I have always followed authors -- when I like one book or short story by an
author, I'll go look for more. These are some of the authors I follow:
- Chaim
Potok
- Zora
Neale Hurston
- Orson Scott Card
- Lois McMaster Bujold
- Charles deLint
- Ray
Bradbury
- Ray
Bradbury Bibliography
- Ray
Bradbury Theater Episode Guide
- Ray
Bradbury on Creativity in the Future
- Patricia
McKillip
- Jane Yolen
- Myth
Writing with Jane Yolen
- Faye
Kellerman
- Bibliography by series
- Review of Moon
Music
- Review of latest series novel, Stalker
- Review of Prayers
for the Dead
- Review of first novel, The
Ritual Bath (Macavity Award Winner)
- John
Dickson Carr
- A scholar's
site
- The John Dickson Carr Collector
- Bibliography
by series
- Connie
Willis
- Interview
- Bibliography
- Patricia
Highsmith from publisher, includes a complete story
- More
bio detail from the Author's
Calendar at Pegasos
- Ursula
Hegi
- Bibliography
- Terry
Pratchett
- Spider Robinson
There are more, but it takes awhile to list them all. :)
More on Fantastic
Female Authors of Fantasy & Science-Fiction
Most memorable character: Ayesha, She Who Must Be Obeyed in H. Rider Haggard's
novel, She.
- Least favorite novels I was forced to read in school:
- A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
- Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- and the whale that Melville rode in on.
- Strongest influence:
- I think all of the books I have read have had a cumulative influence
on me. Several had a profound emotional effect. But I can't trace any
particular attitude or belief to a particular book. The closest I can
come is that the play The Cauldron by Arthur Miller, which I saw
and then read in high school, made me aware that injustice and evil have
very ordinary human origins, and only human courage will stop them.
- Life-changing:
- For Our Own Good by Alice Miller<
- I grew up with the theory that unrecalled traumas have a powerful affect
on our lives; my mother experimented with several self-help therapies
based on the idea. Alice Miller took the concept out of the realm of woo-woo
and Freudian over-analysis and made it concrete, related to historical
events. For whatever reason, after I read this book I was able to actually
make progress in facing my own past and healing from it.
Some Favorite Poets:
- William
Blake
- William Blake
Discussion List
- Frederico
Garcia Lorca in CyberSpain
- Fan
Page with cross-links to Neruda and other information
- Pablo
Neruda
- William
Carlos Williams
- Biography
- Bibliography
- Adrienne
Rich
- Maya Angelou
- Naomi
Shihab Nye
- Darling
my favorite
- The
River Is Famous to the Fish and other poetry, with analysis
- Interview
with Bill Moyer
Again -- there are more, but it takes awhile to list them all.
Other recommended links:
| Authors
& Illustrators on the Web |
| SF
Links (available in English and in Japanese) |
|
Mitsuharu Matsuoka |
| Author
Information Links |
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