Asking its readers to remember their “favorite books from eight to 10 years ago, editors at the Cadenza, the student newspaper at Washington University in St. Louis, then says it went looking for the authors of some of those books to see where they were now. According to the final report, the results of the search was ‘a fine group of aging hippies and grizzled iditarod racers.” Among them: Goosebumps author R.L. Stine is “a rather nebbish-looking man with big glasses and several prominent moles who lives a quiet life with his family in New York”; Dogsong author Gary Paulsen “has been everything: a drunk, a soldier, an actor, a farmer, a rancher, a truck driver, a trapper and a sailor”; and Søren Kierkegaard “has been dead since 1855.”