Harriet Scott Chessman is the author of three acclaimed novels: Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper, published in eight foreign countries and chosen as a #1 Booksense Pick in 2001; Continue Reading »
Influences
Weekly trips to the library as a child; my mother reading all of Jane Austen each summer, and at least two books a week during the year; my father "doing all the voices" as he read to us each night on the couch; fairy tales, Twain, The Bastable Children,
The Wizard of Oz series; the Brontes; The Sound and the Fury; Paradise Lost; Henry James; Jane Austen; Virginia Woolf; Ford Madox Ford; Elizabeth Bowen; and on and on and on.
