Wednesdays With Miss Wren: And the winner is...

Hello Birds! Welcome to another installment of Wednesdays With Miss Wren! Today we have one very interesting question brought to us by Jordan on Facebook. His question is, "Who is the greatest author of all time?"

Thank you Jordan. For giving me an impossible question to answer. First of all I am going to clarify what author means in this post. An author is any person who has a published work of the written word. This includes, novelists, writers of short stories, writers of children's books, and playwrights.

Ok, now that we have that settled I can begin to discuss the question. At first I thought that I would not have an answer to this question. I believed that there was no author who surpassed all others. Yes, William Faulkner is a million times greater than Stephanie Meyer, but Stephanie Meyer is greater than the woman who wrote 50 Shades of Grey. I kept thinking about all my favorite authors and then I realized there is one author that I believe to truly be the greatest author of all time. His name was William Shakespeare.

Now, I am not saying he is the greatest simply because I am an actor. William Shakespeare's works

overcome the constraints of time and space (no he is not a Time Lord...although that would be awesome). His plays tell the truths of human existence. They tell of love, of war. They tell of betrayal and joy, mishaps and mayhem. The reach to the highest morality of human behavior and just as quickly fall to the lowest depths of human indecency. Shakespeare's plays warn of the dangers of ambition and obsession as well as showing the joys of true, honest love. All of these things are universal. They exist in every time and place. This is why I honestly believe William Shakespeare to be the greatest author of all time. But it really doesn't matter what I think. It matters what  you think. So let me know. Leave a comment telling me who you think the greatest author of all time is and leave me a question for next week!

Have a good day and I will talk to you tomorrow!

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