25 Writers who influence

[Wahalla]

I saw a challenge name 25 writers who influenced you.... try it Evan ...

Fragano Ledgister

Chinua Achebe

Peter Abrahams

Mark Twain

Roger Mais

Antony Beevor

Jung Chang

Louis L'mour

Marlowe

CLR James

Turtledove

Heinlein

Shakespeare

John Hearne

Moris Cargil

VS Naipaul

Marx

Federich Hayak Rychard Kapuchinski

Daniel Yergin

Andrew Starkey

Lee Child

Machiavelli

John Biggins

Gore Vidal

Stan Lee

[Xavier]

so far...

Lenoard Pitts
Hank Hanegraaff
Claude McKay
Danielle Steele
Robert Kiyosaki
Sidney Sheldon
Dave Barry
Miss Lou
Stan Lee

[evanovitch]

Wahalla we share a lot of authors…fi real….was surprise to see Lee Child on ur list..dont know y…guess i am going from u bredda telling me him no watch tv … have u read his latest PERSONAL?

just turning on the computer to see what is wat while i am cooking….will come back later n do my 25….

[Wahalla]

I left out Galliano, Orwell, Nicolas Guillen, Huxley, Solzhenitsyn, Alvin Tophler.....and of course the writers of Asterix......

[evanovitch]

still trying to mek it 25…..

[purejam]

I saw this thread and had to register.

Here's my initial list.

1. James Baldwin – his articulation of black experiences are tour de forces that inspired me to write
2. Toni Morrison – The Bluest Eye and Song of Solomon inspire me after decades
3. Ayi Kweh Armah – the prologue to Two Thousand Seasons is almost unbearable
4. Assatta Shakur – her autobiography is the finest I’ve read
5. Siri Husvedt – What I Loved brought me to tears about my father’s death
6. Walter Mosley – Easy Rawlins is my favourite fictional character
7. Michel Foucault – his theses on power changed how I view myself and the world
8. Jean Baudrillard – his work inspired much of The Matrix
9. Martin Amis – Self is a great postmodern novel
10. Chancellor Williams – provided me with an education of my African roots
11. Chinweizu – forthright writer who fuelled my youthful Pan-Africanism
12. Ben Okri – the lyrical magic realism of The Famished Road was/is thrilling
13. Alice Walker – a captivating author whose The Third Life of Grange Copeland gave me hope
14. Yann Martell – Best known for Life of Pi, but Self contains magical, jaw dropping passages
15. Naomi Klein – No Logo exposed the unethical nature of corporate consumerism
16. John le Carre – represents the understated, guilt ridden and fractured nature of the quintessential English spy
17. Sebastian Faulks – a master literary craftsman
18. Ian McEwan – Saturday is a fictional snapshot of a momentous period
19. Will Self – a fascinatingly caustic purveyor of contemporary British life
20. Albert Murray – Train Whistle Guitar gives the printed word musical lyricism, rhythm, tone and melody
21. Ernest J Gaines – cross-cultural currents course through A Gathering of Old Men
22. Marcus Garvey – the seminal pan-African philosopher
23. Michel Houellebecq – captures the shallow dissolute emptiness of the postmodern West
24. Franz Fanon – Black Skin, White Mask is a haunting vivid and accurate metaphor
25. Stuart Hall – wrote challenging treatises on the fragmented fluidity of identity

[Wahalla]

Fanon feels dated to me... I picked up both his books and had a brouse the other day.... Guess i did the war thing like him....

I am a Mosley fan... his Leonid Mcgill series is better than EZ Rawlings (IMHO) All i did was kill my man is the coolest title for a book..... then i will pick a EZ Rawlings ... I loved his Feartless Jones... the main character Paris Milton is a man who sees himself as a coward anmd prefers books... before him an Fearless goes off to kill someone.. Fearless tells him "lets listen to Brother Ludwig". I couldnt get into his Blue light series

I hsut discovered hios father was a custodian in a school like EZ...

Not going to comment on Garvey because it will be an unpopular opnion..

looking a t ur list, i surmised u are black female british!

But u are going to tell me u are polish and live in Ulam Bartor...

[purejam]

Reading through some of the threads in this place, the BSWM malaise is in full effect.

I've only read the EZ novels and his non-fiction. I might give McGill a read.

Definitely interested in your critique of Garvey. It's important we hold so called 'important' figures to account. I don't go in for this reverential BS. We only learn by being cold in our analysis of the past.

As for the rest... mi nah seh nuttin!!!

[Peasie]

BSWM malaise is in full effect.

wdm?

[Wahalla]

BSWM

Bureau of soil and waste management...

[Wahalla]

Bible study with me .......

[Peasie]

Bull Shyt White Male

[purejam]

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