Again, these are influential authors. Some of them are favorites, but some of them are here because they changed the direction of my life, scholarship, or writing. Who's on your list?
- Louise Fitzhugh
- Judy Blume
- Francis Hodgson Burnett
- Shel Silverstein
- L. M. Montgomery
- Agatha Christie
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Mary Morris*
- Charlotte Bronte
- Edmund Spenser
- Thomas Pynchon
- Ray Carver
- Flannery O'Conner
- John Donne
- Joseph Conrad
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Bram Stoker
- Annie Dillard
- Jane Austen
- Queen Elizabeth I
- John Keats
- Dorianne Laux
- Emily Dickinson
- Eliza Haywood
- Plato
*the travel writer
5 comments:
L.M. Montgomery! I was such an Anne fan when I was in middle school. I still have the entire series in my bookshelf here along with other childhood faves. They help me remember why I read when there's too much of the non-pleasurable kind on my plate.
Great list! I love many of these, too.
And I agree with CT: L.M. Montgomery is wonderful...I have almost all of her series (Anne, Emily, Story Girl, etc.) and short stories. My grandmother and I used to read and talk about them all...such special memories. Oh, and once we visited Green Gables on PEI!
ps: Who is Dorianne Laux? I'm feeling ignorant right now.
Dorianne Laux is a contemporary poet. I don't think she's anthologized a lot yet. But I really love her poetry, and she influenced my writing a lot when I was writing poetry a few years ago. I suppose there are other contemporary poets I admire more (Sharon Olds, maybe?), but Laux has been more influential on my understanding of poetry and my life as a mom and a occasional wanna-be poet.
Wow--sounds intriguing! Will look her up...thanks, GEW.
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