Sean H Taylor Comic book and story writer, editor, and occasional digital letterer

Author Biography

Sean Taylor is a full-time writer of prose, graphic novels and comic books (and when the muse slaps him hard enough, poetry).
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Influences

Ernest Hemmingway, Eudora Welty, C.S. Lewis, Chuck Dixon, Flannery O'Connor, Steve Seagle

Favorite Books

The Son Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, The Thomas Covenant books, Their Eyes Were Watching God, The Ways of White Folks The Wildcard series, The Hollows novels, Wasteland, Mere Christianity, Orthodoxy, Holy the Firm, Living By Fiction, Teaching a Stone to Talk, The Great Gatsby, The Martyrs, What's So Amazing About Grace, Glimpses of Modern Japan, Rashomon, Kwaidan, Less Than Human, Evil Ways, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, The Jesus I Never Knew, Blue Like Jazz, Making Real What I Already Believe, I Will Fear No Evil, the 87th Precinct novels, Escape From Reason, Phantastes, Lilith, Till We Have Faces, The Sandman graphic novels, Camelot 3000 graphic novel, The Watchmen, Golden Apples, Wise Blood, Everything that Rises Must Converge (and most of O'Connor's short stories)

Favorite Authors

John Fischer, Annie Dillard, Shusako Endo, Philip Yancey, Richard Heinlein, Ed McBain, Francis Schaeffer, Stephen R. Donaldson, the Wildcard series, John Donne, T.S. Eliot, C.S. Lewis, George MacDonald, G.K. Chesterton, Kurt Vonnegut, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Bobby Nash, Gary Raisor, Lofcadio Hearn, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Donald Miller, Ernest Hemmingway, Neil Gaiman, Mike Barr, Alan Moore, Chuck Dixon, Stefan Petrucha, Steve Seagle, Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor

What I'm Reading

Too many books at one time.

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25 Writers

by Sean H Taylor

February 6, 2009, 6:23 pm

What, another one? Well, this one shouldn't be too hard, at least... "List the names of the 25 writers who have influenced you in the 'Write Note' box, then post and tag your friends. Author Raymond Benson started this meme -- so tag him, too, when you tag your 25 friends who appreciate fiction and poetry or other writing." 1. C.S. Lewis 2. Ernest Hemingway 3. Chuck Dixon 4. Steven Seagle 5. Neil Gaiman 6. Mike Barr 7. Flannery O'Connor 8. Will Eisner 9. Zora Neale Hurston 10. Frank Fradella 11. Tom Waltz 12. Philip Yancey 13. John Fischer 14. Donald Miller 15. Bobby Nash 16. Annie Dillard 17. Shusako Endo 18. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 19. Robert A. Heinlein 20. Ed McBain 21. Stefan Petrucha 22. Madeleine L'Engle 23. Mike Yaconelli 24. John Donne 25. e.e. cummings