The influential writers meme

The estimable Professor Zero has tagged me for the influential writers meme, and, although I fear that my list can be neither as rich as hers or as critically astute as Lumpenprofessoriat's, here it is. As I understand it, this is supposed to name authors who've inspired you or made you think. I took this to mean writers who had influenced me at an earlier stage of my life (hence the "greatest hits" nature of the list). Also, they don't have to be great writers, but I've left some off that at one point were important to me (how else to explain reading the entire "Strangers and Brothers" series of C.P. Snow one summer?), though I now can't remember why.

Bear in mind that this is done quickly and in no particular order; also, some obscure authors' names have been omitted to protect the guilty (me), and I'm not including critics.

1. Raymond Chandler
2. Jane Austen
3. Laura Ingalls Wilder
4. George Eliot
5. Henry James
6. Emily Dickinson
7. Thomas Hardy
8. Andrew Marvell
9. T. S. Eliot
10. F. Scott Fitzgerald
11. William Shakespeare (it's true!)
12. Ernest Hemingway
13. John Milton
14. Charles W. Chesnutt
15. Kate Chopin
16. William Wordsworth (and Dorothy Wordsworth)
17. Edith Wharton
18. Emile Zola
19. Willa Cather
20. W. Somerset Maugham
21. Emily Bronte
22. John Webster
23. Jean Toomer
24. Charles Dickens
25. James Joyce

And now for the tags, also in no particular order (and since I can only tag 25, please consider yourself tagged even if your name is not listed. I tried not to tag anyone who doesn't seem to do memes.)

1. Bardiac
2. Mel
3. Profgrrrl
4. Lesboprof
5. Sisyphus
6. Dr. Crazy
7. Horace
8. Fretful Porpentine
9. Heu Mihi
10. K8grrl
11. Bittersweet Girl
12. Dr. Virago
13. What Now?
14. jo(e)
15. Dance
16. Philosophy Factory
17. Dr. Brazen Hussy
18. The Salt Box
19. Moria
20. 10eleven
21. Historiann
22. New Kid
23. PhDme
24. MuseyMe
25. Cheese and Responsibility