What author do you read the most? Is that author your favorite?

Anne Rice is my absolute favorite author.
Shakespeare, though a playwrite, is also one of my favorites. I adore Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, as well as Macbeth.
Metaphysical poetry, who other than John Donne? As for the rest, I love the Bronte sisters, Lord Byron, Poe, Dickinson, Browning, Frost, Camus (for analysis, more than the story)and a couple of my close friends, who happens to be aspiring writers, just like myself.