Which author would you most like to meet?

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3. Tough to pick a single one

Although your "good looks" comment got me thinking that I've always enjoyed the jacket picture on books by Gayle Lynds (not to mention her writing and impressive bio).

Would have been interesting to meet Clancy shortly after "The Hunt For Red October" came out... the amount of research that must have gone into putting together such an accurate piece of fiction was impressive.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TomClancy

Clancy said that some detail about submarine operation that he included in Red October, that he had pieced together himself, turned out to be not only correct but classified. He got a visit from the FBI, trying to figure out how he had gotten that information. The conversation basically went:
Bureau: "How did you know about that?"
Clancy: "Know about what?"
Bureau: "We can't tell you, it's classified."

I've read that he's not the friendliest guy in person, though. Perhaps that's because he got so damn rich from the great books he wrote early on.