Jane Austen, Alison Bechdel, Archilochus, Dante Alighieri, Ray Bradbury (I have a tshirt he signed for me with his face on it!), Roland Barthes, Don Delillo, Philip K Dick, Emily Dickinson, Jeff Eugenides, John Green, Lev Grossman, Norton Juster, Toni Morrison, Ian McEwan, Plato, J.K. Rowling, J.D. Salinger, Amy Sedaris, David Sedaris, Shakespeare, Neil Simon, Kurt Vonnegut, Walt Whitman, Tennessee Williams, Virginia Woolf.