I read extensively in American classical literature and was strongly influenced by John Steinbeck's works of which I have read everything he wrote until his death. I was most influenced by his more humorous works, Cannery Row, Sweet Thursday and Tortilla Flats. I read everything Ernest Hemingway wrote and was fond of the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Truman Capote and the novel "Them" by Joyce Carol Oates, though I have not found anything else of interest in her works. I was influenced by the works of Dostevsky and have a grea more...
