Desert Island Authors Vote Quarterfinals: #1 Jespher vs. #8 Kennadog

[Capt. Factorial]

Quarterfinal matchup #1 faces off the #1 seed Jespher against the #8 seed Kennadog.

Jespher

1.07 - Mark Twain
2.02 - William Shakespeare
3.07 - Bill Watterson
4.02 - Roald Dahl
5.07 - Ursula LeGuin
6.02 - George Carlin (as an author)
7.07 - Ernest Hemingway
8.02 - John Muir
9.07 - Edgar Rice Burroughs
10.02 - William Goldman
11.07 - Oliver Sacks
12.02 - Carl Sagan
13.07 - Anne Rice
14.02 - Frank Miller
15.07 - William Faulkner
16.02 - Dick Schaap
17.07 - Robert Jordan
18.02 - Miguel de Cervantes
19.07 - Tom Brown Jr.
20.02 - Andy Goldsworthy

Kennadog

1.05 - John Steinbeck
2.04 - Harper Lee
3.05 - Stephen King
4.04 - Ken Follett
5.05 - Dave Barry
6.04 - John Angus McPhee
7.05 - Ross MacDonald
8.04 - Beverly Cleary
9.05 - Emily Dickinson
10.04 - Laurie King
11.05 - Khaled Hosseini
12.04 - Marilynne Robinson
13.05 - Mary Stewart
14.04 - Ken Kesey
15.05 - James Herriot
16.04 - Laura Hillenbrand
17.05 - Willa Cather
18.04 - Robert Frost
19.05 - Eugene O'Neill
20.04 - Kathy Reichs

 

[Jespher]

Nice match Kennadog, I enjoyed your list. This one was too close for comfort! I found it hard to include many female authors in my island library, and I feel you and Prophetess did the best job of this. If not for your involvement, I definitely would have included Stephen King, Dave Barry, Emily Dickinson, and Mary Stewart to my island eventually. Nice choices also with Robert Frost, Beverly Cleary, and John Steinbeck!