Bat Godess, I Know now why I like you!!!!
Arthur Upfield and Thorne Smith!!!!!!
Mine include,(both the above)
Kipling
Heinlein,
Fred Hoyle
Edmund Cooper,
Susan Cooper,
Eric Frank Russel
Frederic Brown,
Richard Matheson
Asimov,
Feynman
Spike Milligan,
Guy Bellamy
Robert Graves
etc. etc.