In my later teens I think I did gravitate towards female authors a good deal... I had this crazy notion that if I spent the time to read books
from a woman's perspective I might fare better with the opposite sex...
Didn't work out that well, but I did get to read some good literature...
These days I don't care one bit
who wrote a work... Regardless of sex, race, religion, sexual preference, etc... But when I say that, I actually mean that, unlike those that compensate and go full bore politically correct and really buy works motivated by those distinctions... (Just not in a traditional method)
Just a quick check on my reader, all works are from the male side of things except for two. Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen, and Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. Though two of the men are named Terry...
(I actually thought Terry Pratchett was a woman for years, there was also a female author who I always thought was male but her name slips my mind)
-MJ