Favorite authors

Here are some of my favorite books and authors.

Italo Calvino
One of the greatest contemporary European authors. Here are a couple of sites that discuss his work:
http://greatsfandf.com/AUTHORS/ItaloCalvino.php
http://www.italo-calvino.com/

Mark Helprin
Helprin is a great novelist as well as a speech writer for Bob Dole (He wrote the speech for Dole's resignation from the Senate and his Republican nomination speech). I think Helprin should stick to writing published fiction.
http://www.markhelprin.com
http://www.claremont.org/crb/article/thinking-about-the-unthinkable-again/

Carlos Fuentes
http://www.indians.org/welker/carlosfu.htm
https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/2012/0516/Carlos-Fuentes-5-best-novels/The-Old-Gringo-1985

Gabriel García Márquez
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1982/
https://www.biography.com/people/gabriel-garcia-marquez-189132

J. P. Donleavy
The author of The Ginger Man. Enough said.
http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/visit-donleavyland-sixty-years-ginger-man
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/portrait-of-the-artist-jp-donleavy-1.1716395
search Amazon for Donleavy books

"Writing is turning one's worst moments into money." --J.P. Donleavy

"When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both it's health." --J.P. Donleavy

Donleavy and me
Donleavy and me,1994, at the opening of The Ginger Man in Austin, TX.