Almost everyone can name at least one author that you would love just ONE more book from. Either because they’re dead, not being published any more, not writing more, not producing new work for whatever reason . . . or they’ve aged and aren’t writing to their old standards any more . . . For whatever reason, there just hasn’t been anything new (or worth reading) of theirs and isn’t likely to be.
If you could have just ONE more book from an author you love . . . a book that would be as good any of their best (while we’re dreaming) . . . something that would round out a series, or finish their last work, or just be something NEW . . . Who would the author be, and why? Jane Austen? Shakespeare? Laurie Colwin? Kurt Vonnegut?
Wow! I don’t even have to think about my answer to this one. Geoffrey Chaucer. His unfinished Canterbury Tales is so amazing, one wonders what it would have been like had he been able to complete it. With just a few words and lines, he has created characters so real that you could recognize them if you happened to pass them on the street. They are truly immortal. They have captured the interest of countless people throughout the centuries.
His other works are outstanding as well–The Parliament of Fowls, The Boke of the Duchese–so I can unhesitatingly state that I’d love anything new by Geoffrey Chaucer.
