From more of the classical guys it sure is Oscar Wilde, Dostoyevskij, Cechov later on it would be George Orwell.
I also always enjoyed reading Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammet.
From the more like modern authors I actually enjoyed Hubert Selby Jr. and some works of W.S.Borroughs, then I sure am a Rollins fan, liked also Lydia Lunch and read a lot about music. Not to forget my teen years were connected with Bukowski too..
I don't want to get into favorites of the super intellectuals such as Kafka, Sartre or Camus, although I did read them too, my assumption is, that they are so popular among intellectuals especially because anything they touched is open for a LOT and sometimes even pretty wild interpretations..
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Harlan Ellison. William T. Vollmann. Barry N. Malzberg. Hunter S. Thompson. Thomas Pynchon. Franz Kafka. Bruce Sterling. Ayn Rand. Ernest Hemingway. Howard Waldrop. Joe R. Lansdale.
Charles Bukowski. William S. Burroughs. Joseph Campbell. Bill Pronzini. Joyce Carol Oates. Lewis Shiner. Shirley Jackson. James P. Blaylock. Norman Spinrad. K.W. Jeter. Dave Eggars. Jonathan Lethem.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Ed McBain. William Gibson. James Joyce. Donald Barthelme. John Barth. Dan Simmons. Neil Gaiman. Jeff Vandermeer. Clive Barker. Mark Dery. Rudy Rucker. Steve Rasnic Tem. T. Coraghessan Boyle. Ramsey Campbell. Poppy Z. Brite.
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