There’s a big list here of great stereotypes based on authors. Here are some of my favourite (stereotypes – not necessarily authors).
Richard Dawkins
People who have their significant other grab them under the table in order to shut them up whenever someone else at a dinner says something absolutely ridiculous and wrong.
Edgar Allan PoeMen who live in their mother’s basements. Or goth seventh graders.
Michael Crichton
Doctors who went to third-tier medical schools.
John Grisham
Doctors who went to medical schools in the Dominican Republic.
Dan Brown
People who used to get lost in supermarkets when they were kids.
Virginia Woolf
Female high-school French teachers who have their master’s degree.
David Baldacci
No one. Even the police say Clancy before they’ll say Baldacci.
Stieg Larsson
Girls who are too frightened to go skydiving.
Sue Grafton
Women who have an @aol.com email address.
Douglas Adams
People who bought the first generation Amazon Kindle.
Lewis Carroll
People who move to Thailand after high school for the drug scene.
C.S. Lewis
Youth group leaders who picked their nose in the 4th grade.
Harper Lee
People who have read only one book in their life and it was To Kill A Mockingbird (and it was their assigned reading in the ninth grade).
Nick Hornby
Guys who wear skinny jeans and the girls that love them.
Ernest Hemingway
Men who own cottages.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Sommeliers.
Bret Easton Ellis
Foo Fighters’ fans.
Hunter S Thompson
That kid in your philosophy class with the stupid tattoo.
George Orwell
Conspiracy theorists (too easy).
Aldous Huxley
People who are bigger conspiracy theorists than Orwell fans.