Major influences? That's a snap: Edith Wharton, Joseph Conrad, R. L. Stevenson, Lee Child, Carl Hiassen, Rilke, Rumi, the Brontes, Dickens, Melville, Steinbeck, Fitzgerald. The list goes on and on. Contemporary novelists like Orhan Pamuk also belong in the pantheon. Classics like Crime and Punishment and Anna Karenina come to mind.
I like novellas, and write them myself, so seminal influences include Ethan Frome, The Great Gatsby, Frankenstein. If they have an element of adventure story to them, all the better: The 39 Steps, Kidnapped!more...
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