Author You Would Most Like To Have A Beer With

John Steinbeck

Travels With Charlie and In Dubious Battle are foundational books for me.

Gordon Baxster

Flying and Road and Track magazines from when I was just dreaming about sports cars and airplanes.
Gordon Baxter had a great sense of humor!
I would like to have a beer with Peter Egan. Last I knew, he still had a Piper J-3 Cub.
 
George Orwell, Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher,Ronald Reagan,Tom Clancy.
 

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Not exactly an author, but Orson Welles had quite an amazing life.

You know how having a drink with him would go:

 
How about a seat at the dinner table of the early founder members of the Ferrari family? Certain the pasta and Chianti would be outstanding.

Apologies to the OP for stretching the subject's content.
 
Thomas Jefferson

John Ringo

Larry Correia

I read a lot of fiction and enjoy reading for pleasure and knowledge.
 
George Plimpton: I crashed a party at his apartment many, many years ago but never met him.

Bill Bryson: I believe I've read everything that he's written and still have a first edition of "Lost Continent."

Edward Abbey: His work touched me on many levels and the Kirk Douglas adaptation of The Brave Cowboy (Lonely are the Brave), is still one of my most favored movies.
 
That's an impressive list of literary suggestions. Not many today have the time or inclination to read anymore. What a shame to miss out on such a delicious slice of life.

Bravo gentlemen!
Maybe a newish author will become a classic, but I have stopped reading so many books in the last few years. I never do this with the greats. Just a ton of terrible wannabe writers, and I get tricked by reviews and Kindle reviews and such. I think I have learned my lesson.

I can't believe I didn't list Robert Heinlein! Truly a great mind.
 
George Plimpton: I crashed a party at his apartment many, many years ago but never met him.

Bill Bryson: I believe I've read everything that he's written and still have a first edition of "Lost Continent."

Edward Abbey: His work touched me on many levels and the Kirk Douglas adaptation of The Brave Cowboy (Lonely are the Brave), is still one of my most favored movies.
George Plimpton was wonderful. I loved Open Net, and also enjoyed Out Of My League and Paper Lion.

Bryson's Notes From A Small Island and Lost Continent are both hilarious. His description of his childhood motoring vacation (in Lost Continent) with his family is one of the funniest things I've ever read. It brought back some memories.
 
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