Favorite Books

• Vanity Fair, Music and Silence, The Satanic Verses, A Secret History of Love, Victory over Japan, Restoration, The Brothers Karamazov, The Hidden Hand, Frankenstein, The House of Mirth, The Red and the Black, War and Peace, Anna Karenina, Grendel, The Sea, the Sea, Tales of Burning Love, Pride and Prejudice, The Women's Room, The Beauty Myth

Favorite Authors

• iris Murdoch, Eudora Welty, Ellen Gilchrist, William Faulkner, Salman Rushdie, Rose Tremain, Leo Tolstoy, Naomi Wolf, Kenan Malik, Sena Jeter Naslund, Fatima Mernissi

What I'm Reading

• "The Known World" by Edward P. Jones, "American Wife" by Curtis Sittenfeld, "Lolita," "The Golden Notebook," biographies and histories for my next novel.

Web Links

• My Beaufort Books website
• My author website
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