Are you referring to Jane Austen? As influential and ubiquitous as her books are, I rarely find myself considering her one of the great classic authors.

Either way, I'm sure he's read his share of the classics. The entire notion of "classics" is a fluid concept anyhow. The past, after all, doesn't have an exclusive monopoly on great and meaningful literary work. 100 years from now there will hopefully have been new texts added to our collective repertoire.