Charles Bukowski - American author

my picks would be:

1) J.D.SALINGER
2) CHARLES BUKOWSKI
3) ERNEST HEMINGWAY
4) JOHN STEINBECK
5) NORMAN MAILER
6) KEN KESEY
7) GORE VIDAL
8) JOHN FANTE (reading him now)
9) HUNTER.S.THOMPSON
10) JOHN UPDIKE

make your own top 10 list.

i havent read much of styron, faulkner etc.