Charles Dickens and Virginia Woolf, not to mention numerous poets: Elizabeth Bishop, Sharon Olds. The Vermont landscape perhaps my greatest influence. Also, 13 years in all girls' school, college. Warped personality, but oh well.
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Inspired by Nancy Drew, Wright's first novel, written at the age of nine, was a mystery about the kidnapping of a particularly obnoxious older brother. But, dismayed at what she considered an incipient criminal career, her mother destroyed it. So Wright gave up writing mysteries, but went on, through secondary school and th more...
