Authors I've either met, been at a signing for, or seen speak/read but didn't meet in person:

• Mary Downing Hahn (my first author meeting, back when I was 11 or 12)
• Neil Gaiman
• Joseph Bruchac
• Michael Cunningham
• Anne Rice
• Alexander McCall Smith
• Terry Pratchett
• Ellen Bryant Voigt
• Chris Baty
• Rita Mae Brown
• Billy Collins
• Frank McCourt
• John Irving
• Walter Mosley
• Susan Vreeland
• Lalita Tademy
• Joyce Carol Oates
• Brian Froud
• Ari Berk
• Holly Black
• Ha Jin
• Russell Edson
• Terrance Hayes
• Catherine M. Petrini aka authorauthor
• Charles Vess
• Charles de Lint
• Art Spiegelman
• Tree Swenson
• Michael Chabon
• John Green
• David Levithan