How many of your writing heroes are still alive?

I was thinking about it the other day. A lot of my heroes —especially the authors I was reading when I was young— are now dead, and I don't believe I've done a very good job finding new writers to replace them, at least in part because my favourite genre is historical fiction, which has changed dramatically and declined somewhat in popularity from when I was first getting into it.

Anyway, I thought it might be a fun conversation piece for this subreddit. How many of your writing heroes are still alive?