And the Winner Is...

After a hard fought battle, we have the winner to last week's poll. The question was: Who is your favorite fiction author? And the winner is. . .

The great, the only -- G. A. Henty!!!

Second place is taken by the "Other" category, which is not surprising considering the relatively few authors covered in the poll. Third place was an aggressively contested position, mainly between authors R. M. Ballantyne and Douglas Bond. This afternoon, however, in a surprising turn of events, James Fenimore Cooper steamed past both of them to take the bronze!

I want to thank everyone for voting in the poll, the results of which were quite interesting to me as I hope they were to you. Below, I've included the final results as well as the number of votes for each author.