Today I was challenged by my friend Marvin Wilson, author of I Romanced the Stone to list my top 25 Literary influences as he did this morning on his Free Spirit blog. So, here goes, Y'all. From last to first.
25. Margaret Atwood
24. Sarah Waters
23. Radclyffe Hall
22. Sylvia Plath
21. Patricia Matthews
20. Kathleen Windsor
19. Gustave Flaubert
18. Anya Seton
17. Marion Zimmer Bradley
16. Betty Smith
15. Leon Uris
14. Anita Diamant
13. Maya Angelou
12. Alix Olson
11. Anne McCaffrey
10. Robert Jordon
09. Margaret Walker
08. Rita Mae Brown
07. John Steinbeck
06. Frank G. Slaughter
05. Samuel Schellabarger
04. Lawrence Schoonover
03. Pearl Buck
02. Mary Renault
01. Sappho
Your turn.
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Great list. And hey - YAY! All your widgets are visible again on my screen. You do anything different?
ReplyDeleteGood list. I see that we share a few of the same authors.:)
ReplyDeleteLawrence Schoonover?
ReplyDeleteI am his great-nephew, and have the rights to publish his books. I've released 2 new editions so far: The Schoonover Collection: Queen's Cross, and The Schoonover Collection: Gentle Infidel.
Have you read either of these? Which of his have you read? I plan to release seven more over the next few years, timing dependent on how well these former best-sellers sell.
FCPub.com
I have a site on Book Blogs, as well.
-George Scott
While in Jr. High a few eons ago I read every Schoonover book our local library owned and I'm reasonably sure they owned them all. Actually, in 1947 [the summer I was 15] I read my way through all of Schoonover, Shellabarger and Slaughter. As I recall, the only one of the three who published much after that year was Slaughter and I read those too.
ReplyDeletePS please post your blog urls here too.
Schoonover books:
ReplyDeleteTo be released in The Schoonover Collection-
Gentle Infidel
Queen's Cross
To Love A Queen
The Spider King
The Prisoner of Tordesillas
The Chancellor
Key of Gold
Burnished Blade
Golden Exile
Other of his published works:
The Revolutionary
Central Passage
The Quick Brown Fox
My blog and website:
www.FCPub.com
http://bookblogs.ning.com/profile/GeorgeScott
http://fountaincitypublog.blogspot.com/