Here I've tried to pinpoint authors and their works which have had a direct influence on my work.

• Sylvia Plath
  • Unabridged Journals
  • The Bell Jar
• Curtis Sittenfeld
  • Prep
  • American Wife
• David Foster Wallace
  • Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
• Jonathan Franzen
  • The Corrections
• Ian McEwan
  • Atonement
• Arthur Golden
  • Memoirs of a Geisha
• Vergil
  • The Aeneid
• J.M. Barrie
  • Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy)

"I am a part of all that I have met" ~Tennyson