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from michelle 

1. Who’s your all-time favorite author, and why? S.E. Hinton  she wrote just a handful of books but her characters feel like real people to me.  Ponyboy..who could forget him?  Tex…wasn’t he my brother?

2. Who was your first favorite author, and why? Do you still consider him or her among your favorites?

My first favorite author and the female literary goddess I admire…of course Judy Blume.  Oddly not for Are you there god it’s me Margaret but rather because of her book, Its not the end of the world.  It was a book about divorce and while my parents didn’t divorce until I was an adult..they should have divorced when I was 11.  So I got it. 

3. Who’s the most recent addition to your list of favorite authors, and why?

Its impossible to pick any one. In fact it’s impossible for me to state a favorite.  I really just love great novels where the author writes about the characters so that I feel I can truly know them and be a part of them for awhile.

4. If someone asked you who your favorite authors were right now, which authors would first pop out of your mouth? Are there any you’d add on a moment of further reflection?

Tod Goldberg, Willy Vlautin.  Outside of those two, no one else comes to mind.  I tend to remember titles of novels more so than author’s names.  I tend to not like mainstream author’s as much as the rest of the world. I tend to gravitate towards story lines not taglines or author names.  Most of what I read never gets read by anyone else I know.

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