Fun Analyzer - Give it a go and Report the Results to Us:)

Check which famous writer you write like with this statistical analysis tool, which analyzes your word choice and writing style and compares them with those of the famous writers.

Any text in English will do: your latest blog post, journal entry, comment, chapter of your unfinished book, etc. For reliable results paste at least a few paragraphs.

http://iwl.me/

I write like
Stephen King

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

Isn't it interesting that the the analyzer identified a writer located on the east coast of the USA.
There are only about 250mi between our birthplaces.  That's really a drop in the proverbial bucket when calculating US distances.

Wait until my sister learns this interesting piece of trivia - Stephen King is her favorite writer.  Obviously she enjoys being scared beyond belief on a regular basis.  She'll probably respond with "you've been a nightmare in my life ever since Santa gave you the Barbie dressed in blue and me the one in pink."  I'll never hear the end of that traumatic experience in my sibling's life:)
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UPDATE: Explanation from 'I Write Like' Blog: How “I Write Like” works

“Actually, the algorithm is not a rocket science, and you can find it on every computer today. It’s a Bayesian classifier, which is widely used to fight spam on the Internet. Take for example the “Mark as spam” button in Gmail or Outlook. When you receive a message that you think is spam, you click this button, and the internal database gets trained to recognize future messages similar to this one as spam. This is basically how “I Write Like” works on my side: I feed it with “Frankenstein” and tell it, “This is Mary Shelley. Recognize works similar to this as Mary Shelley.” Of course, the algorithm is slightly different from the one used to detect spam, because it takes into account more stylistic features of the text, such as the number of words in sentences, the number of commas, semicolons, and whether the sentence is a direct speech or a quotation.”
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July 18, 2010: 1,483,036 texts analyzed so far
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Toronto Star on "I Write Like" →

“Clearly, I Write Like isn’t an exact science. But the idea that an algorithm can reveal traces of influence in writing has proven wildly popular. It would have been a useful tool back in 1996, when Primary Colors, a novel about the 1992 U.S. presidential election, was published anonymously.

After months of speculation English professor Donald Foster identified journalist Joe Klein as the author through an extensive literary analysis. Klein admitted it was true.

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IF Richard does become Stannis Baratheon in Game of Thrones, the red priestess Melisandre will definitely make their scenes fascinating...
http://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/topic/43870-melisandres-secret-agenda/