For The Love of Books
Ronald B. Shwartz, sent a message to 115 authors with the prompt: "Identify those 3-6 books that have in some way influenced or affected you most deeply, spoken to you the loudest, and explain why—in personal terms. All books are fair game." Many greats responded, among them: Kurt Vonnegut, John Hawkes, John Irving, Susanna Kaysen, Caroline Knapp, Elmore Leonard, Norman Mailer, Frank McCourt, Arthur Miller, Joyce Carol Oates, Mario Puzo, Neil Simon, Oliver Stone, John Updike.
