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Some new, some old:
History:
Shelby Foote for making the Civil War interesting.
Winston Churchill for giving a detailed perspective of World War II from the top.
Science Fiction:
New to me:
Connie Willis for taking my breath away.
Nathan Lowell for making me feel at home in a spaceship.
David Weber's Honor Harrington for giving me a series that doesn't get old with characters that grow, change, get hurt, die and love.
Old favorites:
Robert Heinlein for giving me science fiction in the first place.
Isaac Asimov for making robots interesting (note my Avatar).
Mysteries:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle for the unparalleled world of Sherlock Holmes.
Rex Stout for witty sarcasm in the character of Archie Goodwin.
Anne Perry for Victorian mysteries that paint a detailed world.
Ed McBain for the best in police procedurals.
Westerns:
Louis L'Amour whose works I devoured in one year once I discovered him, then reread and reread because I realized he new the ground and told it well.
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