If you could bring back an author from the dead

[zedie12]

Oscar Wilde is undoubtedly my favorite, but if I had the chance to bring back one author from the dead it would be Emily Brontë.
Wuthering Heights is a brilliant novel.
It is very unfortunate that Emily Brontë passed away before she could write and publish more of her works.
I would love to bring her back, so that she doesn't have to write under her pen name anymore and simply because she is one of the best authors and I would love to read more of her works.

[anna0728]

Edgar Allen Poe. Just because.

[freedomtosucceed]

I would bring back John Wooden. I know that he is most known for being a basketball coach, but I've read multiple books that he has written and the information in there is priceless. I love his approach to coaching that can be applied to business and many other areas of life. His philosophies is what made him a great coach and having that in book form with his stories was great to have.

[cdisenberg]

Re: If you could bring back an author from the dead


Awe, man only one? I would love to bring back Edgar Allan Poe, He was truly a master and also, such a tragic soul. I would try to find out what he was thinking when he wrote his poems and stories. I would like to know about his death and the mystery behind it and if he was mad as some suggested he was? Others would be Mary Shelly and Emily Bronte'.




“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

[[meadowlark]]

I would choose Henry David Thoreau. I think he was a misunderstood, but very wise man. I'd love to know what his insight on today's world would be. He had a way of putting life into words that illuminated the miniscule and over-looked. He appreciated the little things, and I don't see a lot of that these days.

[m_marks118]

It's between J.R.R. Tolkien and Jane Austen.
Tolkien taps into my love for fantasy and adventure. I'm simply in love with Austen's romantic style.

[Ryan]

Definitely Jane Austen. Not only is she my favourite author, but I'd want her to scold me mercilessly in her inimitable way. If not Austen, then Dickens. He still needs to complete The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

[BGChargers123]

Definitely Jonathon Swift, it would be fascinating to hear his "Modest Proposal," live and straight from the lion's mouth.

[rida]

I'l bring Jane Austen back

[ALynnPowers]

Once upon a time, the onlinebookclub.org community discovered that they had the power to raise the dead. So, first they brought back Jane Austen. And then the world had a Jane Austen zombie wandering around.... there was suddenly a lot of hilarious social commentary going on.
Then Edgar Allen Poe joined the newly forming zombie community, and people were terrified....

Okay, my zombie story is not going very well. I will have to think this out more...

[rida]

Yes you should

[PashaRu]

Dickens. Brilliant writer, brilliant storyteller. I'd love to talk with him about how he formulated such complex stories. And he would need to finish The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

[jlindquist]

Michael Critchton

We need more scientific fact based works rather than rumors and ignorance!

[Courtney Whittamore]

If I could bring any author back from the dead it would be a toss up between Edgar Alan Poe and C.S. Lewis. I know that these are two very polar opposites in ever sense of style and topics, but that simply adds to my intrigue of bringing them both back. I would love to ask C.S. Lewis how he was able to manage to span ever coveted gap between mythical fiction and non fiction religious topics, and still maintain such a breadth of readership that surpassed even his lifetime. It takes talent to shift gears in writing in general, but to do so and still be considered one of the greats of more than one genre is something I not only admire but want to understand. Edgar Alan Poe's description of the Taboo is something I have always been so fascinated with. Even now his subjects make our skin crawl, so imagining how each piece was received in such a high-brow time would be intriguing. To know in which the manner he came about such dark topics other than the tragic life he lead is also something desired to be discovered. To you have to be demented in order to write tales that depict just that? Then bringing the two back together, C.S. Lewis an advocate of the light, and Poe the personification of the dark, sitting in on a conversation between the two would be quite something don't you think?

[Amy 777]

Wow that's a tough question I have so many deceased favorites. ..Dickens, LM Montgomery, Twain, Tolkien. ..I think though I would say Austen but if I could have 2 I would say CS Lewis as well.