It’s Friday, so we thought we’d leave you with something light and fun to do over the weekend.  This week, we’ve had much talk at PWxyz about the most under- and overrated writers, subjects both sore and fun.  We came up with a cool and still-debated list of underrated writers.

But now here’s a more complicated question: who are the most accurately-rated living writers in America, the ones who deserve whatever reputation they have garnered, be it good or bad.  We’re talking about writers who, because they’re written good books and behave admirably, are generally admired, or who, because their books are bad and/or they act like jerks, are generally scorned.

Frankly, it’s hard to think of writers in this category, perhaps because literary reputations are made by over- or underrating.  But let’s try, and let’s not take it too seriously, and let’s have some fun.  Here’s one to start us off, and then it’s on to you in the comments:

• Elizabeth Strout.  She won the Pulitzer for Olive Kitteridge after writing two great books followed by a third that’s even better.  She’s also a lovely, accessible prose-stylist and by all accounts a nice person in the spotlight.