Robert Heinlein, Andre Norton, Louis L'Amour, Jean Auel
Good entertaining storytellers, but three of the four are gone. Modern day writers;
David Weber, Elizabeth Moon, Lisanne Norman, Wen Spencer
Since Ray Bradbury has been mentioned twice, I have to tell about a SF club when I was in college. It was made up about half & half with technical types and liberal arts types. With only one exception in each group, the techies hates Bradbury & the liberals loved him. I leave it to you to determine which type I am. One hint, I was not one of the exceptions.
All except Jean Auel (maybe) and Louis L'Amour are SF writers mainly. Norton (maybe 50%) & Spencer (some) get into Fantasy. Auel writes "Prehistory" fiction.
It would seem that I prefer female writers. Note that Weber often has a female protagonist. Maybe they are more often good at telling stories that are entertaining.