Heroes and Inspirations

Below is the short list of my brightest lights.

Lorenzo Carceterra

• Sleepers
• Apaches

Laura Davis

• The Courage to Heal

Ken Follet

• Pillars of the Earth
• The Key to Rebecca

Thomas Harris

• Silence of the Lambs

Richard Hoffman

• Interference
• Half the House

Zora Neal Hurston

• Their Eyes Were Watching God

Harriet Jacobs

• Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Dennis Lehane

• Gone Baby Gone

Mike Lew

• Victims No Longer
• Leaping Upon the Mountains

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

• One Hundred Years of Solitude
• Love in the Time of Cholera

Martin Moran

• The Tricky Part

Annie Proulx

• The Shipping News
• Close Range

Flannery O’Connor

• “The Life You Save May be Your Own”