If you could have been the author of any book, what would it have been?

John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath
Runners up
Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird
James Joyce: Ulysses
T C Boyle: The Tortilla Curtain
Henry Miller: The Tropics Trilogy

JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone -> $1 billion

Kay Thompson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Thompson

still my favourite book after about 50 years



Kay Thompson was an all-round fabulous broad. She was a singer, actress, composer, writer. She lived in a hotel in New York City. All of those things would work for me.



filming Funny Face in Paris with Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn.