Your top five authors:I'm not listing the classics here. That would be like saying my favorite songwriter is Mozart. Let's say "best works written post-1945" (and asking for only five is just cruel): Robert Penn Warren, Patrick O'Brian, Martin Cruz Smith, Stephen King and William Manchester.

Your top five authors:I'm not listing the classics here. That would be like saying my favorite songwriter is Mozart. Let's say "best works written post-1945" (and asking for only five is just cruel): Robert Penn Warren, Patrick O'Brian, Martin Cruz Smith, Stephen King and William Manchester.

Your top five authors:I'm not listing the classics here. That would be like saying my favorite songwriter is Mozart. Let's say "best works written post-1945" (and asking for only five is just cruel): Robert Penn Warren, Patrick O'Brian, Martin Cruz Smith, Stephen King and William Manchester.

Your top five authors:I'm not listing the classics here. That would be like saying my favorite songwriter is Mozart. Let's say "best works written post-1945" (and asking for only five is just cruel): Robert Penn Warren, Patrick O'Brian, Martin Cruz Smith, Stephen King and William Manchester.

Your top five authors:I'm not listing the classics here. That would be like saying my favorite songwriter is Mozart. Let's say "best works written post-1945" (and asking for only five is just cruel): Robert Penn Warren, Patrick O'Brian, Martin Cruz Smith, Stephen King and William Manchester.