Thomas Aquinas, Virginia Woolf, Anita Brookner, Cardinal Newman, Alan Lightman, AS Byatt, Matthew Arnold, Adam Gopnik, Maud Hart Lovelace, Geoffrey Chaucer, Jane Austen, Chaim Potok, ee cummings, Dorian Llywelyn, Beverly Cleary
Willa Cather, (Basically the entire English Canon, a few American writers, plus about 50 children's book authors from various lands)
Favorite Books
I have a personal library of 10,000 books. My mother taught me to read when I was three - therefore I have favourite books in an enormous range of genres and categories and from different eras. Among these, but by no means limited to them are these works:
12th century theology, 13th century art, 14th century tales, 15th and 16th century essays, plays and poetry, 17th and 18th century poetry and prose, 19th century novels and criticism, 20th century science fiction and English (and American) novels, Greek Philosophy, Roman oratory and and etiquette books throughout the centuries. Some specific titles: Einstein's Dreams, Sacred Space - Chosen People, Les Grandes Amities, The Idea of A University, Frost in May, Apologia Pro Vita Sua, The Patchwork Girl of Oz, Middlemarch, The Summa Theologica, A Matter of Wales, Orlando, the Betsy-Tacy series, Reading Rooms, The Trivium, Paris to the Moon, The Talmud. Plus - anything by Jane Austen, Anita Brookner, AS Byatt, Chaim Potok, Antonia White, Barbara Pym, Willa Cather, Isaac Asimov, Charlotte Bronte, William F. Buckley and some works of about 1000 other authors.
Favorite Authors
Matthew Arnold, Walt Whitman, Sir Thomas More, George Eliot, Alan Lightman, Jane Austen, Adam Gopnik, Anita Brookner, Tobias Wolff, Cardinal Newman, Harlan Ellison, Emily Dickenson, AS Byatt, Geoffrey Chaucer, Chaim Potok, Arthur C. Clarke, Antonia White, Thomas Aquinas, Barbara Pym, Northrop Frye, Dorian Llywelyn, Emily Post, George Eliot, Hildegard of Bingen, FR Leavis, Doris Lessing, Beverly Cleary, Willa Cather, Maud Hart Lovelace, Isaac Asimov, Thomas A Kempis, Charlotte Bronte, Paul Davies, Virgina Woolf, Rabbi Steinsaltz, William F. Buckley, Margaret Drabble, AA Milne, and much of about 1000 other authors.
What I'm Reading
Studies of Liminality - various. Romanticism and Its Discontents, Anne of Green Gables (again). Climbing Parnassus, The American Scholar (latest issue) and Miriam's Kitchen. Also Literary Imagination (latest issue), Paris Review (latest issue) and a number of critical works for my PhD dissertation.
