Thread: What 20th Century Writers do you think will still be read 100 years from now?
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Old 11-13-2009, 09:33 PM   #85
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- Sue Grafton (I think she will be viewed as a latter-day Christie)
- Douglas Coupland (I am a maybe on him; he may be too pop-cult for longevity)
- J.M. Coetzee (Nobel winner and vastly under-rated outside his own country)
- Michael Ondaatje (has the most staying power of the Canadian literary fiction mob)
- Alice Munro (a mater of the short story form)
- John Irving (maybe)
- Nora Roberts (our generation's Mary Roberts Rinehart---high-end, plentiful pulp)
Wow, I've never heard of a single one of these. Are they all very late 20th century?
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