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I wrote Piers Anthony in the mid-80s when I was a teenager and I can confirm he sent non-form letter replies. He replied on a dot matrix printed postcard and (

I wrote Piers Anthony in the mid-80s when I was a teenager and I can confirm he sent non-form letter replies. He replied on a dot matrix printed postcard and (briefly) answered the two questions in my letter to him. I wrote to a few authors around that time and the biggest reply I received was from David Eddings. He sent me a thick 8.5x11 envelope with the syllabus and class notes from a writing class he taught when I asked him about how to become a better writer.

7thaccount 3y ago
I've written to a few sci-fi authors who wrote amazing books that shook me in a good way just to say thanks and how much I appreciated their work and never heard back. In highschool I read a book by a well known astrophysicist and wrote him an email about getting into physics. I was delighted by a page long reply that gave me some pointers and insight. It may seem nerdy, but I really learned a lot from him and respected his communication style. It's a fond memory I'll forever hold onto and hope I can be as gracious someday. As much as I wish I could be a physicist, my mathematical skills are a bit more limited, so I went into engineering instead which is also hard and involves plenty of math, but doesn't require solving differential equations as a key part of my job.