Author soul mates

Here at the Rediscovered Bookshop we've been contemplating, for the last couple of months, who each of us is soul-mated to in the literary world. Something akin to matchmaking, if you will. Most of us had an answer automatically;

Wally says that Sara Vowell, author of Assassination Vacation and The Wordy Shipmates, is her book partner because of their similar sense of humor infused with irony and wit;

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Ty would like to spend the rest of his days with Annie Dillard: he just rants and raves about how poignant and hilarious everything is in The Writing Life;

Paul Theroux's Ghost Train to the Eastern Star sums up people and relationships in way that Ross totally sympathizes with;
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And as for myself, I automatically thought of David Sedaris a la Me Talk Pretty One Day: there's just something magical about the cynicism that comes from a slightly dysfunctional family.

Today though, I was thrown for a loop. I've been reading this book called How I Became A Famous Novelist by Steve Hely- once again there's just something about the sarcasm with a cynical twist about the main character's views towards main stream literature that I connect with. This is not to say that I feel connected to the main character, but the voice of the writer is definite.
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I went to go look for a biography of Steve Hely, and Wikipedia was the most concrete chunk of information that I found, and while it wasn't much, it sure was astounding: Hely received his G.E.D. while in residence at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, and later went on to receive a B.A. at Harvard. During his Harvard years he served twice as president of the Harvard Lampoon. Following graduation he went on to work as a writer for Late Night with David Letterman, Last Call with Carson Daly, and the animated series American Dad.

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Following the reading of his mini-biography, I read an interview with Mr. Hely and his co-author of The Ridiculous Race on the Macmillan Publishing website (http://us.macmillan.com/AuthorExtras.aspx?AuthorKey=7269128&m_type=5); every sentence is so bizarre and absurd, and all of a sudden it connected...STEVE HELY IS MY SOUL MATE AUTHOR.
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There are some moments in life when you just know that you've found the right one for you, and Steve Hely is my author one!

-Whitney