Who is your favorite "classic" author?

(As in an author from on earlier era).

Do you have a classic author whose prose just sucks you in and gives you goosebumps?

Mine would definitely be Steinbeck. The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden are so incredibly epic.

Others are definitely Dostoevsky, Melville, Jack London, and Cervantes.

There are a lot of classic authors I haven’t read, though, and I’d like to hear good things about them from the Fluther community.