Reading Rainbooooow

Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen authors (poets included) who've influenced you and who will always stick with you. List the first fifteen you can recall in no more than 150 seconds. 

1.  Dave Eggers

2.  Charles Bukowski

3.  Vladimir Nabakov

4.  Allen Ginsberg

5.  John Updike

6.  John Steinbeck

7.  Anton Chekhov

8.  Hunter S. Thomson

9.  Jack Kerouac

10.  Raymond Carver

11.  Plato

12.  Henry Miller

13.  Ralph Ellison

14.  Kurt Vonnegut

15.  Jhumpa Lahiri