A dear former student and friend of mine posted this meme on FB earlier today, then tagged me. Since it has just the right dosages of both distance and intimacy, I'm not at all bovvered with making this my first post after a Great and Enduring Silence.
The Challenge: List fifteen authors (poets included) who've influenced you and who will always stick with you. List the first 15 you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.
**this is not a ranked list.**1. A.A. Milne (the Discriminate Use of Capital Letters should have tipped you off)
2. Emily Dickinson
3. Paul the Apostle (yeah, if I were a better person I would have put him first, right, but this is off the top of my head. :p)
4. Amy L. Efaw. :)
5. Elizabeth George (the Christian devotional writer, not the romance novelist)
6. Bill Shakespeare
7. Rex Stout
8. Clive Staples Lewis
9. Beverly Cleary
10. Theodor Seuss Geisel
11. John MacArthur
12. Douglas Adams
13. J. I. Packer
14. Jane Austen
15. Jo Rowling
5 comments:
Dash it all, now I'm going to mentally berate myself - Where is Tolkien?!
Lol Pooh Bear before the Bible. Well dearie me! ;)
'Where is Tolkein?' Tolkein is here: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~tolksoc/TolkiensOxford/grave.html :P
Um HELLO You forgot Stephanie Meyer!! Jeez!
I'm likin your list, though I have no idea how you could cut it off at 15! Seeing as my fav book of all time is The Scarlet Letter, I'd have to throw in Hawthorne. Maybe a Bronte too. Steinbeck?
Augh, yes Karen.... I was just abiding by the rules and doing it off the top of my head. Bronte should definitely make it on there. Steinbeck not so much. :)
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