DN's Author Type List VI

[Space_Oddity]

I've started thinking about children's authors...

Astrid Lindgren - I don't know much about her life, but judging by her books she was almost certainly an NFP. The Fi seems very strong and I think I see quite a lot of Si in some of her books (like Six Bullerby Children), so I guess INFP.

Jacqueline Wilson - seems like an NFP as well; I haven't read the book about her childhood yet, but vast majority of her heroines are introverts, so I would say an INFP also. Her writing style is also suspiciously similar to mine.

I wonder about Cornelia Funke...

 

[Polaris]

I've started thinking about children's authors...

Astrid Lindgren - I don't know much about her life, but judging by her books she was almost certainly an NFP. The Fi seems very strong and I think I see quite a lot of Si in some of her books (like Six Bullerby Children), so I guess INFP.

Jacqueline Wilson - seems like an NFP as well; I haven't read the book about her childhood yet, but vast majority of her heroines are introverts, so I would say an INFP also. Her writing style is also suspiciously similar to mine.

I wonder about Cornelia Funke...

Just as you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, you shouldn't judge a writer by his book. There will obviously be some hints in anything a person writes--writing is just another form of self-expression, after all--but sometimes a writer will exaggerate an aspect of their personality in order to explore an issue which, though it may not be a huge deal in their own life, they still consider important to humanity in general. Another thing that can lead to confusion (and this can combine with the previous issue) is when a writer makes use of certain themes that aren't particularly relevant to them in order to give themselves a platform for themes that are relevant to them. I know that if people were to judge my personality on the basis of my first two books, they would probably call me an E6 INFP, simply because I was exploring issues that are central to that personality more than they're central to my own (although there was still, of course, a certain amount therapy and self-expression involved [particularly in the issues that exist in spite of the E6 INFP themes], or I wouldn't have wanted to write those books in the first place).

 

[Space_Oddity]

Just as you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, you shouldn't judge a writer by his book. There will obviously be some hints in anything a person writes--writing is just another form of self-expression, after all--but sometimes a writer will exaggerate an aspect of their personality in order to explore an issue which, though it may not be a huge deal in their own life, they still consider important to humanity in general. Another thing that can lead to confusion (and this can combine with the previous issue) is when a writer makes use of certain themes that aren't particularly relevant to them in order to give themselves a platform for themes that are relevant to them. I know that if people were to judge my personality on the basis of my first two books, they would probably call me an E6 INFP, simply because I was exploring issues that are central to that personality more than they're central to my own (although there was still, of course, a certain amount therapy and self-expression involved [particularly in the issues that exist in spite of the E6 INFP themes], or I wouldn't have wanted to write those books in the first place).

I take it into consideration, but I still think that imagination is one of the highest forms of self-expression, and having read almost all of the books by these authors and having observed the topics that are repeated all the time, I think that the personality type becomes fairly distinct. Also, I think than Ne vs. Ni becomes very clear in writing style after a while, as well as F and T. Overall, I think it's much better to judge an author by their books than by their life.

 

[dynamiteninja]

I would argue that Aldous Huxley and George Orwell were more so ENFP's than INFP's actually- since neither of them really seemed uncomfortable with the prospect of being thrust into the public spotlight like an INFP write would.

At school, Orwell was very introverted and hated the lack of solitude boarding school offered. He chose a rather solitary profession. Fi seems to be his primary function, followed by Ne.

Huxley I don't know as well. xNFP however.

 

[Space_Oddity]

Does anyone have any idea about Kate Chopin's type?

I've just read The Awakening and I'm thinking INTJ (certainly a Ni-dom). I'm forced to compare her with Sherwood Anderson (INFP), and it's incredible pain. -_- Sherwood Anderson is so "revealed", almost fairy-tale like, whereas Chopin is on one hand so realistic, and on the other hand so symbolic... It's really a weird comparison.

 

[the state i am in]

people who need to be typed...

Robert Pirsig
Gregory Corso
Paul Valery
Ken Wilbur
Holderlin
ee cummings
Billy Collins
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Robert Graves
Langston Hughes
Oliver Wendel Holmes
Stephane Mallarme
Paul Verlaine
Jean Genet entp
Marguerite Duras entp
Richard Meltzer nfj
Richard Brautigan
Terry Southern
Neil Gaiman
Richard Alpert nf
Lermontov
Raymond Chandler
John Barth
Studs Terkel
Gunter Grass
Virgil
Richard Wright
Georg Trakl
Guaillaume Apollinaire
Elizabeth Browning
Ambrose Beirce
Andre Breton
Gwendolyn Brooks
Louise Bogan
Bertolt Brecht
Heinrich Ibsen
Stephen Crane
Raymond Carver
Aleister Crowley
Paul Eluard
Rudyard Kipling
Thomas More inf
Czeslaw Milosz
Edmund Spenser
Fredreich Von Schiller
Charles Bukowski
Thomas Hardy
Bram Stoker
Sinclair Lewis
Anton Chekhov
Joyce Carol Oates
Anne Lemot
Christopher Marlowe
Jens Peter Jacobsen
Kate Chopin
Katherine Mansfield
Raymond Chandler
HG Wells
Ray Kurzweil
Stephen Johnson
Yone Noguchi