Kathy Starr
The deceased James Michener.

Louise Pledge
It suddenly dawned on me that I'm married to an author! I'd meet him at midnight, anytime, and usually do! :)

Other than that, I'm dying to meet Brenda Novak. She is an awesome woman!

Joy Martineau
John Grisham --- He has not written a book that I can't put down. He also has exposed many wrongs in our society: health insurance, Oklahoma law enforcement (ADA), and jury tampering.

Joan Leonardo
James Patterson

Miriam
A tie between books I read recently --- Lance Armstrong or Anderson Cooper

Michael Ferrin
Anne Rice --- I love her vampire series.

Patricia O'Donnell
Kristin Hannah

Wanita Gilliam
Nora Roberts

Sharon
Ann Patchett

Kathy Crooks
M. C. Beaton

Kathy Crooks
Kathy Reichs

Sue Leven
James Patterson or any of his books!!

A. J. Burch (Ms.)
Janet Evanovich

Lisa
A darn few...but probably Harper Lee, Rex Stout (were he still alive) and Marcus Zusak.

Carol Newey
None

Richard Bartels
Bob Woodward

Suzanne Novoselac
I would go anywhere to meet Debbie Macomber! I wrote to her after my husband passed away to tell her how much he enjoyed her books. She sent me the sweetest note in reply, which was totally unexpected. So, she has a fan for life!

Dianne
Probably Sue Monk Kidd. Her nonficiton writing makes me feel as if she were sitting right beside me and we are having a genuine conversation! Then, as I think about this question, I am not sure if I would want to meet her in person; what if she is not as I have envisioned? I would be so disappointed! I think I will continue with the picture I safely created in my mind!

Linda Walker
Louise Erdrich and Alice Hoffman

Jennifer Baker
Stephen King. I have been a fan of his work for almost twenty years.

Christine
Alice Hoffman

Marilynn
Lisa Scottoline

Barbara Broberg
THE POISONWOOD BIBLE
Barbara Kingsolver

Vicki Simon
J. K. Rowling
Stephen King
Jennifer Weiner
Elie Wiesel
Dan Savage

Ivy
Paulo Coelho

Whitney
Authors: Lee Child (for the second time), and Carl Hiaasen (whom I almost got to meet 3 years ago, but ended up having to leave the book signing because I got sick!!)

Lori Furan-Schultz
Stephen King

Joan
Just one? Can't choose!

Alice Monroe
Dorothea Benton Frank
Jennifer Donnelly
Tess Gerritsen
Greg Iles
Mary Kay Andrews
Emilie Richards
Diane Chamberlain

And the list goes on...

Ray Palen
Stephen King

Mary West
Sharyn McCrumb

Shannon Leonetti
None

Dianne
John Sandford and Carl Hiaasen

Marsha Creter
Pat Conroy

Peggy
Anne Perry

Julia L. Rule
Janet Evanovich

Cathy Doyle
James Rollins, Charles De Lint, J. K. Rowling, and there really are so many more!

R. Honey
Anna Quindlen. We are of the same age, and grew up in the same part of the world, so to speak. If I had to live my life over again, I would be a jounalist/author!

Leola Harris
Walter Mosley

Mellena Driver
Laurell K. Hamilton

Rita Carter
Anna Quindlen

Ellen
I would line up at midnight to meet the team of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. After visiting their web site and reading their bios, I envision meeting these two authors would be full of laughs, stimulating conversation, and just plain fun. Their books are interesting, exciting and suspenseful, with characters ranging from realistic to peculiar.

Mary
Sophie Kinsella, I'd be there with bells on.

Lynne Perednia
Haruki Murakami would be worth sitting up all night to meet; his books are fanciful, sweet and a lot of fun.

Lynne Wilson
I would line up to meet Margaret Mitchell, since GONE WITH THE WIND is one of my favorite books. Alas, since I can't do that, I would pick Jeanette Walls, who wrote THE GLASS CASTLE. Wow, what a family background she had, and yet she endured!

Deborah
Sue Grafton --- I've met her twice before, once at a signing and once for a lunch. She's always witty, real, and gives even more life to her characters in person. For other mystery authors, I'll wait for a copy of their new books. But I always pre-order hers.

Tensy
Daniel Silva and Richard Russo

Cherylyn Danjou
James Lee Burke

Dotty Gross
Pat Conroy
THE PRINCE OF TIDES is my all-time favorite book.

Becky
Nelson DeMille
Janet Evanovich
Barbara Kingsolver

Ann Bowen
Kris Radish and Garrison Keillor --- I would wait in the blinding snow for them.

Susie
Jodi Picoult, Harlan Coben, John Sandford, Karin Slaughter, and Jonathan Tropper,

Susan Bucher
Sharyn McCrumb's next book in the Ballad series. (I hope there will be one!)

Darby Lohrding
Eckhart Tolle

kurt kidder
Brian Lumley

Linda M. Johnson
Carol O'Connell or John Dunning --- my two favorite mystery authors.

Freda
Steven Womack
Ben Rehder
Michael Connely
Nelson DeMille

Carol Fox
Karin Slaughter

Eileen Quinn Knight
I would love to meet Lisa See, the author of the historical fiction novel PEONY IN LOVE. She writes with such fluid elegance. I've read the book twice and now I am listening to it on tape. What a marvelous way she has in expressing certain emotions!

Phyllis Gould
Jodi Picoult

Jean Hackett
Adriana Trigiani

jen
Jodi Picoult....I love her books. I met her once and loved hearing her speak that I would do it again in a heartbeat. Midnight or not!!!

Nancy Pagnotta
Danielle Steel
Nora Roberts
Luanne Rice
Mary Higgins Clark

Jennifer
There is no author out there worth me standing until or at midnight to meet.

Linda Bedell
Barbara Taylor Bradford

Loretta Sanford
I have been to the Brattleboro Literary Festival a few times. What a highlight in my life! I have met Lois Lowry, "A Girl Named Zippy", Augusten Burroughs etc. I would love to meet Jodi Picoult or Alice Hoffman.

Joan Siegel
I would line up at midnight to get to meet Diana Galbaldon of Outlander fame, Jude Deveraux of A KNIGHT IN SHINING ARMOR fame, and J. K. Rowling of Harry Potter fame.

Mary Branham
I think I would pick Barbara Delinsky or Mary Alice Monroe.
It is hard to pick just one.

Brenda Tucker
Dick Francis

Jeanne Marek
Catherine Coulter and Jayne Anne Krentz

Michelle Miller
This is an easy one!

Stephen King and Anne Rice

Janet Stewart
Stephenie Meyer

Janet Stewart
Melissa Marr

Maureen
Jodi Picoult & Khaled Hosseini

Scott
I would have done so with Jack Finney, but infortunately he is no longer with us.

Gerald Rosen
Stephen King

Bonnie Szul
GUILTY by Karen Robards

Lori Barnes
Mary Alice Monroe

Fran
Wow! Lots of authors! I would love to meet Jodi Picoult, Stephen King, Khaled Hosseini, Octavia E. Butler, Barbara Kingsolver, Sara Gruen, and Betty Smith, to name a few off the top of my head.

Linda Ann
James Patterson

Michelle
Jennifer Donnelly, because I have read THE TEA ROSE and THE WINTER ROSE this year and so far, they are the best books that I have read in along time. I can't wait until the third book.

Nancy D.
DUMA KEY by Stephen King
SHARP OBJECTS by Gillian Flynn
THE GOD OF ANIMALS by Aryn Kyle

Vicki Fuller
Any book by Nelson DeMille

Sheila Connolly
Nevada Barr

Lynette Bresowar
Robert B. Parker

John Stover
James Lee Burke

Donald DeMore
Stephen King

Lareeta
J. California Cooper

Lea Ann in Seattle
Katherine Neville --- I have read and absorbed all of her small output of books and keep hoping for a new one soon. The number of books is small, but their impact is tremendous.

Patty Blackwell
J. K. Rowling, Julie Andrews and James Patterson

Lindsey
Adriana Trigiani

Lindsey
Jodi Picoult

Elizabeth Saurer
Nora Roberts

Becca
J. D. Robb

Michelle
Pat Conroy, Janet Evanovich Fannie Flagg, and any of their books.

Manish Patwari
Stephen King

Patricia Raines
Fannie Flagg

Doris
Elizabeth Berg

Irish
Nicholas Sparks, if he came with his wife. I would really like to meet the woman who inspires him.

Carol Pirtle
Jodi Picoult - no matter what the book. She's never written a bad one!

Cheryl Knapp
Agatha Christie
Any of her books

Suzanne in Ohio
I would line up at midnight to see;
Barbara Delinsky
Debbie Macomber
Sandra Brown
Nicholas Sparks
John Grisham
Kristin Hannah

The list goes on and on and on and on...

Annie Kempton
Dean Koontz --- I wasn't so much into reading 'til I read one of his books at 24 years of age. Now I read all the time! So I'd definitely wait in line to meet him!

Judy
Jodi Picoult --- I love her books and I love how each one is different and will, without a doubt, contain a surprise.

Jean V.
I would love to meet Janet Evanovich. I'd line up at midnight also to buy one of her new books!

Ron Green
Stephen King

Roberta Aida
Anything by Ann Rule
Also, Robin Cook and James Patterson

Lita Jones
Nora Roberts

Sue Dittmar
Children's author of Miss Spider, David Kirk. He is the coolest person and truly loves kids.

Sue Spencer
WILD SWANS by Jung Chang

Kathy Vieira
I would wait for a week on the sidewalk to meet Pat Conroy. I believe his work is of the most important of our time.

I would line up for Anita Shreve, Chris Bohjalian and Jodi Picoult. So many wonderful authors...so little time!

Betty Burrier
James Patterson

Ruth Ann Noe
Jodi Picoult

Debbie
Definitely Robert B. Parker

Ruth Ann Noe
Stephenie Meyer

Melissa Jordan
Harlan Coben

Judy Dils
Stephen King

Joyce Farris
Patricia Cornwell

Lin Livingston
Stephen King

Sandy Greathouse
Deanna Raybourn

Barbara
James Patterson

Lonnie Elliott
Jan Karon, Karen Kingsbury, Michael Phillips, Jo Beverley, Sophie Kinsella, Jennifer Crusie, Jasper Fforde, Charlaine Harris...

F Tessa Bartels
Harper Lee

Mary
Sue Miller (whom I've never met), and Anna Quindlen (whom I've met, but would get up at midnight to see and listen to again).

Shannon Jensen
Janet Evanovich

Robin
Meg Cabot! I just love everything she's written, including her blog. And her video interpretation of LITTLE WOMEN is hilarious.

Bethe
Octavia E. Butler

(but sadly, she is deceased.)

Dona
Eugene Peterson

Sherman Hughes
John Grisham

Sandra Hughes
Jodi Picoult

Mary
J. K. Rowling

Waterlily
I would get up at midnight to meet:
1) Harlan Coben ( he's awesome)
2) Michael Connelly
3) Jeffery Deaver

Rebecca
Milan KKundera

Marsha Neesley
Lee Child

Marsha Neesley
Lee Child

Kitty Szaro
KITTY AND THE MIDNIGHT HOUR by Carrie Vaughn

Beverly Haas
James Patterson

Beverly Haas
Jonathan Kellerman

Beverly Haas
Patricia Cornwell

Jon Weiman
None

Wanda Duckett
Randy Wayne White

Marleen Davis
Stephen King! Anything by this author, I would line up for! He is amazing and I love all of his work!

Cam
THE LIGHTHOUSE by P. D. James

Barbara Cooper
J. K. Rowling

Bobbe Banks Salkowitz
Jodi Picoult

WDyment
I would love to meet Lindsey Davis, who writes the M. Didius Falco mystery series.

Brent Weedman
Maya Angelou --- I have met her once and enjoyed a brief talk that she gave, I had several of my books with me but she wasn't available to sign them after the lecture series so I couldn't meet her. That would have been a thrill, and to have gotten my books signed by her would have been even more wonderful.

Lynn
It is impossible now, but J. R. R. Tolkein. He was a genius. All fantasy writers seem to use The Lord of the Rings as a standard, but none have come close.

Jane Haase
Carl Hiaasen
David Sedaris
Stephen King
Dan Simmons
Robert McCammon
Sarah Vowells

Debbie
J. K. Rowling

Jerri Patton
J. K. Rowling, Jean M. Auel, Joseph Wambaugh, Ken Goddard, J. Arthur Rath, and Alexander McCall Smith

J
Janet Evanovich

Mary Champagne
I would line up at midnight to meet Lisa See.

Edward Garea
Gore Vidal

Joyce
Jodi Picoult

leola Harris
The Third Angel by Alice Hoffman

Rita Castorena
Steve Berry

Lois
Well, I know this one is rather impossible, but if time travel were to be invented, I would love to meet and greet Jane Austen!! :)

Donna Petrilla
Laura Lippman

Vivian Watts
David Baldacci or James Patterson

Jan Baybusky
Stephen King
Anthea Fraser

Carol
Stephen King
Fern Michaels
Stuart Woods
Danielle Steel

Terressa Reep
Ann Tyler

Enid Grabiner
Amanda Cross

Michael D. Ferrin
Anne Rice

Fancy
Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
Martha Grimes
Linda Fairstein
J. K. Rowling
Jimmy Buffett
and many more!

Susan Meyer
BREAKING DAWN by Stephenie Meyer

Betsy Woodruff
Rita Mae Brown

Melissa Monahan
Stephen King

Julie Caldwell
I would definitely line up to meet Marisa de los Santos. I love the way she writes, and I can't put her books down!

Debbie
Amy Tan, Harlan Coben, and Dennis Lehane.

Nancy Groves
J. K. Rowling

Margit Willis
Jodi Picoult

Jennifer McGibbon
Harlan Coben

Julie Towson
I would line up at midnight to meet author Caleb Carr, author of THE ALIENIST.

Jacki Brewster
Christopher Moore

Ramona Young
Stephen King

L Merrill
I don't think I'd be lining up at midnight to meet anyone!

Margaret Rioiux
Any Harry Potter book by J. K. Rowling, but especially HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, or whatever she writes next.

Ann Lantis
Harlan Coben

Teresa Ward
Stephen King

Sue
Who else but Oprah! She is an absolutely fascinating person.

Janet Kindron
Any book by Jodi Picoult, Janet Evanovich or Jude Deveraux

Jeanie
Sandra Kring. I loved her THE BOOK OF BRIGHT IDEAS and can't wait for her next one coming out in the fall.

Darlene D Reid-Rericha
Dean Koontz

Darlene Crowling
Stephen King

Alice
Mary Higgins Clark

Marion Miller
Ian McEwan

Elise
J. R. R. Tolkien and M. M. Kaye (if it were possible, since they are both deceased).

Jane Bailey
Stephen King

Kathy Love
James Patterson or Piers Anthony. They are real people writers who I can relate to on a day-to-day life. Even with the wild life each ends up in, you can picture yourself in the scenes they create.

Harriet Stay
Michael Robotham

Linda
J. K. Rowling

Kathy
Julie Andrews

Lavender-Amethyst
I would get up at midnight to meet:
1) Philippa Gregory (love her Tudor series)
2) Diana Gabaldon ( enjoyed the Outlander series
3) Lee Child ( love the Jack Reacher series)
4) Jeffery Deaver (he is just an amazing writer.)

Cynthia
I would like to meet Khaled Hosseini, and would gladly wait in line for that opportunity

Dena
Bertrice Small

Dena
Christine Feehan

Melissa Franklin
Nora Roberts

James Keith
David Morrell

James Keith
Michael Connelly

Eileen Quinn Knight
I would line up to meet Lisa See. She is a great historical fiction writer. Her characters come to life in a way that makes them so believable. She writes with the smoothness of whipped cream and the flavor of dark chocolate! Magnificent!

Nikki
Jodi Picoult or Stephen King

Jean Kruse
My favorite author is Maeve Binchey. I love her Irish humor and imagination. Since we are about the same age I think we could connect very well.

Joan Nilson
James Patterson

Laura
Sstephenie Meyer
I can't get over how much l love her books.