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Alexandre Dumas (and to a lesser extent Jules Verne) - for filling my childhood with endless adventure and awe and sheer fun.
Jane Austen - for making me realise, in my late teens / early twenties, that books that are, essentially, romance, can be a whole lot of fun as well, and for giving me a whole lot of joy in the subtle humour she was so good at.
Derek Landy (and to a lesser extent JK Rowling) - for filling my adulthood with fun and excitement and adventure and awe and sheer fun, and for making me realise that even now, that I'm closer to forty than thirty, I can still find endless amounts of enjoyment in make-believe worlds and flights of fancy.
And a whole long list of other authors, hundreds of them, whose work I've read and enjoyed and delighted in over the years. (And yes, they're all writers of fiction. I've read my share of non-fiction for pleasure, mostly back when I was young and had the energy and desire to read for the sake of learning stuff, unlike now that work leaves my brain too tired for that, but I rarely paid attention to who wrote the history or astronomy books I picked up.)
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