Below are various authors that have inspired me over the years in different categories. This is certainly a basic list of some of my favorites, by no means is it all-inclusive. Lord, we'd be here all day for that! HA...there are many, many others of course.
Certainly many are famous beyond fame..."infamous" even, and others are simply great at what they did and do. They've all touched me in different ways and helped shape my imagination and style to be (what I hope at least!) an amalgam, a hodgepodge, a big ole funky mix of interesting and entertaining stuff. That's my dream at least friends. I'm sure many of them have inspired you as well.
Old School
Mark Twain
Edgar Allan Poe
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Agatha Christie
Joel Chandler Harris
Modern
Raymond Chandler
Dashiell Hammett
Mickey Spillane
Jim Thompson
James Ellroy
Ray Bradbury
Flannery O’Connor
Tony Hillerman
Stephen King
Walter Mosley
Anne Rice
Dean Koontz
Judy Blume
Pat Conroy
Beverly Cleary
James A. Michener
John D. MacDonald
Charles Bukowski
Edwin Torres
Chester Himes
David Baldacci
Randy Wayne White
J.R.R. Tolkien
Terry Brooks
Robert Arthur
Donald J. Sobol
James Lee Burke
Larry Brown
William Hjortsberg
Gary Phillips
Alice Feeney
Stuart Turton
Joe Samuel Starnes
David Heska Wanbli Weiden
Bryan Camp
Lauren Beukes
Brian Panowich
International
Paco Ignacio Taibo II
Manuel Vasquez Montalban
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Isabel Allende
Jorge Luis Borges
Haruki Murakami
Philip Kerr
Jorge Amado
Laura Esquivel
Andrea Camilleri
Poetry
E.E. Cummings
Jean Toomer
Walter Benton
Langston Hughes
Emily Dickinson
Storytellers (Oral)
Levar Burton
Davy Arch
Kathi Littlejohn
Lillian Grant-Baptiste
Giovanni Richardson
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