Constance Hale's Reading Interests
Influences
Early influences included Beatrix Potter, "Mother Goose," and the Grimm Brothers as well as a book called "Ring-a-ling" given to me by my grandmother and filled with Eastern European folk tales.
Later I loved both poetry and novels by Camus and Hemingway and then concentrated on Shakespeare as well as British and American poets, among whom my favorites are Yeats, T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Adrienne Rich, W. S. Merwin, and Louise Glück.
As a journalist, the writers I most admire and would hope to emulate are Joan Didion (for her penetrating insights), Adam Gopnik (for his francophilia, which I share), Susan Orlean (for her eccentric subjects and her sentences), Tim Cahill (for his humor and humanity), and David Grann (for his suspenseful tales). Of course there are many, many more.
About Constance
I grew up in Hawaii, speaking grammatical English at home and Hawaiian creole (or “Pidgin”) with friends. I left the islands to get a bachelors degree in English Literature from Princeton and a masters from the Graduate School of Journalism at UC-Berkeley. I...
Causes Constance Hale Supports
Intellectual Property Protection, Environmentalism, Income Equality Worldwide, End to Racism