What would make a much more interesting project would be to take an author venerated in their time but difficult to read now; someone should have a shot at Guillaume de Lorris.
Ursula K. Le Guin, a science fiction author venerated for her poignant diction, gender-bending characters and eerily accurate speculations about politics and technology, was honored for her life's work at the 2014 National Book Awards.
In the west we generally venerate those authors who stand up against acts of silencing by the authorities.
"The sport is driven by commercial motives through and through," notes venerated Smith College economics professor Andrew Zimbalist, author of the book Unpaid Professionals: Commercialism and Conflict in Big-Time College Sports".There are many much more important problems in college sports to worry about".
Whatever the truth of the matter may be, his writings exerted an inestimable influence for more than 1,000 years by virtue of the somewhat surreptitious quasi-canonical authority of their author, whose books were venerated, as has been said, "almost like the Bible itself".
According to one author, "Escrivá is... venerated by millions".
Weighed down by grief, the author makes a pilgrimage to Mount Kailas, venerated by Hindus, Buddhists, Jains and others.
Why is the mass murderer Lenin, the author of the Red Terror, still venerated on Red Square?
In the theatre of the Romantic era, Shakespeare fared less well, but as an author he was much touted and even venerated.
Although architects and carpenter builders were not as highly venerated as the scholar-officials, there were some architectural engineers and authors who gained wide acclaim at court and in the public sphere for their achievements.
He venerated good reporting.
