gruesome imagery is unrelenting and often sickening, but it is McCarthy's passionate, superhuman voice that makes his work so powerful. His manner of storytelling is a neo-Biblical epic, and it is a voice he used in many of his other great successes, including "All the Pretty Horses" and "No Country for Old Men." His most recent success, "The Road," is an emotional story that casts a boy and his father against a post-apocalyptic landscape. It tears your heart out.

[chrishegan]

I echo zoetemeyer's recommendation for Tim Winton and particularly Cloudstreet. I grew up in New Zealand after WWII, a very similar culture to Australia's, and the life described in Cloudstreet rang loud bells for me. I loved his brand of rurally rough magic realism - talking pig, the rescued drownee longing to return to water, the house haunted by bitter colonials. The dialect might drive some readers to an online dictionary of Australian slang, an entertainment in itself.

[FNAWrite]

"My name is Luke Abaffy and I host a web show called Author Feast where I interview authors on camera"

Sure he does. He just has one question before proceeding - does anyone know any authors?

Let this thread fade away.

[pagenumber394]

Markus Zusak
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Tom Rob Smith
Marissa Meyer
JK Rowling