Would've thought Nabokov b/c of "Don't Stand So Close to Me." Oh, if only "Twain" rhymed with "shake and cough"... Nathaniel Williams University of California, Davis On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Larry Howe <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > In today's NYTBR, Sting was asked: If you had to name a favorite = > novelist, who would it be? > > His answer: "Mark Twain, for the perfect combination of plot and = > character, in Huckleberry Finn" > > --Larry Howe= >