Poser

If I could pose as an author who would it be. There are so many. I mean
sure, Shakespeare, Swift, Chaucer and not to mention that like 85% of
authors in the canon are dead, and as a result off limits, but that
doesn't mean there still aren't authors it would be cool to pretend to
be.

I think that the author I would pose as would be Kurt
Vonnegut. I know he died about a year ago, but e-mails featuring
prescient premonitions could surface elevating him to some sort of
cynical prophet. I also think that it would be easy to pose as him,
when compared to other authors (apart from the being dead part). He had
a very distinctive writing style, and his views on numerous issues were
well known. Who knows that cyber-space does not hold some of his late thinkings, hiding waiting to be revealed. Or who isn't to say that when you die you inhabit the internets, cruzing the web for the rest of eternity.

Apart from these fakely philosophical questions I think he would be fun to impersonate.

Here are some other authors that made the list, but did not win:
Alan Moore (Watchmen, V for Vendetta, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen)
Mark Twain (even more crochety in the Cyber Age) (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Pudd'nhead Wilson)
H.G. Wells (The Invisible Man, The Time Machine)
Billy Shakes aka William Shakespeare (You know he'd be a rapper nowadays) (Hamlet, Othello, MacBeth)