I am not highly educated.  However, I have been a life-long reader.  Books are my passion.  I imagine I've read ten or twenty thousand by now, in all kinds of areas.  I am an environmentalist, (whatever that means), a vegetarian, a sex positive activist, a very liberal person.

My major influences are the writers that broke convention: Jane Austen, Fitzgerald, Anais Nin, Henry Miller, Camille Paglia, Hunter Thompson, J.D. Salinger, Tom Wolfe.  Geez, one could go on and on.