Greatest Writers

[Strider]

Who do you think is the greatest writer in history?

Mine would easily be Edgar Allan Poe.

 

[SeleucusNicator]

Shakespeare does it for me.

 

[zjl56]

Saint Augustine and Saint Thomas Aquines.

 

[Mescalhead]

Aldous Huxley probably (considering my name how can I not pick him?).

 

[Xen]

Homer. The single most influential writer in all history.

 

[Mescalhead]

Technically not a writer.

BTW, I almost picked 'em, but then thought about the question again.

 

[jonatas]

Homer, whether you believe he was one person or many.... not so much for being a writer in our sense of the word, but for putting down a fantastic oral tradition... Homer was no writer, he was the father of literature

 

[Moss]

If I remember correctly (not sure about this) but there were people before Homer's time who created epic stories and literature... (again, I'm not sure)

 

[jonatas]

If I remember correctly (not sure about this) but there were people before Homer's time who created epic stories and literature... (again, I'm not sure)

we're talking about "the greatest"

 

[Moss]

Nevermind, I misread your quote, I thought you said Homer was the FIRST person to write literature. You said he was the Father of Literature. (Which I agree with)

 

[Megabyte]

Hi!

In my POV , Giovannio Boccachio (Decamerone,1315).

Have fun !

 

[Masquerouge]

What's great ? Does it mean great style ? Great stories ? Can a writer be great because he wrote only one truly awesome novel ? Arrrarrgh, so many questions

Anyway, a great writer, both in style and stories, is Salman Rushdie. Especially Midnight's children.

 

[Drakan]

Greatest writers: William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes.

 

[luiz]

Shakespeare, Cervantes, Dostoyevski. Not in any particular order.

 

[Richard Cribb]

Embarasse de richesse...
For personal reasons my choice will be Mihai Eminescu.

 

[King Alexander]

Homer(I LOVE Heliad and Odyssey) and Herodotus for me.

 

[Yoda Power]

J.R.R Tolkien

 

[Suppersalmon]

Charles Dickens

 

[Darth_Pugwash]

Tokien for me too.

 

[Pirate]

Very tough to decide the Greatest of all time, but I would like to add Kurt Vonnegut to the list.