Top 10 Fantasy Authors

I know LT already has a feature to show the most popular books by title and author, but those lists represent the most common titles or authors, whereas the purpose of this group is to create lists of our favorites. Hopefully, the LT programming wizards will later find a way to mine the data and compile a single list for each category.

This was interesting to me in light of the fantasy titles list - some of my favourite authors didn't write a favourite title, and some of the titles belong to authors not in this list (love one work of theirs, but not all, or write mostly in another genre as with Willis).

No particular order, then:
Mary Gentle
Robin McKinley
Patricia McKillip
Diana Wynne Jones
Stephen Donaldson
Tanith Lee
Nick Bantock
Susan Cooper
Barbara Hambly
Jonathon Carroll