The Rules: Don't take too long to think about it. List, in no particular order) fifteen authors (poets included) who've influenced you and that will always stick with you. List the first fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes.
- Rumer Godden
- Agatha Christie (nonfiction)
- Harriett Beecher Stowe
- Robert Alter (his OT translations)
- Flannery O'Conner (The Habit of Being)
- Dean Koontz
- CS Lewis
- Shirley Jackson
- Samuel Shellabarger
- Fulton Sheen
- Francis Fernandez (author of the In Conversation with God series)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Robert R. Chase
- Charlotte Bronte
- M.F.K. Fisher
