Frank Kogan

(my parents were quite big on getting me started on "the classics" from early on - insofar as I rebelled against this it was because I wanted to read contemporary literature rather than classic literature, but I'm pretty happy they shoved Dickens, the Brontës, Tolstoy &c &c &c at me and that the whole "young adult fiction" period was bypassed. I can't really remember when the switch from kids' books to adult books happened, maybe my obsession at the age of 8 with Greek myths was the bridge.)