Giving in to the pressure (Letting the meme boss me around)

The Rules: Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen authors (poets included) who've influenced you and that will always stick with you. List the first 15 you can recall in no more than 15 minutes. 

Chuck Dixon
Ray Bradbury
Ernest Hemingway
Zora Neale Hurston
Langston Hughes
Raymond Chandler
Dashiell Hammett
Flannery O'Connor
C.S. Lewis
Steve Seagle
Annie Dillard
Shusako Endo
Robert Heinlein
Ed McBain
T.S. Eliot
Kurt Vonnegut

NOTE: Yes, I know it's sixteen. I had completely thought I put Bradbury in here, so when I edited it to finally include him, I just couldn't take anyone out. Sue me.