The estimable Professor Zero has tagged me for the influential writers meme, and, although I fear that my list can be neither as
rich as hers or as critically astute as
Lumpenprofessoriat's, here it is. As I understand it, this is supposed to name authors who've inspired you or made you think. I took this to mean writers who had influenced me at an earlier stage of my life (hence the "greatest hits" nature of the list). Also, they don't have to be great writers, but I've left some off that at one point were important to me (how else to explain reading the entire "Strangers and Brothers" series of C.P. Snow one summer?), though I now can't remember why.
Bear in mind that this is done quickly and in no particular order; also, some obscure authors' names have been omitted to protect the guilty (me), and I'm not including critics.
- Raymond Chandler
- Jane Austen
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
- George Eliot
- Henry James
- Emily Dickinson
- Thomas Hardy
- Andrew Marvell
- T. S. Eliot
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- William Shakespeare (it's true!)
- Ernest Hemingway
- John Milton
- Charles W. Chesnutt
- Kate Chopin
- William Wordsworth (and Dorothy Wordsworth)
- Edith Wharton
- Emile Zola
- Willa Cather
- W. Somerset Maugham
- Emily Bronte
- John Webster
- Jean Toomer
- Charles Dickens
- James Joyce
And now for the tags, also in no particular order (and since I can only tag 25, please consider yourself tagged even if your name is not listed. I tried not to tag anyone who doesn't seem to do memes.)
- Bardiac
- Mel
- Profgrrrl
- Lesboprof
- Sisyphus
- Dr. Crazy
- Horace
- Fretful Porpentine
- Heu Mihi
- K8grrl
- Bittersweet Girl
- Dr. Virago
- What Now?
- jo(e)
- Dance
- Philosophy Factory
- Dr. Brazen Hussy
- The Salt Box
- Moria
- 10eleven
- Historiann
- New Kid
- PhDme
- MuseyMe
- Cheese and Responsibility
4 comments:
I hope it's OK if I play along!
Absolutely! I didn't tag you because I hadn't seen memes at your site & wasn't sure if you'd want to be tagged.
There are so many key people I seem to have forgotten to put on my list. I'm going to have to have a 15 *books* meme too, so I can list Alice in Wonderland!
After reading everyone else's meme posts, I think I've left out way too many!
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