[Oschisms]

I agree with what you say, but...Hemingway, Faulkner (I don't know about Fitzgerald) are not good writers.

[Rembrandt_fan]

Get outta town. Hemingway's novella "My Old Man" is one of the finest short pieces ever written. Unlike Hemingway's novels--particularly his later novels--it holds up perfectly, beautifully over time. Faulkner's 'Sound And The Fury' was...I'm sorry, I can't go on. I just don't know how to respond any further. I never thought I'd be in a position where I would be defending the literary merit of Hemingway and Faulkner, both of whom won the Nobel Prize for Literature when winning a Nobel Prize in the arts actually meant something.

As an aside, the Fitzgerald I was referring to was F. Scott Fitzgerald. His 'Great Gatsby' was required reading in high school, at least for me, way back when.

I guess I have to ask: who do you consider good writers?

[TradicalRC]

I agree about Hemingway and Fitzgerald is also mediocre, kind of like Faulkner, though.