Influences:
This is a list of some of the literature I love most and have found most inspiring for my own writing. I could add a hundred more, yet these rise to the top, always.
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
The Tempest and other plays - William Shakespeare
The Metamorphoses - Ovid
The Death of the Heart - Elizabeth Bowen
A Pale View of Hills and The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
The Wings of the Dove and other fiction - Henry James
The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
“The Garden Party” and other stories - Katherine Mansfield
Only the Little Bone and other fiction and poetry - David Huddle
The Bluest Eye and Beloved - Toni Morrison
Atlantis, Still Life with Oysters and Lemon, and Dog Days - Mark Doty
“Lifting Belly” and Four Saints in Three Acts -Gertrude Stein
A Room of One’s Own and The Common Reader - Virginia Woolf
The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
The Woman Warrior - Maxine Hong Kingston
A Room with a View and Howards End – E.M. Forster
Charming Billy, Child of My Heart, After This, Of Weddings and Wakes – Alice McDermott
The Gathering – Anne Enright
Children’s book influences: too many to count! Of the thousand books that have continued to delight and influence me, these come first to mind: Madeline; Goodnight Moon (Margaret Wise Brown); The Bunny Planet and the Max and Ruby books (Rosemary Wells); Peepo! and Each Peach Pear Plum, and The Jolly Postman, the Ahlbergs; Aunt Isabel Tells a Good One, Kate Duke; Owl Moon, Jane Yolen; Stellaluna, Janell Cannon; Cherry Pies and Lullabies, Lynn Reiser; Where Will You Sleep Tonight? Milly Limmer; Snuggle Piggy and the Magic Blanket, Michele Stepto; and MANY MORE!!
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