Ha, early on I did that with a number of authors, by encountering their stories in an anthology at a young age and not making mental note of their names. Even authors I love, like Zelazny wound up hitting this phenomenon
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One of my favorite examples of this was in one of my relatively rare (as a kid) forays into a 1970's anthology, The Best from If Vol. III. I recognized several authors in the collection - Fritz Leiber, Isaac Asimov, Larry Niven - and enjoyed some of the stories by unfamiliar authors. 1/2
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In particular the last story was fairly lighthearted in tone, but with a sting in the tail. I liked it, but forgot the title and author for over a decade. Turned out it was "Angel Fix" by Raccoona Sheldon, whom I might have recognized under her better-known byline James Tiptree Jr. 2/end
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