I decided to create this part of the web page to share some more personal insights into the various factors that have had influences on my life and work.
LIST OF CLASSIC AUTHORS
Honore Balzac
Saul Bellows
Charles Bukowski
Willa Cather
Joseph Conrad
Stephen Crane
E. E. Cummings
Theodore Dreiser
T.S. Eliot
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knut Hamsun
Hermann Hesse
Victor Hugo
Franz Kafka
Nikos Katzanzakis
Louis L’Amour
Jack London
Thomas Mann
Carson McCullers
Henry Miller
C.P. Snow
John Steinbeck
Count Leo Tolstoy
Walt Whitman
Thomas Wolfe
Emile Zola
LIST OF LEISURE/MYSTERY WRITERS
(for airplane flights and the like)
Keith Ablow
James Lee Burke
Lee Child
Michael Connelly
Robin Cook
Patricia Cornwall
Michael Crichton
Elizabeth George
Faye Kellerman
John LesCroartes
Charles McCarry
Robert Parker
MUSIC I AM CURRENTLY LISTENING TO
Chris Potter 10 - Song for Anyone
Greg Osby - Public
Bobby Hutcherson - Mosaic Set
Jsaon Moran - Modernistic
Chano Dominguez - Iman
Mark Feldman - What Exit
Ry Cooder - Mambo Sinuendo
Sylvie Courvesoir - Lonelyville
Pedro Aznar - Caja de Musica
Wayne Shorter - Etcetera
Pete Fountain -- Collection
Herbie Hancock - The Joni Letters
Keith Jarrett - My Foolish Heart
Wayne Shorter - Schizophrenia
This is an ongoing list that will be continuously updated and revised!