My first choice of author to follow on Byliner was Ernest Hemingway. Besides from a weak attempt at reading The Sun Also Rises in high school, I have yet to read any Hemingway and as lame as it may seems, I'm currently reading the novel The Paris Wife which is all about Hemingway's first wife and early life in Paris. What I do know about Hemingway is about his emotional and charismatic personality and I really want to see if that comes across in his words or if he's a different person on the page.
My second choice was David Sedaris. I have never read one of his books, I have only heard them as a book on tape in the car on road trips with my mom usually back and forth to Pittsburgh. No matter what, we are always laughing at his stories, whether we can personally relate to them or the fact that he's just hilarious. Hearing an author read their work is a very different experience than reading their words on a page and I'm looking forward to exploring and discovering Sedaris in a different way.
The third choice of author was Elizabeth Gilbert. I had no idea until I saw her name on Byliner that she was a journalist. I just took her as the Eat, Pray, Love author and nothing more. I really like seeing authors that have more to them than just some cheesy self-discovery memoir and I hope she'll prove my thoughts and opinions about her wrong when I read some of her more journalistic pieces.
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