Top Ten Tuesday: Authors I'd Die to Meet

Top Ten Tuesdays is a very neat weekly meme from The Broke and the Bookish. So here's ten authors I'd "die" to meet.

1. S. E. Hinton: Do I need to explain this? She's a legend, right? One of my ultimate literary heroes. Plus, I really really would love to see that picture she clipped out of a magazine that inspired Rumble Fish.

2. Robin McKinley: I just love her work. I'm not even sure if I would be coherent if I met her - for one thing, I'd be repressing a masochistic desire to ask her about the loose endy bits of Sunshine. I at least know enough not to ask about sequels.

3. C. S. Lewis: While I love the Chronicles, if I had the chance to meet Mr. Lewis I think I'd be busy pelting him with theological questions.

4. Diana Wynne Jones: Meeting the person behind Howl's Moving Castle and Charmed Life - it would've been something. A true master of fantasy.

5. John Green: I want to see Holden's hunting hat in person.

6. Jackson Pearce: I loved her debut especially, and she's just awesome. Someone I'd like to have for a friend (she actually reminds of the girl who's my co-author on Spade.)

7. Neil Gaiman: Personally think he's some sort of genius. And I want to get my copy of Good Omens signed before I have the chance to drop it in the bath.

8. Edgar Allen Poe: Guy had his issues, but I'd still love the chance to talk to him. Whenever I'm in the Athenaem, I kind of daydream about him hanging around.

9. Walt Whitman: I really don't think this one needs explanation.

10. Hannah Moskowitz: This one's kind of a cop-out - I've never read one of her books. But I think magicgayfish sounds great (and she just announced that it's actual going to be a book! Hooray Fishboy!), and she just seems... cool. In the good way.


That was a bit difficult. There are a lot of authors I would love to meet, but really, most of the time I'm content just to read the books.

Which authors would you do anything to meet?