I think I've posted before about my detestation for Tess, both the book and the character. Actually, my Victorian Lit class had me disliking almost all the fiction writers assigned (except for Lewis Carroll), but liking most of the essayists.

Nora Roberts got a nice blurb from Stephen King in his latest EW column, as the best romance writer around (he said something like "She's written 700 books, of which I'm guessing around 100-200 are any good, but those that I've read, I've liked a lot.")

If anyone hasn't read Ellison's The Glass Teat yet, I highly recommend it--it's an excellent collection of columns he did on TV in the late '60s/early '70s.

Doesn't she also teach? I seem to remember her being thanked in an acknowledgement page of another author, mentioning that she was a professor at his school.

Yeah, she's a professor at Princeton, or was last I knew.

I think Robin Hobb is someone else.

She is, she used the name Megan Lindholm in the past too.

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I read all the Hardy there was by choice and was SAD when I ran out.

You weirdos.

I can't believe no one mentioned Russell Hoban, author of both Bread and Jam for Francis, and Riddley Walker. (Among other things for various ages of reader.)

Wow, Russell Hoban is a great example. Again, I had no idea he wrote anything but children's books (my favorite was always Harvey's hideout), but I don't read a lot of fantasy or sci-fi. Thanks, Jesse!

Riddley Walker is a fairly amazing book, but even more so when you remember that it's the same Russell Hoban.

I don't think of Oscar Wilde as a children's author, but he had a story in Olive Beaupre Miller's "My Book House: Through the Gate" (aka Volume 4). He contributed "The Selfish Giant," about a mean giant who wouldn't let the children play in his beautiful yard.

Donald Westlake has written mysteries, caper novels, satire, science fiction, and apocalyptic fantasy under his own name. And then there's even more stuff he writes using a pseudonym.

I was gonna mention Westlake!

Uh, Ted Hughes wrote poetry and children's books (very successfully).

I don't think of Oscar Wilde as a children's author, but he had a story in Olive Beaupre Miller's "My Book House: Through the Gate" (aka Volume 4).

He wrote quite a few fairy tales for children (mostly for his own sons, but he didn't hesitate to get them published either).

Also, George Macdonald wrote adult fantasy novels (Phantastes, Lilith, and one I can never quite remember the title of), straight-up non-genre novels, religious essays, and fairy tales.