Tasha Alexander attended the University of Notre Dame, where she signed on as an English major in order to have a legitimate excuse for spending all her time reading. She lived in Amsterdam, London, Wyoming, Vermont, Connecticut and Tennessee before settling in Chicago.
Jane Austen, Michael Cunningham, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Pauline Gedge, David Lodge, David Mitchell, Haruki Murakami, Elizabeth Peters, Arthur Phillips, Anthony Trollope, Jeanette Winterson