All time favorite authors

So, I have stilled kept myself trapped in my room. I rode my exercise bike (500 calories) while watching a DVD (The Haunting of Molly Hartley....SUCKED!!!).

Read a 100 pages of Moneyball.....I love Michael Lewis. He is one of the my new favorite authors.

Here is a list of my favorite authors through time. Most of them I have stopped reading for the following reasons:

1. They stopped writing (Passed away)
2. They started writing a book a year
3. I have outgrown them
   

The criteria for making this list is that:

1. I have purchased and loved more than 1 of their books.
2. I would gladly give or advise someone to buy the author's books.
   

I have also marked an astericks by their names based on the impact they had on my life (5 stars means I lived for them, 1 star means I enjoyed them )

1. Judy Blume (1980-1982)
2. John D. Fitzgerald (1983-1985)
3. Don Pendleton(***)(1985-1987)
4. Stephen King(****)(1985-1987)
5. Michael Crichton(*****)(1987-2006)
6. Isaac Asimov(**)(1991-1995)
7. Anne Rice(*****)(1992-*)
8. David Suzuki(*****) (1992-1999)
   
9. Stephen Leacock(*****) (1992-1995)
   
10. Joseph J. Ellis(***) (1999-*)
    
11. Ron Chernow(****) (1999-*)
    
12. Elizabeth Gilbert(*****) (2008-*)
    
13. David Sedaris(***) 2008-*
    
14. Michael Lewis(*****) 2008-*