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Misplaced and mispelled Authors
Gavroche Started conversation May 14, 2000
Under Science Fiction
Anne McCaffrey probably belongs under Fantasy (unless she's written something other than the Dragonriders of Pern series)
Under Fantasy
Jeany Wurts should be Jenny Wurts, I think. (I haven't read her, but she has co-written a few with Raymond Feist and I vaguely remember seeing her name on the cover...I could be wrong)
Under Humour
Joseph Heller, while his works were definitely humourous, probably belongs under Classics. PG Woodhouse might belong there too.
CS Lewis either belongs under Classics, or Fantasy or SF. (He wrote both fantasy and science fiction and religious essays...so perhaps it is easiest to classify him under Classics)
Under Horror
HP Lovecraft also probably deserves Classics. I consider him as important in the horror genre as Poe.
Under Thriller/Adventure
Delete entirely, and move Crichton to Science Fiction. This might get a few raised eyebrows, but he definitely began as a Science Fiction writer (Sphere, Andromeda Strain) and I think every novel he's written has had some scientific underpinning.
Though perhaps the category shouldn't be deleted, and Ian Fleming should be moved there (James Bond novels)
under General
Piers Anthony -- Should be Fantasy
Madeline l'Engle -- Should be Fantasy
Steven Brust -- Should be Fantasy
Marion Zimmer Bradley -- Should be Fantasy
Under Classics
I guess everybody there belongs there. Personal taste I guess.
it's
JD Salinger
Kurt Vonnegut Jr
and Ernest Hemingway
(and if we have Hemingway, we should include William Faulkner)
and it is Edgar Allan Poe (two A's in Allan)
Poetry
Walt Whitman (One 'T')
Perhaps EE Cummings should be spelt: ee cummings, but that's nit-picky.
I'd move Robert Graves to General. He may have written poetry, but I think he is best known for the novel I, Claudius.
That's it for now. 
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