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A small selection:
China Mièville - for the exact same reasons given by caleb72 above. One of today's very best writers and "creators of worlds/societies" as far as I'm concerned.
Alexandre Dumas - for delivering massive amounts of fun, adventure and intrigue in a historical setting I love.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - for his unparalleled explorations of human psychology, morality, god, free will and more in a stark and oppressive society.
John Julius Norwich - for writing both entertainingly and authoritatively about Byzantine history, which nobody had done before him.
Shelby Foote - for the definitive, exhaustive and extremely readable account of the American Civil War.
Patrick Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross - for writing entertainingly and authoritatively about the Ottoman Empire and Asia Minor in general.
Stephen Pressfield - for writing imaginative, gripping and likely very accurate re-imaginings of important events in ancient history.
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