At HTML Giant, Jimmy Chen put together a Venn diagram of his favorite authors and where they fall in three categories.
Here is how he explained it:
“I think of all writing being from the head (pros: cerebral, conceptual; cons: didactic, dry), the mouth(pros: language, poetics; cons: empty banter, pure form), and the heart (pros: empathic, intimate; cons: sentimental, emotional) . My favorite writers, those in the white dashed center, are able to write from all three places. Other writers I admire are writing from two places. Others tend to fall into just one category, somewhat consumed by that point of view. Authors near the outer edges of their category may be seen as my critique of them, for the excessiveness of that sensibility.”
And here is his chart:
Pretty interesting, right?
Of the authors that I’ve read, I am in pretty much total agreement. Too bad I need a dumbed down version 
What do you think of this? Are there ones that you would switch around?