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[james_davis_nicoll]

Who is the best English-language author without a US publisher?

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[dsrtao]

Christopher Brookmyre. No US publication since... well, several novels ago.

[sinboy.livejournal.com]

Best what? Ping pong player?

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Empty set. Without a US publisher, you can't be the best.

(Only half tongue-in-cheek . . .)

Best what? Stylist? Story-teller? Seller? Practitioner of obscure "literature"?

[mayakda.livejournal.com]

It's really hard to answer that question as a regular person in the USA. Just so you know.
Although I did think Jessica Zafra wrote some pretty articles, but I'm biased because I've thought she's cool ever since high school when she was the only girl in uniform pants. If you saw the hideous material our uniforms were made of, you'd understand why wearing them as pants was a really brave thing thing.
http://jessicarulestheuniverse.com/about/

[pyropyga.livejournal.com]

Is it too early for me to fear Ken MacLeod is a candidate for this position?

[matt-ruff.livejournal.com]

Presumably someone we've never heard of.

[felila.livejournal.com]

What about Vikram Seth? Are his books usually published both in the UK and the US?

[pbprincess.livejournal.com]

Since I've only ever seen Australian publishers' versions of his books here in Canada, I'm going with David Malouf.

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

Presumably you mean "without a US or Canadian publisher," because you can get the latter, yes?

[vr-trakowski.livejournal.com]

Margaret Mahy.