There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who had some influence on me, but I couldn't tell you what it was.
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Robert Morley is a legend in his own lunchtime.
I've had very close relationships with some twentieth-century writers.
Ray Bradbury was the first author that I was really exposed to back in grade school. I'm a big Philip K. Dick fan, but the emotion and humanity that Bradbury brings to his stories and the way he uses sci-fi to get at the human heart is something that's unique and for me incredibly influential.
The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
William Maxwell's my favorite North American writer, I think. And an Irish writer who used to write for 'The New Yorker' called Maeve Brennan, and Mary Lavin, another Irish writer. There were a lot of writers that I found in 'The New Yorker' in the Fifties who wrote about the same type of material I did - about emotions and places.
I don't think I can pick apart how I was influenced by which author. But these were the authors whose books I went back to again and again when I was in high school and college, when I first started trying to write stories.
I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.
If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow.
I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.
I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.
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