I tried three different writing samples and got: David Foster Wallace (excerpt from blog post) Edgar Allen Poe (introduction to peer-reviewed journal article)

I tried three different writing samples and got: David Foster Wallace (excerpt from blog post) Edgar Allen Poe (introduction to peer-reviewed journal article) Jonathan Swift (concluding paragraph from ibid) I also tried: The first few paragraph's of Wallace's Infinite Jest (he writes like himself) The first few paragraphs of The Raven (Poe writes like HP Lovecraft), then the whole of The Raven (now Shakespeare), and first three paragraphs of The Masque of the Red Death (now Anne Rice) The first three paragraphs of Swift's A Modest Proposal (Daniel Defoe). I don't know much about literature--maybe e.g. Defoe's writing is similar to Swift's--but without seeing the reasons why I write like a particular author, I take these results with a grain of salt.