I've only been keeping a cursory glance on this, so I don't know if these guys have been mentioned, but here are some writers I like if anyone cares [which is doubtful :)]: In no particular order: Robert Frost John Keats Ernest Hemmingway Pablo Neruda A.L. Tennyson Chaucer Cervantes Homer Aphra Behn Christopher Marlowe Robert B Parker Raymond Chandler Oscar Wilde Henrik Ibsen Alexander Solzhenitsyn and of course, Billy S. Alex _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus