Favorite author survey (lots of choices)?

Earnest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Dan Brown, Howard Fast, Ann Rice, Anita Shrive, Colleen McCullough, Larry McMurtry, John Grisham, Ann Rule, Nicholas Evans, Maya Angelou, Patricia Cornwell, Clarissa Pinkola Este's, John Jakes, and honestly there are more. I'm just to tired right now to think! The authors I like are so diverse, there are to many to detail what I like about each one. Happy reading.