Who is the world's best-known living author? The best regarded?

FWIW, I took Subterraneanus’s post as a diss on King. Plenty of people think he’s a hack, or writes decent plots but can’t write prose. Bob Ducca was bafflingly harsh, though.

I willingly concede that I could have misinterpreted (and probably did misinterpret) Subterraneanus. In my defence, “Good for you!” is very often used as sarcasm, and the other rather unambiguously nasty post by Ducca made that usage spring to mind.

That was how I interpreted it, too.