The rules: Don't take too long to think about it. List 15 authors (I'm including fiction and non-fiction) who have influenced you and who will always stick with you. List the first 15 you can identify in no more than 15 minutes.

1. J.R.R. Tolkien

2. Donatien Alphonse François

3. Dante Alighieri

4. Umberto Eco

5. Camille Paglia

6. Mikhail Bakhtin (his work on Rabelais)

7. Jean de la Fontaine

8. Mário de Andrade

9. Arthur Conan Doyle

10. H.P. Lovecraft

11. Murray Rothbard

12. Friedrich Nietzsche

13. Ayn Rand

14. H.G. Wells

15. Albert Camus

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